Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight, and sadly, I never will.

Previously: As soon as I signed my name the bell rang and I was off to second period. I have a good feeling about this project.

Bella's POV:

"Oh my gosh, Bella! He seems so cool!" Angela gushed as she finished reading my letter from Edward Cullen. She came over my house after school just to hang out and maybe get some homework done.

I smiled; Edward really seemed like a gentleman that's for sure. Telling me I must be beautiful and asking about my writing.

"Jessica seems………nice." I said, trying to seem sincere about it. Actually, just from the letter it seemed like she was sort of a snob.

Ang rolled her eyes, "Yeah, she seems nice alright, maybe when pigs fly. All she could talk about was how great she is." She laughed, "Pretty pathetic if you ask me. I wish I could've gotten Edward's sister! How funny would that have been?"

"Very funny," I said, looking back at my letter.

"Maybe you should ask him for his screen name for instant messaging," Angela suggested. "He seems like a nice guy to talk to besides the project."

I thought about this, "That's not such a bad idea." I told her. It really wasn't. Besides, these letters were going to have to get turned in at the end of the project. Last week Mrs. Aaron told us that the letters are going to stop after four each and possibly a parting letter saying goodbye and that we enjoyed talking to the person. After that if we want to keep contact with the person we have to use our own time.

I grabbed a couple papers for Angela and me so we could start writing back. "So, what are you going to say to Ms. I'm so great?"

She shrugged, "I don't know, definitely not going to ask her for her screen name. I'll think of something."

I nodded and started my letter.

Dear Edward,

Thank you very much; your name is nice as well. Not something you here everyday. I don't really think you need to be on the look out for my name any time soon. I'm not very far, just a basic idea and about fifty pages is all I have for my "novel." Thank you about the comment of my appearance. From your description you seem very handsome…..bronze hair? I've never seen that before, must be very unique. You know, I've always wanted to play the piano. I've taken lessons but I could never get into it. I love listening to it though, and watching as the pianists fingers glide over the keyboard in such an effortless way. That is what I call true art.

Anyway, my friend Angela gave me an idea……you seem like a really cool guy and I was wondering if you maybe had a screen name for instant messaging on the computer? I mean, we don't have many letters for our project, only about four right? So, consider it, if not that's okay, it's just an idea. Mine is BellaBee18 if you want to add it……I know it's a bit weird, it was my mom's nickname for me when I was little.

Alright, talk to you soon.

Oh, and P.S. a girl named Kate got Alice as a pen-pal I think. Tell your sister to be glad, Kate is one of the kindest people I know.

~Bella

I folded the paper and stuck it into an envelope. "You done yours yet?"

"Just about," Angela said writing a couple more words, "There." She said, licking the envelope shut. "So, do you wanna go get some pizza or something? Tracey said she might go down with some people from school and that we should come."

"Sure, sounds like a plan," I said smiling. Tracey is one of the girls that hangs out in our little 'group' I guess you could say. She's one of the girls that I get along with and I consider a friend, but I won't be having a sleepover with any time soon. I'm assuming the other people from school will be Julie, Ally, Sammy, Kate, Ben, Jonny, Leo, Austin, and up until the beginning of 10th grade there was one other: Justin. You see, Justin was my boyfriend for a little more than a year. We met in 8th grade and he asked me out the summer before 9th, obviously I said yes.

9th grade was a great year. We never really fought except for small arguments and we were practically inseparable. That was until I caught him with another girl one day after school when I went by his house.

Flashback:

I just finished school and went to go see Justin. He texted me in the morning tell me he was going to take a personal heath day to finish some project he never got done. I knocked on the door several times but got no answer. I could hear noises inside though so I knew someone was home.

I turned the doorknob slightly and it was unlocked so I peeked my head in. "Justin?" I whisper called.

"Shit," I heard a male voice mutter. It was Justin's.

"Who is it?" I heard an unfamiliar female this time.

I may be a lot of things but I don't get fooled around with. I slammed the door open and yelled, "Justin Travis Jenkins, where the hell are you?"

I heard scrambling coming from the living room so I made my way in there and went wide eyed at what I saw. Justin was on the couch without a shirt with some girl I've never seen before in my life.

"I can explain," he said seeing my expression.

I was now glaring, "Oh really? And what is that?"

"It's not what it looks like Bells. It really isn't. Nothing was going on."

I looked at him skeptically and came closer, "Oh okay," I said smiling, "Uhm Justin?" I asked him in a bitter-sweet voice.

"Yeah?" He asked, eyes narrowing.

"Since when do you where lipstick?" I asked him looking at his puffy, red lips that matched the color of the girls.

His face went bright red. "Exactly what I thought," I was just about to turn when out of the corner of my eye I spotted something on the table. I raised one eyebrow and went closer to get a better look and gasped. "Oh, so you're cheating on me and taking drugs now?" There were two plastic bags on the table filled with pot.

He didn't say anything for a couple seconds, just looked at me. "Bella…I'm so sorry. I love you. I really do."

He got up and tried to come over to give me a hug, while the girl just watched as if this was her favorite soap opera. "The hell you do! If you didn't already figure it out, we are done!" I pushed him away and sped out the door before he could say another word.

End of flashback.

He has tried to make it up to me but I ignore him every time. In the middle of 10th grade Justin moved. Not too far, but far enough that he had to change school districts. I haven't seen him since then……not that I'm complaining, it makes it easier on me not having to see him everyday in school.

We took Angela's car to the pizza place. It only took about ten minutes to get there. It was pretty crowded but the place was so big that there's never a wait for us to get in.

Tracey was the first one to spot us when we walked in, "Hey you guys! I'm so glad you could make it!" She exclaimed giving us each a big hug. She's pretty small, a couple inches shorter than me and very thin.

"Hey Trace." I said laughing at her intensity. "You have a table for us?"

"Yeah we are in the back……" Then it was almost like she remembered something and her expression became less excited.

"Is everything okay?" Angela asked her, noticing the same thing.

"Uhm, for me….not sure about you Bella….we sort of have an extra person here today." She stated uncomfortably. Uh oh…this can't be good. Tracey never has awkward moments. I mean, never.

"Who?" I asked, my stomach feeling like it was going to fall. Angela had the same expression on her face.

"I think you better see for yourself." She said, grabbing my hand and leading us towards the back room. I sort of had a feeling who I was going to see.

I took a deep breathe as we entered the room where I saw all our friends. And then I saw that one extra person sitting down with a sprite in his hand talking to Austin. The one person that has no right to be here, the one person that broke my heart, the one and only Justin Jenkins.

"What are you doing here?" I exclaimed, everyone that hadn't seen me before sure saw me now. Even though he's the one that I expected to see as soon as Tracey started hinting about it, I didn't realize the reaction actually seeing him would have on me. Even though what he did to me was awful, he was the first guy I've ever loved. He's the first person to actually tell me they loved me besides family and friends. The first love I'll ever have. He's my first kiss, my first date, my first awkward confrontation with my dad. He was my first a lot of things and he always will be, and I can never change that.

His head popped up at the sound of my voice and a smile slowly grew on his face. "I've missed you Bella."

I rolled my eyes, "Pft, sure ya did, didn't seem to miss me when you were taking drugs and making out with that random girl."

He smiled sheepishly, "If it makes you feel any better, I'm not smoking anymore."

"Good for you." I said with fake excitement. There was dead silence. No one said a word; there wasn't even the sound of chewing.

"Can we talk outside for a minute?" He asked me, getting up from his seat.

"You don't have to go, Bella," Angela whispered quietly in my ear. "If you don't want to, you don't owe him anything."

"I know, but if he's here……I need to confront the problem now. I can't keep it going." I told her and she nodded. I walked to the front of the restaurant and out the door with Justin following me. I sat down on a green bench on the sidewalk and he sat beside me.

"It's been so long Bells," He said, looking at his hands.

"Only like a half a year," I muttered under my breathe. "Why are you here?"

"My parents just got divorced and my mom saw that our old house was up for sale again…..so, she packed us up and we're back." He told me simply. He changed the subject back to us again. "Can't I do anything to make it up to you Bells?"

I shook my head. "There's nothing to do. What's done is done Justin." He started to say something but I interrupted, "If I say its okay and act like nothing ever happened, you'll know you can get away with cheating on me, you'll know that if it happens again and you come back for me that I'll be here waiting! Well, news flash I'm not going to let that happen!"

He didn't say anything, but I had a few questions to ask. "How long were you with that girl?"

He knew exactly who I meant, "Kayla." He muttered, "Only about three weeks."

I threw my head up, "Only? I expected you to say a week at the most! Almost a whole month Justin?" He nodded, his head hung. My voice became quieter, "Were you sleeping with her?"

His face turned red and I already knew the answer before he nodded. "And I'm very sorry about that Bella. It was wrong I know that…..I don't know what I was thinking."

I sighed, "It was temptation and you took it." I didn't know what else to say.

"Yeah…." He said trailing off.

I was a cooled down now. I wasn't ready to throw a plate at his head anymore…..maybe just poor some water on him. "Okay, well, we just need to get this out in the open Justin. We aren't going to be back together, I'm sorry but it's the truth……I wouldn't be able to trust someone who's done something like that to be. It's still fresh. It wasn't all that long ago."

He nodded. "I guess I understand. I still love you though."

I took in a deep breath, "I still love you too…….but that doesn't change anything."

He nodded. "What about friends?"

I shrugged, "I don't know."

"I guess I deserve this." He said sadly.

We sat there in silence for a few minutes before I said, "Well, we better go inside now before someone thinks we got kidnapped."

"Your right," he said sighing and lifting himself up. I followed him back to the room.

"Hey Bella! I saved you a seat!" Angela said motioning towards a spot at the table between her and Jonny.

I made my way over there and said hey to everyone now that I had the chance. "How did it go?" Angela asked me when I sat down and took a sip of my coke she had ordered for me.

"Pretty good," I said thoughtfully. "We got everything out and I made it clear that there is no future for us."

She smiled, "I'm proud of you, you're being so strong about this."

"Thanks."

"So," Jonny started, "Read any new books lately?" He joked and everyone laughed. I smiled; they all like to make fun of my reading, joking around saying what a geek I am.

"Actually yeah, just finished The Great Gatsby."

"Aw, our little geek," He joked, pinching my cheeks like I was five. He's very tall and buff so he likes to act like he's the oldest out of us.

I laughed and that was when our pizza was served. The rest of the night went very well. I talked civilly to Justin but nothing too friendly. Overall though, I was glad I came out.

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