So guys, thanks so much for the reviews, they were wonderful as usual!! But oh my, I got second place on Saturday so now I'm going to regionals!! I'm so happy and excited, well again another warning for intensity for this chapter. You may want to hold on tight! N.O.!

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Edward grabbed Bella's hand and walked her towards a tall tree a couple yards away from the restaurant. He looked around, making sure they were alone, "Do you believe in anything abnormal, things that people say don't exist?"

"To a certain degree." Bella answered confusingly.

"So do you believe in fairies, dragons, ghosts or say vampires?"

"Kind of…are you telling me you're a fairy?"

Edward shook his head, "No I'm not…"

"You certainly don't look like a dragon. Are you dead?"

"Eh, well…"

"Edward stop playing games. I want to know the truth and you told me you would tell me. You practically ruined my entire date to tell me the truth."

"Bella…" He paused before he spoke, thinking about the prefect way to say this. Before he had left he was going to ask Carlisle the best way to tell her, but with his adrenaline rushing he had forgotten. Now he was out on a limb, trying to decided how to do this the smartest way. He didn't want to scare her, but he wanted to her to see how serious this was. The way she would probably take it was as a joke, so he couldn't smile, he could laugh, he had to be like a rock. He couldn't mislead her into thinking something else, "I'm a…a…"

"A what Edward?"

"A…"

Bella looked at him, his eyes growing sadder every minute he tried to speak, "A criminal, a stalker, a circus clown, what Edward?"

"I'm a vampire."

"Ha…" Bella said slowly. She burst into laughter, "What?! That's your excuse for everything is because you're a 'vampire'? Seriously I'm going home."

"Bella!" He grabbed her wrist and turned her, "I'm serious. I was born in nineteen oh seven, I've been a vampire for a hundred and one years."

"Smile." Edward did what she asked, "You don't have fangs."

"I know." He said closing his mouth, "Not everything they say in the books is true."

"You've got to be kidding me."

"Will you listen to me?! I'm being as serious as I can be, I'm telling you the truth." He stepped back, "Watch." Edward took a breath and looked at Bella, he shut his mouth and stepped back once more.

Bella watched Edward move into the trees. She was so confused about what he was saying. He was telling her he was a vampire. Those didn't exist. But she couldn't stop listening to him, he looked so honest. So truthful, but how could she believe him? Edward called her name and Bella looked at him focused. She watched him closely, his pale hands grabbed a giant bolder hidden behind the trees. He picked it up quickly and threw it in front of Bella, "Ah!" Bella staggered backwards. Quickly Edward catched her, "Let me go!"

"Do you believe me?"

"I believe your on steroids." She said grunting.

"Fine." He stood her up and ran into the trees.

Bella's mouth dropped open as she watched him take off in the woods. In a blink of an eye he was back by her side, "Oh…my…god…"

"How about now?"

"Your…not real."

"Bella I'm as real as you are."

"…This can't be…"

Edward walked up to her, but froze when she flinched and stepped backwards, "Are you afraid?"

"How can I not be?"

"Because I won't hurt you."

"You've done it before, what's stopping you now?"

"Please Bella, I'm telling you the truth."

She quickly turned the other way and started to run, but Edward as quick as he is catched her and picked her up, "Ah! Stop! Help me! Please!" She yelled.

Edward ran behind the trees and stood her up on the ground, "Don't be scared."

"Let me go…you…you freak!"

Edward looked at her, surprised by her choice of words. He grabbed both of her warm wrists and pulled her to him, "Do you know how hard it's been being around you?! Do you know how bad it hurt not being able to tell you?!" He yelled to her, "No you don't! Bella I'm in love with you and I'm not even suppose to be by you, because you say we don't exist. Well sorry, but your sadly mistaken."

Bella gasped when he yelled at her. All she wanted to do was run, never to be seen again. Now she knew why Ryan wanted to go out with her, he wanted the truth about Edward, but before she hadn't known anything about him. Now she felt as if she knew too much, "Edward I want to go home."

"You need to listen to me. Bella what I did, I'm sorry for. What I'm doing now, I'm not. I had to tell you this because I couldn't take lying to you anymore. I know I look like one, but I'm not a monster!"

"You sure look like one now."

He shook her body, "Stop it alright. I've been living long enough to know how this works. I knew I was going to get this reaction, but I thought maybe, just maybe you were different. You'd understand, but you don't. You won't even listen to what I have to say."

"What do you have to say?"

"That I need you…"

"For my blood!" She spat.

"No I don't!"

"Yes you do."

"Fine you want to hear the dirty side to? It is true, I've wanted to bite you since the first day I met you. To have you blood flow inside of me, but I didn't bite you. No matter how hard the urge was. You are the sweetest thing I have ever smelled, but I couldn't let my inner diaster take over my body and kill you. I couldn't tear you up like a toy, because I love you. I love you, not the smell of you blood or the warmth of your body. I love you because of who you are, not what you are."

"Just stop, I don't want to hear it!"

"Well I don't care if you want to or not, you wanted to truth you got it."

"I thought it was something else, not that you were a blood thirsty animal."

He grabbed her wrists tighter and tilted his head staring at her neck, "To be honest I am," She squirmed in his hands, "having you right in front of me, not being able to do anything. It's the best feeling." His body tightened up. He knew he was acting horribly, something Carlisle would look down on. But the smell burned at his throat, the vemon filled up his mouth. He couldn't control it, the monster inside had taken over and there was nothing Edward could do. He tried to think of something other then the smell, but he couldn't. His mind found it's way back to the obvious before Edward even knew it. He watched Bella try to yell, but she couldn't form any words. Edward pressed her back against the tree and held her there, "It's like having a cake sit right in front of you, you want it, but you know you shouldn't have it."

"Please Edward stop, I believe you."

"How couldn't you? I mean I'm right here, breathing down you neck. Setting off your worst nightmares. I exist and I don't plan on going anywhere else."

"Stop it!"

"But why? Aren't you having any fun? You wanted the truth, you got it and now you want to stop hearing it?"

"Yes because I know all there is to know."

"No you don't, you don't know that all the Cullen's are vampires. That we all drink blood and do crazy things, did you know that?"

"…all of you?"

"All of us."

"Why didn't you tell me before?"

"Because you would have ran," He said smiling, "You would found somebody else and I couldn't let that happen. Because I need you so bad, human or not."

"What?! What are you talking about?!" Bella's heart beat faster, tears formed in her eyes, rolling down her face.

"I hear it…your heart. Your frightened."

"Of course I am."

"Well let's keep it that way, because it sounds so good."

Bella's wrist started to ache and swell under his pressure. The blood flow to her hand had slowed down, the tips of her fingers numb. Her back scratched on the tree's bark, causing even more pain to her fragile body. He was scaring her, but he was right it was what she asked for. But she didn't ask for it like this, she didn't want the truth to hurt. She wanted to have a sit down conversation, not a kidnapping in the forest. The tears flowed harder and faster, "Edward your hurting me."

"It's nothing compared to what's going to happen." He lowered his head and breathed on her neck, "Just stay still."

She tried to pull away her head from his haunting breath, "Stop it!" She thought about what he had said before, he said he wasn't a monster. He didn't commit to biting her, he didn't act like this. He never wanted to hurt her, he didn't want to do the things he did. Under all the things happening, she knew what he was feeling, "Edward, your not a monster!"

Edward froze inches away from her neck. The wind hit his body and knocked him out of his dreadful thoughts. What was he doing?! He didn't want to bite her, ever. He didn't want to cause her pain, he didn't want to end her life. But here he was, hurting her with his own hands and seconds away from biting her. Never in his life would he had thought he could act like this to her, to have her cornered with death. She was a seventeen year old girl, she wasn't a big bear in the woods wandering late at night, she was a human with thoughts and feelings, "I'm sorry…" He said breathlessly. He looked at her, her cheeks and eyes red. Tears pouring down her face, the black from her makeup smeared over her eyes and down her cheeks. The grip on her loosened, his hands dropping to his side.

The pain still throbbed in her arms and down her back. She looked at him, his head moving away from hers, his hands leaving hers alone. The emotions were just as blank as his face. Her body shook from fear as her heart still beat faster then normal. He stepped back away from her. Without thinking she turned and ran for the opening of the trees. She could see the restaurant yards away, but still her feet moved faster. She felt her heel break as she ran across the rocks, but before she could jump her foot twisted on a branch causing her to slam into the ground, hitting her head on a rock and slitting her hand open on another branch, she yelled in pain.

"Bella!" Edward called out as he ran.

She tried to move, but she couldn't. Edward was at her side instantly. Bella lifted her head slowly and looked at her hand, blood ran down her palm and onto the ground, she gasped, "…Edward don't look…"

Edward looked away from the sight, but the smell he couldn't ignore. Fresh blood ran under him and his throat ran dry. Vemon slipped out of his mouth and onto the soft ground. His nails dug into the dirt as he looked at her face. Blood ran down her head from where she had hit it, he held his breath, but his lips curved over his teeth.

Bella looked at his eyes, the gold had disappeared and for a minute she thought she had been looking at coal. She saw his nostrils flare as he looked at her, "Please…"

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