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Chapter 3

Age 5

Bella and Edward had, had the best day that either of them could ever remember having. They had gone to the circus and had each rode a pony. They had seen the clowns and when Bella started to cry Edward had held her hand until they had gone away. They had seen the elephants and both laughed loudly when one of the huge animals had started to pee. After eating popcorn and ice cream their parents took their tired children home. In the car on the way home Bella slept while Edward tiredly listened to his parents laugh and joke about one day Edward and Bella getting married.

What none of them even considered was not being there to see it. When, in fact, only one of them would live to see that day.

While their parents ate dinner at Bella's home the two children slept side by side on her bed. When they awoke many hours later Edward gripped her hand in his and whispered "One day we'll get married"

Bella smiled sleepily and replied "You promise?"

"I promise" Edward answered.

Present-Age 20

Bella's POV

I walked around campus, looking everywhere for a sign of Edward but I didn't see him anywhere.

Why was he here? He was supposed to be thousands of miles away from here. Seriously what were the chances we would be attending the same college?

After giving up, I hurried to the place I had agreed to meet Alice and Rose. They were already waiting there for me when I arrived.

"Hey Bella" Alice said excitedly "What do you feel like for…"

She stopped talking when she saw the look on my face "Bella? Are you okay?"

"Can we sit down first?" I asked urgently.

They both nodded and we took a seat.

I looked at Rose intently "You said you thought the guy in my photo looked familiar?"

She nodded looking slightly confused "Yeah but I must have been wrong right? You said he wasn't anywhere near here"

I dropped my face in my hands.

"Bella" Alice said worriedly as she tightly gripped my shoulder.

"I saw him today" I mumbled into my hands.

"So I did recognise him" Rose said quietly.

"You must have seen him around campus" I looked back up at them.

Alice looked a little perplexed "Um Bella so what's the story with him"

I looked down at the table and took a deep breath and told them the brief version.

"I've known Edward all my life. Our parents were friends and we've been best friends ever since we were born. We both didn't make many friends during school so we mostly just stuck together" I looked up at them and saw that they were listening with interest.

"He was there for me when my mum died when I was ten. We started dating when we were sixteen and I…I loved him so much it hurt. When we were seventeen his… his parents died in a plane crash and he had to go live with his aunt" I shut my eyes as I remembered saying goodbye to him.

"We promised to stay together and when he was eighteen he would come back and we could be together again. We emailed and talked on the phone all the time and then one day his emails stopped…it was weeks until he finally replied" I felt the tears start to well up in my eyes "His email said he didn't want to be together anymore and that it was over. I didn't believe it but when I rang him I knew it was true"

Alice and Rose both looked at me with concern.

"Did he ever tell you why it was over" Rose asked.

I shook my head sadly "He just said he couldn't do it anymore"

Alice and Rose comforted me and offered me words to try and make me feel better like how he was a jerk and that I deserved better but in my heart I knew that, that wasn't true. Edward was all I knew and all I wanted to know.

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That night as I lay in bed with my shirt pressed against my nose, I went over in my head what had happened. As I thought about it more, I started to remember what Edward and my professor had been talking about. I remembered Edward saying something about being sorry he had missed class.

I sat up when I realised he must be in the class with me and for some reason had missed It today. So hopefully I would see him tomorrow.

That night I went to sleep with a new feeling that I hadn't felt in a very long time…hope.

I woke up early and got dressed planning on getting to class early so that I would have plenty of time to talk to Edward before class. I dressed in my white and blue shirt which Edward had always liked and a pair of blue jeans.

I grabbed a quick coffee and practically ran to class. I was about half an hour early so I sat outside on a bench and waited for Edward to show. My foot was tapping and my hands were shaking I was so nervous. Especially since he had ran away the last time I had seen him.

The minutes past slowly and there were no sign of him. I waited outside until everyone else had already entered. I sighed and go up and followed them inside. Maybe he wasn't coming. I sat in the same seat as I had the previous day and flopped down in my seat feeling dejected.

The professor was about to start speaking when the door was opened softly and Edward walked through the door.

My breath caught in my throat at the sight of him. He was dressed in a black hoody and blue jeans. He nodded slightly at the professor and walked across the room. His posture was stiff and he seemed to be concentrating way too hard on looking forward. Look at me I thought dammit look at me.

I had to use a tremendous amount of self control not to jump to my feet and wave my arms around and scream at the top of my lungs.

His eyes stayed straight ahead and he went and sat right across the room. He was further forward then I was so I was able to see him from where I was sitting. He sat by himself, with his shoulders slightly hunched as he wrote something in his notebook. When he wasn't writing he was looking straight ahead, intently listening to the lecture.

Why was he acting like this? I sat a pondered this the whole lesson as I stared at him.

The lecture was over before I knew it and I realised I hadn't heard a word. I packed up my books quickly hoping I would catch up to him before he left. But by the time I had hurried down the stairs he had left. He must have practically run out.

I walked across campus trying to hold back my tears. Why was he doing this to me? Didn't he know how much this would hurt?

I walked back to my dorm to drop of my books feeling incredibly depressed. Emmett and Jasper where sitting with Rose and Alice on the couch when I walked in.

"Hey" I mumbled and dropped my books on my bed.

"Hey" Alice chirped happily "I hope you don't mind but we told Emmett and Jasper about Edward"

I shook my head, not having the energy to even care.

"We thought that maybe they might know him"

"Yeah, do you mind showing us the picture?" Jasper asked.

I shook my head again, I walked over to my suitcase and dug the frame out from the bottom and handed it to him.

Jasper and Emmett looked at it closely. Jasper shook his head but Emmett's eyes lit up with recognition.

"Do you know him" I asked with interest

"Yeah" he said nodding "He's in one of my classes"

"Are you friends" Rosalie asked.

Emmett shook his head "He's really quiet. I've barely heard him speak a word, he seems really reserved"

I sat down on the bed thinking this over. This wasn't the Edward I knew and remembered. Three years ago nobody would have described him as quiet and reserved. Had he changed that much?

"He has lots of days off too" Emmett added and I had another thing to add to the unsolved mysteries about Edward. Why would he have lots of days off?

Age 16

Bella was frowning at her boyfriend as they sat in his silver Volvo.

"Stop yelling at me" she said angrily stomping on the brakes so hard they both jolted forward.

He brushed his hands through his hair and sighed in annoyance "Bella be gentle"

"I'm trying" she hissed.

"Okay" he said trying to be patient "So you ease off on the clutch and push the accelerator gently in"

She rolled her eyes at him and slowly let the clutch go but it wasn't slow enough because the car started jumping forward.

"Bella!" Edward yelled in frustration.

"What?" she screamed back "I'm tyring and you yelling at me is not helping" she pulled the hand break on and started reaching for the door but Edward grabbed her hand and stopped her.

"Belly, I'm sorry" he said regretfully.

She turned back around and frowned at him.

"Look if I promise not to yell will you try again?" he asked rubbing her hand gently.

She nodded.

"Okay I promise"

She started the car again and he talked her through each step patiently and slowly until she was driving along smoothly.

She started grinning as she changed the gears and drove without stalling.

"See? your doing great" Edward said excitedly.

She threw him a beautiful smile.

Edward started rolling his window down and pushed his head out.

"Edward? What are you…" she started to ask but was mortified when he started yelling out the window.

"SEE HOW GOOD MY HOT GIRLFIREND IS AT DRIVING? ISNT SHE JUST THE BEST…" he was cut off when Bella punched him in the shoulder.

Her face was red as she watched the people outside the car staring at them in amusement.

"Edward" she hissed but he just laughed and after a moment she joined in.

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