A/N: This my first fic ever, so any criticism or suggestions on where the story should go are greatly appreciated.
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Prologue
30 years old, lonely, bitter, and still an intern is not how my life was supposed to be. By now I should be a well-known fashion designer with my own line and label. But all that changed five years ago when I got my heart stomped on by my first love Edward Cullen.
We were high school sweethearts or at least I thought we were. We met purely by chance, my best friend Angela and I were studying for final exams. It was our senior year and we were trying to keep our G.P.A.'s up for college. I was trying to get a chemistry book from off the top shelf, when an arm came from behind me grabbed the book. I turned around and looked into the most amazing green eyes I had ever seen. From that moment I was a goner.
We spent every moment of the four years together until college graduation. We went to Dartmouth together where I majored in fashion and he in music. Everything was perfect I was in love, studying my passion, and I had been offered the internship of a lifetime with Donna Karan. I was living my fantasy life. Then it all came crashing down two weeks after graduation. Edward managed to get an audition for a talent show with his band Twilight. If he and his band mates: Emmett, Jasper, and Mike were to win they would receive a recording contract and a yearlong tour around America.
The day of the show Edward told me he would call my name out during the interlude dedicating the song to me. I was so ecstatic he was going to announce his love for me on national television I almost passed out. When it came time for them to perform I was so nervous I couldn't keep still I was so jittery. The song started slow but by the time Edward started singing I knew they had won. The whole crowd was loving his voice. Then he stopped and looked directly at me and said "I like to dedicate this song to a beautiful little lady who took my breath away". He paused for a moment closed his eyes, stuck his arm out and pointed somewhere in the crowd and screamed out "TANYA HARDEN". Then some skinny beach blond jumped on stage and kissed him and held him until he finish the song.
I couldn't believe my eyes or my ears. I was dumbstruck WTF had just happened. When the show was over and Twilight had been announced the winner I couldn't find a shred of happiness. I needed some answers and I went backstage to find them. I found Edward and Tanya still together in a heated lip lock. When they finally pulled apart and noticed me standing there he had the nerve to look at the floor ashamed. He excused himself and pulled me down the hall where he proceeded to tell me he didn't know what came over him. He met Tanya right before they went on stage and he took one look at her and thought she was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. He completely forgot about everything but finding out who she was. So he went introduce himself and they started talking and found they had so much in common. He knew right then and there she was it for him. Just like that I didn't matter anymore. Poof no more us. He told me he never meant to hurt me and he hopes I can forgive him. I kicked him in the nuts and ran, crying the whole way home.
That fall I left for New York for my internship, vowing to forget Edward Cullen ever existed and hoping to make a fresh start. Here I am five years later still an intern, lonely, bitter, and no closer to my dreams than when I came here.