Chapter 3 Invitation and Confusion

BPOV

We were standing like that peacefully and quietly until he broke the silence.

"Bella...", he breathed. His cool breath fanned on my face, intoxicating and dazzling. My heart was beating so fast that I feared it would jump right out of my chest. I have never felt like this let alone did something like this. I was touching a guy whose name is unknown to me. We were so close that it felt as if we were two people in love.

In love.......wait where did that thought come from?

Probably from the way he said my name. With so much passion and intensity....

Wait...he said my name....

I opened my eyes and looked at his god-like face. He looked like a blind man seeing the world for the first time in his life. He looked so content and peaceful. His eyes were closed. For a moment I forgot my train of thoughts and just examined his beauty.

His pale but perfect and beautiful features made him look like he was carved from a stone. A very beautiful stone. The span of his forehead looked so smooth that I yearned to touch it. I touched it. I told you I lost my train of thoughts.... It felt just as perfect as it looked. Smooth but hard and ice cold. I didn't even wonder why his skin was so hard and perfect and, most of all, ice cold, I just looked and touched.

I traced every feature of his face with my fingertips. His eyelids, the purplish shadows under his eyes which made him look like he haven't slept for days. His nose, his sharp cheek bones. His hard jawline which looked and felt so masculine. When I reached to touch his pouty lips, I was unsure.

What if he doesn't want me to touch him?

What if he wants me to leave him the hell alone?

Thousands of questions floated around my mind. But he was still there and it looked like he wanted this too just as much I wanted this.

I touched his lips then and felt an urge to kiss him. His lips were soft in a strange way. They suited his velvety voice...But they were hard too. Not too much but were. They were ice cold too just like hisbody.

He must be an angel.

How can someone like this exist?

With such a beautiful face and beautiful voice and lips....

I think whatever falls from his lips I would love it even if it was a curse or a compliment. His lips were just that perfect.

I wonder if I'll listen my name from them....?

That's when it struck to me with full force. He just said my name....

How does he know my name? I don't recall telling him that...

"How do you know my name?", I asked in a low whisper with confusion lacing my tone.

He opened his eyes then and looked like a deer caught in headlights.

"I don't remember telling you my name...Do you know me from before? How? I don't know you", I started asking but a horrible thought occurred to me. "Do you know me from Billy? Are you his friend or something?" I asked terrified that it might be the truth. Maybe Billy kept a spy for me? Maybe he noticed my absence and sent this guy to look for me and take me back at home?

I backed off suddenly. I didn't want to go to that place ever again.

Shoud I run?

Will he catch me?

Looks like it....

"NO! No no, I'm not a friend of Billy! I don't even know him! Except of what you told me! I swear I don't know him!" he started defending himself. He looked almost mad at the thought of him knowing Billy as a friend or even less. He came close and took me by my shoulders as if to emphasize his point.

Maybe he is right...Should I believe him? What if he's good at lying....

NO! No no no no no....he doesn't look like a bad guy. Maybe I should believe him. The way he's saying it makes me wanna believe him...

"Then how do you know my name?" I asked in calmer and softer tone now. I didn't back off from his embrace.

He pulled back his face to look at me and seemed to be conflicted about something. He was hesitating and I was confused.

Suddenly a bell-like voice spoke from behind making me jump a thousand feet in air.

"Thank god I found you! You scared the hell out of me!"

I looked over his shoulder to find a huge pixie approaching us with a cute smile on her face. When she came closer, I noticed she wasn't a pixie. Just a pixie-like girl. She was very small yet beautiful as hell. She had a cute kind of beauty in her. She had spiky black hair pointng in almost every direction. She was wearing a blue knee-length dress. She danced over to us and the way she did it made me jealous of her and pitiful of me. She came and I got out of his embrace blushing that someone caught us in that position. She lithely came and faced Edward and me with a grin on her face. She spoke again in her bell-like voice, "Oh, I see! You found some company in the woods, huh Edward?" she asked looking at him with the grin growing to a huge one.

Hmmm...Edward...wow...suits him just like everything and is perefct just like every other part of him...

Edward was looking at her, rather glaring at her. She merely winked and mouthed something to him which looked like "I saw it" but I couldn't be sure.

She then turned towards me and spoke to me with a soft look with the huge grin still intact. "So you have given company to my brother Edward here", I blushed. "I'm Alice. Alice Cullen. It's.....pleasant to see you." she said while mentioning to Edward and then herself. By the end she was assesing me from my head to toe. I started nervously biting my lip. My clothes were almost ragged and looked like sacks at me. I was embarrassed to have the most beautiful people in the world, wearing the most expensive-looking and perfect clothing, look at me like this. She then smiled softly at me and hugged me. I was shocked to say the least. But then I hugged her back.

She pulled back and then looked at Edward as if she was telling him something in her mind. He nodded slightly and looked down. Alice grinned and looked at me with a hopeful look in her eyes and on her face.

"So...." she started but then paused and I took it as my cue to tell her my name.

"Bella. I'm Isabella Swan..Black", I told her.

"That's a nice name you have. So, Bella, our mom is making dinner at home and I think you should join us. She's a really good cook, you'll love her food", she said excitedly with a smile.

I thought about it and decided that it couldn't be that bad and besides I'm free now and I don't wanna go back and neither do I wanna hurt Alice's feelings, she invited me so warmly.... I'll just go with Edward and Alice, have dinner with them, ask Edward how he knows my name, and then say goodbye to him and his family and leave. But where will I go? Oh it doesn't matter right now, I'll think about it later.

I smiled back softly at her and said,"I'd love to."

She gave a small squeel and clapped her hands and took my hand to walk with her. Edward still kept his head down and trailed behind us quietly. I noticed how he walked. He was so graceful just like his sister Alice that it mad me wanna cry.

Must be in their genes...

At the end of the trail we got out of the woods and I saw a car parked there. I couldn't recognise its color or model or even name becasue of how dark it was. It must have been a good car because when I sat in it, it smelled of expensive leather and something else. I couldn't quite place the smell but then it clicked, it smelled just like Alice did when she hugged me. Must be her perfume...

Alice got in the driver's seat and told me to sit at the front while Edward slided in to the back seat quietly. The whole way I kept looking into the rear view mirror to look at him but all I saw was his bronze messy hairs because he kept his head own the whole time, I don't why....Alice drove very smoothly and according to my senses, very fast too...

The way things had happened up until now, I wished nothing unusual happens anymore. And that the next morning brings a new beginning for me.....

The drive to their home was short just as I expected it to be as Edward said he lived near. When we came into the contact with the only house in the deep forest, the only thing I could think was...Uh-oh!