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BPOV

I stared back into his green eyes, he was conscious. I looked around the classroom, and noticed no one else was. He had his hand around my wrist. Shit. "Oh fuck." This is seriously not fucking good. Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit.

His eyes searched the room frantically, panicked. I tried to remain calm, as if this was all normal. "Bella, what the fuck is going on here?" Okay, Bella, you can get out of this. Just unfreeze everything and maybe... ugh! I couldn't just restart time and have him make a scene in the middle of biology so I had to keep it frozen.

"You're dreaming. Go back to bed," I tried, but I don't think it worked.

He gulped loudly, his humorless, dry laugh choked up his throat, he attempted to appear unfazed. "Ha, good one. So, uh, you can stop time?"

Play it cool, Bella, act like it's not a big deal. "No shit, Edward. Jesus, you're dull." I grabbed my pencil and started to finish the quiz, which was my whole purpose of freezing everything in the first place. Now I've got myself into this whole mess.

"But how did you make me freeze too?"

"Because you were touching me when I froze everything." I couldn't believe I was actually discussing this with him, but, I'll just have Rosalie erase his memory later.

"Can you do other tricks?" I nodded. "Like what?" God, why wasn't he freaking out and running away from me like I was a leper?

"Do you really have to know?" He nodded furiously while tucking a stray piece of hair behind my ear. "I can compel people to do what I want, read minds, use telekinesis, replace and erase memories, place thoughts into people's heads, freeze, fast-forward, and slow down time. I have amazing enhanced senses, I can control the weather, and I'm learning some other stuff." You're telling him all of this why, Bella?

I don't fucking know.

"So, you're like a fairy?"

"Shut up." Is he serious, fairies do not exist.

"Can I call you Tink?" He asked teasingly. That's it; I'm done with him now. Complete shunning mode.

"Edward, shut up." He chuckled to himself, yeah real funny, dick.

"I'll take that as a no." His face suddenly got red, then faded to sheet white. "Holy fuck, you can read my mind!?"

"Awe, Eddikins, you're blushing." I pinched he cheek as I sighed. I could have messed with his mind and made him believe I could read his mind but I just wasn't in the mood. "But, no, you're the only one I can't get through to; your brain just blocks me off. It's unbelievably frustrating."

"Why?"

"I'm not sure, maybe it has something to do with your mental disabilities," I laughed as I finished up my quiz. "Edward, you can't tell anyone about this. I'm serious."

He thought for a long moment. "Okay, I won't. But-"

I ground my teeth together, it wouldn't matter anyways, I reminded myself because Rose will have his memory cleared out by the end of school today. "But what?"

"You have to help me out with one little thing."

"And what's that one little thing?" I spat out, suddenly annoyed.

"You have to be the subject of my photography project." My jaw dropped as he smiled widely.

"Yeah, one little thing my ass," I spat out.

Then out of nowhere he whipped out a really nice, really expensive, professional camera and snapped a picture. "Hmm, the pissed-off face, I like it."

"Edward, you're such a-" I slammed my mouth closed.

"I'm such a what, babe?" He was grinning, obviously loving this.

"Words evade me as to what you are." I finished my quiz and returned to my original position. "Edward, remember. Not. A. Word. Come to my house after school, we need to talk about all of this shit."

I said what I needed to say and the classroom became its dull, bland self again. I turned in my test right before the bell rang. Giving Edward a final glance before going to my next class.

I told Rose, Alice and the guys about it all. I was afraid they were going to be upset, but they honestly didn't care. They said it was good to have someone know who wasn't like us, made it easier to cope, but harder to say goodbye. And what that meant, I had no idea. Another one of their 'figure it out yourself' kind of thing. Yippee.

By the end of the day I just wanted Edward to have forgotten about it all, especially the deal we had 'agreed' upon. I mean, seriously, the man was like a fucking paparazzi with his camera, popping up out of nowhere snapping pictures of me whenever he found it convenient.

I was at my locker putting my books away, okay, so it was more like I chucked them into the bottom like the worthless pieces of shit that they were, when Edward came up. "Hello, Bella."

"Edward, don't talk to me where people can see you, it's embarrassing." I jokingly hid my face with the hood of my jacket.

He pulled it back down as he laughed; his hand lingered on the hinge of my jaw and traveled down to my neck. "Hardy har har. I just wanted to tell you that I won't be able to come until after football practice, so is six o'clock okay?" Edward leaned against the metal door of my neighbor's locker, legs crossed, looking like a model, which he very well could be.

"Yeah, fine whatever." I shut my locker door and walked towards my car.

I stuck the key into the lock of my old truck and twisted it roughly. A strong hand on my shoulder appeared out of nowhere before I could get into my car. "Bella?"

"Yes, Edward?" I turned around and was greeted with his blaringly green eyes. I shifted my glance to his simple black t-shirt which hugged his body impeccably.

"Can you freeze time so I can tell you something really quickly?"

I grabbed his hand and rolled my eyes as I looked down at my ratty old watch and whispered my chant. "Okay what did you have to tell me?"

"Just that I've been wanting to do this all day." He smiled devilishly.

"What? Stalk me with a camera? Or talk to me beside my truck and torture me." I couldn't help but be a smart-ass when it came to him, it was in my genes.

"No. This."

He gently grabbed the back of my head and pulled my lips to his. Warmth and passion filled my veins as I tried so hard to resist. But, who was I kidding? Fuck it. I dropped my heavy backpack and reached my arms around his neck pulling him closer to me. My back was pushed up against the truck door and his hips were pinning mine.

We moved together in such perfect harmony that it seemed surreal, indescribable. Our lips together were like peanut butter and chocolate, a perfect mixture. I couldn't stop; something just drew me in and kept me addicted.

We finally pulled apart, my face was stained red. He ran his thumb under my eye before kissing me on the cheek and backing away with a shit eating grin on his face. "See you later, Bella."

I mumbled my goodbye before climbing into the cab of my truck and pulling away. I got all the way to my house before remembering to unfreeze time. Whoops.

And why wasn't I surprised to Alice's yellow Porsche I my driveway?

I threw my heavy keys on the kitchen table and walked up to my room. "Alice? Rose?"

"In here, my love," Alice called out from my room in her singsong nature. Rosalie was sitting at my desk filing her blood red nails.

"Hey guys. What are you doing here?" I threw my book bag on the ground and drank some of my disgusting drink. The taste was becoming neutral after drinking it for awhile.

"We thought we should give you another lesson to keep your mind off of lover boy for the time being. How does shape-shifting sound?" Rosalie smiled as her blue eyes flashed to gold, mimicking Alice's.

"Whoa." They both giggled.

We sat on my bed in a circle. Alice sat there with her eyes closed, and slowly, starting at her roots, her hair went from jet black to a creamy, golden blonde. "Shape-shifting is one of the more interesting powers we are given, and probably the most entertaining and useful as well. But it's probably one of the hardest to maintain." She pointed towards her hair as it faded back to its original color.

"All you have to do is picture a hair color, an eye color, a facial feature that you want to have and project it onto yourself. It's like almost every power we possess, you have to imagine it." Rosalie's nose became bigger for only a second but then returned to normal. "Facial features are the hardest to sustain, though, so start out with something simple. Try making your eyes green, don't feel bad it you don't get it right away, it took me a hundred tries to get it right." She got up and grabbed a hand-held mirror.

I nodded nervously as I pictured Edward's eye color. I imagined my eyes fading from the current muddy brown to the brilliant jade color that he possessed.

I glanced in the mirror and gasped. My eyes were shining, they were gorgeous, the exact replica of Edward's. I imagined my hair going from the plain brown to a fiery red, with perfect, tight spiral curls. I imagined having Angelina Jolie's cheekbones and lips and Miranda Kerr's perfect body. My body shook and shuddered and quivered. It was working! I jumped up off of my bed and looked in the mirror.

I was beautiful, my face was flawless, my body was to die for, my hair look like it came straight off a Pantene advertisement and my eyes were piercing and beautiful.

"Holy fucking fuck! Bella! How the hell did you do all of that!?" Rosalie inspected me closely as I stood in front of the mirror admiring myself. "I can barely get my hair to color completely."

"Uhm, I don't know I just imagined it like you said, don't I look great? But my hair is a little much, don't you think?" I pictured it turning into a light caramel brown with loose spiral curls.

"Bella, do you realize what this means? I mean, you've kept your form for almost five minutes. This is incredible."

"Uhm, no, what does it mean?" I finally got enough of staring at myself and turned my attention to my stunned friends who were looking at me like I was the next coming of God.

"That shape-shifting is your alpha power and compulsion is your beta power."

Rosalie looked at Alice, her now regular blue eyes wide. "Alice, are you sure, I mean we've only met one other person with a beta power, and he was, like, insanely powerful."

"We'll talk to Jasper and Emmett about it later tonight. But, Bella, I want you to see how long you can keep this up. We have to talk to you about some other things, so I recommend you sit down."

"First, Rose, I need to ask you for a favor. Edward is coming over in a bit and I need you to erase his memory, I really don't want him to find out about ya know, everything."

"No."

"Okay thank-. Huh? What do you mean 'no'?" I stared at her, mouth agape, shocked.

"Bella, answer me this, would you rather be with the love of your life and be completely happy or would you rather be alone and miserable?"

"What kind of question is that? I'd obviously rather be happy with the love of my life."

"Then I won't erase his memory," she stated simply.

"Plus, even if you erase his memory today he's going to find out again next Friday after the game because you're going to slip and he's going to catch you as you freeze time before you fall. Bella, you're going to realize sooner or later that he's meant to know about you and us, no matter what you do to change that, it's going to keep happening." Alice grabbed my hand trying to project onto me the weight of what she was telling me. "Edward and you, you're soul mates."

I started laughing loudly, more like cackling, I wiped the tears from my eyes, "Alice, wow, you're funny. Edward and me, soul mates, yeah, right. I can't stand being around him for more than five minutes."

"Whatever you say Bella, but I am always right about these things, please just trust me on this one." Her golden eyes were pleading with me.

"Okay... Well, let's all jump off the crazy train. So, what did you have to tell me before this whole conversation?" I sat crossed legged and put my Spiderman pillow in my lap.

"Well, first of all, do you know why you didn't receive your gifts until a few years after the accident?"

"No, I just figured I hadn't noticed them." I ripped a bite off of a Twizzler.

"Okay that's not exactly right, your powers only manifest after you've reached puberty. Or basically, when you start your period and become a woman." Alice took a Twizzler out of the bag I had offered.

"Guys' transition isn't as painful, we don't know why for sure but we are guessing it's because their 'puberty' stage is a little more gradual than ours. But, anyways, I'm guessing that you were just randomly struck with a headache that felt like your skull was going to explode."

"Yeah in seventh grade I went to the bathroom because my stomach was hurting. After I did my business I started my period and then my head just, well, you know." I shuddered, reliving the excruciating pain that had enveloped me that day at school. "I barely remember being taken to the hospital and waking up a few days later."

"The reason it hurt so bad was because all of your powers were overwhelming your brain, rushing in at once," Alice explained.

Rosalie glanced at me. "Bella, how old are you?"

"Seventeen, my birthday is on Friday, though."

"Oh shit. Bella, uhm, I don't exactly know how to say this but you know that headache?" I nodded, confused. "On your eighteenth birthday it's going to come back, but twice as painful."

Alice elbowed her as I gulped loudly, time to stock up on the Excedrin. "Tell her the other part."

Before Rosalie could answer there was a loud knock on the door. "B, I'll tell you about it later, have fun." And in a flash they were gone.

I shook my head not knowing whether to be mad at them for not telling me about the seemingly important information or for leaving me alone with Edward.

I swung open the door and watched as Edward's mouth drop, his eyes glazing over, and I think he may have spot a dribble of drool rolling down his chin. What's wrong with him? "Uhm, excuse me miss, I must have the wrong house because right now I'm in heaven." Oh yeah, I don't look anything like me.

"Does that line actually work, Cullen? It's me Bella. Alice, Rose, and I were experimenting with shape-shifting, I have to be like this until it fades, I doubt that you'll mind."

He swallowed back his drool as I led him up the stairs to my room. "Bella, are you taking me upstairs so you can take advantage of me." I rolled my eyes and sat on my bed. I pointed towards the rocking chair letting Edward know that he was to sit there and not come anywhere close to me.

"Okay, Mr. Cullen. Let's get this straight, Rosalie refuses to erase your memory so I guess I'll have to endure it and be your 'model' or whatever it is. Which, I am extremely pissed about, I'll have you know. But you cannot, under any circumstances, ever tell anyone about our abilities or I'll be obligated to kill you, painfully and slowly, ever heard of Japanese water torture?" He gulped.

"Our?"

"Well, Rose, Alice, Jasper, and Emmett have them too, dumbass."

"Oh, okay now everything makes sense, weird shit was always happening at practice. How did you guys get to be so special?" He joked, his lips pulling up into a smile.

"We all died, then came back to life. We're all 'zombies' as you so lovingly put it." I was short, stating my answer with a bitter tone.

He pulled a hand through his haphazardly styled hair. "Oh, shit. Sorry."

I shrugged. "It's fine."

We were both silent for moment before he spoke up. "What's with that buzzing noise?"

"Oh, yeah I forgot that minor detail. Every time we touch I take your energy away from you." He squinted his eyes, obviously confused. "That's why you passed out at the pool and why you feel tired after we have been touching for a while."

"Oh. Why?"

I gulped, wondering how he was going to take this information. "Alice says, get ready for this one buddy, she says I can take your energy because we're soul mates" I started laughing like it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard, trying to lighten the mood.

"Soul mates? Like Romeo and Juliet? Like Spiderman and Jane?" According to the serious look on his face he didn't find any of this funny.

"I guess so, but she could be wrong."

"Is that why I can't stop thinking about you? Is that why I feel so goddamn protective over you? Why every time I see you I just want to run over to you and kiss you and make you feel loved? Why it drives me crazy every time you shut down my advances? Why I've been dreaming about you for the last few months? Why I feel undeniably connected to you? Bella, you are driving me fucking crazy. And you're telling me it's only because we're soul mates?" He was now sitting on the edge of my bed, I nodded weakly. What else was I supposed to say? He shut his eyes, "Bella, can you please make yourself look like Bella; I like you better that way."

I shut my eyes and pictured my normal self, my body had a subtle spasm and when I opened my eyes and glanced in the mirror, I recognized myself and turned back to Edward who was smiling widely. "Much better. There's been something I've been meaning to ask you ever since freshman year."

"And what might that be?"

"I know this is random and came out of nowhere but why did you move? No one ever did figure that out." He laid down beside me; I instinctively rolled over to his side with my head on his chest. I flinched when I realized how close I was to him. He held onto me tighter once he realized I was about to move. "No stay, it feels... normal, I guess."

I cleared my throat. "Well, we moved because with my new powers separating me from everyone else I was a loner and didn't want to be around or talk to anyone else, my dad just thought I was depressed and was completely helpless. Everything in this town reminded us of my mom and how we used to be, it was the hardest thing to have to go to the grocery store or go to Church with all of the reminders and memories, so we decided that we needed to start over new and moved to Phoenix. My mom always said she wanted to vacation there because of the dry heat that never appeared in Forks, she thought it'd be paradise, trust me it wasn't. It was way too hot and dry for me, I hated it. Anyways so, my dad got a job as a patrolman and we tried to make our life in Phoenix work but it didn't. Everything was so alien to us, I wasn't making many new friends, Charlie missed his old buddies and our family, so, after he pulled a few strings and got his job back we bought back our house and moved back to Forks. Long, confusing story, I know."

"I'm sorry you had to go through all of that, Bella."

"Hey, shit happens, right?"

"So, what happens now that we know that we're soul mates?"

"Nothing, we'll just continue on with our lives as usual, until I find out for sure if Alice is lying or not."

"Can we at least make-out every once in a while?" He stuck out his bottom lip and laughed playfully.

"You, Mr. Cullen, keep your hands and your tongue to yourself." He flipped over so that he was hovering over top of me.

"Bella, who are you trying to kid? You know you love kissing me, I can feel it. And you obviously didn't object to it earlier at your car."

"You're so sure of yourself, aren't you?"

"Only when I know I'm right." He was slowly lowering his lips to mine as I was slowly giving in.

The front door slammed shut and Charlie shouted. "Bella? Whose car is out front?"

I grabbed Edward's hand and paused everything. "Edward, you and I are studying for a biology test tomorrow," I said quickly as I straightened myself out and smoothed out my bed, I shoved Edward back into my desk chair and grabbed my biology book before restarting time. "Yeah, dad. Edward Cullen came over to help me study, sorry I forgot to tell you," I shouted back.

"I think I saw my life flash before my eyes, Bella. I mean he's armed!" I shook my head and looked down to my biology book in case Charlie decided to come upstairs.

A series of lights flashed and I looked up to see Edward with his camera, he whispered one simple word. "Beautiful."

That night I had a bizarre dream. I was out in a meadow with an old man; snow was falling in heaps around us. Something about the man was achingly familiar, but I couldn't quite place it. We were laying on a blanket; he was hooked up to an oxygen tank, barely hanging onto life. I kissed his cheek tenderly and whispered, "I will always love you." and then he passed away. When I woke up tears were streaming down my face.

I wiped them off and started to put on a pair of jeans and on old sweatshirt when something caught my eye. Snow. Covering everything. I ran downstairs and Charlie was sitting at the table drinking coffee.

"Bells, school closed because of the blizzard. Can you believe it, a blizzard in the middle of September?"

Oh God, what have I done now?

I ran upstairs and grabbed my cell phone, dialing Alice's number. She picked up before the first ring finished, "Bella! Nice work! They'll be clearing out snow 'til October. We're coming to get you; we have someone you need to meet!" She popped up behind me and grabbed my wrist and within a few seconds we were in her living room with the rest of the group.

Emmett grabbed me into a fierce hug. "Bellie boop! There's my girl. Thanks for the cancellation!"

"I really didn't mean to, in my dream it was snowing so I guess that's what happened." I sat down on the couch next to Rosalie.

The doorbell rang and Alice jumped up and practically ran to the door to answer it. A few moments later an extremely tall, russet skinned man walked in. He was a little less muscular than Emmett but the guy had a few inches on Em. He pushed his shaggy black hair out of his eyes and greeted my with a boyish smile, "Hi, you must be Bella. I'm Jacob Black. But just call me Jake."

"Nice to meet you, Jake."

Alice popped up out of nowhere. "Jake is the guy I told you about yesterday, the one with both an alpha and a beta power."

"I've been traveling around a lot, mainly in Europe. But when Alice called me yesterday and told me about you and offered me a place to stay I flew in from Bristol immediately."

"Bristol?"

"Yeah, it's this adorable city in England, they film a TV show there called 'Skins', I was one of the cast members but I got killed off last season." He laughed an adorable child-like laugh.

"How old are you?" I wondered out loud, I mean the man was huge and has travelled around the world but couldn't be any older than myself or any of the rest of the group.

"Eighteen, but technically I'm-" Rosalie clamped a hand over his mouth and whispered something in his ear. "Oh, sorry. Anyways, Bella. According to Alice here I am officially enrolled as your teacher, I hope you don't mind.

Mind having a teacher hotter than the fucking sun with a perfect smile and, most likely, abs sent from God himself. Fuck no. "No, that's fine with me."

"Good, I hope you don't care but I'm going to go take a nap, jumping from England to Washington took a lot out of me."

And in a flash he was gone. "Okay! Seriously you guys, how the fuck am I supposed to concentrate when that gorgeous hunk of a man is my teacher!?"

They all laughed at me Emmett made some obscene gestures and Rosalie thumped him on the head.

"Bella, I need to talk to you. It's kind of urgent." Rosalie grabbed my hand and led me into the kitchen. Alice followed and hopped up onto the counter. "Bella, what was your dream about last night?"

"I was out in a meadow, it was snowing and there was an old man with me. I think I was in love with him. It was fucked up and kinda gross, I mean I was all into this guy and he was all decrepit and wrinkly."

Alice and Rosalie exchanged glances. "Rose, do you want to tell her, or should I?"

Rosalie replied almost instantly, "I will. Okay, Bella. That wasn't a dream, it was a vision and that old man was Edward."

"Okay, but I was young, I don't get it. I mean I would completely understand if we were both older. But he died and I was still very much alive."

"Bella, after you turn eighteen you will never age another day. You'll become immortal. We all are." I stopped breathing. "It may not sound so bad now but one day you'll have to say goodbye to Charlie, your grandparents, your aunts, your uncles, and cousins. Not to mention all of your friends. And you'll have to say goodbye when you're in your twenties. It's the hardest thing you'll ever have to do, but it's necessary."

"But, how am I going to say goodbye to Edward at that time. I thought you said we were soul mates and obviously in that dream I didn't leave him or whatever because we were still together." My mind was spinning around all of this information.

Alice grabbed my hand, trying to soothe me. "Edward already knows about our gifts so it's okay if he knows that you're immortal, he'll grow old and you'll still be very much in love, he'll die and you won't. It's an extremely hard thing to deal with, and I wish you never had to but you're destined to be with a mortal and nothing can change that."

My breathing was hard, coming in rasps. "How old are you?"

Alice looked hesitant to answer. "I'm seventy-three, Rosalie is eighty-nine, Emmett is fifty-six, Jasper is one hundred and sixty-six and Jake is two hundred and five." They sat still trying to gauge my reaction.

"Can you guys please take me home?" They nodded silently as we jumped into my room. They didn't say anything; they just hugged me and left me to myself.

I picked up my cell phone and dialed the number of the last person I ever thought I'd call in this situation but the person I wanted more than anyone else in the world. He picked up after the third ring. "Bella?" His voice was like liquid gold.

"Edward, I need you." I finally broke, sobs ripping through my chest as my reality set in. In a few years I'll never be able to see my loved ones again, never be able to hug them or visit for holidays. My father will be crushed and heartbroken.

"I'll be right there."

Okay, so how many of you were expecting any of that? Hopefully not many, I hate being predictable.

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