EPILOGUE – Bitter Sweet Symphony
Disclaimer: SMeyer is the owner of these not me, if I were, Edward would be naked all the time, hahaha
A/N: This final chapter is for all my readers,that never had given up on me,and never lost their faith on my is for them.
BPOV
New York City,
7 Years Later,
"This is fucking ridiculus" I said,looking down at the big white window,staring at the thress at the Central Park.
"Stop moving" Rosalie said,trying to work on my curls.
"Why do I have to change in here?Why can´t I change in my own place" I asked,annoyed.
"Because then you and Cullen would end up fucking like bunnies and probably lost the fucking wedding" she said,putting another small crystal in the middle of my pin curls.
"Did you know that John Lennon used to live in this building,I bet that Yoko bitch still does,we can try to go kick her ass" I said
"Nice try,but not even my hate for that band wrecker will make me let you get away" she said.
"It was worth a try" I said,looking at the luxury room,the big windows,the painted ceeling,the fancy iron bed,the expensive shoes. ( picture on my profile )
This room screammed Alice,and I was glad she had reached such a amazing sucess at such young age,after all she has made enough money on her own to buy a apartment in the famous Dakota building in the 5th Avenue.
"Alice and her stupid ideas" I said,sitting on the vanity,putting my diamond and pearl earrings,trying not to look at the mirror,cause if I did,I might not do this.
"Bella come on,Edward and the guys are waiting for us in the church" Rosalie said,putting the finalls touch in my hair.
"You sound like this is your wedding" I said,smiling.
"If it was,I wasn´t going to be this fucking late" she said,putting her hands on her now larger waist.
"Oh I remember,because I had to get ready almost seven hours before the wedding,your braidzila"
"Details" she said,like it was no big deal,and she fucking was the most scarying bride of teh story of man kind.
"Anyway,I thought we should be late" I said,touching the soft organza of my dress.
"Bella,Alice already called 10 times,if we don´t leave soon she might have a heart atacck" Rose said
"Fine,I am going" I said,getting up and grabbing my bouquet of white and soft yellow roses.
"Are you ready" Rose asked me,smiling.
"More than I will ever been,you are looking hot Mama Rose" I said,touching her growing belly.
"Thanks,this kid has finnaly stoped kicking,he will so be a football player" she said,looking lovely at her tummy.
"Baby Ethan,listen to your Aunt Bella and stop kicking your momy" I said,right to her belly.
"I think he might have listen to you" she said smiling,grabbing her golden clutch.
"I am down with the kids" I said,with a smug look
"Oh yeah Bella,you are the bomb" she said,with a annoyed look.
"Come on Blondie,lets get over with this" I said,taking a deep breath,and walking out of the apartment.
In front of the building,there were a antique silver 1962 Rolls Royce waiting for walk to the cathedral was only a few minutes from here,but Alice had insisted for us to go with the vintage car,so here we were.
I couldn´t stop thinking about how things had changed in the past seven years. People had married,born,died.
People had moved,people have changed,I had changed.
I wasn´t anymore Bella Swan badass,17 years old,that loved to see people lose her mind over her.I was Isabella Swan,24 years old,journalist of The New York Sun.
We all have grown and move on to better and bigger things in those past seven years. Alice was discovered by accident leaving fashion school ,when she let a few designs sketch drop in front of the Elle magazine editor, she soon hit the top,taking Jasper with her,as her official photographer and art director.
Emmett and Rosalie fulffil their promise to stay close to home . They got engage right after college graduation,and now were crazy and happly married,with baby Ethan on the way. Rosalie worked with her dad´s company for a while,but decided to persue a old dream,and opend a now very famous car restoraution shop.
As for me and Cullen,our road was a little different,it was much more rough then the ones our friends our friends had persued . We didn´t move in togheter,we lived in different campus,and we barely had time to see each other,we fighted constantly . Everyday was a challenge to be togheter.
Medical School took a ton of Edward,if he wasn´t in the medical school,he was in the hospital or was tired all the time,so we barely did anything other than hanging around in his dorm or things like that.
It was really hard to not be with him all the time at first,but as the years passed,a few things got easier and a few got harder.I missed him constantly,and I used to get furious that all his free time he spend sleeping or even doing extra studying.I knew it was going to be hard,but sometimes I just wanted to shout at him,and leave him with his goddamm books.
At that time I could´t get how Carlisle could do this and still have time for Esme,and Edward couldn´t,so my head got the best of me.I started to think that he might had loose the interest on me,that we had turn in another boring couple,it could be another woman,or maybe he just didn´t love me anymore.
In the summer before senior year,a professor of mine,send a recomendention letter for a intership in The New York Sun for the summer . It was my big chance,but still,it was the only time Edward and I could have more free time,and spend it togheter,but I knew that if I didn´t take this chance I would regret it for the rest of my life.
In the night I decided to talk to Edward about the intership in New York,we end up having a huge fight,another one . It was all it took me for making the decision that would change my life . As I walked the door of Edward´s dorm,he told me if I walked out that door,I didn´t need to come back . And I didn´t.
It was the first time we were apart since that dark months in high school.
We haven´t talk for that exacly three months. He didn´t call and neither did I.
I crashed at Jasper and Alice loft,and spend all my free time on the journal,only going out when Alice made me.I never looked at another man,even if I was preatty sure that Edward and I weren´t togheter anymore,I couldn´t let go of the years we have spend togheter,I still loved him no matter what.
When I got back to Baltimore,I had a work proposal on my hands,and a entire new life seted for me in New York . I had only a year to graduated,but thanks to my extra credict,I could do it in less time. Everything was getting in their right place,I could see my entire future,and for the first time in years it would be without Edward.
When I got in my foor door,there he was,asleep in my looked like he hadn´t shaved in weeks,his clothes were all dirty and he woke up,he begged me to not leave him,that he couldn´t live without was the last day we spend apart.
Right after graduation,we moved togheter to New York,me to work for the New York Sun and him as a inthern in the Mt. Sinai Hospital.
Since then,we all started a new life in Manhattan,togheter.
Alice had a shop in the 5th Ave and Jasper a photography studio . Soon Alice and Jazz moved to the Dakota building,and me and Edward bought the loft from . It was one of our most important decisions as a couple.
"We are here" Rosalie said,bringing em back to the real world.
And here we were,in front of the magestic ´s Saint Patrick´s cathedral.( picture on my profile )
The white and tan marble quarried, Catholic cathedral church decorated in Neo-Gothic-style, that accommodate 2,200 people was designed by James Renwick Jr,and faced the Rockefeller construction . It was started in 1858 but was halted during the Civil War and resumed in 1865. The cathedral was completed in 1878.
Offcourse that I knew all of this because of Jasper and his obssession with American History and maybe because Alice couldn´t shut up,about how the Saint Michael and Saint Louis altar was designed by Tiffany & Co , go figures.
I got out of the car,and walked the old marble steps,with Rosalie bt my side.
"Don´t worry,you will be fine" Rosalie said
"You know there is like almost 2000 people in there right?And I don´t know any of them" I said,touching my hair
"Stop it,you got the damm hair thing from Edward,don´t ruin my art work" she said,pointing a finger at me.
"Ok,I will calm myself,don´t need to get all motherly on me" I said,looking that Edward Vanquish was already there.
"Listen,we need to wait here in the hall,but soon it will be time . I need to find Emmett and pee . Can you stay alone for 5 minutes" Rosalie asked
"Yeah,I can do it" I said.
"Stay there Bella,don´t dare to move" Rosalie said,leaving me alone for the first time in 24 hours.
I was looking down at my bouquet,trying to calm down,when a hand pulled me by the arm and clamped my mouth,taking me to a dark chamber.
"What the fuck? Dr. Cullen I don´t think this is a proper behavier for a church" I said,looking at him.
"Fuck proper" he said,crashing his hard lips against my own.
"God I missed you" I said against his lips
"I missed you too . Damm Alice and her rules" he said,deepning the kiss
"She is a damm persistent pixie" I said,laughing.
He pressed me against the hard and cold marble walls of the chamber,his hands running my body,his lips leaving a trail of fire behind it.
"That is becoming a tradition already" I said,sucking his neck,trying really hard not to rip his clothes of him,remembering what had happend in Rose and Emm´s wedding.
"How about we make this our own tradition" he said,running his hands under my dress.
"How is that gonna be?Are you going to convince other friends of ours to got married" I said,before kissing his lips one more time.
"I was thinking about something more like this" he said,taking his lips away from mine.
"Holly shit" I said,looking at him.
"Not exacly the reaction I was looking for,but that will do" he said smiling
"What?Are you?I mean..." I started to say,rambling,looking at the marvellous was a rectangular diamond,gracefully enhanced by triangular side stones.
http://www(doc)tiffany(doc)?engagementGroup=GRP10008&engagementSku=19483983&mode=Engagement#
"Isabella:
Before you, my life was like a moonless dark,but there were stars – points of light and reason - and then you shot across my sky like a every thing was on fire;there was brilliancy.
I never knew that I could feel that much,and that´s the way I loved you.
When I tell you I love you I don´t say it out of habit or to make a conversation.I say it to remind you that you´re the best thing that´s ever happend to me.
Our eyes are destined to look at each other hearts are destined to beat in that same rhythm lives are destined to be intersect and interwine in all ways possible and impossible.I love you you marry me "
I couldn´t breath,I could´t move,I couldn´t talk.
Here he was,the man of my dreams,looking at my eyes and asking me if I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him.
I never felt so much,I felt like my heart would explode,I loved him so much that it the tears were on my eyes and for the first time,they were tears of of hapiness,because no matter what,I was going to have my own happy ending.
"Besides,it was time to tell the world,you are officially my bitch . So what do you tell me Swan,wanna join the Cullen´s" he asked me with a smug smile,softly wipping the tears that had fallen in my face.
"Cullen,everyone knows that YOU are my bitch" I said,smiling at him.
No words were spoken,no one said yes,he knew that I already belonged to him: from heart,body and soul.
"Is so fucking gorgeous " I said,while he took of the ring from the familiar blue box.
"It better be,after all it is a $41,000 Tiffany's diamond " Edward said,smiling it.
"You Cullen´s really does know how to spend" I said,putting my hands aroun his neck
"You better get used to it" he said giving me a peck on the lips.
"Crap" I said,looking at my shinny ring
"What is it" he asked me
"I don´t wanna ruin this for her,this is her moment,not mine" I said,really not wanting to take the ring off.
"But soon it will be," he said,turning the ring around,so no one could see the diamond,and kissing my wrist.
"I really love you" I said,looking at his deep green eyes.
"There you are,I have been looking all over for you,the wedding is about to start" Rosalie said taking me out the room
"I will be on the altar" Edward said,before desappearing.
"You guys really should stop fucking in the church . God is watching,you know" Rosalie said,while re applying my make up.
"We weren´t fucking,this time" I said,grabbing my bouquet from Rose´s hand´s
"I am sure you weren´t" Rosalie said smiling
"She is ready" Mrs Hale said,walking down to us with her gorgeous Dior dark blue strapless dress ( picture on my profile )
"Lets get this show started" I said walking down the aisle,at the sounds of the violins.
The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
'Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, this life
Try to make ends meet
You're a slave to money then you die
I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down
You know the one that takes you to the places
where all the veins meet yeah,
No change, I can change
I can change, I can change
But I'm here in my mold
I am here in my mold
But I'm a million different people
from one day to the next
I can't change my mold
No, no, no, no, no
Well I never pray
But tonight I'm on my knees yeah
I need to hear some sounds that recognize the pain in me, yeah
I let the melody shine, let it cleanse my mind, I feel free now
But the airways are clean and there's nobody singing to me now
No change, I can change
I can change, I can change
But I'm here in my mold
I am here in my mold
And I'm a million different people
from one day to the next
I can't change my mold
No, no, no, no, no
I can't change
I can't change
'Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, this life
Try to make ends meet
Try to find some money then you die
I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down
You know the one that takes you to the places
where all the things meet yeah
You know I can change, I can change
I can change, I can change
But I'm here in my mold
I am here in my mold
And I'm a million different people
from one day to the next
I can't change my mold
No, no, no, no, no
I can't change my mold
no, no, no, no, no,
I can't change
Can't change my body,
no, no, no
I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down
I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down
Been down
Ever been down
Ever been down
Ever been down
Ever been down
Have you ever been down?
Have you've ever been down?
The huge cathedral was decorated with white flowers: roses,lilys and jasmin . Candles shinned the dark marble walls . There were 2000 people in there,but I only had eyes for one . Him .
The little blondie angel,Anabelle,opened the way,leaving white and light pink roses on her way . And I were right behind her . Even if felt like everybody eyes were at me,I didn´t feel the panick I thought I was going to be,to be in front of New York elite . And that was because he was waiting there for me.
Soon everybody eyes left me,Rosalie and little Anabelle,and went to the door . Mendelssohn Wedding March started to play,and we all could just stare at her .
Alice
http://www(doc)youtube(doc)com/watch?v=z0wmzoHd6yo
God she was so beautiful.
She was wearing a Jim Hjelm,ivory alencon lace over a champagne charmeuse A-line bridal was strapless with a elongated bodice,and a ivory satin ribbon at hair was up in a bun,with a vintage french net veil covering her face,with diamond and pear earrings,and light make her hands were the most delicated bouquet of white and light pik roses.
She walked down the aisle along with her father,and for the first time in seven years,I could see a trace of emotion in John Brandon´s face . It seem to be proud of his little girl . For the first time he acted like the father Alice´s always wanted to have.
We were all there in the aisle,the six of us,for another chapel of our lifes.
Rosalie Emmett . Edward and me . Jasper and Alice.
To see the love and devotion of my best friends eyes for each other,brought me a hole new perspective,it brought me a hope that I haven´t felt in a long time.
I could see all the love that Billy still had for Scarlett after 25 years of marriage . The way Carlisle touched Esme face like she still was the young girl he meet in college. Even the way that John and Amanda Brandon were holding their hands togheter.
I knew that this feeling I had would never go away.I would always love him,no matter if I was 17 or 70,my heart would burn every time I looked at his eyes . Edward and I belong togheter.
Soon the priest pronunced them man and wife.
"I introduce to you,Mr and Mrs Hale".
There were tears,smiles,hugs and there were not one single soul that wasn´t happy for The High Fashion Designer and The Photographer . My friends.
The party were hold in the New York Public Library in the 5th Ave,close to the cathedral,where all the great love stories of the world were placed. ( Sex and the City – The Movie, amazing idea )
The staircase were lit with candles,and the ballroom full of flowers,it was Alice´s dream.
In the middle of the dance floor,were Alice and Jasper,having their first wedding dance.
"May I have this dance" Edward asked from behind me
"Cullen,haven´t you learn" I asked him
"Haven´t you learn not to undereast me" he asked,with a smile
" I can´t slow dance" I said,listening to the song
"Who said anything about slow dancing" he said,when the song changed to a old song,one of our favorites.
You're My Best Friend - Queen
Ooh you make me live
Whatever this world can give to me
It's you you're all I see
Ooo you make me live now honey
Ooo you make me live
Ooh you're the best friend that I ever had
I've been with you such a long time
You're my sunshine and I want you to know
That my feelings are true
I really love you
Oh you're my best friend
Ooo you make me live
Ooh I've been wandering round
But I still come back to you
In rain or shine
You've stood by me girl
I'm happy at home
You're my best friend
Ooo you make me live
Whenever this world is cruel to me
I got you to help me forgive
Ooo you make me live now honey
Ooo you make me live
You're the first one
When things turn out bad
You know I'll never be lonely
You're my only one
And I love the things
I really love the things that you do
You're my best friend
Ooo you make me live
I'm happy at home
You're my best friend
Oh you're my best friend
Ooo you make me live
He took my hand,and soon he was singing at me,and we were dancing . He spun me around,his hand around my waist,mine on his shoulders,we singing the lyrics,togheter.
The dance floor sunddlely were full of people,but they didn´t matter . To us there were only,Alice and Jasper lost in each other;Emmett dancing and talking to baby Ethan,while Rose laughed;and me and him.
"Did you think things were going to end like this seven years ago" he asked,kissing my ring.
"No,but once someone said to me 'that people that are meant to be togheter always find their way in the end'" I said,looking at Alice dancing in Jasper arms,and then I kissed Edward soft lips . My fiance . The love of my life . My best friend.
The End.
A/N: OH MY GOD!
I can´t belive this is over,it was such a long and sweet jorney,a emotional roller coaster,but I wouldn´t trade this for anything .
Thank you all,without you,I wouldn´t be here right now,writing.
Thanks for beleving in me,in my work,and most of all in Bella and Edward.
I can´t thank you all enough,because now I feel like I am a better person,for all the people that I meet because of this story.
I love you all,and I won´t stop writing,and I hope you all won´t stop reading.
Thank you LeKat,for your kindness,and for helping me when no one eles wanted.
Thank you Muse,for providing a fanfiction worth of inspiration.
Thank you Stephenie Meyer,for showing me,the courage and love to write.
Thank you all from the bottle of my heart.
Carol
ps) hope you all went to see the sets on my polyvore account and listend to the amazing songs!
NEXT STORY PLOTS
Sorry dears,but there is no point of a sequel after this Epilogue,I think they all got their happy ending,so thats why i have 3 plots for my new guys can help me to decided wich one I will write next.
1)Bella is the new girl in town,and end up interessed in tortured artist/geeky Edward.
2)Bella/Edward story based on the movie ' 10 things I hate about You '
3)Bella/Edward story based on the movie ' Made of Honor '
Tell me what you guys think!
Love,
Carol