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.:. EPOV .:.

Bella fell asleep in my arms with her head and arms on my chest and her leg over my hips. I was in a wonderful room with a beautiful girl. I know I love Bella, already, I know it's soon, I don't know how she'll take it. I just don't know how to tell her. I mean, would she freak out? Would she know what I was talking about? I don't know when I'm going to tell her. She might think I'm weird for being in love with her already. I don't even know her.

Bella moved in her sleep to reposition herself on the bed and rubbed her knee into my groin. Which hurt like a mo fo.

"YEOWCH!" I yelled. Bella's eyes jerked open; she screamed and looked down, realizing where her knee was. She sat up and backed away from me looking like she was about to cry.

"I'm sorry, Bella," I said reaching over and folding my arms around her. "It just surprised me."

She snuggled up to me and nestled her head in my chest. She sighed in contentment and I squeezed her tighter making sure not to do it too hard.

I heard my family running up the stairs. "Oh no!" I said which made Bella look up.

My family burst into my room with Alice leading the way smirking, Esme and Carlisle behind her looking concerned, Jasper, and Emmett came in seeing what had happened and Rosalie walked in filing her nails.

"Who screamed?" Esme asked.

"I did first, Bella's knee was in an uncomfortable place and she turned and it hurt, and my yell scared her and she screamed and now it's over. So there's nothing to worry about now," I said as Esme and Carlisle calmed down.

"Well," Emmett said. "Who would think a human would hurt Eddie?"

"You better watch it Em. Who knows when someone will sneak up on you when you're into your video game and rip your arms off so you can't play." I said smirking at him.

"You wouldn't dare!" Emmett yelled with a hurt look on his face.

"Well it's either your arms, or I could take your video games and burn them in a fire. But I like the first option better," I said laughing. "And just think about not being able to touch Rose!" I said knowing that I hit gold.

"Yeah, and you know how you just love to put your hands on me," Rose said rubbing her hands on Emmett's chest while sucking on a lollipop she had just gotten out of her bra.

"Yuck! Get a room!" Jasper said.

"Gladly," Emmett chuckled as he picked Rosalie up and ran her out of the room. Rosalie screamed and Emmett received a slap to the face by Rose, which was soon followed by laughter.

I looked over to see Bella laughing. I saw her chest rise and fall and found it hard to breathe.

'Whoa! Edward, calm yourself. You don't know her enough to feel like that.' Jasper thought.

Screw not knowing her enough. She's hot and I need her.

'Edward, Our parents are in the room. Watch what you're doing.' Alice thought.

"Well I guess if everything is alright we'll leave you to sleep more if you want, Bella," Esme said in a sweet motherly voice.

Bella signed to Esme that she still felt tired and would go back to sleep.

"Do you have any homework?" Carlisle asked.

'No,' Bella signed.

"Ok, well we will be downstairs if you need anything," Esme said. Carlisle and Esme turned out of the room and started walking downstairs.

'I'll be tuning into your feelings Edward. If I feel anything out of place, I'll be up here in a second,' Jasper thought.

'I have my eyes set in the future Edward. I'll be watching you,' Alice thought.

Jasper and Alice took one final look at the two of us then walked into the hall shutting the door behind them.

"They would make the cutest couple, Edward and Bella," I heard Esme say to Carlisle with my vampire ears.

"I agree," Carlisle said.

I smiled thinking how nice it felt to have someone agree with me. Bella was looking at me wondering what I was smiling about. I just smiled and shook my head.

We sat on the bed just staring at each other. I really wished I could hear her thoughts. I was curious to why she was the only one I wasn't able to read. It sort of made me wonder if she even had thoughts, which was just stupid of me to think. Of course she has thoughts.

I sat there, wondering if she had the same feelings for me. Well, I guess there was only one way to find out.

We looked into each other's eyes and I leaned into her. At first she didn't know what I was doing. I leaned in closer and . . .

.:. BPOV .:.

When everyone was out of Edward's bedroom, Edward and I just looked at each other. I was wondering if he liked me when he started to lean into me.

He took me by surprise and I leaned back. Then I figured it out and I sat back to where I was before.

He leaned closer, he lifted up my chin with his fingers and I closed my eyes as our lips touched.

It was magical. I mean, sure, I had had other boyfriends before, but this kiss wasn't like any of the others I had had. It was gentle but filled with hope and wonder at the same time. I could just pray that I wasn't dreaming and if I was, nobody better wake me up.

I decided to deepen the kiss. I put my right hand on his left cheek kissed him a little harder. He wasn't expecting that and he pulled away quickly.

I blushed and looked down at the sheets on the bed. He chuckled and pulled my face up to meet his gaze.

"Bella," he said. "I didn't pull away because I didn't want to kiss you, heck; I was the one who leaned into you," he said chuckling. "I pulled away because I didn't know you felt the same way about me and it surprised me when you did that."

He lay down on his left side, and I snuggled into his arms resting my head against his chest. This was exactly where I wanted to be.

Before I knew it, tears were streaming down my face. This was the first time I had felt happy since my parents died. I missed them terribly and I couldn't do anything about them being gone.

Edward pulled up my face again. "Bella, what's wrong?" he asked.

I opened my mouth to talk, remembering I had to use sign language I shut my mouth and pulled my hands in front of us.

"I haven't felt this happy since my parents were with me." I signed then started to cry again.

"Bella, your parents will be with you no matter where you are. Your new family will be with you wherever you go also. I will always be there for you. No matter what happens just remember that." He said as I snuggled closer to him again.

I guess I had fallen asleep again because by the time I woke up; the whole family was in Edward's room again.

"Awww. Isn't that cute?" Alice, the short little pixie said.

"I knew they'd make a cute couple." Esme said.

"She's awake." Carlisle said.

'How could he tell?' I wondered.

"Oh wow, can you hear how fast her heart's going? You'd think she was able to hear us all." Jasper said. If only he knew.

.:. EPOV .:.

"And look at that blush!" Rose cooed.

Emmett was making me suspicious. He was blocking his thoughts from me and he didn't say anything about Bella.

"Oh, since Bella is up, I wanna talk to her about that surprise," Emmett said.

Well I guess that would explain the thought blocking. But I felt Bella's heartbeat increase more. I was about to panic when Jasper walked over to me and put a hand on my shoulder instantly calming me.

"Thanks!" I said to Jasper. 'No problem, but I think we should let Emmett talk to Bella for a while. I'll take you hunting, seeing as you haven't eaten in about a month and your eyes are turning black. That way Emmett can have some privacy.' Jasper thought.

I nodded and shook Bella a little. I lifted up her chin and she met my gaze.

"Were you having a bad dream?" I asked her getting a nod in response. "I'm going to go out with my family and leave you two to talk." I said getting up.

I started to get up but she pulled on my hand and I sat back down on the bed. Bella sat up and gave me a peck on the cheek. It surprised me that she would do that in front of my family but I smiled and gave her a kiss back.

"Aww." Was heard throughout the room.

She pushed my back to show that I could leave, and I walked out my bedroom stopping for a second to look back at my angel who now was sitting up in bed with her legs tucked in and her arms around them watching me. I walked out the door getting teased by my family. We walked out the back door and fled to go and hunt.

.:. BPOV .:.

Edward went with his family somewhere and I was left to sit in a room with the only one who knew I wasn't deaf.

"Bella," Emmett sighed. "You need to tell Edward the truth."

"But why?"

"Because you're not being honest with him and if you really like Edward you'll tell him the truth. Besides, What are you afraid of?"

I was looking at the covers of Edward's bed like I always did when I was nervous or scared. "I'm afraid that I'll get hurt again. I've lost my family and I don't want to lose more people. I'm afraid that he'll hurt me and I'll have to live with him the rest of my life."

"I still think you should tell him, he really likes you Bella, I can see it in his eyes. He's never acted this way before over a hu … I mean girl." I wonder why he was about to say human. Maybe it was just my imagination.

"I'll tell him when I feel like it Emmett. I just don't want to get hurt again," I said tearing up.

Emmett walked over to the bed and sat beside me. He put his arms around me and I leaned into him. "No one's gonna hurt you. If he does anything to hurt you in any way, I swear to God I'll kill him." Emmett said with a serious tone.

"Bella, you already feel like a sister to me. And I won't let anyone hurt you, but you've got to do the right thing and tell Edward the truth. I will leave and let you think that over. In the meantime, I have some surprise planning to make since everyone is counting on one. I'll be back later to hear your decision."

Emmett got up and looked at me with eyes that told me what I should do, and left the room, leaving me with a very big decision on my hands.

.:. EPOV .:.

We had all went to a nearby forest, about 2 hours for humans 30 minutes for us. I just finished attacking a herd of deer. At the car I quickly changed my shirt, knowing it would be awkward to explain why my shirt was all dirty with blood, to a beautiful amazing deaf girl. Sitting on the hood of the car I thought of everything that was wrong with Bella ever loving or liking me.

I loved the sweet smell of her blood; it was intoxicating only being miles away from her. What would happen when Carlisle decides it's the right time to tell her that we're Vampires. Maybe she would accept it and love all of us, but everyone knows that only happens in books or movies. It never happens in real life.

My family appeared in front of the car all set to head back home. Alice was giving me worried looks, Jasper was looking depressed from the emotions I was letting off, and Rose didn't seem to care what was going to happen to me. Esme was excited that I had found my Mate, and Carlisle was happy that his wife and children were happy. Alice said she and Rose were going to help Bella get dressed for school.

When we got to the house I ran upstairs and changed into some jeans and a T-shirt knowing it would annoy Alice just dressing plain. I took my time climbing down the flight of stairs; Emmett and Jasper were discussing something, blocking their thoughts and giving me strange looks. We waited for Alice, Rose and Bella to come down dressed. I couldn't have Bella fall for me, a sick monster. I was going to make her leave me alone. I made up my mind I was going to make her hate me no matter what it cost me.

When they came down the stairs, Bella was wearing a black tank top and some blue stone washed jeans. She had her hair meshed together in a big clip, and very little make-up. She looked amazing, something so simple to make her look so amazing. Wanting to accomplish my plan on making her hate me I gave her a cold glare. She turned to me and smiled her pearly whites. I glared at her, and stomped out the door. Emmett came behind me and punched my arm.

"What the fuck is your problem!"

"What you talking about?" I was playing the dumb card.

"Dude you practically slapped Bella in the face when she turned to give you a smile. What the fuck was up with that?! All she's trying to be is your friend and you treat her like that! That is fucked up!" he pushed me into the car and went back to helping Rose and Bella with their things.

'You and I are going to have a serious talk mister!' Alice screamed in her head making me cringe. Rose glared at me, as she had a quiet talk with Bella. The ride to school was quiet and tense. Bella looked like she was on the verge of crying and my family looked ready to kill me.

When I parked in the school parking lot, Alice and Rose held me back and told Emmett and Jasper to walk Bella to our first period class. Bella didn't even glance at me, when she dropped her book of Weathering Heights I picked it up for her and she ripped it out of my hands, and walked away. Alice waited until they were a couple feet away from the class to start screaming.

"WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?! BELLA REALLY LIKES YOU AND YOU TREAT HER LIKE CRAP!"

"Drop it Alice," I started to walk away from them and Rose jumped right in front of me and slapped me.

"I knew you would do this to her. That kiss you gave her in the morning was just a pity kiss. You better watch your back Edward, because I swear you're going to regret it," she gritted her teeth and stomped away followed by a pissed off Alice.

.:. Lauren the Tramp .:.

I watched Rosalie slap Edward. She so had a boob job. I wanted to be the one he went to and the one he hugged telling me his problems. Walking up to him I tried to hug him.

"It's okay Edward, she doesn't get us."

"What are you talking about?" he stepped away from me.

"I know what you're going through Eddie," I bat my lashes and licked my lips.

"Ew! Number one, I don't know you. And number two, get away from me," he walked away from me shaking his head. Looking at my watch I saw I was going to be late 20 minutes for class, perfect timing for a good lie. Walking into Geometry, Edward was taking his seat.

"Ms. Mallory, take your seat," Mr. Montez went back to writing on the board. I took my place next to Jessica. Taking advantage of Bella sitting behind our table, I turned around to where Bella could read my lips clearly.

.:. Bella .:.

Both Edward and Lauren were late to class. Lauren came in fixing her low cut shirt and lip-gloss. Mr. Montez told them to take their seat and he returned to writing down the notes. Scribbling them down on my notebook I heard Jessica ask Lauren why she was late.

"Let's just say Edward had a little fun with me in the Janitor's closet," snapping my head toward her, she caught my glare and smiled innocently.

"OMG! No like way!"

"Yup! He's very good with his tongue and hands," they both giggled getting looks from the class. Turning, I saw Edward's eyes turn pitch black. All the clues were pointing to the truth. His hair was messier, his shirt was wrinkled, and two buttons were open exposing the base of his neck. He did fuck her! I should have known I never meant anything to him; he kissed me because he felt sorry for me.

I was so stupid to believe he would like me. I let myself get attached to him and his family for what, so they could all hurt me? I don't think so. Maybe Emmett was lying to me, saying I was like his little sister, Maybe this was all a prank they were all playing on me. Turning back to the teacher I could hear Lauren and Jessica's giggles and comments on how good of a fuck Edward was.

By lunchtime I couldn't stand seeing Edward, everything around him disgusted me. He didn't say a word and every time Lauren would rub up on him he would tense up and breath hard, which made Lauren giggle more.

I took my seat by Alice with a sandwich, frozen peaches, and a cup of water. Alice and Rose were talking in sign language, trying to get me to talk. Emmett was sitting to my left writing notes to me, which were also passed to Jasper. They were writing about how if you turned your head to the side it looks like the cafeteria lady was a man.

Edward took the empty chair in front of me, Alice and he exchanged an awkward glance and he looked at me. He toyed around with his red apple. His eyes were on me watching my every move. I wanted him far away from me as possible. Just when my day couldn't get any worse Lauren and Jessica came up to the table.

"Hey Eddie!" she pushed her boobs up in his face. She was trying to sit in his lap, and he would push her away. I hadn't realized I was holding the pencil in my hands until I snapped it in half turning the attention on me. I felt the heat rise up to my cheeks; I let my hair fall over my face.

"Attention Whore!" Jessica smirked, and Lauren laughed. That seemed to tick Rose and Alice off because Rose got up and pushed Jessica into the wall.

"Watch your mouth bitch! Next time you say anything about Bella again, you'll be picking up your teeth from the floor," I didn't want anyone protecting me! I wasn't some weak child. I pushed my chair away and threw my plate across the table.

"STOP ACTING LIKE I'M NOT HERE! I CAN TAKE CARE OF MYSELF!" I signaled to them, I began to cuss them out. Running out of the cafeteria trying to avoid anyone I sank to my knees on the wet grass, letting my head fall into my hands. I felt someone kneel beside me. His cold hands took my face. Edward was staring at me with love. He leaned in pressing his lips against mine again. I was beginning to believe his lie again.

Pulling back quickly, I slapped him across the face. My palm ached after I slapped his cold face. He looked amazed, holding his very light pink cheek.

"Bella..."

"Don't talk to me!" I flipped him the bird and walked to Biology holding back tears that weren't meant to be made for a stupid guy. Edward sat in the chair next to me trying to talk to me. I couldn't handle seeing his face. I wanted to go back; I wanted to have the life I did before that stupid drunk driver ever deiced to drive.

In the middle of the class, I was called to the front office. Taking my binder I slipped out of class, getting looks from everyone. Before I could get to the office, Emmett cut me off.

"You're going to skip with me. Come on lets go to car," relief began to sweep over me.

"Bella before we go, I told someone."

"WHO?!"

"Hey," Jasper popped out of Rose's BMW.

"You told him! When?!"

"We were talking about Edward and you and well um it slipped out," I growled at Emmett.

"I hate you."

"I'm Sorry!" he said innocently.

"Whatever, let's go," getting into the passenger side, Emmett drove out of the parking lot.

"Bella why'd you say you couldn't hear?"

"Ask Emmett, I'm not going to tell you and get all emotional."