A/N
I'm an indecisive teenager. Sue me :) No more second guessing. This is my story Coffee and Chocolate. I hope you decide to come along for the ride. Third time's the charm.

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Prologue

"Wait!"

Edward kept walking; his eyes set straight ahead, footsteps unfaltering. He needed to get away.

"Edward, wait! Please!" She cried again. He felt his insides twist at hearing the pain in her voice.

This was the right thing…for both of them.

He could hear her behind him, her footsteps matching the rhythm of his heartbeat before slowing down and coming to a stop.

"Edward?" Her desperate whisper tore at his soul. It was as if someone pulled the emergency brakes on a runaway train, his feet stopping completely, almost out of his control.

Fists clenched at his side, shoulder tense and rigid, Edward turned around.

The same eyes that had looked up at him with warmth and adoration not were wide and red rimmed with fear and confusion.

It almost made him change his mind.

Almost.

"Why are you doing this?" she begged, her sweet voice carrying through the air.

Edward let out a dark chuckle. The beautiful creature in front of him had no idea; no idea what she was doing to him.

So, he said the words he knew would break her.

"You're a child Bella." His voice sounded foreign even to him. "I've been deluding myself in thinking otherwise."

He heard her sharp intake of breath and was immediately hit with a pang of remorse. But he couldn't stop, even as he watched the tears fall and stain her beautiful face, he continued.

"Did you really think this would work out? Were you really that naïve to believe this would work?"

Edward shook his head, dropping his eyes to his feet.

He didn't mean it. He didn't mean any of it.

She had to know.

But as he watched her face crumple, Edward knew that she believed him.

The monster had been unleashed.

"I have to do what's best for me, Bell. And you…you're not it."

As if she had been burned, Bella's eyes came alive, shining with fury.

"Don't. Call me that." She said through gritted teeth. "I trusted you…and all this time…"

If god existed he would surely be damned.

"I've made a mistake, Bella."

Edward locked eyes with her, pleading for her to understand.

"Yeah," she countered, lifting her chin up. "It seems we both have."

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