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Tenuous Footing

The night after Jacob's visit, homework was finished and dinner eaten, I had time to think, lots of time to think. Charlie was on the couch, part dozing off, part watching tonight's game. So I hiked it off to my room to meet my eternal night shadow.

"I have I problem I said." Edward's gaze choked the truth out of me, his face holding a new-found vigor.

"Would you care to elaborate?" He asked, as I realized I was staring at him.

"Well..." I inhaled before I exploded out the past few days' events. "There's this boy who just moved in back in the woods and he's kinda gorgeous and he's not human. Which makes me wonder what he is because he's Jacobs friend and Jacob said he wasn't a werewolf, and I'm kind of scared But then he said something about Ravens and Tlingit and so I have an idea but it is kind of like you in the beginning like i have my guess but I'm waiting for that one person to explain everything to me and I'm so glad you're home Edward I feel like crying and i don't know what to do." I ran over to him and gave him a hug that would crush a normal person.

"I just don't know what to do." I repeated.

"Kinda gorgeous?" He asked which made me cough out a few little chuckles.

"Don't make me laugh I'm sad." I scolded him.

He pried me off of him and took my arms in his iron hard grasp and looked me in the eyes, "Well don't be sad, because when you're sad, it makes me sad, and it's impossible for me to be sad. So think how much harder it is for me."

"Oh yeah sorry." He let me go to sit on my bed. "It's just... It's like the first time I met you," I paused, "the strong compulsion to go with him and do whatever he pleases is almost the same." Suddenly my hands seemed very interesting to me. But I knew he was still glaring at me, like he does.

"This...this boy, what did he look like?"

"Well...he was...perfect in every way, built much like you. He stood very straight and tall-" He cut me off.

"No, his face, what did his face look like?" I suddenly realized this wasn't just a calming talk.

"It was clean, perfectly pale, angular, and his eyes...-" He cut me off again.

"Were like prisms, right?" Now his expression was almost alarming.

"Exactly... Is something wrong?"

With a flash he jumped up from my bed. "I absolutely, positively, forbid you from going anywhere near that creature again, Do-you-understand -me?!"

"Edward," I said standing up too," I don't like him like I love you, it's not like that."

"That's not it! Isabella! Never are you to see it again, okay?"

Isabella? I thought, Was I missing something here? Obviously.

"But..."

"But what?!?"

"I'm meeting him tomorrow after school." I smiled sheepishly.

"You're what?!" he was almost yelling now, Charlie was bound to hear. "Bella, you don't understand, it's too..." He trailed off for a moment.

"Too what? Too much for me? I can handle myself thank you." I said knowing fully those words were very false.

"I'm afraid, if I tell you, you'll only go and want to search for it more."

"Well if I don't go search for it, you and I both know it will very well find me." Court adjourned, I thought, I've won this one.

"You're right." He said. I never thought I would here those words come out of his mouth. "It's much too...deadly, Bella." He finished.

"Okay, so who really isthis Jeremiah person?" I asked hoping the revelation would knock the already building impulse to meet him tomorrow out of me.

"He, or she, well...it really is a, um, Valkyrie." The word rolled off my tongue as I mouthed it over and over silently.

"Would you care to elaborate?" I said, copying him from earlier.

"Not now Charlie's coming up, and I don't think he's happy. I'd better go anyway." And he was gone. "Look it up, like you did me."

Charlie's footsteps were heard coming up the stairs.

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