Edward's POV

"I saw her, she's gone," Alice said with a tear in her eye.

We sat in silence for ten minutes, an unmovable tension hung over us like Forks clouds. While Alice was putting on some lip balm, she dropped it onto the dirty cafeteria floor.

"Shoot," she muttered. "Ooo, Bella left her bag here, I wonder what's inside,"

"Hey, I don't think she'd appreciate it if we went through her things," I said. We don't even know her and we are going to look through her bag?

"Well I'm curious, who else want to see what's inside?" Emmett, Jasper and Rosalie all raised their hands, I was out numbered. I knew it wasn't right but I was pretty curious. Alice began to empty the contents of Bella's bag onto the table. Some pens, a notebook, normal school stuff basically. Then she found a sketchbook and began to look through it.

"Oh my god, these are amazing," she passed it to Jasper then to Rosalie and Emmett, they all had the same shocked look on their face. They couldn't be that good, could they? But as Emmett passed me the sketchbook and I began to look through it, I felt the same shocked expression form across my face. They were breathtaking.

The first drawing was of the sky, Forks sky in fact. It looked like a photo, the detail was unbelievable. So Bella was an artist? And a good one at that. The next was of a beautiful tree, the next few were nature related. The best drawing was of a face, the girl looked so real that I felt she would start speaking to me from the page.

"Wow, she's a composer aswell," I saw Alice look at pages and pages of sheet music. I took some and looked at it. Maybe I could play this at home, I haven't played the piano in a couple of years but I wanted to know what it sounds like. Lunch ended and we started putting everything back. When they weren't looking I stuffed a song of Bella's into my bag. I was curious to see if Bella was a good of a composer she was an artist.

"Hey Alice, should we leave her bag here or take it to the office?" I said. I got no reply. "Alice?" her eyes were blank again, but a few seconds later a smile spread across her face.

"No, Bella really wouldn't like that," Alice giggled and the smile grew larger. It was clear from her face that Bella was fine, it was almost as if she was laughing at Bella.

"Is Bella okay?" I asked.

"Yeah, she's coming back here, in 21 minutes 43 seconds, 41 seconds," Alice said. Lunch had ended and everyone was heading for class. I picked up Bella's bag to take to the office, when Alice grabbed my arm.

"Hey, leave her bag here, okay?" I placed the bag back under the table where Alice had found it in the first place and headed to Biology.

Mr. Banner, my god, is it me or is his mouth moving without anything coming out. I looked at the clock, five minutes until Bella arrives. I had to cope another 300 seconds before Bella would make this class more interesting.

Bella was different, I knew that, but from the music and the drawings, it was definitely in a good way. She seemed so much more interesting than the boring sluts like Lauren who only talk about make-up, hair and does this top make me look fat? I hope she is okay, that look she gave me before she ran out of the cafeteria was one of the most haunted looks I've ever seen. I haven't even met her and then she just runs the second she looks at my eyes. Why can't I stop thinking about her? Oh yeah, the fact that it was my fault that she had run away. Sometimes I am such an asshole. Oh my god, did I just call myself an asshole? Something is happening to me.

I looked at the clock again, if Alice was right she should come in the room in five, four, three, two, one. At that moment, the door opened and a dark figure entered the room, wearing all black. Wow, Alice was amazing. She looked at the staring students as if she was about to scream at them. Did I really affect her that badly?

"It's nice of you to join us, um, Miss Sparrow, do you have a late pass?" Mr. Banner asked Bella as he signed the form.

"No, I don't but I had a really bad stomach ache, you know female things," Bella said. Mr. Banner's eyes widened, so did mine. Stomach ache? A stomach ache would make her run away like that and make her cry? She must of been lying.

"Oh right, of course, please, cough, please take a s-seat," Mr. Banner stuttered, stupid old man. I saw Bella smile slightly before she scanned the room for an empty seat. Gladly the only available seat was next to mine. I wanted to know what happened to her. She saw the empty seat and her face fell. What had I done to her? She seriously couldn't be that upset to sit next to me. I just can't accept that. No, it couldn't of been me. Could it? She took the seat next to me and didn't even look at me. I stared at her. She seemed very uncomfortable sitting next to me and I tried to read her expression. She seemed sad for a moment, like she was remembering something that she didn't want to. Then her expression lightened slightly. She was a mystery and I wanted to know everything about her.

"Are you okay," I asked. Unfortunately the stupid old man heard me.

"Mr. Cullen, please don't talk in my class or you will be sent to the principal's office," Mr. Banner said. On with the threats old man. Bella seemed pleased at his words. It was clear she wasn't going to talk, so I sent her a note.

Are you okay? What happened? She took a while to write back, probably deciding whether or note to write back.

I'm fine, I just remembered I had to take some pills that I left at Charlie's house She replied, why was she lying to me. I haven't even down anything to her. Why couldn't she trust me? I was upset at her words, I knew she didn't go to Chief Swan's house because of Alice.

Look I know something is up, please, I can help you Bella laughed when she read this, which gained a few horrible glares from people, which were unnoticed by Bella.

So you're helping people now? And why would the Forks High playboy do that? I was taken aback when I read that. Forks High playboy? Okay, I'm a player but playBOY?

I can help you, can you just talk to me about it? I really wanted to know what happened to her, so I can stop blaming myself.

I'll tell you if you tell me something.

Deal. What is it?

How could you do that to her?

I'm sorry who?

Angela

Oh right, her

You are such a bastard. Do you even know much you hurt her?

Well no, but we weren't going anywhere anyway.

Exactly I didn't reply for a while after that, I never realised how much I had actually hurt Angela, I never think of my ex's, only my current girlfriends or my soon-to-be ones.

You've never had your heart broken have you? I held my pen above the note, not putting anything for a long time. I wasn't sure what to put.

No I simply put. That was the truthful answer, the only answer.

Well I have and it's like someone ripping your fucking heart out and then setting fire to what's left I stared at her words for so long I thought I might burn a hole through it. Class ended and Bella rushed out leaving me with the note. I felt like sitting there forever, trying to ignore what Bella had just written. How many hearts have I broken? Many, I didn't keep track of the girls I dumped, I just treated them like shit, when I got bored of them I just chucked them away.

"Mr. Cullen, I know how enthusiatic you are about Biology, but can you please get to your next class?" Mr. Banner said. I looked up from the note and saw the whole class empty. How long have I been there? I headed off to the Gym, today we were doing basketball. Although I prefer football, I really wasn't up for it. All I kept thinking about was Bella's note and what she had written.

Halfway through the first game, I saw Bella sitting on the stands. So she's in my Gym class aswell? She was drawing again while listening to her I-pod. I wonder what she was drawing now? Suddenly a basketball slammed into my face, ouch! What the hell?

"Wake up Cullen!" Coach shouted at me. I tried my hardest to concentrate on the flying balls, but my mind was somewhere else. The way she described a broken heart, is that actually what it felt like? I couldn't imagine it, I wouldn't want to know what it felt like and there I was breaking hearts every week.

I was glad when Gym had finally ended I wanted to go to bed and try to forget the note.

"Cullen?" Coach called out to me when I was heading for my car.

"Yeah, coach?"

"Is everything okay? You were playing pretty bad out there today," Coach asked me.

"Yeah, I just got a lot on my mind,"

"Yeah, right," Coach said, he laughed as he walked away. I saw Bella make her way out of the Gym and she chucked a bit of paper onto the floor. After she was out of sight I picked it up. It was a drawing of an eye which was a very good one again. I decided to take her drawing, seeing as she did just chuck it on the floor. Why would she waste something so beautiful?

I headed to my silver Volvo, where I found Alice, Emmett, Rosalie and Jasper waiting beside it.

"What took you so long?" Alice asked. I unlocked the car and everyone got in.

"Coach was, um, talking to me," I said. Well, it was partially true.

"Make sure you give us the keys next time bro," Emmett said. "You know, before we freeze our asses off,"

"Now that would be a sight wouldn't it Emmett? Watching your ass being frozen," Rosalie said. Emmett and Rosalie had been going out for a couple years now, same with Alice and Jasper. It is always clear that they love each other. I've had plenty of girlfriends, sure, but love? Never.

When we got home, I turned some music on full blast and stayed in my room all night. I couldn't stop thinking about Bella. About what she wrote. I need to tell her I'm sorry, that I didn't realise how I hurt people like Angela, that I would never want to break someone's heart.

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For those who aren't clear about it, Bella ran from the canteen because she saw Edward's green eyes, the same coloured eyes of the guy she killed. She got freaked out and ran.