Lost And Found

23~best friends funeral

Bella POV

It's been 2 weeks since the war of the demons and us. Two weeks since my best friend died. 2 weeks since me and my brother went into a flash of rage killing the demons in her uncle. My mother stepped down for being the moon goddess on the solar eclipse handing it down to my brother completing the last part of the prophecy.

Today is Raven's funeral. Xavier has been really helpful and comforting. It doesn't help the fact that my best friends dead but it makes me feel a little bit better knowing I have a mate that is willing to comfort me when I'm down. My mother said she would be doing the funeral she said it would be the last official Moon Goddess activity before she completely retires and raises my new sibling.

We went back to the castle a week ago because that's where we thought it would be best to Barry Raven cuz it's where she grew up. We all go to the castle cemetery. I decided it was going to wear the bright red dress Raven bought me for my birthday that I hadn't quite worn yet to her funeral because I figured that would be the outfit she would want me to wear.

My brother decided that he wasn't going to come to the funeral he said it was going to be too much pain for him. Even though he is the moon God now and runs the afterlife he couldn't find Raven. She was nowhere in the afterlife almost as if she didn't die at all I was still living. He had the wall fixed and fortified with very strong medals so we would never fall again.

After we got back to the castle William packed all his stuff from the castle and moved back home to the castle in the heavens. He said the mortal Castle reminded them too much of Raven and he couldn't deal with the pain. He even took all her clothes up with him saying he at least wanted them as a reminder of his beautiful mate.

The funeral started and finished with in an hour it was a beautiful service something Raven would have put together herself. In fact it is something she put together herself long ago when she thought she was never going to find her mate. She thought her family curse was going to cause her to die she planned her own funeral. I remember telling her she was crazy and that it wasn't going to happen but she insisted on planning it anyway.

After the funeral we went back into the castle to the big dining room and had a feast of all Raven's favorite foods minus blood of course because she was a vampire. It was a lovely dinner but soon as it was done I went back to my bedroom and fell asleep crying in the arms of my mate Xavier.

I swear I could still hear her voice in my room telling me that I needed to get ready for the day and the most fabulous outfit because crying was not flattering on me. She would always cheer me up whenever I was crying and make jokes about how I was an ugly crier.