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CHAPTER SEVEN
EPOV
I didn't really know how she would take it. But I knew that I needed to tell her, it was who I am, it was wrong lying to her. But what if she didn't believe me?
"A vampire?"
I nodded my head, "Yes."
"So you drink…"
"No, oh no. I'm what you call a vegetarian. It's when you don't drink humans, just animals."
"What kinds of animals…"
"Just other kinds of animals, ones that you find in the woods."
She looked a little scared, "Do you um, drink animals from the water?"
"Not really."
Relief seemed to cross her face, "Okay."
"So you believe me?"
She looked a little confused, "Why wouldn't I believe you?"
"Well it's not something that most people can wrap their heads around."
"Well, there's no good reason for why you would lie to me…"
I nodded my head.
"But I'm a little confused."
I let out a small chuckle, "I thought you would be."
"So the rest of your family…"
"Vampires. We were all changed by Carlisle. I was the first one changed by him. We live forever."
"So vampires can't die?"
"Well there are ways, it take a lot of work, but there are ways."
"So you all pretend to be humans."
I nodded my head. "Yeah. We go to high school and then move to another town and sort of start all over again."
She looked down, "Oh, so you'll be leaving soon."
"Not as soon as I was going to. I've never told any human this before Bella."
Then she mumbled, "You still haven't."
I was a little confused, "What?"
Her head shot up, "Oh nothing. So can you do anything special being a vampire?"
"Well, we're strong, stronger then humans, we can run fast, really fast, and well some of us have other abilities."
"Like what? Do you have any abilities?"
"Well, my sister, Alice can see the future, my brother Jasper can control and sense people's emotions. And I can read minds."
Her face turned extremely pale when I said that, "So you can read my mind?"
"No, for some reason I can't read your mind."
Color seemed to finally come back to her face. "Why not?"
"I still don't really know. I think that maybe your mind just works differently then others."
She nodded her head, "So you really don't drink humans?"
I shook my head, "No. I mean we still can smell them, and it takes a lot of self control not to drink them. But some humans smell better then others, like you for instance. You smell better then anything I have ever smelled."
"Is it hard to control yourself around me?"
"A little, but I can manage. The more I'm around you the more that I get used to your smell, and it's easier to control myself. It gets a little hard the first time I smell you each day."
"Oh. So do you sleep in coffins in the day time?"
I couldn't help but laugh, "Nope, just a myth, we actually don't sleep at all. And we don't turn into bats either. And we don't have fangs, just sharp teeth."
She also laughed. Then I said, "Are you afraid?"
She looked up at me confused, "Afraid of what?"
"Of me."
"Why would I be afraid of you?"
"Bella, I'm a vampire, I drink blood. I could kill you in five seconds."
"But you haven't"
"But I could lose control any second, I'm putting your life in danger by just being around you."
She let out a small whisper, "I trust you."
"But you shouldn't"
"But I do."
There were a few second of silence then she said, "I don't care if you're a vampire. That doesn't matter to me."
"You are truly amazing."
She let a small blush form on her cheeks, "I love you."
"I love you too."
I looked towards the edge of the little lake area. There was a small ray of sunlight just a few feet from the water. I wanted to show her who I was, truly.
"Can I show you something?"
She nodded her head. Then I got up and walked toward the sunlight. Right before I stepped into the sun I looked at Bella her eyes were on mine. Then I smiled and stepped into the sunlight.
BPOV
When he stepped into the sunlight he was the most beautiful creature that I had ever seen. The way he glowed, it was beautiful. I didn't care that he was a vampire. I didn't care about the risk. I was more amazed that he actually loved me. I was the ugliest girl in the entire ocean, how could he love me? It just didn't seem possible.
I never thought that I would be able to find any happiness, but there he was. But I knew that we couldn't be together. I was a mermaid. I couldn't leave the water. I knew what I could do. There was some magic to the mermaid world. It was something that we could turn on and off easily. We had the power to bring someone to the sea with us. We could make them breathe underwater. But then they would never be able to breathe out of water. Mermaid could breathe in and out of water, we just couldn't get our fins dry. To bring them into our world, but they would live there forever, until they died at least. And he could never die. So I couldn't do that to him. He would never see his family again. I could never do that to him.
Then he stepped out of the sunlight and walked back to me. He must have been able to see the sorrow on my face because he then said, "What's wrong?"
I looked down, "You're beautiful."
He let out a small chuckle, one of the most beautiful sounds I have ever heard, "It's kind of a vampire thing. We look beautiful to distract our prey."
"Oh."
"But why are you sad?"
I tried to force a smile on my face, "I'm not sad."
I knew that he didn't believe me but he let it pass. Then he sat down next to the edge of the water. "I want you to meet my family."
I was immediately worried. I couldn't meet his family, "I don't think that I can."
"I'll drive to your town and pick you up."
"My father…"
"Oh. He doesn't know that you come here?"
I shook my head, "No."
"Well then maybe tomorrow I could bring you some clothes and we can leave from here?"
"I can't do that. I just can't I'm sorry. I want to meet your family I really do, I just can't."
I knew that after he told me what he was I should be able to tell him what I was, but I couldn't. I knew that he wouldn't look at me the same way. I just couldn't it was too hard, I don't think I could take that kind of rejection.
He knew that I was hiding something. I could see it in his eyes, "Okay. Maybe later."
"Yeah, maybe." I was avoiding his eyes, I knew that I was a terrible liar.
I looked up to the sky, it was getting dark. I knew that I had to leave, I didn't want my father to catch me sneaking in again. He must have caught me looking up to the sky, "You probably have to go right?"
I nodded my head, "I need to get home before my father does."
"Okay, so then I'll see you tomorrow?"
I nodded my head, "Yeah."
Then he leaned down and kissed my gently on my lips. He said, "I'll miss you."
"I'll miss you too."
Then I swam back home.
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