CHAPTER 9
STILL EDWARDS POV
I had nowhere to go, of course. Carlisle didn't think it was prudent for us to make friends with humans. So we obeyed like good kids do. We do whatever he said we should, and then we got rewards.
He smiling at us and making us feel welcome was the most important one. We never wanted him to feel angry towards us.
DAMN. Why do I keep saying we? It was me who hated making Carlisle angry. It was me who studied and made good progress. E.g. not attacking humans when in need of feeding.
It was Emmett who thought doing what Carlisle wanted was stupid. After all, he had ruined our lived even though it was done for a good cause.
Emmett hated Carlisle for changing us. The night he turned me into a monster was the night I was dying of a plague. I can't really remember where or the year. I forgot those things as soon as I turned vampire.
That's what happens. When you turn into a vampire, you start to forget all your human memories, the way humans act, the humans live.
Rosalie doesn't remember anything about her life except that it was a living nightmare, Jasper never TALKS about it, so we don't really know and Alice . . .
Alice is special. The night Carlisle found her; she had jumped off a cliff. Or was trying to anyway.
I drove around aimlessly for hours, not knowing or really caring if I went home. Carlisle wasn't going to miss me, nor the rest of my family. Thoughts muddled up, I drove out of the small town of Forks and drove through the next town where most people went shopping, (A/N: again people. I can't remember what the name of the town where Bella goes shopping with Jessica for their dance dresses is called. If anybody knows, please tell me.)
Their were loads of girls from our school shopping for dance dresses, even if it was nearly seven in the evening, you couldn't really run into trouble in a small town like this, so you went shopping at anytime of the day and come back at any time in the night.
I turned into an alleyway and parked my car in front of a coffee shop. Us vampires don't usually eat or drink but a nice coffee won't hurt our senses. Maybe it would even dull the feeling of thirst that had just washed over me.
Not thirst fro a drink. Thirst for blood.
I had fed this morning but drinking so quickly hadn't exactly helped me. Already seeing – or thinking – about Bella's blushing cheeks made a fresh river of poison flow in my mouth.
I entered the café, the smell of coffee luring me to the bar.
And who did I see, sitting calmly with a bunch of people from school at the bar?
None other than Isabella Swan.
I sat down as far away from them as possible, listening to their conversation without them knowing. The bartender, a fat man with a bushy beer and coffee stains on his shirt, cam over to me and asked, "Whaddya want, son? Coffee, tea, coke, squash, vodka . . ."
"A coffee please." The bartender looked at me and then gave a low laugh.
"You look like you'd need some alcohol down your throat, son" I smiled weakly and showed him my driving license. False, of course.
"Ah, I see. Not old enough?" I nodded and he walked away, silently chuckling to himself.
I looked at my hands holding the driving license. I was seventeen and had been for a VERY LONG TIME. I noticed that the conversation that had been going on beside me, a few stools down, had now stopped. I glanced at the girls and saw them all staring at me. I stared back, my vampire instincts making my hands clench into tight fists.
Jessica was the first to look away. Coward, I thought. Big mouthed Jessica seemed to blush under my gaze, and I entered her thoughts easily.
Why is he staring? Worst of all, why does he have to look so good in just a t-shirt and jeans? Oh my god! I can't believe I just thought that! I like Mike. Even though he can be a twat sometimes. What is his fascination with Bella, anyway? What's wrong with me? Oh well, at least I 'm going to the dance with him, and Bella will be all alone at home because even her friends from Phoenix ditched her. Ha ha ha. My stare turned into a glare, and Jessica glanced up.
Angela left with a muttered excuse about biology homework even if we didn't have any.
Lauren sneered and nudged Bella who had avoided my gaze the whole time. She looked at me finally and seemed absolutely exhausted. Jessica seemed to freak at Bella for even looking at me.
"What?" she snarled. Jessica looked taken a back for a second, but recovered quickly,
"We're going home. Do you want to come, or do you want to hang around with HIM?" Bella shook her head and said, "I'll come with you. Just give me a second, OK?"
"Whatever" they all left dresses held in one hand and bags in the other. Lauren gave me a last look before she shut the door behind her.
Bella sat herself beside me, the air from the door weaving through her hair, making her smell stronger than ever. A fresh wave of poison flowed in my mouth.
"So, what was all that about? This morning?"
"It was nothing."
"Yeah, well, I don't get in cars with guys who disappear in the woods for five minutes then come back with blood on their lips." She lifted one eyebrow which made her look even prettier.
"OK, I'm sorry about this morning. I just . . . suffer from really bad nose bleeds." Urgh, did I just SAY that? Bella didn't seem to believe me anyway, so that was OK. Or maybe not.
"Edward, look, I haven't known you for lone but this sis getting really weird. I mean, when I sat next to you for the first time on bio you looked . . . revolted at the idea of sitting next to me."
"But . . ."she held up a hand and I let her continue.
"AND, when I get in a car with you, you disappear into the woods, to come back with BLOOD on your lips."I nodded and said, "Yeah, I must've looked really weird in your eyes, right?"
"Excuse me?" Bella looked naturally perplexed. She looked even prettier and smarter when she looked like this. I averted my eyes from her flushed cheeks. this was not the time to feel hungry. Or thirsty, in my case.
I
downed my coffee and asked in a low voice, "Do you want a ride?"
Bella smiled her sweet smile and shook her head apologetically,
"Sorry Edward, but I've got to go with Jess."
"But her
cars parked all the way on the other side of town!" I exclaimed.
She was going to walk all the way? I
had heard her in gym protesting about the run, and she was now saying
she was going to WALK all the way across town?
"Yeah. I promised Jess I'd got to her house and see her in her new dress." I laughed, the way she said DRESS, insinuated that she was not looking forward to it.
"Thanks Edward, you're really sweet."
Speechless, I watched her walk out if the café, a small bounce in her step like I had crushed and masde her day in less than five hours.
