Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or Edward. Although Edward does own my fantasies.

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BPOV

It had now been three days since Edward left. Seventy two hours. Four thousand three hundred and twenty minutes. Two hundred and fifty nine thousand and 200 seconds. I felt every single second pass by with painful clarity. I hadn't done much since our "discussion". Just what I had to. I got up, ate breakfast, went to classes, ate dinner, did school work and went to bed. My friends had tried to talk to me about what happened but the wounds were too fresh without adding salt to them. On the fourth day I was getting set to repeat the pathetic routine which had turned into my life, when my saviour arrived, in the shape of a phone call. My mom was worried about me. I usually call her every week but I couldn't face her questions this week. As I listen to her prattle on about Phil (her young toy boy husband) getting signed to the Arizona Diamondbacks, I was formulating what I was going to say when she asked how Edward was and when she asked I didn't say my carefully prepared answer. No, of course not. I blurted out that I had found out Edward was gay. After the laughter had died down she asked me a question. A question that I thought had saved my life. Did I want to transfer to Phoenix College? Hell yeah I wanted to. I wanted to get away from the embarrassment that would surely follow when everyone found out. I wanted to get away from the pitying looks. I wanted to get away from him.

It took a week for the paperwork to go through and to pack up my apartment. I was lucky that in that time I didn't see Edward. I did however get a lot of visits from Alice, Rose, Emmett and Jasper. Of course they were all trying to change my mind and kept telling me what a dickhead Edward was and how I was too good for him. I couldn't tell them the real reason we broke up. I would let Edward tell them when he was ready. I still loved him and couldn't betray him like that. On the night before I was due to leave for Arizona and my new Edward free life, my friends decided to throw me a leaving party in my apartment. Of course I got plastered and emotional.

"I" sob "am" sob "going" sob "to" sob "miss" sob "you" sob "guys" I sniffled, trying hug my four friends at once.

"Awww we will miss you to Belly-bean" Emmet said.

"You've been my best friend and my sister for so long Bella. How will I cope when I won't see you every day?" Alice asked, unsuccessfully trying to hold back her tears.

"You'll come visit Alice, you all will and I'll come visit you"

"Ok" she relented clinging tightly to me.

After that we all needed another drink. And another. And another. Jessica Stanley, a girl from my English Lit class came over at some point. "So I heard you and Edward broke up" she said.

"Yeah we wanted different thing"

"Like?" she asked, now curious.

"Well he wants to fuck men and I don't want him to fuck men" I replied before passing out on one of the bean bags scattered through the room for the party

The next morning I woke up and my head felt like it was going to explode. After taking some Tylenol, I gathered my things and turned to look at my empty apartment. "Goodbye Edward" I said softly before closing the door on my apartment and old life. I got in Emmett's jeep with everyone and we headed to the airport. After many emotional goodbyes and promises to keep in touch and to see each other soon, I left.

After hours on the plane I finally landed in Phoenix. My mom and Phil were there to meet me and they drove me to my new apartment and helped me to get settled in . I forgot how much I missed my mother with her easy smile and contagious laugh. I liked Phil a lot and I could see myself getting along fine with him. Around midnight they left. I looked around at my new apartment. It didn't look like home yet and somehow I doubted it ever wood. Home was thousands of miles away. Home had piercing emerald eyes and bronze sex hair. My home would always be Edward.

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Author's note: Next chapter will be the last chapter before the three year jump, I think. Let me know if you have any comments, questions or suggestions. Thanks for reading.