DISCLAIMER: I do NOT have any ownership over these sexy people. Stephanie Meyer does. This is a shame because I wish I did own them because then I could call Edward my own and keep him forever and ever and ever and ever…

Was I having a bad trick played on me or was this so called God just that cruel? I had only just gotten over Bella, it had taken 4 years for me to look at Carlie without wanting to go and find her mother. It took me another 2 years to remember that I had family to help me I had blocked them out for the first 3 years but gradually I had let them back into my world, I had let them help me in any way they could and I appreciated it with all my heart. Then this. Of all things I wished would never happen this would be one of them. It took all my strength to learn to live without her even though we had only known each other for a year and some; it was still like a man losing his sight or his hearing or his power to breathe.

She phoned just at the exact moment I had walked into my mother's home, Carlie had run towards her aunt Alice when we first arrived and the phone had suddenly come to life. Within moments my mother's face had lost its entire colour and then was renewed with a look of pure adoration and motherly love, she turned to Carlisle and stammered out Bella's name, that's when my world came crashing down. I stormed out and phoned up the office telling them I needed to find someone. I gave them Bella's last known number and emailed a picture of her that I had kept of us from our honeymoon and within minutes they gave me her address.

I don't know what snapped but something had and I knew I had to have her back with me. But did she want that? Was she just calling to talk to my mother, maybe she didn't want to see me again, maybe she just finally wanted to speak to Carlie and explain to her why she had run out on her as a baby? Carlie was 6 and she wanted to know why her 'mummy' wasn't there. She wanted her 'mummy' there when we went shopping. Alice and my mother were great at helping her when we went out but they couldn't be there all of the time so most of the time I was stuck helping her myself and it was difficult.

But all of this? Was it really happening to me? In a sick way I did. I needed her so badly. I had almost ended my life on 4 occasions all were foiled, but if I had been left alone or hadn't had Carlie there to remind me I had other reasons to live, then I wouldn't have seen either of their faces again. It took Emmett taking up a semi-permanent residence in my home to make me realise no matter what I tried to do, someone would be there to stop me from doing something drastic. But this wasn't about that now. I had something to look forward to. I had something t dread though. I could see her after all this time, but did I really want to face that pain? What if she came and then walked out again, but took Carlie with her? I didn't have much time to think before Alice burst into my mother's home only minutes after Carlisle had persuaded me to come back.

The silence in the room was deafening, and without realising it I was crying at the sight of Bella. She stood there, most of her mahogany hair had been cut since the last time I had seen her when it was down to her waist, now it was just below her neck line and was pencil straight. Here mascara was slightly smudges faint black lines ran down her cheeks, she'd been crying. She still looked as perfect as she always had. Our eyes met and so many emotions flickered through hers. Finally they settled on a mixture between happiness and shame as her lips formed a smile. "Hi" I choked.

Within seconds she had launched herself at me and she began coating my face in kisses, I was frozen in place, unsure of what to do or how to react. After a moment or two she calmed herself and took a large step back but I followed her and placed my hands on both side of her face forcing her to look up to me. She was crying again. "I'm so so so sorry, please forgive me, please just do something to make me know how to fix this all, Edward I am so-" I cut her off with a kiss.

"I forgive you." That was all I had to say to her to calm her down. "Just please never leave me again. I can't handle it Bella." She nodded and I took her into a hug, never wanting to let her go again. We both cried and held each other for what seemed like forever. I completely forgot anyone else was there, I had her and that was all I had ever needed in my life to make it whole again.

She began to shift slightly and turned to face my mother, Carlisle, Alice and Emmett. "If you all knew how sorry I actually was and you knew how I felt about what I did then I know you'd all realise how badly I need to make it up to all of you and I want you all to know that I will do everything I can to make sure you all forgive me at one point, I can't stand for you to be angry at me anymore". Everyone stood in silence, the one person to step forward first was my mother.

"We could never be angry with you Bella." She smiled softly. The whole family grinned in unison and then they all crowded around us and closed in, forming a group hug that made us all laugh. "Now" my mother began, "I say we talk over dinner, I don't know about you all, but I'm absolutely starved." She took Alice's hand and pulled her into the kitchen where they began to cook. I took Bella out onto the patio in the garden just to have some alone time with her. It had been 6 years since we had time together, and I wasn't about to waste any second of it.

"I've missed you so much Edward, I shouldn't have left I shouldn't have stayed away, I didn't know what was going to happen if I can back so I just stayed away ad it was stupid and I am so sorry and promise I'll never leave you again." Bella's words were rushed and her eyes glistened with more tears that threatened to escape. I leant in to kiss her but the tapping of small feet on my mother's marble floor alerted me to the fact Carlie was there. Both Bella and I turned to face the small chestnut haired blue eyed child that stood before us. An audible gasp sliced through the silence. I turned to face Bella whose eyes were already glistening, a small smile graced her lips but then it wasn't a happy smile, I could see the sadness in her eyes. I kept focused on her face, but out of the corner of my eye I saw my daughter staring at the woman I knew she instantly recognized.

Carlie walked over to us and plopped herself on the chair beside me. She looked hesitantly between me and the woman she had only ever seen a picture of, and then it clicked in her petite head. Without thinking she jumped off her chair and slowly edged her way towards Bella. She looked up through a thick frame of lashes at the person she could recognise instantly. "Momma, is that you?"