The Twilight Saga: Adrian's Story

by skylight96

"You don't know how long I've been waiting for you…my kryptonite." Adrian is a vampire who lived for eighty years with his family, the Cullen. One day, he met a beautiful young woman named Bella Swan, who managed to catch his interest ever since she came to Forks. Watch as Adrian try to discover the true meaning his sudden interest on her. Are they love? Or just lust for her blood?

1. Twilight Part I

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Twilight

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Skylight96

Summary: Every ends is someone else beginning. That's what I believe on. Just like the life I've been living for since my rebirth. My end is my very beginning. This is it. I'm Adrian Cullen and this is my story…

Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight but Adrian Cliff.

Warning: Alternate Version of Twilight and Vampires.

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Twilight

Part I

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Every last breath I took that day…

Every burning pain that was crawling inside my veins…

I could still remember it clearly…

It was the day where I reached my end. It was also the day where I reached my beginning. The life that I once knew back then was gone. Disintegrated into nothing but a pile of ashes lying on the ground and was reborn back into existence...

Just like the legend said. Every ends is someone else beginning. That's what I believe on… Just like the life I've been living for since my rebirth. My end is my very beginning. The one that you known as Adrian Cliff were no longer alive but Adrian Cullen is...

And this is my story...

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"Who are they?"

A pair of dark amber eyes instantly shot up from the book in his hand at the question and looked up towards the window of the cafeteria beside him to find the owner of the soft feminine voice. It was the new girl, Bella Swan from what he heard from the students. She was sitting within a group of five not far from the entrance of the school cafeteria.

Snapping his eyes away from his observation on the new girl, the owner of the eyes looked down back at the written words inside his old book and silently continued to follow his siblings as they all made their way to the entrance door of the school cafeteria. The sound of his siblings' footstep hitting the cement floor accompanied him during the short journey as he closed the book within his hand and placed it into the pocket of his brown jacket to open the door for himself.

The sound of chattering students and the smell of food instantly flooded into his enhanced senses as he let himself entered into the noisy hall. He paused slightly at the entrance door and continued to follow his family as they went up to the counter to buy their so-called-lunch while secretly listened to the conversation belong to the new girl's group of friends.

"The Cullen" answered a brunette spectacled girl named Angela Weber to the question asked by Bella as she played with her food awkwardly, as if she doesn't want talk about it with the new girl. The dirty blonde girl sitting next to her, Jessica Stanley nodded in agreed to her words and couldn't help but added her own eagerly by saying, "They're Dr. and Mrs. Cullen's foster kids" as she took a peek at the said family over her shoulder as they entered the school's cafeteria, "They moved down here from Alaska like a few years ago" she said as she took a bite of her salad while watching for Bella's reaction about the Cullen's family.

"They kind of keep it to themselves" added Angela helpfully as she placed down her fork to give both of her friends her full attention.

"Yeah 'cause they're all together. Like together, together" whispered Jessica scandalously to them as she took another peek at the Cullen behind her, "The blonde girl" she began as she gestured towards the beautiful blonde girl stood by the entrance of the hall with a dark-haired man holding her hand, "that's Rosalie and the big dark-haired guy, Emmett. They're like a thing. I'm not even sure that's legal" she said as they watched the said couple walked passed their table to their place by the window.

Angela shook her head exasperatingly at her friend's words and rolled her eyes, saying, "Jess, they're not actually related" as she took a bite of her lunch while watching them continued to talk about the Cullen.

"Yeah, but they lived together. It's weird" hissed Jessica as she gave the couple a disgusting look at the thought of them being a couple while living in a same house before turning to see another couple within the Cullen family, "And okay, the little dark-haired girl's Alice. She's really weird. And she's with Edward the bronze one who brooding all the time. Dr Cullen's like this foster dad/matchmaker" continued the dirty blonde girl as she motioned towards another couple walked passed their table.

"Maybe he'll adopt me" teased Angela playfully to them as she cupped both of her hands under her right cheek in fake blissful look at the thought of being adopted by the beautiful family. Bella snorted softly under her breath at her antic and turned her attention to the other Cullen walking passed their table.

"Who's he?"

Jessica lifted her head up at the question and turned to see another person from the Cullen clan she forgot to mention during the introduction, "That's Adrian Cullen" she said, "Edward's younger brother. He's totally gorgeous, obviously but apparently nobody here's good enough for him. Like I care you know? He's totally to engross with his book than socializing with other people like us. Seriously, don't even try" frowned the dirty blonde haired girl with a hint of bitterness inside her voice.

"I wasn't planning to."

Bella looked over her shoulder to the Cullen and couldn't help but watched the one named Adrian curiously from the other side of the cafeteria as he took a seat beside his older brother, Edward. She watched him placed his food down onto the wooden table and sat himself down into the empty seat booked by his older brother earlier with his hand tucked firmly into the pocket of his brown jacket. He talked with his siblings for a moment or two before pulling a small book out from the pocket of his jacket. He chuckled at something Emmett said and opened the book that was in his hand to read it.

Feeling a heated gaze of someone watching him from far, the bronze haired man looked up from his reading and turned his head to his side to see the new brunette girl watching him over her shoulder. He raised his eyebrows slightly in confused at the look he received from the new girl and slowly turned his attention back to the story as he waited for the bell to ring.

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"Mr. Molina" greeted a tall blonde haired young man, Mike Newton to his teacher as he presented the older man his new student. The Biology teacher known as Mr. Molina looked up briefly from his paperwork at the greeting and smiled as he greeted one of his students in returned with a warm smile adorned on his face, "Hey, Mike" he said before shifting his attention to the person walking behind the boy, "Oh, yes. Miss Swan" welcomed the kind teacher to his new student as he waited the girl to meet him by the table.

Bella thanked the Newton boy softly under her breath for showing her the lab and slowly entered the class as she glanced around the small room to find familiar faces among the students inside her class. A lone figure sat by the window instantly caught her attention as she raised her brown eyes up from her observation to see one of the Cullen, Adrian, sitting alone on the other side of the class with his book in his hand. She paused slightly in the middle of her track and couldn't help but stare at the beautiful Adonis basking by the window. The wind from the fan behind her ruffled her dark brunette wavy hairs which unconsciously caused the said Adonis to stiff at the unexpected strong scent coming out from her.

Adrian, who was reading his old book, instantly froze at the strong freesia scent filling the air around him and slowly shot his darkened gaze up from his book to meet the new girl standing by the fan. Feeling the increasing hot burning thirst inside his throat, he instantly stopped his breathing and quickly shut his book as he turned his head away to the window on his left to hide his slowly darken amber eyes. He moaned in pain at the wonderful smell coming from the new girl in front of his class and covered the lower of his face with his hand as he struggled to keep himself from killing everyone inside the room.

"Hi, can I have the pass?"

Snapping away from her musing, Bella turned her attention back to her new Biology teacher and passed him the said pass for his signature. Mr. Molina thanked her for the pass and signed it as he handed her a book for his class, "Welcome to the class. Here's your stuff okay? And I got your seat right here. So, come on" said the older man as he began to lead the young woman towards an empty seat at the back of the class. Bella thanked the kind teacher and slowly took her seat behind the bronze haired Cullen.

The loud beating of her heart greeted the agony vampire as he forced the predatory side of him into submission with his jaw clenched tightly to prevent himself from losing his control over his thirst for her blood. He closed his eyes for a moment and slowly turned around to face the shy brunette girl with a painful smile adorned on his face, "H-Hi" greeted the bronze haired young man awkwardly to the human girl. God, never in eighty years of immortality had he smell something so delicious. So wonderful that he had to use everything he had to suppress his own desire to drink her.

He swallowed the pooling venom inside his throat and continued to talk to her in hope of avoiding any suspicious about his strange behavior, "B-Bella Swan, isn't it? I'm Adrian Cullen" he said as he introduced himself to his new lab partner.

"…Y-Yeah" answered Bella softly to his greeting as she took a chance to fully look at his appearance. He was no doubt a gorgeous looking young man she ever since seen in her seventeen years of living. He had short dark bronze colored hairs and a perfectly aristocratic face with a strong jaw line. His skin was flawless. As if he was craved on marble. One thing that caught her attention was how pale he was along with his other siblings. I mean, he was so pale that she almost wandered if he even had blood inside him. Not even a hint of flush could be seen from him.

Shaking her head to dismiss her wandering thoughts, she bit her lips lightly in hesitation and couldn't help but leaned closer to him as she looked at the silent Cullen concernedly at the pain adorned on his handsome face, "A-Are you alright?" she asked him timidly as she watched him repeatedly fisted his hand, as if he was struggling to keep something at bay. Something dangerous. "You like you're in pain" she said.

Adrian instantly stiffed at the closeness that he felt from the human girl and slowly nodded as he gave her a painful smile to dismiss her concern about him, "Yeah, I'm fine" he said as he withdrew his hand back under his desk to hide it from the brunette girl beside him, "Just a little stomachache that's all. Must be something I ate during lunch."

Bella blinked at his pathetic excuse and slowly nodded as she turned her attention back to the teacher with deep thought circling inside her mind about his weird behavior. Adrian sighed internally at the changing attention and couldn't help but glanced sideway at the human sitting beside him in interest for her wonderful scent.

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After spending half of his day in school with burning thirst inside his throat, Adrian quickly got out from the school after his fail attempt of changing his Biology class and went to the parking lot to meet with his family by Edward's silver Volvo. He stalked his way through the crowds of eager students within the parking lot and stood stiffly beside Alice with his jaw clenched tightly against each other to suppress the urge to massacre everyone inside the school.

He took a deep breath of the cold Forks air and couldn't help but release a small moan in relief before opening his dark hungry eyes to his siblings, saying, "I can't believe I managed to survive that" referring to his encounter with the new girl. Edward, who was leaning against his Volvo, narrowed his eyes slightly at the memory replayed inside his brother's head and turned his attention to his petite girlfriend beside him in concerned for his brother, "Alice"

"It's alright. You won't hurt her" answered the seer of the Cullen family, Alice, to Adrian as she hugged Edward's arm in comfort for his concern. Rosalie, who had been listening beside her boyfriend, frowned at the thought of a human knowing about her family and lifted her head up to the said human as she glared at her from the other side of the parking lot, "If she gives you any trouble. We could always kill her" she said.

Emmett snorted at the suggestion and wrapped his arm around her waist affectionately in hope of calming her from her anger regarding the new girl, "Chill out, babe. We can't just kill her" he said as he watched the object of their conversation entering her old truck.

"You're right. Besides, she's the chief daughter. People bound to be suspicious" said Edward in agreed as he turned his attention to the human girl who was watching them from her old Chevy truck, "I think you ought to be absence for a few days. Until you can control your thirst around the girl"

Running his hand through his short dark bronze hairs in frustration, Adrian sighed deeply in defeat and slowly nodded in understand as he crossed his arms firmly against his chest, "It's like being a newborn again" he murmured softly with his eyes darkened in pain at the memories of his newborn phase. The constantly thirst for blood was annoying to him during his time being a newborn vampire. I mean, he had to been kept inside their house for three years before he was confident enough to face the civilization again without massacring them.

Edward's eyes softened as he watched his memories replaying inside his brother's head and placed a comforting hand on his shoulder as he guided him into his Volvo. Letting himself being pushed towards the back seat, Adrian took a final glance at the red Cherry truck on the side of the parking lot and slowly entered the car as they drove away into the main street.

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On the side of the parking lot, Bella, who just finished her first day of school, glanced around the sea of students around the parking lot to find a certain bronze haired boy that caught her interest since she first saw him. She looked over a group of students walking passed her and saw the Cullen gathered around the silver Volvo that was parked far away from hers truck. She watched Adrian walked towards his family and silently observed him as he talked with his family.

Looking at the beautiful family, she couldn't help but feel like they talked about her since she often caught the beautiful blonde girl, Rosalie, if she wasn't mistaken, glaring at her across the parking lot. She ducked her head down at the intense glaring from the beautiful blonde girl and opened the door of her truck as she threw her heavy school bag to her passenger seat. She closed the door of her truck and turned around once again to see them but was disappointed to see they already left the parking lot towards the main street. Sighing deeply in defeat, Bella walked to the driver seat and drove her truck away from Forks' High to her house.

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A few days passed since their encounter and Bella, who had been in school today, couldn't help but wonder about the absence of a certain Cullen. Every day when she entered the cafeteria and the biology lab, she didn't see him. The bronze haired young man, who had caught her attention since the first day she came into school, was absent since the day he claimed he was sick. She was concerned about him and she was began to wonder, was it because of her that he's absent? She noticed that he was fine at that time when she saw him during lunch. He wasn't touched or ate anything on his tray. So, how could he be sick because of something he didn't eat?

Then, after days of wondering, he came back. It was during Biology, when she saw him again. There he was sitting at their usual table, reading a book while waiting for their biology teacher to prepare everything for their root onion experiment. Bella paused suddenly at the entrance of the lab and was surprised to see him again. She was snapped away from her daze by Mike who was playfully flipping his wet cap near her face and chuckled softly for his antic as she hung her jacket by the door. She walked towards her seat and placed her bag down onto the floor beside her stool before giving him a soft smile of greeting.

Adrian, who had been waiting for the brunette girl to meet him by their table, looked up from his book and couldn't help but returned the smile with his own as he closed the opened book inside his hand to greet her, "Hello" he said her as he placed his book away to the side near his school bag that was placed on top of the table by the glass window, "It's nice to see you again"

Bella stared at him for a moment or two, trying to make sure he was real and not her own imagination, and hummed softly under her breath in acknowledge for his greeting as she tucked a few strand of her hairs away from her face behind her slightly red ear, "H-Hi" she answered him as she hid her flushed face slightly away from his view behind her dark brunette hairs, "You've been absent for quite awhile" she said as she looked up at him with concern and curiosity swimming inside her doe-like brown eyes, "Are you alright?"

"Yeah" chuckled the bronze haired young man for her concern over his so-called health as he played absently with the Cullen leather wristband on his right wrist while listening to the teacher briefing the student about their little experiment, "I had a food poisoning. So, my dad made me stay home for a few days" he shrugged.

"Oh?"

Adrian gave her a stiff nod for his answer and turned his attention back to Mr. Molina, their Biology teacher, as he began to explain the procedures that require for their experiment, "So…" he trailed off as he turned his head to the side to his lab partner with a beautiful smile adorned on his perfect lips, "How much did I miss?" he asked as he cleared their desk for the experiment.

Bella, who was watched him pushed his book and stationary to the side of the desk, shrugged as she bit her nail shyly, "N-Nothing much" she said as she watched his pale hands took the glass slides given by their teacher moment ago, "Just starting the chapter on Mitosis that's all"

"Really?" smiled Adrian to her as he absently shifted through the glass slides in his hand before placed it back down onto their table for the microscope, "Mind if I borrowed your note?" he asked as he placed the item between the both of them.

"Y-Yeah. Sure"

He took one of the glass slides from the table and placed it underneath the microscope helpfully before pushing the said microscope to his lab partner for her to start their experiment, "Ladies first" he said cheekily as he waited for her to look through the scope. Bella hesitantly took the microscope with her and looked through scope to see the phases on their onion root cell, "Prophase" she said to him confidently as she pulled away from the scope to see him wrote the answer down onto their answering sheet.

"Mind if I take a look?"

The brunette girl looked up from her musing about his elegant hand writing and nodded as she pushed the microscope back towards him to confirm her finding. Adrian smiled in polite for her gesture and took the microscope with him to see it for himself, "Yup. That's prophase alright" grinned the bronze haired man in agreed for her correct answer.

"Like I said"

Chuckled, he changed the glass slide with the other one and looked through the scope to see the next phase of mitosis in their onion root cell, "It's anaphase" he said as he wrote the answer down onto the paper.

"You mind, if I check?"

"Sure" humored Adrian to her request as he pushed the microscope towards his dark brunette lab partner for her to see. Bella took the microscope to her side of the table and looked through it with a hint of amuse smile adorned on her lips for his correct answer, "Anaphase"

"Like I said"

Both of them chuckled at their antic and continued the experiment as Adrian took the microscope back with him and changed the slide with their last ones. He looked through the scope for the final phase of mitosis and hummed softly under his breath as he pushed it away to write the final answer on the paper, "It's metaphase" he said as he pushed the microscope to her for her to confirm it for herself, "Want to check it?" he asked.

"I believe you"

Finished with their work early than they expected, both of the lab partners sat at their table awkwardly and watched as the other students inside their class struggled to identify the phases they found on their own glass slides.

Adrian looked down at the pen inside his hand and began to twirl it around for a moment in boredom as he took a peek at the human sitting beside him, "So" he began as he placed his pen down on top of his paper to give her his full attention, "How are you feeling?" asked the Cullen to the human girl as he turned his body around to fully face the shy brunette in hope of making a conversation with her while they waited for the class to end, "I mean, I know Arizona is completely different from Forks. You know, with the cold and the rain" he said as he turned his attention to the rain outside of the window to prove his point, "But why you willing to let go of the heat and sun for something gloomy like this?"

Bella followed the line of his sight towards the pouring rain outside of the glass window and couldn't help but released a deep sigh in defeat as she tucked a few strand of her hairs away from the side of her behind her ear, "I-It's complicated" she said as she bit her lips slightly at the thought of her getting wet with her hand absently played with the lose thread at the edge of her sweater sleeves.

"I'm sure I can keep up" smiled the bronze haired young man softly as he leaned his upper body heavily onto his elbows towards the shy girl. Bella bit her lower lip slightly with her front upper teeth and sighed as she told him the reason why she willing to move from her home in Arizona to Forks, "Well, My mom remarried and…" she trailed off as she struggled to search for the right words to describe her situation.

"So, you don't like the guy or something?" questioned Adrian helpfully as he passed their answering sheet to John, one of their classmates who was given a task to collect all of the answering sheets before packing his things into his bag as he waited for the bell to ring.

"No! That's not it" denied Bella as she tucked her wavy brunette hair once behind her ear, "Phil's really nice" she said as she couldn't help but noticed the color of his eyes were different before his absence.

The school bell rang and the students, who were sitting inside the lab, began to pack their things into their bags eagerly as they listened to the middle aged teacher announcing the pair who managed to get all correct answer on their little experiment, "Alright" said Mr. Molina loudly to his students as he took the golden onion from his desk, "Before we leave, I want to announce the pair who managed to get all the correct answer. This golden onion goes to Adrian Cullen and Isabella Swan"

The sound of the students clapping accompanied the pair as they thanked the kind teacher for the golden onion. Adrian shook the teacher's hand and gave the golden onion to Bella with a beautiful smile adorned on his aristocratic face. Bella shyly took the offered onion and left the lab along with him as well as the other students into the school's hallway. Adrian, who was still curious about the human girl's life, followed her towards her locker not far from the lab and stood patiently by her side as he continued their conversation early during the Biology, "Then why didn't you move with your mother and Phil?" he asked as he watched her placed some of her books into the locker.

Bella shut her locker and turned around to face the handsome bronze haired Adonis as she crossed her arms firmly against her chest, as if to shield herself from the embarrassment she felt for having his full attention on her, "Well" she paused, "Phil's a minor league baseball player, therefore he travels a lot and that made my mom unhappy so I decided to move up here for awhile" she shrugged as she bit her lips anxiously for his reaction to her words.

"…That's very thoughtful of you" said the Cullen with a hint of surprised in his smooth deep voice as he gave her a warm smile for her thoughtfulness, "You're willing to sacrifice your happiness just for your mother to be happy. Your mother must be blessed to have such a thoughtful daughter as you"

Blushing at the compliment she received from him, the shy brunette young woman tucked her hair behind her ear and couldn't help but leaned closer to him as she gazed deeply into his eyes, "Hey, did you get contacts?" she asked him in returned in hope of changing the subject away from herself as she watched his bright molten amber eyes slowly began to darken as minutes passed.

"No" answered the bronze haired boy casually to her as he tucked his pale hands deeply into the pocket of his brown jacket, "Why do you ask?"

"Your eyes" she began, "They were black the last time I saw you and now, they're like golden brown. They also getting darker"

The owner of the said eyes silenced for moment or two as he took all of her words into thought and couldn't help but released a humorless chuckle as he shook his head at her musing, "Nah, that's maybe that's fluorescent or something" he said as he flickered his gaze away from hers in hope of dismissing the subject regarding his eyes.

The Cullen hesitantly backed himself away from the human girl and tilted his head slightly as he excused himself, "Well, I had to go. I'll see you tomorrow. I hope" he said with a small fake smile upon his face as he turned his back to her to hide the fear swimming inside his eyes. Giving her one last glance over his shoulder, he walked down the busy hallways and slowly disappeared into the crowd.

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"You're early"

Adrian looked up from the written words inside his old book at the voice and smiled as he greeted his siblings with his back leaned heavily against the door of Edward's silver Volvo, "Yeah, I finished my project early so the teacher let me out earlier than he expected. Besides, I'm his favorite student" bragged the bronze haired Cullen cheekily to them which earned him a loud laugh from the ever playful Emmett, "So? You guys ready to go?"

He went to the back seat of Edward's car along with his other siblings and couldn't help but took a glance at Bella who was standing by her truck on the other side of the parking lot. Meeting her brown eyes gaze with his golden brown ones, the bronze haired young Cullen gave the human girl a small smile of farewell and opened the door of the car when a high-pitched squealing sound snapped his attention away from her to a black van belonged to a kid named Tyler.

Seeing the van barreled towards her out of control, Adrian ran as fast as he could through the frozen students and cars inside the parking lot and pulled the human girl into his embrace as he shielded her from the van with his bare hand. He pushed the van away from them and looked down to her with fear and horror swimming inside his golden eyes.

Bella, who was still shaken from the incident, looked up to her savior and couldn't help but gasped in surprised to see Adrian, who was on the side of lot moment ago, suddenly appeared in front of her to save her from being flattened by Tyler's van, "How did you-!"

"Oh my God! Bella!"

"Someone! Call 911!"

"Bella, are you alright?"

"Bella?!"

Fear of being discovered by the other students around them, Adrian gently withdrew his arm away from her petite waist and slowly disappeared behind her truck as the students began to make their way towards the scene. He ran back to his family who were still standing at the same spot earlier before the accident and looked up at them with guilt flashed inside his eyes as he entered the car.

As soon as he closed the door behind him, Rosalie, who sat beside him inside the Volvo, began to rant him with her beautiful face rage in pure anger for his stupid action of saving the new human girl from her death in front of people around the school parking lot, "What have you done?!" she exclaimed, "Are you retarded or something?! What were you thinking? Do you know how much danger that you put us through just to save her? There were probably fifteen kids saw what happened out there-!"

"What was I supposed to do, then?" snapped Adrian in distressed to her as he ran his cold shaky hand through his short bronze colored hairs, "Let her die? Think, Rosalie. You know how much I desire for her blood. If I didn't save her, I'll massacre everyone within the lot. You told me yourself that you don't want to move again so suck it up and let me handle this! "

With those final words, Adrian got out from the car while it was still moving and slowly disappeared into the forest beside the road as he made his way towards the hospital to see the human girl. He emerged from the bushes beside the main entrance and dusted his clothes in hope to clearing any hint of dirt during his run before entering the hospital where the leader of his Coven worked. He walked down the hallway to the E.R. and opened the door to see his father; Carlisle examined Bella for any further injuries with Chief Swan standing beside her in concern.

"You might experience some post-traumatic stress or disorientation, but your vitals look good. No sign of head trauma. I think you'll be just fine" smiled Carlisle to his patient as he looked down once again at the clipboard for further information on the new girl.

Bella shifted slightly on the bed and looked up at the handsome doctor with curiosity inside her doe-like brown eyes, "You know, it would've been a lot worse if Adrian wasn't there. He knocked me out of the way" she said as she watched the doctor closely for any hint of about Adrian's ability.

"Adrian?" questioned Chief Swan in surprised as he shot the doctor a look at his son's name, "Your boy?"

"Yeah, it was amazing. He got to me so far. He was nowhere near me"

Clearing his throat to stop her from revealing anymore details about him to her father, Adrian walked further into the room and looked up to the brunette young woman with a small stiff smile upon his face, "Bella" greeted the said savior as he gave the chief a nod in greeting, "How are you feeling?" he asked.

Bella, who was babbling about Adrian's daring action of saving her from her death, turned around at the smooth familiar voice and was surprised to see the object of her talk standing behind her with a stiff smile on his handsome face, "Adrian" she gasped as she didn't expected to see him so soon after the incident at the school lot, "W-What are you doing here?"

"I'm here to check on you" answered the bronze haired man with his darken golden eyes flickered momentarily to his father before shifting it back to her as he tucked his pale cold hands deeper into the pocket of his jeans, "You could've have die if it weren't for me standing behind you all those time"

"Wha-?"

"Well" cut Dr. Cullen, preventing her from questioning his son any further than necessary as he gave the chief a winning smile as well as a soft friendly pat upon his shoulder, "She's good to go. If she had any dizziness or nausea, bring her back here for further check-up"

With that, Chief Charlie Swan thanked the kind doctor for his time and told Bella to meet him at the waiting room by the reception as he went out to sign some paperwork. Leaving the two teenagers alone, Bella bit her lips anxiously for his sudden appearance inside the room and slowly stood up from the bed to make her way towards the door. The steady sound of his footstep hitting the floor alerted her of his presence as he followed her out from the E.R. into the hallway, "Well?" asked the bronze haired Cullen to the human as he grabbed her arm to prevent her from leaving, "Are you going to say anything?"

Hesitated, Bella pulled her arm away from his grip and crossed it tightly against her chest, as if to shield herself from him, with curiosity and desperation for truth flashed inside her beautiful brown eyes as she took a deep breath to calm herself down in an attempt of seeking for truth about the mysterious Cullen, "H-How…" stuttered the ever shy brunette as she questioned him for what happened back then at the school lot, "How did you get over to me so fast?" she asked.

"I was standing behind you, Bella."

"No" she denied as she gave the young man a knowing glare for his pathetic lie, "You were next to your brother's car across the lot."

"No. I wasn't."

"Yes, you were."

Agitated by her need for truth, the bronze haired Cullen ran his pale cold hand through his hair and pursed his lips slightly as he looked up at her with defeat swirling inside his amber orbs, "…If I say I don't know. Will you let it go?" he asked, hoping to drop the matter off as he glanced over her shoulder to see his father standing at the end of the hallway, listening to their conversation with a concern look upon his handsome face.

"What do you mean you don't know?" scowled Bella in disbelieved as she watched him flickered his gaze away from hers towards the tiles floor beneath them; "You stopped the van. You pushed it away with your hand."

"Well, nobody's gonna believe you, so-"

"I wasn't gonna tell anybody" she interrupted him with her brown eyes widened in sincerity as she waited for the man to tell her the reason and how he save her from her death, "I just need to know the truth that's all"

"Can't you just thank me and get over it?" growled the savior irritatingly to the human girl as he raised his intense gaze up with anger and frustration. The said human girl was stunned at the anger she received from him and couldn't help but stuttered her thank to him while she stood her ground in attempt of finding the truth.

Minutes passed between them and Adrian, who had been agitated by her constantly questioning, began to sigh in defeat at her stubbornness as he leaned closer to the shy brunette in hope intimidate her with his inhuman, dark amber eyes, "You're not going to let this go, are you?" questioned the man knowingly as she shook her head.

"No"

"Well, I hope you enjoy disappointment then"

With those final words, he turned his back to the girl and walked down the hallway to meet his father who was still standing at the end of hallway for his son. Bella watched her savior walked away from her with sadness and frustration inside her brown eyes and bit her lips tightly to stop herself from crying like a little girl for his action before she turned away to meet her father by the reception.

The next day, Bella stood by her old Chevy truck and glanced around the parking lot for the bronze haired young man in hope for confronting him once again about the incident before her observation was interrupted by Mike, who stood directly in front of her, blocking her view with a boyish smile on his face, "Look at you, huh? You're alive" he joked with his arms raised dramatically into the skies as if he was grateful for her to be alive and not six-foot under.

She chuckled slightly at his joked and shrugged as she tucked her hands deeply into her jacket, "Yeah, I know. False alarm, I guess" she said as she looked over his shoulder to see the person she been looking for stood patiently beside his other siblings, not far from her. She watched Adrian talked momentarily with his brother, Edward along with his girlfriend/adopted sister, Alice before glancing slightly to her direction with a small smirk on his handsome face.

"So, what do you think?"

Snapping herself back to reality, Bella turned her attention back to the Newton boy before her and stuttered as she tried to recall the things he said to her moment ago, "About what?" she asked.

"Do you want to go? Prom? With me?"

A pair of deep brown eyes blinked in surprised at the invitation and frowned as she bit her lips slightly with her front teeth, struggling to find the right word to decline him with her attention occasionally turned to the man standing behind him, "I'm sorry, Mike" she said, "Prom. Dancing. Not such a good idea with me. I have something that weekend anyway. I'm going to Jacksonville that weekend."

"You can't go another weekend?"

"Non-refundable ticket" shrugged the brunette girl as she tucked a few strand of her hairs away from her face behind her ear. She turned her head to one of her friends standing with the teacher near the school busses and smiled as she motioned the Newton boy to take a look at the dirty blonde haired girl waving at them, "Maybe you should ask Jessica. I know she wants to go with you"

Downtrodden, Mike plastered a fake happy smile on his boyish face and walked away from her towards Jessica with a deep sigh emitted from his lips. Mr. Molina, who was just finished gathering all the permission slip, looked up at a few of his students who were still roaming around the lot and called out to them to enter the bus quickly for their field trip. Bella entered the second bus and took a seat in the middle of the bus beside Angela.

At the Botany Park, the students were walking aimless through the large green house, glancing and touching the plants curiously as the sound of their teacher lecturing them about bio-compost accompanied the students in their tour inside the Botany Park. Bella took a moment to glance at the small cute plant on the shelves beside her and was startled by another presence standing behind her.

"Hello" greeted the bronze haired Adonis to her as he admired the same plant that she was looking at from behind, "So, I heard Newton asked you to prom" he said as he touched the green leaves with his cold icy pale hand before lifting his bright golden brown gaze into her warm brown ones, "and you decline him"

"How do you know about that?" questioned the brunette girl in surprised as she followed her classmates through the aisle towards the entrance of the large green house. Adrian walked beside the human girl and shrugged as he tucked his hands firmly into his leather jacket.

Walking together side by side in silence, Bella took a glance at the handsome young man beside her and sighed as she tucked her stray hairs away from the side of her heart shaped face, "Well, are you gonna tell me how you stopped the van?" she asked, waiting for the man to answer her as she glanced around the green house absentmindedly.

"…No"

"Why?"

"Because it's better this way"

"Bella!"

A sudden call of her name interrupted them as they turned to see one of her friends, Jessica walked towards her gleefully with a huge happy smile adorned on her beautiful face, "Guess who asked me to prom?" she said before giving the young Cullen who was standing beside her friend a glance as she told her about Mike.

Seeing Bella distracted by her friend, Adrian walked away from the girls to give them the privacy they needed and looked among the students for his siblings. He caught up with them and couldn't help but rolled his eyes at the lovey dovey scene created by his two siblings, "Oh, get a room you two" he said as he watched Edward tucked one of the small flower he took from somewhere among the plants around them behind Alice's ear.

Alice giggled happily at her boyfriend for her gift and pecked the older bronze haired Cullen chastely onto his cold lips before sticking her tongue out to her younger brother at his teasing, "Oh, hush you" scolded the small ebony haired girl as she hugged Edward's right arm firmly onto her chest. Edward laughed at the mumbling thought inside his brother's head and kissed his mate's forehead affectionately as they walked together, following their classmate, "So, how's your conversation with the girl? Did she tell anyone about it?"

"No" shook the younger bronze haired man as he followed his siblings out from the green house, "I don't why she didn't tell anyone about it. She just keeps on asking me for the truth."

"That's good" said Edward as he looked down to his petite mate who was in deep trance. Alice blinked her bright amber eyes and smiled as she squeezed his arm softly to ease his worry about their family, "Don't worry. She won't tell anyone. In fact, she's going be my best friend if Adrian could get his act together" scolded the seer as she steered Edward away for some privacy. Adrian rolled his eyes at her cryptic answer and sighed as he made his way towards the bus.

"Adrian!"

A call of his name stopped the bronze haired Cullen in the middle of his track as he turned around to see Bella running towards him. He waited for the brunette girl to catch up with him and leaned heavily against the side of the school bus for her as he tucked his hands firmly inside the pocket of his jacket. Bella slowed her running into a fast walk and stopped in front of the handsome Adonis with an irritated look upon her beautiful face, "Well?" she said.

"What?"

"Are you gonna tell me why you think it's better for me to not know about how you save me?"

Sighing, Adrian ran his hand through his short bronze colored hairs exasperatingly for her need of questioning him and said, "Can we forget about it?" as he turned away to continue his walk towards the door of their school bus.

"No" stopped Bella as she caught his arm with her hand to prevent him from leaving her behind just like he did back then at the hospital. Adrian let her stopped his escape even though he could easily broke her grip with his supernatural strength but ignored it for her safety as he turned around to see the human girl, "Bella, we shouldn't be friends" explained the bronze haired Cullen tiredly as he gently pulled his arm away from her grip to cross it firmly against his broad chest.

"You really should've figured that out a little earlier" she said, "I mean, why didn't you just let the van crush me and save yourself all this regret?"

Stunned by her words, he clenched his jaw tightly at the thought of him being regret for saving her and frowned as he looked at her with anger swirling inside his gaze, "What, you think I regret saving you?" he asked.

"I can see you do with the way you avoided my question" answered Bella as she hung her head down to hide the hurt and sadness within her eyes. She bit her lips thoughtfully and raised her head up high towards the handsome bronze haired Adonis as she looked deeply into his bright amber eyes, "I just…I don't know why" she trailed off, hoping for him to answer her as she watched him sighed deeply in defeat.

"You don't know anything, Bella."

"Hi." An unfamiliar feminine voice greeted them as they both turned around to see Adrian's siblings, Edward and Alice if she mistaken, walking towards them with a small smile adorned on their beautiful face, "Are you gonna be riding with us?" questioned the petite dark haired girl to Bella as she hugged her boyfriend's arm affectionately which earned her a peck on her forehead from the older bronze haired man in attempt of stopping her from making the human girl joined them which might agitated their brother more than he is, "Alice. Love, our bus is full remembered?" scolded Edward gently to his mate as he sent her a pointed look before shifting it to his tense brother standing in front of the girl.

Seeing the pointed look from her mate, Alice sighed deeply in defeat and couldn't help but sent a glare at Adrian's direction before giving the girl a sweet smile, "Oh, right. I see you then, Bella." She said, leaving both of them alone by the school bus as she walked through the door of their bus with her lover following her from behind.

"Y-Yeah"

Adrian rolled his eyes at the look he received from his sister and turned his back to Bella as he followed them into the school bus. He took a seat behind his siblings at the back of the school bus and couldn't help but looked out from the glass window beside him towards the brunette girl who was sitting inside the other bus beside theirs. He watched her took a seat next to Angela and sighed as he faced his petite sister with a small frown on his face regarding the interaction that she had with the human girl, "What are you doing, Alice?" he asked as he folded his arms casually on the back of their seat.

Alice turned around at the annoying presence behind her and glared at her irritating bronze haired brother with a 'Are-you-stupid' look on her face, "I'm trying to help you, Ian" answered the pixie-like vampire to him as she leaned herself warmly against her mate's side, "You need to stop being a coward and confront her"

"And what? Telling her the truth. Alice-"

"She's gonna be one of us, Ian" cut Alice firmly as she pulled Edward's left arm around her shoulder to play with his Cullen crest leather wristband, "I see it" she said as she looked deeply into his own bright golden brown with a knowing smile on her lips for the vision she saw regarding the human girl and her brother.

"Well, your vision is subjective Alice. Nothing is set on stone yet" argued Adrian as he turned his gaze out through the window.

Hearing the agitated thoughts circling inside his brother's head, Edward pulled his mate closer to his side and placed a soft kiss onto her cheek in hope of distracting her away from their brother, "Adrian is right, Alice. Maybe we should let it be, love" he said.

"Edward-"

"Hush"

Seeing both of his siblings basking in each other love, Adrian couldn't help but felt a small twinge of envy and sadness inside his unbeaten heart as he turned his gaze away from them towards the scenery flashing through the glass window. All of the members inside his Coven were mated except him. So, seeing and watching them interacted with each other made him felt jealous and longing as he wondered if he would even had a mate of his own to share every moment of his immortal life with. Adrian shook himself away from his musing and slowly stood up from his seat as he followed the students out from the school bus after they've arrived at the school lot towards the cafeteria.

…

Entering the cafeteria later than she used to, Bella placed her bag down onto the empty beside Angela and couldn't help but glanced over the students towards the Cullen's table. Adrian, who was reading his old book, looked up at the feeling of someone watching him and smiled as he met the shy brunette gaze with his own. She hesitantly returned his smile with her own and turned her attention back to her friends as she listened to them planning their trip to a beach down the Quileute Rez. She agreed to their invitation and excused herself as she made her way to the salad bar. She took a medium size bowl and began to arrange her salad according to her likes.

"Edible art?"

Startled in surprised, she accidently knocked her red apple out from her food tray and was stunned to see a foot kicked the apple back up into the air before it could fell onto the ground underneath it. A pair of pale hands instantly cupped the glorious red apple and presented it to her with an amuse smile adorned on the owner of the said hands face. Bella thanked him for saving her apple and took it from his icy cold hands as she took her tray to find something for her salad, "No" she answered his previous question as she let him followed her around the counter, "I just like my salad to be organize so I know where they are when I'm eating it"

"Hmm. OCD?"

"Just picky"

Adrian nodded in understand as he tucked his hands deeply into his dark red hoodie, "Anyway, I remembered you asked me about how I save you that other day. So, I thought I wanna know your theories about it" said the bronze haired Cullen as he gave took a few of the napkin and placed it onto her tray which earned him an amuse look from the owner of the tray.

"Well" trailed Bella off as she took a few scope of the cherry tomatoes into her bowl, "I have considered radioactive spider and kryptonite"

"Really? Do I look like a superhero to you?"

Silenced, she turned her attention to her companion beside her and looked deeply into his bright golden brown eyes with unreadable emotion swirling within her doe-like brown orbs, "You save me, Adrian. You're my superhero"

Adrian, who was stunned by the sincerity inside her voice, looked up from the green salad inside her bowl and plastered a stiff smile as he took her red apple from her tray, "But what if I'm not the hero?" he said, "What if I'm the bad guy?"

"You're not." Bella denied as she turned around to face him, "I can see what you're trying to pull off, but I see that it's just to keep people away from you" she said as she watched him bounced the red apple absently between his hands with a thoughtful look upon his face. Seeing the deep red apple inside his cold pale hands, she couldn't help but imagined the apple as a heart that was held by his hands, "It's a mask" she continued as she turned her attention back to the Adonis before her, "Besides, if you're really the bad guy, you won't be saving me that day"

Tightening his hold slightly around the red apple without bruising it, he released a soft humorless chuckle and smiled as he placed the apple back onto her tray, "You're weird" he said as he leaned himself against the bar while he waited for her to pick which gravy she would want inside her salad, "I never met someone like you before"

"Why don't we just hang out?" she asked as she poured a decent amount of gravy into her salad, "Everybody's going to the beach. Come with us."

"Which beach?"

"La Push"

Hearing the name of the beach, a hint of disappointment flickered inside his eyes as he gave her a deep sigh in apology for her invitation, "…I don't know" he said as he glanced over his shoulder to see her friends as well as his family watching them from far, probably wondering about what they're talking about except for Edward who was giving him a glare for his thought of joining her to the Quileute's Land, "I don't really think your friends want me to come"

"I'm sure they won't mind."

Shifting his attention back to her hopeful face, Adrian cracked a small smile on his coral colored lips and shook his head as he declined her offer, "…Maybe next time, Bella" he said as he slowly backed himself away from her and made his way back to his seat within his family by their table. Unknown to the bronze haired young man, a pair of deep brown eyes watched him walking away from her with disappointment within her eyes as she walked away from the bar towards her own table to wallow herself in pity.

…

"Ian. I need your help!"

The owner of the nickname raised his head from his laptop screen and turned around to see one of his siblings, Alice, skipped through the door of his room with a huge smile on her face. Adrian clicked the save button on his written document and sighed deeply as he closed the laptop to give his sister his undivided attention, "What is it, Alice?" he said as he leaned heavily against his chair with his arms crossed firmly against his broad chest.

"I need to pick up something for me in Port Angeles" she grinned as she hand him a receipt of the said item. He took the offered receipt and couldn't help but raised eyebrows at the tiny words written within the small piece of paper, "Can't you just didn't ask Edward?" asked the bronze haired Cullen to her as he folded the receipt and placed into the breast pocket of his light blue long sleeves shirt to do her bedding.

"Nope" giggled the petite dark haired vampire as her said mate flashed beside her with a huge grin on his face, anticipating for some alone time together with his mate, "Edward and I are going to hunt early this evening and since you had nothing else to do then writing your story. You might as well get it for me" she shrugged as she left her sibling alone inside his room to do her bidding with Edward following her every footstep, eyeing the sensual sway of her hips with his dark hungry eyes as they left the house for their 'hunt'.

Rolling his eyes upwards towards the heaven, Adrian stood up from his seat near his working desk and took his black leather jacket off from the back of his seat as he made his way towards his shelves near the entrance of his room. He took his unused car keys from the shelves and walked out from his room to the garage. He turned the light on and made his way to his black R8 Audi with a huge smile on his face. He caressed the smooth surface of his favorite ride with his icy cold hand and slowly opened the driver door as he turned on the ignition. The sound of his car purring to life greeted the owner as he pulled out from the large garage of the glassy house and drove it towards Port Angeles.

After spending two hours or so driving and picking up the things Alice's requested, he walked out from the store and couldn't help but spotted a familiar looking brunette girl walking down the street ahead of him. He fastened his pace and slowed it down after he managed to catch up his human girl, "Hey, Bella" greeted the bronze haired young man to her which earned him a loud squeal in surprised for his sudden appearance.

"Adrian" startled Bella as she turned around to see the handsome bronze haired Adonis, "God. You nearly give me a heart attack. What're you doing here?" she asked as she looked down at the large bag in his pale hand. Adrian tucked his free right hand into the pocket of his black leather jacket and shrugged as he unconsciously walked her up towards his car not far from here, "I came to pick up something for Alice. What about you?" he asked as he turned his darken amber eyes into her deep brown ones.

"I-I just went to the bookstore and buy some book that's all…"

"I see" answered the bronze haired Cullen as he glanced around the street and couldn't help but remembered one particular bookstore belonged to one of the Quileute's people somewhere within these street, "Isn't there a Quileute's bookstore around here?" he murmured as he studied her closely for any reaction about the certain bookstore.

Bella's eyes widened in surprised at his knowledge and couldn't help but stuttered as she struggled to keep her panic down in attempt of avoiding any suspicious about her sudden interest in the Quileute's legend, "Y-Yeah" she began as she tucked a few strand of her dark brunette hairs behind her slightly red ear, "W-Well, I went to La Push that other days and I thought I want to more about them and their legends"

"Huh. That's interesting. I never knew you like something like that. I could have brought some of my books about legends and such if you like" answered Adrian casually as he ignored the constant nagging inside his head about her sudden interest in the Quileute's legend that could probably lead her of the existence of his family.

Plastered a stiff smile on his face, he leaded the shy brunette girl to his Audi and offered her a ride to the restaurant where her friends gathered after buying their dresses for the prom. Bella accepted his offer and entered the car as he drove them through the downtown of Port Angeles towards the Italian restaurant near the Black Diamond's Dress shop. He parked his car on the side of the road near the said restaurant and looked out through his tinted window to see her friends walking out from the restaurant. Bella pulled her seatbelt off of her and turned around to meet the driver with a small relief smile adorned on her lips, "Thanks for the ride" she said, "If you weren't there, I'll be probably lost"

"Yeah, no problem"

Seeing her friends, Jessica and Angela, came out from the restaurant, she opened the door of the passenger seat and quickly made her way to her anxious looking friends with an apologetic look upon her flushed face, "Hey, you guys. I'm sorry I just…"

"Where were you?" cut Angela worriedly as she looked at her friend up and down in search for injuries and such before pulling her into a big hug, "We left you messages" she said as she pulled herself away to give Jessica the opportunity to hug their friend as well.

Jessica took it and hugged her new friend with a deep sigh in relief emitted from her lips, "Yeah, we waited so long for you" added the dirty blonde haired woman as she let her go from her embrace, "But we were, like, starving so, we…"

"Hello." A smooth deep voice cut in between the two friends as both, Jessica and Angela, turned their attention away from their brunette haired friend to see the speaker. Seeing Adrian Cullen standing behind Bella, both of them was stunned in surprised at his sudden presence and couldn't help but glanced between Bella and him suspiciously in hope of finding whether there were something between those two.

Adrian smiled in a polite for their attention and nodded in acknowledge as he pushed his hands deeply into the pocket of his leather jacket, "I'm sorry I kept Bella from dinner. We just sorta run into each other and got talking" explained the Cullen to them as he waited for the girls to snap themselves back from their musing.

"Y-Yeah, we totally understand" stuttered Jessica as she bit her lips to suppress the urge to giggle at the handsome Cullen, "We're just about to leave. So, Bella, do you want you to leave with us or-?"

"Well, if you don't mind, I would like to buy Bella some dinner since I've made her miss it with you guys. I'll drive her home" interrupted Adrian as he shifted his gaze slightly to the said brunette with a look on his face, hoping for her to agree with his invitation as he motioned for her to join him.

Taking a moment of consideration for his tempting offer, Bella nodded in agreed and bid her friends goodbye as she followed him into the restaurant. They took a small table of two in the middle of the crowded room and waited for the waitress to take their order. Bella ordered mushroom ravioli and a glass of coke while Adrian ordered a steamy cup of black coffee to warm his icy cold body.

A young waitress, probably within her early twenties, greeted both of them and placed a plate of mushroom ravioli onto the table before turning her attention to the beautiful man sitting before her, "Are you sure you don't want anything?" asked the waitress flirtatiously as she gave him a free show of her cleavage in hope of taking his attention on her instead of the dull brunette girl.

Adrian shook his head in decline for her offer and circled the rim of his cup of coffee absently with the tips of his fingers as he waited for the waitress to leave. Frowning, the waitress turned away from them and mumbled incoherently underneath her breath for his lack of interest on her as she returned to her work. Bella, who had been watching the waitress trying to flirt with him, began to snort softly for the waitress's failure and took a bite of her mushroom ravioli with her eyes watching his every move, "So, are you going to tell me anything?" she asked, placing the forks down onto the plate as she waited for the bronze haired Adonis to answer her unspoken question.

"About what?"

"About the things we've been talking about the other day?" she said as she placed both of her elbows on top of the round wooden table separated between them, "I thought you're gonna tell me whether my theories were right or wrong"

"Did I?"

"Yes"

Hesitated, he took a small sip of his black coffee to warm his icy cold body up into a suitable temperature and raised his dark amber eyes into her warm brown ones with a stiff smile adorned on his soft coral colored lips, "Well, how about you eat first? After you finish it, I'll give you some hint" answered the man as he motioned for her to finish her dinner first in attempt of dodging the matter for awhile.

"Can't you just directly tell me about it?"

"I can't."

"Can't or won't?"

"I literally can't tell you, Bella" answered Adrian as he combed his hand through his short bronze colored hairs exasperatingly. He was in a tight place. He had tried to diffuse the situation but still nothing could deceit her. He took a deep breath to calm his anxious nerves and was struggled to find the right words to explain his situation without revealing to her about the existence of their kind, "But it doesn't mean you can't find it for yourself but before you do any digging about it, beware of the danger you'll put yourself into. I just need to know whether you're willing to risk yourself for my secret or just let it be as it was before you met me"

"…Are you that dangerous?" questioned Bella as she watched him closely.

Adrian silenced for a moment or two at the question asked by the brunette girl and began to look up from his cup of coffee with a thoughtful expression upon his face. After debating the pros and cons regarding the matter, he shook his head away from his musing and motioned his head towards her full plate, telling her to finish her meal.

Reluctantly agreed to do so, Bella finished her dinner in the recorded time and stood up from her seat as she watched him paid for both of them with his credit card. He leaded her out from the restaurant towards his R8 Audi and opened the passenger seat for the young lady before he made his way to the driver seat. He turned on the ignition and began to drive them through Port Angeles into the highway as they made their journey to the old town, Forks.

After spending half an hour in awkward silence, the brunette fidgeted slightly within her seat and couldn't help but took an occasionally glance at the silent man sitting next to her in the driver seat as she bit her lower lips in attempt of finding the right word to describe their situation. They had been beating around the bushes for weeks now and she wondered if one of them would ever give up and let it go without making such a fuss about it. But unfortunately, both of them were stubborn as a bull. Each wouldn't back down even though they desperately want it to end.

Tucking a few strand of her wavy brunette hair behind her ear, Bella took a deep breath to calm herself down from the intense silence surrounded them and turned her body fully to her left to face the driver, "What are we?" questioned the brunette human girl softly under her breath as she watched him shifted his dark amber gaze momentarily to her before returned it back to the road.

"What do you mean?" he asked as he took a left turn into the conjunction leading to Forks.

"I mean, you said we're shouldn't be friends and yet here you are giving me a ride home and talking to me like a friend would. So, I was wondering. If we are friend…" she trailed off as she watched him closely for any reaction about her referring him as a friend and maybe something more in the future.

"…And what do you think?" questioned the bronze haired man in returned once again for her words as he pulled his eyes away from the road to meet her.

Her pair of warm brown eyes was swirling with unreadable emotion as she took a moment of silence to think about the relationship that she had with the mysterious young man, "I think…" she began as she recalled of the interaction that they had together. The occasion smile sending between them, the conversation that they had together. Yes, they were friend. "I think we are friend and yet you reluctantly admit it" she said as she anxiously waited for him to deny her claim.

Hearing her claim on their relationship, a warm soft smile slowly occurred across his lips as he nodded in agreed, "Yes, we are friend" admitted the bronze haired Adonis as he turned his attention back to the road. If he had kept his gaze on her long enough, he would have notice a huge smile as well as a hint of blush occurred on the shy brunette's face as she looked at him with love and happiness swimming within her warm brown eyes.

A black R8 Audi instantly entered the Forks bonder as they drove through the small town before slowing slightly near the police station to see the commotion happening there. Bella looked up over the windshield and was frowned in confused and concerned to see her father's cruiser, "Wait" she said as she took off her seatbelt to get a closer look at the cars around the parking lot, "What is going on? My dad's still here. Can you pull in?" she asked as she turned her gaze to the driver.

"Sure" nodded the bronze haired man in agreed as he drove his car into the parking lot. He parked his black R8 Audi at the empty space near the entrance and turned his engine off as both of them got out from his car to meet Carlisle who was just got out from the station. Adrian closed the door behind him and walked up to meet his father with suspicious and concern plastered upon his face, "Dad, what's going on?" questioned the young Cullen to his father as he pushed his icy cold hands deeply into the pocket of his leather jacket.

Carlisle looked up at the familiar voice belonged to one of his son and smiled as he greeted his Childe, "Waylon Forge was found in a boat out near his place" he said before turning his attention to the brunette girl standing beside him, "I just examined the body"

"He died? How?"

"Animal attack" he said as he sent a knowing look at his Childe. Adrian narrowed his eyes slightly at the look and gave his Sire a brief nod understandingly about the so-called animal attack before shifting his dark amber eyes at the brunette girl next to him.

Bella, who was surprised by the animal attack, couldn't help but wondered about it as she bit her lips lightly in deep thought, "Was it the same one that got that security guard down in Mason?" asked the human girl to the doctor as she watched him looked down briefly onto his Rolex wristwatch.

Carlisle looked up from his watch at the question and reluctantly admitted relationship between those animal attacks as well as the others near their little old town, "Most likely" answered the handsome doctor as he looked over her shoulder to his son.

"Well, it's getting closer to town, then."

"Bella" interrupted Adrian as he placed his hand onto her shoulder to catch her attention away from the matter, "You should go inside and see your father. He's must be worry about you. Especially with these animal attacks"

Startled in surprised by his icy touch, the brunette young woman reluctantly nodded in agreed and slowly walked up to the entrance door with uneasiness plastered upon her face. She paused suddenly in the middle of her track and turned around to meet her new friend with a small smile adorned on her flush lips, "I see you later then" she said as she waited for him to meet her gaze.

Adrian looked up away from his father and couldn't help but gave her a warm smile in returned as he gave her his goodbye. He watched her entered the police station towards the office and walked away to his car that was parked right in front of the main entrance. He turned his ignition on and began to follow Carlisle's black Mercedes from behind as they drove through the small town towards their house near the La Push border.

Parking his black R8 Audi beside Carlisle's Mercedes inside the garage, he got out from the driver seat and closed the door behind him as he entered the living room to meet with his family. He shrugged his jacket off from his shoulder and placed it onto the back of the unoccupied loveseat as he took his seat. Carlisle, who was the first to enter the living room before Adrian, made his way to his mate and gave her a kiss on her lips in greeting. Esme smiled warmly at his action and returned the kiss with her own as she took his briefcase into her hands.

Rosalie, who was absently browsing through a fashion magazine, looked up from the cute picture of dresses on her magazine to her Sire and frowned as she asked him about the rumor that she heard from the students, "Carlisle, it is true. Are they getting closer?" questioned the beautiful blonde haired young lady in concerned about the so-called animal attack as she closed the newest fashion magazine on her laps to give him her full attention regarding the serious matter.

Carlisle loosed his light blue tie slightly from the collar of his white shirt and sighed as he unbuttoned the end of his long sleeves, "It seems so" answered the blonde haired vampire to his family as he turned his attention to the dark haired petite vampire sitting beside his first Childe while folding the end of his sleeves up onto his elbows, "Alice, do you have any vision about the visitors?"

Alice, who was sitting beside Edward on his grand piano, stopped her humming and silenced as she let herself fell into a trance. Her bright amber eyes glaze for a few moments before shaking herself away from her vision into reality with a small apologetic smile on her lips, "I'm sorry, no"

"What are we going to do, Carlisle?" asked Esme as she placed her hand onto his arm in concerned for the safety of her family as well as the people in Forks.

"We just have to wait and see. I'm sure they are passing through"

"So it's a waiting game then" answered Adrian as he stood up from his seat to Emmett, who had asked him whether he want to join him playing the racing game. He took the offered controller from his older brother and picked one of the cars appeared on the TV screen as the older ebony haired man clicked the start button.

…

Weekend passed and the Cullen, who had been worried about the recent animal attacks, began to take turn on patrolling their territory in attempt of steer the nomad away from town. It was early in the morning, Adrian, who was just finish his patrol, jumped up through his opened window on the second floor of two stories their house and was surprised to see Alice sitting patiently on his bed.

He narrowed his newly brighten amber eyes suspiciously at her presence inside his room and ignored her as he continued to make his way to the wardrobe. He took off his slightly bloody grey shirt and threw it into the dirty laundry basket beside his wardrobe as he shuffled through his shirts to find a suitable one for school.

"Ian?"

"Yes Alice?"

"I had a vision today. A vision that will change our life forever"" said the small petite young woman cryptically to her brother as she watched him turned his back to her to take out his favorite deep green long sleeves neck turtle shirt from one of his drawer.

Adrian paused slightly at the words and continued to wear the shirt of his choice as he smoothed thw wrinkles with his hands. He combed his bronze colored hairs slightly with his hand in attempt of brushing any twigs or dirt inside his hair during his patrol or hunt and frowned as he turned around to face his older sister with confusion plastered upon his handsome face, "What do you mean by that?" questioned the bronze haired brother as he walked towards the toilet to brush his teeth from any linger smell or taste of the animal blood that he had before.

Alice stood up from his bed and slowly followed her younger brother as she leaned herself heavily against the doorframe, "Bella's gonna confront you, Ian. She knows what you are" replied Alice as she watched as he spit his toothpaste into the sink.

He risen his mouth with tap water and spit any excess toothpaste into the sink as he wiped his mouth with a small towel hanging beside the sink, "How?" he asked.

"I don't know but I want you to keep calm and try to do what your heart tells you alright?"

Tilting his head perplexedly at her answer, the bronze haired Cullen nodded and placed the towel back on the hanger as Alice made her way out from his room to give him some privacy. Adrian took his bag from his bed and closed the door behind him as he walked downstairs to meet the rest of his family. He stopped at the bottom of the stairs and glanced around the living room to see his siblings.

Rosalie, who was just finished putting her lipstick on her lips, looked up at his reflection on her mirror and frowned as she turned around to meet the owner of the said reflection, "So, did you find anything on your patrol?" she asked.

"Nothing much though. Just the usual hiker tracks"

Emmett, who had been packing his gaming materials, looked up from his Xbox and grinned as he placed it into the small cupboard underneath their TV, "Maybe they change course?" replied Emmett hopefully as he closed the cupboard after making sure nothing is missing from their places.

"Maybe"

With that, Edward went downstairs followed by his petite mate, Alice and threw something at Adrian's direction as he made his way to his beloved Volvo inside the garage. Using his fast vampire reflex, he caught it before it could hit his face and opened his hand to see his car key for his black R8 Audi.

"You'll be driving your own car today"

Rolling his eyes upward towards the heaven for something, Adrian muttered 'whatever' to his older brother, knowing how much he love his privacy with his mate, and made his way to his car. He pulled his car out from the garage beside their house and drove his way to school.

At the school lot, the students, who were lounging around the ground, looked up at the arrival of the Cullen and were surprised to see an expensive black colored R8 Audi, driving into the parking lot. The expensive car parked its way beside Edward's Volvo and turned its ignition off as the students waited in anticipation for the owner of the said car to make their appearance.

Adrian opened the door of his car and looked up to see the students watching him with surprised and jealousy plastered across their faces as he closed the door behind him. He rolled his eyes at the attention that he got from his school mates and glanced around the lot to find Bella. He met her warm brown eyes with his bright amber ones and stood there patiently for her next move. He knew she's going to confront him soon and he couldn't help but wonder if he had made a big mistake of hinting her about his existence because deep down inside his heart, he wanted her to know. He wanted her to know him.

Not far from the lot, Bella, who had been waiting for Adrian to confront him, stood anxiously at the entrance of the school and watched the bronze haired young man closely with her doe like brown eyes as she motioned for him to follow her towards the side of the school. Adrian shifted his attention briefly to Alice and was answered with a nod by the petite woman as she encouraged him to follow the brunette human girl. He took a deep unnecessary breath to calm his nerves about the things that was about to happen and slowly begun to follow her into the forest.

The cracking sound of broken twigs as well as dried leaves echoed loudly within the silence as they made their way deeper and deeper into the vast green forest surrounding Forks. With each step their made, Bella, who had calm during the journey, began to pant softly under her breath as her heartbeat accelerated in fear for the things that was about to happen between them. She threw her bag away onto the ground beneath a tall tree and sighed deeply to calm herself down as she wiped her sweaty hand onto her dark skinny jeans.

Hearing his footsteps coming closer and closer to her, the brunette human girl stiffed anxiously at his presence behind her and said, "You're impossibly fast and strong. Your skin is pale white and ice-cold. Your eyes change color and sometimes you speak like you're from a different time. You never really eat or drink anything. You don't go out on the sunlight" as she kept her back towards him in fear of facing the truth, "How old are you?" she asked.

"I'm originally eighteen" he said, "But I posed myself as seventeen"

"H-How long you've been 18?"

"…A while"

With that cryptic answer, the bravery that was once inside her heart moments ago began to flatter as her heart started to accelerate once again in fear. She swallowed her fear down and turned around to meet him, "I know what you are" murmured the girl softly under her breath as she looked deeply into his bright golden brown eyes.

She knew she was a fool for leading him alone into a forest where she could have been killed by his hand, but deep down inside her heart, she's doesn't care. He could kill her if he wants and she would let him because she knew he won't hurt her. There were many moments where he could kill her or let her be killed such as the incident that was happen in the school lot. He could just let the van crashed her but yet, he willing to sacrifice himself and his secret to save her. That's mean something to her.

"Then say it" replied her savior as he leaned closer to her flushed face. His pair of bright golden brown eyes gazed deeply into hers as if he was trying to find something swirling inside her eyes and said, "Tell me what I am"

"Vampire…" answered the brunette girl softly under her breath as the accelerated sound of her heartbeat echoed loudly inside her ear. The said vampire silenced for moment or two and couldn't help but plastered a fake humorless smile upon his lips as he withdrew himself away from the scared human girl, "Are you afraid?" he asked her as he studied her closely for her reaction.

"No"

"You're lying" he said as he shook his head in disbelieved for her lies, "I can hear your heart racing. I can smell the fear inside you. You are afraid of me"

"Y-You won't hurt me"

Chuckled humorlessly for her weak answer, Adrian titled his head slightly to his side as if to examine the human girl closely with his enhance sight and watched as she fidgeted within her spot for the attention that she gained from the said vampire, "I know I won't" he murmured, "But the question here is would you willing to hurt yourself after finding out the truth? I'm a killer, Bella. I'm the world dangerous predator. Everything about me lures you into my death embrace. My voice, my face and even my smell. Once you're trapped, you're dead. As you mentioned before, I'm impossibly fast and strong. I'm designed to kill"

"I-I don't care"

"Well, you should because I really wanted to kill you, Bella" snapped the vampire irritatingly for her lack of self-caution as he recalled the time where he first smell her blood. God, ever now he could still feel the animalistic urge trashing inside his chest. Adrian closed his eyes briefly to hide the guilt flashed inside his orbs and sighed as he raised his head up to meet her, "I've never wanted a human's blood so much in my life since the day I met you" he said, "Your blood. The smell of it is killing me. I had to use every single fiber inside me to stop me from killing you"

Hearing rather than seeing the vulnerability within him, Bella took a step closer to the silent immortal and hesitantly touched his icy cold face with the tips of her fingers as she watched his beautiful amber colored eyes swirling with unreadable emotions, "I'm here with you didn't I?" she said, "I trust you"

"Don't." shook the bronze haired young man as he plastered a fake tight smile upon his face, "Don't ever trust me because I don't trust myself with you"

Raising his hand up to grab hers that was caressing his face, the bronze haired vampire gently hold her heated hand with his icy ones and slowly leaded her deeper into the forest, "Your scent" he began as he carefully guide her up into the mountain where there's a small meadow that he often went when he need some privacy from his family, "It's like a drug to me. You're like my personal brand of heroin" he told her as he wrapped his hands around her waist, earning him a loud yelp in surprised from Bella for his action, and lifted her up over the fallen tree blocking their path as they continued their journey towards the small meadow, "and my family. We're only drink blood from animals. We've learn to control our thirst and live among the mortal. That's make us different from our kind"

He stopped suddenly in the middle of their track and turned around to face the mortal girl with dark amber eyes filled with sadness and longing for something she didn't know about, "I swore I'll never ever drink a single drop of human blood before but now, I don't know if I could keep it" he said

"…I know you can" replied Bella sincerely as she squeezed his hand, "You're my superhero"

Adrian studied her for moment or two in attempt of finding any hint of lies and deception for her words and couldn't help but laughed as he remembered their conversation days ago inside the cafeteria, "You're weird" answered the vampire as he returned the squeeze with his own, "You don't know how long I've waited for you… my kryptonite"

With that, he pushed through the tall bushes surrounded his small meadow and released her warm small hand as he let her explored his little piece of sanctuary. Bella glanced around the meadow and couldn't help but awed by the beauty of the small place. There were wildflowers, variety in colors, lying around the tall green grass. And in the distance, she could hear the sound of running river, giving it a sense of tranquility to those who stood inside the meadow. She walked deeper into field and turned around at the beautiful immortal Adonis, who was still standing at the edge of it, in confused, "Are you going to come out?" she asked.

Adrian looked up briefly at the sunlight that managed to penetrate through the dark gloomy clouds and sighed as he reluctantly took a step into his meadow, "You do know I don't usually go out on the sunlight right?" he said as he struggled to keep himself from flinching at the burning sensation of the sunlight touching the side of his face. He knew he's going to get sunburn after this, he thought as he motioned for her to follow him towards the single tall tree that was located in the middle of the meadow.

Noticing the redness within his pale face, Bella scolded herself internally for causing him to join her into the sunlight, despite of her knowing about him being a vampire, and quickly followed him towards the tree to get out from the sun. She took a seat beside him within the shade and couldn't help but apologize for making him come out into the sun, "It's alright" shrugged the vampire casually as he leaned himself heavily onto the rough wooden trunk of his single tree behind them, "You didn't know that"

"But still-"

"It's alright, Bella" smiled Adrian as he turned his head to face the guilty human girl, "It's not that bad. Besides, I healed fast" he said as he motioned towards the slowly healed skin upon the side of his face.

Bella hesitantly gave him a small nod in understand for his point and followed his action by leaning herself against the trunk beside him. She turned her body to the side to face him and couldn't help but gaze the handsome immortal silently as she raised her hand up to caress the slowly healed skin with the tips of her fingers.

Smiling at her action, Adrian leaned his head closer to the human girl and slowly closed his bright golden brown eyes in content for her warm touch, "You're warm" he said, grabbing the small warm hand of her with his cold ones as he pressed it firmly against his cheek. Bella caressed his high cheek softly with her thumb and smiled as she leaned closer against his side, "And you're cold" answered her to his previous words as she studied him closely. With that, both of them spent their day sitting under the huge tree located in the heart of the meadow somewhere within the forest and talked about their life as the sun slowly set down into the horizon, signaling the beginning of the twilight.

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To be continue…

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