Disclaimer: Twilight belongs to Stephenie Meyer.

"I can't believe we're engaged," Bella Swan said, as she put her head on the shoulder of Edward Cullen, her fiance.

"Yeah..." he he smiled and put a soft kiss on her temple.

It was indeed surreal for them. There wasn't any similarity they could find with any other couple, but it wasn't like they were the only one to be engaged like this. It was very common for rich, corporate families. Edward and Bella's family had decided that may be they should give each other a chance. They weren't totally strangers to each other, as they had met previously in few social gatherings for few times, but then again, it couldn't be considered enough to select each other as a life partner. Plus, Edward's younger brother Jasper and Bella were from same college; again not a reason that would be enough. They both had a boring romantic history and even though they were not keening, they realized that both were heading towards a 'marriageable' age, well kind of. Edward was heading towards twenty eight and Bella was twenty four. They knew that their families were going to force them to get married. So... they just took a chance.

And that turned out to be great. They met and they realized that it wouldn't be bad after all. They realized they were really attracted to each other after few meetings. Few weeks later, they decided to give it a 'go'.

They remained in the same position for they didn't know how long. Bella kept saying few random things, which Edward replied with just 'Yeah' or simply nodding his head.

"Can't you say something romantic?" Bella pouted.

"What? You know that I'm not good with those kind of stuffs," Edward chuckled.

"But at least you can try," Bella insisted, "Gosh, I know that you're a man with few words, but you can say something else than 'Yeah' and 'Yup'."

"Shut up," he laughed.

"No really. You should try something else. Today at least. We got engaged for God's sake. You should say something like, "I will love you forever, sweetheart." Or "I can stare at you forever." Or "Your eyes are like sea..."

"Will you please stop?" he burst into laughter.

Bella glared at him and said nothing.

"Well, don't expect to hear such things from me. I'm telling you honestly," Edward smiled, "I like you and you know that. As simple as that. Why to make it complicated?"

Like you. Bella noticed. He hadn't reached at the 'love' yet. But she knew that he loved her, he just... didn't realize that.

God, why did I fall in love with such an unromantic person? Bella sighed deeply and again put her head on his shoulder. "Such an unromantic person you are."

"Wait, may be you would want to call off our engagement. I'm giving you a chance, you know?" Edward joked.

"Shut up," Bella glared at him, "However unromantic you are, you're stuck with me. And..." she chuckled, "I'm sure I 'm gonna turn you into a romantic poet in few years."

"In your dreams," Edward laughed and leaned to kiss her.

"Naahhh..."Bella said before she got lost in him.

"I don't understand her problem," Edward raised his voice once again.

"Edward, just calm down." Bella repeated.

"But is it necessary that everyone gets married to the woman from our status, means Jasper has to do the same? God, dad had married to her, because he loved her. I'm marrying you, because I like you. Now, if Jasper loves Alice and wants to marry her, why should it matter if she's a waitress? what the hell is Mom's problem? " he barked.

"May be she's a little bit surprised to hear the thing, that's why she's reacting the way she's. I'm sure she'll come along," Bella try to soothe him. This was one of the things she really loved about him, the way he loved his family.

"Hope so," he said, "Now where are you going?" he asked as he watched her moving towards the kitchen.

"I'm bringing some ice-cream for you. To cool you, Mr Hot-tempered?" she winked and Edward rolled his eyes.

"By the way, you look damn sexy when you're angry." Bella teased him, as she gave him the ice cream.

"You cheesy woman," Edward laughed.

"This cheesy woman is dying to convert you into Mr cheesy, " she winked and Edward laughed harder.

Edward couldn't react, for some moments.

Had he heard them correctly?

But how?

No way.

What did they mean by Jasper was in a coma?

No, this couldn't be true.

He remained in denial for few minutes, along with other members of his family. Bella tried to calm down Edward, even though she was herself in a shock. She knew what Jasper meant to Edward.

But at the moment, he got back into his senses, he knew who was responsible for this.

His mother.

Jasper had gotten to an argument with her over Alice, before storming out of the house and getting onto the accident.

"No... No... This isn't happening because of me. I didn't..." Esme Cullen said few incoherent things when they were at their house few days later.

"You're responsible for this," Edward screamed. "Jasper is in this position because of you and your fucking love for your status."

"It's not my fault," screamed back Esme, who was still over a shock, "I just wanted him to be happy. I won't think ill of him. I'm his mother, for God's sake. I just wanted to find a better woman for him, who would make him happy. Like I had found Bella for you." she said.

"Really? So you think you can decide our happiness? Fine... I'm breaking off my engagement with Bella. I won't marry the person you chose for me. In fact, I won't ever marry. You want daughter-in-laws of your choices, right? Well, here's the breaking news. You won't get one. Because your one son is gonna die and the other one is never gonna marry." he said and stormed out of the house.

"It's feeling really nice to be with you again." Bella was surprised. She embraced him and kissed on his cheek. She and Edward hadn't really spent much time alone ever since Jasper's accident. She understood that he was disturbed and thus, she was really surprised when Edward asked her for a drive after dinner.

Edward stopped the car near their favorite beach.

"I want to talk to you," Edward told her, keeping his eyes glued towards the sea, after they took a position on a beach.

"What's wrong?" she asked, feeling confused. He was looking so defeated, even worse than he looked on the day of Jasper's accident and she didn't understand the exact reason.

Edward took a deep breathe. He didn't want to do this. He didn't want to break Bella's heart. He felt like, his mind was oscillating between his feelings for Bella and the anger he was feeling towards his mother. But then, Jasper's face appear in his mind, and he knew, which part had won.

"Bella, I can't... I can't marry you." he said in a defeated voice.

A/N: A story of 3-4 chapters. What do you think? Let me know.