A.N.: Hey people, this chapter is a little more mature/racy, so if you can't handle it move on to the next chapter! It's a flashback...nothing too bad, but still throwing it out there.

The Last Three Words by Alesana

Flashback

Cold hands ran dow the length of my body, I shivered violently and a shy smile crept its way onto my lips. Frozen kisses trailed from my temple to my collarbone, and went up again, resting on the bas of my neck. Tom smiled against my pounding pule and breathed in deeply. He pulled back and was no longer happy. His bright eyes were fiery with anger, and it looked like he had stopped breathing all together.

"Tom?" I whispered, leaning back on my elbows on his soft bed.

"Nothing. We can't do this, you need to go. Leave, get your jacket and go." He all but growled, but I had absolutely no intention of leaving him.

"No Tom, this is the first time I've seen you in months! We don't have to touch, but don't kick me out." He opened the window and stuck his head out into the snowstorm that had conveniently snowed us in at the winter camp for at least one more night.

"That and I'm not very sure I would be able to reach the highway with all of this snow, much less the car."

He brought his head back in, leaving the window wide open, and sauntered back to me. He crawled down next to me on his side with his arm draped across my stomach and heaved a sigh. I cuddled into him and fell asleep within a few minutes.

"Mary-Beth, wake up." Tom's voice was gentle and excited, bringing me back to reality from my comfortable dreams withing seconds. "It stopped, let's go outside!" He picked me up, tossed me over his shoulder, and sprinted out the front door. He sat me down, causing me to land on my butt, and sat down next to me.

"Wow." I breathed. Everything was frozen and silent. The trees were now completely white, and everything was still. THe air was cold, but clean and crisp at the same time. The early morning light was pale ans soft, lighting up our surrounding as if it were something fragile and breakable, something the sun would break.

"Mary-Beth? I want to tell you something." The tone of his voice was anxious and stressed, immediately causing my heart to begin pounding uncertainly.

"What's wrong?" he looked so worried, as if I were about to run away or die or something. "Tom, we've been through so much together, you know you can tell me anything and I'll always love you the same." My eyes searched his, hoping he didn't do something horrible like kill anyone...

"What if you get angry or afraid?" he sounded so pained! Did he really murder someone?

"Tom, it wouldn't matter. I love you and I always will. Nothing you could ever say or do would change that!" He smiled then, taking my breath away.

"Will you believe me? If I tell you, I'm not lying or trying to be funny..." His beautiful features clouded over again.

"I'll try to." He turned away and gazed at the horizon aprehensivley.

"Mary-Beth, I...I am two hundred and fifteen years old." He had me there. My jaw locked, so I wouldn't say something I'd regret, and my gaze focused on a tree in the distance. He couldn't be serious.

"How?" I asked softly so the hard, sharp edge wouldn't give my doubt of his sanity away.

"I'm a vampire, Mary-Beth. I'm not lying to you or trying to be cruel."

We sat there for so long my pants got soaked and I was freezing by the time I found any words that wouldn't hurt him.

"Can you--" I cleared my throat, "Tom, prove it." I turned and met his cool green gaze.

"Okay." he got up and walked over to one of those metal snow meters, picked it--all of it--up out of about five feet of snow and another foot of dirt, and cmae back to sit next to me. He then began shaping it and compacting it down to a small ball the size of a hand as if it were a pipe cleaner. I couldn't move, the shock was immobilizing me.

"Come on, your lips are turning purple, lets go back inside." I stared at him, bewildered, and stumbled back inside, grateful we had left the fire on.. When I shut the doorbehind me and turned around, Tom was nowhere to be found.

"Tom?" I called as I ran through every room. When I got upstairs, I got a little scared. Was my life about to turn into a horror movie? No, Tom wouldn't hurt me."Tom?!"

When I opened the door to the guest room, I gasped and spun back around.

"Oh, uh, sorry Tom. Sorry..." my face heated up and was probably cherry red as I closed the door and locked it. After changing into something dry, I laid down on my bed and burried myself in my quilt. Just as I was drifting off into blissful dreams, a cold arm wrapped around my waist and a body pressed up against my side.

"Tom," I slurred in a sleepy drawl.

"Mary-Beth?" his silky voice caressed my ear.

"I love you." I sighed and relaxed into him. My eyes were closed and I was falling deeper and deeper into unconsiousness, I hardly heard it and was sure I was already dreaming when Tom whispered so softly:

"I love you too. Forever and always, Mary-Beth."

Present

William's had snaked out and grasped my wrist, his hands were that familiar frozen, and when I spun around to politely tell him to let go, I was stunned with the knowledge that William was so obviously a vampire. He matched the common characteristics: deathly pale skin, an almost sickly sweet smell, no blemishes to speak of, strange eyes, and inhuman grace for a man of his form. Gasping, I wretched myself free and spun around to sprint to my car. Too bad my view was blocked by Edward who was standing directly in my path.

"Edward, what's wrong?" A tiny pale girl pranced up to his side. They were both vampires. All three of them were! This was not good, not good at all. The one thing Tom had specifically warned me about was staying far aaway from other vampires because not many of them were very merciful to those who knew their secret. I took a step back, and attempted to skirt around them and find our car, but Edward's words stopped me dead.

"She knows. We have to take her to Carlisle, he'll know how to handle this."

I started running, but the parking lot was empty, save for a shiny Volvo. I knew my chances of being able to run and get away were zero to none, so there wasno reason to actually try. I couldn't believe Jase and Emily would leave me like that! Suddenly an idea struck me, and I plastered a huge smile on as I turned to face them.

"Oh, today? Sorry, I can't come, very important appointments I have to get to..." they weren't buying it and neither was I. "Fine, but I swear if you hurt me, there'll be hell to pay." Tom would catch wind of the news of my death at one point or another, and come to thill these things.

"Don't worry, we're less likely to harm you than you are to hurt us. Come on, we won't bite." The girl beamed and steered me over to the Volvo with two waiting vampires in the backseat.

"Great." I mumbled as I was all but shoved into the back. Edward got in the drivers seat, and the other three walked to the edge of the woods before taking off at vampire speed. We sped off in the car at speeds that made my heart pound at every turn and sudden stop. Less than two minutes later, we were getting out of the car and walking into a huge victorian styled mansion.

"What's with the girl?" A beautiful blonde vampire asked offhandedly.

"She knows about what we are. Get everyone down here so we can talk." Edward said and we all sat down on the couches in a magnificently furnished living room. William came in then, just as two more of them came downstairs and sat on the couch. It seemed funny, they were all piled onto one couch while I sat all by myself on the other one across from them, but I didn't dare laugh. It was so they could stare at me like vultures, I guess, because they definately were.

"Hello, I'm Carlisle Cullen, and this is my family--Emmett, Rosalie, Alice, Jasper, Esme, William, and Edward. Would you please explain why you're here?"

"I was dragged here by them. I'm Mary-Beth, and why--how can all of you live here together? Aren't vampires supposed to be loners or something?" They all looked at me incrediously, but I was dead serious! Had they started some twisted vampire cult or something? Becasue the largest grouping I'd seen was three, and here were eight! That and I was getting scared and nervous...

"Um, would you mind explaining how you know about us?" Rosalie demanded.

"Someone--I know is a vampire, and I just kinda put two and two together." They were still suspicious, I sighed, "Don't worry, I'm not going to say anything to anyone..." They visibly relaxed.

"Okay, well then." Emmett mumbled and got up, streching like a lazy cat.

Suddenly my phone went off. Looking at the screen, I found it was Tom.

"Tom?" I picked up.

"How was your first day? What are you doing right now?" his silky voice was cheerful and genuienly curious.

"Oh, you know, the usual...boring lectures, stupid people, being abducted by a band of vampires." The Cullen's eyes widened, and Alice cried out in disbelief.

"I thought you wouldn't tell! Liar." She growled the last part.

"No Alice, this is the uh...friend." I shot back to her, praying she would stay on that couch and not snap at my neck.

"What?! I swear I can't leave you for a week without something happening! I'm coming now." Tom shouted in my ear, clearly pissed and worried at the same time. not a good combination.

"No Tom, it's---" the dial tone rang in my ear, "Okay." Sighing, I stood up and checked the time.

"Well, he's not going to take long, maybe an hour. He's probably going to track me here and well, bad things would happen...It won't matter whether I'm not here he'd get into a fight and--depending oh how dead he was--come find me."

"I guess we have a guest then! Is there anything I can get you, dear?" Esme beamed and raced towards the kitchen, "I'll make some cookies for you!"

"Thank you!" I called after her, hoping she could hear me above the racket she was making.

A.N.: Okay, well I have work to do and this chapter seems endless so I'm stopping it here. Hope you liked it!