A/N: This is my second story so I hope that I've shown some improvement. The main inspiration for this story is mostly from Beyoncé's song 'Resentment.'

I also have never written a story that didn't have a cliché happy ending.

Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or anything associated with Stephenie Meyer's characters.

Resentment Prologue

Leah's POV

I was engaged and impossibly happy six years ago. I was going to marry my bestfriend and high school sweetheart Jacob Black. He was my first and only love. I can't stop the tears that fall from my eyes as I look back to my life then. I was the happiest woman on the planet. I was finally going to settle down. I was looking forward to being a wife, I wanted to be a mother as well. I thought my life was already planned out for me. I guess that's the funny thing about life; plans change. My plans changed suddenly. I went to bed one night extremely happy. I woke up the next day to my world tumbling down. My life changed when I found out that the love of my life cheated on me with my second cousin/ maid of honor Emily. Jacob told me that he loved me and that it didn't mean anything so I tried to act like it wasn't a big deal. I tried to act like it never happened. I tried to forgive and forget. I tried to move on.

I believed Jacob when he told me that he loved me. I believed Emily when she apologized and told me that it was a mistake. I believed both of them when they told me that they didn't mean to hurt me. Emily and I were extremely close. We were second cousins, but we were more like sisters. We grew up next to each other, we went to college together, and I was there when she gave birth to her first daughter. I was her maid of honor. I comforted her when her husband left her to raise her daughter alone. I was betrayed by the two people I loved and cherished the most. People make mistakes and I tried to give them the benefit of the doubt. Emily and Jacob had never actually hurt me before. It just all became too much for me. The problem because more prevalent the more that I tried to ignore it. I thought that if I didn't acknowledge the pain that I could escape it. I thought if I ran away from the problem long enough, that it would disappear.

It was eventually too much for me to bear. The pain caught up to me and it crippled me. I realized that I didn't genuinely forgive, because I didn't forget. It was all that I could think about. It was all that I could see, hear, and feel. I couldn't look at my Jacob without seeing how he deceived me. I couldn't look at Emily without thinking how she had half of me. Jacob was the only man that I was ever with and the same was true for Jacob at one point. I couldn't trust him anymore. I couldn't trust Emily. I couldn't trust myself. My whole outlook on the world changed. I desperately wanted to look past what they did. I honestly tried my absolute best to forgive them. I tried so hard to not picture Emily when he touched me. I tried so hard to believe Jake when he said it was me that he wanted and not Emily. He still wanted to marry me and part of me wanted to still marry him. My heart just wouldn't allow me to go through with the marriage.

I couldn't look into my groom's eyes and tell him how much I wanted to be with him and how I'd never hurt him, knowing that he couldn't say those words back. I couldn't look at my maid of honor knowing that she was disloyal. It hurt like hell leaving Jacob, but I had to. As hurt as I was, I still loved Jacob with all of my heart. I still love him. It wouldn't have been fair of me to marry a man that I would more than likely never trust. I cut all ties with Emily. I still visit and write my niece Rachel, though. I moved shortly after I cancelled the wedding. I needed to get a way. I thought that having a vacation would help my heart heal. I knew that I wouldn't be able to heal properly if I had to see Emily and Jacob every single day. It did help me a little. I don't carry the hatred and paranoia around with me anymore. I'm not at the point of forgiveness yet, but it might come some day. I'm certainly on the right road though. Six years later and only a small part of me is still resentful.

A/N: This chapter was so short because it's the prologue. The rest of the chapters will not be as short.

The rest of the chapters are going to be flashbacks.

The next chapter is going to be in Jacob's POV and it's going to be the day that he cheated on Leah with Emily.

The following chapters will cover everything starting with the day that Jacob cheated and ending the day that Leah called off the engagement.