This chapter is dedicated to my awesome friend Steph! I decided to carry on with this story for now…Just going to see how it goes. Oh and sorry for the delay.

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Ch2 What next?

She looked up at me "I was scared so I ran away" she whispered. "Why Bella; what scared you?" I leant forward and gazed at her. She was the most beautiful girl I had ever laid my eyes upon

"My mum and dad always fight but my dad got really angry this time and I was scared for myself and I ran. But I'm scared that my mum will hate me for leaving her to deal with dad" she looked like she was on the verge of crying so I got up from where I was sitting across from her and walked around the table to where she was sitting and lifted her up to sit on my lap.

"Hay no tears" I said as I wiped them off her gorgeous face.

"It's just that my dad has a very bad temper and it scares me." she said quietly

"It'll be okay you are safe he with me for now?" I said I shifted my head to the side. She was staring at me with a knowing gaze. "What's the matter Isabella?" I didn't want her to be frightened of me. But if she asked to leave I would let her. Why does that thought hurt?...

"I know that you are different Edward because I have been known to be very perceptive, you are different but you wear this mask to hide it from the outside world, you don't need to do that with me I know that you have a kind heart, so please don't hide. " she reached for my hand a squeezed it. I actually felt a bit of the pressure.

"I don't understand you, I'm not a good person Isabella please grasp that" I confessed

"You may think you are not easy to read. But I have learnt to be able to read people very easy" her gaze was holding me in place and I knew I could tell her anything.

She took her hand from mine "Well, I just know that you are not what you play out to be" and walked out of the kitchen and into the sitting area. I shock myself out of my thoughts and followed her.

"Huh?" was my genius response, as I sat down beside her. "Don't worry I won't tell anyone you don't even need to tell me the whole story but I can see past this mask you put on. I just feel safe here with you" she confessed. She then lent down and put her head on my lap. I looked down at her in shock, I'd never been this close to anyone not even my family, I just didn't feel comfortable with touch let alone a human.

I raised my hand and placed it on the back of her head and started to weave my hand through her long dark brown locks "You shouldn't, I'm not a good guy" I got up and started to pace.

"I think I have a pretty good knowledge on who I think is good Edward. You. Are. Good." She was so stubborn. "Okay if you think I'm good now you won't when you know more about me" I closed my eyes once again wishing I was human and not this monster. When I re opened my eyes I had dropped the mask I had worn most of my existence even in front of my family to should my true self and feelings to a human I had only just recently met but I knew I could trust.

She grasped at my expression which I knew was one of self hate and also sadness and loneliness, "do you really want to know?" I whispered down at her.

"Yes Edward I do" she looked up at me with trusting eyes.

"okay but before I tell you anything, just know that I'm not going to keep you here if you don't want to stay, you can leave whenever you want and you never need to see me again after tonight" I closed my eyes again to gather my thoughts and not let on to her how much her leaving would hurt me. "I don't know where to start…"

"How about at the beginning" she said. If only she knew how long ago the beginning was. I sighed and started "have you noticed anything strange about me?" I looked down at her to see that she was thinking I knew this by the crease that had been formed between her brows. I lifted my hand to it and smoothed it out with my index finger all the while she had been watching me with a curious expression. She said under her breath, not realising that I could hear her "if you're so bad then why are you being really good to me?" choosing not to reply because I wasn't sure she had been aware that I could hear her. She then replied to my earlier question "you are cold, stronge and very fast but the thing that surprised me the most was that you SCARED A BEAR how the hell!" she was getting really worked up.

"Isabella breathe" she nodded and her heart rate went down "now before I tell you this please know that you have to keep it a secret. And please down overreact I don't need a trip to the hospital because you fainted"

"Now all the things that you have noticed are right. And the issues of scaring the bear off is because I am further up the food chain then him so to speak" I knew I was stalling but I didn't want our time to come to an end.

She looked confused "I don't think I understand" I nodded at her and tried to find a way to explain my diet to her in a way that doesn't scare her.

"Well let's just say that it didn't want to become my dinner" I laughed emotionlessly. "WHAT YOU EAT BEARS! HOW?" she was starting to hyperventilate again. I raised both my hands so that they were away from her; she then stood up and walked away from me. I looked down towards my lap and put my heads in my hands. "Don't…go, at least not yet… let me tell you then… if you still want to you can… leave" I'd never had so much trouble saying a sentence before.