Edward. Edward, Edward.

"god damn it!" Bella cursed, why was it she couldn't stop thinking about him. She didn't even know what he looked like. Well she had an idea. She was frustrated with herself, she was angry that she couldn't see. She hit the table. She had to get his voice, his chuckle, the feel of his face under her finger tips she had to stop thinking about him. She was getting annoyed at herself. Lupin nudged her nose against Bella's leg, and whined. Bella sighed, she rolled over on her bed and searched for her dogs head. She stroked the dogs head, she giggled when she felt a lick. Then a small love bite. She sighed and rolled over again. She had absolutely nothing to do. She couldn't read her favourite book, she couldn't watch her favourite film. She had nothing to do. She felt her phone go off.

"text message, text message" she had to know what she was getting she had one for when she was getting a phone call saying 'phone call' it did make her chuckle every time she heard it. She pulled the phone out of her pocket and pressed the middle button. It opened it up.

"Hey Bella, Ryan gave me your number. Its Edward. I don't know how you read this, but he assured me you could. So without further adieu, I have an invitation to give to you. Once my mother found out what Rosalie said to you, she was furious! So she asked me to invite you around for dinner tonight, please say yes. Text me back, your answer xxx" Edwards text finished. She had her texts read aloud so she didn't have to not have a phone. She grinned. She had got so good at texting, that she didn't need her sight to text. She quickly sent back a yes, exclaiming that she was bored. She also explained that he was going to have to spell out everything because her texts were read aloud and that his 'xxx' were read out wrongly.

"haha, well I'm on my way, how's this? Kiss kiss" Bella laughed. She stood from her bed and walked to the door, Lupin leading the way.

"salutem soror (greetings sister)" she greeted, hoping someone was in the room, even though she could clearly hear a heartbeat. She was answered by her aunt.

"Puer, tibi debet studendo (child, you should be learning)" Her aunt said. Bella smiled. She walked towards the door, her hands brushing against the walls so she knew where she was going.

"I'm going to a friends house, we're going to study. He's my lab partner" Bella called, Lupin walking happily by her side. Her lead in her mouth, waiting for bella to take it from her. She swiftly took the lead, and waited for Edward. She could hear a car pull. Someone got out, she just hoped it was Edward. Lupin growled, it was a vampire.

"Bella" he called, he saw her shoulders relax now knowing it was him. He saw a blindingly beautiful smile come across her face. He smiled too, he took her hands and led her to his Volvo. She felt a electrical like current flow from his fingers and into hers. She gasped. He chuckled nervously.

"you felt that too right?" she asked. He nodded, hit his forehead. She couldn't see.

"yes, I felt that too" he opened the door for her, and let Lupin in the back seat. Bella felt around the car trying to figure what brand the car was. Edward sat and watched the concentrating face of his new friend.

"Bella… what are you doing?" he asked. She laughed.

"I was trying to figure out what make your car was" she giggled, she smiled to the direction his voice was coming from.

"what do you think?"

"well, when you pulled up the engine was pretty smooth almost like it purred" she mused in her head. "the interior feels quite expensive, so something like Mercedes, ford Mondeo or um… Volvo?" she guessed. Edward was impressed. A smile had spread across his face.

"Volvo, correct" she could tell he was grinning. "consider me impressed" Edward chuckled and Bella just smiled at the sound. Her smile faded when she thought of something.

"so describe to me your parents" Bella asked. Edward sighed, he knew she'd want to know some information about them before she met them. "what do they look like?" she asked, he thought she had meant like their personality and things. He probably should have known she'd want to know what they look like.

"why, Esme's my mother. She has caramel blonde hair. Obviously gold eyes, the pale skin. She has a heart shaped face and is kind beyond words. She is the ultimate mother, honestly I don't think I know anyone as kind as her" Edward described, Bella was smiling slightly.

"You really love her don't you?" he looked over at her, then looked back at the road and smiled.

"Yeah, in this life, it's the simple things you miss… like a hug from a mother" Bella put a hand on Edwards which was on the gear stick. He looked over surprised at the startling comfort she offered. She saw right through him, even with no sight. "Esme, fills that gap" Edward, sighed as he thought about his human mother. However fuzzy those memories were he tried to keep the memory of his parents alive.

"Carlisle, now he has platinum blonde hair, if you could see you would notice that his and Rose's are pretty similar colour. He is the father of the family. He's a doctor, marvellous control over his bloodlust. He believes in helping other people. He is very kind hearted," Edward kindly spoke. Edward pulled into the long driveway. "here we are" Edward smiled. "home sweet home"

"can you describe it to me?" Bella asked sweetly. "I swear this will be the last time" Bella giggled embarrassedly. Edward laughed.

"No, no its fine" he parked outside of the mansion. He looked up at his home. "Esme is big on decorating, its Victorian style. White bay windows, tall walls. Its three stories, the wall facing away from us and towards the forest is entire glass" Edward sighed. "we're rich" Edward indulged.

"How can you live like that?" Bella joked.

"Disgusting isn't it?" he asked jokingly back. She smiled, she traced her fingers along the door she felt the latch. She got out of the car, Edward ran around the car at top speed and was in front of her in seconds. "I've got Lupin" Edward said gently. Bella jumped. Her hands flew out, she was close to making a mistake, good thing she had control.

"You shouldn't do that" Bella said, she was close to his face. She only had a clue to how close she was to him, was because she could feel his breath on her face. They were close.

"why not?" he whispered. His eyes searched her face, her lifeless eyes. hoping she'd give away a small hint to what she really was.

"bad things happen when i'm surprised" she whispered, if Edward thought she sounded husky. A barking broke them out of their reverie by Lupin barking her little brains out. Bella turned around. "sometimes I could kill that fucking dog" Bella grumbled. Edward couldn't really hear what she said, but he did hear 'sometimes' 'kill' 'dog' he chuckled, and opened the door for the dog to jump out. Bella leant down and felt around for the lead. "If I could see, I would totally be glaring at you" she hissed to the dog. A booming laugh entered the scene. Bella jumped yet again that night.

"ah man, we gotta keep her" Em enthused.

"bloody vampires" Bella grumbled. Lupin bounded right off and up to Emmet, Bella having holding onto her lead was almost pulled over she had to let it go. Edward ran and caught Bella his arms pulling around and encasing her in his arms. As Lupin propelled herself into Emmet's arms, Emmet grinned down at the dog.

"here take my hand" Edward offered his hand so she wouldn't trip and kill herself, plus she would walk in the right direction.

"Its okay I can walk" she said stubbornly, but as soon as she started to walk she walked in the wrong direction.

"um, Bella its this way" Edward coughed. Bella scowled. "you never give up do you?" he asked. She sighed as she took his hand and he led her towards his home.

"I'm not afraid to fight back" Bella simply said. Edward said that there were a couple of steps, she stood up and was on the porch in no time. She was led into the house. She could hear that Lupin was licking the face off of Emmet and his booming laugh echoed around the house.

"Rosie, why did we never get a dog?" he asked, Rosalie's scoff was his only answer.

"everyone's in the living room" Edward said. He was close to Bella, he was looking down at her from behind. Her reactions to unknown sound were very interesting to him.

"I know" she said, Edward frowned.

"how could you possibly know?" he asked, Bella sighed.

"If you just assume that I know everything, then we will get along really well" Bella smiled sarcastically. He led her in and the chatter in the room quietened. Everyone turned to look, of course Bella couldn't tell. Carlisle was already there. He had learnt about Bella from his family and she fascinated him too. He looked at her eyes. It surprised him, so many years in medicine and he could still be amazed by the physique. Rose was up and apologising. Until she was cut off.

"you know what? I forgive you" Bella smiled and rose breathed in relief. "Mrs. Cullen" Bella looked around Edward moved her so she was facing her. "I would normally compliment your home, but considering I can't see you will know that I couldn't possibly know if your home is nice or not, but Edward described it to me and it sounds lovely" Bella smiled. Esme walked forward, and pulled Bella into a hug. Bella was surprised at first, but then hugged her back to.

"please call me Esme, you've met everyone apart from my husband Carlisle" Esme motioned for him to come forward. Bella held her hand out, Carlisle smiled and shook it for her, she jumped.

"sorry, I forget how cold vampires are" everyone blanched at her bluntness, she just stood there probably knowing exactly what everyone was like. Carlisle was watching her eyes, they hardly moved he could tell she had no control of them.

"May I?" Carlisle asked. He was motioning for her face, Carlisle really should have known better for her answer was simple.

"May you what?"

"Inspect your eyes" her facial expression turned surprised. Then understanding cleared her face.

"Oh, yes. Right, you're a doctor" Bella answered. "can you show me to a seat?" she asked. Edward took her hand and led her to the seat next to Jasper. Jasper flinched and tensed. He was close to lashing out, Bella quickly grabbed his arm. She did what she did with Edward. She took his bloodlust.

"what? What did you just do?" Jasper asked, Bella smiled sadly.

"I wish I could tell you, but I can't" Carlisle sat down in front of her, he pulled a small torch that he shined in her eyes. Her pupils didn't retract.

"your pupils don't take in light" he mused allowed, astonished. He moved the torch and shined it in her left eye, that pupil moved a fraction of a millimetre. "can see out of your left eye?" he asked. Everyone was surprised, she still had a guide dog. she shook her head sadly.

"Only a little bit, but I can only see light I can't see colours or faces my dad says that the scar doesn't cover the whole of the pupil and so a little bit of sight remains but not enough to form any kind of sight" Bella explained. Carlisle put his fingers either side of her eyes.

"what colour are your eyes?" Carlisle asked. She frowned.

"Brown" she said. "but dad says they've changed" bella sighed.

"how did you lose your sight?" Carlisle asked sweetly. Bella's eyes were looking outside and yet she wasn't really seeing.

"it was dark one night, me, my dad and my little sister were in town. A drunk driver drove through, he hit a curb and the truck twisted and moved- everything went so fast. The truck was hurtling its way towards my family. I pushed them out of the way. They'd been standing by a street lamp. The truck embedded itself around the post, I was just next to it. The bonnet had flown up and around and cut my face deeply." She traced her finger along the scar right across her face. "I broke my leg, and lost my sight while saving my family" she looked down. Carlisle looked closer at her eye. He frowned.

"do you get treatment on your eye?" he asked, he motioned for Edward over. He pointed at a small indentation, almost as if it had been made by a needle. Bella nodded.

"It was only once, the doctor said that the retina and the Choroid was completely cut" Bella explained. "he said that some lab had been working on a formula, that formula was the only reason why I can see this small dot of light" Bella smiled sadly. Carlisle frowned.

that's impossible

Edward sharply looked at his father. He looked between his friend and his father. "who is your doctor?" Carlisle asked, an evil smile crossed her face.

"James hunter" She said. Carlisle frowned.

"there's no doctor at the hospital called Hunter, I would know I had to re-interview all of them" Bella shook her head.

"He died last year, ironically a drug overdose" Bella snorted.

Lady like bella

Edward turned and looked at her surprised, she was smirking as if she knew that she was giving him her thoughts.

"Bella, I just heard your thoughts" he sounded surprised. "what are you?" he whispered.

"Techniquely its none of your business" Bella said, Jasper looked at her, he could feel her indifference and her desperation she so wanted them to stop asking her.

"are you dangerous?" Jasper asked.

"Yes. Especially with no eyesight. The right question is, will I hurt you?" Bella stated. Carlisle frowned, for the umpteenth time that evening. Bella reached forward and smoothed out his frown. "I can feel you frowning"

Message Message

Her phone rang loudly, Lupin barked a small informative bark.

"Oh now you bark? Stupid dog" Bella smiled. She flipped her phone up and pressed the middle button.

"where in this world are you, dad" the phone read aloud.

"Oh, that's how you know what a text says" Edward said, everyone chuckled. Bella sighed. Bella typed out a reply, saying simply that she was at a friends.

Phone call phone call

She giggled slightly at the ring tone. She flipped it up. Everyone could hear what was going on in the background of the other call, there were kids laughing and screaming in the background "Bella's phone, you've reached my voice mail. If its really important don't call back" she spoke.

"Bells, its me" a gruff voice greeted. "where are you?"

"Hi dad, yeah hey to you too" Bella smiled, she pressed the phone to her shoulder. "can someone direct me outside, I should probably take this privately" Edward steered her elbow into the back garden she smiled her thanks. "I'm at the Cullens house, they wanted to apologise" Bella explained.

"Yes, Ryan told me what happened; come home now the vampires are not safe" Her father commanded. The Cullens could only hear Bella's side of the conversation.

"then you'll also know that they are coming around for 'dinner' tomorrow, besides they don't drink human blood" Bella said, she heard her father pause.

"Gold eyes?" he asked, Bella sighed in aspiration.

"How am I supposed to know if they have gold eyes or not? Blind remember?" She said angrily. Her father sighed he hated that his eldest was so good at getting herself in trouble, she wouldn't back down from a fight- she was too independent. She missed her freedom it was why she did things like this.

"how do you know if they don't drink human blood then?" he asked, just as he said that- he knew she was gonna come out with some smart arse answer.

"how do I know that they don't drink human blood? Well, five of them go to school, the head of the coven works at the hospital, he's a surgeon. They live in a house surrounded by forest so they can hunt in peace, and three they would have eaten me already if they drank human blood, come on you know vampire's don't play with their food. Ryan didn't notice anything he only knows vampires as red eyes, not golden eyes… come on dad. They can help, I know for a fact Edward and Carlisle would want help, Rose would want to because she feels like crap about what she said earlier, Emmet will for the hell of it. Esme will because she's absolutely lovely. I'm not sure about Jasper, he's worried that i'm a threat to his family. But that understandable, can I tell them please?" Bella begged her father.

"I'll see tomorrow, once they see the whole family. We'll have to have a bonfire, if we decide to tell them- that will be when we tell them. Dave is coming, he'll help me choose. Come home now though please, we can't be arguing if they decide to attack" Her dad asked. "I know you hate it, but precaution never hurts. I feel me and this Japer fellow would probably get along" Charlie chuckled, Bella smiled at least she managed to get him to think about it.

"Probably" she grinned.

"mums almost finished making casserole." her father said, knowing for a fact her favourite dish would get her home.

"Be home in five" she said hurriedly. She rushed back inside walking into a door at one point. She banged into a wall. She cursed her sight and she cursed not being able to run down a corridor to get her dog. "Lupin!" she called, she heard her dog bark so she knew where she was. She felt a breeze of air.

"Need any help?" Bella sighed, Alice was only trying to help.

"I guess, can you ask Edward to give me a ride home please?" Bella asked. She hadn't had casserole for ages. Renee only cooked it rarely because she knew if she cooked it loads and loads, her family would get bored of it. She had a very big family, Renee was the cook of the family, her food was to die for. No-one left the table hungry, only asking for more. "come on this is ma mums famous dish; it's disgusting if its cold, come on Edward you're a vampire get your arse moving" Bella called.

"I'm behind you" Edward said, Bella turned.

"Oh I know" she smiled and took Alice's hand. Alice guided her to her dog, she was playing with Em. "Please don't get Lupin to love you, she'll never want to come home" Bella sighed.

"why did you name your dog Lupin?" Emmet asked, Esme was apparently also sitting in the room. Bella wasn't used to it, she could hear heartbeats these vampires didn't- she'd have to listen to them breathe.

"Lupin is a flower sweetie" Esme said to Emmet.

"Oh uh, that's not why she's called Lupin" Bella said embarrassedly, she heard all the other Cullens enter. "I named my two pets after my favourite characters, out of my favorite films"

"Professor Lupin… out of Harry potter" Jasper said. "what's your other pet?" He asked.

"a tortoise" Bella said. "Steve" bella trailed off.

"Steve? For a turtle?" Emmet scoffed.

"what film?" Edward asked. He wanted to know more about bella. Bella tried to look for Edward, but of course she couldn't see. Edward stepped forward and took her hand so she knew where he was.

"captain America, I used to think Steve was really good looking" Bella said sadly. "I guess now I have no opinion anymore" Bella said sadly. She bowed her head.

"come on, I'll take you home" Edward murmured. Edward led her to the car, Lupin jumped in the back. The ride was silent. Bella didn't say anything as she thought of all the things she missed, she missed the twinkle in her fathers eye when he smiled. She missed watching her younger siblings grow. She missed seeing peoples reactions to things. She missed being able to pick her little sister up from school.

She missed being able to walk down the stairs with out someone holding their breath. She missed not having someone breath down her neck, she missed doing something and no one knowing anything about it. She missed sneaking out at night down the tree in the garden. She missed seeing the sun rise and set she missed, the annual star gaze she and her mum had.

Every September 13th, her and her mother would lay in the garden and just look at the stars. Now her mother, won't feeling like she was better than her eldest daughter just because she could see the very stars. Bella goes out, still, she lays where they normally would. But her mother never does, she knows her mother sees her because she can feel her stare.

Bella and her family were close. There was plenty of them, she had four aunts that were biological and three uncles that were biological. Charlie had two brothers her mother had four sisters and a brother. Each aunt and uncle were married which added to the number. Then each had either three or four kids. Bella's family was the biggest. She had two brothers and a little sister.

Her little sister was called Lily and was five years old. Then went the second youngest Riley he was her favourite. Even she was adamant that she had no favourites he was six. He was touch and go, when he was little. Bella was eleven when he was born. She still remembers her fathers tears when the doctors came out and said he was in bad shape.

Then the second oldest, Elliot. He took her blindness the hardest, they were always messing about and having fun. They used to have the best relationship. He was fifteen, they were close, he looked up to her. How she still stayed strong through her blindness. He just didn't trust himself, he didn't think he could say nothing that would make her feel rubbish.

Edward got out of the car, bella traced the door and opened the latch. She stepped out, but almost slipped. Edward was there to catch her arm. She smiled her thanks. She got out and opened the door for her dog. Lupin nudged Bella's leg. Edward had her lead already. Bella held her hand out. Edward pulled one side of her hand and placed the lead inside her hand. She smiled. She linked her arm in his.

"come on, your coming inside" Bella grinned and pulled him inside. He didn't pull her back in fear of hurting her. He was surprised at how strong she was.

"I don't think that's a good idea, I'm actually quite scared of your father" Edward said, rubbing the back of his neck. "I like living"

"Oh please, you haven't even met him yet. Besides, you're a vampire- he's not" Bella said, grinning. Edward looked around quickly to make sure no-one heard.

"Its what he actually is, which frightens me!" He exclaimed. Bella stopped. she raised her eyebrow. her lifeless eyes, giving more effect to her glare.

"Look he won't kill you, specially if you stay close to me or Lily okay?" she stopped, she turned trying to get Edwards exact position. He sighed, he couldn't deal with that searching face. "please" she fluttered her eyelids. "I'm trying out my puppy dog eyes, like I remember my sister trying to do" Edward sighed, he deflated. Bella heard the sound and grinned. She grabbed his hand and pulled him. "I am going towards the door right?" she asked. Edward laughed. She moved her a couple inches to the left.

"now your going in the right direction"

"thanks" Lupin pulled the couple towards the door, where there were sounds of children, chatter and laughter. Edward noted that it sounded just like the loving big family you expect. Bella felt around for the hanging flower basket. She took out the spare key and opened the door. When a couple of the kids realised she was in the door way. Two kids ran over.

"Bella!" they exclaimed. Bella bent down and opened her arms. They ran into her and hugged her massively.

"ahh, attack of the siblings" Bella cried, the boy and girl laughed. Edward chuckled at her.