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Chapter Fourteen: Confessions

BPOV

"Bells? Are you alright?"

I ducked under the covers and pretended to be asleep.

"I know you're awake, Bell. I heard you moving around." Charlie was standing above me now. He sat down on the edge of my bed and rubbed my back comfortingly. I guess there were some things to be said for having a dorky dad.

I snuggled myself deeper into the sheets.

"Dad, I'm fine. Please go away." My voice sounded muffled and unsure, but I really wanted him out. The sooner he was asleep the sooner I could ask Edward why he was here.

"I heard what happened with Jake. He was screaming and yelling when he came down. I almost had to wrestle him to the floor! Jeez, that boy is strong. Thankfully Billy managed to calm him down, but we still made him leave."

"Thanks," I whispered. I think Charlie heard me though. His hands kept patting my back and he pulled my covers and the top of my head into a hug.

"Aw, Bells. Not much of a birthday party, huh? I'm sorry."

I pulled the blankets off my head and looked up into the soothing face of my dad. "It's alright. I had fun for a little while, but I'm tired now. Do you mind if I go to bed?"

"Sure, honey. I guess you're all worn out. See you in the morning!" He kissed the top of my head, turned off my light and closed the door on the way out. Before I was even able to sit up, Edward was at my side. His face was worried, but it just made him look more beautiful. Who was I kidding? He was the reason I hadn't wanted to kiss Jacob. He was my only reason for staying in this very wet hole.

"Bella."

"Why the hell are you here!" I whisper-yelled. I was trying to disguise my obsession with him with anger.

"Um… well… it's hard to explain." He looked nervous and unsure. It was the closest I'd seen Edward look to human. He was so perfect.

"I've got all night."

He sighed. "Alright. Do you swear to secrecy?"

"I swear on all things designer that I will never, in this life, tell a soul whatever you are going to tell me." I raised my right hand for effect.

He chuckled; his back shaking with suppressed laughter.

"So…" I prompted.

"Where to begin…"

"The beginning is a good place."

That flawless mouth raised in a crooked smile that sent my heart fluttering. "Well, I guess you could say I'm not human."

"That I figured out. So what are you?"

"I don't know if I should tell you…"

"It's a little too late. You are in my bedroom and I want an explanation on why."

He sighed again and I almost giggled. He looked so cute when he was annoyed. Oh, who was I kidding? He looked cute all the time. "Alright. I'm in your room because I'm obsessed. I'm obsessed with you. That may sound a little stalkerish, and it is, but if I hadn't been here, who knows what would have happened. Bella, I love you."

Wow. I had just thought he was going to say he was passing by and had seen me being attacked by my so-called-friend. But now he was declaring himself to me. How did we get here? "Um. Wow."

He looked at me somberly. "Bella, I love your hair, your face, you. I want to be with you forever and"

I cut him off with a wave of my hand. "Okay, I'm not saying I don't appreciate or return your sentiments, but really. Why all of this now? I barely even know you! How can you say you love me?"

"I've waited a hundred years for someone like you…" he confessed.

"Ha! I caught you! How could you have waited a hundred years? You're only seventeen, right?" My voice was thick with implications.

"Bella? Are you alright?" Charlie called from his room.

Shoot! "Uh, yeah. Sorry. I was just… um… praying! Yeah, praying."

"Oh, okay. It sounded like there were too people."

"No, I'm just practicing my… acting… for, you know, later."

"Um, oh. Goodnight then."

"Night, dad!"

Edward was shaking with laughter at the exchange. I hit him on the arm to shut him up, but ended up with a bruised hand. Gawd, he was like granite hard! "Shut up!"

"Sorry, that was just too funny. Seriously, praying? Acting? You are a horrible liar."

"What did you want me to say? I had a rock hard god in my bedroom and I was trying to get him to tell me what he was? Oh! And that he was in love with me?" I was angry now and I could feel my face turning red.

Edward didn't respond, he just smiled that crooked smile of his and let my heart flop around in my chest. Did he have any idea the effect he had on me? By the look on his face, he did. If I didn't know any better, I would have sworn he had heard it.

"Where were we? A hundred years?" I prompted.

"Right," he said. With one last sigh, he told me everything.

…

I managed to fall asleep after all he had told me. His confession had sent my head spinning, but I was more tired than I thought and had fallen asleep quickly. Before sleeping, though, I made Edward promise to not leave. He swore and I was able to sleep peacefully.

My dreams were filled with green leaves, and swirling images. I couldn't make sense of it. The only clear part was Edward. He was just ahead of me, but no matter how fast I ran I could never catch him. Just as I was about to touch his marble skin I awoke with a jolt.

"Are you alright?" a velvet voice asked by my ear.

I twisted to look at the face of my angel. He had stayed. His clothes, the same as yesterday, proving that he hadn't left. Not even to change.

Wow.

I had never been so happy. The perfect statuesque person loved me, I was privy to a secret as old as anything, and I was actually starting to like Forks. Sure, it wasn't fun and full of adventure like NYC, but I had never had someone like Edward in the city.

Maybe I could stay here forever.

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Kisses,

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