Edward stared back at me, his hands still on my shoulders.
"What?" He said.
I scoffed.
"You heard." I said.
Edward just stared back at me, confusion in his golden eyes. His hands finally dropped from off my shoulders.
He laughed awkwardly.
"May I please get to my car?" I asked him.
I stared at him, trying desperately to remain strong.
He slowly moved out of my way and I walked past him.
I sped off the school car park, determined not to look at Edward in the rear view mirror.
But I couldn't help myself.
I sat shuffling my feet not really paying much attention to the TV.
I couldn't get Edward out of my mind and it was doing my head in. I threw the remote control to the floor in frustration.
I got up off the sofa and stopped as I looked out of the front window.
A silver Volvo was parked outside the house and I instantly recognised the person sitting in it.
The frustration built up inside of me again and I composed myself before storming out of the house.
Edward got out of the car as I walked towards it.
"I should let you know my father is chief of police." I said to Edward.
He smiled his crooked smile and I stopped dead in my tracks.
"I am aware of that fact." He smiled.
"Yes... well... what do you want?" I asked him, folding my arms.
"To talk." Was all he said.
"I'm busy." I lied.
Edward looked at the floor, creasing his eyebrows together.
"It won't take long." He said, motioning for me to get into the car.
I sighed and got inside his car.
I couldn't explain why I didn't feel scared. Something about Edward relaxed me.
And it shouldn't have.
I didn't really pay attention to where he was driving when he finally stopped.
I looked at him.
"Well?" I said, raising an eyebrow at him.
He smiled and nodded.
"I don't really know where to go from here." He said.
I just nodded and sighed.
"I don't really understand what you said to me on the car park." He said, looking at me.
"I know what you are." I repeated.
Edward just continued to look at me.
I sighed and got out of the car. I realised we were deep in the woods somewhere but still I didn't feel at all frightened.
Edward got out of the car and followed me.
"Your skin... its pale white and ice cold. I have never seen you eat or drink. You don't come to school when it's sunny. You're fast enough to reach me across the road in a split second and strong enough to stop a car with your bare hand. You're eyes change colour from golden to black." I said, begging for my voice not to tremble.
I felt Edward standing behind me.
"Are you really 17?" I asked.
"For all intent purposes." He answered.
"That's not what I asked."
"No." He simply said.
I sighed.
"Say it Quinn. Say the word." He whispered into my ear.
"You're a vampire." I finally said.
Edward sighed.
"Aren't you scared?" He asked.
I turned to look at him,
"I should be but I'm not." I said.
"You should be." He said.
"Well I'm not. Something about you stops me from being scared." I said.
"I'm a vampire Quinn, I've kill humans before." He said through gritted teeth.
I scoffed.
"I wanted to kill you when I very first saw you. The smell of your blood... it took me all my might not to kill you right in the middle of the class." He told me, starting straight into my eyes.
I didn't pull my gaze away from his.
"But you didn't kill me." I said.
"I am designed to kill. Try running away." He said.
I stood rooted to the ground as Edward whizzed past me at lightning speed.
"Because you can't out run me!" He shouted.
In an instant he was back at my side.
"Try and fight me off." He said, grabbing a tree root from the ground and throwing it out of our sight.
I just stared at him.
"I don't care." I said. "If you want to kill me so much, do it now. No-one would ever know and like you said I have no escape."
He stared at me, the frustration written all over his face.
"I don't want to kill you. My family... we don't kill humans. We feed on animal blood." He said.
"So that explain why I am not scared of you. You're eyes..." I started.
Edward grabbed my arm and started pulling me towards an open bit of the woods.
"This is why we can't go out into the sun light." He said.
He stood in the sun and I creased my eyes as the sun glistened off his body like thousands of sparklingly diamonds.
"It's beautiful." I said.
Edward scoffed.
"You think a vampire is beautiful." He said, walking towards me.
"Not all vampires." I smiled.
Edward smiled as well as he wrapped his arms around my waist.
"Why aren't you afraid, Quinn?" He asked me.
"I don't know why. I know I should be but I'm just not. You don't frighten me Edward." I said.
His eyebrows creased together.
"I hate not being able to read your mind." He said.
I looked at him confused.
"What?"
"I can read every mind in the world. Some vampires they have.. Special powers and mine is to read minds. Yet I can't get inside yours." He said.
I pulled out of his grip.
"Why can't you read mine?" I asked him.
He shrugged his shoulders.
"Oh" I whispered. "I quite like that you can't."
He smiled and laughed slightly.
I looked up at him.
"Can you please take me home, my Dad will be home soon." I said.
He nodded and we made our way back to his car.
As we pulled up outside my house, I put my hand on top of Edward's.
"I won't tell anyone." I said.
He smiled. "I trust you."
"I'll see you at school tomorrow." I smiled.
"Quinn... how did you find out?" He asked.
I smiled.
"It's a long story." I said, getting out of the car.