A/N: Ok many of my friends and some reviewers have pointed out that Edward has green eyes… whatever floats your boat, in other words I don't really care, if you think he has green eyes then picture him that way!
P.S. Sorry I haven't updated in a while (life gets in the way). Also I need a beta bad! (editor). Anyway sorry for my ramblings Read ON
Chapter 7. The Tree
EPOV:
The week was coming to a close. I was so excited I could hardly sit still. For one, Bella had promised to spill her secret to me on Saturday, it was Friday. Two, Bella and I had been fake dating for a whole week now. By this time people had accepted us as a couple, except for Jessica and Lauren, but that was to be expected.
We had known from the beginning that we were really dating, but it was easier to pretend. It just took away some of those unnecessary tensions of being an 'item'.
Now I was sitting in the tree outside of my bedroom window. I would always come here to think things over. It was my place, my sanctuary, some would call it. Just as I was thinking over my relationship with Bella, up comes the girl herself.
"Speak of the devil." I muttered under my breath. I didn't think she would hear me but she let out a low chuckle.
"Hmmm, someone like you really shouldn't be up in a tree." She stated as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
"And why would that be, miss I know everything?" I teased.
"Because, someone as clumsy as you is liable to fall, wait let me rephrase not liable, assured to." She sneered.
I blushed a deep crimson color. Why did I always do that? It was so girly! Jeez, Man up!
I snorted at her, "Can you even get up here, girl, or are you too afraid of breaking a nail?"
She had a fit of laughter that was literally music to my ears. In between her gasps for air she cried out, "Yeah right, a tree stops me? A-a nail-and…" she spoke in gibberish because of her fits of laughter.
The next thing I knew, she was sitting on the branch next to me. "I know I promised you Saturday, but I think now is as good as any other time I believe."
I literally tensed right beside her, oh my god! Every part of me ached to know what she was for so long. I waited with baited breath.
"I-I am a monster. A legend among your kind. Forever to walk in the shadows, and forever to feed off of your kind. We need not to breathe, we need not to sleep. We are the eternally damned, we have no soul, we are the bases of so many horror movies, the ones you fear as a child, and the one you should fear as we speak."
I listened to her giving her my undivided attention. I took that moment to absorb the beauty of her, her voice, and especially her words.
I replayed her information over and over in my head. One part stuck with me, "and feed off of your kind." Does she mean, she drinks blood like a v-vam- but I couldn't say the word.
She kept looking at me, as if waiting for me to get the message and run away screaming. She had certain sadness in her eyes.
"You- you are a vam-vampire?" I asked/ confirmed trying out the words on my tongue.
She stared at me concern quickly filling up her eyes. "But I could never hurt you, ever!" she assured me and herself at the same time. I knew she could see the fear in my eyes, she reached out to me and stroked my face.
"I- and my family- we don't eat humans, we drink from animals."
"That's why you can live around humans?" I asked still in shock, but then it all started to make sense, everything. Her super speed, her perfect appearance, her smell. That smell was meant to lure me in. The perfect predator.
I could feel comprehension flickering across my face.
"Don't be afraid." She said soothing me. "I won't hurt you."
"I'm not afraid, it doesn't really matter to me, what you are I mean. I think it's sort of, cool."
She was shocked by my reaction. "You, you are not scared?" she asked shocked.
"No, I- I couldn't live if you weren't with me."
"You describe my life without you." She spoke softly.
"You shouldn't feel this way, I'm not good for you." She was sad. She truly wanted to be with me.
We sat their staring at each other for what seemed like an eternity. I stared at her flawless features. Her delicate nose, those soft plump lips, her beautiful topaz eyes.
"So beautiful" I broke the awkward silence between us. Oh no, did I just say that out loud!
I knew if she were a human she would be blushing. It was too late for me I could feel that warmness already seeping up slowly to my face.
"You're not so bad yourself." She said smiling. "It's late, you need to sleep now." She stated a little while later.
Charlie wouldn't be back from fishing until tomorrow, so I wasn't worried about him but I was exhausted. I yawned. She chuckled, "Seems like I was right."
Somehow, she managed to pick me up (much to my complaints) and walk me across the branch, through the window, and lay me gently down upon my small bed.
As she walked towards my window I cried out, "Wait!" Wouldn't she stay with me, why would she leave? I asked a different question, "Ummm will I see you tomorrow, you know since it's supposed to be sunny?"
"Yes, meet me in the tree."
She climbed out of my window and left before I could say anything else. I sat there for a while, contemplating everything she had told me.
A vampire, who eats animals. But she didn't say that she loved me, no neither did I. Does she love me, I know I love her, but why would she tell me all of this if she didn't love me? Certainly she doesn't tell these things to every human!
I fell into a restless sleep, my dreams filled with Bella.
BPOV:
Edward and I had been together for almost a week now. It was more pleasurable and bearable than I thought, dating.
Most of my family (Rosalie) was very disapproving. They wondered what I could see in a human. Alice, Esme, and Carlisle were the supportive ones. Everyone else was too worried with our secret.
I followed Edward's scent after school on Friday. I needed to be with him now, and I needed to tell him now. I could see he was in love with me, but I was also in love with him.
I found him in a tree of all places. That boy and a tree don't go good together.
As I approached him he muttered, "Speak of the devil". Hmmm I guess he was just thinking of me. I chuckled.
"Hmmm, someone like you really shouldn't be up in a tree." Well it was true, he was such a klutz! But he never ceased to amaze me. Actually him falling all of the time made his company even more enjoyable.
"And why would that be, miss I know everything?" he teased.
"Because someone as clumsy as you is liable to fall, wait let me rephrase that, not liable… assured to." I retorted. I could see him turning red. Mmmm that smell. Why did he always blush, don't girls do that?
He teased me about breaking a nail climbing up the tree. Ha, ha ha! As if a silly little nail would stop me from going up a tree. I choked out parts of a sentence before using vampire speed to limb up the tree.
He was shocked to say the least. Then it was time to tell him. I tried to give him hints because I thought shouting; "I'm a vampire!" at him might bring on the running and screaming a little faster.
I knew he would run away, or I thought he would, but as always he surprised me.
"I-I am a monster. A legend among your kind. Forever to walk in the shadows, and forever to feed off of your kind. We need not to breathe, we need not to sleep. We are the eternally damned, we have no soul, we are the bases of so many horror movies, the ones you fear as a child, and the one you should fear as we speak."
I watched with sadness as he put two and two together. I waited for the running and screaming yet it never came. He was interested! Still, even after being told I was a vampire he was still, interested.
I could detect some fear in his eyes but only for the briefest second. "I-I would never hurt you, I promise." I assured him.
He was such an interesting human; we just sat there staring at each other for who knows how long. I memorized that smell. I looked over his perfect nose, his beautiful tousled hair, his full plump lips.
Such perfection that is not meant for a monster such as me. I, being a soulless demon. He was so amazing it started to hurt to look at him.
"So beautiful!" he exclaimed suddenly. He was speaking of me! He did love me, but I-I wasn't right for him. Maybe we were supposed to be together. I looked at him, "You're not so bad looking yourself."
A little while later, "It's late, you need to sleep now." He yawned as if proving my point. I swooped him up in my arms (much to his protests) and carried him into his room. Setting him down on his bed, all I wanted now was to stay here with him.
"Wait!" he called out. He truly broke my heart, he was so gorgeous and yet he wanted me.
I knew he wanted me to stay but he was too embarrassed to admit it. "Ummm will I see you tomorrow, you know since it's supposed to be sunny?"
"Yes, meet me in the tree." Our tree, that small tree would somehow be special forever.
Tomorrow I would take him to the meadow. We would have a meadow and a tree, how quaint. I climbed out of his window, but instead of going home, I hid in one of the lower branches of our tree and listened to him as he fell asleep.
As he drifted to sleep I climbed up to the branch we had been on earlier, the one that led straight up to his window.
A few hours later he turned over and said, "Bella?" I was sure he had seen me. Then he tossed about and said my name again in that sweet voice of his. So he sleep talked. Well I might as well enjoy it, this was the only way I could truly hear his thoughts.
"Love you Bella." He said.
"I love you too." I whispered.
He sighed contented and then rolled over. No more sleep talking occurred.
I knew he loved me, but to hear him say it was- well- exhilarating. I felt like my cold dead heart was about to burst out of my chest. Either way tomorrow would be a big day for us. After seeing me n the sun, he would run away screaming for sure.
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