This is my first one so cut me a bit of slack...that would be amazing!!

BPOV

I screamed.

No one heard me.

I couldn't see anything and I couldn't feel anything. I tried to thrash my limbs, but they wouldn't respond.

It was a blackness that took away everything. Even my hope.

I heard the soothing murmurs of my love. His arms tightened around my waist as he tried to calm me without waking me. I began to relax. The nightmare was just that, a nightmare. I knew this wasn't a dream because if that was reality, I wouldn't be able to dream this.

I looked up into the liquid topaz of Edward's eyes. They were swimming with concern and fear that made him seem even more perfect. He was constantly on edge these days. He seemed afraid that at any moment I would jerk the gorgeous ring off my finger and finally realize what I was about to lose, and decide he wasn't worth it anymore. I didn't know why.

Since the night that I told Jacob that I chose Edward, he wasn't really speaking to me. Not in that 6-year-old, throw-your-hand-in-their-face kind of way, but in that he didn't seek my company anymore. Which was even worse.

After Edward had come back, my nightmares had subsided. Instead I was too intoxicated with his scent and the feel of his arms around me to even contemplate the emptiness I had felt, much less focus enough on it to dream of it again.

I felt Edward wind his arms even tighter around, bringing me even closer to him. I loved it. I breathed in his scent for the millionth time, but I still reacted as if it was the first. It knocked my sanity away. As I put my head in the hollow between his head and shoulder he murmured, "You're up early. Go back to sleep."

I moved my head to glance at the clock and saw the bright red numbers saying it was 4:30 in the morning. I put my head back where if had been and mumbled, "Okay."

I think I had fallen back to sleep before I had even finished my attempt at the word.

EPOV

I stared at the angel in my arms, my heart disbelieving that she would choose me over someone who could give all any human could ask for. My angel, my Bella had chosen my abnormal existence and I knew it was taking a toll on her.

It had been three weeks since she had told Jacob about her decision and every night since, she had had nightmares. At first I believed it to be the after effects of seeing the vampire casualties and the Volturi again, but then when she never screamed but only trembled I began to worry.

I wanted so badly to know what went on in her head. I wanted to see what caused her pain and stop it. All I could do is pull her tighter and hold her closer. Soon we would closer than ever…that is if Alice didn't drive her to insanity or suicide with all the wedding plans.

BPOV

I heard screaming. Shrill, terrified screams surrounded me. It took me a moment to realize the screams were escaping from my lips. Alone in the dark, I suddenly felt a new presence with me, but I couldn't find it with any of my senses. I ran as fast as I could but couldn't tell if I was getting anywhere. I heard brisk footsteps approaching, gaining on me. Then there was silence for a moment when I caught my breath.

Iron hands suddenly grabbed and I let all my breath out in a scream that didn't even make it past my lips because I heard a voice whisper in my ear, "I warned you."

It wasn't the words the scared as much as the voice that spoke them. It was a smooth, velvety voice. One I could recognize in any crowd. It was Edward's.

But I didn't have much time to let the fear sink in because I felt teeth sink into my neck.

I laid there feeling nothing and waiting for my conscientiousness to disappear. It was betrayal at its worst.

"Bella, Bella!" I heard his fervent whisper. I felt his hands on my face, fingers stroking my face. No, he was wiping away tears. I gasped for breath when I realized that I had not been breathing, which must have been why Edward looked blatantly scared.

I glanced at my clock again to see it screaming in red that it was only 6:00 in the morning. I silently cursed to myself and began to roll out of bed, except I didn't move in the right direction. I felt myself pressed against Edward and I heard his perfect, velvet voice in my ear. My body tensed, every muscle involuntarily tightening into knots.

"What happened?" he quietly pleaded. I looked into his and saw concern mixed with fear, and as always that little hint of frustration when he couldn't just read my thoughts.

"Nothing," I lied. I didn't get away with it.

"Bella, you are hiding something, which generally means it is something I should know. There is no way the truth could alarm me or hurt me any more than the multiple things I could imagine. Now please skip all this nonsense and tell me why for the second time you woke up and looked at me with a look of pure terror."

"Um well…I don't wanna talk about it because it doesn't matter. It was a nightmare and I've already pretty much forgotten it." He still didn't believe me, but I didn't give him a chance to force me anymore. Pushed to roll out of bed saying, "I need a moment, a human moment as usual. Please, let me go." I think it was the note of detachment in my voice that made him allow me to go.

EPOV

As I watched her leave the room I sat up and jumped out the window. Running always helped to calm me and clear my head. She wouldn't even know I was gone. I ran through the woods behind her house and it was there that it hit me. A scent I recognized but couldn't place.

I ran back to Bella's as fast as I could.

BPOV

Edward came bursting through my window and wrapped his arms around me. I had been momentarily shocked that he had left, but when I saw his cold, hard gaze I knew to hold still and clamp my mouth shut. Now was definitely not the time for questions.

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