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Chapter 30

Epilogue

One Year Later

I pause at the altar and look forward. My eyes fall on him and my heart clenches to see the expression on his face. The eyes from the paintings stare back at me. His eyes hold the hope that had disappeared four years ago.

He is looking at me reverently like he's finally found the thing he was searching for years. I realize that it is the same for me. I've been chasing Edward Cullen since I was four years old and in all those years, it always felt farfetched. A dream that will never come true.

For a moment, I think that it is in fact a dream from which I will eventually wake up and a pain shoots in my chest at the thought.

But then I look up at him, gazing at me with love and smiling at me with a promise, and I feel myself smile back. Even if this reality is just for a few moments, even if all this shatters suddenly, I wouldn't give it up. I wouldn't give him up.

My dad holds my arm then and I am broken from my chain of thoughts. We start to walk toward him and I lose myself in this dream, smiling with tears in my eyes.

My dad places my hand in Edward's and he immediately squeezes them. "Edward," I whisper.

He smiles at me. "Hmm."

"Pinch me."

He gives out a small chuckle. "If it is a dream, do you want to wake up?"

I stare in his eyes and whisper. "No. I don't ever want to wake up."

He pinches me anyway, with a smirk. I jump a little and startle everyone. "You asked for it." He says proudly.

I close my eyes as a stray tear trails down my cheek. It's not a dream. It's all real.

Throughout the ceremony, I gaze at him with watery eyes, as I realize that this is all really happening, that I'm not dreaming.

Edward leans down then, and his lips meet mine gently. I close my eyes and wrap my arms around his shoulders. He pulls me in closer and I feel him smile against my lips. When he pulls apart, I pinch him lightly on the hand. He lets out a chuckle but doesn't flinch.

He looks me in the eyes and says, "This is all real, Mrs. Cullen."

My heart jumps at hearing my new name. When I close my eyes for a moment, the starry night flashes in my mind when Edward and I first confessed our love to each other.

Edward pulls me closer to him and whispers in my ear, "I love you, Bella."

I sigh again, happily. Edward's voice echoes around me again.

"When will you realize how much I love you?"

"Someday."

-THE END-

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