OMG I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!! You are the best readers any author would ever have! I really wasn't expecting reveiws to shoot in like that. And...ahem 'shuffels around nervously', I wasn't planning to take down the story. Yeah. I know. Feel stupid right? I was planning on rewriting it...or something of that nature. I didn't mean to make such a reaction! So I was astonished when I woke up one morning and had 30 reveiws, and a couple of PM's of people begging me not to take it down...so thank you guys again, and I'm really sorry to have kept you guys waiting.

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Bella sighed for the third time that hour. She couldn't believe she hadn't seen this coming. So pathetic. Of course Edward had just turned his carriage around and headed back toward's the castle. The princely thing to do. Pathetic. She had trailed him for 2 hours, never quite catching up to his carrige. She wondered why. Normally, a fast horse could catch a coach in about an hour, but it took 2 hours to catch up, and a half-hour to get Edward to notice her.

"Princess, we are almost back at the castle. Gather your belongings." Edward said coldly. Needless to say, he was not happpy about Bella following him. Once he had seen her next to his carriage and heard her plans, he tricked her, saying he would take her along and then barred the door to keep her from leaving. However, in a way, he was amused. And he had to give it to her, she had guts. No meek princess was she. Then again, he thought, she really never had been. Silly, clumsy, Bella.

Bella decided she would give it one more shot. "Um, Prince Edward?" She had noticed his reversion to 'Princess' and thought it would be best to call him Prince as well.

"Yes, Princess?"

"Why will you not take me?" Bella asked.

"Because it is not safe." Edward replied sharply. "It is no where for a princess to go."

"But we are just going to your castle." Bella replied.

"But the road to the castle is not safe. And the castle is not safe for some one of your...race."

"But you told me you and your family drank animal blood. So I would not have any trouble." Bella said.

"Yes we do drink animal blood. But some of our family is...newer. They have recently became vampires. They might not be able to control their blood lust." Edward said.

Bella flinched at the word vampires. She didn't know why, but the word just didn't seem to fit. Edward as a vampire seemed unatural but true. He was one and Bella knew she wasn't going to forget that anytime soon.

"But you will be there. I will be fine then!" Bella said, in return.

"No. I will not always be there." Edward's face looked grim. "Not always..." he trailed off, deep in his own thoughts.

Bella had an idea. "Edward..."

"Yes, princess?"

"You know, if I go back to the castle, I will have to marry Micheal. Probably this time next week I will be a married woman." Bella said.

Edward tensed.

"And think, maybe the next time I see you, I will have his children on my lap." She continued, knowing exactly what she doing. If it was possible, Edward got stiffer. "And,--"

"Stop. I see your point." Edward said gruffly. "Bella, are you sure you can handle it?"

"YES!!!"

"Very well." Edward sighed. "You may come with me."


dun dun dun. What horrors will befall them? Who knows? Only the author... :P