Music Mood: Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day

My shadow's only one that walks beside me,

My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating,

Sometimes I wish someone up there will find me,

'Till then I walk alone…

The song ran through my head over and over as I sat in the biology room waiting for class to start. It fit me almost perfectly, except that my shallow heart doesn't beat, I thought to myself. It almost made me smile, thinking those morbid thoughts as I studied the pattern of the faux granite lab table. Feeling morose, I tapped out the melody line with my right hand on the tabletop.

"You're hiding again…" a little voice in my head said. I frowned and silenced it with electric guitars and drums. It was something that Alice had mentioned earlier that day – that I retreated into myself and hid from the outside world. She hadn't mentioned it again since then, but it still gnawed at my mind. And the thing was, the only reason it bothered me so much was because it was completely true.

I was sitting at my desk, brooding like that, when it hit me. It was like a slap in the face. No, like a sledgehammer. And it was… a scent. A fantastic scent, so mouth-wateringly delicious that venom welled in my mouth. I forced myself to swallow it and took a shallow breath. Immediately, every muscle in my body tensed, leaving me as stiff as a board. So, I did the only logical thing and stopped breathing. My throat burned with the lingering memory, a burn triggered only by the thirst for blood. Slowly, I forced my head upwards, searching for the source of the smell. What I found was a girl. She was maybe 17, and beautiful. Her skin was a pale, pale white rivaled only by mine and her dark brunette hair was pin straight and smooth. I didn't notice any of that, however. I knew something horrible, something absolutely dreadful. She wouldn't be leaving that classroom alive. I would kill her, right there.

Nobody will know, I thought. Nobody will see. After all, we were the only 2 in the classroom. Right?

Wrong. I looked around briefly, noting that the classroom was full. There were 16 other students to witness what would happen.

Okay, I thought, change the plan. Just take them out, too.

17 students and one teacher? My conscience finally said, reminding me of it's presence. My resolve wavered. Could I really slaughter that many?

Inadvertently, I took a deep breath.

YES! my brain screamed as the girl's delicious scent filled my lungs. Yes, I could. To get that, I could.

Authors Note: Okay, so that was really short, but I didn't really want to get TOO much into it. Want more? Then you must... review! I won't post the next chapter, which will have way more, until I get at least 10 reviews! Is that too much to ask?

Anyways... anybody that's reading this is probably noticing that it's a little bit different than Midnight Choices (my other fanfic, if u haven't read it). The biggest difference is that Midchoices is mostly in Bella's POV and this one is mostly in Edward's POV. Don't know why... but... yeah. Also, I'm going to do songs to match each chapter... or at least what I think it should be.