Disclaimer: Stephanie Meyer owns the Twilight Series and killersmile originally had the idea of switching the roles of Bella an
Disclaimer: Stephanie Meyer owns the Twilight Series and killersmile originally had the idea of switching the roles of Bella and Edward.
EPOV
I heard a wolf howl loudly in the forest. Was that what kept me awake? There sounded like there was a major dog fight going on somewhere…
"Ha!" Musical laughter drifted through my window, familiar laughter. God, was Bella involved with dog fighting? She sounded close, though…
Making a sudden decision, I got up and pulled on a jacket and pants. Oh, I was so glad my ankle already felt better. Though still had to wear the brace, I could walk a bit without my crutches if I was careful.
I made my way down the stairs as quietly as I could, stepping lightly and not dragging my feet. Without my parents waking up, I got out the front door. I was instantly awake from the winter air that chilled me to the bone. But, I was determined to figure out what was keeping me up.
A vicious snarl ripped through the air, followed by gasping breath.
"Come on, bloodsucker! Give me your best shot!" A man yelled.
"If I did, mutt, you'd be dead right now!" Bella sang. I was drawn towards her voice.
"Bella?" I called cautiously. I heard Bella gasp and then an eerie screech of talons against marble. "Bella!"
I quickened my pace. Not too much after, I started seeing uprooted trees, some even ripped in half. Dang. This was some dog fight. And then I heard the sound of large padded feet thumping against the ground, and then I saw a pair of eyes coming out from behind a tree, accompanied by a low growl. I froze immediately.
"Stop!" Bella screamed from somewhere behind the monstrous thing, which broke eye contact with me. "He's human!" She pleaded.
After a sound that made shivers run down my spine, the man's voice spoke again.
"Really?" It sounded like he was yelling through his gritted teeth. "He smells sorta sweet for that, leech!"
"No!" Bella's frantic voice was closer now. "He's warm! He has a heartbeat!"
I heard a grunt, the shivers-down-your-spine sound, and then something running off. Before it was out of my earshot, Bella was running towards me. She clasped me in a tight hug. She was freezing.
"Edward, what are you doing here?" Bella let go of me some and looked into my eyes with her molten honey ones. They were brighter than this afternoon…
"What am I doing here? What are you doing here?" I stuttered. "What was that thing? What did you mean, 'if I did you'd be dead right no'—"
"Edward." She said sharply. I shut up, but there was just one more question clawing at my lips.
"What did he mean with 'bloodsucker'?"
She was silent as a statue for a few moments. "Go back home, go to bed, forget everything about tonight."
In a split second, she was gone; she disappeared. There was nobody in the forest but me. Above the trees, the sun was beginning to rise, painting the morning sky pink and blue, making it look like a nursery. Absentmindedly, I walked back to the forest edge to get a better view, but I was taken out of my trance by my dad yelling my name from the house.
"Edward!" That wasn't the first time I'd heard a scared voice tonight, or rather, this morning. I nearly ran to the house.
"Dad, I'm fine! I'm down in the kitchen." I quickly got a bowl of cereal ready for the excuse that I was having breakfast. A few seconds later, my dad came down the stairs, looking a bit tired and stressed, but relieved.
"Oh!" He sighed with a smile. "I thought…"
"What?" I asked. "That I was gone?"
He looked away like a little kid but didn't answer my question. "Let's just get some breakfast."
My dad sat across from me at the table a few minutes later with a cup of coffee, toast, and the morning newspaper. How cliché.
"Dad, just because we moved to a typical small town, doesn't mean you have to start reading the newspapers. You can probably get the morning news from the guys at work."
"Edward, this is the Seattle paper." He said and went back to reading.
My mom came downstairs, next, already dressed for the day. She grabbed a granola bar and practically flew out the front door. Seconds later, I heard her car starting and driving away.
"Dr. Cullen said you should have a day of rest before going back to school. Stay inside today and I'll be home early." My dad said as he finished. He put his plate in the sink and headed out.
I locked the door behind him and went back upstairs to my room. I put my favorite classical CD into my computer to help me think and laid down on my bed again.
He's human… Of course I was human! How could I not be human? I'm a living person with a heart and mind! I'm a homo sapien, whatever our scientific name was. And besides, how could someone not be a human? It was just impossible.
Bloodsucker…
The word haunted my mind. That man saying it in the forest, calling Bella by it…
I grabbed my laptop and opened the Internet. In the search box, I typed bloodsucker, hoping that it had a double meaning; that it didn't mean what I thought it did.
But, still, there's no such thing as vampires; they're just a myth. No person could A) live for eternity and not grow old, B) have super-human abilities or C) even survive on blood forever. That man couldn't have been serious.
Bella can be out at daytime! And I'd seen her smile before; she didn't have fangs.
The page loaded, and I clicked on the first entry; a dictionary definition.
bloodsucker
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I read the first definition and froze.
1 an animal or insect that sucks blood, esp. a leech or a mosquito.
I stiffened as I remembered the man's other nickname for Bella; leech. This entire thing was ridiculous. If Bella was a vampire, she would have killed me by now. She would have massacred the school by now!
I remembered a passage from a book that I had read a few years ago in eighth grade. Vampires have super-human strength and speed, along with inhuman beauty, which is a method of attracting their prey.
Inhuman beauty…
A/N: Does anyone know what a Beta is? I keep seeing the term at the beginning of chapters of other authors, but I still have no idea what it is.