And because I refuse to be eaten here is the next chapter:)

I began to pick up speed but as I rounded the corner, I ran headlong into a tall, dark figure. When we collided, I was sprawled across the concrete, staring up at the man before me.

"Bella?" he questioned.

NO! Not him, not here. It couldn't be. That voice, those bright blue eyes, that tangled mop of brown hair. He was too familiar. The boy who I had once found beautiful, who had once said he saw me the same way. But none of that was ever true. I was a fool to think that I could leave it all behind.

"Brent . . ." I whispered. As I stood up carefully from the cold ground. "What are you doing here?"

I felt dead. He wasn't supposed to find me here. All I ever wanted to do was forget him. Forget everything he had done. His broken promises, and the pain they had caused me. Was I just a magnet for unpleasant men like my mother before me? At least she had found one who had loved her but left him, making the worst mistake of her life.

I was not so lucky. No one ever cared for me. No one was there to hold my had when I was feeling down. No one was there when I needed them most. No one except Brent, or so I had thought. I was not so naive anymore. I knew that men couldn't be trusted.

"I came to see you Baby," he said just as quietly. A small smile rested on the lips I had once loved to kiss. Now, the mere thought of them made me sick.

"Don't call me that," I said, sharply. My short temper was starting to get the better of me. This was my one chance to start over and now he was here. Perfect. "You know we're done and you know why so just go away. Just please leave me alone."

"Come on you left without even saying goodbye to me," he was pouting now. I was simply becoming more pissed off with every passing second.

"Oh, I said goodbye to you all right." my voice was starting to grow louder in the sleepy silence of this small town. "Or didn't you get my note. I said all my goodbyes and the some. Unfortunately for me, my mom decided to come home from work early. So those goodbyes were not my last."

"What are you talking about Bella?" Brent was confused now.

"Come on! My mother didn't tell you? I'm surprised that most of Phoenix doesn't know by now. Or I suppose she wouldn't want to spread it around. Bad for her image. That was all she ever cared about."

"Spread what around," his voice was hesitant now. He honestly didn't know!

I shook my head disgustedly as I reached for my sleeves. Brent gasped aloud as I pushed them up to my elbows, revealing the scars on both of my wrists. The lone streetlight on the corner shone from above us, casting an eery shadow around us. For one moment the entire world stood still.

"THERE," I practically spat into his face. Hot tears were forming in my eyes now. My vision becoming blurred. "You see what you did to me? Thanks a lot, Brent. I'm done with you now!"

"But Bella," he faced the ground in apparent shame. His voice held sadness but now I could tell it was fake, just as it always was. "You said you loved me"

"And you said the same to me," fury was rolling off of me in waves now. I was drowning in it. "Then where did I find you the very next day? Oh, that's right! Down at Jim's party that you were supposed to pick me up for, groping some blonde slut on the dance floor! If that's love Brent, I don't want any part in it!"

My monolog was finished, my breathing heavy. The tears were streaming down my face now but I didn't care. He had led me on for so long. I had thought I loved him, I really had. Then my world was shattered by the one person I had dared to trust above all others.

"Bella, I told you," his voice was pleading, but I refused to give in. "I was drunk! She meant nothing to me! I love yསྭ"

"Save your crap for someone who will still believe it, Brent," as I spoke, I filled my words with all the malice I had ever felt towards him.

And with that I walked away from him. Back towards the house I had once been happy in. Now my life was pointless. I knew that nothing like this would ever happen again because no one else would ever know me like Brent did.

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