We're Both Broken

Chapter 9

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Bella's POV

In the following week we made arrangements to go to Denali, and on the one hand I was glad we could leave Forks behind for a dew decades and that we could have our wedding

in such a beautiful place.

Victoria and Tanya had shown me a ton of pictures over the last few days, to give me an impression of their home and surrounding grounds, so Rose and I could make some early

decisions for our wedding, which of course Alice was more than happy with.

The little pixie had surprised everyone by not immediately going crazy with planning, but had opted to wait until everyone was settled in Denali, and honestly both Rosalie and I

were glad for that.

Rose and I were packing the last of our things when we heard Esme at our door. "Come in Mom, we're almost done." I said with a smile.

Esme entered and smiled at us. "I know you two are busy with packing, but I need you to come downstairs. We have a tradition to uphold after all."

Rosalie actually laughed at the look of confusion that I was sure I had on my face. "We have a tradition to have burn one item when we leave a home behind, as a form of

closure."

I smiled at that. "Maybe on of Edward's things would do the trick, that way we will have the closure everyone wants."

"That was the general idea sweetie, and since his instruments are coming with us, we have chosen the rest of his things to burn. We thought it would be a nice symbolic form of

closure." Esme said with a smile.

Both Rose and I nodded and followed her to Edward's former room, which was almost stripped bare, leaving only two chairs in it. "Those were his favorite chairs, he usually wrote

music in them, and I thought it would be nice if you two would throw them onto the pyre." Esme said with a soft smile.

We smiled and hugged her before taking a chair each and making our way downstairs, the still unlit pyre already visible outside.

As we walked outside and threw the chairs onto the pyre we could see that everyone had already gathered. "There you are. We were worried Bella had tempted you to another round, Rosie." Emmett said with a big grin.

She glared at him. "We don't jump into bed at every opportunity like you and Kate. Bella's control goes well beyond her bloodlust."

"Like you are any better than any of us. You're just in denial Rose." Kate said with a smirk.

Rosalie glared at her, and I couldn't help the growl that bubbled out of my throat. "I am not in denial Katerina. Bella and I do a lot of things in bed, but sex is but a small part of that."

Kate quirked an eyebrow at that, but miraculously kept quiet as Carlisle and Eleazar walked towards us. "Good, everyone is here and the pyre is complete. We won't be coming back to Forks for at least fifty years, so I do hope everyone has gotten everything they will need, and Bella, I would like to give you the honor of lighting the fire, from a safe distance of course, we wouldn't want anyone to burn up now that our family is finally complete."

We all smiled as Emmett carefully laid a path of gasoline, handing me a box of matches afterwards. "This is the gas we got from Charlie's car, just to add a bit more closure for you."

I smiled and hugged him as I carefully lit a match and threw it to the line of gasoline, which of course caught fire immediately.

I then took my spot next to Rose again and kissed her as everything Edward owned went up in flames, and to my surprise, Esme had a few boxes of marshmallows with her, as