I stared back in amazement, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. So the strong smell wasn't coming from her completely. The strong smell that filled this room was mostly Bella's.

"Don't do it Edward.", She repeated. I stared on. I could see mixed emotions in her judging eyes. If only I could read her thoughts. She looked at me with some hidden anger and confusion. I must've looked absolutely ghastly, standing over her own blood, ready to bite and poison her.

"Would you really kill my daughter?", she asked. Her melodious voice was as torturing as the scent coming from her. I stepped backwards, completely speechless. Her daughter? That meant she had someone else in her life occupying my role.

"Your daughter?", I managed to stutter. She was not the pure Bella I knew, but a mature woman. She had always been mature though.

"I thought you said you didn't exist.", she said in an angry tone.

"I do not.", I answered. It pained me to have to do this, but I had no choice. I made her a promise and my last piece of dignity rested in that I kept it. I backed away from her and jumped out the window. I ran and ran, I couldn't think.

I stopped only when I noticed I was back at the meadow. I collapsed on the ground, I punched it in anger, no in fury. I kept punching. I make two holes in deep in the ground. I was breathing heavily. I laid on my back.

My mind drifted back to what just happened. The image of a teenage Bella was replace with an older looking woman. But she was my Bella, no matter what. Her daughter, I was stalking my true love's daughter. I really knew no decency anymore.

How dare I?, I thought. I laid there until sunrise. Analyzing everything that just happened that night. How can I go back?, I thought. Maybe I should just leave again,No you coward, I thought. The once strong monster that occupied my mind was now subdued in the back of it. I shook with anger. She had another man. This I couldn't accept. She is human, she was happy, I thought, until you barged into her life again. I screamed with anger. I couldn't contain this. I missed tears now, I missed them so much. The fire in my throat was nothing compared to the pain I felt in my lifeless heart. I screamed again. I couldn't contain this much anger. I was gonna do something drastic if I didn't let all of this out. Who is that other man?, I wondered. I just couldn't handle this thought. I stood up in blind fury and ripped out a tree from the ground, smashed it to pieces. Who would dare touch her that way? Who could do that with her? Someone other than me? Why?, My last question made me completely numb. I knew why and there was no other answer to it than, because I left. It was my own fault. That was my mistake. My anger suddenly melted into nothing.

I fell on the ground again. I stay there, beaten and broken. There was nothing left in this world for me. What was left for me was possibly right now in the arms of another man. I laid there the whole morning and when noon rolled around the shade of the trees didn't cover me anymore.

The rays of light that bounced off my body filled the meadow with spots of light. How could I look like a sparkling diamond, when I felt more like a piece of trash. I laid there throughout noon, the heat of the sun didn't make me feel alive again. Nothing could. The only thing that could was now gone. Not exactly gone, more like unreachable. The numbness that filled my being was ignored for a moment when I heard someone approaching. Clumbsy steps, I turned my head in their direction. When I breathed in, I smelled her. I couldn't believe it. She was coming for me? I sat up, I kept looking her way. She came into view and I couldn't help but feel the numbness subside. But it was soon transformed into regret. She was staring at me in anger.

"How did you know I was here?", I asked shyly. The monster scared by the prey.

"I had a feeling.", she answered honestly. Bella, what an extraordinary human. I stayed were I was sitting, afraid that if I moved she would dissapear from my sight. She sat right where she was standing and brought her knees under her chin, wrapping them with her arms. I was afraid to move closer still. I wondered if the heat was getting to me, it could all be in my head.

"Why did you come back?", she asked, her voice filled with annoyance.

"We moved back to Forks a few weeks ago.", I explained.

"Yes, but why?", she uttered.

"I don't really know.", I answered sincerely,"Carlisle really liked this place."

"I see.", she said. I was bound to keep my promise so I gave her no indication that I was the one that asked Carlisle to move back here. I wanted to find her. No matter what and now here she was. Yet, this was not how I envisioned things.

"Are you leaving soon?", she asked.

"I don't know.", I said. Suddenly she started crying, her tears, precious and valuable tears rolled down her cheeks.

"Why did you come back Edward? I was over it. I was over everything that happened and you showed up last night and broke my soul in half again. Why did you leave?" I stared. I couldn't help it I stumbled to her side and took her into my arms. Her enticing smell tore through me again. But this I could handle, my love for burned stronger than my thirst. She tried to pull away from me, obviously failing. I obediently let her go. She stood up.

This was the moment I was afraid of, the moment she ran away from me and declared she never want to see me again. I was ready to admit defeat the moment she proclaimed this. What is a visit to Italy when you have nothing to live for?, I thought. But the nevertheless that moment never came. She stared at me with her eyes full of tears. She shook her head.

"After all this time I started to believe that maybe you were never really there.", she said between sobs,"And now I can't help but be glad that you really are." I couldn't believe that underneath that anger she could still love me. I stood up and faced her. She looked at me with sorrow. I took her face in my hands, I felt her heartbeat quicken.

"Oh Bella, after all this time.", I said reffering to how I still had that effect on her. I placed a kiss on her lips and the world as I knew it, dissapeared.