A/N: Hey! Happy belated New Year!!! So here is the long awaited talk between Edward and Bella. Emmett and Rosalie's conversation is at the end of this chapter. I am sorry for the wait.

Edward's POV

"I need to talk to you." Once the words were out of my mouth, I knew that I would have to at least explain some things to her.

"Okay," she said, still stunned that I was there and talking to her. She visibly got her bearings again as I watched. "We can talk."

"I'll leave you two to it then," Alice commented. She gave me a reassuring smile. We'll support you no matter what you tell her, she thought to me before she turned to leave.

"We can talk while I drive you home," I told her. She nodded. While part of me wanted to look her in the eye and tell her, part of me wanted to be able to just concentrate on something else while I told her.

"I came over with Rose and it seems like she might be here for a while. So . . . thanks." That was all she said as we headed out to my Volvo. I was trying to think about the best way to tell her the least information so that I did not scare her away.

"The first thing that I have to say is that I am truly sorry for shutting you out on Tuesday and then just leaving. It was unforgivable of me to behave in that manner," I apologized to her. I saw a small smile on her face out of the corner of my eye.

"While irritating, it is forgivable," she told me. I smiled. As long as she was happy with me, I was happy.

"The second reason I wanted to talk to you was because I wanted to answer some of your questions," I said. The key was that I would answer some of her questions.

"Okay," she said slowly. "So basically you'll answer the questions that I have that you want to answer." It was a statement, not a question. She was so observant. I was surprised that she heard the out I had given myself.

"Yes. I will answer as many questions as I can," I promised her. She shrugged.

"That's more than I expected," she conceded. I was glad that she was willing to take the information that I could give instead of pushing for more than I was ready to tell her. Of course, the conversation was not yet over.

"What is your first question?" I inquired. I was interested in knowing what she wanted to know about me the most. I could not read her mind so I had no idea what she was curious about.

"Were you actually near me before the accident?" she asked. Of course she would want to know about the accident. I could not blame her; I had purposely tried very hard to confuse her. I could answer now, though, since I had decided to be honest with her.

"No, I was not. Though it was not far for me to run to get to you," I supplied. She was not done with the subject though.

"Why didn't you just tell me that in the first place?" she questioned. I had hoped that she would not ask that. It was very hard to explain my change of heart.

"I was not ready to be totally honest with you at that point. It was not until later that I decided I needed to be as honest with you as I could," I explained it to her as best I could. She accepted that without question and I breathed a sigh of relief.

"Did you stop Tyler's car from crushing us with your bare hands?" she continued to ask about the accident. I hesitated with this question. I could answer her totally truthfully, but it might scare her. Deciding to go out on a limb, I gave her the truth.

"Yes, I did stop his car with my bare hands," I admitted. She got a look of guilt on her face and glanced at my hands. Of all the things she could be afraid of, she was afraid that I had hurt my hands. "My hands are just fine. Stopping his car did not hurt my hands at all."

"So you have super-speed and super-strength," she muttered quietly. If only she knew of all of my abilities, that might scare some sense into her.

"Yes," I sighed. She looked up at me suddenly and I realized that a normal human would not have been able to hear what she had just said to herself, not me.

"And super-senses. Well, at least super-hearing," she added. I gave her more information before I was even conscious of it.

"All of my senses are heightened," I told her. Then my hands tightened on the steering wheel as I realized that she had gotten more information out of me without even trying. I decided that she had learned enough for now.

"One more question," I said as I pulled into her driveway. She paused to think and I once again wished that I could hear her thoughts.

"You aren't human, are you?" she asked suddenly. I was surprised by her sudden outburst and deliberated a moment before responding.

"No, I am not human. I am more dangerous to you than you could ever imagine," I answered. She opened her mouth to ask another question, but I put a finger to her lips to stop her. "That is enough for now. I will see you at school tomorrow." She nodded absently as she got out of the car.

"Good bye, Edward," she said before she closed her door.

"Good bye Bella," I said before I pulled out of her driveway and drove home.

Bella's POV

I could not believe that I had just gotten all of that information out of Edward Cullen. It was a lot to think about. He had said that he wasn't human, but what was he? And then he had come out of nowhere with that comment on how dangerous he was. I swear he had more mood swings than anyone I had ever met.

I still had no idea what he was. He seemed to be under the belief that he was a bad guy. That didn't necessarily make him a bad guy though. It could just be that he looked at himself as a bad guy. I would have to look into this more.

Here is Rose and Emmett's time in the garage. I don't know really anything about cars so I kind of just skimmed her reactions to the cars.

Emmett's POV

I draped my arm around her shoulders as I headed towards the garage. I could not believe that her father would force her into a relationship that she very obviously didn't want to be in. It was the 21st century for goodness sake. He was acting like he was living in the middle ages or something. I mean, did he even know how badly he was hurting his daughter?

"Not all of our cars are as nice as your M3, but here they are," I said as I led her into the garage. She gasped as she saw all of the cars in our garage. She named each of them off as she passed them.

"911 turbo Porsche, a Jeep Wrangler, an S55 AMG Mercedes, an Aston Martin V12 Vanquish, and, of course, what Bella has so kindly deemed, 'Edward's stupid, shiny Volvo," she listed. She wiped the tears off of her face as she laughed lightly to herself about what Bella called Edward's car. I would have to give him a hard time about that later.

"Why does she call it his 'stupid, shiny Volvo?" I asked, curious to find out more information with which to bother Edward.

"She calls it that because he is always talking about how she has such a horrible truck," Rose smiled. She was so beautiful when she smiled.

"So, which car do you think is mine?" I leaned down and whispered in her ear. I watched her shiver once and I let my hand slide down her arm so it was twined with hers.

"That's easy," she responded. "Your car is the Jeep Wrangler." I smiled at the hushed tone her voice had taken and at the fact that she had gotten my question right.

"That is correct, Miss Rosalie Hale," I told her.

"Do I get a prize for the right answer, Emmett Cullen?" she asked with baited breath.

"As a matter of fact, you do," I told her. Then I leaned down just a bit father and lightly and ever so carefully, pressed my lips to hers. It was just a simple brushing of lips, but it sent her heart pounding and my senses reeling.

"Wow," she whispered.

"Wow doesn't even begin to cover it," I said aloud.