Prologue

Blue eyes that belong to Mia watched a girl of her age run into old forest with mist covering the ground. She was laughing like a child as she run while holding her creamy dress that belonged to 17th century. Mia followed her with her eyes and soon her feet started to move towards the forest without leaves.

The mist followed after her and she barely saw the grass below her. The laughing of the girl disappeared somewhere in the woods while the silence covered the air. Mia walked inside the woods without questioning her moves, it was like there was nothing wrong, nor could something go wrong.

"Hello."

Mia almost immediately turned around but it felt like she was moving in slow motion as she did. The same girl that ran into the woods earlier was now standing in front of her with light smile on her face. She was truly beautiful. With fair skin and big light brown eyes she looked like a princess. A few locks of her brown hair fell out of the hat she wore and perfectly framed her heart-shaped face.

"I'm Adeline." She spoke with her lovely voice before extending her hand to Mia. "You are Mia, correct?" She asked while Mia's hand slowly slipped into hers.

"Yes." Mia answered and a soft giggle exits Adeline's plum lips.

Mia's eyes open slowly. Her first thought were about the dream she just had; but it felt like she dreamed of it before but just couldn't remember. Then her second thought was Edward; who was now lying on the bed next to her and looking at her face with his golden eyes.

"Good morning." Mia spoke with sleepy tone hitting her voice.

"Good morning." Edward said, a smile crossing his lips. "You look lovely when you're sleeping."

"I know right." Mia said. "You tell me that every morning." Mia added before she raised her head on the palm of her hand supporting herself with elbow against the pillow. "You enjoy looking at me while sleeping a bit too much."

"I won't be able to watch you sleeping once you marry me and become a vampire." Edward said with smug look on his face.

"Why so confident, Mr. Cullen?" Mia teased. "I still haven't say 'yes'." Mia said before Edward placed a soft kiss on her lips and shortly pulled away leaving his forehead on hers.

"Marry me." Edward spoke. I lost count of how many times he said that.

"I just woke up…" Mia murmured insecurely while Edward smiled. "I'm still recovering from shock when Alice said she'll throw me off the balcony if I don't dye my hair back to my natural color." Mia said and Edward laughed shortly.

"I remember, that was hilarious." Edward said, kissing her lips again. "But that won't stop me from asking you to marry me." Edward said, back to the old subject.

Mia rolled her eyes before she pushed Edward with her left hand and made him fall onto the bed with his back while she pushes the covers of her body and gets on her feet.

"I don't know if you're annoying or adorable with those two words." Mia said.

"Both." Edward answered teasingly while watching Mia stretching herself. "Just marry me." Edward said again, this time his voice was more serious.

"Keep trying and maybe one day I'll say yes." Mia said.

Edward smiled at her, flashing his white teeth, while Mia just playfully smirked and made her way outside of her room to leave towards the bathroom, and then later left down the stairs where Noah was.

Noah read the newspapers 'The Washington Inquisitor' with a title on front page 'Murders, disappearances, possible work of a serial killer". He immediately stopped reading when he heard Mia walking down the stairs and into the living room.

"Good morning." Noah spoke as soon as he saw her.

"Good morning." Mia said and sat down next to him. "What are you reading?" Noah glanced briefly at the newspapers before shaking his head.

"Nothing important." He answered before throwing the newspapers on the coffee table. "What are you doing today?"

"Um, well…"Mia started. "I need to study, and then I'm going to go hang out with Edward…" Noah groaned. "What?"

"Edward, Edward, Edward…" Noah murmured. "No offence, I like your guy, but do you really need to hang out with him so much?" Noah asked, but Mia stayed quite. "Mia, you seriously need to get some separation with him." Noah said.

"I do get some separation with him." Not really.

"More than one day?" Not even four hours. Mia didn't say anything. "How about this? You're not grounded anymore. But you have to see some of your other friends, like…Jacob. He's going through a really tough time right now. His dad is really worried about him. And I remember when that was you. You needed a friend, Jacob was there."

"Okay." Mia nod. "I'll separate from Edward and visit Jacob." Mia said, briefly smiling.

"And…" Noah started. "Sarah called." Mia's eyes wide with interest. "She wants to talk about you being a Grey Witch since you just ditched after you found out." Noah said.

"Okay." Mia nod.

"And, she send you two airline tickets." Noah said, giving Mia an open envelope. "For you and…Edward." Noah said, clearly disappointed that Edward will follow her even there.

"Edward?" Mia repeated.

"Maybe she wants him to become a Confidant." Noah said, not liking that idea.

"Maybe." Mia repeated, wondering why Sarah send ticket for him too.

"Hey, it's Jake. Leave a message." Mia sighs and hangs up.

She's been calling Jacob for more than 10 times and each time his voice mail turned on. He was clearly annoying her or he wasn't near his phone at the moments Mia was calling. Mia would rather think he's ignoring her on purpose. He's clearly mad at her for choosing to become a vampire, but he had to understand that it was Mia's choice.

Mia walked to her drawer and opened it. She moved the shirts away and took a folded piece of paper. She unfolded the paper and looked at it. It was a letter Jacob send her after he ran away in his wolf form. She looked at it and read it. The first lines of the letter were all strike through leaving the letter with only couple of words:

Mia,

Yeah, I miss you, too. A lot.

Doesn't change anything. Sorry.

Jacob

Mia smiled. She's so selfish. Thinking about herself and not about him. He, after all, was the one that moved her out of darkness from time to time and helped her feel better about herself and yet, Mia is so selfish not to see that he needs her too. How can he need me when he hates what I want to become? Mia loves Edward, and she sees Jacob as a friend. She never gave him any hints that she may like him more than a friend.

Mia sighs before she folded the paper and hid it back under her shirts. She put on her black boots and zipped up her black hoodie before she made her way out of the house. She walked to her car and sat inside. Closing the door, she started to start the car, one, two, three times and neither once did it work. This can't be happening.

Mia gasped suddenly as she heard the passenger door of her car close. Edward…Mia closes her eyes for a second and look towards him while he was looking at her. Mia could immediately notice that by the expression on his face that he wasn't really pleasant to see her leaving without informing him. I could just lie and say I wanted to surprise him and his family.

"Hey." Mia greeted, casually as ever.

"You're going now to the reservation." Edward said and Mia scoffed. Alice…of course.

"Seriously?" Mia spoke. "You need to kill my car just to stop me from going to reservation?"

"Mia, you have to understand. Your safety is everything to me."

"Jacob is not gonna hurt me."

"Not intentionally, but the wolves have no control—"

"And I can protect myself, thank you very much." Mia interrupted him. "I have until graduation to see him. And you have no right stopping me from doing what I want."

Mia opened the door and harshly closes them. She made her way to her house and closed the door. Sighing, Mia leaned on the wall and closed her eyes, drawing her head back against the wall… Why is he so protective?