Sorry about the long wait but, for the last few days, Document Manager has been 'out of service'. It's been doing that a lot lately and it's really starting to bug me. Oh well, we work with what we have.

Wow, that last chapter was 500 words even!

The last chapter had been up for 2 minutes and it gets 43 hits and 4 reviews. Do you guys sit in front of the computer and wait for the thing to tell you that one of your stories has been updated or something?

If you do, you're a poser because that's my thing to do, LOL!

Previously:

"BELLA!" Carlisle boomed, grabbing me and spinning me around like a mad man. "I must be dreaming! Oh Bella, we missed you so much!"

"And Christophe is no where around" Clark grinned.

"You sure about that?" I joked.

Carlisle was like that for at least an hour.

Edward's POV

My Bella, my beautiful Bella. I never forgot her face when I left. It was so very pained. I told her I didn't love her, and that I never did. I told her that being with her wasn't right for me, wasn't right for my family. That, by far, was the worst and most painful lie I have ever said in my immortal life.

The sound of her crying echoes in my ears even now. I remember her on the ground, crying, sobbing my name, begging me to come back. Every new day is torture. But, I deserve that torture.

No, I deserve so much worse. Death is too good for me – that is my only justification for living right now. Well… as alive as possible for a vampire.

"Hay, Ed" Emmett called.

It was already lunch. As usual, I had been a daze all day. Actually, I've been in a daze for the last 20 years. My family all sat around me, trying their best not to think about my beloved Bella.

"Maybe Clark had to hunt" Rosalie offered.

That's when I realized that Clark and Alice were gone. I could tell by their minds that my family didn't know where the 2 were.

Jasper called Alice just before lunch ended, being a nervous wreck without her by his side.

"I've got a big surprise waiting at home!" was Alice's ecstatic response.

Those words were going through his head for the rest of the day. Thought, that was mainly because they came from his mate's lips. The rest of my family was trying to figure out what the surprise was.

We all drove home. Rosalie and Emmett were right in front of us in the jeep. We don't only use my Volvo because there are now 6 to drive back and forth.

Ok, this one was a little hard to write. Usually, I need to be in a depressed-like mood to write something like this so I hope it's good enough. The point is—Edward's a depressed, lifeless zombie without Bella.

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