Im so sorry I thought I had posted this last week.

when I realized I hadn't I decided to do another check and make this chapter longer then what It would of been.

"I I don't think I have a choice anymore." His voice was low and strained. "Your to observant and constantly get into trouble."

"I was following you that's why I was in Port Angeles, I had never tried to keep someone alive before. It didn't seem like it would be a hard job yet...If I had kept better tabs on you It wouldn't of been such a close call. I was watching you through Jessica and Angela's mind."

I froze so he can...he can read minds.

"So you know," I said in a rush of air.

This whole time he knew I wasn't Anna.

He never said anything.

"Know what?" He looked to me with his brow creased.

I blinked at him.

"You know..." I trailed off

"I can't read your mind." He said while looking at me.

This shocked me I gaped at him.

"You You cant... has that happened before?"

"No I mean I Know I use to hear bits of your mind before school ended last year but now nothing. How do you do that? I mean..."

"No I didn't do anything I..." I paused and looked to my hands. "What's wrong with me?"

He chuckled. "See I tell you I can read minds and you want to know what's wrong with you."

"yeah." I smiled at him.

His eyes flickered a bit.

I looked over to see the hottest and waitress staring at us.

I rolled my eyes.

"If you didn't dazzle them so much they wouldn't stare," I said.

"Dazzle?" He look to me raising an eyebrow.

"Don't pretend you know the way you look at them that help you get your way."

"I dazzle people?"

"Yes all the time."

"Do I dazzle you?"

"Frequently." I breathed.

I felt as if he was battling with himself as I watched him.

"Thank you," I said trying to bring him back to the present

He looked to me with a crested brow.

"That's twice now you have saved me."

"Let's not aim for three, the whole third times a charm thing might just surpass. You should eat." He said and gestured to my plate.

I took out a fork and started to eat.

I could feel his eyes on me it was a bit embarrassing to eat while he watched.

I swallowed a mouthful and huffed.

"Did you ever think my time was up, with the van and your cheating death," I took another bit.

"That wasn't the first time." His voice hard. "Your number was up when you sat with me in biology."
I stared at him for a moment and then started to eat again.

"Are you finished?" He asked once my plate was almost empty.

"Yes," I said quickly.

The hostess must have been nearby listening cause she came over with the check and winked as she handed it to Edward.

Edward slipped a bill into the folder without looking at the check and motioned for us to go.

I walked out beside him into the dimly lit parking lot.

He held open the Volvo door for me.

"Thank you," I said as I slipped into the passenger seat.

I was starting to get nervous.

What if I was wrong? What if I was right?

I can't stay away from him, he's all I think about and now Im terrified Id lose him.

He started to drive. "Now that theory."

I bit my lip.

I was trying to look at anything but him and freaked.

"Slow down!" I yelled.

"What what's wrong?" He looked around shocked, but he didn't slow.

"You're going a hundred miles an hour." I said my voice raising an octave.

"It's okay." He said more calmly.

"Are you trying to kill me?" I asked.

"Nothing will happen."

"What's the rush for?" I tried to calm down but he wasn't slowing down.

"I always drive like this." He smiled to me.

"Keep your eyes on the road what if you crash or if you get pulled over?" I said

"I've never been in an accident or been caught." He grinned and tapped his
forehead. "Built-in radar detector."

"My dad's a cop I obey the traffic laws and if you turn us into a oil of scraps in a ditch you could possibly walk away."

"Yeah." He said. then looked to me. "But you can't." He sighed and I watched with some relief as he slowed to eighty.

"Better?"

"I guess but this isn't some interstate." I sighed.

"I hate driving slow."

"This is slow?"

"Enough about my driving," he snapped. "Your staling we were talking about your theory."

I looked to my hands that rested in my lap,his large jacket sleeves had started to unroll and my hands were drowning in the jacket.

I played with the leaves a bit.

"I wont laugh."He said.

I looked to him quickly then to my hands again.

"Im not worried of you laughing. I'm worried about how upset you'll be or." I admitted

"Is it that bad?"

I shrugged.

He waited.

"I don't know how to start."

"From the beginning... how did you come to the theory?"

"I I."

"Was it a book, a movie that lead you to it?"

"No." I shook my head.

"My friends in La Push." I breathed "My dad is best friends with Billy Black his son and An.. I have grown up together, Billy is one of the Quileute Elders."

I looked at him through a curtain of my air.

His face was blank and frozen.

"He and his friends and I were just hanging out they told me some scary stories they thought them fun, they told me old legends."

"And?" He said.

"Well one of them was about the cold ones," I said slowly

Hes hands tightened around the wheel.

"And you thought of me?" He said in a calm voice but his hands gripping the wheel and poster was all wrong.

"Um well no they mentioned your family."

I hesitated worried I would get them in trouble.

"They just thought it was a bunch of stupid stories."

"So after that you connected it all to me?"

"No I did search the internet."

"Did that confirm it then?"

"Well no, nothing fit really and then..."

"What?"

"I just decided that I didn't care anymore." I shrugged. " I give up."

"You give up?" His tone made me look up, His face held just a hint of the anger.

"No," I said softly. "It doesn't matter to me what you are."

A hard, mocking edge entered his voice. "You don't care if I'm a monster? If I'm not human!"

"No."

he stared ahead silently.

"You're angry," I sighed.

"No," he said." I wanted to know what you were thinking, even the insane thoughts."

"So I'm wrong again?" I challenged.

"That's not what I was referring to. 'I don't care'!" he gritted his teeth together.

"Its true?" I gasped.

"Does it matter?"

I took a deep breath.

"Not really."

He was quite.

"I have a question," I said.

"What?"

"How old are you?"

"Seventeen," he answered promptly.

"And how long have you been seventeen?"

His lips twitched as he stared at the road. "A while," he admitted at last.

"Okay." I smiled, pleased that he was still being honest with me.

"How can you come out during the daytime?"

He laughed. "Myth."

"Burned by the sun?"

"Myth."

"Sleeping in coffins?"

"We dont sleep."

I blinked. "At all?"

"Never,"He turned to look at me with a wistful expression. The
golden eyes held mine, and I lost my train of thought. I stared at him until he looked away.

"You haven't asked the important question."

"The important question?" I looked to him wondering what I missed.

"You didn't ask me about my diet."

"Oh." I said as I looked to my hands again.

"Well, they said something about that."
"Really?"

"Yes they said you didn't kill people your family was meant to be different and that you don't hurt people."

"Um"

"So were they right?"

"We hunt animals."

I nodded.

"We try," he explained slowly. "We're usually very good at what we do. Sometimes we make mistakes.

Me, for example, allowing myself to be alone with you."

"This is a mistake?" I whispered.

Im a mistake. I thought.

"A very dangerous one," he murmured.

He was going to leave. I knew it. He was going to run know I knew.

I was holding back tears as I watched the headlights of other cars pass by. I needed to be distracted.

"Tell me more," I asked desperately, not caring what he said, just so I could hear his voice again.

"Why you hunt animals instead of people,"

"We don't want to be monsters." His voice was very low.

"I',m sure, of course, but I'd compare it to living on tofu and soy milk; we call ourselves vegetarians, our little inside joke. It doesn't completely satiate the thirst. It just makes us strong enough to resist." His tone turned ominous. "Sometimes it's more difficult than others."

"Is it very difficult for you now?" I asked.

He sighed. "Yes."

"Your not hungry now though." I stated.

"Why would you say that?"

"Your eyes. I noticed in man mainly that they are moody when hungry. Your moody when your eyes are dark."

"Your very observant." He smirked.

"The last couple days were you hunting?" I asked.

"I was with my brother this weekend yes." He nodded."I didn't want to go, but its easier to be around you when Im not thirsty."

"You didnt want to leave?"

"I feel… anxious… being away from you. I was distracted all weekend, worrying about you. And after what happened tonight, I'm surprised that you did make it through a whole was a very long three days. I really got on Emmett's nerves." He smiled at me.

"Two days? Didn't you just get back today?"

"No we just left for the weekend."

"Then why weren't any of you in school?" I was upset he haven't come back. All the disappointment I had suffered because of his absence and he was just... what home enjoying the sun.

"Well, you asked if the sun hurt me, and it doesn't. But I can't go out, not where anyone can see."

"Why?"

"I'll show you sometime," he promised.

I thought about it for a moment. "You might have called me," I decided.

He was puzzled. "But I knew you were safe."

"But I didn't know where you were." I hesitated, dropping my eyes."Not seeing you. It makes me anxious, too." I blushed to be saying this out loud.

It was quite I slowly looked up to his face.

He was looking out the windshield eyes tight his mouth clenched he was frustrated?

"Edward?" I hesitated.

"This is wrong." He spoke in a short hard voice.

"Why?" I asked. why can he feel that way and not I.

"Bella its one thing for me to feel that way and to torcher myself but for you to be doing it..." He shook his head. "It's wrong. It's not safe. I'm dangerous, please, grasp that."

"No." I protested.I felt like he was pulling away his way off trying to run.

"I'm serious," he growled.

"So am 's too late."

"Never say that."

I bit my lip and looked out the window.

I blinked quickly as not let the tears come.

Why did I feel as if that when he dropped me off home Id never see him again.

"What are you thinking?" he asked, his voice still raw.

Not sure if I could speak without my voice craking I just shook my head.

"Are you crying?"

"No," I said, but my voice cracked.

"I'm sorry." His voice was filled with regret.

I sighed. We were slowing, passing into the boundaries of Forks. It had taken less than twenty minutes.

"Will I see you tomorrow?" I thought not sure I could take it if he said no.

"Yes, I have a paper due, too." He smiled. "I'll save you a seat at lunch."

It was silly how that little promise sent flutters through my
stomach, and made me so relieved and happy.

We were in front of Charlie's house.

He stopped the car, but I didn't move.

I pulled his jacket off, taking one last whiff.

"You can keep it so you have a jacket for tomorrow," he said.

I handed it back to him. "I don't want to have to explain to Charlie."

"Oh, right." He grinned.

I hesitated, my hand on the door handle, trying to prolong the moment.

"Anna?" he asked in a different tone — serious, but hesitant.

I flinched pulling away.

"Are you okay?"

"Im fine," I said as I turned to look at the house.

I felt the tears the were going to fall now and I don't think I could stop them.

He thought I was Anna, how could I be so stupid. He doesn't know me Bella really.

"Hey, You do that every time I say your name you, it's like... I'm not sure." He hesitated.

I shrugged.

"I've noticed you do it with everyone and even don't seem to answer to people. Do you prefer Annabella instead of the nickname Anna?"

"No no its not that its..." I sighed as I looked to my hands. Then I looked at him. "My name is Bella." I said."I mean I like Bella there was a girl at camp and she was called anna so I was nicknamed Bella and I loved it."

"Bella." He breathed my name. He smiled his white teeth seemed to sparkle. "It suits you."
I blushed as I looked to my hands again. My stomach seemed to flip at the way he had said my name.

I could still hear it ringing in my ears.

"I will see you tomorrow Bella." He said and again my head seemed to swim hearing him speak my name.

"Tomorrow, then." I smiled.

'"Bella Sleep well" I turned and he was leaning toward me, his pale, glorious face just inches from mine. My heart stopped beating.

I was unable to move until my brain had somewhat unscrambled itself.

I hurried out of the car I needed to get my hear to stop pounding.

He waited till I had stumbled to the front door. I turned to watch the silver car disappear around the corner.

I reached for the key mechanically, unlocked the door, and stepped inside.

Charlie called from the living room. "Anna?"

"Hey,Dad"

"Did you girls have fun?"

"Yeah." I said as I tried to remember all the way back to the girls' night out. "They both found dresses."

"Are you all right?"

I bit my lip right Anna talked more.

"I'm just tired. I did a lot of walking. It was a lot of fun."

"Well, maybe you should go lie down." He sounded concerned. I wondered what my face looked like.

"I'm just going to call Jessica first I left my jacket in her car." I said.

"Well, give her a chance to get home first. She just dropped you off"

"Right," I agreed nodding cause she just dropped me off.

The phone rang suddenly, startling me. I yanked it off the hook.

"Hello?" I asked breathlessly.

"Anna?"

"Hey, Jess, I was just going to call you."

"You made it home?" Her voice was surprised.

"Yes. I left my jacket in your car could you bring it to me tomorrow?"

"Sure. But tell me what happened!" she demanded.

"Um, tomorrow in Trig, okay?"

She caught on quickly. "Oh, is your dad there?"

"Yes, that's right."

"Okay, I'll talk to you tomorrow, then. Bye!" I could hear the impatience in her voice.

"Bye, Jess."

I got off the phone and headed upstairs to bed.

I was exhausted I crawled into bed.

My mind was going over everything that happened tonight. with everything I had going on to add to my plate and to add on more secrets yet this secret, I was more then willing to keep.

But there were three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, Edward didn't know me he didn't know I wasn't Anna, And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.

That was my last thought before I drifted off to sleep thinking of him.