Love Edward and Emmett's friendship.

I'm worried about Rose. If Royce is anything like he is in Stephenie meyers books then I hope Bella figures it out and goes to jasper... maybe get emmett and edward to help. warning signals go off when people seem to isolate from their friends. I'm worried that if Rose ends up in the hospital before Bella works things out poor bella will be distraught with herself and she has so much already going on. I desperately hope you continue this story. IT's one of my favourites I have ever read. I love Bella, Edward, Emmett, Jasper, Alice...don't really know Rose yet but I love them all. Curious about Jessica...also curious about the relationship that Edward had that ended in a brutal breakup...also wondering about Edward's and Alice's parents and childhood.

Great work! Really interesting read so far. I love that your author's note says it won't be as long of a wait for the next chapter, but that was 2010 and now it's almost 2020 so I won't hold my breath lol. But if you do ever update, I'd love to read it!

Jasper has a special place because he is her best friend

Does Emmett play WoW?

Lol! The first time that I read this fic, I was in HS...and the hours that they are keeping weren’t totally foreign! Needless to say, it’s been a while. I’ve gotten married and had a few kids in the interim, and NOW staying up all hours of the night and chillin’ at the gym in the afternoons is so foreign. Almost like an alternate universe unto itself, haha! Still love this fic! It’s one of the tried and true!

I come back to re-read this story every year and love it more each time. I know it’s been 8 years but I still hold out hope that maybe you will update someday or let us know if you publish it in some other form. If you are still writing, please know you still have loyal readers and such a gift for the written word! It’s honestly one of the best love stories I’ve ever read. I love the amazing writing and strong characters. I wish you well with wherever you are in your life and thank you for sharing this story with us. Even unfinished, it brings me so much joy.

Départ canon!

I love this story and I hope that finished one day.

Just found your story and hope u finish it one day.

Oh how I love this Fic! I can’t believe I never read it before! It’s wonderful!

Oh poor Edward and Bella. She finally ‘feels’ something that’s true and right and Edward doesn’t know that she’s actually feeling good things... Edward wants her so bad

I loved that show on Saturday mornings and I used to laugh and laugh at their corny quips! My husbands name was Joel too by the way! I never had any dvds of it but I watched faithfully on channel 45 back in the day!

I can’t believe I found a Fic that I haven’t read before! Thx for writing, luv!

So I'm leaving this review as a Guest and not on my account because I'm about to share some private events from my life and I don't want my account associated with them. I realize you wrote this story 8 years ago, and you may never actually read this, but on the off-chance you do I really felt the need to say something.

Three years ago I was raped in a public bathroom by a stranger.

As a survivor of a violent rape, I can not stand the weak victim you've made Bella in this story. Why is it such a common occurrence in Fanfiction to write the female protagonists as weak, pathetic creatures who need men to come and fix them after a big bad man has broken them? It is so infuriating that we (women) want to represent ourselves this way. Write a character with some grit for fucks sake. I find it beyond doubtful that you have personal experience with sexual assault, and if you do, then I urge you to get therapy immediately. Because it's psychotic to believe it's normal for Bella to be this maladapted and tormented by her assault after SEVEN YEARS. News flash: most survivors of assault do not want to live in the shadow of that memory forever. They actually want to get better. And so they do the work.

It is one of the worst things that can happen to you to be raped. Yes it breaks you. But I've never met another survivor who wanted to stay shattered. It makes you feel pathetic and awful. No one wants to live with PTSD. No one wants to have anxiety, or fear in their daily lives. It literally disgusts me that this Bella was perfectly content to live a broken existence until a good man came along.

Of course a survivor is always going to carry that weight with them (Cowboy Bebop reference since you seem to be a fellow fan). But the vigilance, the fear, the night terrors, the panic attacks, the CONSTANT SOBBING and crying over anything that remotely reminds Bella of her rape is not normal after seven years. It just really really irritates me that you would represent the experience of rape like that, and try to normalize Bella's wildly maladaptive behaviors. Anyone and everyone in her life should be telling her to seek help. She's clearly not okay and needs cognitive behavioral therapy.

For anyone else reading this comment - this is not what surviving rape should look like. If you know anyone in your life who is still in this much pain after so long then please urge them to get professional help. No one should be living like this for nearly a decade.