I DON'T OWN TWILIGHT

Chapter Six

EDWARD'S POV

For a moment I just gape at her. How did she even know?I wonder. One thing's for sure: she's much more observant then I gave her credit for.

"Carlisle wait!" I call, running after him, "We can't tell Bella! She has no proof of anything. We're not in any danger."

"Edward," he sighs, turning to face me, "You messed up this time. I can only see two choices. First: we kill her. I don't like this one. It's against everything we stand for! Second: we explain it to Bella and hope she understands. If she threatens to tell Edward we'll have no choice but to kill her. Think of the Volturi! Even if we left the state, we couldn't leave someone who knows so much about us."

He said kill her. He can't kill her. I feel myself begin to panic.

"But, Carlisle! How can she possibly except us? Humans never have. We can't just kill her!" I hear my voice rising by the end of my speech.

"Keep your voice down, Edward," he says, "We're in a hospital. We don't want people hearing. I don't want to kill her either. All we can do is hope she accepts us."

"B-but Carlisle-"

"But nothing, Edward. She'll be over in the afternoon. Hopefully she can accept us." and with that, Carlisle strides away.

There's no way she'll be able to accept us once she finds out what we are. She'll run away! Carlisle will kill her! She can't die. She can't. I won't let her. I feel myself begin to panic. What am I going to do? I can't let her die I love her! I love her? Damn it why does Alice always have to be right. Wait! Alice! Alice had a vision Bella would accept us! Maybe...maybe there's hope.

BELLA'S POV

I pull up in front of a huge house. It's beautiful and old-looking. Is this really where they live? I wonder, and pull the address out of my pocket to make sure. Yes. Yes it is.

Mustering up all the courage I have, I go up to the steps to learn what kind of monster my soul-mate is. It's not like it can be that bad. The Creator called them 'lights in a species of monsters.' They have to be pretty good for The Creator to care that much about them. Besides, it really doesn't matter anymore. I'm already head-over-heels in love.

Before I can even knock, the door flies open and the girl with the bubbly soul, Alice I think her name was, comes out to greet me.

"Hello, Bella. I'm so glad to finally meet you! We've been waiting for you! Come in, come in,"she says.

I follow her into her living room and all of the other Cullens are sitting there. All of them except for Alice, Edward, and Carlisle look very confused to see me. I assume they haven't been told I was coming, or that I believe them to be anything other than human.

"Come have a seat," says Carlisle, patting a chair next to him. I go over and sit down, and it is extremely soft. "Well, strait to bussinessYou might be wondering why Bella is here right now," he says, turning towards the other Cullens, "Bella here figured out our secret, or at least part of it anyway."

"What!?" says the Cullens who didn't know about it.

"Um... yeah. None of you are human. So what are you?" I ask, holding my breath.

"Vampires," Carlisle says looking me strait in the eye.

"Are you serious?" I ask.

"Completely," he replies.

'Lights in the dark' they don't eat people? Most vampires do?

"What are you thinking right now?" Edward asks, the first thing he's said since the hospital room.

"I'm wondering if most vampires eat people. I'm assuming you don't. Do you?" They might eat criminals, like killers or something. I hope not. Icky.

"No, we don't," says Carlisle, "How did you know?"

Now I had to consider for a moment. Should I tell them what I am? They told me, but I had to pry it out of them. Maybe I'll just give them clues.

"Well," I say, choosing my words carefully, "Maybe I was looking for you, but I wasn't sure what I was looking for, so the clues didn't make sense."

"You were looking for us?" asks Carlisle, his eyes narrowing.

"More or less," I reply. I was looking for Edward, but I can hardly say that aloud, now can I.

"Look, I think you should be honest with us," says the self-centered one, Rosalie? "You just learnt our secret. You shouldn't be keeping some from us."

"Yeah, but I had to pry it out of you...but...you're right. I wasn't looking for all of you. Just Edward," I say looking at him to judge his reaction.

"What?! Why me?" he asks, looking at me with surprise.

"Look, I'm not about to give all my secrets up at once, but I've been looking for you for a long, long, time," I tell him, "I think it's more fun to make you guess. I've got to get home now. I've got to make dinner for Charlie now. Good-bye. Oh, and I won't tell you guys' secrets to anyone. See you later." and with that, I stride out the door. Amused at his shocked expression.

AN: Surprised to get an update on a week day? Well I went to the library and checked my e-mail and I saw a whole bunch of reviews for my stories, and that made me happy, so I decided to update. I hope you're happy. This was a long one.