Disclaimer: I DO NOT own the Twilight Saga or any of the characters. It belongs, and always will, to Stephenie Meyer.

SPOILER: If you have not read the last book in the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn, this will spoil it for you. This fanfiction takes place right after it. THIS IS YOUR WARNING!!

Starlight

Chapter One-  Why Mom, Why

Bella

I wasn’t asleep. I couldn’t sleep, but my eyes were closed as my head lay on his hard chest, his arms around me. I knew it was early, much too early for the sound of rustling sheets that came from the room next to ours. I waited for the sound to soothe over, then opened my eyes.

“Good Morning,” He whispered and I wondered if there would ever come a day that I would grow weary of his sweet, angelic voice. I knew I never would. I tilted my head back to look at him. His face glowed as streams of sunlight peered through the open glass doors that led into the small garden, adjacent to our bedroom. His face was another thing I could never get tired of and as many times as I had seen it after my rebirth, I still couldn‘t find a single flaw I had thought my human eyes had missed.

“Good Morning,” I could see now that he had been deep in thought before I had finally decided to move.

“What?” I asked. He smiled. I knew why. I could hear the soft footsteps and the creak of a door opening across the hall.

I leaned up just in time to see our own door swing open. I smiled at the vision that stood before me. She had grown again. It had only been seven months since my life, and my families lives had been on the brink of extinction, and yet she, barely over a year old, had the body of a ten year old child. We realized a few weeks after the Volturi’s visit that she had begun a rapid growth spurt just like the ones she had when she was still a little bump inside of me. In a matter of days, she looked months old. But just as her body grew so did her mind and she grew smarter by the seconds. I smiled at her and held up my arms, she was in them before I could blink.