Previously…

"You," Steve turned the gun on her. "Shut up. Edward will tell the story or you will die. And I promise I won't miss this time."

Epilogue:

Six Months Later…

The sunlight didn't bother me. It was a welcoming old friend. The rays glided across my marble white skin causing prisms of light to bounce back and sparkle. The sun was warming me to my very soul. A soul, I scoffed. If I still even have one. I continued to sit out in the meadow. Letting the sun hit me squarely. I was in hiding and not just from the regular town folk. But I was also hiding from my family and their horrible thoughts as well.

Yes, I knew something was wrong with me. I was a vampire for crying out loud I shouldn't have to wallow in all this regret and pain. I should be able to move on with my life. But, even as a vampire, moving on from the one person you truly love's absence is hard. Difficult even. Especially when you know that it is your fault that she is gone. I closed my eyes and felt myself go back to that horrible night. One of many in my hundred years of existence.

*Flashback*

My hands clenched into fists at the sight of Steve pointing the gun at my beloved's skull. How could he do this to someone he supposedly loved? It didn't make any sense.

Don't make me, shoot her, because I will do it, goddammit!

I flinched at the insidious thought running in his head. Bella looked at me with her chocolate brown eyes. Pleading with me not to tell him the story. She knew that even if we did as he asked she would be killed. There had to be someway of getting around this. I could use my vampire speed and knock the gun out of his hand before he even knew what had happened. But it would be too suspicious. He would know that I wasn't normal. What to do? What to do?

Then I thought of my sister, Alice. Surely, she should have seen this by now. She would send the others in to help. I would just have to delay him enough until they got here.

I sighed, "Well, it all started four years ago," Bella looked up at me shocked.

"Edward!" She exclaimed.

"Shut up!" Steve pushed the gun further into her skull. "Go on, Edward."

"Bella had just moved to Forks from Phoenix to live with her dad," I continued on. "When we first met, I didn't make a great first impression. In fact, Bella thought that I hated her. But the truth was I…" I trailed off. How do I explain why I hated Bella so much on that first day without telling Steve what I truly was?

"He was coming down with food poisoning," Bella cut in. "He was feeling really sick, and didn't understand what was going on. I ran into him later coming out of the nurse's office and then he didn't show for the rest of the week."

I nodded my thanks to her, "Yes, and when I came back the following week I tried to make amends for my behavior the week before."

"I was a little annoyed at him," Bella said. "Even though I don't quite remember why, now."

"You didn't understand why I had been so mean to you," I said. "So, I tried to play the nice guy and find out more about her."

Edward, we're here. My sister's thought rolled through my head.

I eyed the door, and waited patiently for my siblings to rush through the door and grab the gun out of Steve's hand. But before they could, Steve was watching me.

"What's going on?" He asked. "You're not thinking about trying to be the hero here, are you?"

"No, of course not," I replied quickly. "I'm just worried about how come a nurse hasn't come to check on Bella yet."

"Oh," he smiled. "Don't worry about that."

I saw the image of him paying off the nurse on duty go through his head. Obviously there wouldn't be any help from the nursing staff tonight. I eyed the door again from the corner of my eye and waited. Within seconds my siblings were inside and rushing towards Steve.

But not fast enough. Steve noticed the door was now opened and looked at me.

"What the HELL?" He exclaimed. Emmett came up behind him and grabbed him around the neck. Rosalie made a grab for the gun but not before something horrible happened.

The gun went off, right into Bella's neck.

*End of Flashback*

The memory was painful to relive and I knew that for the rest of my existence I would be plagued with it no matter what I did. Bella hadn't lived. There was too much blood loss and by the time Alice told me that I had to bite her if I wanted to save her, it was too late. Bella was gone.

I had lost her, when I tried so hard to save her in the first place.

But didn't you cause this? A voice in my head reminded me. If you hadn't left her to begin with three years ago, she wouldn't have gone to that bar. She wouldn't have slept around and she wouldn't have met Steve. She would still be alive.

It really had been my fault. I didn't know how I was going to be able to exist without her. She was my everything.

"Edward?" Alice's voice drifted into the meadow.

Of course, she would be the first to find me. She saw everything. I couldn't help but chuckle.

"You know what I'm going to do, don't you, Alice?"

"Yes, but please, Edward, don't."

"I have no choice."

"You do have a choice, Edward!" She exclaimed. The pixie was in front of me. Her eyebrows were drawn down and her mouth was turned down in serious frown. She was angry. I couldn't blame her. But obviously she didn't see why I had to do what I was going to do.

"What's my choice, Alice?" I asked her. "To go on living like this? Or I can go to the Volturri and be done with this existence forever. I would be able to see my dear Bella again."

"Edward…" she began. Her anger was subsiding. She understood my pain. She knew what I was going through. Bella had been like the sister she had never had and she had lost her too. "I won't stand in your way. But please, reconsider."

I shook my head. This was my choice.

Bella was gone and very shortly I would be joining her.

Author's Notes: Oh, I know. I shouldn't have taken so long with this chapter, but things got in my way. Besides I couldn't decide how I wanted to end this story until a few days ago when I finally got the brainstorm I've been hoping for. Anyway, hope you guys enjoyed the ending. Please review! And thank you to all who have been reading. It's been a pleasure!