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Here is the first chapter of the Sequel to "Running For The Truth"!!

I'm not fully decided on a title for it but so far I'm just calling it 'I never stopped loving you'

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Soundtrack:

Take Me On The Floor (The Veronicas)

I Can't Stay Away (The Veronicas)

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BPOV-

I couldn't believe I was actually going to California for collage! I jumped around my room for about an hour when I found out. I had only dreamed of going to South Beach Academy when I applied to it, put I actually got it. The only thing that would have made everything perfect was if Charlie could have been there to say goodbye to me, but he couldn't get away from work, sadly. I hated thinking about Forks; it always brought on the tears mainly because it's mentally impossible not to think of him. His eyes, his soft lips, his velvet voice, his strong arms holding me, I hated thinking of him.

I pushed the thoughts of Forks out of my head, I had been gone for a year now, and I knew that they had to be over it, and I had to try to get over it. The last time I say him was when I was getting in the car, he sat up at his window with a blank expression on his face, I had tried my best to smile, but it was a failed attempt. Now here I sat in the back of Phil's truck driving to the airport to go off to California. I bit my lip for the hundredth time as we pulled up. Renee was already crying, it made me feel guilty. I never told her that I would have wanted to live in Forks, mainly because when I got back she was sobbing like no tomorrow and I knew it would have just hurt her to know I would have wanted to stay in Forks.

I climbed out of the car and took in a deep breath. The hot sun beat down on me, I remembered how much I wanted it to be rain when I first came back to Phoenix. I leaned against the car door and closed my eyes. I could still see his perfect face behind my eye lids. It was starting to get blurry though, which I had already had a sobbing frenzy over. I straightened my shirt which was a white tank top with lacy edges. I loved this tank top, I had two more only in red and blue. I also wore a pair of jeans despite the dreadful heat. I grabbed my suitcase from Phil as the memories of leaving my room in Forks behind flashed past my mind. I blinked and swallowed. Everything I touched would bring back memories from Forks no matter what I did, but I grew stronger, so I was able to not bust out sobbing when it happened. Renee kissed my cheek, "You stay out of trouble Bells," his velvet voice sounded in my mind at the word 'Bells'. I smiled, "I will mom, don't worry," Phil gave me that awkward one arm hug and kissed the top of my head. "We'll be missing you darling," he smiled at me.

I giggled a little and turned to walk into the airport. I waved to them with a smile on my face. Renee hated me leaving, at any time, but I was eighteen, I could do what I wanted. The plane flight was long and horrid. I ended up thinking about him again. Why was he always on my mind suddenly? Ever since I found out I was going to California he had drifted onto my mind, all the time. I hated it, but yet I loved it. I loved hearing his velvet voice replay in my mind. That day that he told me, my heart sped up and my breath caught. "I'm falling in love with you, Bella," It was so hard not hearing him tell he loved me the night I left. The night I let him go, the night I left more then a small shard of myself in Forks. I told him not to tell me he loved me, I told him to forget me, forever.

I just hoped that he had. That they all did. I hoped that I was a mere memory, and nothing more. I hoped that they all forgot what I looked like, how my voice sounded, everything about me. I crushed my eyes shut, canceling him from my mind. "Forget," I whispered. I glanced out the window beside me, we were finally landing. Good, now I can just get there and forget about him. My mind will be so busy 

thinking about school work and talking to friends that I would hopefully make that he wouldn't be able to creep into my mind and drive me to tears.

I sighed. I had tried to forget him one time before and gone on a stupid running frenzy. But I couldn't forget him, mainly because he was always there. But now he wasn't here, and I knew I could forget him, I had to. After the plane ended I picked up my bags and grabbed a taxi. It was so beautiful in California, but of course pictures of Forks flashed past my memory. I sighed, "Stupid Bella," I muttered to myself. The taxi ride went fairly quick, luckily. I paid the driver and pulled my bag out of the trunk. I stood there on the sidewalk in front of the school. The thing looked like a mall rather than a school. There were girls laughing and giggling while sipping smoothies, guys checking out the girls. I groaned as I dragged my bag with me towards the dorms.

I finally found my dorm and glanced at the name plate of my room mate. My eyes widened and my breath stuck in my lungs. I stared at the name plate and felt the memories twist and curl in my stomach. My room mate was Alice Cullen. I bit my lip, I could handle Alice, just not him. I hoped that god was on my side with this one and that he was at a different collage. I opened the door and bit my lip harder, until I saw she wasn't in yet I let out my breath. "Thank God," I threw my suitcase on the empty bed. I went into the bathroom and splashed water on my face, I had water proof makeup on, which had become my best friend since leaving Forks.

I took a few hundred deep breathes and walking around in the bathroom nervously. How was I going to deal with this? I thought about asking to change rooms, that would help, but it might hurt her feelings, and that was the last thing I wanted to do after what I had already done. Just when I was about to go to the office and ask to change rooms the door opened and I slammed the bathroom door shut. I heard voices but couldn't make them out until a frenzy of squealing went off. "Oh Rosalie look my roommate it finally here," My eyes widened and I choked a little. Rosalie was here too? I bit my lip and squeezed my eyes shut. Yea, god was definitely against me. Please don't let Edward be here, please don't let Edward be here… I glanced at the sink and saw a face mask thing. The next thing I knew my face was covered in pink slim. I took a deep breath and walked out of the bathroom. Rosalie raised an eye brow at me and Alice giggled. "Hi roomie!" she gave me a big hug and right when I was about to say hi I hoped she wouldn't recognize my voice, "Um, hi Ali-," I snapped my mouth shut.

"What's with the face mask?" I shrugged, trying to play cool. "Oh I-I just couldn't wait to put it on so I-I um," I bit my lip, I looked like an idiot. Suddenly my phone went off with the Pussycat Dolls song "Flirt" Alice and Rosalie both flinched along with me. I remembered when I first heard the song, I was going to a party, my last party in Forks, with Alice and Rosalie. It burned me to see them react like I did. I answered it quickly, I didn't want to listen to the song. "Yea mom?" she practically screamed my name through the phone, "Bells!" I glanced at Alice and Rosalie, they heard her. Damn it! "Um, mom, what is it," I walked a little ways away from them. I fought back the tears. She rambled on about checking on me and all that. After about three minutes of trying to say good bye she finally hung up. "Okay sorry about that," I smiled, feeling my stomach curl. "So what's your name?" Rosalie piped up. Alice bit her lip and threw Rosalie a glare. I gulped, "Um, I'm-," the door flung open and Emmet walked in, leaving me breathless. Oh god, I knew then that I was pretty much screwed.



"Rose there you are," he wrapped his arms around her and locked his lips on hers. I was happy to see that they were still together. Then he turned and smiled at me, "Hey," he extended his hand. I shook it, wincing at the familiar grip of his. God Bella hold yourself together, at least until you can sob alone! I bit my lip. He raised an eye brow. "You look familiar from somewhere, what's you name," Alice and Rosalie leaned forward a little. "Um, I-I'm Isabella," I struggled to think of a different last name, "Brown," was the first thing I spit out. Rosalie eyes widened. "Huh," Alice smiled a faint smile. "Well um, do you need help unpacking?" I smiled at them. "Oh no, I'm fine really," they shrugged. "Well okay then we are going to meet up with the rest of our friends, I'll see you later tonight okay?" Alice smiled a little bigger, getting used to me I hoped. "Yea okay, bye," I waved at them as they shut the door.

I sat down on the floor and leaned against my bed. "That's just great," I let one tear fall. I was going to have to tell her at some point. I picked up my phone and looked through the numbers I had. I still had. I had Alice's number, Rosalie's, Emmet's, and Jasper's number. I didn't have his. I remembered how hard it was to delete it. I stared at the pictures Alice had pinned on the wall by her bed. She had pictures of her and Jasper, Rosalie, Me, Emmet and- wait what!?

I stood up and crawled on her bed to look at the picture she had of me. She and Rosalie were making goofy faces while I just smiled and laughed. I looked happy. I bit my lip and tried to ignore the burning in my nose, the burning passion to want to cry it out. I climbed away from her bed, I had to tell her and Rosalie. I could handle Emmet, and maybe Jasper, but… not him. If he was here I had to go home and go to a different collage, I wouldn't be able to live here, with him. I unpacked quickly. I pined up a few pictures also, knowing I didn't need to hide myself for too long. I went into the bathroom and quickly changed my clothes and wiped off the stupid mask.

I wore a jean skirt that was a little shorter than I thought, but I didn't care right now. I also wore my other tank top with the lacy edges, but this one was a light shade of red. I glanced down and saw the necklace I had barely ever taken off. I locked it and let it rest on my neck. It was so beautiful, and I knew I couldn't throw it away or give it away. I redid my makeup and brushed my hair. It was longer now, but not by much. I glanced in Alice's full length mirror, I looked pretty good. I slipped on some tennis shoes and slipped out the door. I knew Alice was going to recognize me right away, and I had a feeling she was going to claw my eyes out right then.

I walked around the campus searching for her. I just hoped that he wasn't here also, I prayed that he wasn't there even though god and luck was never really on my side. I walked around slowly examining all the people and realizing that the campus was like a giant shopping mall. They had all kinds of stores and a whole food court with different places to eat, even a few restaurants. There was a pool, a basket ball court, a football field, a tennis court, I basically walked around with my jaw dragging on the ground the whole time. I laughed as I passed the movie theater they had. It was a small one, but not all collages and can say, 'Hey, we even have a movie theater!'.

I sat down after getting a smoothie and glanced around at the different people. My eyes widened as I saw Lauren walking with Kelsie and Jen. "Wow," I thought of the night she ruined my all time favorite dress, god, she was such a stupid bitch…



After they walked by I threw my smoothie away and spotted Alice. She was laughing with Rosalie. I took in a deep breath, holding in the tears. I walked up to them with my hands in my pockets, "Alice can I talk to you?" I didn't look at her, she smiled. "Yea sure Isabella," her voice went sort on the 'Bella' part of Isabella. We walked a few feet from Rosalie and I felt my stomach twist, my mind screaming at me that I was stupid. "Alice, I'm sorry," she still couldn't see my face very well, because I had my hair hiding it. I could see her raise an eye brow. "What are you talking about Isabella?" I squeezed my eyes shut and faced her. I heard her gasp.

I opened my eyes. She had her hand on her mouth and tears in her eyes. I shook my head and looked down. "I-I'm sorry, I just, I-I," I couldn't think of anything to say. She was suddenly hugging me tighter than I thought she was possible. "Oh my god, Bells, I missed you so much!" she was crying now. I wrapped my arms around her and dug my face into her hair. "I know, I missed you too," I choked out. Rosalie ran over and started asking what was wrong, she couldn't see my face. Alice laughed. "It's Bells, she's really here, it's her!" she cried harder as she held me out to Rosalie. Rosalie's eyes widened and then she wrapped around tighter than Alice had. Then they both were hugging me and we were all crying.

"I can't believe this! I'm like so happy!" Alice started jumping around and squealing. Rosalie and I laughed as Rosalie hugged me again. "I'm so glad your back, she's so hard to live with without you," Rosalie joked. I laughed. Emmet started walking towards us and I cringed. His eyes scanned up my legs to my face and he stopped walking. "You really do look like someone I used to know," I walked over to him and stared up at him. "Your such a teddy bear," I smiled as realization hit his eyes. "What's your last name again?" he raised an eye brow. I burst out laughing. "You really forgot about me?" I giggled. Alice and Rosalie hugged me again as he thought about it. "Bells?" I raised an eye brow at him. "Ya think?"

He smiled. "Are you serious?" her wrapped me in a big Emmet hug and I laughed. "I can go home if you'd like," I offered up. He laughed. "Hell no! Wait till Jasper finds out! And we have to call-," I felt my heart crack when he said his name. I took in a breath and let it out, it was uneven and short. Rosalie caught it and threw Emmet a glare. "I'm sorry," I muttered. Rosalie wrapped her arms around me and smiled. "You kept it," it wasn't a question but a comment. I raised an eye brow. She nodded towards the necklace. I glanced down at it, "It took all my strength to delete his number from my phone," no one laughed, no one smiled, everyone was silent. I shook my head, "But it's okay, I'm getting over it, I'm over it," I was a really good liar, mainly from telling everyone in Phoenix that I was okay, but Alice and Rosalie and Emmet saw right through me. "No your not, Bells," Alice wrapped he arms around me from the other side of me. Emmet stuck his hands in his pockets and stared at me with concerned eyes.

"Should we tell her?" Emmet spoke up. My eyes raised to him, I wasn't sure I wanted to know. Rosalie tensed beside me, and then Alice. "We won't have to," she gave Emmet a look I didn't catch and he turned around. My eyes lingered to where he was looking. I saw Jasper and then, him. He was smiling at Jasper as they walked towards us. They were laughing. I went numb. He looked at Emmet and waved, and then stopped right in his tracks. Before his eyes caught mine I turned and ran. I couldn't face him 

again, not after what I did, I couldn't do it. Rosalie and Alice called after me but I didn't stop. I had to go home, I had to get out of here before I really broke down.

EPOV-

I gave up on reading and stared at the roof. It was nice to know I had my dorm to myself. Alice was freaking out about getting a room mate, she was excited. I sighed, closing my eyes. I wondered what she was doing right then. I flinched, I wasn't going to think about her. She made her decision, and I had to accept it. I remembered the last day she was there, god it was horrid…

-Flash Back-

I sat at my window and watched her open her eyes. She didn't look happy. I was surprised when she was suddenly at he window, looking at me. Her eyes scanned me, I had to mentally chain my self to the window sill or I would have jumped out and went to her. She had nothing but pain on her face. I felt horrible, not able to go to her. Alice and Rosalie had gone over numerous times before Charlie got back. I tried to smile, but my face wouldn't react. I groaned, I wanted to hold her in my arms, to kiss her and tell her I loved her too, but I couldn't. I knew that if I went over it would have just made it all harder for both her and I. I couldn't make it harder than it already was.

She looked at the ground and my body twitched towards my bedroom door. If I ran I could catch her in my arms just before she could get in the car. Damn it! Stop it Edward! She looked back up and opened her mouth. She was in pain, she was breaking, right there in front of me. And I couldn't do anything. She looked up and mouthed 'I love you'. I felt my heart sink, and my face finally unfroze, but she was already gone. I couldn't see her. Panic flared in my stomach but then I noticed her suit case was still on the bed, so I let out my breath. I waited and waited. She never showed up. Then I was her, she was crawling over to her bed and grabbing her suitcase. I flinched. I wanted to tell her to wait, to wait for me, but I knew she wouldn't.

I sat there, as she stood at the door and glanced around the empty room. And then she was gone. I almost ran down and outside to see her once she made it out the door, but Charlie was with her. I closed my eyes. This couldn't really be happening could it? I remembered the last two weeks. She had totally ignored me. I remembered seeing her hurt leg, somehow I found a way to blame myself for it. I remembered staying up really late as she slept, telling myself I was stupid and she probably thought I was some stalker. I remembered seeing her get the mail, or the newspaper. She never once glanced up at me, even though she knew I was here, watching over her.

And then her and Charlie were outside. She threw her suitcase in the back of his car, and stared at the house. Then as she was climbing into the car, she looked up at me. My heart cracked, and she smiled a faint broken smile. That was it. I jumped off my window sill and ran down the stairs. I ran outside and glanced around frantically. I ran into the middle of the road and saw her turn the corner. I bit my lip. I had just let the girl I loved leave. She was gone. Forever…

-End Flashback-



I beat the thoughts aside. I knew she was just trying to make a clean break, make it easier on us, even if it was hard on her. I sat up just as my phone went off. "What is it Emmet?" I didn't mean to be an asshole, but I wasn't in a great mood. "Meet us in the food court in a bit, brink Jasper too," I rolled my eyes. "Alright, see you soon," we hung up. Alice was getting her room mate today, and I could just imagine what the person was like.

I called Jasper and told him to meet me at the water fountain right out of the dorms. Everything seemed to happen in a blur from there. We were walking to the food court and he was cracking jokes to lighten the mood. He was always good at that. We entered the food court and I saw Emmet, I waved. And then I saw Rosalie and Alice, and Alice's room mate. I stopped in my tracks. I blinked and the next thing I knew the roommate was running in the opposite direction and Alice and Rosalie were calling for her. I shook my head, it couldn't have been, could it? My heart beat sped up dramatically. Was that the girl that I could never get out of my head. The girl that told me to forget her. The girl I was still in love with? The girl I never stopped loving...

So. How was it? I cryed a bit while writting it, but maybe it's just me.

I am thinking about rewritting this and starting over, but it depends on what the reveiws say.

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