''I am the perfect predator. I attract you in all ways. I smell enticing. I look enticing. I couldn't be any more attractive. Perfect to attract helpless 'prey'. Like you. You shouldn't be here with me. You should be dead.'

'But doesn't that say something about you, Edward. I'm safe with you.'

'You don't understand, Bella!' He cried, making me flinch. 'I don't love you- hell I don't even like you. I only come near you because I need to taste you, to smell you.' Edward shook his head. 'To kill you.' He turned his face away from mine, looking angrier than I thought possible from the usually complacent Cullen's. He turned towards me again, but before my heart could stutter at it's odd pace, Edward was gone.

I sucked in a panicked breath. I couldn't hear anything. The silence frightened me most. Then I heard the strangled scream of a bird and branches ripping and stones crumbling. Animals screamed at me to get away. I caught sight of two pale hands and stopped breathing. Edward. I looked into his face, but he wasn't Edward. His eyes didn't belong to my Edward. The new eyes were blood red and angry.

'Run.' Edward hissed though lifeless lips. I froze, fully aware how running would possibly kill me but the tone of Edwards's voice scared and confused me. So I ran.
I set off at an uneven pace, having had little need with running before. My feet were unsure of themselves and my arms flailed and kept scraping past bark, revealing crimson flesh. The trees suddenly lurched in my way and I stumbled past them, using some instinct that kept me from falling head first into one.

'Run faster, lamb.'

I was truly terrified and lost in the middle of the forest. I had lost all sense of direction. I kept on running, fear driving my useless legs. My lungs burnt and legs were dying, and branches kept on whipping my face, producing a fresh flow of blood. I heard Edward running behind me and lost pace. One foot got caught within the other. I feel and heard a thud where something- my head maybe? - had hit a boulder. I was too tried and scared to feel where was hurt and instead lay whimpering in the silence.

'So the lamb fell in loved with the lion. What a stupid little lamb.' I screamed as a cold hand wrapped around my throat. My scream was futile.

Then the hand was gone. A snarl broke out close by and I could just about see a huge animal tearing towards Edward. I cried no at the creature, but the reply was a savage growl. Edward ran towards the creature and collided with him, bringing his teeth towards the neck of the animal. I did not want to see someone I loved being hurt because of me. A body hit the tree and slumped to the floor.

'Leave her alone, murderer. Remember the pact.'

'Oh…oh. Oh God. I...I'm…got to go.' Came Edwards's voice; hurried and distressed. Then the silence came again.

'Bella?' I sobbed in reply to the voice in my mind. There was no other boy here in the forest.

'Bella, it's ok now. He has gone. He won't come back to this side of the woods. You're safe with me.' Two strong arms lifted me and the boy carried me across the forest floor, cursing in agony. He was in pain, but Edward had gone. That was all that mattered.