Revelations

"Hold on, you may want to shut your eyes," I said, as I pulled her onto my back.

"Why, what is happening, where are we going?" She always asks too many questions when she is nervous.

"I am taking you to a place so you can see what I am really like, but it is a few miles from here and I thought I would give you a ride, it will be quicker that way."

"Ummm… Ok." She looked and sounded very nervous.

"Nothing bad is going to happen to you I promise as long as you hold on tight."

I set off through the trees, I thought it best to start off slowly, but I soon gathered speed, I can't abide by doing things slowly. Within 10 minutes we were at the slight clearing. It is not a large area, there are wonderfully tall pine trees, which over look the river and when the sun is right, there are amazing beams of sunlight with filter though the trees.

I lowered Bella to the ground, trying to find the flattest piece. As she got to the ground she stumbled, but I was there to keep her upright.

"Are you ok?" I asked, she did look a bit green and was swaying a little.

"Yeah… I think," she didn't sound convincing. I walked her towards and rock and made her sit.

"The earth is spinning," She said.

"Sorry, next time it might be better if you close your eyes" If I could have read her thoughts I would have known how she felt during the journey and I could have slowed or done something to make her journey more enjoyable. I hated making her miserable or sick just because I couldn't hear her thoughts. The colour started to return to her cheeks.

"Do you feel better now?" I asked.

"Yeah thanks. I am not sure I want there to be a next time though," she added. I could live with that for the moment, as long as she was alright.

"Do you want to know what I really look like? Why we go away when the weather gets good? And why we chose to come to Forks?"

"Yeah."

I walked into the stream of sunlight whilst unbuttoning my shirt, then she would realise this happened all over my body and not just my face or arms. Once I was in the stream of light, I turned round to face her. I wasn't sure what to expect, I didn't know is she would be disgusted, like I was or how she would react.

"Wow!" She said, was that a good wow, or was it bad. From the tone in her voice it didn't sound too bed. She then rose from the stone and started towards me with her hand out stretched. I guess her first reaction would be to come a touch me, how often do you see a sparkling person. I looked like a shiny rock, I am sure that must have looked strange to her. I could feel her fingers working from the top of my sternum down my chest. Her fingers felt so warm and soft on my hard as rock body. How could she possibly like someone like me. I was hard as rock and now in the sunlight I looked like a glittering gem.

"Wow," she said again. "You look so attractive." I wasn't sure how she had arrived at that conclusion. "Does that happen all over your body?"

"Yes, this is why we go away, otherwise people would notice. We chose Forks because we can lead a more normal life, we don't have to spend every second day in private during the summer just because the sun is out." I enjoy the sun, hence why I love this spot, the rays on my back warm me slightly, a bit like they used to do when I was human. I would love to be able to live in a place like Phoenix where the sun shines all the time, but realistically we can't. Well we could if we locked our selves away all the time, but that is no life, its not living, or not really anyway. Her voice broke through my thoughts.

"Yeah the kids at school said you guys always go camping when the weather is good, but I never guessed this was the reason." I knew what all the kids thought of our camping trips, they thought it was unfair that we could skip so much school. The teachers didn't mind too much, we knew everything anyway, probably better than they did. We have graduated high school so many times now I can't keep count.

"So," I said, "you find this attractive, how can that be?"

"I guess it's the glittery effect. Girls like glitter and shiny things. I guess its one of the many things that I like and find attractive about you." I don't think I would ever understand how she found this, a hard cold glittery thing, that I called a body attractive. I guess I was going to have to work harder if I wanted her to dislike me.

"Do you mind taking another trip on my back?" I asked. "I really want to show you an amazing view, but you can't see it from down there." I hoped she would say yes, because it was one of my favourite places to sit, when I needed a minute to think. She nodded slowly. I got her in place and started to climb the tallest tree near by. As I neared the top I could see a big fork which would be ideal for us both to sit on and look out over the river. I helped her onto the branch.

"Wow, I can't believe how high up we are, you can see for miles from here, or I am sure you can on clear days, if we get many here." She giggled. That was true on a clear day it was magical here. You could look down on the river raging below, or look out into the distance and see forest and green for miles and miles. If someone had asked me before Bella arrived what was my favourite past time, I think I would have choose sitting up here and admiring the view. Now however my reply would be spending anytime with Bella.

We stayed up the tree until I could feel Bella shivering slightly beside me. I gathered her onto my back and took her down. She said she had really enjoyed her day, I am sure she didn't enjoy it nearly as much as I did. It felt really special to be able to involve her in the things I loved so much. I ran home quickly as it was getting dark and I didn't want her to get in trouble from Charlie for being out too late.