Prologue: One Last Kiss

The last note of his sad song struck poignantly against the otherwise silent room. I watched noiselessly from the doorway and noticed how relaxed he looked for the fist time in a very long time.

"That was beautiful," I said "But I guess you don't want to talk to me right now do you?"

"You have that right" he admitted "I have no reason to talk to you. Even for a minute." He had that look in his eyes again, as if hearing me speak or even looking at me caused him physical pain. That look that made me want to dig a hole in the ground and never come out, for I knew what had caused that look, me.

"But you are now so what does that say about all of this." I replied hoping I could take it back, take everything back. My life now was so full of regret, regret for what I had done and what had been said. If I could only take back that one day, that one stupid day that turned my life into the misery it is now.

He turned to look at me, got off the piano bench and started towards me. He took my hands in his and kissed me. I wished it could last forever but knowing him it was only a swift goodbye, maybe for the rest of my existence, which I hoped, no wished desperately wouldn't be that long because I knew I couldn't last it without him.

But I had to go and mess everything up, in one day nonetheless. He tore his lips off mine and gave me one last heart shattering look before he ran out the open door behind me.

"Can't I do anything right?" I said to myself and sank down to the floor. I could feel the tearless sobs coming "Ok this is the start of a new beginning, if Edward doesn't want to be with me then I'm moving on" But think Bella what happened the last time you said that?

"Bell? Bella where did you go?" Amberly said from the doorway. She had that determined look on her face. "Oh my gosh hon. what's wrong? Are you ok? Did that scumbag say something to you again? Did he talk about that, you know, day? Do I have to hunt him down and make sure he won't ever have anymore "fun" for the rest of his life? If ya know what I mean." She was talking a mile a minute and I could barely understand what she was saying. I was glad she took up for me about that day though.

"Amb one question at a time please." I had to stop the flow of nonsense streaming from her mouth. " he didn't say anything hurtful at least nothing I didn't deserve and no you certainly don't have to hunt him down and make sure he doesn't have any "fun"." I shuddered at the thought of Amberly sending Doug to go well you know do that, to Edward.

"Ok hon. well I guess we should go home now and relax" She tried to comfort me. "Then we can practice walking down a flight of stairs without tripping in front of the whole school!" she said referring to yesterday when I was in a hurry to get to lunch and fell down the stairs butt first.

"Ha, ha very funny." I had to smile at that it was just too funny not to the look on Doug's face when I came to a stumbling halt in front of our table had been priceless.

Amberly and Doug were my family now. Some of Edwards's family had abandoned me, most of them except Emmet and Alice. Whenever I saw him in some random place he would always nod in my direction, smile.

Amberly was a year older than me and we were close but not as close as Alice and I had been. She made me trust her. She made me believe that there were people in the world that didn't hate me. She could make the darkest day bright again because of her uncanny ability of making everything funny. She was a little bit taller than me with thick dark brown hair that fell just to her shoulders.

Doug was my other best friend. He was tall with blonde hair that came to his ears and blue eyes which had, strangely stayed the same after his change. He was kind to any vampire who needed help getting a new identity or just plain wanted to talk because they were lonely. He was the most generous person I had ever met.

We were posing as juniors at C. Milton Wright a high school in Bel Air, Maryland. It wasn't a small town where everybody knew your name like Forks, but it was fairly small. There were two major shopping centers close together where the humans would hang out, usually by the Starbucks or Smoothie King. We were only here because Amberly had grown up in the area a long time ago. Too long for any human to notice her strange re-appearance, but she wanted to see if the town had changed.

It was Friday so we decided to go home ad do the usual: check our answering machine for calls from any vamps in need. That's what we did, we helped people. I did it because I never wanted a new (or old for that matter) vampire to feel alone in this world like I did before I found Doug and Amberly.

We got out to the parking lot and headed toward my brand new shiny red BMW. I was still amazed that Doug got us this spot. Usually parking was reserved for seniors who played sports here, but Doug had somehow 'dazzled' the secretary into giving him the best spot on the lot.

We were friends with another coven of 'veggie' vampires in Bel Air. The Weese's, the leader Maxwell and the 'mother' Colleen posed as our parents if we needed them. They had two 'daughters' Caitlin and Maggie. Caitlin was our age and Maggie was a year younger. We were close friends and hung out often.

"I don't know about you guys but I can not wait to get home and relax." I said I was looking forward to a nice warm bath. As if reading my mind Doug said.

"Well this time don't hog the bathroom for an hour and a half!" Without looking up from the steering wheel I threw my cell phone at his head. I heard him mumble something about girls and their temper tantrums and I was satisfied. I looked up at the rearview mirror and saw a pair of sad topaz eyes and a shiny silver Volvo right behind me.