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Edward's POV
''You... don't… want me?''
There they were, the only words I would hate from Bella. I wanted so much to tell her, but I couldn't. She was safer on without us. I should never come back. Never. I already had harmed her so much.
''No.''
There was so much hurt in her eyes that I almost told her that I didn't mean it, that I would always love her… But no. I shouldn't tell her. She would be better off…wouldn't she?
An endless amount of time without her later…
I still couldn't decipher it. She was going to jump off a cliff? Into freezing water? It would have hurt slightly less if it was somebody other than Rosalie who had told me this. But… When would this happen? In the morning, tomorrow, next week? Maybe there was still some time to save her, and maybe this would work out?
But would she accept me? Would she forgive me? What if she loved somebody else now?
Or... No! She couldn't have jumped already, could she? I have to go to her, even if she's gone now.
I can't leave her ever again.
A few minutes later, I would be with her, dead or not. I had to.
I could see her now. She was right on the edge of a high cliff, as I saw it. And the water below was so
cold that I was surprised it hadn't turned into ice yet. I shouted at her to stop, to turn around, but she
didn't hear, or she thought I was someone else and ignored me.
She jumped, and there was a splash of water, some ten yards away. She hadn't come up yet, she
would suffocate soon. I decided to follow her.
She was in the water, and hadn't taken a breath in forty seconds. She had to take a breath soon.
She was dying within my reach! What was I doing? I had to get her up!
Ten minutes later
She was starting to choke and move. She had been like a dead person for the last ten minutes. She
opened her eyes...finally.
''Edward?''
I had no idea as to what to do, but I seemed to have been forgiven. That was enough for me.
''I knew you would come.''
And that was proof. I would never, ever leave her again.