Disclaimer: I am not Stephenie Meyer. Sad.
Just a clarification: this was originally printed as part of the first chapter, but I decided I wanted to split it up. Thank you so much everyone who has read this, and even more so for the people who have reviewed/put me on alert! I'll try to have a new chapter up within the next day
Relief flooded his face when I asked that question. A smile played at the corner of his perfect lips.
"I would have thought your first question would have been what am I," he said in a silky-smooth deep voice.
I blushed. "I guess this plays into my lack of self-preservation. You are a vampire, aren't you?"
His grin got even broader. "I am. You are the first human I've met to ever know that; they usually just think I'm doing the heroin chic look or something." His smile stopped abruptly. "Shouldn't you be scared of me?"
"You don't feed on humans- I can tell that by your eyes, and by the fact that you ran at the bear and not me. Also, you saved me. If anything, I owe you a thank you."
"No thank you need- I didn't even notice you actually, I was just thirsty, and the bear was so appealing that I didn't really see anything else."
I frowned. "I don't smell appealing to you?" That couldn't be right.
"Well, when I was a human, I was a pretty hard core vegetarian. So, when I got bitten, I guess it just kinda stayed that way, you know? I mean, I didn't care for meat in my human life, so I guess now I don't care for the preferred…meat, if you will, of vampires. Human blood never really smelled like anything, so I never had the urge for it like I do animal blood. Not that you don't smell nice though." He winked at that, and I blushed pretty heavily. It was a good thing my blood didn't appeal to him, or else I would probably have been dead by then.
"But where are my manners? I was going to introduce myself before we got sidetracked," he continued. "I'm Adrian. Nice to meet you."
"Bella."
He offered his hand to me to shake. However, no sooner had I grabbed it did I realize that his idea of a handshake involved a grip so firm that it crushed my hand.
I pulled my hand away quickly. "God dammit!"
He stared at me, perplexed. "Did I do something wrong?"
"Yes dammit, YOU CRUSHED MY FREAKIN' HAND! When was the last time you shook someone's hand?"
"That wasn't a vampire? About…ten years ago…" He looked at his hand, shocked at its power. "I didn't realize I was that strong."
"Of course you are, you idiot, you're a goddamned vampire!"
At this point he was fighting a smirk at the corner of those perfect lips. That just enraged me further. "Don't you dare smile at me! You broke my hand! It was nice meeting you, but if you excuse me, I am going back to my car. Bye!"
I stomped off, not looking back at that stupid pretty boy.
"Bella! Bella wait!"
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