Chapter Three
I had done my best to put the future out of my mind, and enjoy the present, but it kept creeping up on me. I felt as though there was something bigger in store for me, but also that I would never know what it was.
I was enjoying my reading when a man sat down on the opposite side of the bench. He startled me, and promptly apologized. When I looked him fully, I was taken aback. He was the most handsome man I had ever laid eyes on. He had the greenest eyes I'd ever seen, and his windblown bronze hair was something out of a book.
He introduced himself as Edward Cullen. I moved to tell him my name, but my voice caught in my throat. He looked expectantly at me, so I tried to quickly recover. When I had my wits about me again, I told him my name. To this day I still do not understand why I blushed when I spoke to him.
I pretended to be immersed in my book, and watched him out of the corner of my eye. He was reading as well, but I could not make out the name of the book at the angle in which we were sitting. The bell rang signaling that it was time to dress for dinner. We said a polite goodbye, and when he smiled it took my breath away.
It was at that moment that I remembered that my hand was already promised to Jacob Black, and that Edward would just be a nice man I met on the grandest ship ever built.