Chapter 3

Bella's point of view

I listened intently to Edward's story. Nothing surprised me too much. Acting classes really helped though because even for me, a person of the abnormal, it was hard to absorb all the information. Living for over thousands of years, it never crossed my mind there could be different species of immortals out in this vast world of ours. Then again I never really cared till I met Edward.

Edward's family sounded so cool. A psychic, an empath, and a mind reader! How awesome! The only set back would be the consistent thirst for blood. That could get really annoying and you'd be dangerous to any human around. There would go your whole social life for the first few years, but if you train it's supposed to get somewhat easier.

Thinking of the bloodlust sparked a question in me.

"Hey, Edward?"

"Yeah," he answered.

"Is it hard to be with me right now in this moment? And is that why you were so tense and uptight at school?" I asked timidly.

He sighed slowly. Making me anxious to hear his answer; he was stalling, but I had to get his reply. I silently moved the leaves till they were a snake swerving, waiting for its next victim. Edward hadn't noticed my concentration being pulled from him. His head looked in the opposite direction thinking hard about probably trying to tell me without scaring me. I knew a devilish grin had crept on to my face. The look on his I knew would be priceless. Darn, where's a camera when you need one. From what he told me about his family, Emmet and Jasper would get a kick out of this. Faster than his vampire senses could sense what was happening, the chain of leaves had wrapped themselves between his legs and threw him off balance. He landed with a crash that a huge thunder clap couldn't beat. I laughed so hard soon my sides hurt from my laughing.

I really should have had a camera on hand. Utter shock displayed itself on his face. Some of his messy bronze colored hair had swept in front of his eyes. He blew it out of his face, looking like such a super model while doing it. He stared at me in disbelief.

"Bella, would you have anything to do with what just happened?" he asked in an amused and half upset voice.

That just started another round of my laughter. Edward, apparently found it quite funny too because mere seconds after I started on my second trip to Laughing Ville he laughed with me. Edward's laughter was musical and quickly became my favorite sound in the world.

After I was able to breathe and then exhale, without giggles flowing out like a spring stream, I sighed. "Edward, are you going to answer? If you don't I'll just take that as yes that it's hard to be around me."

I closed my eyes and turned my head in the other direction. I felt a whoosh of air hit me. I opened my eyes and almost screamed. Edward had moved so that his head was in such close proximity to mine that I could kiss him. If I wanted to that is. Which I felt like doing, that feeling scared me as well because I only saw Edward and me as friends, nothing more. My heart thought of something more, though. I don't know why because I've never had more than a family relationship with anyone. I only really trust two people and those are Renée and Charlie. Like I said family only.



One thought was clear though, I had to find out the answer to my question and then get out of there. I looked at him waiting with such mild space between the two of us. My heart beat out of sync, and he knew it too. Stupid vampire hearing, not letting my heart beat go unnoticed. I stared into his deep golden orbs which we called eyes, wanting to sink deeper into them. His were doing the same to him with my eyes being the captor. Our faces moved a few inches closer and closer. I felt his breath and the smell only made me want to be closer to him. I leaned into the space, our mouths millimeters apart, because we were slowly moving towards each other, anticipating……………..

When I reached the last distance, I met nothing but air. Edward was on the other side of the little clearing we had been in for a little over an hour now. I heard his ragged breathing from there, well that answered my question, and I realized what I had almost done. I was appalled by myself. I met this guy not even twenty-four hours ago, and I tried to kiss him. Was I turning into a slut? Like those Jessica and Lauren girls from school? One thing I knew, I had to apologize to Edward.

Edward's arm wrapped around the lower half of his face, covering his nose and what seemed like very kissable lips. Hhmmmm…….Stop! Oh gosh, I am turning into one of those girls. Lord please help my corrupted soul. Or just help. I took a deep, deep, deep breath to calm myself.

"Edward, I am so, so sorry. No matter what I say, it won't make what I almost did excusable. I'm so horrible." I apologized.

He chuckled before he just burst into a stream of laughter. "Bella, do have any idea what runs through the adolescent minds of the girls at school. Much worse than what almost happened and you apologizing for it, trust me, I know. I'm glad there are still people like that, even if they are older than me. It's nice to know things like that still exist." he finished his very true statement and I was ecstatic that he wasn't furious with me. I smiled at him and he returned the gesture.

Then looking at him became too hard so I averted my attention to the scenery. Trees formed a barrier around this small clearing. Green covered most of the rocks and tree trunks. The wind didn't blow, yet the smell of the forest was different. Usually it smelt like a massive amount of trees combined and one huge big pine air freshener. Now Edward's scent filled the trees at some points. A smell indescribable by the best words ever. Moisture rain drops resided on the forest floor, individual droplets forming together. When you stepped you could hear the squish of the ground. The sun hid behind the dark clump coversheet of grey clouds. (Just because I said I liked cold climates doesn't mean I liked the fact the sun hid the majority of the time.) I felt the humidity in rise in the way steam does. Fog swirled around the outside of this comforting place. Creating an atmosphere where only Edward and I were present. There was a huge rock, which I currently sat on.

I sighed, "I think it's good you don't hate me. Well, I better go…… Charlie will be home soon and he insisted that I be the one to grow the food." I got off the rock and proceeded to head in the direction of home.

When all of a sudden, Edward moved in close there was no room for two people unless they were kissing.

He breathed in my face, "Where do you think you're going. I told you my story now tell me yours."

His smell, and being in such close contact, left me dazed. I realized I had already been hooked on Edward, and now I really wanted to be his special someone, although he said he 

hadn't wanted one. He never told me that it was changed today, meaning he didn't like me that way.

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an: I'm new at this whole fanfic author thing so if I did, or didn't do something I should have sorry. Also tell me if you want Bella's story to be on the depressing side a bit, oh well it really just depends if I want it to be or not. You guys could help convince me though. Oh, and sorry for not updating sooner, temporary writers block on this story for a while. Warning might happen in the future.