One decision changed everyone's destiny. Will Edward be able to live with the consequences of his actions? Will he be able to forgive himself for the pain he has inflicted on the only person he has ever loved, and most importantly will she forgive him?

A story beginning with the cliff scene in New Moon and taking you on a journey through the dark side of fate. Where Edward and Bella's lives are both changed, but they react in completely different ways.

Edward wants to be who he thinks Bella deserves.  Everything goes wrong.

I meant to enter this in the Black Balloon contest, but wasn't able to post it in time - so, fair warning on the tone here.

One-shot – A stand-alone companion piece to "The Blessing Ring" – not needed to appreciate this story. This is a chronological, 10 year history in EPOV. 

Rated for references to under-age drinking/drugs, language, sexual themes, and a lime-lemon toward the end. As this takes place prior to present action, there is no HEA contained within.

Excerpt:

She sat on the bleacher in front of me.  It was windy, and the wind blew her long, brown hair away from her face.  I kept trying to look elsewhere, but she’d turn around every so often and that’s when I’d realize I’d been staring. She looked like porcelain; I was afraid she’d break.

So pure.  I imagined she smelled like green apples.  I could tell nothing from the wind.

When I left, I moved in close – I told myself I needed to, to be heard – she wasn’t the kind of person you shout at across the distance or roaring wind. 

“I’ll see you later, Bella.”  Please, let that be true.  I’ll make it true.

Bella and Edward are best friends. When he asks her out, can they make it work? Will their friendship survive?

Rating for language and possible future sexual situations.

Living in the small town of Forks, Bella Swan has a normal life, boyfriend, and best friend. Everything starts to change when people mysteriously disappear. What is happening to them? Why does she have the feeling that someone is watching her? AU/OOC Dark Cullens.

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On their first Christmas back in Forks, Jasper's resolve is put to the test.

Bella tries to keep her distance from Edward, thinking that she
can't be hurt if he is never more than a pretty face. Too bad she doesn't let
Edward in on her plan.

Used to feeling lonely in a crowded room, international film star Edward Cullen meets a certain journalist that captures his attention.  Soon afterwards, she's gone ... or so he thinks. 

He's everything she hates. She's everything he hasn't known. He has painful, dark memories. She has a painful, dark past. They're constantly in danger. But can they be in love?

Edward and Bella are double-0 goverment agents-in-training. Their universities - sibling schools - are currently in the midst of an exchange program, and of course the two get paired together. However, everything comes to a dangerous halt when the all-important alumni disc, containing information that could compromise every undercover agent in the field, is stolen. Now, Edward and Bella must go undercover into the heart of the enemy, digging up what they can find to retrieve the alumni as quickly as possible, all the while trying to ignore their growing attraction for one another.

What's real and what's fiction?

Bella wants a kid with her boss, feels her biological clock ticking and would have jumped him by now if it wasn't for the fact he's a major playboy. Her boss, Edward, secretly desires Bella and, to look cooler, he pretends to be a playboy by fakin' relationships with a harem of eight women.

Where are the lies and the truth?

Alice is very one-man oriented; she has eyes only for Jasper. But Jasper is in a commited gay relationship with Emmett and has repeatedly told her that he sees her as the little sister. Ruthless shark of the business world but dork in real life, Alice has given up. Running into Rosalie and Bella, she develops cofidence and gets a sexy makeover.  Watch out world!

What is make-believe and what is reality?

Jasper is a womanizer who only agreed to pretend to be Emmett's boyfriend to get stalker Alice off his back. That of course, is true, until he sees Alice bend over in those tight little pants...

Telling a lie only makes the truth even harder to discern...

Emmett wants Rosalie. Nice and simple. But she isn't a one-man-kind-of-girl. So to get close to her, he pretends to be gay. But the thing is, he pretends too well. For a year and a half, he and Rosalie have gotten closer, but now Emmett and Jasper's parents think they are almost on their way to having a commitment ceremony.

What the hell is up with the screwy here?

Finally, the guys all think that Bella and Alice are lesbian lovers. Don't ask.

If you want a world of f***ing hilarious mind games, come right in and read ahead. But seriously, beware of the laugh-out-loud mind f***ery.

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Edward and Bella have known each other since birth. After one moment at a party just months before their college graduation, Edward sends them on a journey that begins with a little pretending. Where it ends? No one knows. NC-17 for language and sexual content. AH/AU/OCC

Jasper's POV of Renesmee's birth scene from my fic The Ties That Bind, an in canon, EPOV of Bella's pregnancy, burning and awakening in BD.  Given his gift, Renesmee's birth was a very difficult experience for Jasper...

Bella can't deny her best friend, Edward, anything. But when he asks her to pretend to be his girlfriend for his family's visit, she finds herself in the midst of a battle between her head and her heart.

After Jasper snaps at Bella, his intense guilt strains his relationship with Alice. They drift apart for months as Alice searches for remnants of her human life. The crisis surrounding Alice's trip to Italy is what eventually forces both of them to confront the demons of their past.

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