--A Different Twilight

Edward pov

"Okay, I'm going out! I'll be back by 12! I'm going-" Bella said walking slowly concentrating on the steps not looking up to see I was the only one here.

"With the mutt." I finished her sentence.

She sensed the hate in my voice and stopped to look at me with her eyes narrowed. I always teased her about her boyfriend a.k.a. the mutt, it was fun but the glares she gave me were not pleasant. I flinched when she glared at me and when my family was around I would tell them that her glares were a lot scarier then Rosalie's, they would all laugh and that was my excuse, for my family at least.

"His name is Jacob! Why can't you get over your werewolf vampire prejudice? Wait, I thought that the family was coming back today" She began to walk down the stairs again but now concentrating on scolding me.

"When he does. And they'll be back later today." I knew it was only seconds before she would fall so I immediately ran up the stairs.

"Edward!" She screamed and then fell right into my arms.

I carried her down the stairs while she squirmed trying to get out of my hold, even though she knew it was useless. Once I reached the bottom of the steps I let out a sigh of frustration to tell her how unreasonable she was being and let her go. She was so preoccupied with squirming that once I let her go she fell on her back. I began to laugh but then she glared at me again but I couldn't stop laughing I attempted to stick my whole fist into my mouth and she started to chuckle. Her laugh was beautiful and velvety. Our laughs echoed through the house for a while and then it started to die down.

"Edward, you are so bipolar!" She said between chuckles.

"Well then so are you. Wait; is it even possible for a vampire to be bipolar?" I raised an eyebrow in curiosity.

"True, true, now are you going to help me up or what?" I grabbed her hand and pulled her up so that the toes our shoes were touching. She was quite tall for her age, but it might just be because I hadn't been near any other growing humans in a while. I then escorted her to the door.

"Oh, and your not staying there in till 12." I opened the door to let us out but stepped in front of her so she could not get passed.

"I'm 15, Edward, and plus he's aloud to." She pouted and I nearly gave in but I hated the guy to much to give in.

"He's a werewolf; he doesn't need the sleep as much as you." I placed my finger on her chin bringing her face up so I look at her beautiful, pale face. Ugh there you go again Edward.

"I'm not as fragile and pathetic as you think!" She shook her head and I lowered my finger.

"I never said you were pathetic." I moved out of the way knowing that she would follow my directions and she stormed off towards my Volvo.

"How do you think your going to get to the border cuz that dog ain't coming here." I said in the best parent-trying-to-be-cool voice like in all the TV shows she used to watch.

"Quit it, Edward! I'm going to… hehehe, can I get a lift?" And I was in the front seat before she could even blink.

Once she got in I put my foot on the petal and went full speed down the driveway. I loved the roar of the engine when I hit the hundred and so did Bella, after years of trying to convince her. She had grown with a good taste for cars but she denied it whenever anyone mentioned it. I slowed the car to 60 to watch her as she scramble around in the car in till she was crouching on the seat and pressed the button that opened the sunroof.

"What the heck are you doing?" I asked as she popped her head through the now open sunroof.

"I don't know."

"Well I don't care what your doing I want you down here." I grabbed the sleeve of her raincoat and pulled her to the seat without taking my eyes off the road.

"I'm stuck with a bunch of mystical creators doing reckless things all the time; tell me why I can't stick my head out the window." She pouted again but it was for her own safety; she was so fragile.

"Because you're acting like a dog." When she laughed something in me made me laugh too and we did for most of the ride there.

Once we began to near the border it became quite awkward. I took my chances and tried to start a conversation hopping that it wouldn't make things even more awkward.

"Seriously, why did you stick your head out the window?"

"Hmm… I love it. The wind blowing through my hair and the rain is very refreshing." Bella did her best impersonation of what she called my

"Perfectly crooked smile" which I really didn't get.

"Bella, is it nice to be able to go out into the warm sunlight without having to hide?" I blurted out, regretting it because it made things awkward again but luckily we neared the old black motor cycle. Once I pulled over in front of the motorcycle I broke the awkward silence..

"Never mind, I'm sorry. I'm coming to pick you up at 11" I said and lowered my head as she got out of the car.

Once the black motorcycle was out of view I turned the car around and headed home. All I could think about was Bella and no matter ho many people were around none of there thoughts were enough to even get close to blocking my train of thoughts.

Common' Edward, what's wrong with you? Just forget about her, just forget about her… now!

And I snapped my fingers as if doing a magic trick

Damn it! Now… what about now? God, this is useless I'll just end up talking to myself.

I knew I would, that always happened when I couldn't get something out of my mind, like the teenagers girls useless jabbering about my family, well the boys at least, and when they weren't thinking about us it would be another guy they thought was hot. While I was out it was always people basically singing hot to them selves.

I turned the last corner and I could see Alice's vision of me coming, I then prepared myself for the family reunion. Even though they had only been gone for 3 days Alice made a big deal, jumping and hugging me as if she hadn't seen me in 50 years while Emmett and Jasper winked and hit my asking me whether or not I slept with Bella and obviously I would look outraged, she was only 15 and had a boyfriend and even though I do not like her boyfriend, so what? He was a werewolf and I am a vampire we're sworn enemies, he could be using Bella as a spy.

Once it was over I headed to my room and turned my stereo on full blast hopping to get there sick thoughts out of my head with no success; Jaspers thoughts were loud and clear from the next room.

Can you turn down your music? I think the roofs going to fall down on us.

I sat there and did nothing just to make sure his thoughts were concentrated on me and not Alice.

Hmm… then should I torture you by thinking of Alice or should I start small by rambling about how I won another bet against Emmett and eventually get to Alice?

He went with the fast way to irritate me and began thinking about Alice. I immediately went to my stereo and turned it the half point.

Thank you, and by the way Alice a something for you but I'm sure you already know that.

Actually I didn't, half because I was concentrating mainly on Jasper thoughts and because Alice was thinking in Chinese, one of the few languages I didn't know. I may not be able to read her mind but I most definitely knew this was a birthday gift, since my birthday was today and Bella wasn't home. No one really celebrated there birthday in this family but Bella, even though Alice would still come up with a gift of some sort. In my case the case I made sure she didn't get me anything big to make sure that Bella wouldn't notice and figure out when my birthday was, I didn't like getting presents in the first place so 1 present was good enough. Alice and Bella always gave everyone a present but I made the family swear they wouldn't tell anyone, Bella's friendship was all I wanted. Even though she knew since she was young that her dad and mom died in a vampire accident and that we never even official adopt her she always considered me her big brother and I would take care of her most the time.

"Edward!" Alice chirped, interrupting my chain of thought.

"Nothing big." I reminded her.

"I know, I know but I don't realize what you're problem is; it drives Bella crazy not even knowing your birthday. You're the closest one to her even if you had-" I stopped her right there.

"Remember don't talk about that, you're the only one who knows Alice and there getting suspicious. Now where's the present?" I was starting to get impatient.

A big smile appeared on her small face as she handed me the package. It was a perfect rectangle of plain light blue wrapping paper. I sighed and slowly took off the wrapping paper.

"Oh my gosh, Alice, thank you so much for the cardboard box I really need a new one of these." I blurted out in the most girlie voice possible. Mental thought, I should probably stop with the impersonations.

"Common', Ed, just open the box already. It's driving me insane not being able to look in the future; it would ruin everything if I saw the reaction ahead of time." She took a step forward reaching for the box but I grabbed it.

"Only if you stop calling me Ed." I didn't really like my name but Carlisle insisted that we keep our same first names and it would just be a hassle.

"Fine!" She let out a sigh of frustration.

I then opened the box and took out the oversized notebook that was inside. I looked at the front of the book and then the back and raised an eyebrow in confusion.

"Hmm… thank you…" I said still confused, usually my gifts were worth thousands of dollars, not that I was complaining but this was unlike Alice.

"It's a scrapbook silly! Open it up, I pasted pictures and decorated it for you." She said as she sat down on my couch beside me.

I opened the book to the first page and was shocked; there was a picture I had drawn when I was young. I began to flip through the book that was filled with flashbacks from everything I had done in the 108 years of my life; I saw the picture of me and my mom that she had gotten drawn of us at my first carnival, there were photo's of Dr. Carlisle when we I was in the hospital with my mother, and a picture of me when I came back to Carlisle, a picture while I was running and plenty others with the rest of the family but it stopped right before we found Bella there was around 50 pages left which the first one said Present Edward so I assumed that she wanted me to fill out the rest.

"Wow, Alice this would have must have taken a long time to make, where did you get the pictures?" I was amazed; I would have never thought she would have made something.

"I have my ways but the book isn't finished flip the page!" She said eagerly.