HI Everyone!! Sorry this took a little long to update! Sometimes I need a good shove to get me going (thanks Hopeless4U!!!!, this is for you!) or else I will forever procrastinate. Which is not good at all. Soo here you go! It starts off with Edward's POV from the last chapter into the next chapter with Bellas. Thanks!!

E POV

I ran home in a daze, completely unaware of my surroundings. I was running without feeling the ground beneath me or the wind whipping me in my face. I was numb, and the only thought that penetrated my brain was of Bella. I imagined her face, her heartfelt laugh, every counter of her body, and the warmth. Her warmth felt so amazing against my skin, as if I were melting into her like a candle.

I loved her. This much I knew. Amazing, Just yesterday I was convinced love did not exist. Yesterday I thought it absurd to believe every single person walking this earth, vampire or human, had a soul mate. If you had come up to me yesterday and told me I would be meeting the most wonderful, stunning, adorably clumsy girl of my existence and fall in love with her I would have laughed in your face. Now, I couldn't believe all of this was happening to me. The set of shivers that shot through my spine when ever she touched me, the magnetic pull of her eyes; she was an angel lighting up my darkened world.

My house was coming into view, the large mansion that sat gently by the town's lake. It was hidden in the forest, away from the unsuspecting humans around us. I saw my brothers had already made it back, alive thankfully. They were probably with their spouses, no doubt Alice saw what happened to them. I tuned into their voices as I grew closer to the door.

They are such idiots, going to one of the Swan's parties. Honestly, I'm beginning to think Jasper has no regard for his own life...and Edward, what am I going to tell him?!

What a fool, how he finds almost getting massacred a thrill I will never know. After living for so many years you would think he would gain more knowledge. Jackass.

Oh, I'm so glad my boys are okay, this feud is getting ridiculous! They could have been killed!

Good thing they managed to escape on time!

What did Alice mean? What was it that she had to tell me? I started to get nervous, fidgety, what could she possibly have to tell me? Was it bad? Did I even want to hear it?

I stepped inside the house, as six anxious eyes darted to me. Esme ran up to me and hugged me to her. "Thank God, you're alright. I was so worried. Your brothers should never have dragged you there!"

"He made it out okay" Jasper said defensively.

"Yeah, we knew he would be alright. He is the fastest runner after all" Emmett laughed.

"Esme" I said gently, trying to calm her down "I'm perfectly fine. Not a scratch on me." I grinned. "If you all don't mind it has been a long night, so I think I will be heading upstairs." With that I left, leaving my family behind me as I usually did. I was not the most social member of the family, I preferred isolation.

Until now, I never understood why I lived this way. Why I would hide away in my room for hours everyday just staring at a single wall, letting the pulse of my music envelope me. Why I would hide away from all of them. Then it hit me like a pile of bricks, it was because I was jealous. I was jealous of what they had with one another. The love that they all shared, it was all around me, suffocating me. I craved it, ached for it, but instead of dealing with this feeling I made it my duty to ignore it. It was less painful to hide it away then let it reveal itself to the rest of the world, and especially myself. I told myself countless times that I didn't need anyone to feel complete, I was strong enough on my own. I didn't need someone to love, to hold me, I was capable of holding myself.

But, after tonight, after Bella that entire philosophy flew out the window. I did need someone to hold me, her. Not because I was not strong or brave but because her love for me made me feel life drain back into me. She was now my reason for living. For the first time in God knows how long I felt as if I were truly alive, instead of simply living. I suppose you don't know what your missing until you find it. I never realized I was missing a whole other part of me, one that could love, smile, laugh. She lit the flame inside my heart, restarting it instantaneously.

I lay on my couch, staring up at the ceiling, blocking away the voices of my family, a bright smile crossing upon my features. Just thinking of her made me smile, I could almost feel the warmth of her skin when she felt embarrassed or ashamed of something, the touch of her lips as she eagerly kissed mine. I couldn't wait until I could see her again, talk to her again. In one day she managed to become my entire universe.

There was a soft knock at my door. "Edward, can I come in? I need to talk to you." Alice said urgently, with a nervous edge hidden beneath. She was blocking her thoughts from me, which put me on edge even more than I already was. "Come in" I responded.

She danced in, making her way over to me, sitting beside me on the couch.

"Edward, I need to talk to you." Oh, just spit it out Alice. Poor Edward.

"Why poor me? What is wrong?"

"I had a vision, I saw you and a girl. She was beautiful, by the way. She fell...and you caught her. Then it flashed to you in a garden...kissing..."

"Okay...?" I laughed. She was embarrassed to talk about this with me. Like she hasn't had worse visions of Emmett and Rosalie. Though something told me there was more to her vision then she was telling me.

"So-o it's true?" She gasped.

"Yes, Alice. I did meet someone tonight, she was amazing. I can't stop thinking about her, if I were human I'm sure I wouldn't be able to sleep or eat, even breathe for that matter. I only just met her but I...I..." It was so easy to talk to Alice, she was the most sincere member of the family and often sympathized with me. I was so overjoyed thinking of Bella everything just began to spill out.

"You love her" she whispered sorrowfully.

"Alice, what is the matter with you? Tell me what you saw, what's wrong? Why are you blocking this from me?" I almost yelled. I was panicked now, bordering the corner into hysteria.

"She's a Swan" she said.

A Swan? As in THE Swans?! No, it couldn't be. She couldn't be my families enemy. She was so gentle, so kind. The Swans were vindictive, hard, animalistic creatures. They had no sympathy for those they killed, those who fell into some contract they made with the Devil. Bella was not that person, she couldn't be.

"No, Alice, you're wrong. I know all the Swans, you know all the Swans. She can't be" I whispered, praying it was not true.

"She doesn't travel with her family often, mostly she roams around the world on her own. Donavan sometimes travels along with her, but their family sent them back here. Why? I don't know. I see her in my visions every once in a while, I don't think any of us have been properly introduced to her."

"Bella..." I whispered.

"Edward, I know you love her. I'm just giving you a warning, be careful. You know how ruthless the Swans are, and even though Bella may be different than them, you still have to watch out for their family as well as ours for that matter. I don't want you to run away from love, because I see you everyday with that blank look in your eyes. You're always so empty, but when you walked in that door just now you had a certain light in your eyes. I haven't seen you smile so much before, and with her you couldn't stop. I thought your face was going to stay like that permanently" she laughed as I looked down embarrassed, then she eased back into her previous serious tone "I will help you as much as I can, but please be wise, Edward."

"Thank you, Alice. I don't know what I would do without you" I gently smiled.

"I know" she giggled. She started walking away from me when I called back to her "Alice, you can't tell the rest of the family"

"Are you kidding? You would be slaughtered, not to mention myself for even considering helping you."

"Why are you helping me?" I wondered.

"I told you, you finally found love. I'm not going to sit around and watch it slip through your fingers. It's only been, what? One hundred years or so? It's about time" she laughed "besides, I've seen her, she's different. She's not at all like her family and she loves you very much as well."

"She does?" I asked excitedly, my heart bouncing out of my chest.

"Sometimes I honestly think you're blind. Now, we have three hours before school starts and it's going to be an...interesting day, so get going!" she winked and walked out the door, shutting it behind her. I lay back down on my couch, turning my head to look out the large window that was my wall.

Bella was a Swan. She was my mortal enemy. The one my family was constantly in war with. But, I didn't care. She could be the Devil for all I cared. I loved her, and there was nothing anybody could say to me, or do to me to make me think otherwise. She was my life now.

And after a century of looking for her, I refused to let her go.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bella's POV

"C-cullens?" I whimpered.

"Yeah, the short pixie-like one is Alice, then next to her is her husband Jasper. The bear like one is Emmett with his bombshell of a wife Rosalie. Then there is the tall one with the bronze colored hair, Edward. He's the loner of the family." Tristan sneered, obviously disgusted with every one of them, even my Edward.

Edward was a Cullen. That explained his eyes, the dazzling topaz color of them. He was enemy, the one I was supposed to feel hatred for, not love. Yet that was what I felt, and I wouldn't want to be feeling any other way. I looked straight into his eyes, displaying the same emotions as he was.

"Don't go near them, Isabella. Do you hear me? They're a disgrace to our kind" Christian scoffed.

The hell I wouldn't go near him. I loved him too much to stay away from him. I didn't care who his family was, on the contrary I had no problem with his family. It was my family who had the problem; and they would surely harm me if they knew. So, they wouldn't know, because I wouldn't tell them. I was in too deep to let him go now, no one was going to separate him from me, especially not this stupid war.

As I stood, still locked within his penetrating eyes as I saw something beyond his initial reaction. Determination.

"What are you staring at?" Giselle barked.

"N-nothing. Just taking their faces in" I lied, putting on a fake smile. Then she forcefully grabbed me by the arm and led me to the front office.

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I was standing in the middle of the empty hallway, trying to contemplate the maze that was Forks High. I was attempting to find my way to Government, with no avail. Why did this school have to be so confusing?! My brothers and sisters had left me already to try and find my own way around the school. I planned to look for Edward later, when no one was watching me. I hoped I could get away from my family in time, no doubt they were keeping a watchful eye.

All of a sudden I felt a hand grab my own and gently tug me into a closet, lips crashing into my own. His lips moving against my own in the most passionate, lustful, loving way. My power reacted the same way as always as I pushed him harder into the closet wall, knocking over some cleaning supplies on the way. He smiled against my lips as the windex fell and spilled all over the ground.

We separated, unwillingly and broke into laughter.

"Oops" I said, getting warmer and warmer each second as my power trickled up and down my dead veins.

"You always do make an entrance" he laughed. He seemed so free, so open.

"Hey! You pulled me in here!" I laughed.

He came closer to me, wrapping his arms around my waist "that is because, my love, I needed to see you again. It's not going to be easy avoiding our families. It's going to be nearly impossible, but I can't be away from you. I'm far too selfish."

"You knew? You knew I was a Swan?" I questioned.

"No, I didn't. But, I don't care what you are, Swan or not I love you. Your family, my family, they have nothing to do with it. It's just you and me. I love you, not them." he said, taking my hands in his own.

If I were human, I'm sure tears would be streaming down my face. "I love you too. We'll make this work, we have to. I would rather die then be without you." I said.

He pulled my hands around his neck and crashed his lips into my own once more. A scorching fire coursing in between our lips. I jumped up and wrapped my legs around his waist as he led me against the opposite closet wall.

Just then the door opened to reveal a figure that would have caused my heart to flat line, that is if it weren't already dead.

Hehe, me and my cliff hangers. Who could it be? Hm...? Should I keep switching to Edward's POV or keep primarily to Bella's? I'm not sure...because I don't think I'm very good at writing Edward's POV. SOO if you could let me know, that would be verrrry helpful!!

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