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Bella's POV
I woke up the next morning, my eyes burning from last night. I reached over but the bed was empty.
"Edward!" I yelled.
I wrapped the sheets around me and tried running for the door. As a head rush surged on, I tripped and landed on the floor.
"Edward!" I cried.
"Bella! What's wrong?" Edward rushed in and kneeled beside me. "What happened?" He asked alarmed.
"I thought you were gone." I was shaking as I gripped onto him.
"Shh. No I'm right here. I'm not going anywhere."
"For now." I added.
"I'm making you breakfast. Why don't you go in a shower and relax."
"I'm not hungry." I complained.
"You didn't have dinner last tight. Come on." He said, helping me up.
"Why waist time Edward. You're leaving in just a few hours." I didn't want to waist time eating. He was leaving and I didn't want to waist a second with him.
"Bella." He scolded.
Sighing, I got up and walked to the bathroom. After hearing him step out of the room I walked back out and grabbed my cell phone.
"Hey girly!" Alice greeted. How could she be so cheery, but it's not like she was in my position.
"Alice I need you." my voice was raspy and hoarse. I felt a knot in my throat and my eyes starting to sting.
"Bella what's wrong" she asked alarmed. "Where's Edward?"
"He's leaving Alice." I cried.
I turned on the shower so that Edward couldn't hear me if he walked by. It was always a loud shower which I hated, but it was for good use now.
"What do you mean? Let me speak to him."
"No Alice. He has to go and we don't have much time. I don't have much time with him." I started shaking from the cold and stepped into the hot shower with the phone in hand.
"Bella I can hear you're in the shower, relax and I'll be over."
"Alice no-" she hung up on me.
After stepping out of the shower and changing I didn't feel like doing anything so I walked out with my tangled hair.
"Bella." Edward chuckled.
"I'm sore." I complained. A chuckle escaping from us both.
"But it's a good sore. Right?" He wrapped his arms around me and swayed us back and forth.
I nodded and kissed his neck.
"What's for breakfast?" I asked, reaching for his lips on my tepee toes.
"I thought you weren't hungry?"
"A crazy night brings out a crazy appetite." I teased running my hand down his shirtless body.
I walked in the kitchen and served us our breakfast.
After eating, Edward headed to the bedroom to change.
I was sitting down on the love seat trying to read Edward's music notes when the door bell rang.
I placed the magazine down and answered the door.
"Alice." I looked behind her and everyone else was with her.
"It's okay. I asked them to come." I turned around and saw Edward standing behind me.
We all took a seat in the living room and stayed silent for a moment. It wasn't hard to guess what this was about. Since Alice knew some of it, she sat next to me holding my hand.
I tried not to look up and see everyone's expression because I knew I would break out crying. That was what Edward last needed. I had tried to be a bit cheery for him earlier but underneath it all we both knew it was a pretense.
"I wanted to ask you all a favor before I leave." Edward started.
"Leave?" Everyone but Alice asked simultaneously.
"I'll explain that in a bit but for now, what I want to ask you all is to keep an eye out for Bella." Sitting on the arm rest, Edward reached over and stroked the side of my face closest to him.
Alice squeezed my hand and with the other stroked my arm.
"My family is in trouble and I can not do anything about it."
"But where are you going? Edward what's going on?" Rosalie asked, panicked.
"England." He sighed. "My grandfather was part of a group of criminals and somehow my family got implicated. I have to go and do what ever it is I can to get us out of this mess." Infuriated, Edward got up and paced back and forth.
I hadn't dared look up but when I did, everyone's stare fell on me.
"Bella." Rosalie spoke.
"Bella has to stay here. She isn't allowed to go with me."
"What do you mean she isn't allowed?" Alice questioned.
"I don't know the facts of what is going on. All I know is that if I don't go my family and I will be in danger."
"You didn't tell me that!" I declared, getting up.
"I didn't want to alarm you." He said.
"And what now! You expect me to let you go just like that, knowing I might not see you." I challenged.
"Bella I will come back. I promise." He walked towards me and hugged me.
"When are you leaving?" Emmett asked.
"In three hours." Edward tightened his grip on me as he spoke.
With what little force I had, I struggled out of his hold and looked at the clock. I hadn't realized that time was ticking.
Shaking and panicking I ran towards the room slamming the door behind me.
I curled up on the bed and rocked my self back and forth.
"Bella." Rosalie and Alice peeked in slowly.
"Why?" I pleaded.
They rushed to me and let me cry my eyes out.
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The girls left me alone as I needed to use the restroom.
In Edward's suitcase I placed a pendant that I had gotten for my necklace. Edward had given me a necklace promising that he would always love me. When he had given me the necklace it had come with its own pendant. That would be the pendant that I would be keeping. The necklace was a way of having him close to me and allowing him to have the one I added would be a way of him having me close by.
After a few minutes I walked back out and I was able to hear the promises that everyone made to Edward.
"While I'm gone, I would like it if you could take care of her. Keep her out of trouble and be with her so she's never alone."
"Promise me that you will look after her and protect her while I can't." as his voice cracked at the end, I could tell he was on the verge of tears as well.
I tried fighting my own tears but they silently slipped.
"WE promise you Edward that we will always be there for her. You have our word." Emmett spoke for them and they all nodded, tears spilling from everyone's eyes.
I leaned against the wall letting my own tears fall silently down my face.
Edward's POV
After asking my friends what was most important to me it was time to leave.
I was heading back into the room for my bags and wondering where Bella was when I spotted her crying on the ground in the hallway.
"Bella." I picked her up and carried her to the room. I sat on the bed and placed her on my lap.
"Bella." She had stopped crying but her eyes wouldn't look towards me. "Bella please." I pleaded.
She glanced up at me and I figured she had heard us talking. Her eyes were puffy and red.
I couldn't help it and I myself gave in. We sat down embracing each other, tears falling. I held her close and inhaled her lovely scent.
"Promise me you'll call me when you get there. Promise me that we will be in contact. Promise me that I won't lose you." She begged.
"I promise you Bella. That I will always love you and have you with me. I will call. We will talk everyday for hours until you get tired of me."
"I could never get tired of you." She said, stroking my jaw line.
"Will you come and visit when you have time?" She asked
"Definitely." I assured.
"Give this at least three months, and I promise I will be back to plan hour wedding." I said.
"Awh!" She gasped.
"Are you proposing?" She asked a hint of excitement in her voice.
"I'd like to give you a proper proposing and ring. When I get back you will be in for a crazy ride." I chuckled.
"Okay." she leaned her forehead against mine. I lifted her face to where I could reach her neck and kissed my way to her lips. I could feel her smile beneath our kiss and so I deepened the kiss.
"Mgh-hhmm." someone cleared their throat behind us causing us to jump. "It's almost time for you to be at the airport." Jasper informed.
I nodded and faced Bella. All smiles and bit of excitement gone. She gave me a forced smile and got up. I let her carry my carry on bag while I took the bigger one.
Bella's POV
Edward was registering at the counter and I knew that in only a matter of seconds he'd be far away.
Emmett, Jasper, Rosalie, and Alice all encircled me and hugged me. They were trying to make me feel better but all they were doing was making me feel worse. If they felt pity I could fell that being transformed into misery for myself.
"So Bella did you and Edward have a rough night, because your hair is a mess not to mention you buttoned your shirt wrong." Emmett was trying to make jokes to make me feel better but they just irritated me at this point.
"Shut up." Alice scolded and Rosalie slapped him in the arm, a 'smack' was heard. Now that made me chuckle at least a bit. Everyone seemed to sparkle as they heard be laugh.
We were all waiting for Edward's flight to be announced. Alice was crying but was trying to hide in Jasper's arms. Rosalie was leaning on Emmett, staring blankly at the ground. Emmett for once seemed serious and troubled.
"Bella." Edward whispered in my ear.
"Yea." I whispered back.
"I promise I'll be back and nothing will ever be able to tear us apart again. Goodbye doesn't mean forever Bella." I nodded and pecked him on the lips.
"I love you." I whispered.
"And I love you. You are my life Bella."
"Now boarding flight 83-6 at gate 31." the speaker announced.
"No!" I shrieked. I looked around me. People were getting up and walking. Everyone was starting to board different planes.
I felt the ground shaking beneath me. As I stopped and stared at Edward's agonizing expression I realized it was me who was shaking.
"Bella." He embraced me in his arms and whispered one more time.
"I love you. Nothing will ever change that."
"I love you. I'm going to miss you Edward. I can't live without you." I clung on tighter but it didn't seem tight enough.
"You won't have to. I'll be back soon." He said.
"Promise?" I asked.
"Promise." and he sealed it with a kiss.
"Be careful and keep yourself out of trouble." he asked.
I kissed him one last time before he left.
I wanted to make it a memorable kiss for the both of us before he left. His grip around me tightened making it hard for me to breathe but I didn't care. He deepened the kiss; I poured every once of love I had in me so that he could remember this moment. As everyone around us moved and breathed Edward and I cried into each other's kiss. I could taste our tears and our love in it all.
I let him go and bid him farewell.
"I love you." I mouthed as he entered the gates.
His tears escaped freely as he walked on. I stood there watching but no one was there anymore.
I walked towards the window and waited for his plane to leave.
As I saw it take off I knew my heart and soul had flown in there with him.
I felt my world falling apart but was being held up with the support of my friends.
With Alice and Rosalie for support I made it to their car.
"Bella our guest bedroom is finally finished, you can stay there as long as you'd like." Rosalie offered.
"No thanks." I replied. I didn't want them pitying me. I wanted to be alone and wait for Edward's call.
"Bella I don't think you should be alone." Jasper said.
"I'll be fine. Just take be back to Edward's." I said, climbing into the car.
"Bella that's not a good idea. Besides you need to eat." Emmett suggested.
"I'm not hungry." I said irritated now.
"It doesn't matter. Bella has her own place. You're not going to leave me alone are you Bella?" Alice asked.
Alice and I shared an apartment although we at times would spend the night out.
I sighed giving up and nodded.
That was probably the most privacy I'd get.
(A/N) So what do you guys think so far?
