The Twilight Twenty-Five

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Prompt: #19

Pen Name: EveryDayBella

Pairing/Character(s): Edward/Bella

Rating: M

Word Count: 365

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"Come on. Stop being a baby, Cullen."

Edward tried to follow his friends deeper into the cemetery but he just couldn't. He hated the cemetery. The last time he had been here he was nine and it was his grandfather funeral. He had felt the entire time like someone was following him, or watching. He had finally begged his parents until they had left. He hadn't been back since.

Until now because his friends dared him and, if they wanted to survive, teenage boys didn't turn down dares. So now he was here, he was stuck, and it was back. Someone was following him. He could feel it somehow. The hair on the back of his neck was standing up and it felt like he was being stalked. He couldn't move without feeling like he was being followed.

He turned around twice expecting to see someone behind him. He found nothing. That didn't didn't him feel any better. In fact he felt worse. He'd lost his friends and he was alone. Anything could have been out there.

Finally a shadow detached itself from the mists and came toward him. It was a woman with long brown hair, pale skin, and a body to die for. Edward could only stare in shock. This was what he had been afraid of? She didn't look like she could hurt a fly.

"Hi." Edward offered, taken in by her dark eyes and the glow of her skin.

She stayed well away from him, but her eyes never blinked. She stared at him never looking away from his face. "Hello. I didn't mean to startle you."

Her voice was melodious and hypnotic. "No. I mean. It's fine. I think. Um."

She chuckled at his stammer. "I'm Isabella. You are?"

"Edward. I'm Edward. Uh, Edward Cullen." He turned red at his brainless words.

She smiled and swallowed thickly. "Edward, how old are you?"

"Eightteen."

"Then I am sorry for this," she said, sounding truly sympathetic.

"What for?"

He didn't see her move. She was just there right there next to him. He didn't even have time to scream before her teeth were in his jugular and he didn't know anything else.