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I was just showing her a video on her eighteenth birthday, happy to see it. I didn't know which occasions he put with each birthday or some other holiday, he just had them in a box, in the order for me to show them to her, and they had little labels on them, such as '18th birthday' was on this one, along with a surprise: an envelope.

I was showing Kierralina Cullen her father again. The whole family was gathered around my modest TV, the video tape just starting. I had my tissue box and was ready for the waterworks.

"Kierralina, I have something else besides the video to give you," I started off. I handed her the envelope with a letter Edward had written for her when he was still alive. I had never seen the letter, so I was just as eager as her to see what was inside.

To: My loveliest daughter, Kierralina, on her 18th Birthday

From: Her loving father

She opened it slowly, pulling out its contents carefully. She got the letter and opened it up, reading what it said slowly so not to miss a word.

Dear Sweetheart,

I know you must hear this story a lot, but I wanted to write one for you so you would never forget that I love you. I'm making some videos of The Trip, again, so you don't forget how much I love you even though I have to miss most of your life. You don't know how sad it makes me that I can't be there, and never for a second think that I didn't love you. I still love you as a matter a fact. Keep up with your studies for the rest of the year, and I don't know if you plan on attending any college, but if you do, I wish you the best of luck and hope you are the best at whatever you try. I support you, and wish I could be there for you everyday. It pains me to say this, but see you soon.

Love,

Your Father (Edward Cullen, in case you forgot.)

After all of us read the letter, I popped in the video and sat back down next to my daughter.

I began like it usually did- with a cheesy intro he made on his computer when he was bored in the hospital. It had a bunch of two second segments of other videos with him saying, "It's your dad!" and then you would hear me say "And your mom!" while laughing. I remembered him asking me to say that one day, out of the blue, and not telling me what he was using it for.

I sniffed and grabbed a tissue after reliving the memory. You would think after seeing the intro a hundred times, I would get used to it. Well, I had yet to really get used to the fact that he was gone.

The video started and it was the one we made in Disney World.

"Hey kiddo!" He said in his happy voice. "We're at DISNEY WORLD!" He said excitedly. The scene jumped to one of us riding a roller coaster. We were going down a large drop. Then it switched to us on the tea cups, spinning around crazily. Then it switched to me throwing up. Everyone started to laugh and I did too, and tried to glare at the TV, but it was hard to laugh, glare, and cry at the same time.

"Fun, huh?" It switched to Edward in the bedroom we stayed at. "Mom's in the bathroom showering, so I have to be quick on this! I wonder if mom has ever taken you here yet…. I hope not, because if you're Bella and my daughter, then you did wonderful this year. Graduating, getting into a wonderful college, all those things. So I think you deserve a vacation. I'm giving you a trip to Disney World with your mom and two more people," he said. I smiled and felt even more tears well up.

"This message is to Bella: if Kierralina decides to take a boy, that happens to be a friend, I do not want them to be in the same room!

"And now that my baby is turning 18, she will be getting serious about guys. I know, I know Lina, boys are gross creatures that have coodies, but they will soon change," he joked in a sarcastic voice. "But, I want Emmett, Jasper, and Carlisle to take my place… every boy that you get serious about must go threw all three of them. Emmett, you better beat away any boy that is less than par." Edward was joking, that much was evident, but I could tell by his voice cracking that he was miserable that he would miss it.

"Edward! I need a towel," I heard myself whine from outside the camera range.

"Then come out and get one!" Edward yelled back, laughing and looking towards the right to what I guessed was the direction of the bathroom.

"No!" I yelled back stubbornly. Edward just smiled and shook his head. After a minute we heard a door open and me stomping around to get a towel. "What are you doing?" I asked from camera and we all saw me walking into the camera frame with just a towel on, my hair wet and dangling around my shoulders.

"Nothing, just filming," Edward said casually. I screamed and jumped out of the frame. The whole room was laughing hysterically. I groaned and felt Emmett's hand on my back. I wiped my nose on the tissue and Emmett grabbed me into a big bear hug. I could feel his chest rising and falling rapidly from laughing.

"Well, I gotta go," Edward said. I turned to look at the TV. "Love you with all my heart," he said and he blew a kiss at the computer before turning it off.

The room was silent and I looked at Kierralina and she was smiling up at me. I wiped my eyes and nose and then went around the couch to hug her. I felt her sniff and then I heard her start to cry. I just patted her back and hugged her even tighter.

"I love you, and I know for more than a fact that he loves you," I told her quietly and then kissed the side of her head.

"I wish he could be here for everything," she cried, sobbing now. This happens almost every video; you'd think we would get used to them. "I mean, I didn't even know him. I shouldn't be this sad. I've had three dads, I should be thankful."

I just patted her back but soon she pushed out of my grasp. "Honey, you have had to go through life without a father, it's hard," I said simply.

"It's not fair. I need him, I want him," she said, wiping away tears only to have them be replaced by more tears.

"You sound like me," I laughed even though it wasn't funny. I looked around the room to see them looking at us with concerned expressions on their faces. Emmett placed a hand on my shoulder comfortingly. I wished that hand was Edward's. I wished we were some normal family that had fights all the time about where she was allowed to go to college, not me against her. I wanted to be able to ask someone what they thought about things.

But at the same time I knew that things would never be that way. I just had to deal. I lost my Edward, and in turn I got a beautiful daughter with his deep green eyes, and my brown hair and heart shaped face, with his pale skin. She was beautiful.

"Je t'aime, ma mère," she told me. "Et j'aime mon père." I smiled, and nodded my head.

"J'aime ton père aussi," I told her.

Thanks everyone who read this story! I hope you enjoyed all my short chapters and I hope you liked what I did with Edward: I made him more human. Well, maybe not totally realistic, but closer than Stephanie's Edward.  See you for my next story…hopefully!