A/N: So this is the epilouge of the story. Last chapter. But I do have a playlist for this story. Please PM me or say in a review if you want me to tell it to you. My next story should be up by early July, but no promises. I'll try to say something here when I upload the next story. Thanks for reading, and please review!

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Epilogue

BPOV

30 years later

"James, I want to go back to school. I was a degree of some sort," I suggested.

"Do you have any ideas in mind?"

"I've always wanted to go to Dartmouth..."

And so it was set. We got fake I.D.'s, birth certificates, marriage certificates, clothes, a car, and furniture. We rented ourselves a one-bedroom apartment. I decided to major in counseling. James would go through it with me. I would work at a local high school after graduating. James would come along with me.

It was our first day at school and it was time for our first class, counseling 101. The teacher was Professor Noble. We walked into the classroom, and scanned our surroundings. There was a guy who looked like...

"Jasper?" I whispered, know he would hear me, as I walked over to him, with James behind me. "What are you doing here?"

"Same as you. Going to college," he replied. "What do you think I'm doing?"

"How did you know...? Alice. Damn it." She would have seen us coming.

"Oh, I can't wait to tell the others. They'll be so happy that you've finally decided to come back!" Jasper had a mischievous look in his eyes.

"No, please, don't."

"Bella, they probably already know. Alice would have told them," James said.

"Nope, only Alice and I know. But not for long." Jasper whipped out his cell phone. "Let me finish this text... there! All done now. Everybody else knows."

"Ok, it's time for class to begin," the teacher called. The class passed quickly, which was surprising, because I was freaking out.

"Carlisle and Esme want you to come over later, around six. Here is the way to get to our house. It's not too far out of the way for you." Jasper handed me a piece of paper with the directions to their house on it.

"But, Jasper, we don't want to go-" I knew James really didn't want to go, and, to be honest, I didn't either.

"Too bad. I'll see you at six!" Jasper waved and walked away.

"I guess we have to go," I sighed. The rest of the school day seemed to by rapidly. After, we went back to our apartment to change clothes and shower. I ended up deciding to wear a plain black tee-shirt and form fitting skinny jeans. But before I could put my clothes on, James threw my down on the bed, pressing his naked body into mine. I forced my lips to his, my tongue going into his mouth. He growled, and slid into me. I wasn't surprised; he had to hurry- it was 5:15- and I was used to going fast. After we both had our release, we finished getting dressed. James was wearing jeans and a dark blue, long-sleeved shirt. Following the instructions, we drove to the Cullen's house. It was an enormous but classic mansion, done up on the outside with shades of grey and brown bricks.

"Wow. They are rich," James gaped in amazement as we pulled up their driveway.

"I told you so. Come on, let's go in. they have to know that we are here." We walked up to the front porch. Before I could knock, Esme opened the door and engulfed me in a hug. James stiffened at my side; I think he had sharing issues.

"Bella, dear, it's been too long. I've missed you so much. How have you been? Please, come in, both of you," Esme gushed.

"Um, uh... sure...?" I looked at James expectedly, who shrugged. We walked in, with James slightly behind me, but still in somewhat of a protective stance. "Your house is so beautiful." It was a huge and, though the design seemed antique, all of the furniture, devices, and decorations were modern. Esme led us to a dark leather couch. She sat down nest to us, and put her arm around my shoulders. James sat rigidly at my side. Alice and Jasper sat in another couch near us, and Carlisle and Emmett each sat in chairs off tot eh side. Rosalie stood in a corner, with her arms crossed.

"Thank you, dear. We've had the property and house for quite some time, but Alice and I came up here recently to restore it. Oh, vampire-ism suits you so well. You look great."

Alice bounced forward, and I looked at her. "Hey, Bella, how have you been?"

"Alice, you got your hand back! It did dig itself up!" I didn't think it would.

"Yep. I got it back around thirty-five years ago. I-"

"Stop chatting and let me hug my little sister. You've seen her more recently than me." Emmett rushed up to me like a little kid on Christmas morning and gave me a big bear hug, then set me down. Jasper smiled at me and I predicted that he was controlling the mood in the room, seeing as how James' emotions weren't getting out of hand, and he wasn't attacking anybody. I was proud of him. Carlisle smiled and waved. James and Rosalie both still hadn't said anything. But just then, Rosalie glared at me, and then stepped forward.

"How dare you show your face here. Either of you. Bella, it's your entire fault that Edward was murdered. You know that, and yet you still had to run off with James, and make him your mate. You and Edward were perfect for each other. How could you just forget that?" Rosalie paused, and then turned to James. "And you. How could you just go off and try to kill Bella, and then murder an innocent Edward, who did absolutely nothing to you. And after that, you decided to bite and turn Bella, and kidnap her from us. Do you know how much that devastated Carlisle, Esme, and Alice, who saw exactly what you were doing? Of course you then had to 'fall in love' with Bella, making her fall for you- or so she thinks- and turning her against us. We loved you, Bella, and... and you threw all of that away, when we gladly would have accepted you back. I have no idea why Jasper invited you over here, when he so obviously felt my hatred for you. You ditched us for James. In other words, nothing. You would have been better off with the dog, but, instead, you chose the worthless piece of shit who killed Edward, and then made you turn you back on him, his memory, and us. You seem to be forgetting all of that, and the fact that we introduced to you our world. All of us would have been better off it Edward had just let the van crush you," she spat.

"Rosalie Lillian Hale! You should be ashamed of yourself. Talking to our guest that way! Apologize, now," Esme chided, and then turned to me. "I'm so sorry. I thought we raised her differently."

"No, Esme, I'm not apologizing. They are the ones who should be sorry. And you didn't raise me. I was already 18 before you even met me."

"Ok, Bella, I think it's time we go now." James finally spoke up. He grabbed my hand, pulling me towards the door.

"No, wait. Bella, don't leave. Rose, go to your room if you're not going to behave properly around our guest," Esme ordered.

"So, what, you're choosing her over me? Even when she betrayed us all?"

"No, Rose, you know that I would never chose or have favorites."

"But you do, Esme. I-I'm leaving. I don't need to be here, or with any of you, so I'm going to pack up a few of my things and leave." Rosalie turned to march up the stairs to her room.

"Rose, what are you thinking? What about me?" Emmett gripped her arm to stop her from walking away.

"'About you' nothing. You can come with me- I can't and won't stop you- but you wanted Bella back."

"Stop it! All of you. Why are you fighting like this when you should be rejoicing that Bella even decided to come here? Just accept Bella back already!" Alice nearly shouted.

"What about him? Should we just accept him back? After he killed Edward?" Rosalie was being persistent.

"No, Bella and I were already on our way out. No need for you to leave." James tugged me farther along, until we actually reached the door. Alice then appeared at my side.

"Please, Bella, don't go. Rose will promise to be nice. Just, please, Bella, stay," Alice pleaded. She yanked on my arm in hopes to drag me back to the main part of the room, but I didn't budge. I wanted to leave. They were arguing because of us. We shouldn't have been there. If the fighting got physical, it would be two to five, in their favor. I'm sure that most of the Cullens wouldn't hurt me, but I wasn't too sure of how they would act towards James but if we fought them, maybe they hadn't realized that James had killed Edward. Well, of course they knew he killed him, but maybe they hadn't made the connection that James had successfully- and without getting harmed- killed a mind reading vampire, and nearly did the same to a physic one, who was currently begging me to stay.

"No. you all probably only want James and I to stay so you can have easy access to kill James, or maybe even me." I thought that was their plan. They would have wanted to kill James for murdering Edward 'for no reason'.

"Bella, we have never thought of that. Avenging Edward by destroying James, you mate, would do us no good." Were Carlisle's first words back to me.

"Sure, we would love to kill him, but we love you, too, and wouldn't want to hurt you," was Emmett's delightful response. I was about to jump at him, but I felt James' arm around my waist, restraining me.

"Let go of me. He said they wanted to kill you. James, let me-" I growled.

"Getting yourself killed isn't going to help anything at all, Bella. In fact, it would probably worsen the conditions."

James was right. If I got injured, let alone killed, they would have no reason to hold back on James. Within a matter of minutes, he would be gone. Even if I wasn't there, I wouldn't let myself lose him. "Ok," I whispered to James. But we still had to get out of there. It wasn't smart to be with the Cullens.

"Bella, I said I would love to kill him, not that I wanted to or that I would. I didn't mean it that way. Please, forgive me," Emmett pleaded.

"Fine, but we still need to go," I agreed grudgingly.

"No, stay, please. Can we just sit and catch up these last forty years?"

"Ok, whatever, Emmett." I flopped onto a couch, but James stayed standing. I yanked on his arm. "Come on. Sit down." He finally lowered himself down next to me, but still stayed alert.

"We won't attack if you won't attack. Truce? At least for the moment." Carlisle stuck out his hand, directed at James, who just stared and shook his head in comical disbelief.

"It's like the wolf treaty all over again," Emmett reminisced.

"Without Edward," Rosalie reminded.

"Wow, Rose, no need to obsess over it. He's been dead for over 40 years. You have Emmett, too, to take your mind off things. Do you seem to be forgetting about him?" Alice asked, a plan forming in her little pixie mind.

"No, Emmett, I would never forget about you. It just seems like everybody is pushing Edward's memory aside," Rosalie reassured.

"Then just drop the freaking Edward thing. It got annoying 30 years ago. The first 10 years were sweet, but after that, it was just pathetic. Maybe forgetting about Edward would be a good thing for you. We all know it would be for us." Emmett stood up, and started walking upstairs, until Esme stopped him.

"Emmett, it's rude to hide away in your room when we have guests. Unless you have a perfectly good reason."

"I do have a good reason: to get away from Rose," Emmett muttered under his breath.

"Nope, not good enough. Now sit back down," Esme commanded.

"But mom!" Emmett whined.

"No buts. So, Bella, what exactly have you been doing these past years?" Esme changed the subject.

"Nothing much," I replied.

"Surely you've been up to something." She pressured.

"No, not really. We've just been traveling around the United States, not doing anything in particular."

"You must have been doing somet-"

"But we weren't. If we had done anything worth telling or that we thought you would want to hear, I'm sure you precious Alice would have seen and told you all about it. So can you just drop it and talk about something else? How about what you all have been doing while we were off doing our own personal things. As an afterthought, I really doubt you want to know exactly what we were doing, let alone a three hour, detailed description of it." James stood up, and held his hand out to me. "Let's go, Bella, it's time to leave."

I took his hand and walked out after him. "Bye. I'm sorry for all of the pain and arguing we caused you," I called out as we exited. Amazingly, nobody tried to stop us. We got back into our car and James drove us back to our apartment in an awkward silence. "I love you," I blurted out. "I'm sorry that I made you go through all of that."

"It's fine. It's not your fault. We would have had to go through it sooner or later. I'm just glad that we got it over with. Let's hope they leave us alone from now on."

"But Jasper's in our class..."

"So? We can drop out of it and just lounge around all day. Or we can move elsewhere all together, or we can just go back to being nomads again."

"Can we just...stay here? Is it possible to get our money back?"

"I don't' know. I haven't been to college since over 532 years ago. My memory is very vague, and I have never dropped out before."

"Well, you're so much held. But if you have a lot of money..." I hinted.

"Not as much as the Cullens."

"I know, but you still have a lot, right?"

"Yes...what are you getting at?"

"Then we can just pack up our few things and disappear off the face of the earth. At least according to the humans."

"You know that the physic will see whatever we chose to do."

"I know. And I've already come to terms with that fact." We pulled to the apartment, parked, and got out. We rode the elevator up to the room, where I unlocked the door, groaned, and then turned to James. "Please tell me that Alice and Jasper are not in our room."

"Get out. Now," James snarled. I took that as my answer.

"No." Alice hopped off the table. "Bella, you should stay. You need a good college education."

"Thanks a lot." Sarcasm filled my voice.

"Now, now, she doesn't mean that you aren't smart, all she meant was that completing school would be better for you." Jasper walked up behind Alice.

"No, Jasper, I meant that Bella should actually go to school." Alice pushed out of Jasper's embrace.

"Get out. Before I have to make you." James threatened.

"Oh, like you would even be able to do that, without sacrificing you poor little Bella. And we all know how much pain that would cause you, physically and mentally." Alice glanced at Jasper, then added "And let's not forget emotionally."

"And it's not like losing you mate wouldn't do the same to you, now wouldn't it?"

"Alice, stop arguing with James. James...stop paying attention to her. It does nobody any good." I interjected.

"I gladly would, if she would just shut up." James rolled his eyes.

"I'll shut up when I want to. Don't talk to me that way."

"It is our apartment, and you have to follow our rules."

Jasper put his arm over Alice's mouth, to stop her from saying anything more. "We're sorry. We just came to say, and we speak for our whole family, Rose included, that we can and will live in peace with you. You two can continue going to school and living happily together, and we will have our own life down the road, so to speak. You don't have to see us, unless you want to, and we won't bother you. I'll even drop out of the class. I was the only one going to school that your schedules would have collided with. And besides, I've already graduated from high school and college numerous times."

I looked at James questionably. He nodded, which I took as an affirmative. "That seems like a good enough deal. In case we need anything, we know where you are. And the same goes for you."

Jasper released Alice's mouth. "Yay!" she cried out. "And we obviously know where you live, considering we are here right now. I'm so happy that we could come to terms over and agreement."

"Like you couldn't see us agreeing," I teased.

"Well...yeah" Alice laughed.

And so it was decided that we would continue on like we should have from the beginning. There was no reason why not to, and since we had settled it... life went on like normal after that. Or at least what a vampire's life should be like. We went far away from the campus and the city in general as to not attract attention when hunting. But it would be fun to blame it all on the Cullens. Then again, they would probably buy their way out...not like we couldn't do the same. James was rich, and in turn, that money was mine. We weren't officially married or anything, but we loved each other, and didn't need that proof. We knew that nothing could separate us from each other. Just being together was more than any human tradition could bring and guarantee. They were wrong. Loving somebody wasn't a matter of possession or fame or anything, only love. It was that simple. But humans had a hard time grasping that. Maybe because they weren't expected to live over 100 years old, and that was young for vampires.

I could avoid everything, humans, vampires, college, anything that would come up, if it meant spending time with James. I loved James, and that was all that mattered.