Bella Swan: The Enigma.

Chapter 10: Explanations.

(EPOV)Edward.

I gazed up at the moon. It was full and illuminated the meadow I was currently lying in, grass brushing my sides, creating a bed to lie on.

The moon was up there in the pitch black, standing out from the crowd, surrounded by the stars which seemed significant, but were so far away. The moon was not alone up there, but it looked it. Surrounded but not.

I wasn't so different from the moon.

No one understood me. Not really. Alice was the first person to break through the first layer, but I had more layers that had to be peeled back.

All my layers were gone around Bella Swan. She unlocked me and left me there, venerable, naked, alone.

Completely surrounded, but alone.

I wish Bella wasn't like me, I wish she didn't know the pain of staring into the hateful eyes of her father.

I wish I was with her.

I wish, I wish, I wish.

Life sucks, and then you die.

I wanted to be with her. We needed to talk, even if we didn't, I'd want to be with her. But no, I am here in a meadow, why?

I'm an idiot.

I didn't want to admit it, if I did, it would be real, Bella could be getting beaten at this very moment. What if she was? And I was just sitting here, comparing my life to the moon?

I bolted up and ran. The wind whipped my hair back, twigs snapped beneath me, the animals ran for their lives, terrified. I breathed the night air into my useless lungs, trying to calm down. If it weren't for Carlisle and Emmett restraining me at the hospital I would have followed her home. But they weren't here now, and even if they were, it had been long enough.

Every second away from her was too long.

I reached her window soon after. Stopping to listen, though I knew already, her dad's shallow breathing indicated he was in his sleeping state.

Bella though, her breathing was alert, anticipated, short.

She had been bleeding.

She wasn't currently, but she was, I swallowed the venom in my throat and forced myself forward. I don't know how I knew, but she was waiting for me.

There wasn't really any way to sneak into a girls bedroom at night without scaring her. So, I just did it, opening the window, which protested slightly, and thudding to the floor.

She didn't flinch, she was lying down, covers pulled up to her neck, her dead eyes staring at me.

''You shouldn't have come here.'' She said in a monotone.

I stepped closer. ''I know.'' I admitted. ''but I can't keep away from you.'' I left out the part where I have been obsessing over her safely since her dad laid a finger on her at the hospital.

''I knew you would be here tonight, I wish you weren't though.''

''Do you?'' I asked, stepping closer.

''I'm happy you're here.'' She assured. ''I just wish you weren't.''

''You have a strange mind. It's not a bad thing.'' I added on, not wanting to offend her, she almost smiled at me, almost.

''I know.''

''You seem to know everything,'' I noted.

''Not everything.'' She disagreed. ''No one can know everything.''

''What did he do to you?'' I blurted out, not being able to wait any longer. I clenched my fists at my side, taking all it had in me to not go into the other room and rip him limb from limb.

''I'm fine.'' She said, her voice pained.

''Don't lie to me.'' My voice was harder than I intended, but my face softened.

''I'm not lying.'' She argued. ''I don't lie.''

''Yes you are. What did he do to you? I can smell the blood.''

Her face paled. ''Sorry. I tried to get rid of it all before you arrived.'' She sighed. ''I never said he didn't do anything to me, I just said that I was fine. Which I am. I've had worse.''

I growled. ''What happened?''

She sighed, knowing she was getting nowhere. Sitting up she reviled a bandaged wrist. ''I fell and smashed a vase.'' She explained.

''Fell?'' I raised an eyebrow, walking forward and gently taking her hand in mine, she seemed to relax some.

''Well I was pushed.'' By him, obviously. ''But it wasn't bad, it's stopped bleeding.''

''Why?'' I don't remember saying it, it just came out in a breath.

''He was just wondering how much damage was done to my truck.'' She shrugged like it didn't matter.

''And?'' I prompted, sensing there was more.

''And I came home.'' She took a breath. ''And he asked me about you.'' Her words hung in the air, clinging to each breath she took. ''I told him you were no one, but he didn't believe me.'' she raised her bandaged hand. ''then this happened.''

''And your stomach?''

She tensed, her breathing increased and her heart thumped loudly. ''Why do you wear these bracelets?'' I changed the subject quickly, looking down at her now blue bracelet.

''It's stupid.'' She said but continued anyway. ''I have a different color bracelet for every day of the week, so when I see visions, at least I know which day they will happen on.''

''That's not stupid.'' I argued. ''it's rational, why don't you just stop the bad things from happening?'' I said calmly.

''You know how you think that the future can change, that there's a million different possibilities, what if there wasn't, what if there was only ever one future, set in stone, Alice might see all the outcomes, and not be able to see what will happen until a decision is made, but what if you could see the end result, without the possibilities?'' her eyes tried to get me to understand. ''I know what should happen, and I do what should happen, if I don't, something could change, and the end result could be catastrophic, I'm the only one who can change the future. I know what everyone will do, even me, I'm the only one who could change the future. Everyone else, those snap decisions, they were already made, but no one knew about it.'' She took a deep breath.

''So, that's why you didn't move? From the van?'' I asked, trying not to get angry.

''If I had moved, everything would have been horrible. I decided to change the future and saw that, if I wasn't there, at my truck, it would have been Jessica and Mike, but no one would have saved them. So, I changed the future back, a day in the hospital or two guilty deaths on my hands, I didn't have a choice.'' I felt awful, she was right, if it had been Mike and Jessica, would I have done the same?

No, no I don't think I would.

And that scared me.

''How far ahead do you see?'' I wondered. Trying to take the pressure off, Bella risked her life for her not so many friends. But then it hit me, she never risked her life, she knew I would save her.

She shrugged. ''A month or two? It depends, if it's big, sooner, I saw you coming a year ago.''

I got up from my crouching position beside the bed and lowered myself down beside her.

''You've known about us for a year? What did you do?''

''At first, I didn't believe it, but after a while, I got more visions, they convinced me. Since then, I've just been waiting.''

''On what?'' I asked.

She turned to the side, so her eyes were staring straight into mine.

Then, she whispered softly. ''You.''

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