A Random Little Note from the Author
Thank you for all the nice things you are saying – I'm glad you like it!!! I think I may have been a little bit high when I was writing the last one, my friend had given Kendal mint cake (a type of energy food – do they have it in America?) and for whatever reason it gave me the high two hours later. Anyway I'm slightly saner now. Only slightly.
Bella POV
Oh my God, I saw him. Him. The lad every girl in my year back in Phoenix had been drooling over. And he was here in the back of beyond called Forks.
I had to talk to him. How could I have missed this, when I've sat next to him for weeks, even months? I had to talk to him. He did seem to have noticed me, which I'm sure is a good thing.
I can't get this round my head, I'm going to bunk off this afternoon, and just sit in those woods and think. I knew his face of course, but he wears his hair different, I couldn't tell who he was. He uses a different name now, Edward Cullen. Honestly, I'm so dim I've had him on my screen saver for years. Only I did sort of recognise him, I just couldn't place the face. That's why I googled him to see if I could find out. And there it was, in black and white.
Hold on a minute, he's following me. He's here in the forest too. Oh well, I might as well tell him who he is.
"I know who you are."
I haven't turned to face him yet but I can feel the tension rolling off him in waves.
"Say it. Out loud. Say it!"
He actually sounds really angry. Maybe this is his life now, his life here. Maybe I shouldn't spoil it. Too late now.
"Robert Pattinson."
He gave a sharp intake of breath,
"Please don't say a word; if you do our whole family will have to leave. I can't face that, not again."
I don't think I will tell anyone, though. It would be wrong to ruin someone else's life just so I could say I sat next to Robert Pattinson in Biology. It's going to be hard to keep a secret like this.
"That's fine, I won't tell. But, but… can I have your autograph."
"Fine." he said.
