While You Loved Me

Author's Note: I'm on a roll with writing and I know that 4 chapters in a day is a bit much but being pregnant and on partial bed rest because of my legs, I have nothing but time to write. I just got the review saying that this story reminds someone of the Notebook. I was kind of going for that feel with this story only I plan to add a few things that Nicholas Sparks didn't write after the "remembering scene". I plan to do that scene a little different as well as possibly add one more scene where she remembers before the ending that will be like what Nicholas wrote. I hope you still stick with it though. ENJOY!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything, I just like playing with it all.

Chapter 9

Junior's POV

Bella left Pinhook Plantation with her mother and drove a while before stopping outside of a lumber yard on the outskirts of Pigeon Forge, about an hour from Gatlinburg. Bella was confused as to why her mother brought her there.

"Now before you say anything I want you to know that I love your father." Renee started.

"What do you mean, mother?" she asked.

"Bella, I love your father, let me finish. He's a good man and he's been a good husband to me." Renee started, tears threatening to spill from her eyes. Bella was confused as to why she was saying this and she was sure her face portrayed that emotion. "Do you see that man over there with the long blonde hair in a ponytail?" her mother asked and Bella nodded. "When we were 16, we fell in love. My parents hated him because he was from the wrong side of the tracks so to speak but we didn't care, we had plans to run away together and get married…start a family. I'll always regret letting him get away but I know if I hadn't I wouldn't have met your father or had you."

"What do you mean?" Bella asked.

"I mean, don't make the same mistakes that I did because your father and I are foolish people. You can't help who you love because when you love them you love them." She said "You just need to come to a decision Isabella because either way someone is going to get hurt. Now I would suggest you hurry with that decision because Edward was calling us worrying sick because he hasn't heard from you since the day you got here. That's one of the reasons I am here."

"I understand." Bella said and she watched as her mother looked over at the blonde man again.

"I don't even know who that man is anymore." She said softly before they drove back to the plantation. Before she left, Renee took a bundle of letters out of the trunk of the car and handed them to Bella. "Maybe these will help you come to a decision." She said before getting into the car and driving away.

Bella walked to the porch clutching the letters to her chest, the ones that Emmett wrote that her mother kept from her all these years. Emmett was sitting on the porch swing when she walked up. Bella took a seat beside him on the swing.

"Was that your mother?" he asked and Bella nodded "Are those my letters?"

"Yeah, turns out she kept them all from me." Bella said.

"What's wrong, Bells?" Emmett asked pulling her close.

"I have to go back to Atlanta." She said.

"Is it because of you mother? Bella you can't keep living your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts other people." Emmett said.

"Emmett, I'm engaged." Bella said "I have a fiancée waiting for me at home. I don't even know what I am going to tell him when I get there but I owe it to him to be honest with him."

"So that's it? You're just going to come here, make love to me all weekend and then go home to your husband?" Emmett said standing up, running a hand through his hair frustrated.

"Emmett it was never like that. When I came here, I never meant for things to get as far as they did. I just wanted to make sure you were ok." Bella said.

"So now you are saying that you regret your time with me…ok, I see how it is." Emmett said, fuming and pacing the porch.

"Emmett, it's not like that. I love you, I really do but I need to get back and figure out what I am going to tell Edward and even if I still want to be with him anymore." Bella said.

"I love you too, I just don't want you to go back to him." He said.

"Emmett, it's complicated." Bella said standing up.

"Love is complicated, Bella. You should know that but I love you and I know that what we have is worth it." He said "It's not going to be easy. It's going to be real hard. We're going to have to work at it every day but I want to because I want you. I want you forever."

"Emmett, I have to go." Bella said making her way to her car.

"FINE! But could you just do something for me Bella? Picture your life for me. 20 years down the line? 30 years down the line? If it's with him then go to him. I lost you once, I think I could do it again if I knew that's what you really wanted" Emmett yelled at her as she went to shut the door to her car. "Just don't take the easy way out."

"Goodbye Emmett" Bella said, tears streaming down her face as she back out of the driveway and out of his life.

Bella took off down the road, crying her eyes out because she walked out on the only man that ever held her whole heart. She was crying so hard she almost ran head first into another truck. She pulled over to try to get herself together and she saw the stack of letters sitting in the passenger seat of her car. She took the top letter out of the binding and opened it, reading what was read.

"My Dearest Bella,

I couldn't sleep last night because I know that it's over between us. I'm not bitter anymore, because I know that what we had was real. And if in some distant place in the future we see each other in our new lives, I'll smile at you with joy and remember how we spent the summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds, and that's what you've given me. That's what I hope to give to you forever. I love you. I'll be seeing you.

Emmett"

Bella cried for what seemed like hours after reading what she figured was the last letter that Emmett sent before giving up on writing her. When she finally got to the bed and breakfast she saw that Edward's car was sitting outside. She knew just what she had to do and after making herself presentable, she headed inside and into the lion's den.