Chapter 1
It was only when I switched on my bedroom light I knew something was
wrong. I stood in my doorway, thinking what it could be. As I grew more and
more anxious I heard a floor board creek behind me.
"Hello" said the mysterious, sweet voice. I knew who it was, the one person in the
world I cared about, the one person I would die for, my world.
"Hey" I replied, trying to sound as peaceful as his voice did, but failing. He was
perfect. In his arms I felt like I was in a dream, and that nothing could be wrong.
It was only when I turned around to face him that I realised that it could be.
"Oh my god, Edward, what's happened!?" I said with a voice full of worry and
concern. He may be a vampire that can't die, but I still worried about him as if he
was an expensive piece of crystal that I was afraid that if I dropped it, it would
smash into a thousand pieces.
Edward looked reassuringly into my eyes, trying to calm my frantic heart that he
could hear beating harder than ever.
"There are some young vampires. Some of Victoria's creations mustn't have come
along when they attacked last. They were down in La Push. Bella don't worry, we
have it under control, there's no need for you to be concerned…"
"No need for me to be concerned!?" I said with a voice that would have worried
anyone…anyone apart from Edward. He knew me too well; he knew what to say to
calm me down.
"Edward there is every need for me to be concerned. You've fought them before, but
you've never come back after a fight with scratches down your face." As I said this,
I reached out my hand and lightly traced the wounds running down his face,
cracking his marble features.
"They will heal. You seem to forget that I don't feel pain. They are controllable, it's
just that we weren't ready for them." he said with a voice full of assurance.
"Why are they here?" I asked him in a whisper. Tears filled my eyes with concern.
The last time they were here, they're goal was to kill me. What if that's what they
were here for this time?
It was as if Edward could read my mind.
"Bella, They're not here for you…even if they were they wouldn't be able to get within
a 100 ft of you. Not because of my family protecting you. Not because of the wolves
looking out for you. But because Im here. If I could, I would die for you. A million
times over. You are my life, my world…No you are more than my world, you are my
universe. You see Bella, if anything happened to you I could not live…and I think
incidents that have happened before prove this. I love you, and Im never going to let
you get hurt."
He threw his arms around me and held me tightly against his marble chest. I cried.
But not worrying tears. But tears of joy. Why do I have him in my life? I don't
deserve him! He was perfect, and I am just a small town girl.
But I won't let him come to any harm, even if he can't feel it. I love him
too much.
A look of panic must have been easy to read by my expression, because when I
looked up from his chest, Edward was just staring at me.
"Bella, I mean it. I don't want you to worry about this. We've handled more serious
situations than this. There is absolutely no need for you to be concerned. Please trust
me on this." He managed to say this with reassurance, though I could tell from the
fear in his eyes that the situation was as bad as I had imagined it. But I wanted him to
feel happier.
"I do trust you. If you say there's no need for me to worry, then I believe you. But
will you promise me something?" I asked him.
"Anything you want" he whispered sweetly in my ear.
I placed my hands on his chest to push him back a bit so I could look him in the eye. I
got perfect eye contact, so he knew I was being serious.
"Promise me that if it gets any worse or if there is any change to it, even the smallest
thing…that you will tell me. Or else I'm just going to have to find out for myself
what's going on"
I knew the last bit was a risky thing for me to say. As I suspected, he growled huskily
under his breath.
"If anything happens, anything, then ill let you know straight away. Bella you are
foolish. I couldn't hide anything from you anyway. That was a waste of a promise if
you ask me."
He smiled his crooked smile, and my heart melted.
"You did it again" I said weakly.
"What...Oh, did I dazzle you?" he replied with a voice that contained a hint of
confusion, but also glee and smugness.
I leaned forward and had to go on tip-toe…..and rested my lips against his. When he
kissed me, I felt exactly the same as I did the first time he did. My head begin to spin
and I began to feel dizzy. He pulled back and could tell from the look on my face that
I had been 'dazzled'. He scooped me up in his strong arms and laid me down on the
bed. I closed my eyes. When I opened them his face was less than an inch away from
mine. He was lying down next to me, staring at me. He was so still that he could have
been mistake for a manikin. He closed his eyes and held my hand softly. This must
have been what heaven was like, nothing can be better than this.
It felt like we had been lying there for hours, but in reality it was only a few minutes
when Edward suddenly slammed his eyes open and sprung up off the bed. He looked
round at me, and I could tell from the look on his face that something was seriously wrong.
"Stay here" he commanded me.
"What's happening? Edward, what's wrong?" I asked. He didn't answer me, he just
walked calmly out of my room. I know he was only walking slowly not to alarm me,
but I heard him out on my gravel drive way not a second later. The thought crossed
my mind to get up to my window and see what was going on, and I put a foot down
towards the floor. When my toes reached my floor boards I heard his voice in my
head, just like I had done when he left me. He sounded so realistic. It wasn't me
simply remembering what he had told me, but as if he was there.
"Don't move, it's not safe. Wait here for me"
He sounded so peaceful, but I remembered I only heard him in my head when my life
was in danger. A wave of fear shook through my body. My eyes locked upon my
bedroom door, praying to see him walk through it any second now in the majestic
manor that he manages to do it in without effort. But he didn't. Once again, it felt like
hours. Where was he? He wouldn't just leave like that…something was wrong. I
knew I could fight him in my head…I had done before. I tried again. When my foot
hit the floor, this time he said something more concerning.
"Bella if you move you're putting both our lives at risk. Just stay there." I ignored him
and put my other foot on the floor. I could hear a growl growing louder in my head. I
took a step towards my window. He was outside, if I could just see what he was doing
than I could feel calmer. The growling continued until I got to the window. I stretched
out an arm and grabbed hold to the edge of my curtains.
"BELLA!"
As I heard him shout, I pulled the curtains back.
My eyes immediately focused on him, not what was happening around him. He was
standing there, looking like a God. It was only when I looked at him properly I
noticed something was wrong. His clothes had been torn; he was covered in hundreds
of wounds, some looking deep. He looked tired, and was simply staring at the floor.
I gasped. What had happened?
"Edward" I said under my voice, so quietly that if Charlie was standing in my door
way he wouldn't have been able to hear it.
But not Edward.
His face suddenly turned upwards and his gaze met mine. His face was something I
had never seen; it was full of fear, of concern. He just stared at me, not doing
anything. His eyes said enough. The voice in my head had stopped talking. Maybe
because it was wrong to tell me to stay where I was, or maybe because it was too late
to do anything else. His eyes were full of urgency. As if I didn't already know, something was
wrong and I knew he was trying to tell me what to do, but I was frozen and only concentrating on
him. I whipped my head round to face my room…I heard a scuttling noise. Maybe it was just in my
head. When I looked back out of my window Edward wasn't standing where he was before. Horror
raced through my body. All of a sudden I heard him growl and I knew he was alright. But I still
couldn't see him. I heard a scuttling noise again, but I pushed it to the back of my mind, I was
already pre-occupied. It was only when I heard it louder that I felt like I was being watched. I turned
round and standing in the corner of my room was something id only seen once before in my life. A
new born. Instead of my heart beginning to race, it felt like it stopped. My breathing calmed and I
just stood there, staring. Outside I could still heard Edwards growl…or maybe it was in my head?
One way or another, it sounded miles away. The new born had a look of determination in his eye,
and I began to accept my fate. If I hadn't been hanging round with vampires for the last 2 years, this
situation would have bothered me more. But I was still paralysed with fear. The new born smiled at
me, and his teeth shone in the moonlight that was running I through the crack in my curtains. It was
only when he took a step towards me that I regained control of my body. I let out a scream. A
scream unlike anything I've ever done or heard before. The new born charged towards me and it was
all over quickly.
In that split second, a lot happened and I can remember it all very clearly. My bedroom door burst
open and Jasper came bursting in. He 'ran' over to where the new born was, which is now about a
centre metre away from my neck. Jasper grabbed hold of him and threw him against my bedroom
wall, before picking him up again and throwing him out of my bedroom door. Before Jasper left to
go finish him off, he turned around and smiled at me and gave me a wink. It was then I knew that
Edward wasn't lying and that everything was under control. Suddenly I felt a great restraint around
my waist and I immediately thought it was another new born that had come back to finish me off. Then it felt like another one had hold of me. Now there were too iron grips around me. I closed my eyes and let out another scream. I felt something cold press against me and I knew instantly what it was.
Edward.
I opened my eyes and we were standing out on my driveway.
"I asked you to stay where I left you" he said at me, looking up towards my window. I knew he was
either angry or worried. Which on yet, I couldn't tell. But I knew I could find out.
"oh c'mon, I needed to know what was happening" I said with a hint of anger in my voice, but not
enough for it to be a concern for him. He reached up his hand and held my chin and pulled my face
closer to his. He lightly pressed his lips to mine. I twined my hands into his hair in an attempt to hold
him there for even a second longer, but my strength was no match for his.
"Bella im so sorry" he said to me. He was looking me straight in the eye. My stomach began to knot
and I felt panicked. The last time id felt like this was in the forest last year when he left me. I wasn't
ready for him to even think of doing it again. I threw my arms around his neck and buried my face
into his shoulders.
"Bella, what's wrong? Everything is okay now. There is no need for you to be upset." He said to me.
I could tell he was worried about me, about my mental state. I then soon realised that he wasn't
realised me and that I had made a fool of myself. I lifted my face and took in a deep breath to calm
my nerves.
"I love you so much" I whispered in his ear. If I died right now, not 10 minutes ago then I would be
happy.
"Do I need to answer to that or is it obvious enough how I feel?" he said with an over whelming
tone.
"Please answer" mumbled again as I buried my face into his neck again. He pushed me away from
him and took my face in hi hands.
"Bella for me to say I love you is wrong"
Tears filled my eyes. I stared down to the ground, but he pulled my face back up to meet his gaze.
"The reason its wrong is because it's an understatement. 'I love you' isn't worthy enough to explain
how I feel. Without you there is no life, there is no hope, no love. Without you there are no stars, no
moon, no sun, and no warm summer breeze. Bella without you my world is black. Actually there is
no world. Without you there is nothing. So you see, I can say I love you, but there is so much more
beneath it. I need you."
His face staring at mine was the last thing I saw. My heart melted and my eyes closed. And there he
went, dazzling me again to a point where I found it necessary to pass out into the arms of an angel on
earth.