Hello again all. I would just like to first say that I finished this chapter the day I posted the last one, but I decided to keep it until now to see how big of a response I got. That and it needed some tweaking. Now for the response to the last chapter, I loved it. (: Let's see, I got a total of 12 reviews. I know I said if I got 15 I would give reviews to those who reviewed after the tenth review, but I was in a good mood that day. As one lucky reviewer (vampiregurl) figured out, the first review gets an extended sneak peek. So get those reviews typed up quick if you want to be the first review. (: Aside from the 12 reviews I also received the following: 10 favorite stories, 4 story alerts, and a review for the sneak peek I sent out. (Thanks j5girl31012)

Now I want to let you guys know, that I don't know when my next update will be. There are still other chapters to be typed and posted. But I decided today, that this next week I'm going to be working on some chapters for my other stories on here that are being neglected. If you want, you can check out my other two Twilight stories, but there's no rush. This story is my top reviewed, alerted, etc. Although, one of my other stories has been added to a community, but not this one. Oh well. Also another reason I'm not sure on the update, I have a vacation coming up the week after next and I won't be able to update then. I may be able to squeeze a chapter in between that vacation and the next. The second vacation I know I won't be able to get an update in so you guys will have to wait almost a month after the next update for a new chapter. Sorry. (:

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Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight, which sucks because I'd be rich if I did, Stephanie Meyer owns Twilight and all it's characters, but I did come up with the ideas for this version of the wonderful saga.

Bella's Point of View

I forced myself to continue to take deep, steadying breaths as I drove towards the edge of the city. Telling him we needed to stop talking or seeing each other was one of the hardest things I have ever done. I glanced in the rearview mirror as the city of Cambridge slowly started to disappear behind me. I waited until I couldn't see the city anymore and slowly pulled the car over onto the curb. I felt my chest collapse as I tried to catch my breath but couldn't. Tears flowed down my face and onto the leather of the steering wheel I was leaning against. I hated what I had done, but I had to do it. I refused to be the other woman. He didn't want me, all of me, so I was done. I jumped at the knock on my window and looked over to see an officer standing on the other side of the door. I quickly moved to roll down the window and wiped the streaming tears from my cheeks.

"Is everything alright ma'am?"

I nodded, "I'm, I'm fine, honest. I just needed to pull over for a bit."

"All right. I need you to put your flashers on then so people know you're here, and don't drive until you've calmed down. It will keep you and everyone else safe."

I reached down and flipped the switch so the flashers were on and looked back at him. "I will officer."

"Have a nice night."

I gave him a small wave and laid my head against the steering wheel again. I took a few deep breaths and tried to regain control of myself. I tilted my head back so it rested against the back of the seat and wiped the last few tears away, wishing this would be easier, but knowing it would never be.

Edward's Point of View

"Alright, I guess I'll see you around sometime then."

She shook her head, her gaze still staring intently at the ground, "That's another thing I wanted to talk about. I think it would be best if we stopped talking. It's hard on me, I don't know if it is you, but it is for me, and when I'm with my daughter I want to give her my complete focus, not be thinking about what you are doing. So, I guess that means goodbye."

I couldn't stop talking to her. I had to have her in my life. I wrapped my arms around her and pulled her against my chest. My head lay against her hair, and her arms slowly wrapped around me. I wanted to memorize everything about her and never forget it, not that I could even if I wanted to. She slowly let go of me and walked towards the door, pausing momentarily and looking over her shoulder at me.

"Goodbye Edward."

"Goodbye Bella."

The door clicked shut quietly as I stood frozen where I was. Was this what Bella felt like when I walked away from her? I collapsed in my chair behind me and stared blindly at the wall in front of me. How had I ever done this to her? I'm sure she felt like this when I was the one who did this to her, only it had to have been harder for her. I mean, at the time we had been dating for over three years at that point. I broke her, tore her apart, and left. I was a monster.

"Mr. Cullen, excuse me, Mr. Cullen, the Smiths are here for their appointment."

I didn't look towards the source of the voice, just tried to mentally process the information and failing miserably, "Tell them we need to reschedule. I can't do it today, I'm not thinking clearly."

"Whatever you wish, Mr. Cullen."

The door clicked shut again and left me to my jumbled thoughts. I thought back to the ten years where Bella wasn't in my life. They were some of the worst years of my life. I was upset every day; my friends told me people feared me, because I always looked so uptight and cranky. I only had myself to blame. I looked up as another knock came through the door before Quil walked into the room.

"Hey Edward, do you have, what's the matter with you? You look like shit man." I looked up at him as he came to a stop in front of my desk.

"I just watched the love of my life walk away from me."

His face twisted into confusion, "What? You and Tanya called off the engagement?"

I shook my head, "No."

"Then what are you talking about?"

"I'd rather not talk about it right now. I'll explain eventually, just not right now." Silence hung in the air and I thought back to his reason to coming here, "You needed something?"

"Right, do you have the Johnson's files?"

I opened my desk drawer and handed him the large stack of papers and watched him leave the room. I turned on the computer monitor next to me and quickly opened a new internet page. I typed in the web address to Harvard quickly and navigated through the page with ease, stopping when I arrived at the page where it talked about applying and printed off the numerous pages before exiting and getting up to leave. I knocked Sam's door and opened the door, silently shutting it behind me.

"Ah Mr. Cullen, what can I do for you."

"Good evening Mr. Uley. I was wondering if I could have a word with you."

He nodded, "Have a seat."

I sat down and cleared my throat quietly, "I just wanted to give you my two weeks notice."

"Why? Aren't you happy here?"

I shook my head, "That's not it at all. You see, someone said something to me the other day that really hit home. If working in law was something I loved doing, I would be happier, but it isn't. If it was, there would be no other place I'd like to work, but this isn't what I love doing. So, I'm going back to school, medical school to be specific."

"I see, well thank you for letting me know. Was there anything else?"

I shook my head, "No."

"Have a nice night, Mr. Cullen."

"You too."

The ride home went relatively quick despite my wishes for it to take longer. I parked the car in the driveway and stared at the house. Why didn't I jump at the opportunity to end this engagement? I know in my heart that we both knew it wasn't going to work. I let my breath out as I shut the front door behind me and walked into the den where Tanya was curled up on the couch reading a book.

"Tanya, can we talk?"

Despite her attempts to hide it I saw her nerves flash in her eyes, "Yeah."

I stood facing the large arch window and watched as a silver Prius drove past and pulled into the driveway a few house down.

"What are we doing Tanya?"

I heard her swallow, "Well we're talking Edward."

"No Tanya, not that. You know what I'm talking about." I turned around to face her and shoved my hands in my pockets, "What are we doing?"

"Well, we're engaged because we love each other, and we're going to get married in a few months."

I ran my hand through my hair, "Tanya, do you really believe that? Do you really believe that in a year we aren't going to be so sick of arguing that we are both going to regret getting married? Because to be honest, at the moment that's all I see in our future."

"I think we could work through it though Edward. I mean tons of couples fight, and they don't break up because of it."

"But Tanya, that's not how it should be! If you love someone you should want to marry them, you shouldn't be worried about what you're going to fight over next, and wonder if you're going to regret getting married to them for the rest of your life!"

I looked up at her and she looked as if she had just been slapped. "Are you saying we should call off the engagement?"

I walked over to where she was sitting and sat on the edge of the coffee table, "Tanya, think about it. I know you know that what we have isn't what you desire in marriage. Don't you want to find that one person who you love more than anything, the one who you would give your life for?"

"It's that girl isn't it?" I looked up at her and saw her eyes filled with tears.

I nodded slowly, "Yes. I'm sorry Tanya, but I don't think I can do this."

"I'm sorry too. Are you sure about this?"

I nodded, "I want you to keep the house and furniture though. You designed this house to be your dream home and I won't take that from you. But if you ever need anything, I want you to call me, okay?" She nodded and I reached out and wrapped my arms around her, letting her cry into my shoulder. I waited until her crying stopped and her breathing calmed before I spoke again, "I'm going to go get my stuff together Tanya."

She nodded and I got up and walked up the stairs to the bedroom and pulled out my suitcases before filling them with all my belongings and walking back down the stairs and setting them by the door. I walked into the living room and kissed Tanya on the forehead before going back to where my bags were waiting. I worked my house key off my key ring and set it on the end table next to the door along with my engagement ring before walking out of the house for the last time.

Bella's Point of View

One Month Later

"Zafrina, can I borrow your key to the storage room? I need to get some more I.V. needles."

"Sure," She quickly unclipped the key from her name tag clip and handed it to me.

I started walking in the direction of the storage room and shouted thanks over my shoulder. I jumped when a pair of hands grasped my arms.

"You might want to keep an eye on where you're going, Bella." My stomach clenched at the sound of the voice.

"Sorry, James, it won't happen again."

"Don't worry about it." I stuck my key into the lock and opened the door and began scanning the shelves for the needles when I heard the door click behind me. I stood up quickly and looked over at James, "I need to talk to you."

"All right." I turned back around and noticed the I.V. needles on the top shelf. I stretched up on my tiptoes and began losing my balance and falling backwards when I felt his hand on the small of my back. I waited for a second to make sure I was balanced before speaking, "Thanks, I'm fine now."

I held the box in my hand and turned around; unfortunately he didn't move his hand like I had hoped he would. Instead, his hand slid with me and rested on my hip.

"You wanted to talk to me about something?"

He nodded and the room was silent for a moment. I looked down at the box in my hands and back up as his lips crashed into mine. I pushed against his chest trying to get away, but his grip on my waist just tightened. Using my free hand I brought it up to slap it against his cheek.

"What the hell Bella?"

"Get the fuck off of me." I jerked out of his grip and went to the door. "Consider this my resignation." I slammed the door behind me as I walked out of the room. Tears flooded my eyes as I stormed out into the nurses' stand where Zafrina was standing. "Here's your key back."

"Bella what's wrong?"

I shook my head, "Nothing, I just, I need to leave. Actually, I just quit, can you please take over some of my people I've been watching? Please make sure you take care of Meagan, if I trust her with anyone else it's you."

"Of course I will."

"And don't forget to keep in contact, tell everyone else to as well. I'm going to stop in and say goodbye to Meagan before I leave." I gave Zafrina a quick hug before knocking on the door to Meagan's room.

"Hi Meagan."

She flipped off the TV and turned to face me, "Bella, guess what?"

I smiled, "What?"

"I decided that Lion King is my favorite movie."

"Why is that?"

"If Simba can lose his dad and become the ruler of the animal kingdom, then nothing can stop me."

I smiled as more tears formed in my eyes, "I'm going to miss you."

"What do you mean?"

"After I leave in a little bit I'm not working here anymore."

"Why?"

I knew she would ask that, any ten year old would. "Grown up problems." She nodded even though she wanted a different answer. "Here," I grabbed a piece of paper off the counter next to her bed and one of her pencils and wrote my address down on the piece of paper and handed it to her, "Now you and your mom can write to me about how you're doing."

I leaned over and gave her a hug, "I'm going to miss you Bella. Will you send me pictures of Liyah?"

"I can if you want me to."

"Thank you for everything." I smiled as more tears filled my eyes.

"Bye Meagan." I walked out of the room and as soon as the elevator doors closed the tears poured down my cheeks.

"Miss Swan, is everything all right?"

I nodded as I passed the old lady who had worked at the front desk longer than I had been here and ran to my car. My sobs echoed in the small area and my stomach clenched. I threw open the door just in time to lean out as the contents of my stomach spilled onto the concrete next to my car. I grabbed my phone from my purse and dialed the one person I could always count on.

"Hey Bella."

"Al, Alice?" My voice broke and I starting crying again.

"Bella what's wrong? What's going on?"

"I, I," I lost all ability to form any coherent thought.

"I'm coming up there, okay? Don't do anything until I get there, just stay at home."

I nodded as I heard the line click. I drove numbly to Jane's to pick up Liyah and tried to build myself up for the questioning I knew she would give me. She was my friend, but I didn't want to talk right now. I walked up the stairs and pulled out enough money to pay Jane and knocked on the door.

"Bella why are you here so early?"

"I, uhm, I don't have a job anymore."

"What? Why? I thought you loved working there."

"I do, I did, but I just don't want to talk about it right now."

"Okay," She disappeared and reemerged from her apartment a few minutes later with a very alert Liyah in her arms. I handed her the money and draped the diaper bag on my shoulder before taking Liyah from her. "I'll see you around okay?"

I nodded and walked down the stairs quickly, yet carefully so as not to fall and hurt Liyah. I made it home quickly and laid Liyah down for a nap before curling up on the bed and letting the tears pour down my face.

Edward's Point of View

The Next day

"Hey Edward," I turned around as Paul ran up to me from across the campus.

"What's up?"

"What do you have going on this weekend?"

I shrugged, "I'm not really sure, studying for the finals I suppose."

"Saturday night you should come down to the Middle East at eight. My girlfriend's coming down and I want you and the guys to meet her."

"What's her name anyway?"

"Leah." I stopped in my tracks as my mind raced a million miles an hour. Liyah, Bella, I needed to go see her.

"Thank you Paul."

"For what?"

"You just reminded me of Liyah."

"Yeah, Leah's my girlfriend." He looked at me as if I had lost my mind.

"No, not Leah as in your girlfriend, Liyah as in Bella's daughter." His face twisted into one of confusion.

"What are you talking about?"

I walked towards the coffee cart that sat by the cafeteria and ordered before facing Paul. If I was going to drive to New Haven tonight I needed something to keep me awake.

"I dated Bella in high school and I broke up with her on our last day of school. Might I add, that that was one of the biggest mistakes of my life. Well a few months ago I went to my ten year high school reunion, yes I know, I'm old, but Bella was there. We reconnected in a way, but then we got in a fight, and she got completely trashed one night and I took care of her and it just reminded me of how much I loved her and I ran. I ran back to Cambridge with Tanya, but we kept in touch we talked almost every night for a while. Just over a month ago though, she came up here to talk to me. She was the one who convinced me to go back to school and when she left she said that we should stop talking and seeing each other. I haven't talked to her since then."

"Who's Tanya?"

"My ex-fiancée, we broke up the night she came up here. I called it off because I love Bella, and because all we did was fight all the time."

"So if you love Bella so much then why are you still here?"

"That's a really good question Paul." I threw the empty coffee cup in the trash and started running towards where I had parked my car.

"Hey Edward," I turned around so I was facing him again, "You aren't that old."

"Thanks Paul." I sprinted off and as soon as I got to the interstate I pushed the pedal down until I was going almost 95 miles per hour.

I walked into the children's hospital and went to the floor where James had once told me Bella worked. I scanned the names of the people staying in the rooms as I walked by them, and stopped when I saw the one that had Meagan on it and knocked.

"Come in."

I walked in the room and the girl looked at me strangely, "Hi, I'm Edward Cullen. I'm a friend of Bella's and she told me she was your nurse, do you know where she might be?"

She shook her head, "She doesn't work here anymore."

"Are you sure?" She nodded and I walked out of the room and looked for someone who worked here. I ran up to the first person I saw, surely scaring them, "Hi, someone told me Bella Swan doesn't work here anymore is that correct?"

She nodded, "She quit yesterday morning."

"Thank you." I turned to go but stopped and turned to face the lady again, "Do you have a phonebook I can use?"

She nodded and went behind one of the desks and handed me the large book before disappearing into a room. I scanned the pages quickly and memorized the address I had somehow forgotten.

I knocked on the door, "Bella, are you here?" I waited for a response and started knocking again, stopping when the door flung open to reveal Alice.

"What are you doing here?"

She pushed me back and stepped out into the hallway before pulling the door shut behind her.

"Bella needed me."

"Why what happened? Why did she quit her job? I thought she loved it there?"

"She does. She had to quit."

"Why would she have to quit?" I didn't understand, none of this made any sense.

"Because Edward, Bella went into the supply closet yesterday to get more I.V. needles and James followed her in there saying he needed to 'talk' to her. He started kissing her and when she tried to get away he just tightened his grip on her waist. She slapped him and that stunned him enough for her to get out of his grip and out of the room."

"Wait, James as in James who's known our father for years?"

"Yes Edward, that James." I turned around and started going for the stairs, "Where are you going?"

"To go beat the hell out of him."

"Edward no, you can't do that."

"Why the hell can't I?"

"Because Bella needs you right now Edward." I stopped where I was and turned around to walk back towards Alice, "I'm going to take care of Liyah for a few days where I'm staying. You stay here with Bella, she needs you."

I nodded and she unlocked the door to let me in and she quickly grabbed an already filled bag before picking up Liyah and her car seat. It was as if she knew I would come today. The door shut quietly behind her and I walked over to the bed where Bella was laying, her back was facing me and tears were silently falling from her eyes. I sat down on the bed beside her and gently rubbed her arm up and down. She turned her head to look at me before she rolled over so she was facing me. I slid down gently so I was lying beside her and tucked one arm under her head and wrapped the other around her.

"I-I'm so sorry about wh-what happened last month."

I shook my head and took my thumb and wiped away the tears that were sliding down her cheeks.

"Shh, it doesn't matter. I'm here now." I leaned towards her and kissed her on the forehead before I resumed rubbing gentle circles on her arm.

I blinked a couple times and took in my surroundings. I thought for a moment trying to remember where I was. I turned my head to look at Bella and the previous day's events quickly filled my memory. My eyes scanned her face she slept silently beside me. I slowly brought my hand up to her cheek and slowly ran my finger along her jaw line. She leaned her face into my hand and slowly opened her eyes to look at me. A small smile appeared on her lips before she turned her head behind her to glance at the clock. I glanced over her to read the large green letters, 12:48. She turned her head back towards me and gave me another small smile before looking down.

"Do you want to talk about it?"

She shook her head, "Not really, at least, not right now. I just want to lay here."

"Whatever you want," I saw her try to hide the smile that crept on her face and I felt my own smile appear on my face.

"Can I ask you something?" She looked up at me and I nodded, "Where's your engagement ring?"

"What?"

"Where is your engagement ring? I woke up about an hour ago and noticed it wasn't on your hand."

"Right," I let my breath out thinking of the best way to explain this, "Things didn't work out."

"Is it because of me? I feel like it's my fault and I feel completely terrible."

"No. It's not your fault. We argued constantly and it's not how I want to spend the rest of my life with someone."

She looked down and back up at me, "Are you sure that's all?"

I shook my head, "I know that's not all. I just don't know how to explain it."

"Try," I looked back over at her, "I bet you I can understand a lot easier than you think I can."

She bit her bottom lip nervously and kept her gaze locked with my own, "Remember that day you came to Cambridge and said you wanted us to stop talking and seeing each other?" She nodded, "Well, watching you walk away and thinking it might be the last time I would ever see you killed me. I couldn't get you out of my head and when I got home I knew I couldn't do it anymore. I couldn't stay engaged to Tanya. I couldn't keep arguing everyday with the person I was supposed to be in love with and I couldn't, and still can't, imagine a life without you in it."

Silence filled the room as my attempts to explain faded into the silence. Our breaths mixed in the small space that was between us. My eyes scanned hers for any sign as to what she was thinking. Tears were swarming her eyes as she looked back at me. She bit her lip and looked down before slowly brining her lips up to mine. I kissed her back gently, and she slowly pulled away and looked into my eyes again, our faces mere inches apart. I searched her eyes for something, but I couldn't find anything.

"I love you." I spoke what my heart felt before my mind could shut my heart up. My heart beat picked up when a smile, a true, genuine smile, spread across her face.

"I love you, too." I closed the gap between us within seconds and kissed her again; putting every ounce of love I had for her into the kiss.