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Chapter 2 He's Not Safe
We just stare at each other for what seems like hours. This gorgeous creature standing in front of me and myself. There is some blood on his button down shirt, which makes me take a step back, but he just closes it with his step forward.
"I'm going to ask you again. Who are you?" I ask, thinking him admitting it would somehow make this better.
"My name is Edward," he tells me.
Edward. Finally I get a name. He looks my age, but I know better. Looks like his do not come naturally. However, people who are not in the know would pass it for good genes.
"And what do you want with me?" I ask, taking in a breath as he walks around me, circling his prey before the kill.
I had a pretty good feeling what he was, but I had to make sure. The pale skin. The red eyes. He was a vampire. But he was not like the Cullens I concluded. His eyes were proof of that. He fed on human blood. And I was going to be his next meal.
"What are you?" Edward asks me.
"I don't know what you mean," I say.
He finally stops circling me and places a hand under his chin in deep thought.
"You're human, yet you have the scent of vampire all over you," Edwards says.
"Um, yes," I tell him, because that is the only thing I feel safe saying right now.
I stop breathing again as he takes a step closer and sniffs me. He wrinkles his nose as if I smell bad. Without thinking, I smell my hair.
"I'm sensing something else, but I'm not sure what it is," Edward says. I just stood there, hoping the Cullens would be here soon. I also started to hope that I smelt bad enough that he might not kill me after all. "Until we meet again." Before he left, he asked my name.
"It's Bella," I tell him.
"Goodbye for now, Bella," Edwards says, and he is gone in a flash.
As I walk to my truck, I begin to wonder if what just happened was for real.
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Instead of going home, I drive to the Cullen house. Of course Alice had seen this, and they were waiting for me when I got there.
"Why didn't you come?" I almost scream at them.
I am angry because I knew Alice had seen Edward. And then I begin to think. Maybe she had also seen him not killing me after all. I let out a sigh and calm down, although my calming down no doubt came from Jasper. He is good at that kind of stuff. And damn him for it, too.
"We would have if you were trouble," Alice tells me.
"But we couldn't be sure at first," Jasper says.
I look at him for a moment. Did a part of him want to be there when the others did not?
"Bella, he's not like us," Emmett tells me.
I roll my eyes. Like I could not see that for myself? I knew Edward was not like them. Although a part of me for some reason wishes he was.
"I kind of figured that on my own," I say.
"Just be careful," Carlisle tells me.
I nod and leave. When I get into my truck to leave, I cannot help but feel like Carlisle, as well as the others, knew more about Edward than they were telling me.
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I called Jacob when I got home to see how he was doing. Instead of saying "Thank you for checking on me", he got on my case for it.
"I said it was nothing. I'm fine," he snaps at me.
"Well, I'm glad you're feeling better," I tell him, feeling hurt.
I told Charlie goodnight and went to my room. When I walked in, there was someone on my bed.
"Hello, Bella," Edward tells me.
I gasped and shut the door. I want to scream, but I'm so terrified nothing comes out.
"What are you doing here?" I ask him.
"I couldn't stop thinking about you. And your window was open," he tells me.
"Oh," I say.
I make a mental note to make sure that my window is locked from now on. He gets up and sits at my desk chair.
"The Cullens…" I begin, thinking I can somehow threaten him if that was even possible.
However, he cuts my off.
"Are outside making sure I don't kill you," Edward tells me.
How could he possibly how that? And then it hits me.
"Are you?" I ask him.
I frown when Edwards starts laughing. He finally stops and crosses his arms seeing that I do not think it is funny.
"If that was my intention, you'd be dead already," Edwards tells me.
"So, why are you here, then?" I ask.
I do not know why I do, but I hold my breath when Edwards walks up to be and takes some of my hair in his hand.
"I'm intrigued by you. A human who accompanies vampires," his tells me.
"They're different," I gasp for air.
"So I've heard," Edward says with a laugh when he realizes I have been holding my breath. "Surviving on animal blood."
"So, why are you in Forks?" I ask him.
If he knew there was a vampire coven settled here, why did he not just leave? It could not all have to do because of me. Right?
"I wanted to see how my creator as doing," Edward tells me matter-of-factly.
"Your creator?" I ask.
I did not know of any other vampires here except for the Cullens. Did that mean… no. Surly I was mistaken.
"Carlisle," Edward tells me.
So much for me being mistaken.