Disclaimer: I gain no monetary compensation from this work. All characters belong to Stephenie Meyer. I only own the plot, which is quickly wrapping up!

I know this is a bit of an abrupt ending, but it made sense to me. It's the beginning of their new life, and they have new problems. I can't wrap everything up! Tell me if you want a sequel, I'm becoming more and more inclined…

Thanks again, everyone, you all are the best!

-Miri

Epilogue

BPOV

Fourteen days after I cut an 'E' into my stomach, Charlie was caught. He was buying gas just outside of the city in a stolen Acura. Two months later I attended his trial and testified against him. He was given twenty-five years in prison; he would be sixty-nine before he could terrorize us once more. I visited him in prison; this is how the conversation went.

"Hi Dad."

"What are you doing here?"

"I just wanted to say 'Hi'. I missed having to look out for you stalking me. And I wanted to tell you something."

"Ha ha. Well, out with it and go away!"

"I wanted you to know that I forgive you."

"Okay, bye."

"Bye, Dad." I didn't want him to die thinking that I hated him, and having that glass wall between us and guards surrounding us made me brave.

In the June after I graduated from college Edward proposed to me. It went like this:

We were sitting in the living room, watching a rerun episode of Startrek, and I was laughing at some stupid thing that Chekov was doing. Suddenly, Edward was staring at me with his intense eyes. "Bella, you're beautiful when you laugh, did you know?"

I blushed. "Oh, stop. You're ridiculous."

"Wait here for just a moment." He got up and went to his room. I waited on the couch, and turned off the TV.

He returned with a little box, he got down on one knee while I was reclining on the couch. "Oh, no." I said quietly. I don't think he heard me.

"Isabella Marie Swan, will you marry me?" He looked into my eyes and presented me with the most beautiful emerald ring that I had ever seen. It was beautifully set in white gold. Unconventional, but that was the way we had always been.

I was silent for a few seconds, all was silent. "Of course I'll marry you!" I reached for his hand and held it. He placed the ring onto my ring finger, I wanted to make a fist and admire it, but of course, that was the finger that doesn't work. I felt a momentary urge to move the ring to another finger. But then I realized that if I spent my entire life doing things because of Charlie, I would always be upset. I left the ring there and kissed Edward instead.

We got married the next summer. Rosalie and Alice are still my best friends, they never once backed down, and I didn't have a Maid of Honor at my wedding, because I couldn't decide which one to choose. And the funny thing: my mother attended my wedding.

Edward and I were talking about college after I had graduated, and he mentioned his Dean, Dr. Dwyer. We were talking about her, so he looked up a picture online. I recognized her instantly. How strange, we had both become teachers. I immediately called her office number and left a message, then I called her secretary, and then sent her an e-mail. She called back the next day.

"Hello?" Edward said.

"Bella?"

"Oh, no, this is Edward, I'll get her." Edward came and tapped me on the shoulder, handing me the phone. He didn't have to say who it was, I already knew.

"Mom?"

"Bella?"

"It's me."

"Oh, God, sweetheart! I'm so sorry! I had to disappear, I couldn't have been found by him, because he would have killed me! I swear I didn't want to leave you! Can you ever forgive me?" Her voice was breathy and kind, full of imagination, just the way I'd remembered it.

"Of course, mom."

"Where are you? Can I come and see you?"

"Anytime!" I gave her our address, and she was delighted to hear about my engagement. We eventually hung up and she swore that she would get on the road immediately. She was at my apartment the next day. And as a result, she gave me away at my wedding.

My mom and I are still in touch, she calls me every day, and if she forgets, I call her. She immediately paid all of my hospital bills from the last year, and from four years before. I haven't been able to justify having any children yet, but maybe someday.

The story ends here, but I don't like to think of it as an end. For Charlie, it's the end, for the Bella that I was in Chapter One, it's the end.

And I know it sounds cheesy, but for me, for Edward, and for Mom, it is really just -beginning.

So, that's it.

Thanks for sticking with me!

Should I do a sequel? Re-reading this to write the summary has made me really happy. SO, if you think I should, please tell me what it should be about and perhaps I shall! Thanks again for everything. I owe you all.