A/N Sorry that it's been a few weeks since I uploaded the first chapter of Never Too Late but as i said i do have important exams that i should probably be revising for…. Anyway THANK YOU everyone for favoriting and following and reviewing (LuvinTwilight143) I love you all! Now lets see what happens between our dear Bella and Edward!

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I felt like the wind had been knocked out of me. I had looked into those eyes many times before, I had fallen in love with them more and more each day over my last two years in high school. My memory had not done them justice, I had forgotten just how endlessly deep they were, how much emotion and love they could possible show. The depth of Edward's sorrow and guilt shone in his eyes, and I am sure it was shining equally in mine, we both had a role to play in our separation. If I had returned after graduation like the others, maybe we could have worked out our problems, been together. It couldn't happen now, not if I was having another man's child.

'I think it's time for me to go,' I said breaking the silence. 'I have been here all day and I'm sure you're all sick of me' I joked.

'No, no, no.' Esme insisted, 'Stay for tea! We haven't seen you for years! We're not sick of you yet! Plus we still have many things to plan and to set in motion, for both you and Alice.' Esme headed towards the kitchen, presumably to check on the food that was no doubt cooking in the oven as food always had when we were younger. Thinking of the delicious food we had all eaten in this house years ago, I agreed to stay for tea. I sat back down, not realising i had stood up.

' Can we speak alone?' Edward half asked me awkwardly, and half asked his family, willing them to leave us in private.

I nodded to both him and Alice, silently telling her it was okay, I wanted to speak with him too.

Alice ussured everyone out of the room and we were left alone.

Edward, part of me wanted to avoid talking to him, avoid the inevitable rejection, how could he still love me after all these years, how could he still love me when it was another man's child that was growing inside me.

'Bella' Edward said when we were alone, he stood and rushed to give me a hug. It felt odd to be in his arms after these five years, and yet they still felt safe, they still were warm, they still felt like home. I pulled myself out of his grip. I couldn't do this. I couldn't let myself hope, these arms would never be home again.

'Bella, please, I'm sorry, you have to know I never meant what I said, I would have stayed with you, helped you grieve. You didn't need to go so far away, you still had family here, even with Charlie gone.' Edward began to ramble.

Charlie, my dad, the main reason I had left. He was died. Heart attack. He wasn't even that old. I had returned home in the morning, after a night at the Cullen's' and there was just an ambulance outside the house. There had been nothing anyone could have done to help him.

'You said nothing wrong, I understand, you were young and you were also missing Charlie, you knew him all your life too. You didn't need a grieving girlfriend just as your life was just beginning.' i said back to him tears formed in my eyes as I thought of my father. ' Stupid hormones' I half laughed as I wiped them away.

'I will never forgive myself for saying those words, saying I couldn't cope with your grieving, I should have stood by you. and maybe… maybe if i had this would be our wedding, our baby.' Edward said the last part quietly, almost as if he didn't want me to hear him.

'Edward, you can't say things like that! It hurts to think about what we could have been together, what we could have had together. You think that I didn't think about that after i left, you think I don't regret not coming back earlier? I loved you Edward and you broke my heart when you said that you couldn't cope and you're breaking it again talking about what could have been because we both know it can't happen anymore. Our quiet discussion was quickly becoming heated, I needed it to calm down again for my little bean.

'I'm sorry Bella, I know we can't be what we were a few years ago, but i would like us to be friends, and I'd like to meet baby's father, make sure he's treating you right. I'm guessing he came here with you? Why didn't you bring him over?' Edward said too quickly for me to believe anything he said.

'He's not here, we aren't together anymore. He wasn't father material, but I'm fine with that. He was hardly my dream guy.' I told Edward. ' He was a 24 year old guy who liked to have fun and was good to have fun with but I knew we wouldn't last much longer anyway,' I explained to him when he looked like he wanted to go find Jacob and strangle him, it made me want to chuckle, which I did and Edward gave me an odd look.

'I'm glad he didn't cause you took much heartbreak then!' Edward said with a smirk 'Or i would have to hunt him down and feed him his balls for breakfast.' his last statement lightened the air to something near to what it used to be when we were little.

With some of the clear air, we spent what felt like nothing catching up and talking about what we had done when we both had gone our separate ways. I felt like we were almost back to how we were together, it was comfortable and familiar, it was only when we were called to tea did I again realise we couldn't be like that again, because of me. I stood up and joined the others in the dining room, feeling my first heartbreak again as if it were yesterday.

Ahhh poor Bella, she still loves Eddie :(

I hope you enjoyed chapter 2! Please review it would mean soooo much to me! I will try and update sooner this time but I can't promise anything. Love you all! Every mistake is mine