BPOV

I had walked out of his damn apartment and never looked back. I never called him... though he called me often. He was what I had once considered the love of my life, but now he was just a painful memory. So tell me why I just walked into my new office and saw him standing at reception picking up his mail?

I almost turned around and went home. It's a big ass city, I cold have easily found another job... like being a messenger... or...a retail doughnut distributor... ah hell, I may as well just get on with it. It was years ago. It was years ago?

"Good morning, how may I help you?" the nice old woman sitting behind the reception desk asked. I tried not to look in Edwards direction but I failed miserably. He hadn't noticed me... not yet, but in just one second he would hear my name.

"Uh, Yes, I am Isabella Swan, it's my first day of work and I'm supposed to report to Jim." I could see his head pop up quickly but I paid it no attention. I made my eyes stay forward and focus on the woman sitting at the desk as she thumbed through different papers in search of what would confirm my existence here.

I could see him still staring at me from my peripheral vision and in the second I was about to succumb and acknowledge him, the sweet woman named Margie saved me from doing just that.

"Right this way Ms. Swan" I followed her to through the office as she led me to my new boss. I took in the scenic view offered by the glass walls and tried to come to terms with the fact that I was now going to be working with my past... I could hardly wrap my head around it.

Jim turned out to be very welcoming... and funny. He was roughly my fathers age but he seemed far more youthful, all and all he was a great guy.

As he walked me through the different departments he introduced me to the people and helped me get acquainted with everyone and everything. I was just thanking my lucky stars that we hadn't run into him but just as we walked to my new office, I took note to the open door just across from my own. The name on the door? Edward fricking Cullen. Swell.

As if it weren't enough that I had to work in the same god damn building as him, now I had to work directly across from him. I was just about to tuck myself away and get settled, but Jim being the boisterous man he was decided to just invite the S.O.B over to say hello.

"Edward, I want you to meet our newest addition, Ms. Isabella Swan."

"Bella" Edward corrected him. I almost decided to go by my full name just to spite him but decided against it. "It's been too long" he finished.

Jim looked from Edward to myself with question and I went ahead and spelled it out for him. "Edward and I are old acquaintances from college" I saw Edwards face contort into confusion at my words, no doubt baffled at the casual way I made our relationship seem. As if we had met briefly and not dated for three years. I was almost sorry I said it... but then Jim chimed in with the next tidbit.

"Oh! You went to college together? Small world eh? Do you know his, Erin, as well?" It was my turn to feel some pain. I simply nodded and looked at Edward as I spoke.

"I saw her around... but we weren't exactly running in the same crowd. I remember her and Edward being quite close though." Jim seemed to be oblivious to the fact that Erin was an unwelcome topic, because he just kept on rubbing salt in the damn wound.

"Well those two are still like peanut butter and jelly, I'm sure you will get better acquainted with her now seeing as she is in here all the time to visit our, Edward. Make nice with her, Bella... she makes a peanut butter bar that is to die for!"

I almost threw up on Jim's expensive loafers just to spite the son of a bitch. Edward must have seen me ready to do just that because he excused himself and retired to his office.

I had never been more pleased to see walls and a window in all my twenty four years of life. As soon as I was alone, I sat at my chair, turned it to face the window and took in the city view. It was a beautiful view... but at this moment all I could see was that wretched memory of finding that conniving little bitch in bed with Edward... and then her crying tears of happiness as she told him she was pregnant.

"Bella?" I closed my eyes and took a deep breath before I turned my chair to face my own living nightmare standing at my desk with an apologetic expression. I didn't say anything to him and instead simply waited for him to say what it was he wanted to say. "I am so sorry about that... about... well about everything."

Everything. He was sorry about everything. Well so was I, and the longer he stayed in front of me apologizing, the more I wanted to tell him to fuck off. I didn't though, instead I found myself being nice.

"It's fine, don't apologize for having a..." having a what? A wife? Girlfriend? I was shocked by how much pain I felt about thinking of Erin the Cunt as Mrs. Edward Cullen. She must have been though... if they were still together after four years... and had... had a child.

"Bella I can tell this hurts you" I stopped him there, I wasn't about to play the victim.

"You don't know anything, Edward."

I kept myself hidden for the rest of the day, especially when around noon a voice that could get me to dig may nails through cement came floating across the hall. I didn't think I would be able to maintain my cool if she and I came face to face at that moment so I turned on a playlist, walked to my door and slammed the damn thing shut just as she was asking Edward for a kiss.

I decided then and there that I would start bringing my lunch in so that I wouldn't have to run the risk of seeing them as I went to the break room. I had a feeling I was going to be the most productive employee here in no time at all.

When I left for home that evening, I was grateful that the office across from my own was empty and dark. I thanked whatever cosmic forces that allowed me this one reprieve and soundly made my way to the car garage.

However when I arrived at my building and walked through the lobby to the elevators, my cosmic luck ran out and I walked into a lift with no one other than... you guessed it, Edward frickin Cullen. Super.

I didn't bother hiding my feelings this time either. "And the hits just keep on coming" I bit out. He was about to say something but I needed to hear conformation of this entirely fucked up situation myself. "Please tell me you are just visiting someone... please"

One look at his face told me that all the wishing in the world wouldn't changed the fact that he indeed lived in the same building as me.

"Super" I sighed.

"Hey! I lived here first! It's not like I set out this elaborate plan to work and live near you!" he was annoyed with me. And that pissed me off.

"Like I would set out to do this either? Right, Edward! I was sitting around my condo one day in L.A and thought, Hey I know, I'll hunt down Edward Cullen and move into the same building, get on at the same job and torture myself with hearing about him and the woman he fell into bed with after three years of datingvme! Yeah, Edward, that sounds about right doesn't it? Fuck off!"

My cosmic forces were back at work, because just then my floor opened up and I exited the lift right on cue.

As I made my way though the door and tossed my things aside I realized that I actually felt just a little bit better. I felt some sense of relief, but that was quickly watered down by my embarrassment. I had acknowledged him... and I didn't want to. I had swore the day that I left his home that he would never know how much that whole incident killed me. I vowed to not be angry or bitter, but as I sat on my couch in the empty room I was in, that was exactly what I felt like.

The reality of the situation hit me like a brick wall. It had been four years... he was living a life with that woman and they were a family. He had four years of memories and experiences... all I had was my anger and bitterness. I hadn't been in a relationship for over two years now, I had trust issues. I had a lot of issues.

Suddenly the empty room felt very appropriate. It was cold, empty and hollow. Everything echoed off the walls... just as every emotion I felt echoed off my heart. For the first time in a long time, I let myself cry.

EPOV

I stood outside her door with my ear pressed to it as if doing so would somehow make me closer to her. I couldn't believe she had walked back into my life again after all these years. Every feeling I ever had for her that lay dormant in my heart had come back to me with a force greater than I had ever known.

I wasn't a happy man in my life, I hadn't been for many years. There was no baby, there never was. Erin had confessed to me a month after she had come barging into my apartment saying she had been, she confessed that it was all a lie.