Edward's POV
"This
time, I'm gonna win!" Emmett says as Jasper once again beats him
in a wrestling match.
"No you're not, Jasper is." Alice
foretells…again.
"Whatever, I already know I'm gonna win, I
could do this for three hundred more years." Jasper replies
nonchalantly.
"I'm going for a walk." I say, turning off the
news.
In my house, with my family, most of the time is spent like
this: Emmett and Jasper wrestling, or arm wrestling, or something of
the sort. Alice and Rosalie are designing on the enhanced touch
screen computer designs for Rose, Carlisle at work with the hospital,
and Esme reading or swathing. I usually play piano. Or think about
him.
He and I have been going out since I moved here two years ago. He
knows about me being a vampire, but my family doesn't know about
him, and he doesn't talk to my family. I wouldn't be surprised if
Carlisle knew, he has a way of finding things out. Alice knows; that
I'm sure of. She doesn't approve, because he's a human, she has a
bad feeling about this, but I don't care. She also doesn't
object. But I can hear her thoughts; she thinks we're bad for each
other, a human and a vampire; totally wrong, right? But the thing is
I love him, and that's not gonna change. Jacob Black is what, if I
were alive (and not some soulless monster), I would call the love of
my life. He doesn't think I'm a monster, he doesn't believe my
soul's been destroyed. But I do. As I walk up into his house, Billy
comes out, giving me the same hateful glare as always.
"Hey, is
Jake here?" I ask. Billy rolls inside, slamming the door behind
him. A minute later, my Jake comes out.
"Sorry, I've asked
him to stop." He says after hugging and kissing me.
"No
problem, at least we still get to see each other." I reply, holding
his hand. We start walking toward the beach.
"So tomorrow do
you have
to go to school? I mean, really, can't you just skip once."
"Do
we have to go through this again?" I complain. I know he only asks
because he loves me and wants to see me."
"Yes, we do have to
go through this again because the one day I don't ask is the one
day you're able to get away."
"Fine then, no, I can't. I
would, honestly, you know I would, but none of my family knows, and
how could I explain myself?"
"Carlisle and Alice know." He
counters.
"I'm not sure if Carlisle knows; it's a huge
possibility, and Alice is against it already, I can't go giving her
another reason to be. And what about Jasper, Emmett, Rosalie, and
Esme, They don't know."
"I don't care if they hate me, I
just wanna be with you." He looks at me with honesty in his eyes. I
could hear it in his thoughts as well.
"I-" I sigh, 'I just
can't. I'm really sorry." I tell him.
Walking through the
woods with my Jacob is my favorite pastime. We always spend hours
out, walking through the woods as if it's just us, and nobody else
exists. After a couple hours, I hear my name called. But it wasn't
being called, just thought. It was Alice.
"What do you want?"
I say, knowing she'd be close enough to hear me.
"Emmett
wanted me to find you so that you and he can wrestle; he's tired of
jasper kicking his butt." She said, coming from the direction of
the front of the forest.
"You're interrupting my walk with my
Jacob for a wrestling match with Emmett he knows he's gonna win?"
I ask with teeth clenched.
"Don't shoot the messenger! I told
him not to bother you, and his response was, 'how important can a
walk through this boring town be when he has a brother in need of
moral support?' then he laughed and sent me to go find you, so I
did." She ended with a smile only Alice could pull off around me
when I'm mad without me killing her. Well, her and Jacob.
"Tell
him 'no'. If he insists, tell him I'll wrestle him when I get
home, and that's a promise." I say, turning and walking away.
"Come on Jake, we'll miss the sunset." Jacob started walking
with me, when Alice walked up behind me and stopped in front of
Jacob.
"Aren't you going to introduce me to your boyfriend?"
she asks with a sly smile.
How
does she know who I am?
I heard Jacob's thoughts, obviously directed at me.
"Don't
worry, it's only Alice. She's known forever." I calm him down
instantly. "Jacob, my sister Alice, Alice, my boyfriend Jacob,"
"I
don't trust you, but hi!
"Why don't you trust me? You're
the vampire here! I shouldn't trust you!" Jacob shoots back, half
jokingly.
"Well I don't trust you because you're trying to
make my brother skip school, and although he doesn't need it,
that's still a bad habit."
"How the hell did you know? What
are you stalking us?" he is freaked out, I could tell
"Alice!
No, she wasn't stalking us. She can tell what's going to happen
off the decisions you make. So as soon as you decided to try and get
me to skip school, she saw it in her mind." I explained.
"Yeah,
thought you knew. Sorry. Not
really."
She thought the last sentence.
"Actually, you're VERY sorry,
now leave!" I replied, busting her.
"Fine, fine, but
Carlisle's home; he wants to see you as of now." And She was
gone.
"Sorry, guess I have to go." I give him a hug and a kiss
and was about to leave, but…
"I love you." He says quietly.
If I'd been human, I would have missed it. But as it is, I am not
and I heard it. Not to mention, his thoughts were screaming with it,
although I think he forgot that I could hear those. I tried to block
it out for his privacy. I was stunned, though I think that's the
reason Alice left so early.
"I gotta go. I love you to." and
give him another sweet kiss, holding this one longer than the last.
He grabs the back of my head and holds on to my hair, as I do to him.
We finally let go, and I hug him again, this time, it's over
quickly. "Bye, see you later."
Once I got home, Carlisle is
waiting by the Volvo for me, as Alice promised.
"Yeah," I ask
when I get to him.
"You going to school tomarrow,"
"Yeah,
I guess so," I reply nonchalantly.
I didn't know that tomorrow
would be hell, full blown hell.
