Title: In Need of Rescue

Chapter 9: The Sun

Edward's POV

(Again Italics is when they are speaking vampiric)

Emmett had left when he got a call from Rosalie saying that he had to get home. He didn't question her further to figure out why, no one questions Rosalie.

Bella had been upstairs since the earlier events had taken place. I felt horrible for that but it was something that all pets had to do. I know Emmett wouldn't turn me in but my family would do anything to make sure that I don't get killed by the police. That included making sure I followed the rules, which I haven't done recently. I started the microwave up, warming up Bella's dinner.

It was late in the day, the sun was starting to come up. I went to my sliding glass door which was the only place sun could be seen from within my house. I smiled, one of the few sunny nights around here. I remembered back to when Bella said she wanted to see the sun. I started to walk to the stairs to see how she was doing and to have her come down until I heard a knock at the door. I should have expected it. I hadn't seen her in a few nights now.

I went over to the door to open it. There was Tanya standing at the door. "Hey, you gonna let me in?" She asked as I opened the door. "Normally you have your door unlocked for me." She laughed as she stepped in and took off her sunglasses.

A few years after vampires took over and my family was forced to split apart and start drinking human blood. I gave up on everything. I had gone through a small streak where I didn't care what happened. Of course, Tanya had taken advantage of that. She started coming over to my house once in a while and we would talk. I enjoyed the company; going from six other people in the house to no one was getting boring so having another over for a short time during the night became a more than welcomed event. We would talk and sit around playing board games. Then one of the nights, we just…I couldn't bring myself to say it. I felt horrible the first time but it got easier, now it was an event that we did just because we could.

However, for the first time in a long time, I didn't want her over. I was planning on showing Bella the sun and now another night would be gone.

"You okay in there?" Tanya asked me.

"Yeah, just thinking. I don't think tonight will be the best night for you to come over. I have a few things going on right now."

"It won't take long." Tanya said smirking at me as she made her way to the stairs. My whole family was ticked at her for taking 'advantage' of me. I don't think she was but Alice said if I was still with the family, I wouldn't have done it. I had to agree, if I had someone else to talk to, I probably would have never talked to her. I could have avoided this. I think Jasper won a huge bet because Emmett wasn't too happy when he found out that I had done such a thing.

I walked up stairs behind her as she held my hand. I couldn't tell her that I didn't want to because I got a new 'pet.' Unlike my family, she would call the police to come check everything out to make sure I'm not doing anything against the rules.

We were at the top of the stairs when I looked over to Bella's room. She was sitting against the wall in the hallway. She was watching us as we came up the stairs. It was ere as if she knew something was up. I never wished more than this moment that I could read her mind and find out.

Tanya stopped when she saw the girl, "Oh she is adorable. Why didn't you tell me you got a pet?" Tanya said walking over to Bella.

Bella leaned away from Tanya's hand, something I had never seen her do, not with any of my members that she had met. She normally seems more curious about the others in my life but with Tanya, I could tell she wasn't happy with her.

"No manners. Where did you get this one?" Tanya looked hurt, I wanted to smile but I knew she would only get mad at me.

"The farm I work at."

Tanya nodded her head, everyone knew the farms didn't teach the humans their 'manners.' "That explains it. What's her name?" Before I could say anything Tanya reached for the tags around Bella's neck and brought them up to her face. Bella let out a slight growl. I was sure she meant more for an irritated sound but it came out differently. "Bella? That's an alright name." She dropped the tags and sauntered back over to me.

I was glad that Bella didn't know what we were saying.

"Come." Tanya suggested as she walked over to my door. I nodded and walked behind her into the room. I looked behind me at Bella sitting against the wall as she was earlier. She looked confused and rather angry. "What are you waiting for?" Tanya asked me.

I sighed as I closed the door. I hadn't felt this wrong since I first gave into Tanya's request. I walked over to the bed as she sat on it. She was unbuttoning her shirt when I stood in front of her. I never instigated this kind of thing. I knew it was immoral but I didn't do anything about it anymore. I sat on the bed next to her as she leaned up on me. I looked back at the door, this wasn't right.

Why was I all of a sudden feeling this way? I had been doing this for several years now.

"What's taking you so long?" Tanya had started to bite the edge of my ear. She came around me and sat on my lap, starting to unbutton my shirt. Don't get me wrong, I was as much a guy as anyone else. This however, this wasn't right. I stood up.

"I'm sorry Tanya but I can't do that right now." I buttoned my shirt where she had already gotten too and walked to the door.

"Why not?"

"I just can't, not tonight." I said, what I meant was not ever.

"What's gotten into you? You all of a sudden moral again? Do you not remember what we eat?"

"I just can't do it right now. I'm sorry." I opened the door, Bella wasn't at her spot anymore. In fact she wasn't anywhere on my second story, she must be looking around down stairs.

"Can we at least play a board game or something?" Tanya asked sounding upset that I was kicking her out.

"Not tonight. I just want time to myself."

Tanya rolled her eyes grabbing her sunglasses and purse. She walked to the door opening it up, "Whatever, see you later." She said angrily, slamming the door before I could say bye back.

I rolled my eyes, "Bye." I muttered.

"Who is she?" I heard Bella ask behind me.

"Just an old friend." I replied more quickly than I wanted too.

I walked back into the kitchen where the microwave was beeping constantly. I opened it up and took out the hot bowl, sitting it on the table. Bella stood at the door frame. "It didn't seem like just a friend." She said.

Did she know? Why was I so upset if she did?

I smirked, "It's a long story." I told her as I stuck a fork into her bowl. "Bon appetite."

She sat down and started to eat. I walked over to the door and looked at the sun starting to peak even more. It was still sun rise. "Bella come here." I told her.

She stopped eating to come over to the door. She was about to speak when she looked out the window at the glowing orb in the sky. Something that I always took for granted.

"Don't look straight at it." I told her.

"Is that the sun?" She asked.

"Yes, would you like to see it?" I asked as I unlatched the door.

Her smile grew as I opened the door, allowing her into the fenced in area. "It's bright, it's huge, it's beautiful!"

I chuckled at her childlike ability from seeing the sun. I hate the sun so much, it's too bright, it's too warm and it was something I always ran away from way back. I stood in the door frame as she stared at the sun.

"You going to come out?" she asked.

I chuckled, "Nah, I'm good." She wouldn't know that vampires sparkle in the sun.

"But this is amazing!" She said back to me.

I sighed. "I'm fine, have fun." I still stood in the door frame. She walked toward the sun. She slipped over her feet and skinned her knees. I tried to fight back the urge to go help her. I failed as I walked over to her to help her with her cut.

It was a bad idea as soon as I stood into the sun, I heard her gasp. It didn't matter what she thought of me. She couldn't run anywhere but it was still upsetting to hear the gasp come from her.

"You…" She stayed silent as if not knowing what to say.

I walked up to her, trying to ignore her comment. "Let me see the cut." I muttered grabbing her knee harsher than I meant for it to be. "It looks clean. Does it hurt?" I asked.

"No, not really." She put out a hand and touched my cheek. I tried to ignore it. Why would she be fascinated with something like this? "Why?" was all she asked.

"Why what?" I asked back as I stood up.

"Why do you sparkle?" she asked as I helped her up.

"Guess you can say, it's part of being a vampire." I smirked at her.

"Part of a vampire? Why?"

I smiled at her expression, "Who knows. I will leave the door unlocked, come in whenever you want. Call me if you need anything." I wasn't about to explain to her my reasoning, it may just end in even more confusion.

"Alright."

"And don't stay out too long; too much exposure could lead to some bad consequences."

She nodded her head as I walked inside. Back to where I could see everything. I was glad to share her dream with her, to allow her to see the sun. I would have to get her in a few minutes but for now, I decided to go find my piano room and sit down for a bit.

She would be too preoccupied by the sun to come looking for me anyways.

I know it probably isn't that great, this is probably one of the worse chapters but I was on vacation this whole week. I went with my boyfriend and two other friends (I was the only female). We rented an apartment for a week and chilled. We got to go to the beach every day which was nice but I realized that I have an uncanny ability to be ungraceful in the sandy beaches. The first day there, we raced to the water and I slipped as soon as I touched the water and fell on my elbows and skinned them right up. I have two scabs and much bruised elbows from this week. The guys were also laughing at me because when we raced in the water I tripped over nothing and at that same moment a wave was coming so my face flew right into a wave. They started a joke, saying 'who am I?' and then they would wait for a wave to form and throw their face into it. Turned out that the whole beach was experiencing huge swells the whole time and I almost had a rip tide pull me out…which all the guys I was with thought was hilarious once I surfaced a few hundred feet away from them freaking for my life. They didn't even think of making sure I wasn't drowning. Aren't guys awesome? (rhetorical statement if you didn't know) Oh and my sun burn, I only have two tones of skin color (extremely pale of lobster red). Let's just say that my skin got so burnt that even the scar on my back is red (and scars don't normally become red).

On a lighter note, I finished my summer course last week and got my results, I passed. My TA for the lab however wanted to write to me one last time about my final for the lab. I didn't think he would read it so I kinda wrote something at the end. Here's the story- he likes to have all of his questions based around two people named Paul and Suzy…he did this since the beginning of class. I was getting tired of it so I wrote at the end of the last question of the final, "Paul and Suzy need to learn how to do their own math and stop relying on me and my other peers to do their math work for them." So he wrote an email to me saying that Paul and Suzy greatly appreciated all my hard work to give them the answers. It's a lot nerdier but I won't bore you with the details. I laughed so hard at this email.

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