When Forever Ends

Based on the book New Moon, written and owned by Stephanie Meyer.

What happens when Jasper succeeds in biting Bella on her birthday?

Can Edward suck the venom out a second time?

Or will his vampire instincts get the better of him…

Chapter 2 coming soon!

September 13

~ Bella ~

"Happy birthday!" Alice screamed in her high soprano voice, loud enough for anyone within a 12 mile radius to hear. Today was September 13, ugh, I hate birthdays.

"Bella?" Alice released me from her vice-grip and looked at me with an annoyed face. "What is your problem?"

"You know how I feel about getting older." I sulked. Alice rolled her eyes and turned to glare at the reason, Edward, who was standing beside me. "Whatever Bella, you're only 18, so get over it."

"Only 18?" I choked out. "Edward is forever 17 and I'm 18, soon to be 30, soon to be 50, soon to be-" Alice interrupted my rant.

"Stop! You're 18. Not 30 or 50, not yet anyways…" My jaw dropped at the thought.

"Alice, please," Edward said to his always-excited-for-the-wrong-reasons-sister.

"Okay fine! Bella you are so weird!" Alice folded her arms. "I will stop talking about it today while at school," I dramatically rolled my eyes at her. "But- tonight you will be coming over for a proper birthday celebration."

"Alice! No!" I know that Alice doesn't kill humans, but I was starting to think that she was a different kind of evil altogether.

"Listen, Esme is already really excited about having a real birthday party… but, if you would like to disappoint her, shatter her heart actually, then go ahead, break the news to her." Alice shoved her cell phone into my chest and smiled.

"Forget it, I'll go Alice." I knew that in the end I would never win against the painfully persistent Alice. She had all the time in the world. "What time?" I said in an emotionless tone.

"Alice, enough." Edward took his sister's cell phone and threw it in the garbage can beside him. "Could you ease up, please? If Bella doesn't want a party, then she doesn't have to have one. Esme only wants what Bella would want."

"No, no," I started. "I'll go, it's been a while since I've seen Esme anyway, I miss her." I sighed, I really didn't want a celebration but, I guess it couldn't hurt.

Alice closed her eyes and concentrated intensely for a few seconds. "Yes! You're coming! Thank you Bella! You'll love it, I promise!" Alice hugged me so tightly I thought my lungs were going to pop.

"Ow, um, Alice, OW," I managed to get out.

"Oh, sorry Bells!" Alice quickly released me and I fell into Edward's waiting arms. He sympathetically squeezed my shoulders.

"All right, you got want you wanted, now can you leave us alone?" Edward said while shaking his head. His beautiful bronze tousled hair swayed back and forth. I wished we were alone, I loved playing with his hair while kissing him…

"Yeah, I gotta go set-up anyways. I'll see you later Bella! Happy- err, bye!" Alice yelled back to us as she sprinted away.

"You know Bella, love, you don't have to worry about hurting Esme's feelings, or Alice's, they would completely understand if you really didn't want to go." Edward said as he unleashed a gorgeous smile my way. Wait, why was I upset again?

"I'm pretty sure that if I didn't go you would have to protect me from Alice, I'm pretty sure she'd want to kill me, or at least torture me. So, unless you're not opposed to fighting your sister," I joked, I really didn't care about the dumb party anymore. I didn't want to think about it any longer, I just wanted to focus on Edward's perfect face.

"Hmm, I'll ask Alice what the outcome would be, then I'll get back to you." Edward laughed and then kissed me on the cheek. "Well, I think we're going to be late for class, we should get moving."

I sighed, but class actually sounded like a good escape from all this birthday crap. I hoped, for my own sanity, that Alice didn't go all-out with the party. But I couldn't even pretend to believe that, I knew it was going to be ridiculous.

***

Despite my best efforts at hiding the fact that it was my birthday, everyone I seen greeted me with a great big happy birthday! I figured I had Alice to thank for this, she screamed happy birthday this morning so loud in front of the school, I think every single Forks' resident heard her.

I was happily holding Edward's hand, walking toward his Volvo in the middle of the school parking lot, when suddenly I heard a low snarl come from Edward's chest. "What's wrong?" I asked Edward quickly, scanning my surroundings, looking for any deranged vampires. Then I saw Mike, running toward me with a colourful piece of paper in his hand.

"Bella," Mike said out of breath, hands on his knees for support. "Sorry, give me, a second, to, catch my breath," The look on Edward's face was not a happy one. I was confused, what would cause Edward to be so upset with Mike? I looked away from Edward's fierce face, to examine the colourful paper Mike was holding, -oh.

"Okay, I'm good now! Sorry about that, but I didn't want to miss you, you know receiving birthday cards after your birthday is never fun." Mike was smiling huge at me, totally ignoring Edward. "This is for you, I made it." He handed me his homemade birthday card.

"Oh, wow, Mike, you shouldn't have, really, you shouldn't have." I added a smile after I realized I sounded a little too rude for the situation. It was a nice gesture, I guess.

"I know, I wanted to though Bella, do you like it?" Mike started to bite his lip.

"Lets see," I said as I took a quick look at the cover, it was a collage of tropical sunsets, palm trees, coconuts. All seemingly printed off of his home computer and glued to a piece of bright purple construction paper.

The front read: Happy Birthday Bella!

I quickly flipped the card open and there were more sunsets and coconuts.

In the middle of the right hand side it read:

To Bella, I hope your birthday is just as amazing as you are.

-Mike

I guess he was over being subtle, I noticed Edward stop breathing.

"Because I know how much you hate the cold, and the wet, so I wanted to put pictures of things you did like." Mike pointed to a palm tree that was glued to the inside of the card.

"Oh, right, I get it now. Thanks Mike, that's very, um, thoughtful." I said as I closed the card and smiled awkwardly at him. I could see Edward still glaring at Mike from the corner of my eye, but at least he was breathing again.

"Bella, we should get going, you mentioned in class that you wanted to watch Romeo and Juliet before your party." Edward said to me, still looking at Mike, who was still staring at me.

"Party?" Mike said confused, and hopeful.

"Private party." Edward corrected Mike with a taunting grin.

"Yes, we should go, thanks again Mike, see you later." I said while Edward grabbed my hand and led me towards his car.

"See ya," Mike said as he glared at Edward and turned to walk in the opposite direction.

The two of us walked in silence the rest of the way to the car. Edward opened my door and I slipped onto the black leather passenger seat. I couldn't help but feel somewhat sorry for Mike. It was rather sad that he was still trying so hard. I was so obviously with Edward.

"I may have to rethink my lifestyle, that kid is driving me crazy." Edward slammed his door shut. "When the hell will he get it? I have been nice up until now. That's it."

I started to laugh.

"This amuses you?" Edward said with a confused look, a gorgeous look.

"Yes, it is a bit of a joke really. Me and Mike?" I burst into giggles again.

"Trust me, it's not a joke to him. He's quite serious about winning you over." Edward started shaking his head and turned the car on.

"And I'm quite serious about how much I love you, you don't even realize the hold you have on me Edward. I'm yours, forever." When I said forever, I literally meant, forever. Even though I knew Edward wasn't on the same page as me when it came to changing me into a vampire. He was one hundred percent against it actually, and I was one hundred percent for it, which made it a difficult subject to talk about.

But, instead of arguing about forever and the different meanings it had, Edward just ran his cool fingers through my hair and leaned over to kiss me hard on the lips. "I love you too my beautiful Bella."

***

While we were watching Romeo and Juliet Edward held me in his strong arms. I felt so safe, it was hard to concentrate on the movie.

"Romeo, oh Romeo," Edward said with a dramatic sigh during the final scene in the movie.

"What's wrong with Romeo?" I said defensively, I loved Romeo.

"He just always screws things up, that's all. Like look how things ended, horrible." He said with a loud chuckle.

"Leave him alone."

"I'm sorry, I won't interrupt again." Edward locked his lips and threw away the key.

"Well that's true, because the movie's over now." I said, sticking out my tongue.

"How ironic!" Edward said as he picked me up by the waist and sat me beside him on the couch. Ah, Charlie must be home. Charlie liked Edward, but I wouldn't want to overwhelm him with too much body contact. Holding hands was probably enough for him to take.

"Bella! Happy birthday!" Charlie shouted as the door slammed behind him. I got up off of the couch and met him in the hallway. He gave me a big hug and kiss.

"Thanks, again, Dad." He had already said happy birthday to me before I left for school.

"So, what are the plans for tonight? Want to go out? Order in? You pick kiddo!" He was now hanging up his police jacket and gun holster.

"Actually, Dad, Alice is having a birthday party for me at the Cullen's. You are welcome to come if you want." I asked out of politeness, but I already knew the answer.

"Um, no thanks Bells, there's a game on tonight I was hoping to catch. I think Billy's going to come up, if that's okay?" Charlie hated parties just as much as I did.

"No, that's fine Dad, have a good night, I'll be home later on." I said as I kissed him on the cheek again.

"All right then, have fun! Say hello to everyone for me." Charlie walked Edward and me to the front door. "Oh, wait!" he ran to the kitchen and back to us. "Don't forget this," he said while handing out my new camera he bought me. My mom had bought me a scrapbook. She wanted me to document my life in Forks, and send it to her.

"Oh yeah, of course." I said as I took my present from his hand. I decided I better make sure it worked, so I took a quick picture of Edward. "Just checking."

"Looks like it works!" Charlie said with a chuckle. "Bye!"

"Bye Charlie, have a pleasant evening." Edward politely said as we walked out of my front door.

***

"You're brave and completely selfless for doing this Bella." Edward said to me as we were pulling up to the giant Cullen house. There were flowers and twinkle lights everywhere. Alice.

I sighed and got out of the Volvo. Edward was by my side in the next second. He grabbed my hand and we slowly climbed the stairs, which were covered in rose pedals, to the front door, which was covered in twinkle lights.

"No need to be scared Bella." Edward said as he squeezed my hand and opened the front door.