Chapter 15-

Bella's POV-

It was scary, believe it or not, having the Cullens vote on my fate was possibly the dumbest thing I could have done. Edward was clearly unhappy and I knew he would be. The thought of me living like him, being what he was and damning my soul was probably tearing him apart from the inside.

"There's one more thing." Edward said. All eyes were on him and he was staring directly at me. "You told me that she saw the wolves."

"What!" Rosalie snarled.

"Rosalie." Esme reprimanded but it did nothing to calm her down.

"What do you mean she saw them? How?" Rosalie demanded of me, coming to stand in front of me with a glare that cut me open. Edward was quick to come stand by my side in my defense.

I took a breath to explain. "When Victoria sent Laurent to kill me Ash had been there. She, I don't know. She just stood next to me and looked at him with no sense of fear. She talked to him but it wasn't really a conversation. The wolves had interrupted but before that she said something strange. She said 'But I don't think we have time to continue this conversation.' and afterwards Laurent and I heard the wolves. It was as if she sensed them."

I looked to Carlisle who was mulling over my words. "Did she ever bring it up again?"

I shook my head. "She just acted like everything was normal."

Carlisle looked at his pixie haired daughter. "Has the situation changed?"

"No, which is really the only confusing part to me. She knows. I know she knows, she could not know after that and yet her future is the same. I don't see us even near her in the future." Alice huffed. "She is a frustrating case."

"She is anything but frustrating." Emmett chimed in. We all turned our attention to him and he gave a resigned smile. "It's crystal that she wants nothing, and I mean nothing, to do with us so instead of stressing about her we should just leave her alone. And if anything does happen with her she's right in our backyard."

"I'll tell you this. If I even get the feeling she's going to run her mouth I'll kill her myself." Rosalie promised. "I refuse to have another human involved."


"Ok so where are we starting first?" I asked my parents about their upcoming vacation which I agreed they needed. My mother solved traveling and needed some time away from me and my father just needed to get out of forks.

"We decided to start in Portugal and from there, we're just going to wing it." My mother Bry winked at me.

"I'll just be happy if we have time Croatia." My dad said.

"And of course we have to visit Rome." My other mother Eyana said with a bright smile.

"Of course." I agreed. I was excited for them and their own joyous energy just made me even happier. Eyana was already thinking about what to wear and what she was going to buy and most of all, all the historic sights she'll see. My mother had a Master's in History but had used her business degree for money. I don't know why she never did anything with her master's but I could listen to her talk all day when she learned something interesting or weird that had happened way back. I think it's why she liked to travel and why I wanted her to go so bad. I will always feel guilty for grounding her to me when I know there's nothing she would love more than seeing and experiencing the world.

"Maybe when we come back T will have changed this small town look he has going on." Bry teased my father.

He rolled his eyes, looking completely disinterested. "I wish you would stop saying that. I am perfectly happy with the way I look, thank you very much." He said to her before looking at me. "And this is all your fault."

I looked at him amused. "How?"

"Because now that you're just all grown up she's going to turn me into her fashion guinea pig. You were supposed to hold out a little bit longer." He pouted, pulling me into a hug.

"You'll be ok." I mock and placate him.

"He'll be more than ok when I'm done with him. He will be the epitome of fashion." Bry's words sound like a promise. "And the first thing I'm changing is the hair."

"There is nothing wrong with my hair."

"There is. You've been near bald since I've known you, it's time to change it up."

"I'm not growing my hair out." He said exasperated.

"Well not fully." Bry smiled evilly.

He looked at her to Eyana who was paying him no mind to me. His eyes pleaded with me to side with him and instead I just shrugged.

"It wouldn't hurt to grow the bee dee beads out." I told him, trying not to laugh. My father, for all his adult age, now looked like a hurt eight year old and it caused me to burst out laughing. "Daddy, do not make that face ever again." I managed to get out between laughing fits.

It felt good to laugh even if it was so rare for me I enjoyed it more than anything in this world. And unbeknownst to me it was my parents favourite sound in the world.


So this is where I leave you all. I hate long endings and I didnt feel like a dramatic one (this time). It's over for now because the next movie after is Eclipse and I am so excited to introduce one of my favorites and bring on some more feeling.

15 chapters and I can see how much Ash has changed. When I first started out doing this I knew her character in the moment I created her but I didn't know where I was taking her. I thought at the beginning she would remain stoic and almost apathetic, only having true love for her parents. It surprised me when she became more feeling, more happy.

From here she can only open up more. I promise to bring a different side to Ash that I kind of vaguely alluded to or completely scratched out in this part not because I meant to but because it just wasn't the time. As you see Ash is not an obvious person with anything. Her thoughts are only known to her and you because you can see what she's thinking but she's like a wall to most people. But we know how intensely she feels and see her in her most private and vulnerable moments. I hope you enjoyed her and my progress.

Since this is the last chapter I want to have a Q and A before I head on to eclipse. It's pretty simple, I just need at least 6 questions about whatever you want to ask from different people. I want to know what you guys think and what's going on in your heads when you read. Q and A will be posted as soon as I get the minimum requirement for questions.

So without any further chit chat and with so much love for all your support and views, I thank you. You have given me the confidence to keep writing even when I feel like I'm writing trash.

Until Next Time - BigSmallWonder