Chapter 6: It begins
On Monday, I got ready for school differently. I did it with a smile. I put on my (again) black Paramore shirt, my black skinny jeans, converse, and put on just a bit of makeup, something that I haven't done in almost a year.
It was just a little bit of mascara and eyeliner. Then I was done.
I grabbed my bag and my jacket and ran out the front door where Edward was already waiting. I smiled as I got in his car.
"Morning," I said.
"You seem happy," He commented.
"Well, I guess that I am happy," I have never found someone that I can be myself around, I thought.
"Well, that makes me happy," He said. "You should smile more, you have a very pretty smile," He said. I blushed.
He laughed. "You seem to blush a lot around me, why is that?" I didn't answer. He just laughed again.
"So did you ever figure out what I am yet?" He asked.
"No, but I have a few ideas," I told him. He gave me a sideways glance.
"Really, and they are?" He was teasing me, wasn't he?
I thought for a minute. Should I tell him? Ah screw it, I'm telling him. "Well, my first theory is... you are an alien and your planet blew up and your genius parents sent you hear in an escape pod," So that would make you Superman, I mean, you have the hair for it, I thought.
He laughed. "Not even close," Darn.
"Okay, well, I have gathered a few pieces of evidence, you have super strength, super speed, you can read minds, and... superhuman grace, yeah I noticed," I said, "But, all of those together make you... not entirely human, huh?"
"Actually, you're getting close now," He told me. YES!
"Are you a good guy or a bad guy?" I found myself asking.
"That is for you to decide," He told me. I chewed on the inside of my cheek.
I racked my brain for any more information. I even waited for my gut to tell me something, but I was getting nowhere with it.
God, why doesn't it seem to work when I want it to?
"Um, are you..." Finally, it happened. A single work passed through my head. My eyes widened. "You're not even alive are you?" I whispered.
"No, technically," He said. The word passed through my head again and again. But I didn't want to think about it. He couldn't be. It's impossible. He's impossible, my irrational self started to be my more rational side.
'But it's impossible, he can't be,' I thought to myself.
"Alex?" Edwards velvety voice jarred me back to reality. I saw that we were parked in front of the school. I got out and started to walk towards the woods. I didn't know why I did this.
I didn't want to be stuck in a confined space with him when I tell him this. Not that it will do me any good if he is what I think he is.
My head was telling me to run, but my stomach told me that it was going to be okay.
"Alex, now I know that you know what I am, tell me," He demanded. I didn't say anything.
"Tell me what I am. I want to hear you say it. Tell me," He said. I covered my ears. I just needed to think for a moment. I knew he could easily kill me, but I didn't want to think about that.
But if he wanted me dead, why did he promise me that he would protect me. Are there more people like him? There would have to be. His entire family for starters. That means... His father... How does he stand to be a doctor when he's a...
"Say it," Edward was standing right behind me now. "What are you afraid of me now?"
"No, I'm not, I am afraid of what you can do," I admitted in a whisper.
"Then say it," He told me.
"You're a vampire," I said.
I couldn't believe that he was a vampire. We stood there in the woods.
"And you're not afraid of me, how?" He asked.
I turned to face him. "Because if you were a danger to me, you would have killed me by now. You have had plenty of opportunities." I told him.
"True," He said.
"How did you not kill me when I started to bleed out in class?" I asked.
"I didn't breath in. Even if it was tempting." I felt a shudder go through my body. "You see, you smell... better than anyone I have ever met,"
"Yeah that's not creepy or anything," I told him. He laughed.
"Sorry, but it's true, you smell sings to me." Again I shudder. "I could very easily kill you right here. Everything about me makes me the perfect killing machine. My looks, my voice, even my scent is to draw you in. Not like I need any of those things. It's not like you can outrun me." He was in front of a tree in an instant. "It's not like you could fight me off." He grabbed ahold of the tree and ripped it out of the ground and threw it over my head.
"And if it was anyone else, I would be able to know exactly where you are just from reading your mind," He said. "Are you afraid now?" He asked.
"No, because if you wanted me dead, I would be already," I told him. He smiled and was in front of me in a blink of an eye.
"But it doesn't matter what you are, you are still my friend," My breathing hitched as he stared at me.
"Then you are a bigger fool than I thought," He laughed.
"Not as a big a fool as you for befriending a mere human being," I joked. He laughed.
"The thing is, it's true," He said, wrapping his arms around me gently. "It feels so good to actually tell you," He whispered. I can't believe that a creature as strong as he could be so gentle with someone so fragile as me.
I smiled and wrapped my arms around him. This might be the beginning of something that I have never felt for someone outside of my family.
Love.
AW! How cute, even after all that she still thinks she might be falling in love with him. I had to have this scene even if she found out a different way. Hey should I have the love triangle between Alex, Edward and Jacob? Just wondering. REVIEW!
