Hey! It's a 3-day weekend! Yay! I've started/updated Forks' Baby Boom, I'm now updating this, and I'll try to post a new chapter of Emmett Goes Prettyboy on Monday or tonight! Yay! I think I'm going a bit mad…

The song Stay Beautiful by Taylor Swift was my inspiration for this chapter…

Chapter Eleven: Touch

BPOV

We were driven to the hospital, and even the EMTs said I was fine. Ha! Maybe I could be a doctor; I sure was good at diagnosing myself: hangovers, headaches, concussions, and drugged up… I could do it all!

The ambulance pulled up by the emergency room and I was taken, on the stretcher, through the doors. Edward was able to just walk through. Damn that hot guy!

I was put in a room and a few minutes later the boy who had tried to kill me, Tyler, was carried in too. "Oh my god! Bella! I'm sooo sorry! Are you okay? I just hit the ice wrong and I was going to fast and then you were there and I couldn't stop! Oh my god! Bella, I'm so sorry!"

He was talking so fast that I could barely understand what he was saying. It didn't matter, though; I understood the main idea. "Tyler, it's okay! I'm fine! Calm down, Edward saved me."

"Cullen? That's weird, I didn't see him at all."

Ha! I was right! Something weird had happened when I'd seen Edward a few cars over one second, and right next to me the next. Ooh! When I got my hands on him…

Right then, as I was thinking of strangling that little lifesaver, he walked in the room. A tall supermodel followed him. "Hello, Miss Swan. I'm Doctor Cullen. I'm going to have to check you out and make sure you don't have a concussion or anything."

"Uh, no that's fine. I'm okay, the EMTs checked me out."

"Well, you can never be too careful, right?" He smiled and I felt my resolve melting. He had the same quality as Edward, which reminded me…

"Are you guys related?"

"Who? Edward and I? Yes, in a way. I am his adopted father."

Oh, then I guess the similarity was just my imagination. Dr. Cullen started feeling the back on my head. "Is that alright?"

I winced a bit at his touch, but I'd had worse after waking up from hangovers. "Nah, I'm fine. Seriously!"

He smiled at my attempts to get him away. I really needed to get out of here. Edward had just stood in the corner until now. He strode forward now, up to the side of my exam table. "I'll bring her home. She looks fine, Carlisle."

"Alright, Edward. Drive her back to her house, then pick up her car, she might need it."

I hopped off the table, happy to be free. Edward walked out of the room as Dr. Cullen—Carlisle—started to look over Tyler. That kid looked like he needed the attention.

"Wait! Edward, can you explain something to me?" I was trying to be nice so he would talk to me.

"What?" he snapped. Whoa! I guess being nice didn't work too well.

"Uh, I was just wondering. It seemed weird that no one saw you next to me until the car was pulled away. I didn't even see you there, but suddenly you were lifting that car off me. What are you, superhuman or something?" I finished with a joke, but he didn't laugh. He actually glared even more and stomped away.

"Follow me."

I was a bit stunned. No one had ever talked to me like that. If they did, my bodyguards would kick them out! How dare he! His tone, his words, and his attitude made me flip. "Hey! No! I'm still talking to you! Get back here!"

Slowly, he turned toward me. Then, before I could blink, he was right up in my face. I couldn't concentrate on his words, only on his perfect face inches away from mine. I wanted to touch him, to feel his soft lips on mine…

He kept talking, but I still didn't hear a word. He must have finally clued into my lack of attention, because he closed his mouth and didn't say another syllable. He may have stopped talking, but he didn't move away from me. Before I knew what I was doing, I reached up and touched his cheek. It was the lightest touch, but in it I conveyed all I felt. How I thought I loved him now. How I had only known him for a few weeks, but it felt like forever. How he was perfect. How I needed him. All in that little touch.

It was that little touch that changed my life.

I didn't expect him to react the way he did, but as soon as I touched his cheek, his mouth was on mine. He was kissing me with as much passion as I had had in that little touch.

The kiss was over as quickly as it started and he was walking away again. It was a minute before I could dislodge my brain enough to follow him.

I would follow him to the ends of the earth.

EPOV

As we pulled up to the ER, I called Carlisle and told him to leave the patient he was with, and get over to the Emergency Room, we had a special patient to take care of: Bella.

That girl had taken over my life these past weeks. She was so beautiful and she was so perfect! I know she was a mentally instable teen, but she seemed so mature and good.

When Tyler Crowley's car had been sliding toward her, all I could think was, "Not her! No!" It seemed strange to be thinking that. I had only known her a few weeks. But I had never felt this way. I had never felt this love for any human or vampire.

I hadn't been thinking when I'd saved her, I just had. It was like a reflex! But before it really registered in my brain, I was braced up against that blue car.

When the ambulance pulled up, I made sure they took Bella in. She was fine, I could tell, but I still wanted to know what Carlisle thought of her. I figured this was the easiest way.

So, we were pulling up and they were unloading the invalids. I got out and followed Bella's stretcher. Her eyes narrowed as she saw me walking in the doors. I figured she was just angry that I could walk on my own power while she was being carried.

They put her and Tyler in a room while I went to find Carlisle. He was almost to the exam room, but I made sure to fill him in on what I thought of Bella before he went in. I needed his approval before I could continue in this… relationship of sorts.

I joined him in the exam room. He took one look at Bella and thought She's beautiful. You definitely have good taste, Edward.

That made me smile. He approved! The check continued and Bella protested in her musical voice. Carlisle smiled and his thoughts were favorable. He thought she was cute, funny, stubborn, and exciting. She's perfect for you.

I couldn't help but smile at that. I guess Carlisle had thought I'd found my soul mate too!

I was shaken out of my daze as he said, "Alright, Edward. Drive her back to her house, then pick up her car, she might need it."

I agreed and she hopped off the table. We walked out together.

"Wait! Edward, can you explain something to me?" her beautiful voice interrupted my thought of her.

"What?" I tried to sound nice, but I guess it didn't work. She looked a bit scared.

"Uh, I was just wondering. It seemed weird that no one saw you next to me until the car was pulled away. I didn't even see you there, but suddenly you were lifting that car off me. What are you, superhuman or something?"

She may have been trying to make a joke, but it was a little too close to the truth. Maybe I shouldn't be nice to her. If I did, I might hurt her. I didn't answer her questions. "Follow me."

I couldn't see her face, but I could hear her heartbeat. It was pounding in anger. Uh-oh.

"Hey! No! I'm still talking to you! Get back here!"

I stopped in my tracks. The bells of her voice were harsh, mean. Slowly, I turned back toward her, and covered the space between us with vampire speed. She looked a bit stunned at how quickly I had moved.

Before I could really know what I was doing, I was talking to her, explaining to her that she couldn't know. That I couldn't get too close. That I couldn't be with her no matter how much I wanted to. Luckily, it didn't seem like she was listening. Her face was scrunched up and she was concentrating on something.

My mouth snapped shut when I finished, but I didn't back away from her. We stayed inches apart for what seemed like an eternity. Gradually, with excruciating slowness, her hand came up and touched my face. In that little touch I felt everything she did. And everything she felt was what I felt.

It was too much passion for me to handle, I had to share it with her. With speed she couldn't see, I took her face in my hands and kissed her, pouring all my passion into those lovely red lips.

It only lasted a second, to her, but it was forever to me. I had waited a hundred years for someone special and I had finally found her. I had found my soul mate in a paparazzi-stalked human.

The truth slammed down on me with as much force as that car I had pulled of my angel. I couldn't be with Bella because any move I made could break her. I had taken a huge chance by holding her face today. I couldn't be with her because she was human, and I would not take life away from someone so full of it.

My Bella would never be mine.

Aw! Wasn't that just the cutest! I had so much fun writing Edward's part because he is so sweet when he's in love! I might just cry!

I hope, once you wipe away those tears of happiness, you review! I'll be waiting!

P.S. this is my longest chapter so far!