Bella Swan: The Enigma.

Chapter 7: Waiting, Watching and stalking.

(EPOV)Edward.

The air was foggy the next day, ice created a thin deadly blanket on the ground, not to us, of course, we could see every particle in the air and Alice knew we would be fine. Even if we did crash the car would be the only thing damaged.

I held back on going to see Bella last night, I begrudgingly went hunting. (By that I mean Em and Jazz dragged me out of the house.) I wanted to grow accustomed to her scent. Yeah right, that's why you sneak into the girl's bedroom while she's sleeping, you idiot.

The inner voice has a point, to bad inner voice is Alice. ''Alice,'' I warned.

She started singing again.

The second I got out of the car I smelt her, her scent was still overwhelming but easier since the recent hunting trip. Bella was talking with Jessica by her car, an old red Chevy truck.

''It's fine.'' She mumbled.

''Are you sure? You weren't planning on asking him?'' Jessica twirled a piece of hair around on her finger.

''No Jess ask Mike, I hate dancing.'' She said, I tried not to gravitate towards her but I felt this pull I couldn't explain. Every time I learned something new about her (which wasn't often) a thrill shot through me, it was weird and new, nothing I have ever experienced before.

They started walking to class, Jessica blabbering on about dresses and going to Port Angeles. Bella went along, nodding at the right times, never talking, she only ever spoke to someone when spoken to.

Except for me.

She talked to me a lot, from other's thoughts, more so than to anyone else. When I looked over at her, she was flushed from the cold, the monster in me wanted to go over there and kill her, the other part of me wanted to just admire her classic, simple, beauty.

Bella had her hands out towards Jess, it looked rather odd, but no one seemed to notice, just like that, Jessica began to slip, the shoes on her feet didn't have enough friction for the ice, and Bella caught her.

She had been waiting to catch her.

I knew it, but it couldn't be, she couldn't have known, unless she is in fact, a human Alice.

And, personally, I think she was.

''Thank you,'' Jessica said. Would have been embarrassing to have a wet patch on my ass, wouldn't even be able to look at Mike then.

Bella nodded. ''You don't talk much, do you?'' Jessica noticed.

Bella shrugged. ''Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself, plus Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.'' I had to laugh at that one, Jessica looked offended. Is she trying to say something? Yes, yes she was.

Never noticed how annoying she could be.

''I'm not that annoying.'' Bella defended, smiling.

''I never said you were-''

''No, Jessica you didn't, but you were thinking it,'' Bella said, before walking off.

Weird. Jessica thought, something was definitely up with Bella Swan.

I couldn't agree more.

Eric Yorkie had a snowball in his hand, compressed down and ice hard. With enough force, it could hurt someone. He was aiming it at Bella.

Before I could do anything, the snowball was in the air, hurtling towards her head. She quickly spun around and caught it, throwing it back at Eric, hitting him in the chest.

I looked away and smiled.

Eric was still rubbing his chest as he walked to class, his face and thoughts confused.

In government again as Bella passed me, stumbling slightly on the way, she left me another note, her scent assaulted me but I breathed it in, the burning in my throat was a comfort, a reminder. She was alive, she was here. I hadn't killed her. Yet. I opened the folded piece of yellow paper.

Your only as dammed as you think you are

If I had a beating heart, it would have sped up. She knew. She had to know. There was no other way, she knew about us, about me, vampires.

How? Was it this physic ability? Did she have a physic ability? I think the moment in the parking lot with Jessica proves that. She knew Jessica would fall, she caught her. She was ready to catch her.

She left on that first day. So, she knew I would kill her, yet she came to school, she risked her life, risked everyone's life.

Why?

I looked back at her. She was staring at me with those dead eyes. She quirked an eyebrow at me as if to say figured it out yet? She sighed when I just stared then looked down and started drawing on some paper.

I turned back to the front, her scent flowing around me, messing with my head. My head, which only contained one word right now.

Why?

Why indeed.

*B*S*:*T*E*

''I think our Eddie is in love.'' Emmett crooned, I growled. ''How do I know this? You say. Glad you asked.'' He grinned.

''We didn't ask,'' I interjected.

''We never do.'' Jasper sighed, but he was amused. Ass.

''He is quieter than usual, thinking about her.'' He fluttered his eyelashes. ''Staring, stalking and perving have become his pastime.'' He smiled.

I wanted to hit him, Alice beat me to it.

I just blocked out their stupid fighting, waiting for Biology.

It couldn't have come soon enough.

"My mom used to say 'when a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes'" Bella said, plopping down beside me. "But you can't read .. .my eyes, and you're frustrated.'' She noted.

I ignored the fact she just said she knew about my ability, but took the chance to ask about her.

''Used to?'' I questioned.

Her mouth turned down more than it already was, she turned her watery eyes to me, I felt bad, had I overstepped? Her voice was strained when she answered. ''She died when I was fifteen.'' She cleared her throat. ''People who drink and drive in the middle of the day in public places are... assholes.''

I knew she wasn't talking about her mother who had been the drunk driver, but someone else. I noticed she was stroking her arm, I fluttered my fingers along her skin, ignoring the sparks of electricity that went through me, concentrating on the jagged red scar all the way up her arm, she had just pulled up her sleeve, showing me.

''You were in the car?'' I said, swallowing, realization dawning on me.

She nodded, pulling away her arm and yanking her sleeve back down. ''Yes, so was my dad.''

''But he's okay?'' I asked.

Mr. Banner chose then to come in with the TV, turning on the DVD.

The second the bell rang, Bella had left her seat.

She never said if her dad was okay or not.

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