BPOV

"Look... You're not in love with me. You can't be. Maybe you're in love with the 'idea' of being in love with me." I said.

I wasn't really sure why he would want to be in love with the 'idea' of being in love with me, but still...

He rolled his eyes.

See?

I knew he wasn't serious about this!

"No. I'm in love with you. I'm pretty sure about it. Don't try to change how I feel, okay?" He said.

"Look..." I said.

"You look..." He said, "Maybe I should have taken more time to open up about my feelings, but don't try to twist everything!"

"I'm not twisting anything..." I said, "you can't possibly fall in love with me! What do you even know about me!"

"I think I know a lot of things about you... And I'm willing to know every single thing about you if you allow me..." He said.

"Actually, you know what?" I said.

"Now what?" He said.

"If you're in love with me as you claimed, you wouldn't be best friends with Jasper!" I snapped.

"And I'm no longer best friends with him... Things change when you grow up and you start looking at things from a different perspective..." He said.

"Oh really?" I shook my head, "You just made a business deal with them!"

"Yes... It's a 'business' deal!" He said, "I don't mix my personal feelings and business decisions."

Why did I think dating him and using him to get back to my brothers was a good idea?

"You... You are an asshole!" I said.

"Why? Because I love you?" He said.

"Because you don't understand the meaning of love!" I said.

"Oh, is it?" He said, "Then explain it to me. What is love?"

He gotta be kidding me right now!

"Love is... Love is... Something unconditional... Love is... I don't know!" I said with frustration, "I haven't loved anyone... And I've never been loved... So I don't know what love is! But I know whatever you think love is, it's definitely not!"

"Bella..." He sighed. "Why is it so difficult for you to trust me?"

"I don't trust anybody!" I said.

"Can you please try to put in some effort to have some faith in me?" He asked as he looked into my eyes, "I'm not lying. I don't have any reason to lie."

"Yeah... I should trust you, so that you can break it and then I have to deal with the fucking consequences!" I snapped. My eyes were filled with angry tears now.

"I'm not going to break your trust. I promise!" He said, "I have never been more sincere about anything else."

He was looking so sincere?

Maybe he wasn't lying?

Oh wait...

"You... You're treating this as a debate... You think you will come up with some random, bullshit arguments and manage to win as always! You think you will manage to convince me with your points that you could be right... But I'm not going to..."

"Debate?" He rubbed his face in frustration, "I don't know how you're coming up with this bullshit instead of just accepting that maybe... maybe... there is a possibility that I could actually be in love with you! You know what? Just fucking let this go!"

"This is such a terrible idea anyway!" He said angrily, "You're so comfortable living your sad, miserable, victim life that you can't see the possibility of something nice happening to you!"

"See? Now you're talking like how I'd expect Edward Cullen to!" I said as I folded my arms across my chest.

"Well then, congratulations! You won!" He snapped, "I wish I could go back in time and revert the moment I fell for you... But I'm glad we had this conversation today! I think I needed this... And I think I'm good now! Fucking get lost! I don't give a shit about you!"

"You get lost!" I said.