Chapter 7
"I never left Charlie. He doesn't even know I'm here." He explained. "Didn't Charlie let you in?" I asked him. Edward then went in a two hour long story about vampires and what supernatural things they can do and what they don't need to do anymore, like breathe and eat for example. "Well what if you're at a party and someone tells you to eat something?" I asked him. I was too awake now. I wanted to know more about him even though he pretty much told me everything there is to know. He's been alive for over 100 years, there's way more to his story to last decades. "I just eat it. It's no big deal. Doesn't taste like anything anymore." He explained. "Oh. That must suck that you can't taste your favorite foods anymore." He laughed. "After you've been alive for as long as I have you don't remember what your favorite things to eat were. Now it's time for you to go to bed." He ordered me. "No I want to know more. Please!?" I begged.
"I think not. Now go to sleep." He said and started tickling me. "No.. Stop... please." I laughed. But as soon as he touched my skin he stopped and went to the other side of the room. "What's wrong?" I asked. "I'll... I'll explain it to you in the morning. I got to go." He said heading for the window. "Where you going?" I asked him. "Hunting... I'll be here when you wake up. I promise." He told me and jumped out my window. Is he crazy! There is no way he can do that without getting hurt... oh wait... I forgot, they can heal themselves.
I lay there in my bed waiting for Edward to return. I couldn't wait to see him again. Is this a crush? Do I have a crush on Edward Cullen? I can't. It wouldn't work out. He's a vampire and I'm... well.. a human. Vampires and humans can't date; they just can't, but yet... I want to spend every waking moment with him. He's awake day and night. I'm asleep at night. I wonder if there's a way I can be a vampire. Oh well... I'll see how things go first... I fell asleep dreaming about Edward. I woke up to the sound of my alarm clock. "Great... another school day. How exciting." I said with a yawn and shutting off my alarm clock. I went back into a comfortable position saying. "Just five more minutes." Just when I thought I was going to get some more sleep I heard someone laughing. "You're really something you know that?" It was Edward. Oh no. This can't be happening. Here is this amazing, great looking guy and here I am, probably with drool on my face and my hair a total MESS! "I .. I huh.. I need a moment." I told him and ran to the bathroom. "Fine with me." Edward said sitting on my bed. I finished up in the bathroom. I came out with my face washed, my hair looking nice and ready for the day to begin.
"Ok I'm done." I told him. "Good now its breakfast for the human time." He told me. As I was eating breakfast I wondered about us. Are we just good friends or dating? "What are you thinking about?" Edward asked after a while of staring at me in deep thought. "I'm not telling you. I like you not being able to read my mind." I smirked. "Well I don't like it. You are the only one I've never been able to read their mind. And I'll be quite honest with you. It bugs the living daylights out of me." I had to laugh. This was the first time I've ever seen him act like a kid. "Please tell me?" He pleaded and tried his hand at the puppy face. I couldn't resist. He was just too cute. "Alright I'll tell you. Just stop with the face. You're too adorable." He smiled at his victory.
"Well before I tell you, are going to tell me why you freaked out last night?" I asked. "Well I hadn't had anything to...drink... in a few days and I have trouble keeping myself from drinking your blood. To me you smell so sweet and I've never had this feeling for someone like I do with you. It's like I want to know more about you. I want be with you all the time. I want to kiss you but I'm afraid to. I'm a monster and I don't want to hurt you. And if I bite you I know I won't be able to stop drinking your blood, killing you. I wouldn't be able to live with myself then." Oh my god... I think he likes me. "Does it feel like you have butterflies in your stomach?" I asked him. "Yes... how did you know? What does it mean?" He asked me. I smiled. "Because I feel the same and it's because I like you and I think the reason why you feel that if because you like me too." I told him."I like you. Yes it's true. But we can't. You wouldn't want to date a monster like me. I can kill you so easily. You know that right?" He said. "I know. I'm whiling to risk my life to be with you. I'm risking it right now being around you. So far it's all good. Listen if you hurt me I promise to tell you." I told him. "You promise?" He asked me. "I promise." I assured him. I smiled at him and he smiled back at me. "Ok but if we are going to date there are some rules." He told me. The rules were:
1-No kissing and if we end up kissing don't touch his teeth because they are very sharp and can poison me. (Nice to know right?)
2-If he says no touching or something similar to that, don't take offence to it. It only means he's thirsty.
3-No telling people, especially Charlie that he's a vampire.
So me and Edward started dating. The weeks were going by and we did kiss quite a few times. I lost my breath every time. Lucky him, he didn't have to breath to live. He could do that for hours on end but I always got a little carried away when we kissed. Always wanting more but he would pull away saying "I don't want to hurt you." I didn't mind. I least he was mine. He was mine forever. After a while he had met Charlie and Charlie approved of my dating him as long as we didn't have sex until we were married. "Ok dad." I told him. Also during the few weeks I met his family. I love them so much. I found out that Edward plays the piano and wrote me a lullaby. It was so beautiful it made me cry. I knew his siblings since they go to school with us. Rosalie on the other hand... I don't think she likes me very much. Oh well I don't care. Alice is like the sister I never had. Being an only child it gets lonely. My parents left each other before they made another.
Esme is amazing. She is so caring and she's such a great person. She told me about her worry for Edward. Him being so young and not having someone to love have made her sad. Then I came along and she told me he was a different person now. Always happy and never stops talking about me. Carlisle... I learned oh so much of him. He told me part of his life and then Edward had to finish the story because Carlisle had to go to the hospital. Someone needed surgery ASAP he's a doctor, I can understand that. I learned how he was the one who changed all of them and how they we're very close to death when he changed them to vampires. It was amazing.
"I'll see you tonight."I told Edward when I left his house one night. He would come and spend the night with me just about every night, unless he was out hunting that is. I never slept those nights. Tonight he had promised to hunt early and stay with me all night long. He walked me to my truck and kissed me good bye. I drove home as the sun began to fall and the darkness arises. Charlie was home when I got there. He was home early. This was a first; he was never home early before. I went inside and found him sitting on the couch with a worried look on his face. "Bella I need to talk to you. I have to tell you something really important." He said. He made me sit down on the couch as I waited for him to tell me.
