Stephenie Meyer owns the characters and the Twilight series. I just like writing about them and creating new adventures for them. I don't get anything from this except the joy that I get from writing it. MB

Again, I want to apologize for the previous chapter. This one is better I promise.

Chapter 13: The Lullaby

Never in my life did I ever think I was going to do that. I didn't ever think that I would put my entire family at risk, not for a human girl. I had done everything that I could think of to keep from hurting her. I found many deer out near home so I was very well fed so that I could be close to her and not want to kill her where she would be sitting. All I knew was that I couldn't let her get hurt. I had to save her.

I dashed from where I was and shoved Bella from the path that the truck was coming from. I stopped the truck and then I had to push myself down on her to keep her from coming up to see what I had done. She would definitely have questions if she seen me stop the truck. I looked her up and down, trying to see if she was okay. I was terrified. I never felt like this before in my life, but I had never actually tried to save a human before either. I saw my siblings from a distance and they all looked shocked, with the exception of Alice. She looked far from being surprised. I then heard her speak out with her mind.

"Is she okay, Edward?"

"I think so. What just happened here?"

"You let your instincts take over and you did what you were supposed to do, save her life."

I seen the scowls on the faces of my other siblings and they were far from being happy with my choice of actions. Rosalie's thoughts screamed in my head. Jasper was more disappointed in me. Emmett was more shocked than anything. I didn't know what came over me but I knew that I had to save her, she was more important than our secret.

She started to mutter and she mentioned that I wasn't anywhere near her and she wondered how I reached her so quickly, I told her that I was there, and she just didn't remember me being there. I had to convince her that I was there. I couldn't afford for her to tell anyone that I wasn't there. I begged her to say that I was there, I didn't know what else to do because I had just given her more power than I should have ever given her. I didn't know what else to do but beg her to save me now, though she didn't know that was the case.

She finally agreed to drop it and I knew that it was a good thing because the school officials and Chief Swan was arriving. I knew that I had to appear as if I would need to be examined by the medical officials, but I knew that I was perfectly fine. I watched while the paramedics were examining Bella, and I just wanted to go and sweep her up in my arms and cradle her as close to me as I could. That was crazy thoughts though, I couldn't do that, I am a vampire and she is a human. What was I thinking??

They finally were loading her into the ambulance and when I was climbing in the front I heard Rosalie's thoughts scream at me.

"You are a fool, Edward. What were you thinking? You have put us all in danger. Carlisle is going to be so angry. I hope you are happy with what you did."

I cringed as I got in, but I then heard Alice again.

"Edward… don't worry about what they are saying, you did the right thing by saving her. You need her and she needs you. Go with her…Carlisle won't be too angry, I know."

I sat there while they drove to the hospital and I listened to her breathe. It was the most relaxing thing I had heard in a very long time. Her presence was so intoxicating and I just felt completely at peace with her, though it made no sense. When we arrived, I heard Carlisle before I even entered the doors of the medical center.

"Edward. My office, now."

I slipped into the hospital and slipped away from the group and went up stairs to Carlisle's office. I was very fearful of what he would say to me. I knew that he wasn't really my father, but when things like this happened he appeared to have so much authority and made me feel as if I was a small child that had done something wrong. I opened the door, and he was sitting there waiting for me. I sat down in front of him and waited for what I knew I had coming toward me.

"Edward… that was the stupidest thing you could have done. Do you realize that you have placed us in a very compromising spot? If anyone actually realizes that you were by your car and not by Bella, we are going to have to pack up and get out of here. What do you have to say for yourself?"

"Carlisle, I couldn't watch her die."

"Yes, you could. You made a choice to not let her die though. Why?"

I didn't know the answer to that question, but I knew that I couldn't let her leave this earth. I was beginning to question Alice's thoughts about Bella and myself. Maybe there was something about her that made me think things that wouldn't be in my normal thoughts.

"Carlisle… the only thing I can tell you is that I knew if I let her die, I think I would have died as well."

Carlisle sat there and stared at me and I saw that he was thinking about something that I knew he wouldn't tell me. I sat there and waited… waited for my punishment, for my father figure to place so much shame on me. However, that isn't what he did.

"Go to her. She needs you."

I exited the room and left him there. I went back downstairs and I found Bella back in her room with her eyes closed. She looked like an angel to me, an angel that had been sent to torture my being, but one I desired so much. I asked the nurse if she was sleeping and that was when I seen her eyes snap open and look at me. They had much anger in them, but I still loved the feeling that I got seeing them.

She tried to get me to tell her what happened at the school, but I knew that I couldn't give in and tell her. She already had too much power. It hurt me so, to keep my secret from her. I wanted to tell her, though I knew that it would scare her and she would never want to be near me again. I knew that I had to get away from her, or I would let something slip out. I left her with her anger about not knowing. I then left the hospital and walked back into the forest and when I was so far out… I ran.

I ran for hours up into the mountains that surround Forks. I came to a cliff and I sat down at the edge and stared out into the town. I felt so pathetic and weak that I just allowed a human girl gain so much of me and I didn't intend on that. I never thought that I would allow anyone, not human nor vampire have this much power over my life. I didn't notice when Alice came up.

"You were right to save her."

"Why are you the only one that believes that's true?"

"Edward… they all know that it was the right thing to do, they are just more concerned with the safety of our family. You were more concerned with the woman that is your destiny."

I was getting tired of hearing that she was my destiny, but I was beginning to wonder if it wasn't true. I never had felt this way about anyone and now I had this pull to an average human girl. I just continued to stare out into space.

"Edward, you need her and she needs you. You might not think that is a reality since we are what we are and she is human, but she needs you."

I got up and looked at her. She looked as if she was suffering a great pain by seeing me like this. I then walked by her and began to run again. I ran and ran. It was late so everyone in the sleepy town of Forks had already gone to bed. I ran and ran and when I stopped I didn't realize where I had stopped. I was in front of Bella's house. I looked up at the house. I looked up at the window on the second story and then I felt the presence of Bella.

I knew that I shouldn't do it, but I climbed into the window and before me laid my angel, fast asleep. The room was torturous because it smelled of her. I walked forward and I looked at her very carefully. Her skin was as unflawed as I had ever seen on a human and her dimples shown when she gently smiled while sleeping. I went to a chair that was sitting in the corner of the room. I continued to listen to her. I didn't know what to think. I was trespassing in her house and she was close enough that I could touch her… kill her. I knew that this was the most natural place that I would want to be, that I needed to be near her. I sat there in silence just soaking in her presence. That was when I heard something.

"Edward."

I was scared. I thought she had wakened and heard me in the room. I walked forward and saw that she was still sleeping. She was dreaming. She was dreaming about me. That would have sent my heart a flutter if I had a heart that beat. I couldn't believe what I heard. I must have been hearing things. She wouldn't want anything to do with a monster like me. It was when I heard it again, that I was sure.

"Edward."

I felt pure joy. I had never felt like this. This girl was saying my name in her dreams… a place that desire becomes reality. I could have jumped the moon that night. I then slipped out the window and back to the street. Bella, my angel.

I ran back home and luckily the rest of my family had already retired to their rooms for the evening. I didn't go to my room though. I just couldn't hold in the feeling that I was feeling, though I didn't know what it was myself. Through the house I went and I ended up in front of the piano. I sat down before the keys and that was when I did something that I hadn't done in a very long time.

My fingers started out slowly touching the keys, a very slow melody developed. I remembered the first feelings that I had when I saw her… the fear that I had. It was very mournful feelings, but as things change… my feelings swelled and the melody became something completely different. It was similar to a lullaby that you would play a small child in hopes of putting them to sleep, but it wasn't a lullaby for a child, but an angel. The notes told of the beauty of this creature that had moved me so much, more than I had felt in my entire existence. I felt as if I was on clouds and the feeling sent my being into flight. I finally reached the end of the piece and I sat there in silence.

"That was beautiful, Edward."

I turned to see Esme standing in the doorway. She stepped forward and sat the piano with me. I always enjoyed it when Esme would come and sit with me at the piano, it was a comforting feeling.

"Did I disappoint you, Esme?"

She placed her arms around me and comforted me. She was just a warm presence and she made me feel so safe, even if I knew that the rest of the family was angry with me, that Esme would be so understanding of my feelings.

"Edward… I know that you did what you thought was right, and that I am happy for you. However, you did place us in a lot of danger. Are you sure that you can trust this girl to keep a secret like this?"

I wasn't sure of the answer to that question, but something in my being told me that I could trust her with everything. I understood their worry, but they didn't feel what I felt when I was near Bella.

"I don't know, Esme. I just know that I couldn't let her die. I felt as if my being cried out from inside me and told me not to let the girl die."

"Then I trust your judgment. You must care about this girl deeply, because I haven't heard you play like that ever. She moves you."

I smiled and realized that she was right. She kissed me on the cheek and left me with my thoughts. I heard her foot steps on the stairs, her open the door to her room, and when she closed it. I got up and walked outside and walked out into the yard. I then looked up at the sky. I saw so many stars and I felt so small in the existence of the world. I then sat down on the ground and I finally laid down on the grass and continued to stare up at the universe.

I stared until I felt my mind clear completely, as if I found the happiest place I could reach. I then saw a shooting star fall. I felt the clarity that I had been searching for wash over me. I realized something that everyone else had been telling me for all these years. I had been looking for a person to share my existence with, but the problem wasn't that I couldn't find her, she just wasn't where she needed to be until this point in time. I felt happy, something that I didn't realize felt that good. I seen Bella's face in my memory and I smiled and felt something that was foreign. What could this feeling be? I continued to stare up at the stars and that was when I heard Alice.

"You're in love with her."

I turned and looked back up at the house and that was when I saw her standing in the window of the house. She was smiling and I felt the joy that was coming from her even though she was in the house away from me.

Could it be? Was I in love with Isabella Swan? I then felt Alice touch my mind and I saw again what she showed me years ago. I saw me with Bella and I felt all the love that Alice swore she felt. I seen the look in Bella's eyes… she would return my love.

I got up and looked at her.

"Thank you, Alice."

She smiled and went back farther into the house and out of my sight. I felt alive for the first time since I was actually alive. I was in love. I was in love with Isabella Swan. Now I just had to figure out how to get her to fall in love with me.

I hope this is better than the last one. I didn't mean to disappoint you. I feel bad about that. I will work on this, but I got to have some stuff to fill in to allow for me to move on with my story. Just hang in there with me, we'll make it. MB