I knew it. There He was. The only desk not taken. I took the slip to Mr. Varner to sign, and sat down next to him.
"Hi," He said with a crooked smile. -It was the kind of voice that you wanted to melt to- "I'm Edward Cullen, and you are?" Trying hard to remember to breath, I replied.
"Elizabeth Parker."
Mr. Varner began the lecture on photosynthesis and cellular respiration. I tried hard to pay attention, but it felt like he was trying to read my mind. After a very long and boring 45 minutes -it seemed much longer, I swear- I got up to go to gym. Thank God! I need an energy boost. I love sports, mostly softball. I was the star-player back home, in Athens. But we were playing volleyball. Bella and Mike were on my team -it seem like Bella didn't even try. Oh well we won.

After school I went back to the main office to hand in my slip, with my teacher's signatures.
"How was your first day, dear?" the secretary asked.
"Good, thanks you," and that was the truth. I drove my truck home. When I got home, the school called. It was the softball coach, he heard about how I got my team to be the best in the state, and wanted me on the team. I said I wasn't ready to join any clubs or anything. The truth was -after my dad and brother died in that car accident- I never wanted to play again. See, the day they died, was the day we won state and the day I turned 16 -last year.

I did my homework and made dinner -macaroni and cheese- it was ready before my mom got home- it was 6:15. I thought she said 6 sharp?
"How was your first day of school, dear?" my mom asked why she was helping herself.
"Fine," I said. I went to clean my dishes when my mom said,
"I'll do that. You look tired."
"No," I replied. "It's ok, how was work?" I tried not to act like her new job bothered me. She worked as a sectary down at the station with Bella's dad.
"It was wonderful. I'm so happy!" she replied. Great. I said to myself, that just made me 10 times worse. I did the dishes, while she watched the news and I went upstairs. I took a shower and got ready for bed. Since I didn't sleep well at all last night, and I was so tired that I just flopped down on top of my covers and dreamed.

I was running through the forest. Faster and faster, when I cam to a fork in the road. Then I saw Him. He smiled His crooked smile and went down the path to the left and I went -like I was in a trance -onto the left path. I got lost and started to shout His name. "Edward, Edward were are you?!" I continue to go straight when I realized I went in a circle. Then I saw him go to the right path and He disappeared again I continued going straight -thinking I would just end up were I started. I was wrong -of coarse. I saw a beautiful white house, that looked like a mansion. But, that was not the scary part. I saw Edward and His family fighting -what looked like wolves. But they didn't look like wolves. They looked much bigger. One of the wolves heard me gasp and started forward me. Edward knocked it out of the way. The wolf was so badly wounded that it didn't get up. It turned into a man. A werewolf. But, then that means… I looked at Edward trying to figure out his secret when He smiled at me. Pointed fangs showed. No one was around but Him and me. I should have been scared and ran away. But He… but He… dazzled me. Like I belong to Him or something. Then unexpectedly he kissed me with such passion. He kissed my forehead, my noise, my lips and my neck, -he bit down…

I was sweating so hard and I couldn't breath. I looked at my clock -2:30 in the morning- Oh. My. God! What a weird dream. That can't be His secret. Or can it? Even if it was or not, I was going to figure Him out. With that, I fell back to sleep -dreamlessly.

The next day at school I couldn't shake the dream. Jessica, Bella, Angela, and Loren were talking about the "sweetheart dance" taking place on the 14th of February. Bella was going with her boyfriend Jacob Black, Jessica with Mike, Angela with Ben and Loren with Tyler. They tried -and failed- hooking me up with some boy, I think is in my P.E class. But I told him sorry and that I don't dance. But I told them I would help them pick out dresses. We made plans to go to Seattle tomorrow -which was a Friday- night. I told my mom and she was ok with it. Like she cared. She was to busy with her "job" to notice me anymore. School was long and I kept getting that feeling like Edward was hiding something from me. I mean He was nice and sweet and a perfect gentleman, but He kept distance. I still had the same strange dream I had my first night in Forks. I had a feeling I was getting closer to the mystery. On really sunny days Edward and the Cullen's never showed up. They had dark circles under their eyes, and not to mention, they were all drop dead gorgeous.

The next day, I got home after school, transferred my wallet from my backpack to my purse and ate quickly. I heard a honk outside my house. I left a note for my mom telling her were I was going. Plus I had my pink razor cell phone, so I was fine and I hurried out the door, to Jessica's light blue SUV Bug. We started to head east toward Seattle.