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Chapter 6: Footsteps:

Edward's POV:

I threw on a black polo and dark jeans before I headed into my car. My phone beeped and I looked at the text that I received when I got to a red light.

Edward, Ur l8!

Hurry ^. I need food! Me hungry!

-T 3

(A/N: Translation: Edward you are late. Hurry up! I need food! I am hungry! From Tanya with love.)

I sighed as I snapped my phone shut. I didn't know why I was dating Tanya. I guess it had to do with the fact that the captain of the basketball team always went out with the head cheerleader. It was tradition or so the guys on the team said. So I asked Tanya out on a date and we had a good time. I was really only interested in her as a friend, but the guys started calling me gay for not thinking that she was hot. I mean, she was fairly good looking but I didn't like her personality. She was rude to the Hale sisters and Bella Swan. I didn't know why but I always wanted to protect Bella from harm. Bella looked so breakable and I hated how Tanya acted towards her.

The light turned green and I sped off towards Tanya's house. When I arrived, I walked up to the front of their light blue house and knocked lightly on their wooden door. The door was opened swiftly by Tanya's mother.

"Hello Mrs. Delaney. How are you?" I greeted her. She hugged me before speaking.

"Oh Edward darling, call me Heather, you know that!" She told me as she released me from her grasp. She was the kind of mom that kind of came onto you. She always flirted with me when Tanya wasn't around. She flipped back her white-blonde hair and batted her eyelashes at me. Tanya came down the steps, taking one at a time and she kissed my cheek.

"Hey, babe" She said, shooing her flirtatious mother away. "How do I look? Not fat, right? I mean, if I do, you must tell me!" She said as she showed me her outfit. She wore a flowery dress with a pair of heels.

"Tanya, you look perfectly fine" I told her. She smiled and grabbed my hand and pulled me out the door. That was one of the many things that I did not like about Tanya. She was so insecure. She always asked me if I thought she looked fat, which she defiantly wasn't. She was very skinny and petite. Her strawberry blonde hair was always in long waves and she wore nice clothes. She knew that she was pretty; she just wanted compliments, which I gave her plenty of.

I opened the passenger door for her and she got in, without a thank you. I grimaced as I shut the door. I sighed and walked to my side, got in, and drove off towards the diner that we went to. As if right on cue, Tanya started talking about her friends and the new argument going on between her and a few other girls. I said little words as she went on and on about their little spat. When we arrived, I sighed again for the second time that night. Tonight was the night. Tonight, I was going to breakup with her.

Once we sat down, a skinny waitress came to take our drink orders. She was a tall girl with black hair that was short and choppy. Her name tag said Emma.

"Hi, I'm Emma and I will be your server tonight. What would you like to drink?"

I ordered a Coke, while Tanya ordered a water. Emma walked away and said that the beverages would be out soon.

"Tanya, we need to talk" I said to her, her eyes flashed when I said this.

"About what, babe?" She asked. Confusion was written all over her face, but she seemed to know what I was getting at.

"Well, we have been dating a long time and I think we should…"

"Should what, Eddie-boo? You're not thinking of getting married, right?" She asked with excitement coloring her face.

"No, that's not it. I think we should see other people, you know break up for a little while or something…" I told her with great hesitance.

"WHAT?!? Edward, we have been dating for so long and everything has been great! Why breakup? We're great together, like peanut-butter and jelly." Her face was red with anger and rage. She looked about ready to explode. "We were gonna go to college together and become famous lawyers and we would end getting married and have zero kids because you know that I don't like them! It would be the perfect future, the perfect future together…" She was now blubbering with tears streaming down her face. I wanted to take back those words that I said but I couldn't and I wouldn't. It hurt me to see her so upset, but I could not be with her anymore.

"I'm sorry Tanya, but that's not the life that I want. I want to have many kids and I want to be a doctor, not a lawyer. It's not—

"—Edward, you have always wanted to be a lawyer and follow in your father's footsteps!" She interrupted me.

"I know, but I don't want to follow to be a lawyer. I want to be a doctor like Carlisle." I murmured. Her tear-stained face smoothed out and she seemed to understand.

My mother and father died when I was young. I was in an orphanage when Carlisle and Esme found me. Soon after, they adopted me and I moved in with them in a little town called Forks. Carlisle was a doctor and Esme was an interior designer. I used to tell everyone that I wanted to be a lawyer like my late father, but I didn't really want to be one. I thought that I would be disgracing him if I wasn't a lawyer. I was interested in going to med school and becoming a doctor like my adoptive father.

"Edward, I don't want to breakup so I will let you think and we can talk about at the Ball, kay? I will be wearing a white gown. We can work everything out there, like we can pick colleges that will be good for both medicine and law. I can have one kid and everything will be fine between us." She said as she got up from the table. She just wasn't going to let go. "Edward, I will always love you. You still have a chance to take it back."

I nodded and hugged her goodbye and paid for the drinks and left. On the way home, I got a sundae from Dairy Queen. It was much better than having a real meal. When I got home, I went straight to bed, even though it was only 8 'o clock.

I was never going to find the perfect girl for me. Little did I know that I would find her in only two days.

Yay! I brought in Edward! I hope you liked the chapter. I had fun writing it. I made Tanya's last name Delaney because it was the closet to Denali. Please review and I promise that the ball preparations will be the next chapter!

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