Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight.

**not beta'd**

I was lead outside by an insistent Edward. He was hell bent on getting us out of the hospital as quickly as possible and for once I didn't fight him. I wanted out of there just as badly, but for different reasons.

"Have you had dinner?" he asked me, breaking the silence of the night are with his question that wasn't really wasn't a question. He wasn't asking me if I was hungry he was almost insisting that I eat without saying the words.

"I ate something at the shop," I lied with a shrug, but he just shook his head at me in a sorrowful manner, calling me out on the lie I had offered in order to avoid him.

"What did you eat?" he questioned me even further in a confident tone that made me scowl.

"I had a sandwich. It was turkey and bacon with avocado. You really missed out," I lied smoothly before trying to turn the tables on him concerning his disappearing act for the last week.

"Speaking of which, where were you?" I questioned, causing him to stumble as he pulled me along with him over the uneven pavement of the parking lot towards his car.

"I was in Kansas City," he said slowly with an uncertain tone that made me laugh as all the bravado that he had slowly drained from his demeanor.

"Sure, you were," I mocked as he stopped to look at me with a credulous look that made me grin.

"Why would I lie to you?" he demanded as he came to an abrupt stop, resulting in me bumping into him with a surprising amount of force as I caused us both to stumble together. His free hand shot out and steadied me by grabbing my hip as I pressed against his hard frame.

"Why wouldn't you?" I shot back without missing a beat as we stood there, molded together from chest to heal in the middle of a half empty parking lot. It was far from comfortable, yet it felt perfectly natural.

My words reached their mark even though I had never intended to utter them to him. They were too damning in the way I saw the world. He would know with slip of my tongue how cynical I had become, not that it was secret no matter how hard I had tried to hide it.

The cold wind whipped around us as I found myself trapped in Edward's warm embrace. His hands were holding me against him in an intimate manner that made my heart pound within my chest as it echoed the memory of a time when his touch was common place and reactionary.

"My car is over there," I announced nervously, changing the subject as I tried to twist out of his grasp, but failed miserably.

"I've never lied to you," he stated simply, reminding me of truth that I had refused. His voice was tight with restrained emotion as I looked over his shoulder to the night sky above us.

I couldn't look at him. I wanted to. I wanted to call him out on his lie, yet I couldn't bring myself to look at his face since I knew what would happen. I knew if I looked into his eyes and saw that lie shining back at me with its ugly light that it would be the death of me.

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