Dreams
"Charlie, I'm going out with Edward. Okay?" I said as I shrugged my jacket on. My dad was pretending not to hear me, but I know he did.
"You know, I think I'll just run away with Edward one of these days. The way you've been acting is scaring me." I said teasingly as I came up behind the couch to whisper my goodbye in his ear.
He turned suddenly. "You know I would find a reason to arrest that boy if you ran away with him."
I smiled at my dad. I could tell he was trying not to be harsh, but he was failing poorly. "And you know I would get someone else to arrest me right after that. Bye dad, love you." I pulled away from resting my hands on his shoulders.
When I opened the front door, Edward's Volvo was purring on the curbside, patient as ever. But he wasn't waiting to open the door for me, that was kind of odd. "Oh well," I muttered to myself. It probably didn't matter.
I practically ran up to the passenger side. I opened my door, and slid in. "Hello, Bella. My love." He had the most perfect voice ever. But tonight it seemed like there was something off about it. Two odd things in two minutes. He must've had a surprise planned. I sighed my response before he could notice any thing wrong.
Edward laughed. "So, where are we going? Obviously not to dinner, you told me to eat beforehand." I was anxious to know where we were going. I didn't know why though.
"I knew you were going to ask that. Well, I can't tell you." I was right! Edward always took the opportunity to surprise me. It was almost as bad a receiving gifts.
"How do you expect me to stay sane with all of these surprises?" I asked playfully. I glanced down at the speedometer. The needle on it lowered slightly.
"We almost there?" I asked. Edward gave me a funny look. "You slowed the speed. You don't usually slow the speed of the car unless we're almost there, or there." I exaggerated the word "there." Edward looked out the front window a few moments then jerked the Volvo to a sudden stop.
It was dark and my human eyes didn't serve me well. I had been squinting through the windshield when I heard the door open and felt a sudden rush of air. I barely realized that I was standing, and when my senses came back to me, I noticed that I was standing on sand, and that I could hear the waves crashing against the shore.
My voice heavy with sarcasm I said, "you brought us to the beach? Why on earth would you want to go to the beach?" Edward smirked and gently tugged me toward a fire pit. The fir was already lit, he probably had lit it while I was trying to see where we were.
He sat down on a log and patted his lap. I walked over to him slowly trying to at least feign gracefulness, but of course my clumsiness got the best of me. I tripped, and Edward was right there to catch me. I was on his lap in seconds.
Then his lips were on mine. His movement were almost desperate. He opened his mouth, at this I knew something had ot be wrong so I pulled away. Edward pouted then tried to dazzle me. I looked away, gathering my strength, and looked back into his eyes. "What was that?" I asked, still breathless His pouting ceased and the dazzling came full on.
"Because I want you. I want to make all of your dreams come true." Edward's voice, there was something off about it. Like it didn't belong to him. "No." I said with as much confidence as I could manage. His eyes were so dazzling. I couldn't stand it.
"Bella..." Edward murmured as he leaned in for another kiss. His hands clutched my arms, but not in a lusting, loving way, but in more of a concealing restricting sort of way. "No, no, no,- NO!" I yelled the last no. He would,'t stop. My Edward wasn't- that was it, that's what was wrong. This Edward was not my Edward. I had to make this stop. Now.
"Edward! Help me! Somebody- help!" I screamed. It was probably useless; but the only thing I could do, seeing as I had a vampire restricting my every move. "Bella?" Edward's voice- the real Edward's voice- called my name. It was faint, but it was there. I looked around, trying to see where he was.
"No! Can't you see I'm right here? The fraud's trying to trick you!" The fake Edward yanked my head around so that I had to look into his eyes. I glanced at them; they had turned black. Yeah, definitely not my Edward. When I looked away, and kept on averting his eyes, he put his lips to my neck and bit down- hard!
I started to scream. The same fire that had burned my veins when James had bitten me, burned through me again, only worse. As I realized this, I only screamed louder. The fake Edward just laughed. He kept laughing at me and clawing, and torturing me; no matter how much I begged him to stop. He wouldn't let go, he just held me in a fake affectionate embrace and kept on torturing me.
The more venom he injected into my blood system, the more I screamed as it became so much more painful. I screamed until I thought my lungs would burst, and that my vocal chords would explode. Then, I heard Edward yelling my name, and with a sudden jerk, I was lying in my bed, in my room.
