A/N: Sorry it's taken so long to update. I'm really busy right now. I won't be able to update a lot. I know; it makes me sad too. But, if you review, maybe I'll update more. :D

BPOV

I ran far, far away from that room. What was going on? He didn't love me. He never did. So why did he act like he cared?

I just loved him so much. It had been so hard to look him in the eye and then say goodbye.

I had missed him so much. I had just wanted to hear his voice. I wanted to run back, to kiss him, to tell him I loved him, even though he didn't love me back.

Ugh! I couldn't think strait. I was too tired. I could go to sleep now. I guess I'd just have to think about it in the morning.

I ran back to my room and fell asleep almost immediately.

EPOV

I was walking up and down the hallways looking for Bella. It would have been easy, but her scent was absolutely everywhere. I would start to follow one trail, and end up at the start of another, going in endless circles.

I seemed to be on to something this time. All the scents were going in the same direction.

There! Up ahead was a small door at the end of a darkened hallway. In fact, all of the hallways were pitch black. Had I not been a vampire, I would have never been able to see. I wondered how Bella managed to go about her day.

And then I was there. The small door creaked slightly when I opened it, and I held my breath, waiting for discovery.

It never came.

I walked inside, and there, asleep on a small cot, was my Bella. This was her room? It was entirely bare. She had a cot and a door leading into a restroom. Anger clouded my vision and I had to wait to prevent myself from doing anything rash.

"Edward." It was Bella. Had she awoken? I froze, and she sighed. I relaxed as I realized that she was just talking in her sleep.

"Edward!" Her voice was suddenly panicked. "Edward wait! Come back!"

Her back arched and I thought she was going to scream, but her mouth just opened, in a show of silent agony. Tears coursed down her face.

She started to whimper quietly and it hurt my heart. Jasper had been right. She was in more pain than I had ever been in. At least I had been with my family, while she had been left with no one. How could I have done this?

I sat down to think when I heard Gianna walking down the hall. She opened the door and I ran out, watching Bella through her mind.

"Human! Wake up. NOW!"

Bella jerked awake and sat up quickly, only to scream in pain. Her bruises must have hurt. I was already seeing red when Gianna went up to her and slapped her across the face. Bella's screams cut off immediately. I almost broke the wall I was leaning on in my anger.

"You are not to make any noise. You already know this and would do well to remember."

"Yes, ma'am." Was her only response, and her voice broke twice.

She got out of bed and ate something out of a bowl that Gianna had given her. Her nose wrinkled and I had a feeling that the food wasn't very good.

She walked out of her room then and I slipped into the shadows behind her. She wouldn't be able to see me.

BPOV

I knew he had been in my room. I had smelled him as soon as I had woken up. What was he doing?

My cheek was still stinging from the slap Gianna had given me. I took off down the hallway so I would be in time for running and heard him behind me. I looked back quickly and saw him following me, sticking to the shadows where no normal human would be able to see.

But then again, I was hardly normal.

He followed me all day, and I was wondering when he would choose to reveal himself. It wasn't until I got to reading that I knew I would have to be the one to talk first.

I waited until we were alone. He was standing in the very opposite corner of the room.

I scanned my surroundings quickly to make sure I was alone before speaking.

"I know you're there, Edward. You might as well come out."

He stepped sheepishly away from the shadows and sent me a quick grin that made my heart skip a beat.

"How long have you been aware of my presence?" He asked politely.

"I know that you were in my room last night and that you've been following me all day."

He was shocked for a second, but quickly recovered.

"How did you know I had been in your room?"

"I could smell you."

"What?"

"Edward, you must have realized by now that I'm not your average human. I could see you when you were following me in the hall. I could smell you when you left my room."

"I always knew you weren't average. But tell me one thing, and please don't leave anything out. How badly did my family and I hurt you with our leaving?"

I sighed inside. I had known this was coming. I knew that he would blame himself.

"Edward, your family and you leaving only reminded me of something I already knew. I had let my vision of reality slip and it simply brought me back down to earth."

"What do you mean when you say 'something you already knew'?"

"Edward, I've always been unlovable. That's never going to change, no matter how much I want it to. I'm sure that as long as I'm human, I will never be loveable. I've always known this, but when I was in Forks, you made me think that I might actually be important. I should've known that it was coming to an end. That's one of the only reliable things in my life."

I looked up at Edward and was shocked to see that he was shaking with anger. Growls were erupting from him, and he was doing nothing to stop them.

I acted purely on instinct. Within seconds I was across the room comforting him. I was hugging him and trying very trick I knew to make him calm down.

He was slowly calming down when I suddenly realized exactly what I was doing.

"Oh! I'm so sorry!" I said, backing away. Quickly, I tried to change the subject.

"Anyways, that's not why I started talking to you. I just wanted to ask you to not wake me up once I fall asleep. I only get one hour of sleep a night, so this is my other sleep time." And then I curled up on the couch and tried to block out everything around me. It was considerably harder than usual. All I really wanted to do was leap up from the couch and kiss Edward with all of my freakish strength.

EPOV

I didn't know what was going on. Everything was moving to fast.

On second I was shaking with anger from Bella's comment, and the next second she was in my arms, soothing me. For a brief moment, I had been blissfully happy, and then she was gone.

She backed further away from me, apologizing. Then she was changing the subject and I was mad again when she mentioned how little sleep she got. And then she was asleep, and I was left with only me own thoughts for company.

How could she possibly think she was unlovable? Why did she get so little sleep at night? Why did I leave her again? How long had she been here?

And then something hit me. Something that cleared up most of my questions. Something that should have been glaringly obvious.

Bella was going to be a vampire. She had practically said it herself earlier. I'm sure that as long as I'm human, I will never be loveable. Human. She had said that as long as she washuman she would be unloved. So my leaving did nothing. She was still going to be a vampire. And it seemed like she wanted that.

Bella was going to have a lot of questions to answer for when she woke up.