Bella's Point of View

For the next following weeks it was purely heaven on Earth, every morning I woke up, Sam was there, watching over me, he took me to school; we spent all hours of the day right beside each other. We had grown so close, it was incredible how I felt when I was around him… it was like… floating. There was never a moment that I didn't feel safe, or felt uncomfortable. There was no longer any regrets I had to moving down here with Charlie, I had found everything that I didn't know I wanted.

Charlie was doing much better with the thoughts of Sam and I being a couple, he often spent time watching baseball with him; which is what they seemed to use as a connection since it was the only real thing that they had in common.

Sam's pack also had gone through quite a few changes. Since the whole imprint between Dante and Emily, Dante wanted to stay here in La Push to be with Emily, so he had joined the pack; much to Jared's distaste. But to my complete surprise I got along well with him, he was a very nice guy, a little overly confident in himself, but otherwise a good person.

Jared, he imprinted on Quil's girlfriend Kim; which threw everyone for a loop, and this really seemed to push Jacob's group and Sam's even farther away from each other. It had been a hard scene to watch, the look on Abby's face, so hurt… it was overwhelming how badly I had felt for her… that was the last day I had seen her, and there was times that she would pop up in my head, I just hoped that where ever she was that she was ok.

Leah hasn't yet left Jacob's table at lunch, although she doesn't talk to any of them, she seems to be having the worst luck at the moment… And I wished more than anything that I could help her… even with her losing Dante, she didn't seem take any anger out on Emily, her anger just seemed to be doubled more towards me, and Sam.

With all of this drama between us, the thing that was worse then all the petty problems was the situation with Alida, and Edward Cullen. She was set in her ways, she didn't want anyone else's opinion on her choice to take Edward to the dance. Sam didn't at all like this, he didn't like the thought of a Cullen being there at the dance, I had asked him if he wanted to just not go to the dance, but he wasn't having that either.

I was worried about Alida, the way that Sam described vampires to me, was they were unpredictable, they were always bloodthirsty, and basically they where monsters.

There was a part of me that badly wanted to tell Alida the truth… maybe not about the wolf pack, but at least warn her in some way that the Cullens weren't normal, and she has to stay away from them.

But, tonight was the night, of the Valentines Day dance. I was actually more nervous than I was willing to admit. There was a lot that I just wasn't comfortable with, the perfume, the hair, the dress; the ridiculously high heels Alida had talked me into.

"Bella, you look great," Alida smiled, slowly coming into my room, already in her dress. "Sam won't be able to keep his eyes off you."

I blushed, giving her a nudge. "Well look at you," I smiled.

She shrugged lightly laughing. "I'm just kinda nervous, Edward has that effect I guess." She now turned, sliding into her heels.

I bit my lip, really wanting to saw something, but at the same time I didn't want to ruin this night for her…

"Hey girls, Sam is here." Charlie called from down stairs.

Excitement fluttered inside my chest, and quickly Alida and I made our way out of the room. I was relieved that it was slightly easier to walk in these heels, since Alida had taken a few days to help teach me how to walk in them.

I only managed to trip once on the way down the stairs, regardless Sam wrapped his arm around my waist, supporting my weight for a moment, watching me with dark eyes.

"You look beautiful." He spoke quietly, seeming to be in a trace as he gazed at me.

I blushed, kissing his cheek. "Thank you, you look handsome."

Slowly I peaked at him, taking in the sleekness of his black suit, he wore a tie that matched the color of my dress perfectly, and to my surprise he offered me a bouquet of white roses.

I smiled widely, taking them in my hands, smelling them with a sigh. They had the sweetest smell. I didn't know how he could possibly know that these were one of my favorite flowers.

Alida giggled, and held up her camera, snapping a few pictures of us, standing right next to Charlie. "You guys look great,"

Charlie nodded in agreement, and sighed. "You two have fun, keep out of trouble, try getting home at a decent time,"

"Of course Charlie," Sam smiled. "She will be home safely," He promised.

Charlie seemed to genuinely take comfort in his words, and even smiled as he gave his final goodbyes.

With that the three of us walked out of the house, and piled into Sam's truck.

As we flew down the road, I peaked over at Alida. "So, where are you meeting Edward?"

Sam glanced towards Alida with a slight frown, but didn't comment.

"In the parking lot," She smiled, not noticing either of our expressions.

Sam now spoke up. "You know, there is a few good reason the Cullens aren't allowed on the reservation."

Alida shrugged. "I understand that these are the legends of the locals, but I'm not from here, when I see Edward, I see nothing but a normal man, who is kind, and gentle, and sweet." She looked towards the both of us. "You where raised to believe the Cullen's are all horrible people, but they just aren't… they are different… but nothing that you should worry about."

Sam didn't seem to like this comment, and turned his attention back towards the road, letting out a sigh. I noticed his arms start to tremble just slightly. I knew what this meant; it took a lot of get a reaction from Sam like this, it was hard to get him mad.

I leaned into his side, resting my head gently on his shoulder.

He looked down at me, his eyes warming; the trebling in his arms gone and lightly he kissed the top of my head. "Thank you," He whispered tenderly in my ear.

I nodded, smiling up at him.

Luckily Alida hadn't noticed any of this take place as she watched out the window. It was silent between the three of us for a while, but quietly Alida turned to us, a frown on her face.

"Do you think Jacob managed finding a new date?"

"Well, he didn't mention anything to me about it." I commented.

She grumbled something to herself, shaking her head, before turning her attention back out the window.

I knew she felt a bit bad for ditching Jacob, and going with Edward, but at the same time she was a bit annoyed that Jacob had planned using her to get to me. She still had some conflicted emotions towards this all; which has caused her to steer clear from Jacob completely.

To my surprise this seemed to bother Jacob more than he was letting on, he had even brought this up to me in a few occasions.

Nothing more was said, but as we pulled into the parking lot of Marimont country club. I was surprised at how big and pristine everything looked here; it has been a long time since I've ever seen anything but rural towns.

The country club stood, strikingly beautiful, made completely of pearl white stone. Red ground lights sat on both sides of the entrance, causing red streaks of light to fly up towards the sky, brightening the building. A banner hung above the doors, saying "Welcome La Push Students"

My heart was pounding in my chest as I took in the millions of cars, it was a challenge to find a space to park; surely this wasn't' all the students, I didn't think we had that many to begin with.

Finally Sam parked; sadly it was a space that was very far from the door.

Alida was the first one to get out; an eager look was on her face. "Come on guys, this is going to be really fun."

I took in a big breath, and crawled out as well, keeping close to Sam.

He wrapped his arms around me, a tense look on his face, his eyes were pointed directly towards a silver Volvo parked not to far away.

Alida also seemed to be heading in this direction, in front of us.

When the guy, got out of the Volvo, I almost gasped. Just like the first time I met him, my whole body seemed to lock up, warning bells were ringing in my ears. The man just had this vibe about him that screamed stay away from me… I am dangerous.

Alida smiled as she went to him, and I watched as he responded with a crooked smile; this smile to me was strange… it brought a feeling of discomfort.

Sam sensed my discomfort, and with a soothing touch, he rubbed circles on my lower back. The feeling calmed me down almost instantly, and I was able to make it the rest of the way over to them.

Edward's eyes now moved to mine, a startling topaz color that I wasn't ready to see, but he quickly looked now to Sam.

"Sam, nice to see you." He nodded with a polite tone that I wasn't expecting from him.

"Edward," He said tensely, but nodded as well.

Alida glanced between them. "I didn't know that you guys had met?" Raising a brow, not looking at me curiously.

I shrugged, looking at her.

I hadn't known either; that Sam had ever talked with the Cullens… the only thing that I had truly known was Sam, and his pack didn't like the Cullens, and they claimed that they never would… but maybe there was more to this story that I didn't know yet.

Edward turned his attention towards Alida. "For quite some time now,"

Alida grinned, now turning to me. "This is Bella, she's Sam's girlfriend."

Edward's eyes went back to mine, a strange look on his face, nodding politely to me. "Nice to meet you."

I wasn't sure if I could move my mouth enough to speak, but someone I managed to. "Likewise, I've heard a lot about you." I tried to offer him a smile, but I couldn't get it to stay on my face as my mind went back to the thought of how easily this guy could kill me, and this whole crowd of people.

With this all aside, we all went into the dance together, but Sam and I was sure to split up, finding Jared and Paul right in the middle of the dance floor.

I'm not sure where Alida, and Edward had gone, but for once I was alright with Alida not being here… just because of how it felt being around

Edward… it was just a little to much for me.

Jared grinned as he saw us, giving me a huge big brother hug. "You guys made it." He cheered, letting me down.

I laughed breathless, smiling up at Sam as he gave Jared a look, before capturing me in his arms.

Paul snickered, rolling his eyes before nodding over to where Jenna sat alone at a table, tears rolling down her cheeks. "I'm a single man again guys."

At these words he danced a little harder.

I felt bad about this, biting my lip. I had really started becoming good friends with both Abby and Jenna… but now… well neither of them were here anymore… and Alida was flirting with the enemy… all of this was just really hard.

"Hey Bella." Kim greeted my walking over to us handing a drink to Jared, and sipping out the one she had gotten for herself. "Good to see you again."

I smiled. "Hey, haven't really talked to you since…. I was sitting with Jacob."

She chuckled, "Yeah, after you left he really became a whiner," She shook her head in amusement. "Honestly I think he is still sour over you dating Sam."

I sighed, shrugging my shoulders lightly. "He is going to have to get over it."

At this the others laughed, Paul giving me a high-five. "That's the spirit, see I told you she would start getting tougher hanging out with us."

Sam smiled down at me, pulling me close to him. "I would say you've earned a place in the pack already sweetheart."

My heart fluttered at his words.

"Yeah, we have our first pack sisters right here." He smiled nodding to Kim and I.

Sudden, I jumped as Dante jumped into the middle of us, holding hands with Emily.

"Hey guys," His accent was thickly coated in Italian; there was just a smoothness in his voice that I believed could soothe the wildest beast.

"Well now that you are all here, keep on alert, there is a Cullen here, don't provoke him, just keep your distance, and don't cause any trouble here, this isn't the time or the place." Sam said with a serious tone, that each of the guys instantly nodded to without hesitation.

Paul glared, looking around the room. "Just great, they have to come ruin our dance, don't they, that's what we get for straying from tradition."

"Paul, relax, we don't bother him, he won't bother us, we get this dance over with, and that is that." Sam said spoke firmly.

So, it was clear that they all treated the Cullens as a very possible threat; however, this shows that they can at least stay peaceful with them, as long as they show the same restraint.

The dance wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be, the music wasn't to loud, there was decent food, not to mention the decorations was gorgeous. It stayed true to the Valentines Day theme, everything was either red or pink, it was a bit girlie, but at the moment, the only thing that I could focus was Sam as he spun me around the floor.

I wasn't so sure about dancing at first, I truly had thought I would never get the hang of it, and I would end of falling, or stepping on his seat, but he slowly took his time, and taught me as it went.

It was fun, and by the end of the first slow dance I almost had the hang of it.

It seemed like he was having just as much fun as I was, and even with the hundreds of students packed around us, it felt like it was only Sam and I here… it was like I couldn't look past him, he was the only person I could see.

As the night unfolded, I was surprised to see Jacob, and Jenna sitting at a table, seeming to have their heads close together, having a quiet conversation.

At least they weren't alone for tonight, and that made me feel better.

But now my mind was wondering back to Alida, and Edward. I hadn't seen them since we came in, and for a moment I was scared that possibly

Edward had her, and was hurting her… or worse.

I paused in the middle of the dance, looking up at Sam.

He glanced down at me, curiousness in his eyes. "Is something wrong?"

"It's just, I haven't seen Alida or Edward around at all… and I'm kinda worried… that something happened." I muttered lowly.

Sam seemed to understand, nodding seriously. "I understand, if you want we could try to find them."

I nodded in relief, scanning the room.

For some reason I just had a feeling that they weren't in here… Sam and I had done several laps around this entire dance floor, and I hadn't seen them at all.

"Can we start outside?" I asked hopefully.

Sam nodded, and gently led us out from the dance floor, and to the exit. As soon as I got outside I shivered at the bitter cold wind nipping at my face.

It was only a few seconds when I heard a scream coming from the woods.

Without thinking I kicked my heels off, and starting running in the direction of the scream, knowing that it was Alida. Fear bubbled inside me, my heart was thudding so hard in my chest that it almost made it hard to breath.

"Bella wait." Sam said quickly running catching up to me, and picking me up. "This is dangerous, you need to stay here,"

I shook my head. "No way, that's Alida, I need to help her." Tears came to my eyes as I looked up at him. "She's my best friend Sam."

He sighed roughly. "Just, please, go and get Jared, Paul, and Dante, and please stay here, if anything happens to you… I can't let that happen… you need to stay where it's safe."

With that he went running in the direction of the scream.

Quickly I went dashing in the dance, pushing my way through the massive amounts of people, luckily I was able to find them.

"Sam needs you guys, there is a situation, he went running into the woods," I said breathlessly, my voice breaking a few times as I tried to calm myself down. But I couldn't and I knew that.

Paul snapped, glaring towards the door, and he was the first one running out, not bothering to be polite about it, he just pushed his way through.

Jared sat Kim down at the table that Jacob, and Abby sat it, telling her to stay. She nodded easily, but kept a worried look on him. Jared went dashing out, following after Paul.

Dante took Emily over to the same time, but I went to him, a pleading look on my face.

"Please take me with you, Alida is my friend, and I think she is in real danger."

Dante paused, biting his lip. "Bella, this is very dangerous for just a human to be in." He said quietly, running a hand threw his hair. "Sam would kill me."

"Please," I pleaded again, feeling my tears start rolling down my cheeks.

He sighed heavily and nodded, surprising me as he picked me up in his arms, and began to rush us through the crowd.

"Alright, but if Sam gets on my case, promise that you will vouch for me."

"Deal," I said easily.

The speed he ran was exhilarating, but also almost equally as terrifying. It wasn't long before we had caught up with the others. We had made it to a huge open field, where everyone seemed to be standing.

Sam flew over to his, a growl falling from his mouth, eyeing the both of us. "Dante, why in the hell, did you bring Bella here." He growled, his whole body trembling in a way that I had never seen.

I quickly jumped in. "It's not his fault, I made him."

He paused, looking at me with a hard expression. "I will be talking with you about this later, but just please, stay behind me at all times."

I sighed in relief and nodded, getting out of Dante's arms, moving behind Sam.

But slowly I peaked from behind him, taking in the horrific scene before my eyes.

Edward was standing pointedly in front of Alida, blood trickling down her arm, but it seemed that Edward didn't notice the blood at all; his attention was directed to three people that stood in front of him.

These three strangers all stood with crimson red eyes, and harsh beauty that was tainted with evil smiles.

"Just give us the girl, and we will be on our way." The first one spoke, his hair was pulled behind his shoulders, a strange honey blonde color, it seemed to be dirty or dusty.

"You won't hurt her," Edward's growl terrified me; flinched from behind Sam.

This surprised me, my thoughts towards the Cullen's now changed completely as I saw how Edward looked like in any minute he would jump in front of a bullet to protect Alida.

"You need to leave, now," Sam announced, getting the three strangers attention now.

Paul growled, his body shaking aggressively. "Or we are going to kill you."

The one vampire seemed to pause, his expression getting serious, turning back towards the other two vampires. "I think we should listen, and leave peacefully."

The other two didn't ever seem to hear him; they kept their strange smiles on their faces, as the now turned their sights on me as well.

"Looks like we have dessert as well." The one woman spoke up, her hair was like a wild fire of red.

At this, all the wolves erupted in furious snarls.

Suddenly Sam was further away from me, phasing a few feet in front of me, the others followed, and thunderous growls exploded from them.

The three vampire's seemed to freeze, the one that had suggested to leave peacefully, held his hands up in defeat.

"Please, I want no part of this fight, I wish to leave peacefully."

Edward turned towards Sam, and for a moment, they seemed to have a silent conversation before Edward turned back towards the vampire.

"If you don't want to fight, you may leave, but if we ever see you back here, we will kill you, without hesitation."

At these words the vampire disappeared from sight, if I hadn't noticed the sound of the rustling leaves, I wouldn't have known that he had run in that direction.

The woman turned towards the last man, an anxious look on her face. "We should flee, this isn't a fight we can win."

The man glared at this, and shook his head, turning his attention back to Alida.

"I'm not going anywhere until I get a taste," He moved flawless forward, his eyes full of bloodlust.

Everyone seemed to act now, jumping towards him.

Edward pushed Alida back towards me, diving deeply into the fight.

Alida ran to me, tears running down her face, hugging me close, her blood spilling over my dress, and down her arm.

Quickly I ripped a part of my dress off, wrapping it around her wound.

"Are you okay?" I asked franticly, hugging her.

She sniffed, nodding her head, now glancing towards the fight fear on her face as her eyes followed Edward. "I'm fine… more worried about him."

I wince, watching as well, hoping that it would be over soon.

The fight seemed brutal, but when they were able to pin-down the man, I watched in horror as his body was ripping to shreds.

The woman had managed to get away from them, seeming pained by the sight of that man getting killed.

Paul, Jared, and Dante all ran after her, heading into the woods where she had ran into. Edward stayed behind, lighting a small fire, burning the pieces of the deceased vampire.

Sam paused, watching him, making sure that everything was taken care of, before he turned towards me.

He quickly ran into the direction the others had left, but in a few minutes he returned to me with just a pair of pants on. He came to my side, taking my face in his hands.

"Bella, are you alright?" He asked seriously.

I blinked my tears away, nodding, before wrapping my arms tightly around his neck.

He sighed, pulling me close to his chest, leaning down and kissing the top of my head. "Bella you could have gotten hurt, I told you to stay at the dance."

"But I didn't' get hurt," I spoke with a small frown. "I'm not going to stay behind while you are out here risking your life."

He shook his head, closing his eyes. "Sometimes I wish I could use my alpha command on you." He teased lightly kissing the top of my head. "You would be a lot safer if I could."

I have him a nudge. "You mean I would be kept out of the loop completely,"

"Regardless, you could enjoy yourself much more if you weren't constantly worry about him." He sighed.

I shrugged my shoulders. "There is nothing you could possibly do to change that," I said softly, and held him closer.

"I'm beginning to realize that." He muttered shaking his head.

I ignored that comment, turning just in time to see Alida share a sweet kiss with Edward. For once, I felt no discomfort seeing Edward this close to my friend. Now I knew the truth. Vampire or not, Edward was a good man to Alida, there is both good and bad vampires… and Edward Cullen was the proof of this.

I was happy for Alida, she truly had met a good man.

Slowly she looked over to Sam and I, her face looking red. "Would it be ok, if you guys give me a ride home?"

Sam nodded, exchanging a look with Edward. "Of course, thank you, for your help Edward." He spoke, and like me, it seemed that Sam's view of

Edward seemed to change as well… not as much as mine, but it was a step in the right direction.

Edward nodded, with a slight smile.

But before any more could be said, Jared, Paul, and Dante returned in their human form. They all seemed to be arguing.

"Was she taking care of?" Sam asked watching them pointedly.

Paul and Dante looked to Jared expectantly.

Jared threw them glares, before turning to Sam, a nervous look on his face. "Um… no… we lost her… she was to fast."

Sam sighed, frowning now. "That's not good." He muttered.

"Yeah, we almost had her." Paul growled, looking extremely mad, his eyes going to Edward, with disgust, and fury. "You, you brought them here!"

Edward stayed calm, "I have never met them in my life, if you hadn't noticed, I was threatening to kill them as well." His voice stayed polite, but I noticed that he seemed to struggle to keep up that tone.

"Leave him alone Paul," Sam commanded with a look towards him.

Paul fumed, turning his back on us, throwing an frustrated fist towards the nearest tree, sending it to the ground.

A thought now came to me. Now, I had seen both vampires lose control, and wolves, they seemed more alike then they realized. But seemed to be unpredictable… I hadn't been completely fair, and I knew that now… I would support Alida's choices from now on.

Sam lightly let go of me. "Go on back to the dance, I'll need to calm him down before he hurts himself." He sighed nodded towards Paul.

I nodded to him, understanding completely, I leaned up on my tip-toes leaving him a peck on the lips. "Alright, please hurry." I said lightly, and smiled as I walked back with the rest of them.

Jared, and Dante seemed to now be talking with each other a bit nicer, and even getting along. It was amazing how much things change throughout this pack.

Alida, and Edward walked with me, hand in hand, talking quietly between each other, and I didn't want to interrupt them, but there was something that I wanted to say.

"Hey, I just wanted to say something." I said watching the two of them as they turned to look at me.

"What is it Bella?" Alida said with a smile.

"I'm sorry, for judging, before I knew the whole story, Sam explained to me very little about… vampires, and everything he said wasn't very positive… so it didn't leave much room for me to see you in any other way."

Edward smiled slightly. "I don't blame you, I can't imagine anyone taking something like vampires easily; most wouldn't think there was good and bad."

I nodded, smiling in response.

Alida chuckled giving me a light elbow. "I told you, he is wonderful." She said quietly, nicely leaning more into him.

Edward's eyes seemed to dance with happiness as he watched her. The look was undeniably love, I couldn't even put to words how strong this feeling was coming from him. It was almost unnaturally deep, and pure, I guess I could only describe it as being the same as Sam and I.

The only thing that I knew was the love that I shared with Sam, was more than just our feelings, it went soul deep, and I could see this in Edward and Alida.

I was so happy in this moment; I didn't think I would ever experience a better day. I had Sam, Alida had Edward, and everything was right with the world.

But I knew at the back of my mind there was still a very real threat opposing us.

That vampire had a look in her eyes, of pure agony. She would be back. I knew that for sure.

Please leave me a review? What do you all think of Alida/Edward? Are you guys alright with this? Gimmie your thoughts. What about Victoria? What kind of drama is she going to add into this story?

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