In the last two days since my disastrous eighteenth birthday, everything has gone from bad to really bad to worse, to oh God what am I going to do now.

At first I thought Edward was going to ask me to leave with him, and then I became terrified that he might leave me, for, as he put it, my own good. But never in a million years would I have thought that I would have to leave him.

It was the second night after my birthday: the one that for the first time in a year that he hadn’t stayed unless he was hunting. That was one of the worst nights in my life, first I was worried that he was leaving and then I knew it didn’t matter because I was the one who had to leave. It was the Volturi, they somehow knew about me. I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised, I mean Edward had told me that they were the most powerful vampires in the world and they helped guard the vampire world from humans. The note they left gave me no choice; either I come to them, leaving Edward and not letting him know where I was going or watch as my love and my family were exterminated before my eyes, because of me. What I couldn’t fathom though was why they wanted me; Edward told me that they normally just killed the humans that found out about the hidden world of vampires. Me, they send a first class ticket to Italy, maybe they wanted to meet me before they have me brutally murdered, or maybe they just want me to get to travel- yeah that’s even too sarcastic and unbelievable for me. Well, whatever the reason, it was time to do the hardest thing that I ever have had to.

I had asked Edward to meet me at my house after school and he was waiting for me as I pulled up. It was then, however, that I realized I couldn’t do what I had to in a place so filled with memories of us. “ Come for a walk with me,” I asked him not meeting his gaze or his lips as he reached down to kiss me. “ Ok,” he was puzzled, but I knew that he would follow me to the ends of the earth if I asked him to, and that’s what made this so much harder. As we slowly walked along the forest trail outside Charlie’s house, I could feel his eyes searching my face and I knew I had to do it now, before I couldn’t. “