Dinner Date

"Kiss me again." April giggled as she and Edward lay across the black leather sofa in his room.

"You've had one too many, my self control isn't made of steel." He replied absentmindedly twiddling a strand of her blonde hair with his cold long fingers.

"You know you want to." She persuaded him as he lay towards her and pressed his lips onto hers for the sixth time. It was frustrating that their lips could only meet for so many seconds, every kiss left them wanting more but Edward had to control himself otherwise the smell of her blood would overwhelm him. If this were to become a regular occurrence he would need to feed about twice a week to keep the hunger at bay.

They sat in silence for a while just taking in the fact that they were with each other but Edward tuned into what Esme was wondering and smiled.

"Esme would like to know what you wanted for dinner." He informed April.

"Erm I don't know. What do you have?"

"She's going to go out and get some food because we don't have any; we're not used to human visitors."

"Some mac and cheese would be nice."

"Sure, I'll go tell Esme." Edward slid gracefully from under her body and walked off to inform Esme of April's request for dinner.

As Edward left Carlisle entered the room.

"Alice informed me that you were here." He said smiling over at April. "You have your aunt's mouth" he commented.

"You must be Carlisle." April replied "my aunt didn't say how you knew each other."

"Did she not?"

"No, she seemed quite keen to avoid the conversation. Can you enlighten me?"

"If your aunt didn't tell you April I think it would be unfair of me to tell you."

"But it's something interesting wasn't it?"

"Not as interesting as you're imagining it could be."

"Secret lovers?"

Carlisle laughed at the notion. "She wishes."

"What happened please?"

"Another time." He replied as Edward entered the room smirking at the thoughts that had been running through Carlisle's mind. He turned on his heel and left leaving April hanging off of the words "she wishes."

"You know what happened don't you?" she asked Edward after seeing the smirk creeping further along his face.

"I might do." He replied airily "It's well worth the wait though."

"It better be."

"What do you want to do to keep your mind off of it then?"

"I don't know, you think of something."

"Ok, tell me about your life."

"What do you want to know?"

"What was life like before I was here?" he asked starting off with a slightly easy question. She was lying across his chest and he was playing with another strand of her hair.

"The days just rolled by I suppose, every day seemed the same. I mean I have had many good days here but I've never felt at home in Forks. My parents lived with me in the U.K before they were killed, my mom was American and my dad was English. Pippa told me that they said that London was no different from Forks, there's rain most of the year and the sun doesn't come out nearly enough as it should."

Edward looked down at her face making sure the tears weren't building up in her eyes again; she looked back at him before continuing with her rant about life before Edward.

"I was two when I moved to Forks, Pippa and Dan have been like parents to me but they know they can never replace them. Life was ok, I had a few prospective boys lined up before you showed up too." She poked her tongue out when she saw him raise his eyebrows disapprovingly.

"That Charlie kid, Tom Linton and Foster? You defiantly needed some better candidates." He said wrinkling his nose after seeing their faces reflected in April's thoughts.

"You weren't a candidate when you showed up anyway." April retorted as she traced lines on his stony palm with her finger.

"I am now." He replied with a crooked grin and lifted her hand to his lips and kissed it.

"Well I'm guessing I wasn't a contender when you met me either."

"How do you know?"

"I dream what you go through." She reminded him with a cheeky smile.

"You haven't even got there yet, it's not that far into the past."

"Time is not a fixed construct in my dreams; otherwise I would've experienced you being turned into a vampire if we were going chronologically."

He flinched as she reminded him of being turned, if she were going to experience it as if it were first hand, April would be in excruciating pain for possibly the whole night or even three nights, however if she was lucky, it would only last a couple of hours. The worst was yet to be mentioned though, the horror of seeing all the humans he had taken lives from when he gave into his bloodlust.

To try and settle the unease he was feeling he asked April to describe all the best moments in her life so far.

"Well there was being born obviously." She smiled at him knowing that he was going to disqualify it because she couldn't remember it.

"Doesn't count." He informed her, she rolled her eyes.

He said it just like she'd predicted.

"I still lived it, it counts. Well anyway, there's the time when I got in trouble for starting a food fight with my best friend Kenny Gorbell. I was six at the time, but it was totally worth it, even if the teacher did get me to sit in the naughty corner for about half hour."

Edward laughed as he saw the image inside her mind, he was laughing because of the state she looked; he saw that she had spaghetti on her head and chocolate cake smooshed around her mouth.

"There was the time me and Jodie first got drunk at her brother's eighteenth birthday party, I was sixteen and I started flirting with a statue they had in the back garden, his friends pulled me away from it after about an hour, I think they felt sorry for me."

"How is that one of your best moments?"

"I'm getting onto that..." she blushed knowing that he was going to look at her disapprovingly. "It was also the night I had my first kiss."

He sat in silence "continue." He said gruffly.

"I know it was a drunken kiss and it meant nothing to him, but it was perfect even though we had no attraction to each other whatsoever, but to me it seemed a good idea at the time."

"You have a twisted perspective on life."

"I know, I mean look at me...I fell in love with a vampire, how twisted is that?"

The smile reappeared on his face before he informed her dinner was ready.

"Will I be the only one eating?" April asked now slightly timid.

"I'll eat to humour you, I don't want you feeling awkward." He grasped her hand and they went downstairs together.

April now felt stupid that she'd agreed to having dinner. Edward had told her they didn't eat, but because her brain had switched off earlier when Esme had asked about dinner, the automatic answer to Esme's question was a nod of her head.

But to April's relief all the Cullen's were going to humour her and join in with dinner, well all except for Rosalie.

Edward took his seat to the left of Carlisle who was at the head of the table and April sat in the vacant chair to the left of Edward. Esme was sitting at the opposite end and then it was Emmett, Jasper and Alice to the right of her. Edward caught April's hand under the table to reassure her because he could hear her heart beating ten to the dozen, he was sure the others could hear it too.

"Where's Rosalie?" Edward asked Emmett casually as he took the dish of macaroni cheese and ladled a portion onto his plate, he put it on the table for April because it was still piping hot and he didn't want her hands to get burnt.

"She had some homework that needed doing." Emmett replied taking the dish away from April once she'd acquired her portion.

"She's got the rest of the evening to do it, why now?" Edward said getting agitated.

"Peace Edward." Jasper said as he controlled the emotions within the room, to April the line sounded like something out of an old medieval movie.

"So April." Alice said taking everyone's mind away from Rosalie "are you and Edward a couple now or is it kissing friends?"

April blushed and replied with "I don't really see him as boyfriend material, do you?"

Edward squeezed April's hand harder than normal and she smiled back innocently.

"I like her." Emmett grinned in appreciation of April's joke "she should come over more often."

"I have to admit." Jasper added "your emotions are much more fun to experience whilst she's here Edward."

"I think." Edward said glaring at his siblings "that I should go to hers from now on, I get picked on less."

Carlisle took pity on his adopted son and changed the subject yet again.

"Esme tells me that you're quite the piano player April."

All eyes were now on April again as she blushed furthermore.

"It's all down to Edward." She explained "it's a bit like his piano playing is programmed into my head so it comes naturally to me like I've been playing for years. I only touched the piano keys today."

"Are you better than him then?" Jasper asked as he put the last mouthful of macaroni in.

"I'd say we're on par." Edward replied.

"Play for us after dinner then." Alice grinned, "you only seem to play music for Esme, what about the rest of us?"

"I will do it only if April agrees as well." He said looking over at April who was halfway through eating; she swallowed loudly and looked at the eager faces of the Cullen's.

"Sure."

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Once dinner was finished and the plates were in the dishwasher April and Edward took their places on the piano stall.

"You start this time." Edward whispered "and I'll pick up the notes from your head."

"Ok." April breathed as she nervously placed her fingers on the different keys. "Here goes."

The tune this time sounded even softer than the melody before, it sounded like a sweet love song that had been composed by Cupid himself.

Edward looked on unable to taint the tune with the lower notes; he just stared over at April who was as lost in the music as he was when he played.

From the top of the stairs Rosalie had come out from her bedroom to observe Edward's piano playing. However she was shocked to see that girl playing instead of him, all eyes were on her, and they were falling in love with her as fast as the tune floated in the air. It made Rosalie's blood boil (even though she didn't have any), how dare this human enter her and her family's life and turn it upside down with her so called 'gift' and her infatuation with Edward. Because that's all it is, Rosalie told herself, as soon as she starts dreaming about when he was feeding from humans he'll be off like a shot. Rosalie smirked but was still unable to tear herself away from the music, it was hypnotic. Next time she heard piano playing she was going to don a pair of headphones and turn her music up as loud as it would go, that's what Rosalie decided.

She stopped playing and Rosalie stalked back into the shadows of the hallway to get back to her room to finish off her homework. Edward noticed the time on the grandfather clock and told April it was time to go home, she thanked Esme for dinner and waved to everyone present as she exited through the door.

"See you at school tomorrow." Alice smiled as she waved enthusiastically.

They got into the silver Volvo and Edward arrived outside her house in five minutes.

"I like your family." April smiled over at him.

"I'm sorry about Rosalie; she's rather pig-headed."

"It's ok. I had a lovely time anyway."

"Are you walking in tomorrow?" he asked.

"I walk every day."

"I'll join you then."

"See you tomorrow Edward." April leant over to him and nuzzled into his cheek. "Don't go to bed too late." She winked before exiting the passenger side door. "One more thing."

He looked over to her with eyes full of longing; he didn't want her to leave him.

"Let's keep this to ourselves."

"Why?" he asked confused

"Because..." she sighed, she couldn't explain why but she felt that it was better kept as a secret.

"I understand." He nodded seeing the confusion within her clouded mind. "It'll just make me want you more at school." He grinned mischievously.

"I might be grounded for a while too."

"You're not grounded yet, your aunt is assuming your over at Jodie's."

"Oh that's good to know." April sighed happily; she kissed him on the cheek and headed over to the door.

The Volvo sped away and April gave out a loud sigh of happiness again. Today was definitely going on the best moments list.

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