Life continues

It was the day he was last seen. The day Jasper got stuck. The day Edward gave his life for Jasper. It was always the hardest day I had to live through. It had finally reached three years since he died. Three years since he had been seen. Three years since someone heard his voice.

I would always spend the day at the Cullen's house. I got this day off every year. It was the only day I took off. No matter what I'd be at school every morning ready to teach my six classes I had.

I was currently sitting in the Cullen living room with Alice, Rose, Jasper and Emmett. We'd pass stories of Edward round the room all day. Laughing at the funny memories, but I'd always end up crying because I'd remember that Edward would never make any new memories.

"Do you remember the time Edward came to school with bright pink hair?"

"I remember that. Alice put pink hair dye in his shampoo before he took his shower. It didn't come out for a whole week."

"I felt so bad for him but couldn't help but to laugh."

I said as I remembered the bright pink headed Edward.

"He was so mad at you for that Alice. He burnt your three favourite shirts and hid your new Gucci bag for a month."

"He was so mean. I didn't deserve that."

"Yes you did Alice. He could have done much worse than that. He even considered burning all your clothes and cutting all your credit cards up into millions of pieces. I had to convince him not to. All our lives would have been made so much worse if he had."

"He did not think of that."

"Yes he did. He told me all about his plan when you were all out shopping. I literally had to pin him to the ground so he couldn't get to your wardrobe."

Everyone laughed at the image of me pinning Edward to the ground.

The day went by slowly with me ending up crying myself to sleep in Edward's old room.

Rose and Emmett lived round the corner from their parents now and Alice and Jasper lived opposite them. They stayed at their parents once a week though so they could be with each other as much as possible. We had learnt that you could lose someone you love in an instant. My dad kept asking me to come round more often but I would always give him the same excuse of too much marking and lesson planning to do.

I went back to school the next day with red, puffy eyes. No one asked what was wrong or commented because they all knew why. Several of my students sat with me at lunch just because. It was nice to know that my students cared.

On the Friday news spread round the school like wild fire that there would be a new English teacher starting on Monday. It was about time the school found a new English teacher. They had been looking for one since half way through last year. No one knew the name of the teacher, not even the rest of the staff.

"Bella, what are you doing for your birthday on Monday?"

I got my students to call me Bella because it put us me on the same level of status as them.

"I completely forgot it was my birthday on Monday."

"Well now that you remember, what are you going to do?"

"I don't know. I'll probably do what I did last year. Come to work, then go home and eat ice cream all evening."

"Come on Bella. I may be 17 but I know that 27 almost 28 year old woman don't want to be alone on their birthday."

"You're right Jasmine. I don't want to be alone on my birthday. I want my boyfriend to be there with me. We both know that won't happen."

"I'm sorry Bella. I didn't mean it like that. I know you find it hard."

"It's okay Jasmine. I know you didn't mean it. I'm sorry for being so rude."

Jasmine left shortly after, leaving me to think about my birthday. It would be my third birthday without Edward there to celebrate with me. I wanted him to take me out somewhere nice, tell me how much he loves me and kiss me all night long. I could dream couldn't I? Alice and Rose kept pestering me to do go over to theirs for the evening or go out to dinner with them. I'd never do anything on my birthday but eat ice cream and watch Disney movies into the early hours of the morning. (Who doesn't love Disney?) My favourite is UP. The story of an old man on a mission to full-fill his wife's ambition to reach the top of the waterfall even when she is gone. I always cry when he gets there. It's a beautiful, romantic film. Also the story of Pocahontas is amazing. I love to sing along to all the songs; especially Colours of the wind. The way one woman brings two nations together just before war was going to break out. Then letting the one she loves go because it was the best for him.

The rest of the day breezed by with people wishing me a good weekend. I smiled at them all and gave some hugs to my favourite students –who doesn't have favourites. I never let favouritism effect how I treat my students though. Jasper and Emmett walked to my car with me before departing in Emmett's Jeep.

The weekend would be a long one. That much I knew. The future I had no idea what held for me.