"Bella, there's something else I need to tell you... I'm not human" She looks at me softly, probably waiting for me to laugh or run as far away from her as I can. But I can't. It's like I'm rooted to the boulder by an invisible force holding me in place, so I do the only thing I can do in my current situation. I speak.

"What are you then?" I ask with some trepidation.

"I'm...me and my family...we're vampires."

After hearing those words come out of her mouth, I stared at Alice in shock for a second or two then stood up and started backing away in fear. She stood up and walked towards me slowly, holding her hands up in a peaceful gesture. We both stood still and I eyed her warily, idly wondering if she was just going to suddenly attack me and drink me dry. I mean, that's what vampires did right? Even just thinking the word vampire made me recoil. My mind was in total denial. I half expected her to suddenly start lsaughing and tease me for taking her joke seriously but yet she stood there with the utmost serious expression on her angelic face, eyeing me like I was some sort of dangerous caged animal, which was quite ironic considering what she was.

Even knowing what she was it didn't make her any less attractive. In fact, if I'm completely honest with myself it made her even more attractive in my opinion. Okay, I know it's stupid but I guess I'm a sucker for dangerous chicks. Well, undead chicks. I studied her silently, wondering how I could have missed all the signs because now that I looked at her, I mean really looked at her, all the signs were there. The pale complexion, the dark circles under her eyes, even her eye colour. I knew gold wasn't a natural eye colour but i thought they were just contacts, that her and the rest of her family did for a sort of family joke. Oh God, I'd hung out with a family of vampires. Sweet, loving Esme was a blood-drinking creature...

"Look Bella, I'm so sorry I haven't told you sooner, I meant to, I just didn't know how to tell you. I mean, how do you tell your best friend that you're a souless monster? I've been meaning to tell you for the past few days, I just didn't want to ruin our friendship, you know? I guess it's a little too late for that, huh?" Even knowing what she was, her voice still sounded just as beautiful to me as it had been ten minutes ago, though right now it was so sad.

"So um, what can you do? What are the do's and don'ts on vampirism? Can you change into bats? Eat normal food? Go out in the sunlight? Etc etc etc." I looked at her curiously, genuinly wanting to know about vampire life, it interested me in a strange way. I should probably have run away when she first mentioned she was a vampire but I somehow couldn't make myself leave her.

"Well, uh...no we can't fly nor change into bats, those are jst silly myths. Garlic merely smells potent to us and cosses nor any man-made weapon or object of any kind can harm us. Diseases don't affect us because we're technally dead so... Also, we can't sleep, breathe or cry. The sun doesn't harm us either, it's rather pleasant actually. It does have a rather strange effect on our bodies, though I have to physically show you for you to understand what I mean. I'll show you sometime when it's sunny. I must admit... I'm surprised that you're still stood here, though I'm glad you are. I thought you would be terrified of me and be repulsed by what I am" She made such a bitter sound, filled with so much self-loathing that it made me want to cry. My heart literally ached for her right now. The worst thing was that there was nothing I could do to comfort her, she looked like she was going to explde at any moment and I wasn't entirely sure it was safe to go near her right now. But I did it anyway, becuase I guess I'm stupid like that.

I approached her slowly but she didn't even take any notice, she was glaring at the ground like it was the cause of all her problems. I wrapped my arms around her and at first she was unresponsive, as stiff in my arms as a plank of wood but then she suddenly flung her arms around me and cried into my chest. Her body was shaking and she made little gasping noises, as though she was struggling to catch her breath, which was quite strange to me as she didn't need to breathe but I presume she was doing it to show me how upset she was. I stayed that way with her for what felt like hours, eventually my legs started aching from standing for so long and I gently pulled her to the ground with me. She curled up on my knee and buried her face in my hair. I could feel her smelling my hair and gradually as time went on she slowly relaxed more and more into my body.

After a while I shivered slightly from the cold tempature of her body and she pulled away and sat down close to me, just looking at me softly. I started to feel uncomfortable with the way she was looking at me all silent-like so I led down and studied the sky so that I wasn't looking directly at her. That way, it was easier to relax and not get lost in her beautiful eyes, making myself look like a weirdo for just going all mushy on her all the time I look in her eyes. She probably thought I was strange enough as it was.

"I'm glad you haven't run off or been repulsed by what I am. Our friendship means a lot to me Bella, more than you will ever know or understand. I am so lucky to hsve a friend like you in my life, I've never had a human friendship before and most of my family believe that it's too dangerous to persue anything with you, myself included if I'm honest. But, I just can't pull myself away, I don't know what it is about you. You're so beautiful and kind, you have such a big heart." I was so close to crying at this point, I hadn't realised just how much Alice's friendship had meant to me until now.

"To be honest Alice, I don't think I could leave you if I tried, you're way too important to me. So, I was just wondering...do you age or..?"

"No Bella, we're technacally immortal. Only three things can kill us, fire, wolves and another vampire. So, no we can't age. Does that scare you?"

"It scares me that one day I'm going to grow old, be wrinkly and ugly and you're going to be the exact same as you are now, still as perfect and beautiful as ever. I know it may sound stupid because I barely know you but I don't ever want to lose you. You're the most important person in my life right now."

"No matter what you'll never lose me" she buried her nose in my neck and started making a purring noise which was oddly comfortable as her whole body vibrated with the noise. Suddenly she pulled back and her eyes literally smoldered at me. My eyes glanced at her lips, then back to her eyes, I saw her smirk. She licked her lips slowly then inched her face slowly towards mine. As she got closer and closer to my face, my eyes fluttered closed in anticipation and just as she was inches away, there was a sinister growl to our left.

My eyes flew open as Alice was suddenly crouched protectively in front of me, her eyes pitch black with a fierce snarl rumbling in her chest. I looked past her to see what the threat was and was amazed to see a giant russet colored wolf stood there, growling in rage at Alice.

Oh shit.

A/N: Well guys this is Chapter Five, I hope you like it! Updates will be soon:)
I'm sorry for any spelling mistakes, writing it up on my laptop and spellings aren't coming up :( Anyway enjoy :')