This is the start of a story I have written but I thought I'd add it as a one shot as well.

"What you say?

That you only meant well?

Well, of course you did.

What you say?

That it's all for the best?

Ah of course it is.

What you say?

That it's just what we need?

And you decided this."

Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek.

Edward P-O-V

"I don't love you Bella." How it hurt to say those words. Of course I love you, you're my whole world.

She stared at the ground not looking at me. I was hurting her, but I needed to do this. If I stayed…

"Were leaving." If my heart were beating it would have faltered. She looked up at me and I saw her eyes. She was inches away from crying. If it were possible tears would have been flowing down my cheeks, I was thankful that they could not give me away.

"What?" She whispered.

"Were leaving" I repeated. I didn't trust myself to say anything else.

"I…I could come with you." She looked up at my face hope in her eyes.

For a moment I forgot my reason for doing this. I could lose myself in those eyes, there wasn't one thing they couldn't get me to do.

If I stayed…

That bought me back to what I had to say, what I had to make Bella believe.

"Bella, you're not listening to me. I don't want you with me. I don't love you." I couldn't stop now, if I did I would take it all back and tell her how I really feel. I couldn't do that.

"You are nothing to me. Just a toy to amuse me and my family for our stay in Forks. But now were leaving. I'm tired of you."

"You don't love me?" She whispered. Her voice broke on the last word.

"No." It was all I could say.

"Why are you doing this Edward? I don't believe you. I know you. You are the best person I've ever met, you wouldn't do that." She was still whispering, as if she didn't think it was real.

I leaned against the trunk of a tree and looked at my feet, though I felt like running towards her, pulling her against my chest and telling her she was right, I loved her more than she could imagine.

I smiled and looked up into her eyes,

"Are you sure? Are you sure you know me… Bella, I don't love you. Every time I told you that was a lie. You are nothing compared to me, look at you and look at me… at us. We just don't fit."

"I don't believe you…is…is this about… protecting me again?" I stood there and laughed in her face. Her head fell and she stared at her hands. It hurt both of us but I had to make this look real. I had to make her not love me. Little did she know, she was exactly right.

If I stayed… she was in constant danger. My kind... and me were too dangerous for her.

"Goodbye Bella." As I spoke those words she broke down in tears and slumped to the ground. I instantly moved to comfort her but drew my hand back just in time as she looked up and I composed my face before she could she the pain in my eyes.

"Goodbye. You won't see any of us again."

I ran as fast as I could. I must have been about a mile away when I could say it, making sure I was far enough away that she could no longer hear me.

"I love You Bella. I would say with all my heart, but I left it with you."

Bella P-O-V

I was back home, I opened the door, walked through it dropped my bag. I closed the door and leaned back against it.

But then it sunk in. I slid down the door and collapsed on the floor.

'Goodbye. You won't see any of us again.' Those words repeated over and over in my mind as I lay there on the floor pressed up against the door crying.

I don't know how long it was but finally the tears stopped and I just stared at the wall and something else beat away the word that haunted me, 'Goodbye'.

That something else, he had said something else.

'I don't love you Bella' I don't love you. I don't love you.

He doesn't love me… He never did…