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Bella POV

My mind felt like it had been stuffed with pillows. It was so light and I felt like I was floating. It really felt like I didn't have a body connected to my mind. A weird sensation began to happen. I began to feel parts of my body again. My eyelids I could feel flickering, my fingers stretching out flexing and finally my toes wiggling. I finally began to feel myself again, as though I belonged somewhere and I wasn't just floating around in space somewhere. I found the strength to open my eyes. As my eyes focused, I began to take in features of the room. I was in my room back at the Cullen's house, dressed in my favourite pyjamas. All my belongings were in their usual places. I felt a pricking in my hand and looked to see I was connected to an IV. What had happened, which I couldn't remember? I pushed back into my memory, feeling the heat of the sun above me once more, the dryness of the air making it hard to breathe and that was when the fear hit me once again. I had been running away from the Cullen's because they were vampires and here I was back inside their house.

I struggled with my quilt trying to pull it back off myself, but I just seemed to get more tied up within it. My heartbeat was increasing as I felt it begin to thump against my chest, sweat forming across my forehead. I needed to get out of here before the Cullen's found out I was awake. All this was really beginning to make me feel like I should have just stayed at home back in Phoenix with my abusive Father.

"Bella, please calm down before you do yourself an injury."

His voice came as a shock to me, bringing me to a sudden stop with my fight with the bedding. I lifted my gaze to meet the golden eyes of Edward. Too late for escaping I had been caught. There would be no chance of me escaping now. I suppose I just had to accept the fact that I would probably die right her in this very bed. All so the Cullen's could keep their precious secret that they were in fact monsters!

"Stay away from me" I said hoping my voice would not betray me, by staying strong but of course I found myself stuttering.

"Please Bella listen to me." His voice and eyes were pleading. He looked truly hurt by my panic, but this was probably all an act. An ability of his as a vampire.

"Listen to you after all the lies you have made me believe! I don't think so!" I screamed.

"Please Bella, allow me to explain myself. At least let me do that before you decide anything." Edward pleaded.

"What and spend even more time in the same room as a vampire?" I screamed.

"Bella you have managed it for the past few weeks. A few more minutes isn't going to hurt is it?" Edward asked.

"Well that depends if you choose to take a bite or not." I shouted. I knew I had hit a nerve from my comment. Edward's eyes dropped to the floor and there was true sadness in his face. Edward had been so kind to me over the past few weeks and vampire or not he didn't deserve that comment from me.

"Is everything okay?" Carlisle's voice came from the doorway. Behind him was Jasper. A sense of calm spread around my body as though my savours had arrived to save me from this monster, but how could that be, they were both vampires too.

"Jasper please stop that. Bella needs to make her own decision here and she doesn't need any of our influences." Edward said calmly.

I was confused by Edward's comment but I began to feel my body tense up as my fears pushed themselves forward again.

"Bella please just allow us to explain ourselves and then you can make your own decision on what you wish to do and we won't stop you." Carlisle asked calmly.

I couldn't exactly escape anymore, being in the same room as three vampires who were faster than me so all I could do was nod, to allow Carlisle to continue.

"Bella we are what we like to call vegetarian vampires. None of us agree with what we have become so have chosen to take a different kind of lifestyle to most others of our kind. We choose to feast of the blood of animals rather than humans."

I was confused by Carlisle's statement, but I knew he was right. Hadn't I caught Edward draining the blood from an Elk rather than a human?

"We do this so we are able to be around human society, to try and live an as normal existence as possible, without being suspected." Carlisle continued.

"Why did you decide to let me stay then? If you wanted to keep this secret why did you let a human stay so close within your lives where secrets would more than likely come out?" I asked.

"Bella when I saw you in that hospital and you told me your history, I couldn't just send you away from this hospital for you to probably end up living on the streets of Seattle. You had been through enough already. It caused arguments between the family, but you were brought home."

I watched as Edward dropped his head in shame at the mention of the arguments. I could remember how he had been annoyed by Carlisle's decision along with his brothers and sisters when I had been brought to the Cullen's house for the first time.

"Bella none of us would ever dream of hurting you. You are like a part of our family now" Edward added.

"Will you leave me alone for a bit so I can think about this for some time before I make my decision?" I asked.

"Of course Bella" Carlisle replied turning to the door again. "We will be downstairs if you need us."

Carlisle and Jasper left the room first before Edward. As Edward reached the door he turned back to look at me. From his expression it really looked like he wanted to tell me something, but just couldn't bring himself to say the words. He shook his head to himself and followed his Father and brother from the room.

The room was silent once more and I hated it. I had asked Carlisle, Jasper and Edward to leave the room but how could I think when I already knew the answer. It had been staring me in the face for so long and only now I had realised what was happening. I was falling madly in love with Edward. Vampire or not, there was absolutely nothing I could do to stop it. My heart was calling out for his presence, just to have him in the same room as me. There was no denying it, I couldn't leave this house or Forks, when my heart now belonged here. Even if Edward didn't love me, I knew deep down there would never be anyone who would be allowed my heart except for Edward. It was his now and there was no way of stopping the feelings floating around my body. I needed to talk to him alone.

I was completely new to this vampire thing but they were predators so I guessed they would have good hearing. I didn't know how strong my body was at the moment so didn't want to push my voice and shout. I kept my voice at my normal level and called his name. Within five seconds there was a knock at the door.

"You may come in Edward."

The door opened slowly and I came face to face with Edward once more. His face was confused. He obviously wondered why he had been called here alone without any of his family.

"Will you please come and sit with me so we can talk?" I asked.

Edward nodded his head and perched himself on the edge of my bed.

"Edward I must be insane, but before I make my final decision I must talk to you." I said my voice no more than a whisper.

I looked up into Edward's eyes the expression still confused, but the golden warm colour seemed to give me the confidence I needed.

"I need to let you know how I feel about you. I need to know how you feel about me and if we don't feel the same about each other then I won't be able to stay."

Edward opened his mouth to speak but I cut him off before he had chance.

"Edward I love you. I need you to know that. I don't care what you are. To me you are Edward Cullen the man I have fallen deeply in love with."

Edward reached across the bed and took my hands within his cold hands. He kept his gaze upon our entwined hands, before looking back into my eyes.

"Bella your scent burns the back of my throat more than any other humans. Your face is in my mind whenever I close my eyes. Over my one hundred years of living I have watched as Carlisle met Esme, as Rosalie met Emmett and heard the story of how Alice and Jasper met. Over all these years I have always believed that there was nobody out there for me to love, until I met you. Bella you have turned my life upside down and I don't think I could now continue in a world without you."

I was shocked by Edward's words. Had I just heard right? Had Edward basically just said he loved me to?

"Edward I don't understand" I stuttered.

Edward let go of my hands and moved his hands up to my face. He put his hands on my cheeks and pulled my face closer his. My cheeks were warm with my blush despite having Edward's cold hands on them as I stared deep into Edward's eyes. Our faces were so close I could feel his sweet breathe hit the back of my nose as I inhaled deeply.

"Bella Swan I love you." Edward said slowly before pulling our faces closer, our lips finally touching.