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MPOV

Esme had thrown me out to hunt after I had pulled weeds a little too much and completely ruined her composition. I felt sorry for her garden, but it happened every time I wanted to help someone. I failed, completely and utterly. Now I was running through the forest, trying to get my mind off where Edward was and what was he doing. It wasn't a lie, he was my oxygen, though, it sounded wrong when I did not need to breathe. Perhaps, I would call him my blood, but I didn't have blood running through my veins either… it all sounded too poetic and not made for a vampire to use. It was all human stuff.

I was ready to ambush. The deer who was oblivious to how close I was, he didn't feel the danger and showed no signs of being bothered. Suddenly, I felt the cold air being filled with a wave of scent that drove me mad. The scent belonged to a human; I believed that it would be worth hunting, because it smelled delicious. My head calculated the possibilities, it might be someone lost while hiking. I could act like I'm his savior, I'm the help he's begging for and then I would shush his screams and drink his blood. See his life flicker behind his eyes; see him pleading for the last breath and let out a yell that would echo in the woods. The feeling of it made me shiver with pleasure I sensed. I was positive that the Cullens would see my eyes crimson, but I would find a reason. I would say that he was close to death, had no other chances of living and I didn't think that Carlisle wanted another vampire to be taken in his family.

I slowly pushed myself in the direction of the scent, not controlling my body or mind. It was a chase, now the outer world was nothing and I didn't care about it. I had to catch the victim, I reminded to myself as I crouched.

I got myself so close, I could see that it was a girl, but my smell warned me; she wasn't alone. The scent was familiar, I had felt it somewhere, but I ignored it. I didn't need a distraction. I would push her down, taste her blood and then I would deal with the company of hers, no difficulties.

I was hiding when she turned her head slowly, I saw her face and I felt as if someone was strangling me. No one was near me; it was just the feeling that I felt when right next to her appeared Edward. They were talking, enjoying their solitude.

Why hadn't he heard my thoughts by now? Why didn't he get her away or did he know about how I would run into them? Was it his plot, did he want me to taste the forbidden fruit? Why was he here, when I had seen him leave for school?

I had too many questions, but I continued on watching them. Edward was so wrapped up in her; his eyes were full of an emotion I had not seen before or so I thought. The wait was painful for me; I had to see what I did not want to see, but there was no other chance. I wanted her blood.

"Why were you in my room?"

I heard Isabella ask, my eyes got wide in shock and my arms were the only ones holding me, so I wouldn't jump on her.

Of course, I wasn't able control my instinct, it was too strong for me to fight.

I had to hear his answer, I reminded myself, but the jealousy amplified my blood lust.

"I like watching you sleep."

Isabella's heart sped up.

Edward sounded honest; it threw me off so much that I gave up my tries of fighting the urge and eavesdropping on them.

In one quick leap, I had pushed Isabella on the ground; she screamed her eyes wide open, staring at me. I didn't bite, I stared back shocked about how she didn't fight me off. Surely, she wouldn't succeed, but all I heard was one yell. No more emotions signaled about how she was feeling. Bella's brown chocolate eyes didn't even water, why was she acting so unnatural? I had no time to think about it, as Edward had moved me off of her, pinning me to the ground with his strength. I had to fight him off, I had to make Isabella feel the pain I had felt the moment I heard him talking to her so beautifully. My non-beating heart was shattered, I looked at Edward, but all he did was worry about whether she was safe, taking glances back at Bella who hadn't raised from the ground yet. She laid there, taking deep breaths and calming herself. I could hear her heart racing.

"I hoped that you wouldn't do it, Melody." He growled at me.

His eyes were full of anger and the feeling of betrayal. Edward had to double-check, I wasn't the one betraying him, he was doing it to me.

"She's just a human, you wanted her blood first. I could do the dirty work." I answered, fighting his hold.

It left no impact on him; he was insensible to my strength. It made me feel weak; I was a coward that had chosen the wrong time for such action. I felt sick of myself for acting so disregarding towards the attack. I hadn't hunted a human for years. For years I could feel the blood lust pulsating in me instead of my heart, I could feel every inch of me being drawn to strangers on the street that knew nothing about who I was. They would've been my most easiest target.

"Keep your animal thoughts to yourself!" Edward indicated, I hissed at him.

I knew that my thoughts were making him lust for a human's blood, too, as I remember the last time I had had a drop of it.

"Edward, let her go. She won't."

Isabella was now standing next to us as we were still on the ground. His hands were pushing on my chest and shoulders, holding me down. I gave up fighting him, but I didn't understand how Bella could be so sure.

Didn't she know that I could snap her in half at the given moment?

"Bella, stand back, please, you have no idea of what is happening in her head."

"And you do?" she whispered, finally looking somehow frightened.

I could not escape a cold laugh, my head turning to Bella.

"He hasn't told you anything? You don't really know who we are?" I asked, still laughing at her for being so clueless.

Edward had done the right thing, not revealing us, but I couldn't care less. If I told her, the Volturi wouldn't be after me, they'd chase her down and demand for them to turn her or kill. I doubted that Edward would give into changing her, he felt too protective of humans, just like Carlisle. He would rather see her die than become a vampire. I had seen what had happened to my mother when she had a child that they didn't allow her to keep, they murdered her with no mercy. One vampire more or less, it didn't matter.

Isabella nodded at my assumption, I smirked.

"Edward, why won't you tell that you're after her blood?" I asked, curiously turning my head back to him.

"Don't listen to her, Isabella." He snapped back.

Edward's hold of me was weakening, he heard my thoughts and tried to put more strength in it, but I knew that he hadn't hunted for a while. I knew that he was weaker than I was. The hunt that I would have had today would be just because I was bored, back in Alaska Tanya and I had had enough of bears and other tidbits. We liked to play games with the minds of animals and create strategies that we could use later. I was well fed, but I knew that there was blood that I wanted - Bella's and it would be out of pure revenge. I licked my lips at the thought of it, Edward growled and I flashed him another smile.

Go on, tell her and see her reaction. Did you think that a human would fall for you? Moreover, be sure to release me soon, it's getting tiring to lay here, your body on mine.

"Stop, you're not a murderer."

He was trying to calm me down.

The love and passion that I had felt for him was over-shadowed by fury. I couldn't believe that someone like him could deceive me like that, I didn't think that Edward would be the one putting my heart out there and chasing after another one. The emotion that I had seen in his eyes was the one I had seen when we first met. It had taken all my common sense away and made me go after him, find him and vow that we would be together eternally. Now it was washed away like it had never happened, I felt like Edward was too little high in his standards. I acknowledged that he felt awful about himself, but what made him do this? He was acquainted to how the Denali sisters didn't like being cheated on or betrayed. Edward did known what had happened to Tanya's ex-lover who was also a vampire. That was one of the main reasons why they had chosen human males; they didn't go around so much. I was the dumb one, who went after someone so dead inside.

How silly I was for putting all of my trust in him! Giving him everything and seeing that now the sacrifice was done for nothing. God, I even had become a vegetarian.

My thoughts had made Edward weaker, he finally let me go and I stood up, facing Isabella. His hand was on my wrist, afraid that I would attempt to kill her. I didn't want to anymore, I wasn't up for it after the heart-break that was flowing over me. Realizations had hit me hard enough.

I turned my head up to look him in the eye.

"I'm sorry." He murmured, finally understanding the damage he had done to me.

Of course, in other situation, it was supposed to be called an over-reacting creature, but I knew him far too well to ignore the bond that was created between them both in such short amount of time. It was something that no one would tear apart, even though Bella didn't see that yet.

Waves of jealousy went through my body. I hated it, I hated the position I was put in, I didn't want to see him being taken away by her. Someone so human. I was just the weak link that he had to go through to experience first love, so he would see what true love is.

"Isabella deserves to know." I answered, the urge to kill burning into my eyes.

I tried to swallow the venom down, I didn't want to fight. I was tired. Isabella took a step back when she saw my eyes. No doubt, they had to be coal black by now.

Edward finally spoke, his grip tightening as the wind blew through her hair and the strawberry scent expanded from where she was standing.

"Do you have the slightest idea of what we are?"

Bella shook her head, typical for a human. I had asked this question to my victims, they always were oblivious… the taste of their blood and the scent of it… the venom in their system. Edward had to shake me.

"I have heard some legends." She added.

Therefore, that meant her mind was not so void after all.

"Legends?" Edward asked.

For how long will you play the game? Let it slip, she will run around and act shocked, then she'll come down.

I felt his grasp tightening around even more.

It hurts.

"Like old stories, my dad's friend, Billy Black, used to tell them when I visited in the summers."

Bella continued, looking startled by the fact that we, indeed, knew something.

"The Quileute legends?" I spoke, surprised.

Billy Black, the name said a lot, my direct transition would be one of the dirty pups.

"I don't know, he told me that there was a tribe descended from wolves that were changed into men. Then there were the 'cold ones' who they had made a treaty with when they found them hunting on their lands..." Bella recited.

We fell into silence; Isabella had found some kind of approval that the legend was real.

"You… you are cold ones?" she whispered, we both agreed in silence.

BPOV

I froze, when they approved of my theory. That could not be truth; such thing just… didn't exist. I remember everything that I had felt and the look Edward had one the first day. Melody's eyes were the same color as his had been back then, I cringed.

Billy Black never told me what exactly the cold ones were, he always ran away from my questions. He just flaunted the fact that there were 'wolves' on the lands he came from. If the cold ones existed, that would mean that the Quileute tribe was real or had been real. I was stupid for kicking Jacob like that; he would've been my source of information.

I asked them no more, everything that had happened in the last hour seemed surreal. Maybe I was dreaming, I could wake up and face the beautiful figure in my room. I would let it go, no questions and no boundaries crossed. Sadly, it was true, my back proved it by hurting from when Melody had jumped on me. She had so much strength in her body. The cold one, I reminded myself as I looked up to face them again. They both stood like statues, so perfect together. I didn't fit in, as I looked down on my legs.

My clothes were dusty and there was mud, how would I explain this to Charlie, if I came home to him looking like this? He would not understand, he'd call Renee and then I would be taken away. Going all the way back to Florida, because she already had to worry about me so much when I was away from her. I didn't want my mother to suffer so much because of my misfortune.

"Should I take you home?" Edward's soft voice asked, pulling me out of my thoughts.

I nodded, trying not to cry. I wouldn't show my weakness and fear, I would hold my head on my neck, not let it fall. I felt sick, sick to my stomach but it wasn't the nausea. It was just the feeling of realizing that nothing was unbelievable anymore, there was danger around me that I had not known of for my whole life.

Why did I have to take a liking to Edward? My feelings had caused world around me to tousle. I was sure, it wasn't my world only.

Edward murmured something to Melody and then let go of her. She ran away into the forest, her speed was mind-blowing. I looked at the place where she had stood, how was she capable of such speed?

It wasn't possible. I watched Edward coming closer to me.

"Close your eyes, Isabella."

He mumbled into my hair, taking me into his hands. I shivered and followed his directions without a protest. Soon after, I felt the wind blowing on my face, my hair going in all of the possible ways.

The speed made me drift into sleep, soon enough I didn't register anything else around me.

***

I was asleep, when I felt soft covers surround me. I smiled, it was the scent of my home; I was in my room, but I felt too weak to open my eyes. I would lay there for a while, enjoying the feeling of being safe.

I had to open my eyes when I felt weight being put on my bed. Groaning, I unfolded them, spotting Edward at the end of my bed. Unbelieving, I rubbed my eyes once. All that had happened previously wasn't a dream, obviously, as he was here in body and soul.

Edward glanced at me, apologetically, though his lips didn't move to say a word.

"Why are you here?" I asked, rising myself up.

He ignored my question.

"You should change your clothes; Charlie doesn't need to suspect anything." Edward told me, getting up.

I panicked.

What would I have to do? Ask him to stay? That would be stupid, but I had nothing to loose.

"Edward, stay."

I barely murmured, but I knew he had heard when he turned himself around.

"Bella, I can't. Not for long, at least, I have to talk to my family."

"You can stay for a while, can't you?"

The fascination and attraction I felt towards someone so unfamiliar was driving me crazy. I was feeling like a little girl who had seen her favorite ice cream and was not letting go of the need to get it.

He was the first one that made me feel so fearless, when I was around him, worries banished from my mind. He was my happy pill.

"I… can." He answered, contemplating.

Edward sat down, while I moved myself onto the closet. I felt like Charlie wouldn't appreciate mud being brought in the house. I did not want to make my sheets dirty, too.

"Is Melody angry?" I asked, while browsing for fresh clothes.

"No, she's just confused." Edward said. I felt his eyes on my back, burning.

He couldn't see my face, but I was smiling. A wide, idiotic grin that had no connection to what had happened earlier.

"Did I cause a lot of trouble?"

I finally found a white v-neck and took another, fresh, pair of sweat-pants. I might have sounded too cheery or happy, not afraid and worried.

"I'm not sure about it, but you did deserve to know."

He wasn't lying, I could tell by his expression. The most unbelievable thing was that I didn't know anything about him, nor what 'cold one' meant. Did they really assume that I would? I did not let my thoughts escape, though, too much information made my head spin, and I wasn't up for taking in more of it.

I went into the bathroom to get dressed; soon I came out, looking at him. Edward appeared like he hadn't moved, his eyes still on me as I approached and sat myself next to him.

"Will I see you at school?" I asked the next question, blushing and breaking away from his gaze.

"Of course, it's not like we can escape now, not like I can escape you." Edward answered, adding, "Bella, it will sound obsessive, but in the last few days I've started to feel protective of you."

I would lie if I said that it didn't make me blush. It did, I was ten shades darker than before, biting on my lip nervously. His finger stroked my cheek when he flashed me a weak smile.

I understood that he had to go, when he straightened himself up and headed for the door, was he leaving au natural style now? It was still bright outside; it couldn't be later than five o'clock. Charlie was coming home at six; I would have to make him dinner tonight. In addition, my neighbors would be stoked, seeing someone climb out of my window.

"Edward."

I started to see him stop and slightly turn his head.

"I don't want to loose you, not now."

Taking a deep breath, I finished my sentence. If he had given me his feelings, I felt as if I had to return the favor and do the same for him. We probably sounded sick, given the situation when he had a girlfriend. That made me feel guilty, but I washed it away. I would say that we were friends.

"I promise, you won't."

With one last pain filled crooked smile, that still made my heart race, he left the door isle. When I came down to make myself something to eat, Edward had already disappeared leaving nothing, but the scent of him lingering in the air.

A/N: Thank you for your thougts. Reviews are appreciated

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