Chapter 2 EPOV Having a new warm blooded human in the town can ruin you. Just the smell is so addicting, it's almost impossible to stay away. But we Cullen's are different from others of our kind. We only hunt animals. You could say we are the vegetarians of our kind. Yes, normal 'people' in our kind hunt humans. We would prefer humans but we like to preserve their lives. Rosalie was on her way home from taking her annual world shopping spree, and apparently she can't carry her own bags home, so she took the commercial flight. I smelt her the moment the plane landed. No it wasn't Rosalie; it was a new sweet warm blooded human. Alice told me to control myself and Jane used her ability to create an illusion of pain to hurt the lust out of me. The whole family came over to me to restrain me. "I saw her Edward." Alice told me with concern. "I can handle it Alice, I have Jane." I looked at Jane, she was on the other side of the airport but she could still hear me. She was too far away for me to read her mind, though. She kept glancing from me to the human and back again. I followed her gaze and saw Chief Swan giving his daughter a hug. She noticed I was staring at her and stared back. There was something weird about her. I couldn't read her mind. My eyebrows pulled together in frustration as I strained to hear her thoughts. I looked over at Jane and realized she had the same expression. When I looked back to the human, she was going out the door and into the rain. Jane's eyes followed her all the way out the door. "Eddie, are you sure you have no feelings for her?" my mate Jane asked me. "Yes." I said. I hated lying to her, its not that I like her but I don't know. I always felt so bad lying. "Are you sur-" I cut her off. "YES I am!" I yelled at her. She looked hurt for a second and then stomped off. We waited for Rosalie to come through the terminal. When she arrived I could see red in her eyes. "What have you been doing?" I asked her with warning in my voice. "Oh, nothing" she said nonchalantly. I knew what she had done. "Rose, you have to be careful, the treaty, remember?" Her smile faded and she scowled. "Calm down, it was only one!" "It only takes one to set off the wolves." She rolled her eyes, walked away and started talking to Jane. My mind drifted back to the human. There was something about that girl. She wasn't normal. She, she, she was luring. I was drawn to her by some power deep inside my cold, dead heart. She was beautiful, but not like the girls you see in an everyday high school. She wore no make-up and was prettier than almost every girl I'd seen in my lifetime. See, there was something about her, the way she looked at me and the way she moved. She lured me to her with just her eyes alone. It seemed like she could see into my soul. But that wasn't possible because I didn't have a soul. I haven't had one for the past hundred years or so. It died along with my heart the day I turned into the monster I am, a vampire. Driving to school with 4 loud and crazy vampires is like 4 high school kids times 10. I always drive my silver Volvo to school, and most of the time I have to drive my siblings too. I always park in the same parking spot, because nobody ever wants to park next to us. We tend to creep out people; but that's a good thing, it gives us privacy. But as we were sitting in the car waiting for the first bell to ring I smelt her, and Jane knew it. She pulled into the parking spot right next to ours. She smelled heavenly. As she opened her cab door and jumped out she seemed to be looking straight into my eyes, but then she turned and hurried toward the school. I opened my door and I could hear three more doors follow mine and all of a sudden I felt very calm and under control as I watched the human girl run in the door to the school. I could see the human had already made some friends because I could read Mike Newton's thoughts; he already liked her, for some reason that bothered me, a lot. I heard Jane growl, the human stopped and turned around. Again she looked right into my lost soul. She started walking again without turning around and ran into a wall. 'Great' I thought 'a klutz.' Her human friends tried to help her up she was out cold, I walked over and everyone froze, I hate when people do that. I picked her up and brought her to the nurse, but Bella, 'wow what a pretty name', was still out cold. The nurse called the hospital and they took her away in an ambulance. I bet her father was worried, getting a call that your daughter, your only daughter is in the hospital. I decided to go to the hospital to talk to my father, and mainly to see if she would be okay. I was standing outside her hospital room listening to my father talk to Charlie Swan. He was taking her blood pressure when she woke up. I wondered what she was thinking. She must have been frightened, or maybe confused. My father was telling Charlie that her blood pressure was back to normal and then told him that he would be back in the morning. As he reached the door I stepped into the doorway and looked in the room. As soon as I met her eyes I knew she was okay and that I was drawn to her. I just wanted to enter the room and wrap her in my arms. I would have if Charlie wouldn't have been there, and if I didn't have Jane as a mate. This was going to be one long school year. And for as long as she stayed I was going to suffer.
