Disclaimer: I do not own the story, but I pray that Jane Austen will find it in her heart to forgive me. I also do not own the chapter and story title, but I hope Billy Joel will also forgive me, but his lyrics are so beautiful.

Chapter 1

"If you say goodbye to me tonight"

His eyes were a beautiful green, filled with confusion and sorrow. Megan had to look away. She knew that if she looked into Drew's eyes for another second she'd give in. She'd stop thinking straight and ruin the plan that she knew in her mind was right, even if it hurt. Drew leaned back in his chair, dazed by what had just happened. She couldn't stand it anymore; she looked at him. "Drew, it's not that I don't…it's just that we're still in…I can't…I need to finish school before I could…"

Drew just shook his head. Megan was silenced. He looked at her with pain in his amazingly brilliant green eyes. "Megs, don't explain. You said yes, and then you had time to think about it. You second-guessed your decision. You don't need to explain to me." He sounded tired of the conversation

"You're mad at me. I know. I'm sorry. I really am." Megan felt like she was going to cry. She knew that this would be hard, but this wasn't just hard, this was tearing her apart. But she had said yes without thinking it through. She knew that at the age of twenty-one she was simply too young to marry Andrew Wentworth. True, he was the love of her life, but she had plans. She was going to be a lawyer and there was so much she needed to do before she even thought of marriage: she needed to finish her bachelor's degree, take the LSAT, apply to law school, with any luck go to law school, take the bar, and get settled into a law firm. It was a strict schedule and she didn't have time to break from that path. Not to mention the fact that her family hated that she was dating Drew in the first place and while she hated her family se didn't want to be completely disconnected from them, especially not Aunt Heather. This was not the right time to be engaged and she knew that, in her head.

So now, a few weeks after the night when he first proposed, Megan told him that she couldn't go through with it that it was just too soon. She thought it would lift a burden, but instead it made a heavier one. She feared his anger. He had every right to be mad, but she couldn't stand the thought of him being mad at her. Part of her hoped that he would realize that this didn't mean that she would never marry him, but she recognized that he would probably end the relationship here. But she could live with that if she knew he didn't hate her.

"Megs, I'm not mad at you." Drew's voice caught in his throat as if he was fighting to keep his volume down, but he had still used his affectionate name for her, which boded well. "I'm just frustrated that's all." He continued. "I'm going to Harvard in a month and this…well this wasn't what I was expecting." He sighed and they were a silent for a moment. "No, Megs, at the moment I'm not mad."

"At the moment?" Meg didn't particularly like the sound of that. At the moment meant that at some point, probably in the near future he would be angry at her, possibly hold her in contempt. She was now certain that they would not be able to continue in any capacity because of this.

"I'm not mad now because I'm in shock, but I'll be mad later. Later, when I'm sitting in my rom replaying everything that has just occurred tonight. I'll be mad then, but not now. No, now I'll use my remaining strength to say goodbye."

"Goodbye?" Megan could feel the tears swimming in her eyes. He had called her by her full name. It didn't sit right with her.

Andrew's face softened, he grasp her hand. "Do you honestly think we can go on being together after this? The best we could do is go back to being friends. But, how could we manage to be friends? I don't think we ever really were friends and even if we were, I love you too much to go back now. It would never work."

"I know, I know." Megan squeezed his hand tightly. "I'm terrified to lose you, especially in this way, with you hating me."

"Hate you? Do you think I could possibly hate you?" Drew shook his head in disbelief. "I'm disappointed with you. You broke a promise that you made to me two weeks ago and I'm frustrated, but I could never hate you. I just never thought that anything like this would happen. I didn't think that your family had so much control over you." Here he paused as though thinking over something that was even more confusing and upsetting than anything that had happened to this point. Then he spoke again, quietly as though to himself, "I didn't think you could be so easily persuaded."

It's a very short chapter I know but it's a prolouge so it was just giving some back round. The next chapter will be longer, I promise!