Goodbye's. Hello's. Promise's.

JacobxBella. Edward leaves, leaving Bella broken and shattered. She has her safe harbour, Jacob Black. 3 Rating for mild language. I can't help it, come naturally.

Chapter One

G O O D B Y E

Edward took a step away from me.

"That's everything I supose..."

He couldn't even meet my eyes as I tried to figure out what was going on.

What was he getting to?

"We won't bother you again..."

Woah.

Wait right there. What was that? That plural part..?

That 'we'?

What the hell was going on?

It couldn't be...

Something clicked inside of me. A light suddenly came to me. A realisation dawned as everything, slot by slot, fell into place. Breaking me apart bit by bit as it did, the nightmare more evident.

Why hadn't I seen this coming?

After everything.

After he'd been so.. Off. So different with me.

So reluctant to spend time with me...

The first person I thought of, I asked him about. Wanting his answer.

Knowing that it'd hurt if he confirmed my suspicions.

"Alice.. She's not coming back is she..?"

My throat had constricted. Tightening, my mind struggling to keep a grasp on speaking. Trying to get me to ask all the questions, but knowing that he'd never answer them all. It was the end..

This was... Goodbye?

And I couldn't even see the reason why.

Why was he leaving me? What had happened?

What had I done?

I shook my head, hearing the last parts of his words.

"-They're all gone, I stayed behind to tell you goodbye-"

Something lodged in my throat.

It really was going to be a goodbye.

That I hadn't been wrong about. It was goodbye for definate.

My saviour was leaving me.

He was going...

I wouldn't see him again.

I caught the next words just about, lost in the thoughts that made this nightmare all the more real and all the less bearable.

"-I convinced her that a clean break would be better for you...-"

Better? How the hell was this better?!

How was any of this supposed to be better?

They had gone. The people I had come to love, even Rosalie and her vile temper towards me. And Jasper and his cautious distances.

Esme.. She was my second mother, here in Forks.

Carlise.. Someone who was compassionate, someone who had saved my life the summer before in that Ballet Studio.

Emmett.. The big brother I'd always want. The one always there to crack the inappropriate jokes and make me laugh, and Alice..

That hurt the most.

Little Alice.. It didn't fit her with how I knew her.. But.. My closest friend here.. The one who'd seen this happening. No wonder she'd avoided me. She wouldn't have been able to say goodbye.

I wouldn't have let her.

The rest of the puzzle clicked into place.

Why they hadn't been in school... And why Edward had kissed me with so much fury... So much passion..

It was out last kiss.

And... This was our last time together...

Trying to breathe, I caught his words, his voice serene. Peaceful.

"-Goodbye Bella."

Goodbye?

No. Wait. There had to be more.. I couldn't live on that. I couldn't.. This nightmare was just too much.

"No- No Edward- Edward wait-" I choked my words out, reaching for him quickly, willing my body to lunge forwards and catch hold of his marble hands. Just another second of time, if this was it. If this was forever, I didn't want to loose him so easily.

Within that split second, I thought he had reached out to me too.

If I was so lucky.

He'd gripped my wrists and pressed his lips to my forehead.

Restraining me.

He didn't even want me to touch him...

"Take care of yourself Bella,"

And he was gone. He had released me and I stumbled forwards.

I was alone.. Trapped in this nightmare, his scent lingering in the air as I closed my eyes and inhaled deeply.

He was gone.. I was alone.. I was.. Alone.

It will be as if I'd never existed...

My love.. My life.. All meaning. It was over.