After gazing into Edwards eyes for some time, which wasn't long enough. He smiled, and broke our gaze. He took a step backward, but kept holding my hands, as if to take another glance at my new appearance.
"I think you should get a tour of the house, before we move. Don't you? Also you may want to find out a little more about how vampires live, because considering you are one, you'll need to know the rules, and I'm a very good teacher." Edward suggested, swaying his arm toward the door, gesturing that was walk that way.
"Well, I'm a very good teachers pet, Professor Cullen. And what is there to know?" I said playfully, it felt good the way I could be myself with Edward, and not have any secrets.
He took my hand, and pulled me closer, and led me towards the door. The house was very natural, and relaxing. The walls had soft colours, nothing too bright or vibrant. All the colours seemed to match, but not look boring, or all the same. Pictures were sparsely dispersed across the walls; some where photographs, of the family. Others where oil paintings, some painted by the family, Edward had done a few, some my professional artists. Some of the Cullen's where better than the artists to be honest. A painting that stood out was a painting of a field, or a meadow. The use of colour and detail in the photo was unbelievable, different shades of green for the grass, and pinks and yellows and purple for the flowers that where planted around the meadow, that seemed to be in a circle. There was a lake, pale clue in colour it was very long, but looked good, the way it broke up the green and blue in the picture. I examined the picture more. 'Edward Cullen' was signed in the corner, in perfect handwriting, which would have put mine to shame.
"You painted this? Wow! Is it a real place?" I asked him, astounded.
"Yes, it took me a couple of days, put I'm happy with the way it turned out. It's a real place, but only I know where it is, I call it 'My Meadow' I'll take you there. " He replied whilst taking me into a large room.
"This is my room." He told me, gesturing his hands out.
The room was big, filled with books, all different sizes. Many of the books that where places on the shelves where diaries.
"Have you filled all these diaries in 17 years? You must write a lot. " I supposed.
"That's one thing you should learn about being a vampire, we don't die, well we can die, but only if we are killed, but lets not talk about that." He told me, which I was surprised to hear.
I never replied to him, I just smiled. After looking round his bedroom, I noticed there was something missing.
"Where's your bed?" I asked him.
"I don't need a bed, I don't sleep." He told me.
"Is that why I'm not tired?"
"Sure is. Do you want to see the living room?" he asked me.
He didn't seem to want to talk about the matter, I don't know why but he changed the subject awful quickly.
"Of course I do! Will your family be there?" I replied to him.
"No, my family are out, hunting." He told me as we walked out of his room.
I knew his family went camping and hiking on sunny days, but I never knew they hunted.
"Did you go hunting? When you where off school, always on a sunny day, hiking and camping?" I asked him.
"Well, we sometimes did, but we can't go out in the sunlight, not because we'll burn, but we sparkle, I'll show you when we go outside. Also, when I say hunting, it's what we say for when we 'eat' we only eat animals, not humans, which is rich coming from me who nearly killed you by sucking gallons of your blood out. But back on the subject, we say hunting when we go and 'eat' because we don't eat food. "
By the time he'd finished telling me all of this, we were at the living room, as I walked in, I noticed the colour scheme carries on through the house. The walls were beige, but someone had decorated them, as if there where flowers on the walls, the paintings where very realistic, the flowers were detailed and the leaves were very life-like.
"You'll probably notice that we don't have some rooms, like a kitchen or bathroom, basically because we don't need them or use them. Because I created you, it's my 'job' to tell you the rules of being a vampire. They're very simple, there's only one. It's very obvious, don't tell anyone, and you already knew that anyway. " he told me.
"I wont tell anybody. Scouts honour. Pinkie promise!" I told him, holding my fingers and crossing them.
"Good. My family will be home soon, so you can meet them." He told me.
"Great, I can't wait" I lied to him; I hoped he fell for it.
I was excited about meeting his family, but nervous in case they never liked me, or thought I wasn't good enough for Edward. So we put the telly on, and sat on the 'love seat' sofa. Edward put his arm around me, and I rested my head on his shoulder. I thought there would be more things to know about vampires, I was sure I would learn more of them in time. So we sat together, waiting for his family to come home. I didn't really know what to expect. I was worried about meeting them, but I had to at some point, and its better late than never.