First Impressions

Bella POV

I never thought I'd say it, but I loved rainy days. I loved the sound of the raindrops as they would splatter against the window panes; it sent waves of ease throughout my body. I could tell that Edward enjoyed this sound as well; I could hear him humming a tune that reminded me of the raindrops as it escalated our sense of calm. We were both at lying in complete contentment in his room as we watched the rain fall onto the window panes, nothing was better than this moment. Just like all the moments I spent uninterrupted with Edward. We hardly ever had days like these, it was nice to lay back and let the world pass by for once.

I gave out a sigh and he looked lovingly into my eyes, trying to comprehend what I was thinking at that moment.

"What are you thinking?" he asked as he gave up trying to guess what I was thinking. He then kissed my forehead and I tried to concentrate on my breathing. Every kiss he left on my body left my skin feeling like it was on fire and it caused my heart and lungs to go out of sync.

"Just about how perfect everything is." I replied kissing his cheek tenderly once I had a hold of myself again.

He smiled his wonderful crooked smile and my heart melted there and then, I felt a violent blush crawl up my cheeks and I had stopped breathing, no wonder my head started to feel a little dizzy. I reminded myself to breathe again and I was back to normal...until the next smile or kiss...

"You're so cute when you do that." He told me as he pulled me to his chest.

"I can't help it. You have an overwhelming effect on me, more so then any other girl in the world." I blushed even more knowing that he was enjoying watching me get embarrassed over my human tendencies.

"I love it when you blush, it makes you look more beautiful then you already are. So never be ashamed to blush. It's one of your best features." He told me in a serious tone.

"Really? I would've thought you'd say my eyes were my best feature." I answered as I looked at his perfect face feeling ashamed at my own. I could never be as beautiful as him...well, there was a way but he refused to even think of the notion.

"Every feature of you is perfect. But, your blushes are especially perfect."

I looked away and buried my head deeper into his chest than I had before, I was afraid that my cheeks were going to explode from all the blood that was rushing to them.

Edward seemed to have an uncanny ability to charm his way around any woman, it didn't bother me so much as it had done when we'd first started seeing each other. He only had eyes for me, well at least that's what he told me when he dismissed every woman that glanced in his direction.

"That warmth is wonderful." Edward teased, "It isn't from your cheeks is it? I may break out in a sweat if they get even hotter."

I looked up at his face and stuck my tongue out like a five year old; I felt the rumble of laughter within his chest as he laughed at me and I started to smile again. I couldn't stay mad at him, even if he had been teasing me, that speciality was usually left to Emmett.

We heard a knock at the door downstairs and Edward sat upright with an intrigued look on his face.

"What is it?" I asked as I wrapped my arms around his shoulders wishing that I could hear his thoughts as well as everyone else's.

"New vampires." He told me urgently. "Stay here."

He rushed out of the room and left me sitting on the bed unable to breathe properly. Edward had told me these were new vampires so I was sure that it wasn't Victoria or the Volturi, but what if these newcomers weren't vegetarians?

What if Forks was in danger from ravenous vampires? I didn't know what to do, the Cullen's would be involved in a war and I didn't want that, I didn't want to see anyone hurt, especially Edward.

I started wringing my hands from how nervous I was, it seemed like forever until Edward came back up and told me everything was safe. They were vegetarians, the people of Forks had nothing to worry about.

He took my hand and led me downstairs to meet the newcomers, I wasn't used to feeling so a part of the Cullen family, even though I desperately wanted to join them in more ways than one.

As we walked down the stairs I could see that there was a man about Carlisle's age, maybe a little older with short light brown hair and a long thin nose, he standing at the fireplace talking animatedly with someone who I could only assume would be Carlisle. Standing next to him with her hand interlocked with his was his wife who looked roughly the same age as he did. She had long curly platinum blonde hair which came to the middle of her back and bright ochre coloured eyes; she was nearly as pretty as Rosalie, but as I looked at her again I could see there was really no contest between them.

Standing a little away from them was who I presumed to be their son. He stood idly next to a chair looking uncomfortable, unable to do anything with himself. He looked about nineteen, although I suspected that he may have been younger than what his body portrayed, maybe seventeen at a second glance. He had jet black hair which fell into his eyes and underneath it all were a set of buttercup coloured eyes, they were more yellow than golden compared to his parents and the Cullen's, but it was different, I was entranced by the colour of them, it reminded me of the sand on the beach.

As I entered the lounge with Edward at my side, the boy's lips turned up slightly as if I'd said something mildly funny and I started to feel nervous again. What if they'd been lying and this boy was actually thinking about making me his dinner. I looked over at Edward for some sort of sign that this boy wanted to drink my blood, but his face remained blank.

"Mary, George. I'd like you to meet Bella, she's Edward's girlfriend. She knows what we are, and poses no threat to us or your family." Carlisle informed them as introduced me politely, he had outlined to them how clued in I was about the existence of vampires. I looked at the two adults standing by the fire and they just smiled back, still slightly weary of me. It was funny to think that I'd been the one who was afraid of them only moments ago and in fact they were the ones slightly afraid of me.

I also noticed that Carlisle must've introduced them to the rest of the Cullen's whilst I was hiding in Edward's room. They'd all left the room after they'd been introduced; it seemed that they weren't as overwhelmed by the prospect of a new family of their kind as I was.

But I was a human so it was different for me; I had my own kind to think about whilst we had new vampires in town.

I nodded in welcome and they nodded back as they got over the initial shock of seeing a human amongst vampires, they didn't seem to take anymore notice of me after the introductions had been made.

"This is our son, Finley." Mary said as she looked in the boy's direction. She tutted quietly as not to draw any attention to her disappointment in her son, and I imagined like any mother, she wished that Finley had a made the effort to have a tidier appearance.

He gave a small wave to show who he was but still looked at me with that small smile on his face, his eyes were now looking into mine, it made me feel uncomfortable. When I looked at Edward again his face had turned into a scowl.

"We just thought we'd introduce ourselves, and check out the neighbours. We have another who is part of our family, her name is Gwen. She's Finley's twin sister. She's visiting another coven at the moment, but she'll introduce herself to you when she's back." George said as he spoke more to Carlisle than anyone else in the room.

"We'll look forward to meeting her." Carlisle smiled looking genuinely pleased at the prospect of meeting another vegetarian vampire. "It was nice meeting you." he continued as he shook the vampire's hand. "Feel free to visit anytime you want. Maybe we could all go on a hunt sometime, get to know each other a little better."

"It would be a pleasure." George said as he turned his back and accompanied by his wife they made their way toward the door.

Finley just stood there watching me and Edward, he seemed to be ignoring the exit of his parents, his buttercup eyes flickered to Edward's topaz and he raised his eyebrows in confusion. He shrugged and gave up looking in our direction; he hurried towards the door so he wasn't left behind and walked away in toe with his parents.

Carlisle squeezed Edward's shoulder in passing and walked in the direction of the kitchen to find Esme, she was probably preparing me something to eat seeing as I was the only person who ate there.

After Carlisle's exit Edward and I were alone again. I stood motionless as I tried to figure out what had just gone on, Edward was still scowling as he looked intently over at the spot where Finley had been standing.

"That boy...Finley. He's rather strange." I said as I still tried to make sense of what I'd just seen. I had no epiphanies so far and I doubted I ever would. Edward would have to enlighten me.

"He's rather annoying." he replied in an angry tone.

"Why's that?" I asked knowing that his anger had something to do with Finley's thoughts.

"The way he looked at you. And the way he smiled at you...urgh. It made me want to tear his head off."

"What's so wrong with that? Although I found it rather odd, the way he kept staring, it made me feel exposed or something."

"You don't see what's wrong with it because you didn't realise what was behind that smile. He likes you Bella, he thinks you're attractive."

"Are you jealous Edward?" I giggled as I remembered the way he had gotten all defensive about Jacob when he'd called me 'pretty'.

"No." He replied stoically.

"Come on Edward." I said as I tried to shake his shoulders. "What are you worried about? You're the love of my life; I didn't even take a second glance at him."

"He took a second glance at you;" He told me with a slightly worried look on his face, "he thinks he has a chance with you."

"Well he doesn't." I reassured him with a smile, "You've got nothing to worry about; you're the one for me. I bet we don't even see him that much whilst he lives here."

"I doubt that very much Bella. He likes you a lot. I won't be surprised if he shows up at school tomorrow, that's what he was planning when they had to leave."

I hugged him round the waist as I tried to comfort him, and he wrapped a protective arm around my shoulders. He leant his head into my hair as he tried to put himself back into the mood of calmness. I thought it was working until Jasper came in...

He walked into the room and honed in on something he'd forgotten to take when the visitors came in. I looked to were his gaze was headed and I saw a book lying on the table, it must've been what he was looking for.

As he passed us he stopped where he was and took a step back as if he'd walked into something very solid.

"Wow! I never knew such a jealousy could be so strong! I think you could rival Othello." he exclaimed as he looked over in Edward's direction.

"Just leave it Jasper." Edward growled as he stalked back to his room.

"Sorry." I apologised for him as I looked worriedly at my boyfriend. Obviously this Finley was bothering him and he was feeling a little threatened.

"No problem Bella, he'll get over it soon." Jasper replied as he made sure there was a little more distance between us. Since the Cullen's return he was still a little bit weary when we were in a room alone together. He didn't want a repeat of my birthday last year and frankly, neither did I.

"I hope so." I smiled as I left Jasper in the lounge and followed Edward up the stairs.

He could be so overprotective sometimes. And I thought it was just stupid.

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