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EPOV

It had been a few hours since I discovered the truth. The woman I had believed to be the love of my life was a fraud, a false imitation of my darling Violet.

It killed me to think of how similar Bella and Violet truly were. It was as if the moment my love died her soul transferred to this petulant seventeen year old child. Before my mother Elizabeth passed she told me that no one ever truly dies. Their soul can live forever in the heart of someone else. Perhaps Bella was the reincarnation of the love that I was never able to pursue.

No, I yelled at myself in my mind. It cannot be possible, it could never be possible. I was not worthy of such an amazing woman. I was a monster, a demon that was doomed to haunt this earth for eternity. Bella was merely a fantasy within my mind. I had to give her up, I had to leave her. She was not mine to protect. In fact, she was nothing to me now.

"Edward," Alice said softly. She slowly appeared from the darkness and walked towards the couch where I had been sitting for a couple hours now. "Edward, please talk to us. Shunning your family with not help you deal with this grief. You need to express it."

"Express it," I began to spat with anger. "Alice you don't understand. It was bad enough having to deal with the loss of Violet. Every day I had to live with the fact that I would never be able to see her again. She had been taken away from me the same time my life was taken away." I pointed toward the midnight sky that was covered in stars. "She was taken where she always belonged. She is in heaven, a place I am doomed to never see."

"It doesn't have to be that way," Alice told me. "You have Bella now. You said yourself that she is everything you ever remembered Violet to be. Maybe Bella is the second chance that you were never granted. Perhaps she was brought into this world so that she could mend your broken heart."

"I have no heart Alice," I roared. "She took my heart the day she died. I am a heartless villain that deserves nothing but pain and despair. That is the price I have to pay for loving her." Alice shook her head back and forth.

"Why must you be so masochistic," she asked me. "Why can you not just accept the fact that Bella loves you and you love her?"

"You cannot love someone that you do not know Alice," I told her. "It is impossible." Not entirely impossible, Alice thought. I've seen the way you look at her Edward. I've also seen the change she's brought within you. During these last couple of days I've seen more of a change in you than I've seen in the decades that I have known you.

"I was laboring under a false hope Alice," I said darkly. "Violet is dead and the fault is my own. Bella may be a part of her but I refuse to let her be a part of me. Bella will live. She will live the live she was intended to, a life without me."

"But Edward," Alice began to say. Just as she spoke my phone started to vibrate in my pocket. I cautiously grabbed it before starring at the number in awe. It was Bella. For some reason I could not resist answering it. The moment I pressed the phone to my ear I could hear her labored breathing. She was upset, she was scared.

"Hello," I answered trying to maintain a normal tone.

"Edward," Bella began to cry. "I…I..." Hearing her tearful voice brought a deeper sense of dread to my heart. How could I stay away from Bella when she needed me so?

"Bella what's wrong," I said with a concerned voice. It was impossible for me not to care. I was too involved now. The sound of Bella's trembling breaths finally ceased.

"I need you," she said with perfect clarity. "Please, please come get me." Alice starred at me with a look of shock upon her face. She had already seen my plan to rescue Bella. I had made my decision even before she asked me the question. I would bring her home, I would make her safe, and then I would leave her.

"I'm on my way Bella," I told her. "Don't move." I quickly snapped my phone shut and grabbed my keys.

"Edward don't," Alice begged attempting to grab my arm. "Don't this to her. You can't just leave now. She needs you just like you need her."

"I have do this Alice," I said with strength. "I told you before; I refuse to make the same mistake twice." With that I loosed her grip and raced towards my car. When I arrived at the boundary line I found Bella crouched in the fetal position against a tree. Tears were streaming down her face until she caught sight of me.

"Edward," she called out. You have to do this, I told myself. Think of her, think of Violet, do what you set out to do.

BPOV

I sat in the corner of the woods waiting for Edward. I could not stop the tears from shaking my body. Images of Jacob holding me closely and whispering sweet nothings into my ear continued to play over and over in my mind like a sadistic movie.

I had been so stupid. I had convinced myself that Jacob was a good guy, someone who actually cared about me. Of course I was wrong, what was new? I had been making mistake after mistake since the moment I arrived. Jacob had only used me for his own sick pleasure. He was a player and I was surprised I had not seen that sooner. Since the day I was born I had always been a good judge of character.

I continued to cry until I saw the familiar lights of Edward's Volvo illuminate the darkness. I rose from the ground quickly and called out his name. All I wanted was for him to encase me into his arms. I wanted him to tell me that everything would be okay. For the first time in my life I actually needed someone, the very thought of this terrified me.

As Edward stepped out of his car I found myself running towards him. Just as I was about to reach him he held out his hand to stop me.

"Get in the car Bella," he said with a stiff tone. His face held an expression of anger and pure anguish. The tone of his voice was laced with warning.

"But Edward," I began to say.

"Please Bella," he cut me off, "just get into the car." I could see that so much had changed, and so abruptly. Change was coming. I could feel it. "We need to talk." He walked around me careful not to touch me and opened my car door. Once we were inside I began to breathe deeply. I hadn't noticed until now that I had been holding my breath for quite some time.

"Okay, let's talk," I said. I attempted to sound brave but I could see it was frivolous. Edward took a deep breath before turning to face me.

"Bella," he said with a straight face, "I wanted to tell you that I am leaving." My stomach began to churn at his words. "I plan to leave for Europe in a few days."

"What," I said breathlessly. "What do you mean you're leaving? You just got her Edward, you can't leave."

"Please Bella," he said with a false tone. "Do not tell me what I can and cannot do. You and I are not friends. You have no right to advise me." I closed my eyes for a second trying to see past his words. Why was he doing this?

"I thought we were friends," I said with a surprisingly calm tone. "You told me that…"

"I never said anything," he cut me off once more. "Alice wanted to be your friend Bella, not me. I never had the desire to be your friend."

"What are you talking about," I asked in confusion. "If you didn't want to be friends then why have you been acting so protective of me? Why did you even give me the illusion that you actually cared?" He had to be lying. None of this was real. It just couldn't be.

"You gave yourself that illusion," he said.

"That isn't true," I said quickly. "Edward you cannot honestly tell me that you do not care for me. I can see it."

"You are delusional Bella," he laughed haughtily. "I mean what was I supposed to do? One afternoon I walk out of class with my sister to see a suicidal girl running towards her death in woods. I feared for your sanity Bella, so I agreed with Alice that we should pretend to be your friends. I did not know that you would latch onto me like this." His words were cold and his eyes were unapologetic.

"Don't," I told him. "Don't do this Edward."

"Don't tell me what to do," he said angrily. "You have no right to do so. You are a deranged psychopath who needs some serious help. I will drive you home Bella but after that I never wish to see you again. Do you understand me?" My body felt numb with disbelief. I felt as if I were living in one of my nightmares.

I loved Edward, it was so stupid of me but I did. I somehow managed to fall in love with someone in two days. I also managed to convince myself that he felt the same way. Perhaps he was right, maybe I was delusional.

"If that is what you want," I said slowly. "I only hope that you will be happy."

"Thank you Bella," he said with yet another fake smile. "I also have one more request. Please refrain from speaking to my family. I fear for their safety if you do not." I could only manage to nod my head at his heartless words.

"Good then," he said before he started the car. As he drove me home neither of us spoke. I could see a glimmer of un-relinquished pain in his cold, black, distant eyes as we pulled into my driveway.

"Goodbye Bella," he said as I opened my door. I took a deep breath and looked towards him for the last time.

"Goodbye Edward," I said with as much strength and dignity as I could muster. I walked quickly towards the door and unlocked the door with the spear key that was hidden under the rug. The moment I closed the door was the moment I fell to the ground. Tears began to pour from my eyes, but no sound escaped my mouth. I was numb and I feared that was how I would stay. My life was over. Everything was over.

EPOV

Words could not begin to express the pain I was feelings. Losing Bella was like losing Violet all over again. As I told Bella that I thought she was insane I couldn't help but think the same about myself. How could I allow her to slip away when I was dying to hold her? I wanted her to be mine, but I knew that could never be possible.

Images of her face chased away all the sanity within me. My life once again held no meaning. What had I done? Why had I just allowed myself to lose the one good thing that had happened to me in ninety years? Her presence never left my mind. No matter whom she was or what she was. I still loved her and that would never change.

"Edward," Carlisle addressed me as he entered my room. After I left Bella I decided to come home. I would uphold my words and depart for Italy in only a few days but I could not find the will nor the desire to leave just yet. You cannot stay in here forever, Carlisle thought. Just go to her.

"I can't," I said running my hands through my hair. "I can't do that to her Carlisle. She had suffered enough because of me. I have no other choice. I have to leave." Carlisle starred at me momentarily with a questionable expression.

"Then we will go with you," he told me. "If you leave then we all leave."

"I can't ask you to do that," I told him with a sudden feeling of guilt. "You all have lives here. Carlisle you have your job to consider. I can't ask you to give up everything because of a mistake I made."

"You don't have to ask Edward," Carlisle said placing his hand on my shoulder. "This isn't the first time we have had to do this. Think of your brother's and sister's. They have all made mistakes as well but when they asked you to leave and to change your life, you did it without question."

"That was different," I interjected.

"How so Edward," Carlisle questioned me.

"Because I don't know if I can just leave," I confessed. "I know it is what I have to do but I do not know if I have the strength to do it." I hung my head in looked away from my father. "It is hopeless. I cannot be near her, but at the same time I cannot be away from her."

"It is not hopeless," Alice said as she entered my room. "There is one option Edward, but it would be your decision."

"Tell me Alice," I said not able to handle the anticipation. "Tell me what it is."

BPOV

It was just a dream, I told myself. It couldn't be real. Edward would never say those things to me. He loves me. I continued to tell myself that as my body woke from its amnesia like state. I continued to pray that it was just all a dream. Perhaps I had never even left Arizona. Maybe coming to Forks and meeting the Cullen's was just a nightmare, a beautiful, heart wrenching nightmare.

As time continued to pass, my senses once again became present. I could feel something cold against my cheek. My body was stiff and achy from staying in the same position for far too long. My face was taut with previously fallen tears.

I slowly opened my eyes to find that what I thought to be a dream was actually my reality. I found myself lying on the cold tile that surrounded the front door. There was no denying that was in Forks. I heard the rain pound against the tin roof above my head. Other than that everything was silent.

I picked myself up from the ground and tried to hold back the pain. During the night his face had haunted my once pleasant dreams. It seemed so unreal to me that only yesterday Edward had been mine, or at least I thought he had been mine.

I must be crazy, I thought to myself. I gave every ounce of my heart and soul to a complete and total stranger. Because of this Edward and his family would forever think of me as insane. I was positive that on Monday Alice would tell everyone of crazy mistakes. By Tuesday I would be known as the town nutcase.

As I entered my room I heard my cell phone begin to ring. I reached into my pocket and pulled it out. Charlie was calling me. I pressed the ignore button and threw my phone on my bed. It was then that I realized how much trouble I was sure to face when my father came home.

I had just deserted Jacob in the middle of the dance floor. I then proceeded to run away without telling anyone where I was going. The only person who knew where I was was Edward. By now I figured he had already boarded his plane and was well on his way to Italy.

My phone continued to ring as I collapsed onto my un-made bed. I pulled the covers over my head begging for sleep to come. Suddenly a loud sound came from the front of my house. Someone was pounding on the door relentlessly.

I ran towards the sound as quickly as I could. My heart soared with hope. Could it be Edward? Had he come back for me? Was he here to apologize? I ripped open the door practically tearing off the hinges. A smile lit up my face for a brief moment until I saw that the person standing outside my door was not Edward, it was Jacob.

"Hello Bella," he greeted me.

"Jacob," I said breathlessly. "What are you doing here?" He stepped towards me and lightly pushed me out of the doorway. He then closed the door.

"I have a proposition for you," he said matter of factly. "If you care anything about Edward's safety I suggest you hear me out." I felt my breath hitch in the back of my throat. Edward was in danger and I would do anything to save him.

What is Jacob's proposition? What is Edward's only option? If you want to find out then review. I plan on updating on Tuesday if all goes well. Thanks for reading!