A/N: Okay, so this is an idea I've been toying around with. I hope you guys like it!

-J


Bella stopped suddenly in the middle of the deserted sidewalk. She didn't flinch when she felt a hot breath with the sweetest smell by her ear. She recognized it immediately. Peppermint.

This smell had filtered in her dreams in a way that only happens in movies and books, and so did the owner of that warm breath.

She did not know his name, or age. She had never had a conversation with him, and had only heard his voice once, apart from his grunts and moans and growls. She didn't know if he had a family but was already dying to kiss him.

This had started a few weeks ago, when Isabella was returning home from the gym and stopped a second in front of a window display of a jewelry shop. She admired a pair of black pearl stud earrings, but she knew she couldn't afford them. She noticed a man staring at her through the window, just standing there, and staring with a serious expression, giving nothing away. She shook this curious encounter off and continued walking.

When she arrived home, she was surprised to find a small silver box outside of her apartment. She eyed it curiously, and decided to open it right there. She was pleasantly surprised when she found the exact earrings she had been admiring earlier, but quickly panicked. Was she being stalked? She thought of the handsome man with the crazy emerald eyes and the wild, untamed copper mess that was his hair. Had it been him?

She looked around her floor, half expecting him to jump up from behind a plant, and found herself oddly disappointed as he did not. She unlocked the door to her apartment and stopped in front of a small piece of torn paper on the floor. She bent down to pick it up.

In a very elegant script, it read;

400 Pine St # 134, Seattle. Be there at 7pm.

Tony.

That had caught her completely off guard. Was Tony the guy from the store? How had he known where she lived?

And more importantly, why was she considering actually showing up? That was surely against biological senses of self-preservation. Tony could easily be a serial killer or a rapist!

I'll just go see, out of curiosity, and leave right away.

She knew self-defense and always carried a can of pepper spray in her purse, courtesy of her over protective cop-dad.

I'll be fine. It's just a guy. She laughed at the absurdity of that thought. And of the whole situation.

Bella looked at the clock in the wall and cursed when she saw the time. It was already 6:30. She had to leave now if she wanted to meet the guy.

She ran into her room and changed her gym wear to casual jeans, flats, and a top. She grabbed the pearl studs and put them on, locking the house behind her.

Nothing is going to happen. It's going to be fine…. A normal person would've ignored it… Called the police, even! Why the fuck did I come here? She thought, nervous and unsure of her decision.

"Because you wanted to bone me, of course." She heard from behind her, and felt his breath by her neck, giving her shivers. His breath smelled of peppermint; fresh and cool.

Has she said her thoughts out loud? She wondered, flustered.

She turned around and met the brightest pair of green eyes she had ever seen in her life. What she had seen behind the window had placated what he actually looked like.

This man could have anyone, she thought. Why would he summon me here like this?

She realized that her sense of self-preservation had finally caught up with her head, and swiftly decided to leave.

"Look, Mr. I'm sorry I came here, I don't know what I was thinking of. I'm leaving now. I'm not into rendezvous with strangers." She took off the studs from her ears and placed them on his hands. "Thanks for that, they're pretty. I'm sorry again."

She turned around and left, half expecting him to follow her and say 'Oh no, you won't' and kidnap her to later rape her and kill her with an axe.

Bella shuddered and shook her head. I would stop watching marathons of Criminal Minds.

She hailed a cab and went back home.


A/N: Okay, so you know from the beginning that they do meet again. It's fanfiction, though. Of course they meet again and have pretty babies.

Thanks for reading! Next chapter coming very soon.