Disclaimer: Well, I do own some people, but the government has forbidden me to talk about it. So I still don't own Twilight.
A/N: Ok, just so there's no confusion, Edward is a ghost. And no, not only vampires can see him, and Bella is human. Please, please, please review!
Ch. 10: First Time
I glanced around me once, then the other way again. Was she talking to me? No, she couldn't be. But no, she was looking right at me.
"Yes, you right there, dead guy, I'm talking to you, " she said, speaking slowly and over pronouncing each word as if I was in 2nd grade.
"Me?" I repeated. She could even see me?
"Yes! Now that we have all this covered, how the hell did you croak?" She said, rolling her eyes, and looking at me in an annoyed way.
Croak? What… was speaking in a different language or something? I looked at her dumbly, and blinked.
She rolled her eyes again. "Croak. As in sell it in. Pop off. Kick the bucket."
This was obviously something that was supposed to mean something to me. But trust me, it didn't.
She sighed and rolled her eyes again. "Die, " she said in a frustrated tone.
I looked at her with shock. Why use it in so many different words in such a simple one?
" Oh. My. God. You are so slow, " the girl said. "Let's go back to a simpler question. One we can actually handle, hopefully. What's your name?" She looked at me mockingly. " Or is this too difficult to understand too. I could say it slower for the poor dead guy."
I ignored her. "Edward, " I said. "Edward Mason."
She clapped her hands softly. "So, Edward Mason, what are you still doing here?" She looked critically at my clothes. "Or the question is how long. What did you do, invade your grandfather's closet?"
I ignored her again, but boy, this was getting hard.
"I died in 1918 in battle." I tried to look down, but I couldn't. I found myself looking at the girl.
"Well, this is some process, " she said. "Nice to meet you Edward Mason."
She turned to walk back into the large room, but I shouted, "No!" I lunged forward to catch her arm. She couldn't go. She was the first person in such a long time that I talk to, that could see me.
I thought my hand would go right through her. But my mouth dropped open in surprise when my hand landed right her, clutching a pale and fragile looking arm.
We stayed like that for a moment. I hadn't touched anyone in such a long time…
But then she broke the touch, pulling her arm back like she was in pain.
"Don't EVER touch me, I swear! I swear I'll break your arm!" She screamed. That surprised me enough. But then she reached her arm out and slapped me.
I stood in shook, and raised my arm to touch the burning cheek. It was pain, but I hadn't felt it in such a long time…pain had never felt so good.
The girl was visibly paler and slightly shaking as she started back towards the large room.
"Wait!" I shouted. But I didn't try to touch her again.
"What?" She asked, and turned around. She was obliviously getting mad.
"You never told me your name, "I replied.
Her hand frozen on the doorknob, she froze and just turned her head to look at me.
"Bella. Bella Swan, " she said, and disappeared inside the door to the crowd of madness.
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