Bella's POV

Chapter: 7

The pain had stopped all of a sudden. I don't know how long I had lain there, but the burning pain that I'd become accustomed to, was suddenly over. My eyes were still closed and all I saw was darkness. I felt someone take my hand; it was warm so it couldn't be Edward's hand.

"Bella, are you okay?" I heard him ask.

After hearing his voice I opened my eyes slightly. The first thing I saw was his white skin. The rays of the sun looked intense and they bounced off him making him shine like an angel. I looked around and could see everything in great detail, the exact pattern of the bark on the trees, rainbows in the suns rays, and even the droplets of water that made up each cloud.

"Bella?" Edward said sounding worried.

"I…" Everything was so overwhelming. I was too stunned to speak. Seeing everything this way felt unreal, like a fantasy. I looked down and saw the warm hand that held mine really was Edwards. Then something struck inside of me. I sat up and threw my arms around his neck and kissed him as hard as I could. "Edward!"

Edward chuckled and I could tell by the look on his face that he was relieved. "How do you feel?"

How did I feel? I was happy, ecstatic even, and excited but at the same time I was a bit nervous. I couldn't pick just one emotion because every time one came to my mind, another one appeared. I just shrugged. "I don't know." I felt a sudden desire for him and I kissed his lips passionately. They felt warmer now, softer. He showed no restraint with me, his lips pushed at mind harder than they ever had. His hands ran through my hair then down my back and hips feeling my body. I pushed him down to the grass both of us laughing still kissing and caressing. He rolled on top of me now. He kissed down my neck and his lips trailed up my jaw and his breath warmed my face. I gripped his shirt as he playfully nibbled at my earlobe giggling as he did. He laughed as well, gave me my favorite smile, and then kissed my lips again.

"Ahem! I'm still here!"

I turned around and saw Jacob standing nearby with his arms crossed shirtless as always. "Jake!" Edward and I sat up. "What are you doing here?"

"I should be asking you that question. You said this wouldn't happen."

"Jacob we didn't plan it this way. It wasn't going to happen."

"And you just decided out of the blue to do this, right? You look like a monster Bella, that's not the girl I fell in love with." With that he ran off into the woods.

"Jake wait!" I exclaimed, but he didn't turn back. He looked so upset and angry with us. I hated to see him that way. Good things always come with a price, and the price of becoming a vampire was probably that I lost my best friend.

The sadness must have shown on my face because Edward pulled me into his arms. "Bella please don't be sad."

"Jacob hates me."

"No he doesn't. He's just a little upset right now."

For the first time I felt a burning feeling in my throat and the more I thought about it, it got worse. I pulled away from Edward and ran my hand across my neck trying to soothe it. "My throat is burning."

Edward smirked. "Looks like someone is thirsty." He took my arms and pulled me to stand up with him. "It's time you learned how to hunt my love. Follow me."

He took of running to find a good place to hunt and I followed him. It was amazing how fast I was running. It felt like I was flying, the wind blew through my hair, but despite how fast I was going I could see everything clearly as if I were going at an easy pace. I was actually keeping up with Edward running side by side with him. In fact I felt like I could go faster if I knew where we were going and didn't have to follow his lead.

Finally we came to a clearing in the woods where there were deer peacefully drinking from a lake. Edward and I hid behind a bush and watched them. I sighed. "I'd hate to have to kill them."

Edward chuckled. "You don't say that when you used to eat fish and chicken as a human."

I nodded as I considered that. "Good point."

"Alright, for now we'll start off small with deer but when you get a bit more skilled, we'll move on to mountain lions and bears," he said. "What you want to do is focus on the one you want and don't take your eyes off it. What I like to do is break their necks before I drink so they can't feel anything. Let your instincts take over, once you do that it should come naturally."

"Can I watch you first?"

He nodded. "Of course. Watch and learn."

I had never seen Edward hunt before. He'd never let me come with him when I was human saying it was too dangerous. But this was interesting. I watched with fascination as he crouched down and prepared to pounce and a growl ripped through him. He flew through the air and landed on the ground near one of the dear grabbing the biggest before it could even comprehend the fact that he was there. After incapacitating it, he sunk his teeth into it sucking it dry of its blood. When he was done he dropped it and was by my side in less than half a second. There was blood on his mouth and his teeth were stained red. "See? It's easy," he said as he licked the blood off.

I nodded slowly. He made it look so easy, it shouldn't be too hard.

He hugged me. "Don't look so nervous. He pointed over in the trees. "They ran just past those trees. Take two if you need to since you've never had any before."

I nodded again. "Okay, I can do this." I ran to where he said the deer were. I could hear them not far off. I stood behind a tree for a moment and watched them focusing on the one I wanted like he said. Suddenly instinct took over, I felt like I wasn't thinking anymore, just moving. I ran towards the deer and grabbed it and heard a snarl as I did. Was that me? I sucked the deer dry of its blood but the burning in my throat was still there. I saw another deer hiding behind a tree and claimed it, then drank all of it's blood as well.

I dropped it and prepared to go find Edward but then I heard a laugh. I looked up in the tree above me and saw him sitting. I put my hand on my hip. "You were really watching me?"

He nodded. "Yup. You're extremely messy."

I looked down and saw some blood had dripped onto my clothes and my shirt was torn. "Oops."

He jumped down and came over to me. Then he wiped some blood off my mouth with his finger and ate it himself. "Not bad for your first try."

The rest of the day was spent hanging out in this area. It was sunny today and if we went back to the hotel we'd sparkle. Soon we could go back to the hotel but Edward was hesitant.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"I don't think we should go back," Edward said.

"What do you mean?"

He looked at me seriously. "You're so young Bella. It would be nearly impossible for you to control yourself. There are so many humans around there if you were to even catch one whiff of their blood you'd probably murder every single one of them. It's even been a bit hard for me this week at times."

"So we'll just spend the night out here?" I asked.

He shrugged. "That seems like what we'll have to do."

"What about our things?"

"I would go get them but I don't want to leave you here alone."

I put my arms around Edward's neck and kissed him. "Get them in the morning. We'll just spend the night out here."

He smirked then started to kiss me with the same passion from the night before. My human memory was a bit fuzzy, but the night we had sex was clear as day. The only difference was he didn't hold back this time. He dipped me down to the ground as he kissed me. "You know, not having to sleep means we have a lot of time on our hands." He kissed my neck. "Whatever should we do?"

"I've got a few things on my mind."

This was interesting to write, her first hunt. Jacob will be back, he didn't commit suicide (darn!). i'm kidding, i love Jacob