Trance

Chapter 2

Do You Know Who I Am?

Bella's alarm clock went off, and she jumped, landing on the floor. She moaned as she began to pick herself off the floor, but she fell back, with a small yelp. She was so sore. But from what? She asked herself. She couldn't think of any major physical activity in the past week, but her body hurt like she had walked for hours. She was exhausted, too, though she had gone to bed early. She slowly got up, grimacing, and made her way to the bathroom to take a shower. She thought as she was in the shower, and a blurry dream pushed itself to the surface of her mind.

She was walking through a forest when she came to a beautiful meadow. She sat down in the meadow, waiting for someone or something. Then someone came out of the trees surrounding the meadow and sat down next to her, smiling. His whole figure was blurry, but she decided that it was Jacob. She opened her mouth to talk, but she couldn't. It didn't really matter, though, because Jacob leaned forward to kiss her anyway. Then Jacob picked her up, and she felt a sharp pain that was followed quickly by pure ecstasy.

She couldn't clearly remember anything else after that except shapes and colors blurred together pleasantly.

When she was done in the shower, she dried her hair and pulled it up into a ponytail. As she did, her hand brushed her neck and sent shivers went down her spine. She looked closer in the mirror and saw a faint crescent-shaped mark on her neck. She was astonished at how the strange mark could have gotten on her neck. She moved closer to the mirror, trying to get a better look, but found she couldn't see it anymore. She hastily blew it off as a trick of the light.

School started out the same as usual that day. She found herself anticipating her classes after lunch, though she couldn't remember why she would be so worked up about going to biology or U.S. History.

As the lunch bell rang, she felt butterflies in her stomach and quickly made her way to the cafeteria. She saw Jacob, and waved to him, smiling widely. He came over and pecked her on the cheek.

"Lunch's on me today," he grinned.

"Okay," she sighed. "I'll be here."

She was staring off into space when she caught a flash of bronze hair leaving the lunch line. She looked up, her eyes immediately locking with his. Her breathing hitched. He smiled, dazing her. His eyes seemed to plead with her to follow him. Then he was gone; he had walked outside since he and his sister usually ate outside.

She couldn't shake the thought of those eyes; they were begging her to go outside to see him. She stood up, not fully aware of her actions, and walked stealthily to the door, slipping outside.

The cold air outside hit her, clearing her mind. What am I doing outside? She looked around; the courtyard was small and only had two tables.

Then she saw him and her thoughts were once again scrambled. He sat with her back towards her, but turned around at the sound of the door. Then she was by his side and he was smiling his astounding smile up at her.

"Bella," he whispered, his voice like a soft caress. As he whispered, he took her hand and gently pulled down, urging her to sit. She complied quickly.

Wait! What am I doing, what about Jacob? Her mind screamed at her. He wrapped his arm around her waist, pulling her closer to his body.

She lost all coherencies of rational thoughts as she rested her head on his shoulder. Everything was so natural with him. It was as if they were meant to be.

The girl across the table from her and Edward was smiling at them. "It's nice to finally meet you, Bella." Her beautiful voice trilled.

-- Meanwhile, inside --

Jacob returned from the lunch line, scanning the room for Bella. He couldn't find her. He sat down next to Ben and Angela. No one had seen Bella.

-- Back outside --

"It's nice to meet you too, Alice." She smiled back pleasantly.

Who's Alice? Is this Edward's sister? What's going on?! Bella's rational mind raged at her conscious self, but the conscious Bella paid no attention.

Alice's eyes got a faraway look in them, and then she smiled and got up to leave.

"Bye, Bella! Bye, Edward!" She laughed excitedly, as she walked back inside.

"Farewell, Alice," Edward said softly.

Then he began to pull his fingers through her soft hair, and she struggled to retain coherent thought.

What the hell is…

He placed his fingers at the crown of her head.

…going…

He slowly drug his fingers through her hair to down below her shoulder blades.

…on?

Her body tingled all over, and she shivered.

He removed his fingers and brought them back to the top of her head; she leaned into him and moaned.

Who am…I?

But her thoughts were abruptly silenced as he moved his hands through her hair again, this time brushing her neck where there was a faint crescent-shaped mark.

She gasped, memories and desires filling her mind and body, shutting out the voice of the old Bella.

Edward tilted her chin up to kiss her, and she wrapped her arms around his neck, kissing him back hard.

He stood up, still attached to her at the lips, and picked her up with him.

"Are you ready to go now, my darling Bella?" he murmured gently against her lips; he let her down so her feet were touching the ground.

She jumped up, wrapping her legs around his waist, and kissed him again.

Their lips moved softly together until she pulled away, gasping for breath, and whispered seductively in his ear, "Take me away, Edward."

He let her down gently, still holding her hand, and they began walking towards Edward's Volvo.

-- Back inside --

Jacob walked outside to see two people, a boy and a brunette girl, walking towards the Volvo of that new guy, Edward Cullen. The girl looked like Bella from the back, but they were so far away that all he could really make out was the girl's brown hair. Plenty of girls at Forks High School have brown hair he thought.

"I bet Bella went home sick; she's looked so different lately. She definitely hasn't been herself today or yesterday." Jacob said aloud to himself. "Those two really have the right idea. Ditching is healthy."

A/N: So devious. (: Irony's a great thing. This took me about 2 hours. So please take 20 seconds to write me a review. Good things come to those who review.