A/N: And we're back to the present! Well, still seems like past, but for these guys, it's the present :P


Bella:

25th March 2012

After all that recapping, and explaining every ounce of my story to both the Cullen family and my family, everyone just sits there for a while, taking it all in.

The Cullen's look mostly confused, and I have to hold in a laugh as that just proves my point that Edward didn't tell them everything. He only told them the relatively good parts about him, and the bad parts about me.

"Bella, there's something Edward never told you." Alice said, being the brave first person the break the silence.

"What?" I asked, because I can't think of anything Edward hasn't told me. I mean, he hasn't told me much, but I can't imagine he had secrets about me.

"Alice, don't." Edward all but growled at Alice. I wondered what it was that was so important to Edward that made him react like it.

"Is it what's in your secret notebook?" I asked, barely keeping the grin off my face. I couldn't help it, and as soon as I mentioned it, Edward just got angrier. Then, I may have accidentally laughed and tried to cover it up as a cough, but then I realised vampires don't ever cough, and I just made myself look more conspicuous. Resulting in me laughing. A lot.

"Bella, did you seriously just cover up a laugh, with a cough?" Irina asked as her, Kate and Tanya just laughed along with me.

"I thought I told you to never bring up that damned notebook again." Edward hissed at me, quickly cutting off my laughter.

"I thought I told you to never touch me again at one point, and you didn't listen to that request so I didn't listen to yours." I hissed back just as coldly.

"Like you didn't enjoy me touching you!" Edward replied snidely.

"Says the man who couldn't resist kissing me even after I asked him not to and slapped him." I retorted.

"Well that didn't seem to upset you too much!" Edward shouted back.

"Alright, you two, stop it!" Alice shouted at both of us. I had completely forgotten everyone was here, watching us fight like we were human teenagers again.

"Sorry…" I mumbled, more to the others than Edward.

"I think it would be a good idea if you two had a talk in private, and by talk, I mean talking not arguing." Alice told us.

"No way!" I replied immediately. Edward looked hurt at my rush to stay away from him, but I no longer cared for how he felt. He obviously didn't care for my feelings.

"I don't care whether you want to; you can't and won't hate each other for eternity." Alice told us.

"By the way, Alice can see visions of the future, so it's wise to just do as she says." The leader of the Cullen clan, Carlisle, told me.

"Ok, but if I bite his head off, and I mean that literally, I accept no blame." I told everyone.

Alice led me and Edward to one of the rooms upstairs, my bedroom, and even locked the door. Like that would help, we could still easily open the door if we wanted to.

I walked over to my bed and sat down, while Edward stood awkwardly at the door.

"You have a nice room…" Edward muttered after an eternal awkward silence. I laughed out loud at that.

"So, you're a vampire?" I sort of asked.

"Yeah, Carlisle changed me when I had a serious case of the flu. I almost died, unfortunately, both my parents did." Edward said, and I felt sorry for him. I tried to push that feeling away, though.

"Oh, it's a bit of a coincidence, both of us becoming vampires." I said quietly.

"I thought you were dead." Edward told me.

"As do my mum and dad, although, they still think I'm dead." I replied, into our very awkward and strange conversation.

"It broke my heart when they told me you were killed in a car crash." Edward said.

"Well you can't have been too attached to have been able to ignore me for a whole month after kissing me." I told him, trying to keep my voice calm so Alice wouldn't think we were fighting. I knew everyone downstairs would be listening intently, but least there was an illusion of privacy.

"I know, and I'm incredibly sorry about that. I…I only did it because I was scared." Edward said, looking down.

"What were you scared about?" I asked nervously. Was he scared of me?

"I was scared that you wouldn't want me in the way I wanted you. And that… That you could never forgive me for all the horrible things I said and did to you. I didn't want to lose you before I even got the chance to have you." Edward said; his golden eyes filled with tears that he would never shed.

"Are you saying you only wanted me as a friend or something?" I asked once I had spent a few minutes trying to process what he'd just said.

"No, god no, that's the whole point! I thought you would only want me as a friend, maybe not even that. Bella, I was a jerk to you, I don't deserve to be anything to you, but I sure as hell want to." Edward said.

"Could you not tell from the kisses I wanted you as more than a friend? And why do you think I called you Jerkward. One, for the hilarity of the nickname, and two, because you're a jerk." I told him. I thought, even for an inexperienced kisser, that I put a lot of passion into the few kisses we shared.

"Well, kinda, I just didn't know if that's how you kissed or not. Nerdella." Edward said, and I had to laugh at the nickname.

"I don't think I really have a style of kissing. How about this 'the Edward style'? Good, no?" I said, waggling my eyebrows at him.

"What do you mean?" Edward asked, looking confused.

"You're the only guy I've kissed properly." I admitted to him.

"Seriously?" Edward asked sounding incredulous.

"Seriously. Why does that shock you so much?"

"Because you're hot! Shit, I mean, you're pretty. No, wait, beautiful." Edward said, stuttering a lot.

"Thanks? But you're only saying that because I'm a vampire! All vampires are hot!" I said.

"No, you, Bella, were hot as a human." Edward said, and he winked at me. Damn, he was hot when he winked.

"So were you!" I admitted, then, I was thankful for being a vampire, because if not my face would be bright red.

"Why can't I read your mind?" Edward asked me randomly.

"Because no one can read minds?" I answered with a question.

"I can. I can read everyone's mind except yours." Edward told me. I was a little shocked at this, it was, I think, a pretty awesome ability to have.

"Oh! I know! I'm a mental shield!" I exclaimed happily. Good, Edward can't go poking around my head.

"Really? So your ability is to block mind attacks then?" Edward asked curiously.

"Uh huh! And I can shape shift into any creature, real or mythical." I told him proudly. I love that gift! I could be a bird, or a lion, or a mermaid, or a fly!

"Wow!" Edward said.

"What was Alice talking about? Something that you haven't told me." I asked. I wouldn't bring up the notebook, because it was clear Edward wasn't going to mention that, and he just got angry whenever it was brought up.

"Nothing that concerns you." Edward said coldly. Just when I thought we were being friendlier.

"Well it obviously does if Alice told you to tell me!" I said back, hoping my tone was as cold as his.

"Well obviously I don't want to tell you!" Edward replied, almost shouting.

"Fine! See if I give a damn!" I shouted back before wrenching the door open and running off.

Damn Edward the vampire…


A/N: What do you think of their emotional/angry reunion?

Review please! :)