Chapter 1 – Where are they now?

A/N:-

So here's the first chapter of the sequel.

Hope it was worth the wait

BPOV

"In today's episode we look at the life and times of reclusive playboy Edward Cullen and ask the question WHERE IS HE NOW?"

"He disappeared off the scene to finish his senior year at Forks High School with the promise to return..."

I grabbed the remote control and turned the television off. The last thing I wanted or needed was to be faced with the biggest mistake of my life being splayed all over the T.V. I knew exactly what he was up to without having to ask anybody and right now he'll be off getting stoned with some crack whore in a dodgy hotel somewhere or fucking some skank in a filthy club.

Besides that part of my life is over. I'm 28, an up and coming writer with my very own column in The LA Weekly and I realized part way through my English degree that being a teacher was not what I wanted to do and I had recently got engaged to my gorgeous, perfect boyfriend of 5 years Riley.

Riley was everything that Edward wasn't. He is sweet, honest, kind, loving and puts me and my feelings first and above everything else in his life.

My phone rang, driving me from my thoughts. I checked the caller ID. Alice. I knew what she wanted and for several weeks now she had been nagging me about going home to Forks for our high school reunion and every time I shot her down and I wasn't sure how much longer my resolve would hold.

I kept telling her and telling her that I couldn't get the time off work, and that traveling across the country with a nine and a half year old that no one outside my immediate friends knew about (not even Charlie or the sperm donor) to the place where I was raised and where gossip spreads like wildfire was just not advisable. Plus the fact that I was pretty much 95% certain that Assward would make an appearance at some point made me even more adamant that I didn't want to go. It would be just my luck that he turn up out of the blue and then realize that my gorgeous daughter Sophia Alice, was his and although knowing him he would just assume that it was Jacob's or some other guys since he thought I was some kind of whore like him.

"Hello Alice," I sighed into the phone.

"Hello to you too my dearest best friend," Alice chirped into the phone. She had definitely had too much caffeine. "And how are you this fine Saturday afternoon?"

"Just fine Ali, now why don't you get around to the reason why you called?" I asked.

"Oh Bella. Bella. Bella. Do I always have to have a reason for calling? Can't I just want a chat with you and my favorite niece?" Alice asked.

"Ali, it's you so yes you have to have another reason for calling. So when you combine that with the fact that you've been trying to get me to go to that stupid Forks High reunion thing, it becomes a hell yeah you have another reason for calling," I replied.

"Oh come on Bella please, please, please go for me. It's not like it will be there. It wouldn't dare show his face after everything," Alice stated. "And if it does it should know that it is going to get its ass kicked back to where ever it came from."

That's why I loved Alice. She was so straight forward with her thinking and wasn't afraid to speak her mind. I couldn't help but feel just the slightest bit of guilt that she had completely disowned Assward and hadn't spoken to him in 10 years, despite the constant facebook friend requests. But every time I voiced this to Alice she always insisted that everything was his own doing and that it was his attitude and actions that resulted in it.

"Look Alice, I don't exactly have the fondest memories of Forks. I mean I miscarried, and then a month later found out the stupid fucking doctors had missed the fact that I was carrying twins. The only good memories I have are of you, Jazz, Em and Rose, to an extent." I told her. And it was true

"Bella, I get that but come on please. At least think about it. Your dad will want to meet Riley, you're getting married to the guy, and you can't deny him that. And what better way than going back to Forks for a couple of weeks," Alice told me and I could see her point. Charlie would want to know Riley. "Oh and Bella he hasn't even met Sophia, you owe him the chance to meet his granddaughter."

Okay Alice had me there. Truth be told, Charlie hadn't even seen as much as a picture of her. He doesn't even know about her since I was out of Forks long before I started showing. Sure he knew I'd miscarried but I never told him when I had found out that I had in fact been carrying twins.

"Fine, Alice I'll go to Forks but I am not going to that reunion thing," I replied, resigned to the fact that there was no way Alice was going to take no for an answer.

"Great, Jazz and I have already booked 5 plane tickets for tomorrow night," That little pixie had already booked the tickets. She was crafty. "I'll be over in an hour to help you pack. And let Riley know to pack a bag too."

"Will do Ali, I'll see you in a bit."

EPOV

10 years.

10 long godforsaken years almost to the day since I fucked my life up…AGAIN big style and beyond repair. No amount of groveling and no matter how many times I said sorry, there was just no way of fixing this. I had lost everything I lived for. My soul mate.

Ali had accidentally told me during a screaming contest what had happened when I ever so civilly asked where Bella had been the last few days and why she hadn't been in school.

Flashback

"Alice where was Bella today?" I spat. Just the name of that slut coming from my mouth was enough to cause me disgust and make me want to cringe.

"Oh like you actually give a fuck Dickward. Why aren't you off shagging some skank anyway?"

"She is not a skank Alice," I hissed. I couldn't believe Alice actually thought I would go there with Tanya again but I let her believe I had because then news would get back to Bella and then maybe she would feel at least an ounce of the pain she had caused me by getting knocked up by that mutt. "And at least Tanya isn't a lying, cheating whore."

"Bella is not a cheat nor is she a fucking whore, you fucked up bastard! Don't you even care about YOUR child mother fucker?" she shouted at me demanding an answer. If looks could kill then right now I would be beyond dead. I would be torn into pieces and thrown on to a fire to burn away slowly and painfully.

"Ha ha," I scoffed, "Alice that child is not mine you stupid cow. You know as well as I do that it's that mutt's kid."

"You know what right now I wish that dog was the father because at least he gives a damn and was there for Bella when she needed someone after she caught your sorry ass cheating on her. He found her in a fucking forest…shivering you idiot. She was losing my little niece or nephew. How could you?" Alice screamed at me so quickly that I barely caught what she said.

She turned around and stormed out of the room. As she left I could hear her suppress a sob. I was left alone to think about what she had said and feeling just a little bit like shit over what I had said to her and what I had done. Was Alice telling me the truth when she said that I really was the father of the baby? No, no it was impossible right?

After that day Alice and Jazz refused to talk to me and let alone acknowledge my existence except when necessary.

Bella returned to school a week later for the last month of high school before graduation and with the help of my darling sister she had her schedule changed so she didn't have to see me. Yeah, like I even care.

I knew I had fucked up but there was no going back now and on the bright side (if you can even call it that), Tanya was still following me around like a harpy and I know I said I would NEVER go there again, but she was there and more than willing to take care of my needs….so why the fuck not?

End Flashback

Now I had to go back to the town where the beginning of the end for me had started. It was going to be a painful experience that much I was sure of.

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Driving down those once familiar roads that I had long since grown to hate, I couldn't help but think about whether Bella would be making the journey back to Forks. Was she married? Did she have children? Did she ever think of me like I did her? Did she ever wonder how life would be if I hadn't been such a fucked up son of a bitch?

Surely she must? We were too big of a part of each other's lives for her not to.

I warily eyed up the small bag of green that was lying on the seat next to me. I figured one small joint couldn't hurt. Sure I had been clean of drugs for the last eight years and the only reason I kept green in my car was so that I could prove to myself just how far I had come, but right now I needed something, anything to calm my nerves.

As far as I was aware Alice and Jazz were due back in town in two days, and I only managed to get that little piece of information when I enquired about Ali when I talked to mom a few weeks ago. Rosalie and Em were driving up from Seattle tomorrow afternoon. And since mom and dad had flown out to Hawaii to celebrate their wedding anniversary, I had the house all to myself which meant I could easily get away with smoking up and relaxing without anyone finding out.

I turned my car sharply around the corner taking the very same path I had every time I needed some alone time or simply to smoke up – usually neither came without the other.

I rolled the joint expertly and sparked up. I had only taken a few drags before I felt that once familiar feeling of relaxation taking over my body. As I reveled in it I realized that by doing this I was no better than I had been back then if I was resorting to drugs to calm my anxiety. I hastily threw the joint away and mentally chastised myself.

I had come so far in the last 10 years and I couldn't afford to throw it away over one measly joint regardless of whether or not anyone would find out or not….I would know and that was enough.

A/N:-

So as you can see they have both changed a lot in their time apart and matured some what.

But what do you think is going to happen when they actually see each other again?

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