Book 2 – Chapter 2: Gone

Edward pulls me away from everything in the cafeteria the next week to a lonely bench. He sighs and looks at me, but I refuse to look at him. "Bella…" he says with a hint of regret. "I need to talk to you. It's important" he says and I sigh. "Carlisle and everyone's left town. I leave tonight" he says and I suck in a breath.

"I'm coming with you" I say and he frowns before shaking his head. "I don't understand. We belong together. We're mates." I say as I attempt to grab his hand but he rejects me… "Edward…" I say and he frowns. "Don't leave me here" I say and I for the first time in weeks, look into his eyes.

"I…Bella I…don't love you anymore" he says and I stop breathing. What? But we are mates.

"But…" I start and he looks back into my eyes. "We are mates. We can't" I say and he frowns.

"Tanya…I think she's my mate. You…you've just fallen for someone who you've attached yourself to because we have the same…condition." He says and I shake my head.

"I love you Edward. Please don't…" I say and he frowns.

"Bella…I'm sorry but…it's over. Don't do anything reckless, and I'll make it seem like I never existed " he says and I try to resist the urge to cry. He stands up and walks away, leaving me alone. Suddenly Angela walks up to me and starts talking but she stops when she realises that I'm not listening.

"Bella" Angela says and I jump before looking at her. "Are you ok? You seem really out of it?" she asks me and I take another shaky breath in. "What happened? Why did Edward leave you all alone?" she asks me and I look at her.

"He…He…He's gone" I say and she frowns.

"He's moved yeah, but surely since you two are really solid you'd still be together right?" she asks me and I frown.

"I thought we were solid too" I mumble and she gasps loudly.

"He didn't…I thought you two would be ending up married together and everything" she says and I shake my head.

"He said he didn't love me anymore" I say and she frowns. "He said it was also because he had to move with his family. Alice was planning for us to be together until the end of time. She even got together wedding plans just in case" I mumble and she frowns.

"Will you come back to school?" she asks me and I shrug.

"Probably not…I don't want any reminders of him." I say and she frowns.

"Where is one place where you don't have a reminder of him?" she asks me and I frown.

"The…reservation…Jake" I say and she nods.

"There's your answer. Spend some time there" she says and I smile sadly.

"Thank you Angela. I'm glad I have you" I say and she grins.

"No problems. You should probably explain it to Charlie" she says and I nod. She was right. He knew more about my kind than she did. I could safely confine in Charlie and Jacob. So that's what I did. I drove home after lunch, wanting no reminders that would make anything more obvious.

"I'm home" I say and Charlie appears and turns to see me.

"Home early? You wag?" he asks me and I nod. "Edward left" he said as he shows me a note.

Charlie,

Take care of Bella for me. Make sure she doesn't do anything reckless or selfless.

Edward Cullen.

"He left? When?" he asks me and I frown.

"The…middle of lunch…he ended it" I sob dryly and he frowns as he pulls me into a comforting hug.

"I wish he wasn't bullet proof" Charlie mutters darkly. "He promises he'd never hurt you…but he has" he whispers and I frown.

"He promised you that?" I ask him and he nods with a frown.

"Yeah" he says and I sob.

Edward. My bronze haired, pale faced, golden eyed, talented angel was never to return.

He broke my father's promise.

"He said he didn't love me…he even said at one point. 'I want to be married to you first'…" I say and Charlie picks up on the subject on where my quote came from and he frowns. "I'm going to go hunt" I say and he nods before looking into my charcoal black eyes.

"Good idea" he says and I nod as I walk out the door and into the forest, where I take out all the grief on some innocent animals… but then I feel the pain from him leaving and break into the dry sobs and sink on the ground. Is this what it felt like to lose someone you loved? Vampires mate, and I knew I had a mate, and it was Edward… I sobbed as I climbed into the window of my room where I look for the disc Edward had gotten me of his pieces of music to find it missing. I frown and look for everything I got for my birthday but find nothing, the only thing that I knew presented the fact that he was still here was the radio. I walk over to the truck and frown at it. Too upset and unwilling to rip it out I get a blanket and cover it. I open my computer once I'm inside to find that the pictures were indeed, gone. Not even in the trash bin. They were gone. I frown and sob as I start to type Alice my email.

Alice,

The pain is unbearable. I still can't believe he left me…and you all did too… you were the person who felt to me like a sister I never had and Esme another mother as what my mother was supposed to be. I loved all of you, as siblings…but how could you leave?

All my reminders are gone. All except the radio in my truck…I asked to come with you, but he denied for me to come. I wish I could see you and confined in you… Charlie doesn't get what I'm going through.

It's like a huge hole in my heart has grown in the space of an hour. Please respond soon.

Love Bella.

I press send and after it says sent, then it says undelivered. What was happening? Why did it say sent for a second before saying undelivered? I tried Alice's spare email, in case of emergencies. It did the same thing again. I sigh and pick up my book and laying on the bed.

(A/N: Sorry that it's so short! The next chapter might be like that too. I keep getting way too many brain waves LOL)

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