CHAPTER 23

"Where's my shirt?" I searched around the room, trying to find my shirt, but I couldn't find it and to be quite honest, I was just too lazy to get a new one.

"You can always just stay here." I heard her purr seductively.

I sighed, "Abigail…"

"Can't you just get a new shirt? I like this one, it's comfortable, besides it smells like you, what am I supposed to do when you're gone?"

I gave her an odd look, "So you're just going to sniff my shirt while I'm gone?"

She nodded her head, "Yep!"

"You're not going to read? Or watch some television, or eat? You're just going to stay in bed smelling my clothes?"

She rolled her eyes, "I'll have to eat sometime of course!"

I turned around to look back at Abigail, "I'll only be gone for two days, you said you were okay with it before…" I felt bad for leaving like this, but I really had to, it could get dangerous if I stayed too long. Plus Abigail already said that my green eyes were almost black.

She was lying in bed with the covers wrapped around her, she clutched the sheets closer, "I know, but that was before you started walking around with no shirt on."

I walked towards her, "Well maybe if you told me where my shirt was I wouldn't have to walk around without it on."

She smirked a bit, "But I like you without your shirt on." She reached out to gently touch my chest and arms to emphasize her point.

I walked over and kissed her on the lips, then I tousled her already messy hair around, "The sooner I leave, the sooner I get back. I promise. You know that I don't want to do this, but if I don't, it could get a little dangerous, and I don't want that."

She frowned and wrapped her arms around my neck, "I know, I know. Two days won't kill either of us. I just can't believe that you have to hunt. But, I like this shirt, so I'm not letting you mess it up by hunting."

I kissed her cheek, mumbled a 'fine', and walked over to the closet where I picked out another shirt and threw it over my head. I guess that would have been a little easier than spending the last ten minutes looking for my other one. But truth be told, I was trying to stay a little bit longer with Abigail. I hated that I had to hunt, hated it, but I had never gone too long without hunting. I didn't want to make it dangerous to be with Abigail. If I got too thirsty, I would hate to imagine what could happen.

I put on a jacket and headed back into the bedroom. "I promise that I'll call you tonight and tomorrow morning and I will be back the morning after tomorrow. Call me if anything happens, anything at all."

She nodded her head and I gave her a soft-yet passionate kiss on the lips, she smiled, "Have fun. I love you."

"I love you too. Try to be careful when I'm gone, no wandering into the woods by yourself, no running with scissors, no using knives. Be careful if you drive anywhere. Be careful when using paper, I don't want you to get any paper cuts."

"I'll be too busy smelling your shirt to get any paper cuts silly!"

"Abigail…"

She rolled her eyes, "I'll be fine. You be careful too. No eating humans!"

I laughed, "Will do. I'll see you when I get back."

"I'll be right here."

I kissed her lips one more time, unable to resist and jumped out the window. I heard Abigail chuckle a little at my atavistic exit, and I couldn't help but smirk a little as well. I didn't usually jump out many windows when around her.

We have been living, just the two of us for four weeks now, which meant that I had to go hunting. Jacob said that he talked to my parents and Alice's visions were still really hazy. I missed my family, I really did, but it was really nice to just have it Abigail and I for a little while.

I had never been hunting alone before, but I figured that it wouldn't be much different than hunting with my family. I called her when it started getting late to say goodnight. I figured that I wouldn't call her in the morning being that I was just going to see her soon after that. She said that she was fine on the phone, she cleaned up the house a little and found a very interesting book.

32 hours since I left Abigail, I was done hunting, it was all very simple, just followed my senses, nobody harmful in sight. I was anxious to get back to Abigail but I had to stop somewhere first, it wouldn't take that long.

I stopped in front of the store, ready to go in. I was nervous, really nervous. I mean what would the person at the counter think? At my age too? She would probably just give me all of these weird looks, even weirder looks at how much money I was willing to spend, but I guess I didn't care too much about that. I was more nervous on buying the wrong thing, messing everything up.

One hour later I was done with my purchases and ready to head back to Abigail. Two days was way too long, I think that we would both be able to agree on that one. We got a house a little while out of Forks, so we would still be near to Jacob but far enough away from the old house so that if any vampires did come around here, they wouldn't be able to catch our scent.

The house was big, but not too big. I told my parents that I didn't want a big house because it would be harder to look after Abigail, I didn't even like being in a different room than her. If we got a big house not only would we draw unnecessary attention to ourselves, but what would happen is she would be on the first floor and I would be on the fifth floor and we would be too far apart. Because to be honest, sometimes only being in the same room with her wasn't enough. Most of the time I just wanted to hold her in my arms and never let go, ever.

As I was running back I thought about where exactly our relationship was going. Abigail wanted to turn into vampire, she wanted to spend forever with me, which was more then I would ever ask for. I know that my dad still thinks it's awful selfish of me to not try to stop her, but it's what we both want, and I find vampires to have just as much soul as humans.

But I was worried that she would be too attracted to my blood, would it be too hard for her? What if I was her singer? Would it be bearable? I didn't want her to be in any pain, I didn't want her bloodlust to be too much.

I was also worried about the changing. Three days of hell. Of course I would be there for her, but I wouldn't be allowed to be there when she woke up, she would be a newborn and I would still have blood. It was hardly fair, she would go through the pain, but I wouldn't have to, I was born like this.

I made it to the house in no time, but I immediately knew that something was off. I didn't hear Abigail's heartbeat like I normally did, I still was able to smell her, but it wasn't as strong as I imagined it. I also recognized another smell, it was my father's, and my mothers. They were always together, so their scents were basically identical. What were they doing here? Was everything okay? Where was Abigail then?

I walked into the house and found my mom looking nervously out the window with my dad rubbing her shoulders gently, "Where's Abigail?"

They immediately snapped their heads to me. My mom got up and wrapped her arms around me, "I am so sorry Anthony."

I pulled back to look her in the eye, I knew that she would never lie to me, "Where is Abigail?"

"Anthony, please calm down, I can see that you're already getting too worked up about this. I need you to be calm when I tell you."

I clenched my jaw, "Maybe you should have brought Jasper here with you."

My father scowled at me, "Anthony, calm down. I need you not to freak out because it won't help any of us."

I nodded my head, he continued, "The Volturi have taken Abigail."