Chapter Two- Tanya and Edward

(Edward's Point of View)

Tanya could not have been more of an annoyance as she kept on holding my hand when and even I did not wish that she would. But I would only keep up this act with her as long I could. I knew she was not of the most faithful, but yet she had her flaws in which I could forgive. It was in her nature and I could not seem to blame her. If she wished to do the things that she did, then I had no objection to it. After I had saved Bella from that van from crushing her, I'd not at all been more stressed and anxious as I have for more than a few decades. It would all come to a point where Isabella Swan might just come to her senses and figure out what I was---a monster.

"What is troubling you, Edward?" Tanya asked, almost sounding worried. "You look anxious. Don't tell me it has to do with that human you saved."

"Her name is Bella," I told her.

"Well...this "Bella" then, why do you seem so stressed. She is fine, love. She is not hurt. You seem transfixed by her though," she mused, laying down on the sofa in the living room, twirling a finger around a lock of her strawberry blond locks. "What seems to be bothering you?"

"Perhaps you should not bother him, Tanya," Rosalie said from a distance as I saw that she as well as my other brothers and my other sister disapproved of Tanya. There disapproval and dislike was unhidden, clear that they saw Tanya as a threat, rather than part of the family. "It's better enough that she raises questions and starts asking about us. You better be very wary, Edward."

"I am well aware of that, Rosalie," I growled. "I'm not dumb."

I heard Alice simply humming to herself as she walked out of the kitchen with Esme, both holding vases of roses and placing them on the coffee table right across the sofa that Tanya was laying on.

"You know as well as I, Edward, that she could be yours," Alice commented in her mind. "She is your future lover only by means that you choose to leave Tanya. You can't allow to stay with her another century of pain to this headache, Edward. I'd rather prefer you choose this girl. I see it. You will love her."

"Do not be so quick to jump to conclusions, Alice," I simply said out loud, knowing that the others would not understand what she had said in her head. "It can't be possible."

"It seems so," she retorted in her mind. "I see you with her Edward and I see her as one of us."

"STOP IT!" I shrieked. "I don't want to hear it, Alice. No, it can not be."

Emmet and Jasper stood by, quiet as they seemed. Emmet sighed, walking over to Rosalie, placing his hands on her shoulders and staring at me with a focused, hard look. "Tanya just doesn't make you happy, Edward. Whatever Alice is telling you, she's right, bro. She's pretty, yeah, but she doesn't make you happy. She's not the most faithful kind, as you know."

"I'm pretty sure that you can repeat what you said to Rosalie, Emmet. Of course I know Tanya is beautiful," I told him, hearing Rosalie gasp. I smiled, shaking my head. "Tell her."

"You said what?!" Rosalie shrieked. I watched Emmet take a step back, his hands out in front of him as though to push her away if she came any near. "So am I just ugly to you?!"

"No, no, no, Rose, it's...it's...I'M SORRY!" he boomed. "ALRIGHT, I'M SORRY, I'M SORRY!"

It would not seem he was as tough as he appeared. He was just so vulnerable to Rosalie that sometimes it made me laugh.

I had not realized that Tanya had gotten up out of the sofa and was standing right in front of my face, her finger under my chin as though to pull my face to hers, but I pulled away. "Not now, Tanya."

"Well, why not?" she sighed. I heard the frustration in her voice. "You'd not kissed me once since the day that....girl....came to Forks. Why is it that you won't even kiss me?"

Angry as I was, I couldn't touch her, though I knew nothing would affect her, I was gentleman enough and just kept my fists clenched. "She seems to get into a lot of trouble. She's a magnet for trouble."

"It would seem so," Carlisle agreed, appearing out of thin air, still in his white coat. "Ah, she's just going to be fine, Edward. She's gone home with her father."

"Why do you seem to care so much?" Tanya wondered, angry. "She is none of your business, clearly. You belong to me."

I shrugged. "I am as human enough to care, Tanya. At least, some human part of me has the sense to care. I know what monstrosity that I am, but I do care for her well being. I don't wish that she dies."

She said nothing and pulled herself close to me and she placed her hard lips on my own. I could hear groaning but I could not and would not stop her if I dared even touched her, otherwise I'd accidentally throw her across the room, though it would not hurt during impact. But I tried to contain my strength as long as I could. I gave in...I kissed her back.

"Edward...." I heard Alice sigh in her mind, saddened.

*Note: The next chapter would be a never written chapter of Bella confronting Tanya, rather Tanya confronts her after she knows what they are and her desire for Edward. Let's see how that will turn out....*