It was as if a fallen star had fell within her eyes, the sight was so beautiful I would have wept if it were possible.
She stared at me from across the lunch room at forks high, her human eyes too unfocused to really see me for whom I am but curious all the same.
Bella's lower lip was drawn into her mouth, a tell tale sign of nervousness which I found oddly cute on her face. I made this dear girl nervous, at the thought I felt a similar nausea swirl around what used to be my stomach.
It had been ninety years since I was human, those days I reminisce in my spare time and often play symphonies about. I hadn't been much back then, I was the infamous son of Mr and Mrs Mason.
My father had been quite fortunate in his life, before he fell stricken to the Spanish influenza which also claimed the rest of the family, even me.
Death had been such a part of the world in 1918 that no one had noticed me missing after my parents death. I had been in the same ward with them at the time of their death and not long after Carlisle took me to his home.
Most people would be terrified about being carted out of the hospital into a stranger's home on the verge on death, well to tell you the honest truth; it was though I had already died. My body was numb to all the surroundings and every touch until Carlisle pierced my neck with his fangs, then came death. Painful as it was, I thank Carlisle to this day for his saving me, my parents may not have been spared but I can live my life, however eternal, knowing their dying wish was eternal life for their only son.
My family had helped me with the new way of life that I now belonged to. Carlisle, Esme, Alice, Jasper, Rosalie, Emmett and I make up our family or as popular fictitious books would say 'coven'. It is true that we are vampires, yes it is also true that we don't eat, sleep, breath, we drink blood and we do avoid the sunlight but for a whole different reason.
Sunlight is a thing of joy to us, a special ritual we share with people close to us and other vampires, what actually happens when we step into the sun, well you'll have to use your imagination.
Emmett's thundering laugh brings me back to the present; Rosalie gave me a mocking smile. Rosalie was always an odd vampire, she disliked me for rejecting her as a partner while she was a newborn. We don't pick our partners, they are picked for us, whether it be fate or the grand design it is beyond our control, something Rosalie lacked to understand for many a years before finding Emmett, now she is merely embarrassed by her spiteful behaviour.
Jasper was abroad the waters of America as he had business with the Volutri, Jasper would freelance for the Volutri when he needed time away or an adventure. Emmett is always keen for the blood of war but despite that he is the most playful vampire one would meet.
Alice, Jasper's partner was sitting next to me, whispering fast into my ears.
A fortune teller is a horrendous insult to my pixie sister; fortune tellers lack the ability to foresee anything but the money that has been taken from believers pockets. Alice herself being one of the few real future seers, she really detests the humans whom claimed to foresee.
Alice was telling me of a dream that she had a few nights ago, she wouldn't tell me much as she herself didn't see it quite as clear as needed but it goes without saying that the hooded vampires surrounding one human, my human as Alice had called her, with their fangs fully extended in hunger was not a good thing at all.
My love, the words so right but so unfamiliar as I tasted them on my lips.
Rosalie grunted in disapproval as she saw me looking at Bella once more. We knew it was her ever since she decided to make the move to forks, Alice had seen it and the first day of her arrival had changed me.
I had thought I would get to know Bella before falling so deep in love with her but I knew the moment she came into my area of awareness that she was my eternal partner. What I didn't know was what had shocked me right to the core.
Why my Bella?
I sobbed for days at just the thought of why she was so sick but there was no choice to be made, I would save her.