Hey everyone! I'm sure your all so happy because I have the next chapter! Like...duh! This is only like...the best story EVER! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Ahem...um...I'm sorry I don't know what came over me...

Ya sorry bout that...i was kinda having fun...

Disclaimer

Me: --is sick with pink eye, strep, and an ear infection and is having hallucinations and sees Edward walk into the room— hey...it's Edward! Whats up?

Edward: oh, nothing. I just wanted to visit you because your sick and I hate seeing you in pain...

Me: oh...that's so sweet!

Edward: Yes, I am a very sweet person. Bella loves me for that.

Me: wait...your still in love with Bella!? We're so over!!!!

Edward: I'm sorry...its just that—

Bella: --walks into my room-- Edward?! What are you doing here!?? Geeze, hanging out with this girl who doesn't even own Twilight!

Me: I hate being sick...

Chapter 14

"Your right...the 'beep game' is rather fun..." Edward said with a grin. I laughed, and so did Carlisle.

"I'm sure it was a lot more fun when you were on drugs, right, Bella," Carlisle said. I nodded.

"I don't remember it at all, but I'm guessing that it probably was..." I said. Then we all started laughing again.

I couldn't wait until I became a part of this family.

I was out of the hospital a few days later. It was great to have my freedom back, to be able to hang out with Edward and the rest of the Cullens whenever I wanted without getting in trouble with Charlie. And to make things even better, it was only four weeks until graduation.

Until I became a vampire.

Edward was still very upset about the whole thing. He didn't want to "damn me to a life of darkness," is what he always said. I would always reply by saying that life without him was darkness.

He usually changed the subject when I said that...

But, to put a damper on everything, Renee was going to come to Forks on Friday. Normally I would be incredibly happy to see her, but not under these conditions. She always overreacted about my injuries. And to make everything worse, she would have to meet Edward.

I had called her when I got out of the hospital and tried to convince her not to come, but she told me that she missed me a lot and wanted to visit me. So, she was going to come down at the end of this week.

I'm not so sure Charlie was very happy about her visiting, but I know that Edward was, along with the rest of his family. Well, Carlisle, Esme, Emmett, and Alice, I guess. Rosalie didn't want another member of the Swan family around. Jasper didn't want another human around.

Edward insisted on having dinner with Renee and me. I tried to convince him that it really wasn't a good idea, but he didn't give up on the matter.

"So, Bella, I have reservations at a restaurant in Port Angeles. Actually, the same restaurant that we had our first dinner at together..." he said with a grin as he remembered that night.

"Really, Edward, this isn't necessary," I said for what seemed like the hundredth time in the past two days. "I really don't think it's a good idea for us to have dinner with Renee..."

"Nonsense. She is your mother and it is only proper that I should be introduced to her."

"But, you've already met her!" I insisted.

"Yes, at a hospital. After you 'fell through the window' of a hotel in Arizona. I'm not so sure that really counts, Bella."

I scowled at him. "You had plenty of time to get to know her then. If I remember correctly, you both were sleeping there, waiting for me to wake up. What did you do all that time when I was still unconscious? Work on your knitting skills?"

"Very funny Bella..."

"I'm serious! You had plenty of time to get to know her, and if you didn't, well, that's your own problem."

He stood up from where he was sitting at my kitchen table and walked over to me. I stood up from the chair opposite of him, where I had been sitting, and started walking the other way around the table.

"Bella..." he said as we were across from each other again.

"No. There is no way Edward Cullen. No way you are coming anywhere near me and dazzling me into agreeing with you. No. Way."

He began to walk around the table to my side, but I also ran around the table in the opposite direction of him. I knew it was stupid, that he could outrun me and catch me at anytime, but still. I liked pretending that I could win this argument. It made me...um...feel better about myself...?

Suddenly I looked up and Edward was gone.

"Edward...?" I asked. I hated when he did this. Now I had no idea where he was and he would probably come out in a few seconds and scare the bejeebers out of me.

"Edward Anthony Masen Cullen, get your butt out here and talk to me!" I said angrily.

Suddenly I felt a cold pair of hands wrap around my waist. I turned around quickly, not expecting him to come from behind me, and hit my head into his.

Now, I'm not sure if you've ever hit your head into granite, but trust me, it hurts. A lot.

"Owwwwwwww!" I yelled. I put my hands over my forehead and gasped in pain.

"Oh my gosh, Bella, I'm so sorry," Edward said as he picked me up effortlessly and carried me to the couch. He set me down and ran over to the fridge, and came back with a bag of ice.

"Put this on your head, it might help," he said. I cautiously put it on my forehead, but quickly pulled it off.

"Owwwww!" I yelled again.

"What? What is it?" he asked anxiously.

"Its...cold..." I said sheepishly. He chuckled. "Well, what do you know of that's a little warmer than ice?" he asked me.

I thought for a moment, and then grabbed his hand and put it on my forehead. This was much better than ice. He laughed again.

"This works, I guess," he said to me. I grinned at him. He grinned back mockingly.

"Hey! Don't make me come up there and...um..."

"And what? Bang your head into mine? Because Bella, we've already realized that doing that isn't helpful..." he said. I scowled at him again.

"Edward Cullen, you have to be the most self-absorbed, arrogant, annoying, selfish person I have ever met!" I said as threw his hand off my forehead and turned away from him.

"Yes, but also the most handsome, charming, adorable, sweetest person you have ever met. Although, I'm not sure 'person' is quite the right word..." he said. I suppressed a giggle.

"Even though all those things may be true, that still doesn't change the fact that you are the most self-absorbed, arro—"

"—arrogant, annoying, selfish 'person' you have ever met. Yes, I get it. I'm extremely terrible."

"Yes, you are," I said. I turned back to look at him. His face was right there. Like, right there.

"Well, I guess then if you think I am all of those things, I'll just be going. No reason to have a self-absorbed, arrogant, annoying, selfish 'person' in your house, is there?" he breathed. He still didn't more his face.

"I...um..." I stuttered. He moved closer to me and kissed me gently. We began to kiss more passionately, and stopped a while later so I could breathe. As he pulled away, I looked into his gorgeous topaz eyes. Then I realized that they weren't topaz. They were black.

"Um...Edward...how long has it been since you hunted?" I asked him.

He had a mischievous grin on his face. I recognized the way he looked at me. It was like how he looked when he was carrying me out of the battle 5 days ago. Like I was a delicious dessert, waiting to be devoured.

"Three weeks, maybe more," he said to me. His voice sounded very strange. Like, part of him was trying to get me close to him so he could bite me, and the other part was struggling to keep the monster within him away from me.

I stood up and slowly walked away from him. "Edward..." I said cautiously.

He still looked at me like I was a dessert. Just then, Alice burst into my house.

"You guys! You guys! I just saw—" she yelled excitedly. But then she stopped mid-sentence, stunned by what she was seeing.

"Edward, NO!" she yelled as she ran for Edward. She grabbed him just as he lunged for me. I heard a huge booming noise, and saw Edward fall to the ground, with Alice holding him down.

"Edward!!!" Alice yelled. "Edward! Get a hold of yourself! This is Bella! Your Bella! Edward!" He continued thrashing around for a few seconds, until he seemed to get a hold on himself.

Throughout all of this, I was pressed up against my wall, with a stunned look on my face. After Edward stopped struggling, Alice let him stand up. He walked over to me very slowly.

"Bella..." he said. It was barely a whisper. "Bella...I'm so sorry."

Just then I realized that I was crying. He took a step closer to me, but I shook my head. "Get away," I said. Then I turned on my heel and ran over to the stairs.

But me being who I am, tripped before I reached the stairs. Unfortunately, Edward didn't catch me. I fell and hit my head on the floor in the same place that I had hit Edward's head just minutes earlier.

I didn't want to stand up again. So I turned my head so it was facing away from Alice and Edward and then began to cry again.

"Bella..." I heard Edward whisper. I saw feet as he walked up next to me. I stood up quickly and ran up to my room. I slammed the door and leaned up against it, and slowly sank down so I was sitting on the floor. Then I began to cry even harder.

I heard Alice and Edward talking quickly to each other downstairs. I couldn't make any of it out, except for Alice saying one thing.

"Nice going, Edward."

Oooooo. Lol. Yes well if your all "what was Alice's vision? Volturi? Victoria? Wolves again?" then you will just have to wait. That question will be answered in the next chapter.

And I know in this chapter Bella sounds very proper:

"Really, Edward, this isn't necessary,"...

But, to put a damper on everything...

Edward insisted on having dinner with Renee and me.

...didn't give up on the matter.

Etc, etc, etc. I kinda don't know where that came from. I started writing all proper after my freaky un-proper authors note. It was really weird actually...

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-danielle-