AN: I am so sorry that this chapter has taken so long to get out but school has claimed me at the moment. The extreme guilt was what made me put aside my extremely annoying Australian studies essay in order to give you this chapter.

I would also like to thank everybody who has taken the time to read this story.

Disclaimer: Don't own it.

I stared at Edward and the beautiful blonde. He had moved on already, but so had I hadn't I? I could feel the eyes of everyone in the room on me. When I glanced over at Alice I could see the pity and sadness in her eyes. Suddenly I was fuming I refused to be pitied. So instead of breaking down and crying hysterically like I wanted to, I plastered on a smile and approached Edward.

"Hello Edward, it's nice to see you." I said cheerfully. Confusion and what looked to be sadness flashed across his usually perfectly composed face.

"Hello Bella, it's great to see you too." He looked over at the blonde.

"This is Tess." He said. Tess huh, now I had a new least favourite name.

"Hi Tess, it's nice to meet you, I'm Bella." I said sticking my hand out for her to shake.

She smiled sweetly at me.

"It's nice to meet you too Bella." She said shaking my hand. Great she seemed nice, now what was my excuse to hate her?

"So Bella, when can we go shopping?" Alice asked bouncing over to us. I groaned.

"Alice I just got here and already you want to torture me?" I whined.

"Oh Bella don't be such a drama queen." She said the look on her face stern. I sighed.

"I'm fighting a losing battle here aren't I?" I asked.

"Yes." She said smiling broadly.

"Fine."

"I'll go get my car."

Three hours and a whole lot of shopping later Alice and I were driving back the Cullen's place. My mind had been on nothing but Edward and Tess the entire time. I couldn't understand that if what Nate had said was true wasn't Edward suppose to still love me. It didn't look it though. I sighed, who was I kidding Edward didn't love me.

Edward's Pov

I sat in the living room with Tess and my family minus Alice and Bella. Nate had left earlier to get a start on his holiday.

Seeing Bella again had pried open wounds I had tried desperately to close. Her reaction to Tess was what had torn an even bigger hole in my heart, she did not seen to care that I had moved on. The love I felt for Bella had hit me in waves when I had seen her again. I wondered briefly if she could ever love me again, if I could convince her to take me back. No, I did not need Bella; I needed no one but Tess.

Alice's Pov

"So what do you think of Tess?" Bella asked me as we drove home. I glanced over at her and could see the many conflicted emotions on her face. Relief flooded through me, so she did still love him.

"I really don't know, I mean she seems nice." I answered truthfully.

"Yeah, that's what I was afraid of." She muttered quietly not meaning for me to hear but forgetting about my vampire hearing.

When we returned home, we spent the evening sitting in the living room and catching up on what we had all been up to this past year. Bella told us about forks and what everybody at Forks high had been up to. When she mentioned that she had befriended werewolves, none of us could believe it and sat staring at each other in horror. Bella just laughed.

Bella's Pov

The looks on the Cullen's faces when I told them about Jake and the rest of the wolves were just priceless. The only thing I did not tell them was my reaction to their leaving and about Victoria and Laurent.

"Well I should go to bed now." I said. They all said goodnight and I headed up to the room Alice had told me would be mine. Closing the door behind me, I slumped to the floor and let out a breath. I had sat and watched Edward and Tess interact with one another, the playful flirting, the hidden touches, the sweet kisses. It was all getting to me and all I wanted to do was scream.

A week had gone by and so far, I had survived. I hadn't been alone with Edward at all which made it easier when every time I saw him all I wanted to do was kiss him.

I collapsed on my bed, tired from the endless acting. I must have fallen asleep as I was daydreaming about Edward coming to my room and begging me to take him back, when the buzzing of the cell phone I had acquired about a month ago alerted me to the fact that someone was calling.

"Hello." I answered.

"Bella?" It was Jake, he sounded upset.

"Jake, are you ok?" I asked.

"Bella, I need to tell you something."

"So tell me."

"Not on the phone."

"Please Jake, just tell me." He sighed.

"I… Embry's cousin came to visit."

"So?" I asked, completely baffled as to why this was so important. Then suddenly I realised. Jacob had imprinted.

"You've imprinted?" I said. It wasn't a question.

"I'm so sorry Bella."

"I have to go." I told him.

"Bella wait please…" I hung up on him suddenly desperate for fresh air. I flung open the bedroom door and raced down the stairs, and out the front door. I knelt on the porch, suddenly grateful the Cullen's had decided to go hunting. I started to cry, really cry. It wasn't that Jake was the love of my life, or that I really felt bad that he had imprinted. Infact I was glad he had someone else. No truth is I cried because I was hurt, I had been left again, I cried because Edward had left me, he had forgotten me. I don't know how long I knelt there, but I suddenly became aware of two cold stone-like arms hugging me close to their hard chest.

AN: Chapter 11. I'll give you three guesses as to who it is :P I'm not sure when the next update will be but I'm hoping it'll be this weekend.