Epilogue.

Bella.

That day we told each other how we felt, Edward and I walked into the house hand in hand. Everyone was so happy for us. Happy were had finally stopped lying to ourselves and to each other. I felt Edward's ecstasy as if it was a string I could just tug on and keep more to myself even though I had a never ending supply of my own.

We laughed and talked for days on end. Even though I had known him for all my life, there was never a shortage of things we could learn about the other. All the things I learned made me love him even more. I couldn't get enough of the god beside me who said he loved me or tell him often enough I loved him back. I couldn't get enough of the light he shed on my life.

As our relationship grew stronger, we explored each others bodies with our hands and mouths. There was never more than a moment his skin was not on mine and a warm pleasant tingle would spread through my entire being.

Though he would never let it get too far, showing far more restraint than I would have liked. Edward claimed that I would have to wait until he had proposed, I had accepted and we were married before we could get to that phase of our relationship.

When I told him I didn't need all that he claimed that I might not have but he did. I couldn't help but think it was my virtue he was worried about, not his.

But there was something else. Something lurking and it was dark and it was all mine. As soon as Edward left my side that first time to go hunting and every time he left my side after that I could feel it fester and grow. A force that pushed me to see things; sick things.

I didn't sleep because of what I was now, but I had waking dreams. I dreamt of blood and death and some part of me like it. That part deep down inside me, the dark one… it scared me. It made me feel helpless and alone.

"What's wrong?" Edward asked from behind, startling me. I hadn't heard him come into the room we shared before the bed dipped down with his weight. He must've just gotten back.

Moving my hair away from my neck, he placed a kiss there and a trail of kisses up to my ear. I smiled and tilted my head away from him so I could turn over. And just like that, just by him being there, all the darkness surrounding me abated.

"Nothing," I lied and wrapped my legs around his waist. He placed a hand the other side of me so he could hover there. We stared into each others eyes for an immeasurable moment and didn't say anything. We didn't need to. I arched my back off the mattress to kiss him once. "I missed you."

"I was only gone a couple hours," he laughed against my lips.

I kissed him again and pulled his hips down to meet mine with the legs wrapped around his waist. "A couple hours is too long."

"I missed you, too," he breathed. We stayed like that for a while as he searched my face. "You're sure everything is alright?" he asked in that worried way only someone who loves you can ask.

I pressed my lips against his with fevor, not giving him the chance to push his questions on me further. I would be fine. I had to be fine—for him.

When the darkness was gone it was easy to believe in happily ever after and mine was going to last… I was sure of it.

Fin.

*Okay so that was kinda lame but you will eventually get a sequel which is as good as an epilogue any day. Sorry it took so long. Must be Mistaken has monopolized my time. If you haven't, PLEASE read it and I also have an entry in the Epic T Contest called Rendezvous in the Park. Check it out.

Thanks for all your support through out the entire story. You guys have been great and helped me improve my writing SO much. I can't tell you how much I appreciate it. I wish I could thank all of you but that would be a really long list. mo, ishkabibble, -Cinderella-Princess-, and Nat all deserve *cyberhugz* for being there from the beginning. Love you guys.

SNEEK PEEK!!

Do I ever have a story to tell you? I want to put it into words but I'm not sure if you'll actually believe me. Why should you? I am in fact, a vampire. If you believe that then you are off to a better start then most people. I've known about vampires my entire life but what you know—what ever you think you know… I'm going to set it straight.

I'm Bella: a wife, a sister, a vampire… and maybe a little crazy. And this is my story…

EXCITED?! Gonna put the Jacob POV up for the grocery store tomorrow. REVIEW!!