Chapter 2 of On the Brink. Should Bella stay? Go? Take a trip? I know, do you? Review!

Cont..."Promise." He held out his hand and I took it. A contract. A signed oath. I had his word. He better not break it.

I had calmed down somewhat and sat down in the leaves. We were miles away from home and I wasn't planning on going back anytime soon. "Now what is it?"

"Edward." I hissed, more violence in my tone than necessary.

Emmett was taken aback. Edward and I had been the poster children for anything and everything going right in a relationship. Or so it seemed. "What?"

"You heard me."

"Yeah, but…what happened?" His big burly shoulders slumped and he looked to the ground for answers.

"It's not one thing. It's not anything tangible. I just…I can't take it."

This brought him back to reality. "What? You can't take it? What does that mean?"

"It means what you think it means. Not complex. No underlying meaning. Face value." I said, calmer than usual.

He was struggling for the right words. "Well, what are you going to do?"

"I don't know. I might not do anything, but I need a breather. And do you think I can go talk to Edward and say there's something wrong with me that he can't fix? I think not."

We sat in solitary silence for a time that collectively seemed like hours. "Wish you would have just fought me huh?" I asked, and made a sound that was similar to a chuckle.

"Huh? Oh, yeah." He was still trying to process it all.

"Don't have an aneurysm. It's not that hard. I just need time." I couldn't see what he was having such a hard time realizing. Everyone had marital problems. For goodness sake him and Rosalie fight like cats and dogs, no one makes a big deal, but Edward and me? Gasp! Shock! Awe!

"I know I already asked this, but what did he do?" Emmett had a look in his eyes like he was on the edge of the diving board, teetering on the edge, but he didn't know how he got there.

"It's not things he did. He didn't mean to. He subconsciously does them and it makes me so angry and irritated I just can't stand it!" I stood up again, and began pacing.

"Calm down. No need to go all Punisher, Crazy Ex here."

"I'm not a Crazy Ex." I was still with Edward, I loved him to death, but he made me mad. No one else could push my buttons and be so oblivious.

"I know. Okay? Sit please."

Just to please him, he looked quite worried. I sat back down in the leaves.

"And you can't tell him why?" He rubbed his head and looked at me this time. He gave up with the ground. Guess it's not the crystal ball with all the answers, is it?

I know I had already gone over this, but to appease him, I went over it again. Emmett was like a little kid. He needed the facts, not the details, the overlaying facts, the big picture. "How do you think Edward would handle it if I went to him, stark raving mad, and told him he was a screw up and he made my angry and I didn't know why. He made me want to leave. He made me want to give up altogether." I asked Emmett, but they came out rhetorical questions instead.

"Oh."

"Yeah, oh."

"So, you want to leave?"

"That's what I was doing."

The silence had set in. The sudden realization to my words. Right now I had to leave Edward. For me. For my sanity. I couldn't stay there and be miserable. It wasn't anyone's fault.

The only sound was our breathing and the slight, occasional breeze that rustled the leaves.

He couldn't take the silence. "I don't blame you."

Coming from his brother that was the last thing I expected. "Huh?"

"You were heading back to Forks. Back to town. Back to your dad's." He pointed in the direction of the way I was facing. I didn't realize it, but I was, I was heading home. Not this home, not his home, my old home.

He understood me. There was no need to air it all out. He understood my decision. He knew I wasn't leaving…yet. I was invested in this relationship and I was in it for the long haul. "Thank you." I hugged his muscular neck, and he squeezed me tighter than necessary and whispered. "Bella. This isn't over. You can fix this. He doesn't need to know, and he won't hear it from me, but he'll find you and he won't be much better off in the dark."

With that I ran off into the sudden darkness for Charlie's.

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