A/N- Thank you for all of the reviews! I decided to put up two chapters tonight, because I started writing and just couldn't stop! I don't like these chapters and the ones before these that much, because the chapter after next is what I dreamt, and it and everything after it is much more descriptive and imaginative. I wrote these chapters afterwards, trying to get a beginning to the story. So I apologize for these chapters, they will get better, I promise!

When I got home, I could tell my parents knew something was up. I was too excited, bouncing around, not sitting still. I told them the truth, or most of it. That I had ran into Edward at the hockey game, we had gotten dinner, and he asked me out for tomorrow. I texted Ashley, who was with the rest of my gang, and told them the same thing. I was following his rules, telling people were I would be.

I showered, and changed into my pajamas, only to find myself pacing restlessly around my purple and blue bedroom. I looked around at my desk with my school books in between my two windows on the purple wall facing out to the street. There were picture frames on the desk, and two shelves containing countless books above it.

I let my gaze travel to my queen size bed with its purple bedspread, and blue and purple pillows, with my bed side table containing my blue clock, purple lamp, purple phone, and blue picture frame. The wall behind the bed was painted blue. The next wall had two baskets, one full of more books, the other magazines, pushed against it, with a purple rug in between them and my bed.

There was a tall cabinet filled with dance trophies and figurines in the corner. On this wall, which was also purple, was a corkboard filled with more photos, and a calendar. Next to the calendar was my bureau with a mirror attached. On it was more pictures, my jewelry box, and my health and beauty products.

Then, stuck in the mirrors edges were notes written by friends, ticket stubs, and quotes I loved. There was a full length mirror on the other side of this bureau, and next to that the door leading out into the hallway.

On the other side of the door, on the blue wall facing my bed, was a Pirates of the Caribbean poster, a rack holding my DVD collection, and another tall bureau that held lots of drawers. On top of the bureau was my TV, DVD player, and you guessed it-more pictures. On the floor next to the bureau were my radio, and then a door, leading to my walk-in closet.

On the other side of that door was my blue chair with a light blue "K" pillow on it, and three hooks with jackets, scarves, and bags hanging from it. Then, came my windows. I had circled the room. I plopped down in the middle of my room, on the white carpet in between my bed and the bureau holding my TV.

And I looked around my room once more. It was all so normal, it was the same as I had last left it, but I was not. I was too different. I could barely sleep, and I woke up at 8:00. I got ready quickly, and called one of my friends from dance, Jill, to help pass the time until 12:00. My family had gone out for the day, leaving me alone.

"Hello?" Jill said after she had picked up, "Jilly!" I said happily. I hadn't talked to her since Thursday night, which is a long time for us. "Hi, Katie!" She replied happily. I could just imagine her, sitting cross legged on her bed, her short brown hair pulled back into a pony tail, her dancer's body clad in sweatpants and a t-shirt.

"How was the hockey game?" She asked me. I proceeded to tell her the same story, going into a little bit more detail, but obviously not all of it, when she asked about Edward. Finally, 12:00 came, and there he was, waiting for me in his silver Volvo. I ran out my door and got in quickly, and smiled at him. He smiled back, although his eyes seemed slightly guarded.

"I followed your rules." I told him quietly was he began speeding down the roads. "Oh?" He said, raising an eyebrow at me. "Mhm. I told multiple people I would be with you today. I followed my end of the bargain. Now yours." The corners of his mouth twitched upward slightly, and he replied, "I'll answer your questions when we get to my secret place…but you have to hole up your other end of the bargain. Tell me about you."

So we talked for the whole 40 minute drive, to my embarrassment, about me. He asked me everything, from what my favorite color was, to why I loved dancing so much. "It's like...I'm letting my soul do the talking for me. It's like I'm not in control of my body, but at the same time, I'm so powerful. " I had explained to him.

When he stopped the car, we were at the edge of a forest. I was about to ask him why we were here, when he seemingly answered my thoughts, "We're going to walk about a mile, and then we're there." On the way he asked more about me, focusing more on the people in my life. I described to him each of my best friends in detail, as well as my large, crazy family.

We reached the clearing just as I finished. Edward grinned at me, and then proceeded to roll up his button-down shirt sleeves a bit, before stepping out into the sunlight. I was shocked by what I saw. He was sparkling, like a diamond. I understand now why he and his siblings were always absent on sunny days.

"Wow." I whispered, stepping out of the shade to join him. I suddenly felt inadequate. "You're not terrified yet?" Edward asked me jokingly, although I was sure he was dead serious. "Nope. Tell me everything." So he did.

"Carlisle was bitten in the 1600s. He hated what he was, so he tried to kill himself, straying as far from humans as possible, but it isn't easy for our kind to die, so he failed at every attempt. One day, a herd of cattle passed by him, and he was so thirsty, he killed them. It was then he realized he could hunt animals, not be a danger to humans. He traveled the world, and eventually became immune to human blood. He studied medicine, and became a doctor.

"He found me in 1918, I was dying of the Spanish influenza." Edward got a faraway look in his eyes, and sat down in the middle of the clearing. I sat down next to him, close, but not too close. "My parents had died, and there was no way I could survive. He was very lonely, so he changed me-thus saving me from death. He did the same to Esme, a few years later when she was dying. They fell in love right away, and married. He changed Rosalie a few years later, her being in the same situation, because he hoped I would find a companion in her as he did in Esme. But there was nothing there more than sibling love between us, and one day on a hunting trip, she happened upon Emmet, being mauled by a bear.

"She took him to Carlisle, and he changed him. Alice found us years later, with Jasper, using her…talent." I must have looked confused, because he said, "She sees the future. When you're changed into a vampire, you bring over your most prominent human trait. Some of those traits are turned into powers. I can read minds. Jasper can manipulate and feel emotions."

"Wow." I said again, absorbing it all. "Is it hard for you? Not hunting humans, I mean?" He looked thoughtful. "Yes and no. It gets easier with time. I've been doing this for 80 some-odd years, so unless I'm paticuraly thirsty, it's just a bit uncomfortable. Jasper has more trouble; he's the newest to the life style. His old family followed a more "traditional" diet. But your scent…" He stopped, trying to see if he had offended me, "Please go on. I want-no, I need to know everything about you."

He took a deep breath and then began again, his golden eyes never breaking away from my green ones, "Your scent is so strong to me, that when I first met you, I wanted to ruin everything that Carlisle has built for us. That's why I left. They way you smelt was so appealing, that I considered massacring that whole class of children, just for your blood. But I resisted, at first for my family, and then, your thoughts. You were thinking mundane things, trivial ones, about your friends, but the way you regarded them…you were so sweet, so kind, so selfless…I couldn't live hurting such a good, innocent and beautiful creature.

"So I left, cleared my head, and tried to get to know you when I came back, tried to treat you like a normal human being. But I was so fascinated with you. I felt drawn to you, by something other than your blood. When you fell down the stairs, I felt this need to protect you. But you are far too observant, and I feared I had risked everything. But you didn't tell a soul about it. And if possible I felt even more drawn to you. When those boys were talking to you like that last night and their thoughts…it took everything in me not to kill them. And now here we sit, me sharing all my secrets with you, your life in danger every possible second, and you not caring at all."

He smiled weakly at me. I very tentatively put my hand on his. "Edward. I trust you. All of this should scare me, but it doesn't. Because…well because I think I love you. No, I know I love you. I love you, and I don't care what you are." Edward looked torn between being angry and happy, "You shouldn't love me or trust me, I'm a monster. You should have fear. You are an angel, who I do not deserve. But, I love you also. I must, because I resisted your blood because it was your blood. I must, to be telling you all of this. But you must know I will never hurt you. Not now, not ever."

I smiled at him, and he said, "Can I try something?" I nodded; I would have let him try anything. "Hold still." He whispered. I did. He leaned in, close, and put his cool check on mine, he listened to my heart for a long time, I'm not sure how long, and he wrapped his arms around me gently. I felt so safe and happy in his embrace, cold as it was.

We stayed in the beautiful clearing for hours, until it got dark, and before we left, he kissed me softly, chastely, on the lips. It was heaven. I was never happier. As we walked back to his car, he said to me suddenly, "Would you like to meet my family?"

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