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Last chapter

"It's healthy to ditch every now and then." He said grinning. He opened my door and gestured me to get in. I hesitated.

"Don't you trust me?" he asked, his face falling a little. I didn't hesitate before I replied.

"More than anybody else on the planet."

"Good." He said, his gorgeous crooked grin returning to where it belonged.

Bella's POV

"Are you going to tell me where we're going?" I asked after we had been walking through the woods for over an hour. When Edward had said we were going to 'just a place,' I hadn't realised that "place" was going to be in the middle of the woods.

"It'll spoil the surprise."

"Surprise? How do I know you're not taking me out into the middle of the woods to kill me?" I asked him smiling.

"Because." He began.

"Because?" I asked. He turned around to face me.

"Because then I would have to kill myself."

"And why would you have to do that?"

"Because I couldn't live in a world where you didn't exist." He said looking at me intently. "That and I could never live with myself knowing I had hurt you." Tears began to blur my vision.

"You barely know me." I told him softly. He nodded.

"I know that, but I can't help how I feel Bella. I- I think I love you..." I froze.

"I don't want to scare you away Bella." He reached out for my hand but I stepped away.

"Bella?" he questioned sadly.

"I'm sorry Edward, it's just everybody I've ever loved has left me."

"Bella, I'm never going-"

"Don't" I said cutting him off. "Please don't promise me that. You might mean it now but-. What I'm trying to say is, Edward if you told me that I would be completely broken when you left me."

"And what makes you think I'll leave?" he asked frustrated.

"Everybody does. What makes you any different?" he came over to me and grabbed hold of my shoulders.

"Didn't we just discuss this? You said you trust me more than anybody else on the planet. So what now you think I'm lying?"

"No, I don't think your lying. At least I don't think you realise you are. Edward you may not have any desire to leave me now, but one day you could."

"Bella I know that you haven't had a good life. But you have to realise that your parents didn't choose to leave you. They were forced to leave you. I'm not going to leave you Bella, not until the day you ask me to, and even then I won't leave without a fight." By now, I had really started to cry.

"Please Bella don't cry." He begged pulling me into his arms. I wrapped my arms around his neck and cried harder.

"Bella, Shh it'll be ok."

"How did I ever find you?" I asked. "Your so sweet." He chuckled and pulled me even closer.

"God I love you." He whispered into my ear. I sniffed.

"I love you too." He pulled away from me; on his face was a huge smile.

"Really?" I nodded. His smile grew as he pulled me back into his arms and kissed me deeply.

-xXx-

"Ok close your eyes." Edward instructed me several hours after we had begun to walk. I did as he said and closed my eyes.

"No peeking." I nodded. He started to lead me forward.

"Ok now you can open them." I opened my eyes and gasped, before me was the most beautiful meadow I had ever seen. It was small and perfectly round, and filled with wildflowers- violet, yellow, and soft white and somewhere nearby, I could hear the bubbling music of a stream.

"Do you like it?" Edward asked from beside me.

"It's beautiful." He smiled as he took my hand and led me over to sit down.

"How are you feeling?" he asked me after awhile. We were lying down in a patch of wildflowers; the sun was shining above us. I sighed.

"Perfect."

"I'm glad, but I meant about everything that's happened today. For example; the whole Lauren thing." I smiled; he was always taking care of me.

"I'm fine Edward, really."

"But what Lauren said was-"

"I know it was horrible, but I understand why she did it."

"Like there could possibly be a good enough explanation as to why she did what she did." He said beginning to get angry. I sat up.

"Before my dad died Lauren was my best friend." Confusion and shock filled his face.

"Why does that change things though?" he asked.

"After Victoria started to beat me, I began to distance myself from my friends. For most of them, pushing them away began to work, but not Lauren, she knew something was wrong and begged me to tell her. Eventually I did, I told her everything."

"So what happened?"

"She pleaded with me to tell her mum, anyone that could help me. I ended up giving her my permission to tell her mum. Her mum took me straight to the police. I remember that one of them came to talk to me. When she asked me if I was telling the truth, I got scared about what Victoria would do when she found out I had told the police, so I told her I had made the whole thing up."

"And Lauren was she mad because you didn't tell the truth?"

"No. she believed that I had really been lying. She told me she wasn't interested in being my friend after that, I had lied to her and embarrassed her mum. When I went back to school the next day, she had turned everybody against me. You know the funny thing is, even though she had told all the kids so many lies so they would hate me, she never told them the truth." I smiled at him. "

I'm sorry; I wish you never had to go through that."

I smiled at him

"But I did. So many people out there are going through worst things everyday. I'm just so grateful because I made it out alive, where not all of them get the chance to. I have you to thank for that, you gave me a second chance, you gave me hope. You're my prince charming." I smiled wider, tears filling my eyes again. He sat up and moved closer to me. Looking into each other's eyes; he reached up and brushed away the tear that had fallen on to my cheek.

"And you are my life Bella." He whispered.

AN: Well what do you think? Next chapter will be the court case. The description of the meadow was taken straight out of Twilight, Please review!