Chapter 2

So good so far, so let's see how I go.

Edwards's pov

Esme had been excited ever since she had received a call from her old nunnery.

A young nun had been sent to find her life and make her choices about where to be.

From what I had read from Esme's mind her name was Bella and she would be arriving later this afternoon.

I felt very eager, I felt like a kid on Christmas when you find your presents under the tree.

I have a new toy...

I looked up and Esme, who was standing behind the lounge I was stretched out on.

Her eyes were narrow and were glaring at me suspiciously.

"I'll be keeping an especially sharp eye on you," she peered at me.

I shivered; her eyes always seemed to peer through me when she was like this.

I slipped off of the couch and flitted past everybody.

"I'll be back tomorrow;" I called "I'm going on a trip."

Alice giggled as I closed the door and I couldn't help but chuckle when I saw what she had seen.

"God in a bag, huh?" I chuckled as I was walking to the car.

...

The plane touched down with a bump.

I waited patiently till all of the passengers had finally gotten off the plane.

Each and everyone pictured their passports.

"Alex...Eloise...Jeremy...and on and on but no Bella."

I couldn't help my self. I leapt off the roof add sprinted at full speed. A girl was on the plane gripping the arm rests with white knuckles.

I quietly slipped into one of the seats a few rows back so I could quietly probe her mind.

I sat still and tried focus in on her mind... nothing; ok ill give her a moment to get something in her mind.

She stood and finally began her fast, bouncy walk off of the plane.

I sat stunned. Either she was incredibly blank minded girl or the biggest puzzle of my life time was about to walk right out of my life.

I stood and began a slow walk off the plane but a small bag caught my eye... more precisely the tag wrapped around its handle, "Bella".

I couldn't help myself I laughed out and could not contain my excitement.

I snagged the bag and slipped out the door.

She was barely a meter away from the bottom step of the planes stairs.

I jumped the rail and was behind her in a split second.

"I will never get on one again," she mumbled to her self.

I brought my lips close to her ear, "they're the safest way to travel you know".

I brought out my silkiest smoothest voice to make her shiver and I breathed gently on her neck.

Then it hit me, the sweetest, most delicious scent filled my nose.

I nearly flew straight into a frenzy, thoughts of my teeth slipping deep into her flesh filled my mind

I dropped the bag by her feet and in a split second I was at the lobby door for the airport.

I lightly chuckled as I heard her asking the bag if it talked.

My new toy and puzzle was going to be a difficult and fragile mystery.

I'm very excited now.

...

When I got home, Emmett and Rosalie were still out hunting, Jasper was discussing with Carlisle about Bella's arrangements, where she would be sleeping and so on and so forth.

Carlisle had not been worried. He told Jasper that Bella and Esme would be staying in a little house near our house but not to far away.

And as usual Alice, found me.

She giggled quietly, "you will get to know her well. Don't worry you won't kill her."

I snorted... thank god vampires can't blush.

I took a quick sprint over to the house that Carlisle had thought of.

I could hear Bella and Esme talking already.

"So Isabella prefers Bella," I said to myself.

Esme had just proposed the idea of finding warmer clothes for Bella and the next I knew she opened the window of the small room right beside me.

"Be careful Edward, I'm not as easy as you think," she said as she grabbed the thick leather woolly jacket off of my back, "you can meet her ONLY at school for now, I can smell her too."

As quick as she had come she was gone and I stood stunned that my dear adopted mother was that fast.

I peered inside the room and noticed the small red bag from earlier sitting on the bed.

I guessed this was to be her room; I pushed open the window and crept inside.

There was nothing except the old coat rack, the bed on the opposite end and a large amount of boxes holding furniture that needed assembly

I guess Esme thought this would make us seem more human

I worked fast, splitting the boxes and screwing everything into place

In the end I finished; it didn't look right but I had no time now. I broke into a run and ended up back home; I sat at the piano and played aimlessly to clear my head.

The song had everything I felt, but I couldn't describe.

I was confused and rather clueless.

I grabbed some music sheets and I wrote in a flourish all the notes and chords that came to mind. And all I could think of for a name was "Bella's Lullaby".

I have never felt this, it was like I had a chocolate sculpture of a swan that I wanted to eat while another me admired it... and even my own description confused me.

I rushed back to the room. It was dark, so I slipped through the window and into the back of the room where I only received licks of her scent... I think she will be safe here.

I stood in front of the coat rack and realised I left it here without a second thought.

Bella sat up and slid off the bed into a kneeling position and made the sign of the cross.

This will be fun.

"Father, you have brought me to this place, and have done many things for me but I cannot help but feel like leaving the nunnery is like turning my back to all you have done for me," she said softly.

I clutched the small red bag on the coat rack and carried it quietly behind her. I slipped the bag quietly and skilfully onto the bed.

"My child, to love is my greatest joy, forgive and forget and so on and so forth," I said as wisely and as godly as I could, nearly breaking a sweat from stopping myself from laughing.

I sprinted across the room without her hearing or seeing and sprung out the window.

Esme caught me halfway back to the main house; she didn't look happy.

But all I could do was smile.