The words flashed through Edward's head like a flare. 'At least if I push him away know it will be easier to leave him tomorrow.' Rosalie's thoughts were quickly followed by Emmett stomping down the stairs and throwing himself into a chair. His normally carefree face was overclouded by a mask of sorrow.

"I don't know what I did wrong." He said in a defeated tone before laying back on the couch and closing his eyes, as if he could fall into sleep and relief. Yet, everyone in the room knew that would not happen, none of them had been able to lose their pain in the relief of sleep for many years.

It will crush him if I tell him she's leaving. Maybe she didn't mean it literally. Why wouldn't she tell him! She knows it will crush him if she leaves! Edward thought, the idea of Rosalie leaving without Emmett, leaving them to pick up the pieces of the shattered boy who know sat depressed on the chair across from him, made Edward furious at her. How could she? Yet, even as he felt the anger rise Edward knew it was not fair. He, himself had left Bella when he thought he was protecting her. But, just as he thought about the idea he cast it away. What could Emmett possibly need to be protected from? Nothing could stop his bear of a brother, and not to mention the fact that he was immortal. Edward sighed and picked himself up off of the couch, he couldn't stand it anymore. Rosalie's problems were Rosalie's problems and he wasn't going to spend the rest of the night listening to that stupid song playing over and over again in his head. "I'm going to Bella's!" He practically shouted with a little more force than he intended to, which caused his whole family to look at him like he was crazy. In a blink of an eye he was out the door and sprinting through the woods to Bella's house.

The light in Bella's room was still on and he cursed himself, he should have been there when she woke up. He jogged at a 'normal', in his case human, pace across the treeless clearing, before glancing around for specators and scaling the wall to her bedroom window. He slid the pane open and gracefully landed in her room.

"Hey, where were you?" Bella asked from where she sat on the computer chair.

"I thought you were asleep and I wanted to go home to see if Rose was home yet, you know to apologize." Edward replied, before walking over to wrap his arms around her shoulders and place his chin on the top of her head. "What are you doing?" He asked looking at the book titles that filled the screen.

"I had a nightmare and since I figured I couldn't go back to sleep I decided to look up some books Angela recommended. Charlie was planning on going to Port Angeles this weekend for some new fishing gear that they don't have here, he's really excited and I thought he could pick them up for me." Bella replied before closing out of the browser and standing up. She wrapped her arms around Edward and snuggled close to him. "So, was Rose home?"

"She was but when I got home she was blasting some kind of rock music and still in a dreadful mood. You know, Rosalie, she is a total bitch when she wants to be. Today, she wanted to be. She wouldn't even talk to poor Emmett. He sat in front of her door for like four hours. She just told him to leave." Edward said with more venom in his voice than he meant to.

Bella, shocked that Edward had called his sibling a bitch, a word she had never even heard him use before, finally recovered and took a good look at his face. She could see the confusion, worry and anger in his eyes and knew something else was wrong, something that he didn't understand. "Something else is bothering you. Something bad." She said, not exactly asking him to tell her but she knew he would.

Edward, hating how perceptive Bella was at that moment, glanced away from her expectant gaze. Should he tell her? What if he had taken Rose's thought out of context? What if she wasn't really leaving? With a sigh, he grabbed Bella's hand and led her to her bed. He collapsed onto the pillows and held out his arms. She folded into him and laid her head on his chest. "I heard Rose's thoughts, and I think she's leaving tomorrow." Edward said, his voice quiet.

"Leaving? Like never coming back, gone for good?" Bella asked, looking up at him.

"I don't know, and truly I don't care. If she feels that she can leave Emmett and if she's fine with that than who cares about her." Edward said with a growl, before he started humming Bella's lullaby.

I guess that is the end of that. Bella thought before closing her eyes and snuggling closer to Edward.

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Rosalie got up off the floor about three in the morning and started packing. She grabbed the largest of the suitcases from her closet and started throwing in clothes. She decided she would leave all her make up and beauty products, she would look her worst for Royce, he didn't deserve effort. Once she had all her clothes packed into her suitcase she grabbed all of the pictures of her and Emmett she could find and piled them into another bag. Royce may have her body but Emmett would always have her heart, and she decided that she would remind Royce of that every chance she got, even if she would have to live with the aching pain in her jaw that flared up with agonizing pain every time she moved it.

A few hours later she glanced at the clock, it was six and she could hear the other Cullen kids getting ready for school. Rose went over to her desk pulled out a piece of paper and quickly wrote:

I will always love you more than

anything in the world, Emmy

Rose 

She then hid noiselessly moved the desk, folded up the note and slid the piece of paper under the leg of the desk. Rose put the desk down, quickly threw on some clothes, grabbed her bags, and made sure the coast was clear before she sprinted down to the garage. She noticed Edward's car was already gone, he had to pick up Bella before school, and sighed in relief. She didn't want him walking in and see her throwing luggage into her car. She popped the trunk of the Lamborghini and slide the bags into it. She closed the trunk and walked back into the house. She could feel Emmett's eyes on her as she walked back up to her room, but she paid him no attention, except to turn her back on him as he moved to follow her. She could feel the hurt coming off of him in waves but she forced herself not to turn and run into his always forgiving arms, to tell him everything and let him take care of her, like he always did. No, that would only end in his death, and she wouldn't have that on her conscience. She knew Emmett better than anyone else, eventually he would forget her and move on. Maybe, he would even fall in love with a little slutty human like Edward did. This brought an evil grin to Rosalie's face, which she quickly flashed at Emmett. She hoped that if she was mean to him and made him hate her this last day, he would get over her that much sooner.

Rose waited in her room until the last possible second, she then ran down the stairs and got into her car. Guessing she wasn't going to school today, Jasper, Emmett, and Alice had driven to school in Emmett's jeep. Rosalie slammed her foot on the gas and squealed out of the garage. She sped all the way to the school, whipped into a parking spot and ran to class.

She was met by a surprised and extremely hurt look from Emmett as she stepped through the door of her first period class just as the bell rang. There were two seats open, one opposite of Emmett that everyone knew was hers and would never dare try to sit in and one on the far side of the class room near the front. Without a glance at Emmett, Rosalie walked over to the far side of the room and sat at the front of the class. She could hear the collective intake of breath from her fellow students and knew that there would be a million rumors flying around school before she even stepped out into the hallway at the end of class.

Rosalie felt Emmett's eyes on the back of her head and it took all her self control to keep her song playing in her head, hold back the sobs, and stare straight ahead. It was crushing her, not being able to comfort him when she knew how hurt he must be.

It was agony, sitting there the entire class period with Emmett's eyes boring holes in the back of her head.As soon as the bell rang, Rosalie jumped to her feet and ran out of the door. I can't take anymore of this. Now's the time to leave! She raced through the hallways and out into the parking lot. She jumped into her car and sped out of the parking lot. She didn't know where she would wait until it was time to meet Royce but she didn't care. She had to get away from here, she had to get away from the hurt looks of her family. She couldn't have the last thing she remembered about them was hurting them.

She drove for miles before pulling off at an exit and stopping at a mall. At least she could spend her time browsing in shops until it was time to meet Royce. That would have made Alice proud. She walked to the back of some dark and dinghy store, in a corner hidden from view and thought about what had happened. She guessed that she was far enough away from Edward that he wouldn't be able to hear her thoughts. She knew he must be miles away, sitting in class and holding hands with his little human like the good little boy he is.