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I glanced at the clock on my living room wall. It had been five hours, twenty-three minutes, and forty eight seconds since my long lost love had become my newest and biggest client. It amazed me at how well we had done small talk. Tanya had never even noticed the tension that hung in the room.
I had tried my best to keep my eyes on my computer screen because I did not want to twist the knife deeper into my heart by seeing him staring at her with love. But my eyes had deceived me. They would find their way to his messy hair or his endearing emerald eyes. And every time he would catch me looking at him. He would give me my favorite crooked smile and I would give him his favorite blush. I'm sure I looked like a tomato the whole meeting.
The meeting that seemed like a slow painful death ended like any other. I gave Tanya my number and told her to call me at any given point in time. I shook her hand as she showed her perfect white smile. Pure excitement filled her eyes along with the love she had for my, no her Edward. No her Mason.
When I shook his hand, I felt that familiar shock surge through me. His bright green eyes had locked onto me as if he was trying to ask me questions he couldn't voice. I had dropped his hands quite hastily and looked intently at the new bride to be. I was ever so thankful that she was not somebody who noticed details.
After they had left, I had an internal debate on whether to give them to Melissa or Starr. The only benefit to keep them on was the fact that it would be my biggest wedding. The downfalls were outstanding, but in the end I decided to keep them on.
The rest of the day had gone mind numbing along. I was never more happy to leave the office to return to my lonely apartment. I was never a big drinker, but today had seemed like the perfect day for vodka concoctions.
That is how I got to my state of sitting with a cranberry and vodka, yearbooks, pictures, and letters surrounding me in my living room. Pictures that showed such a happy couple. One that caught my eye the most was out Junior Prom. I allowed my now drunken mind to wander back to that night.
"Alice! What does he have planned?" I asked my friend, almost scared to hear the answer.
Alice laughed her tinkering bell laugh and just shrug her shoulders. Of course she wouldn't tell me. Edward and her had a brother and sister bond that I was truly jealous of.
I gave her my patent puppy dog look. "Please? You know I don't like surprises!" I whined like a little girl to no avail.
"Bella! Don't worry about it. I'm just hear to make you pretty," she replied as she brought out a short black formal dress.
I stared at the dress in horror and knew exactly where he was taking me. The prom. Something I had said no to a million times, but here he had found a loophole. Trick me into going.
"Alright Alice. I'm your human Barbie doll," I said reluctantly.
She had the time of her life curling my hair and pinning it in whichever way. It amazed me how she always came so close to contacting skin but never did I once get a burn. She had a million brushes she used on my face. And she truly frightened me with the pencils she came at my eyes with. The only thing scarier then the pencils was the contraption she called an eyelash curler.
"Now put on the dress Bella. I picked it out for you." she exclaimed happily. I took the dress and went into the tiny bathroom and changed quickly. I walked back to my room and looked in the mirror. Of course she had picked out the perfect dress for me. It accentuated every curve perfectly and the color contrasted my creamy skin flawlessly.
"Wow Alice. I love it." Alice's shocked look was priceless, but then she got a devilish look in her eyes. And then I realized I hadn't seen the shoes yet.
"Alice please tell me that you-" I stopped when I saw her holding out a pair of strappy black heels. "I can't wear those! I can't even walk straight in sneakers. Please Alice don't make me wear those."
"You'll be fine. Just put them on. And if you think you're going to fall, just lean on Edward. That's why he's there," she said giggling.
I put the heels and wobbled around my room till I got use to them before Alice left to get ready for prom herself. Not even thirty minutes had passed before my dad called up the stairs to tell me that Edward was here. I took one last look in the mirror. No matter what I looked like, he would look better.
I cautiously walked down the stairs in what seemed like slow motion with both of their stares on me. Their mouths curved up into smiles and I couldn't help but smile myself.
"Bells you look amazing," my dad mumbled as he got the camera. He took a few while I stood on the stairs. The flashing lights must have blinded me because when I went to step down off the last step, I tripped and almost fell. I didn't crash to the ground because Edward had caught me.
"You're probably going to be doing that a lot tonight," I said as a blush crept to my face.
"Anything to see that blush," he had whispered into my ear. After he was able to upright me, Charlie took a few more pictures.
As soon as we got to prom, I knew I wanted to leave as fast I could. I was a little shocked to see the pictures were being taken as soon as you got into the dance. We did the classic pose but the love was so evident in out eyes for each other. An undying love or so it seemed at the time.
We had walked around and talked to various people. Alice had looked amazing in her purple dress with her spiky black hair. Jasper, her boyfriend, looked around silently with a protective arm around her waist.
Then Edward had dragged me to the dance floor. I laughed self consciously because I couldn't dance and I knew full well he could. "Edward, I'll step all over your feet and hurt you."
"You could never hurt me. And I'm sure you can dance." We tried for one dance but true to my word I stepped all over him. I felt embarrassed and I could feel the blush creeping up my neck to my face.
Then Edwin McCain's I'll Be came on. I figured we had danced enough and tried to walk away, but he wouldn't have any of it. He gently lifted me and put my feet on his own and began dancing. It had been a very sweet moment.
"Bella?" he asked so softly into my hair.
"Hmmm?" I murmured into his shoulder. I didn't want to look up into his eyes because I would get lost just like every time.
"I can keep you forever? You will always be mine?" he asked with so much passion.
"Of course," I had replied before he dipped me and kissed me.
That had been one of the most amazing nights of my life. The picture now, however, just brought pain. He had asked me to be his forever. How unfair of a request is that when he was the one who left me? He was the one who had broken his own question.
I should have burned the picture a long time ago, but I could never get rid of anything that reminded me of him. Hadn't he told me he would make like he had never existed in my life? Yeah I believe he did. Yet I had all this memorabilia from our amazing romance.
I looked through our senior yearbook. I glanced at Alice's senior photo. Her black spiky hair in every which way but she made it work. Japer looked as if he was in pain but was still handsome at the same time. My picture had come out good due to Alice. Edward looked like a god in his picture. His green eyes piercing me even through the pages. I flipped a couple more pages and saw us on the cutest couple page. I didn't really see how we were that cute because I was so plain next to him.
I slammed the book shut and threw it across the room when I remember one week after commencement had been the end of everything I believed in. The memories swamped me at once.
"Bella can we talk?" Edward said as he looked intently on me as we sat on my front porch.
What was there for us to possibly talk about? Nothing could cross my mind. "Sure. What about?" I asked trying to not portray my worries through my voice. I was sure though my face was giving it away though. He always said he could read my emotions through my face.
He swiftly got up from the step and reached for my hand to pull me up. "Let's go for a walk in the woods while we talk," he said with a stony face. Something I was definitely not use too.
We quietly walked to the woods behind my house and walked a little way before he stopped. He turned to face me but never really looked at me.
"Bella I'm leaving."
"I know. We're both leaving in August for school. Remember Dartmouth?" I said trying to figure out why he was reminding me of this so early in the summer.
"No love, I'm leaving tomorrow. I'm going with my family," he said coldly.
I tried to get him to look me into my eyes but he just wouldn't. "Oh, well I'm sure Charlie will understand. When do we-"
"No, you're not going. I'm not coming back either," he interrupted me. My breathing turned shallow and I could feel my world falling apart. He couldn't be telling me he was leaving me. There was no way.
"But I'll see you at Dartmouth right?" I asked with full hope in my voice. I searched his face for anything, but it was like he was made of cool marble.
"No. You'll never see me again Bella. But I'll make sure it'll be like I was never in your life. As if I never existed." He moved his hand as if he was going to grab me but then crammed it into his jeans pocket.
"But, but why?" I said holding the tears I felt back. This had to be some kind of cruel joke, but I saw no humor on his face.
He closed his eyes tightly and then looked down. "Because Bella, I don't love you anymore. Well I'm not in love with you. You're just not the one for me."
The words sucker punched me in my gut. I'd always knew that that I was never good enough for him. And here he was finally telling me what I already knew. "O-o-okay," I said as the tears began to stream down my face.
"Promise me one thing Bella," he asked. His voice showed no resentment of what he was doing but still I shook my head yes. "Stay safe, please. Stay out of danger." He then turned around and walked away from me.
"No Edward! Come back please! Don't leave me!" I had screamed while running circles around the woods I knew like the back of my hand. I could never find him and I had passed out in the woods that day.
I woke up to never see or hear from him again.
I threw my glass at the wall and watched it shatter into little pieces. The cranberry juice made it look like blood. It was quite symbolic. This is what my heart had done that night in the woods. And just like this glass, there was no way to repair it.
A/N: There's the new chapter. Hopefully you all like it. No fear you will find out why he left and what not. Review and you get a quicker update 3 Much love, LilD
