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Closure Chapter 1

Edward's POV

My name is Edward Anthony Masen Cullen. I just turned twenty four last month on March eighteenth, but birthdays have no significance for me anymore. The day I turned nineteen was suppose to be one of the happiest days of my life. It turned out to be the day my own personal hell opened up and swallowed me whole.

I was betrayed in the most horrible way by the one person who I thought would always be there for me. I should've seen it coming!

I shook my head trying to clear the fog in my brain. I did NOT want to head down that trail of thoughts. I tried to focus more on the obnoxious sound that was coming out of the piano I was sitting at. It was going on the third week that I had been trying to teach my newest student Lauren Mallory how to play the piano. Her skills, or lack there of, were not improving. She was atrocious!

Of course, I had a feeling that her mother only dropped her off here as a way to keep her out of trouble. According to Ms. Mallory her daughter had become quite the little trouble maker at her high school. She was apparently a senior and into older guys much to my dismay. She would find every excuse she could to touch me or rub a hand or her chest against me.

Her actions made me cringe. How could she ever think that I would be interested in her that way, she was still a child! In any case I had only really ever been interested in one woman in my entire life. I would've done anything for that angel, until she ripped my heart out and handed it back to me crumbled.

She actually had the nerve to look hard broken and distraught that day when I broke up with her. I remembered the day of my nineteenth birthday clear as day. I also remembered the day two weeks later and the day after that even clearer. I could only blame myself though. That's what I get for putting so much trust in someone, it was bound to come back and bite me in the ass.

I looked at the clock and sighed when I realized I still had fifteen minutes of this lesson left. I cringed as she hit yet another wrong note. I couldn't take it anymore, I was playing another concert in a week and I really should practice my pieces that I had written.

I gave another heavy sigh and wiped my hands down my face. Good thing her mom always showed up twenty minutes early to sit out in the car and take phone calls. "Lauren, why don't we call it a day. I have some work I need to do, and my siblings are coming into town tonight."

She gave me this pout that she gave me every time I told her it was the end of our sessions. I think it was meant to look seductive, but really it just looked like she had two dried gummy bears for lips, especially with all the gloss she wore.

I couldn't take anymore so I just got up and started heading upstairs, "Lauren, you can see yourself out."

"But…but…Mr. Cullen I was hoping we might could go and get some coffee or something?" She tried to make her voice husky and alluring, but it only came out in a squeaky croak.

I couldn't help but laugh out loud at her stupidity. She looked at me confused and then I walked back down the stairs and took Lauren by the hand. I could tell she was happy about this. I mean really really happy about this.

I walked her out the door and walked right up to her mother's car. When I got to the passenger side I opened the car door a little forcefully and pushed her into the seat, slamming the door after I made sure all her extremities were clear. I heard her huff as I went around to her mother's side and tapped on the window.

Her mother rolled down the window obviously annoyed that I was interrupting an important business call. "Yes, Mr. Cullen, can I help you?"

"Yes, ma'am. I am no longer going to teach piano to your daughter. I take my job very seriously and I don't appreciate her trying to make me one of her many, no doubt, conquests. I don't react well to my students making advances at me, so I am hereby terminating her lessons. Thank you and have a good day." With that I turned on my heel and walked back into my house slamming the door.

I sat down at piano again and started to play a piece that I had finished writing a couple weeks before I turned nineteen. I had written it for her. The one that broke my heart. No, not broke, crushed and shattered into a million teeny tiny little shards and pieces. She hadn't even had a chance to hear it.

If it wasn't for my music I don't think I would've survived.

My fingers floated lightly over the ivory keys on the piano as her Lullaby drifted out around me. I let myself get lost in the soothing melody and I instantly remembered her long wavy dark brown hair and her big beautiful chocolate brown eyes. Nothing in the world could melt me like those eyes of hers. How I always wished I could wipe the pain and sorrow out of her eyes and demolish what caused them to show those emotions.

Then I remembered the hurt and pain I saw in her eyes that day. The day I ended things and walked out of her life forever. My father had told us a few days before that the hospital he was working at was transferring him to another hospital that needed help located in Wilmington, North Carolina. All the way across the United States from my beloved Isabella Marie Swan. My Bella.

A couple days later she was going to go visit her best friend Jacob on the beach in La Push and I had just managed to talk my father, Carlisle, out of making me move with the rest of the family so that I could stay behind with Bella. We had already graduated high school and we were taking a year off college to spend time with each other, but since the day Carlisle had told us we were moving Bella just hadn't been her same lively self.

All the life had drained out of her and I thought that she was upset about my leaving which is why I had talked Carlisle into letting me stay. I didn't want to lose her, and I couldn't wait until Christmas to see her. I was on my way to La Push to tell her and I had just walked onto the beach and was heading toward the driftwood where she had told me she would be. When I rounded the corner and saw her in the arms of none other than her best friend Jacob Black my whole world crashed. He was practically sucking her face off! I couldn't believe my Bella would do that to me.

Tears burned my eyes as I ran back to my car unnoticed. I couldn't believe I had been so stupid. I sped all the way home and wanted nothing more than to crawl onto the cold leather of my couch in my room and listen to my music as loud as it would go. Preferably a rock song, something that wouldn't remind me of her.

The problem when I got to that point was every song I turned on reminded me of Bella. I was so frustrated. Eventually I shut my sound system off and headed to take a shower.

Turning the water on as hot as it would go I stepped under and let the water work out the kinks of my muscles. By the time I had finished showering and brushed my teeth I had decided I would be leaving with my family, since I didn't seem to be wanted. I still couldn't believe I hadn't seen through her lies. Her father Charlie had pushed them together, and he didn't exactly like me.

It was just a matter of time until she was with Jacob Black. I made up my mind that I would break up with her the next day and she would never have to look at me or bother with me again. The thought hurt more than anything, even more than her betrayal. I thought I couldn't hurt anymore until I thought that she actually really didn't want to be with me anymore. I had lost my angel, forever. I would have to make sure to not let her see how much it affected me. I wanted to make her hurt as bad as I did.

But then the next day came and I went to tell her I was leaving. I remembered the pain and hurt in her eyes as the tears fell. I wanted so badly to take that away from her, to make her happy again. Then I realized that I shouldn't be pitying her this way. It was all acting and lies!

I remembered the conversation like it was yesterday.

-Flashback

I walked side by side with Bella down the trail that went into the woods beside her house. I didn't touch her, and I didn't say a word until we came to a small clearing. I sat her on a tall stump and looked down at her.

"You know I'm leaving today," I said in a monotone voice.

Her eyes instantly welled up in tears, and I mentally berated myself for causing them. "C- can't you s- stay p- please?" She begged and begged, her tears now flowing freely. She reached up and grabbed a handful of my shirt in her fist.

It took all the strength I had to rip her fingers from me. I thrust her hand back at her a little more forcefully than I should've. Then I finished what I was there to do.

"Why would I want to stay? My family is leaving and I must go with them. There is nothing here worth staying for."

She cried harder and then stammered, "W- what ab- b- bout me?"

I looked down at her and scoffed, "Why would I stay here for you? I don't love you, and I don't care about you."

I cringed when a choked sob escaped her throat, but I stood firm as she stood up and looked up at me through tear filled eyes. My heart was breaking and she was the one that betrayed me.

"Edward! How can you s- say that? After everything you told me, after every time you said you l- loved me?"

"Maybe I lied!" I snapped. "It's not like I'm the only one to have ever lied." I put heavy emphasis on my last sentence, and when she dropped to her knees and cried harder I turned on my heel and walked out of the woods.

When I got out of her line of vision I could still hear her desperate cries so I automatically took off running. I couldn't get to my car fast enough, and as I sped back to the house I was about to leave I started to shed my own tears. I'm glad I hadn't told my family what I was doing they would've been appalled at my behavior.

I knew they were all curious as to why I was leaving and not staying with Bella, but I wouldn't open up to anyone. Not even my pixie-like little sister, Alice. She was Bella's best friend and I was glad that she had already said goodbye so she didn't have to see Bella like that.

-End Flashback

I brushed a few stray tears off my cheek. I hadn't noticed I started crying. I decided to play a livelier piece and worked on the notes. I would be doing my last show in this city. A friend of Carlisle's had offered me a job at Forks High School as the new music teacher. It paid decent, but mostly I was just ready to get out of the city.

Maybe that's why I have been thinking about Bella today. I am so anxious to get back to the place I called home. Carlisle had some people even come in and fix up the old house we lived in, not that I needed all of that space, but it was much easier to just live there than to have to look for a place.

Maybe it was time for me to see Bella again. I needed some closure. She had been my one and only girlfriend, the love of my life, and it was time I moved on. I couldn't stay single forever. I needed to move on with my life, and I needed to put Bella behind me. Even as I sat here thinking about this, I knew it was going to be much harder to do than I thought.

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