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A/N: Hi, everyone, thank you all for reading my story. It means so much to me. Here is the next chapter and I would love to hear, or read, your thoughts. You can do that by reviewing! Enjoy and please don't hate me. Also, the lovely woman who is Beta to this story admitted she cried whilst reading it...

RPOV

The guys were moving our TV to what they deemed a 'suitable' place to watch a stupid baseball game. Or was it basketball? Football? Why they couldn't watch the thing at their place, I'll never know, but they seemed to like spending time at ours for some reason.

Alice was reading her magazine, tuning out the guys as they criticized the layout of our living room, and I was painting my toenails, telling the guys they could leave whenever they complained about the smell. It would keep them quiet for about thirty seconds before they started complaining again.

After twenty minutes of shoving around our expensive television set like it was something they found in a cereal box, they finally agreed on the perfect spot.

Bella had gotten a phone call about ten minutes ago and had rushed out of the room. Alice and I had looked after her, knowing by her pale face, that something was wrong. When she returned, she looked like she'd seen a ghost, refusing to make eye contact with anyone.

I knew what had happened. He had woken up after all of this time, and because Bella was Bella, she was leaving.

"Bella, Love?" Edward asked, hurrying over to her when he sensed that something was wrong. "What's wrong, Baby?" He asked, brushing her hair out of her face with gentle fingers.

I watched as she looked deeply into his eyes and I knew her well enough to know that her heart was breaking.

"Jacob woke up." She whispered. "Charlie's on his way to get me." She added and though her voice showed no emotion, tears fell down her face.

Edward, though, looked like he'd just gotten plowed down by truck, but he did what any man who truly loved his woman would do. He pulled her into his arms and held on tight.

"It's okay," he whispered brightly, even as I saw his green eyes fill with tears.

The sight of him, holding back his tears and trying to be strong for her made a sob escape my throat and Emmett came rushing over to me.

Edward was a man's man and you knew he never cried about anything. Not unless something was incredibly bad, tragic even. And my heart broke for him as I watched him force back the tears and look down at her.

"I guess we should get you packed," he told her with a slight smile.

Oh, God, he was going to have us all in tears. He wasn't fighting with her, or begging her to stay. He was making this easy for her and killing us all with his selflessness in the process.

"No," I said, finally finding my voice. "You two go over to the guy's place. We'll pack for you. You know that Alice would pick out all of your stuff, anyway." I smiled.

I knew Bella better than she knew herself. She was leaving. She would go back home because she was honorable and because she thought that Jacob loved, and needed her. And to think of her packing away the life I knew she loved, was just too much. I knew she wouldn't be able to stand it and neither would Edward.

"Really?" She asked her eyes bright with tears. I knew by looking at her that she was worried in case Alice and I would be hurt if she didn't spend this time with us, saying goodbye. But for the three of us, it wasn't. We never say goodbye to each other. We would always be friends, sisters, no matter how far away we were. But, she was going back as Jacob Blacks fiancée, and that would mean saying goodbye to Edward, and the amazing love that they shared. Because she honestly believed that Jacob loved her and in his own strange way, he probably did. He loved the control he had. He had even been able to control whilst he was in a coma. So they needed this time together.

"Yes, sure, go." I smiled.

They left soon after that and when she was gone Alice and I clung to each other and cried. We cried for ourselves, and for Edward. For losing the life that been perfect, until twenty minutes ago, but mainly, we cried for Bella.

Because she had found him, she had found someone who loved her with all of his heart. Someone who was the other half of who she was. Who didn't mind listening as she ranted on about a book she loved or watching her favorite films over and over again, because it made her happy. She found him and now she felt like she had to give him up. I know I could never do that with Emmett and survive. No matter how close we are, I don't think anyone could relate to what she's going through.

EPOV

Bella was leaving.

We had spent the last hour making love, holding each other. Holding her while she cried.

She had just ordered for me to get her a drink and I was glad because I was having a difficult time holding it together myself.

I stood there, holding a glass of cherry-aide, her favorite, in my hands and wondering how was I going to survive this?

Bella is everything. How am I going to carry when she's gone?

I rushed over to the sink and splashed cold water on my face, gripping onto the sink as I tried to hold myself together so that she didn't know how much this was destroying me. She had warned me, but part me hoped that if he ever did wake up we'd be happily married and in our fifties, with a houseful of children, and a life together.

I headed back up the stairs with the drinks, I didn't have long left with her, and so I would soak up every second I could. Because when she left, she was taking my heart with her.

RPOV

The five of us were waiting outside as Charlie packed Bella's things into the trunk. He had arrived ten minutes ago and had wasted no time with pleasantries.

Edward was inside his cabin, Bella had told him that it would only make it harder for both of them.

Bella gripped onto mine and Alice's hands, all but crushing them.

"Come on, Bells," Charlie barked at her.

"I'm coming," she called her voice was rough with emotion and walked up to Jasper. "I'll see you around, Johnny."

He offered her a sad smile. "Bye June." He said as he pulled her into his arms and kissed her forehead.

Emmett, who I had already ordered not to beg on Edward's behalf, pulled her into his thick arms. "Bye bluebells," he said as he crushed her to him.

"Bye Sexy Mr. Tickles," she laughed as he let her go.

She walked over to Alice and I, and handed me a letter with Edward's name written on it.

"We didn't talk much. I think it would have just made it too real. So I wrote it down, can you give it to him when I...when I leave?" She choked out.

"Yes, "I answered, taking the letter.

I watched as she blinked away the tears. "I love you guys…so much."

Alice and I pulled her into a group up. "We love you," we answered in unison, something that happened a lot with three of us. We knew each other so well, that sometimes, words weren't needed. I remembered all the times when we would talk of how we would all grow old together, in a big house, with thirty cats which were all called, Whiskers.

"Bella!" The bastard barked at her.

"Okay." She answered through her teeth as she pulled away.

"Call us when you get there, and like, a thousand times a day after that," Alice laughed sadly.

She nodded, a tear escaping, no matter how hard she tried to hold them back.

Before she got into the car, I saw her look over at the guy's cabin. She took a deep breath and turned, when we all heard a door crash open.

Bella whirled around, we all did, and saw Edward running toward her. I watched as he picked her up off of her feet and held her tight.

"I love you. Always," He whispered and Bella sobbed.

"And I'll always love you." She answered.

He placed her back onto her feet and framed her face with his hands and kissed her so tenderly, I think it brought tears to even Emmett's eyes. He whispered something in her ear and then smiled down at her.

"Bye, Love," he whispered.

"Bye you," she answered, her voice shook and her bottom lip trembled.

"Don't," he said as he wiped away her tears. "Don't be sad."

She sobbed again, then kissed him on the cheek and ran to the car.

I knew why she had run. Because if she hadn't, she couldn't have made herself leave. Emmett's arms wrapped around me as I watched her drive away and he held me as I sobbed into his chest.

"It's going to be okay, Baby," He promised.

I shook my head against his chest. "No. No it's not."

I pulled away, looking at Jasper holding a sobbing Alice in his arms, trying to soothe her. And Edward was gone.

I held the letter in my hands and took a deep breath as I entered the guy's cabin and made my way to his room. He was there, sitting on the edge of his bed with his head in his hands. He looked so alone. I heard the others coming up the stairs. He didn't look up.

EPOV

She's gone. That was the only thought that I had. The girl I loved was gone.

"Edward?" I heard Rosalie say hesitantly, from the door.

I slowly looked up into her blue eyes. They were red and puffy.

"Bella," she started. "She told me to give this to you." She continued and handed me an envelope.

I took it and opened it with shaking hands and read Bella's words to me.

Edward,
Do you remember the first time we had breakfast together? It was the morning after me and girls crashed at yours. Drunk, I might add. I remember sitting there and thinking about how sweet you were, and funny. That morning I got to see a side of you I had never seen before, and it petrified me.
From the first moment I saw you, I have been out of my mind crazy about you. Even though it may not seem that way right now. I always told you that the reason I wasn't sure about starting a relationship with you, was due to your history with women, but, that was only half the reason. The other half was that I knew I would fall in love with you. I knew that you would steal my heart and make it yours forever. And you did.
I think I have loved you since I first looked into your eyes at the gym. As cheesy as that may sound, it's true.
I was afraid because I knew this day would come. I knew the day would come when I would have to say goodbye to you. I know you may not understand why I have to leave. Hell, even I don't. All I do know is that, despite my feelings, I made a promise. Jacob has been through so much. He's lost so much. I can't add my betrayal to that list.
Please know that I will never regret a single second of my time with you. Even the times that weren't so great. When we weren't sure if we even had a future.
Edward, please know that it's not you. I know it's a clichéd break up line. But it's the truth. You are so amazing. You're smart, fun, witty, and unbelievably sexy, but most of all, you have the most amazing heart. Yes, sometimes you go in, guns blazing, acting first and asking questions later, but that's only because you feel things with such intensity.
Edward being loved by you is the greatest honor I will have. I wish... I wish someone had told me when I sixteen that one day I would meet you. I would have waited. I would have waited for you. So nothing could possibly take away what I have now, you, and my life here at Jenkins.
I can only hope that one day in the future, that you can be happy. You deserve it more than anyone. Don't close yourself off again, Edward. The woman who gets to spend the rest of her life with you, is the luckiest woman in the world. How I wish it could have been me.
I love you, Edward.
In a way, I hate those words because they don't adequately describe just what I feel for you. Know that my heart belongs to you. It always will.
I love you. I'll miss you so much. I hope one day you can forgive me.
Yours always,

Bella.

I dropped the letter onto the bed as a red haze descended over me. And I just... trashed the place. There was so much anger in me…so much pain. I just had to get it out.

Why did this have to happen? Was it Karma? I used and broke girl's hearts, and now the universe was getting even?

As I smashed my room, all I saw was Bella. The first time I'd seen her, the first we kissed. When she looked up at me with such love in her eyes, and then, when she'd gotten the call from her father, how she'd been so pale and scared. How her lips had trembled as she cried. When she had run to the car before she completely broke down.

Everything hurt and I couldn't breathe. I couldn't think. I just wanted something else to feel the pain that I was in. I was about to smash the TV when I heard them

"Edward."

I turned to see Alice and Rosalie and my anger disappeared. I saw the looks in their eyes, and I knew someone else did feel that pain. They had just said goodbye to their 'sister'. They were going through it, too and I was scaring them.

"I'm sorry," I whispered as I pulled them into my arms and just let go. I let the pain take me, and I didn't know if I was going to resurface.

A/N: So, Bella's gone. I cried more writing this than I probably have in my entire life. Why didn't I write it in Bella's POV you ask? Because, I cannot justify why she left, I have never understood it, I have never agreed with it. I'm not a selfless person. I wanted her with Edward and I won't be happy until she is. I'll update soon. Please review and let me know what you think.