Chapter 7: Unexpected Visits
I took out the strapless royal blue dress, it was a short dress, it was beatiful, I opened the envelope, and read,
Bella please wear this dress, I am inviting you to come with us to the ball. And by us I mean our friends.
Don't worry it's allowed to invite others. -Haley
I smiled and then I opened the second envelope.
It was from my school in Ravenwood, my report card, I put it away to show it to Renee later, when she got home from work.
I looked at the dress, I tried it on in the bathroom and looked myself in my bedroom mirror, I never thought of myself as beatuiful or even pretty.
Always plain old Bella. With boring brown eyes, pale skin, and boring brown hair, simple and unspecial.
But I felt less plain, when I looked myself in the mirror.
"You look beatuiful."
"Thanks," I said. Then froze and turned around, I rested my eyes on Edward, he was standing, in front of the window, his back facing it.
"What are you doing here?" I asked.
"Do you want me to leave?" he asked.
I shook my head, "You can stay if you want," I said. I noticed Edward didn't answer my question, but I shook it off.
He sat in the rocking chair in the corner of my room, I put away the envelopes on my desk.
I sat on my bed, "Where are you going that acquires a dress?" Edward asked.
"My friend, Haley has been invited to a ball and she invited me, sent me this dress," I said.
"what kind of ball?" he asked.
I didn't know how to explain it without telling him my secret, I must have been deep in thought for a while because he said, "You don't have to tell me you know."
"I know, it's just I don't know how to say it," I told him.
"Just say it," he said.
"Haley wants to be a special agent, the ball is where the ones who are best suited to be one are invited to, and she's allowed to invite some friends so she invited me and the rest of our friends," I answered.
He nodded.
"I'm going to go change," I said and stood up and walked over to the door. "Bella," Edward called. I turned around, "Yeah?" I asked.
"You look lovely in blue," he complimented, I blushed. "Thanks," I said, and walked out of the room.
When I came back he wasn't in the rocking chair anymore, he was downstairs in the living room, looking at Renee's antiques and photos.
"Are these your friends?" he asked. "Yeah, that's Haley, and the one with wavy and curly hair is Phoebe, the boy is Kevin, and she's Tabitha," I said.
"Then this must be you," he guessed. "Yeah, that's me," I said.
The photo was taken when I was 14. We went to the beach that day, we snorkled, and surfed, and played Marco and Polo, Phoebe's idea.
But one time she said, Pollo instead of Polo. We had so much fun that day, and we laughed a lot.
"Is Kevin your boyfriend?" Edward asked.
I couldn't help it, I laughed. "No, he's just a friend, he likes Haley anyway, I never been romatically involved with anyone," I replied.
"Never?" he asked, disbelief clear in his voice.
"No, I was never interested, and besides I'm very plain," I said. "Are you saying that you find yourself un-attractive?" Edward asked.
I didn't answer, "You think too little of yourself, Bella," he said.
"How about you?" I asked. "Me? Oh well I'm a monster, I don't deserve happiness," he answered.
"You're not a monster, and I was asking if you ever been romantically involved," I told him.
No, I never been romantically involved, Tanya, a vegetarian vampire like my family in Denali likes me, she's pretty for a vampire but I am not attracted to her," Edward told me.
"And I am a monster," he added. I was about to say he wasn't when he said, "I killed people before, for 20 years knowing there was another way, I want to kill you."
"Your blood is very tempting, more tempting than any other blood I have ever came in contact with," Edward said.
"You won't hurt me, you can't," I said. He walked outside, I followed him, he picked up my car.
"I know how strong you are, but you can't hurt me, because-" I stopped. I wasn't sure if he loved me or not, or if if he even liked me.
"Because? Because what?" Edward asked. "Nevermind, but nothing you can say or do will make me think your a monstor," I told him.
He sighed. "I am dangerous, I am not human, what is it about me that you trust so much?" he asked me. I half expected him to grab my arms and shake me.
I looked him in the eye for a moment, "I just do." He looked down, and and then he turned around, he ran a hand in his hair. "I got to go," he said and he left.
I walked back inside, and locked the door.
When I got to my room I responded to all my emails and turned off the computer.
I sat there in my room, thinking, I needed to get away from the house, I decided to go to La Push I haven't seen Jake in a while.
