Hey readers, I know this chapter is a bit early, but I wont be on the computer for a bit so I'm making the release of this chapter a day early. This chapter is long, but bare with me here because I'm trying to squish the first book in a few chapters so the chapters are going to be a bit long. I also have problems with writing too much in one chapter XD

I give you chapter 4 of Soul Seer!

Chapter 4: Soul rejects Soul

I was wheeled in on a gurney with Edward trailing behind. I closed my eyes to block out every noise I heard at the hospital. I hate hospitals with a passion because of two things: Blood, needles, and patients that have souls. Okay, that was three things, but it all boils down to I hate hospitals.

I watched as Tyler was wheeled in next to me, looking shaken up with a cut across his forehead. I heard a slight growl behind me that came out of Edward's soul. It seems Edward is the possessive type.

"Oh, god, Bella, I'm so sorry! Are you hurt? I didn't hurt you, did I?" Tyler questioned, leaning over his bed as he tried to reach for me. The growling behind me increased as I listened to the basics of Tyler's jumbled thoughts.

"She doesn't look hurt, but then there might be something wrong. Was Edward there? How did Edward get here? Man, she is one hot piece of ass. Maybe in the apology I can ask her to the dance or prom. Make-up sex is always good too. No, think about how she is first and then worry about the apologies later," his soul was rambling, jumping from doing a horizontal tango with me to worrying about if I was okay, back to how he was going to make up to me.

I was slightly disturbed, but I wasn't sure on why Edward's soul was growling louder with every thought he had.

"No Tyler, I didn't get hurt. Edward was next to me the whole time and he was the one who saved me," I answered. I lightly swung my feet back and forth because I was simply bored. I held a cringe back when I heard a soul screaming in pain down the hall.

Tyler's eyebrows drew together in confusion. "Edward was there? I didn't see him at all." A nurse came to Tyler then and promptly shut him up, her soul grumbling that he was not cooperating well with what she was trying to do. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Edward tense slightly, but then quickly relaxed.

A pale, blonde haired, golden-eyed and movie star worthy doctor came strolling in. His soul was calm, caring and wondering on why his son was here. I deduced that Edward was his son. Out of each of the Cullen's that I had met, this one surprised me the most.

Being a doctor did surprise me a bit since he is a vampire and I was sure vampires drank blood, but after hearing Edward's soul talk about hunting animals I was sure this doctor was the same. The most surprising about the blonde doctor was how old his soul was. I could clearly see it was over 300 years just by the knowledge pouring out from it and the look. This soul had the look of something old and when I stared just a bit longer than a glance I could tell it was over 300. If I wanted exact age, I would have to stare for a good five to ten minutes.

I hoped I didn't have amazement and awe on my face as he came towards me. "You must be Bella," he said, a kind fatherly like smile on his face. I nodded.

"Well, I'm Dr. Cullen, I'm Edward's father. I'm just going to give you a quick check over to see if you have any other injuries." He sat down on a swivel stool. I suddenly became guarded, bringing my arms around to my sides. I didn't want them to see my back or parts in my front. I didn't like how my body looked anymore since it was full of scars now.

"I don't have to take off my top, do I?" I hesitantly asked, hoping fervently that the answer was no. Dr. Cullen looked at me suspiciously, but otherwise told me no. My tense shoulders dropped in relief, but I could tell that Edward and Dr. Cullen were both curious now on why I didn't want to take off my shirt.

"Carlisle, I'll be waiting in the hall till you are done," Edward said as he got up from leaning on the wall. Carlisle looked at him, but I made sure to stay out of his soul. Edward nodded and headed out and I felt like I was missing a part of their conversation.

Carlisle cleared me, saying my head looked fine and I should take a few pain pills since my body might be sore for a bit. I thanked him and hopped off the bed, intending to talk to Edward once again to reassure him that I won't give away their secret.

I saw Edward leaning against the wall and walked straight up to him, "Can we talk, alone?" I asked. He seemed to get more guarded and lead me down a deserted hallway. He turned on me then, his eyes almost black and I felt the icy chill in them.

"What do you want?" he sounded highly annoyed, but that didn't intimidate me in the slightest. I quickly glanced up to see his soul was still panicking and will play 'You hit your head' card.

"You owe me an explanation…" I was cut off by Edward. "I saved your life today. I don't owe you anything."

I took a deep breath to calm down. "I told you we will talk and I want to talk now."

He glared at me then, rage and torment swirling in his black eyes. "Bella, you hit your head right before my hand protected it, plus the shock of being in an accident like that is probably giving you different scenarios that you thought you saw." I started to get angry then.

"Edward, I don't have anything wrong with me. I know exactly what happened." I stood straight, making myself clear on what I saw. He sucked in a deep breath, obviously trying to contain his anger better.

"What do you want from me?" he asked through clench teeth.

I wanted a lot of things from you, but I held my tongue on saying that.

"I know you were not right beside me when Tyler's van came at me and I clearly saw you standing next to Alice at the other end of the lot. When the van came, you were suddenly next to me. Tyler didn't see you next to me either, so I must not have hit my head very hard before your hand protected it. Your foot left a dent in the car too when you stopped it from crushing my legs, yet your foot isn't hurt at all." I pointed out to him, crossing my arms across my chest.

He looked at me incredulously before a defensive look came over his face.

"Bella, how can my foot leave a dent in a metal object without causing injury to myself?" he looked at me as if I was insane. I could hear his soul screaming that I will find out about his family's secret. But I already knew his secret and he didn't need to know that just yet.

I nodded once, still defiant to give in.

"No one will believe you, you know?" he almost sounded like he was going to let out a little incredulously laugh at the whole thing.

"I know Edward and I was never planning on telling anyone. We all have our secrets and I understand that some secrets should remain secret from others. I just want you to know that you can trust me." I let my arms hang by my sides, all my anger gone. His eyes widened and widened further as I leaned up to kiss his cold cheek.

I sadly smiled at him, knowing I will forever carry a secret that I am not proud of. I turned on my heel, not waiting to hear his response as I headed into the hospital lobby where half the school was with excited souls for the juicy gossip this will bring.

I immediately found Charlie's frantic soul in the sea of gossip hungry souls. I quickly grabbed his hand and almost ran out of the hospital since I didn't want to be there any longer. I knew what Edward Cullen was, but I still felt hurt that after he had saved me, he refused to trust me.

I didn't talk to Charlie, other than to tell him I was fine, just a few bruises. I didn't know what to do at this point and I knew I was going to have to sit down and think about this for a while.

I went straight upstairs to my room and sat on my bed. I started going through things in my mind.

I knew three things that were for certain.

One: Edward Cullen is a vampire.

Two: I have my own secrets that I'm not sure I'm ready to tell yet.

Three: I was in love with Edward.

I flopped back on my bed, staring at the ceiling. I knew that loving Edward would be next to impossible, mainly because I was too plain and fragile, but I hoped that we could at least become somewhat friends.

The following month after the accident was unpleasant, to say the least. Tyler Crowley became a pain in the ass. He would follow me around like a lost puppy, trying to make amends with me. He decided he just had to make it up to me since he almost killed me and he was playing around with the thought that I would forgive him in a very pleasurable way. Like hell. I tried to tell him that it was no big deal, but it would go in one ear and out the other. Mike was becoming increasingly annoyed at the attention I was receiving from him.

I kept to the story of Edward standing next to me, talking about what assignments were due in Biology and how he was lucky to be wearing steel toed boots that day so no serious injury was caused to him. No one seemed to care about Edward though, so my story really didn't do much other than reassure them I was fine.

Edward, on the other hand, completely left me alone. That hurt me, a lot more than I was willing to admit. Edward would avoid me in the halls, sit as far away from me in class and never looked at me. He rarely even spoke to me and when he did, it was only because we had to for the sake of class. I refused to look at his soul for fear that I would see something I didn't like.

I tried to figure out what was wrong, but the only conclusion that I came to was that he regretted that he saved me. And slowly, I regretted it too.

I would try to talk to him, but every time he would clench his jaw and walk away. I had never told anyone what actually happened that day and I never would either, not even to my own father. I didn't want him to leave and I knew how hard it is to keep a secret in this small of a town.

The only ones who seemed pleased by this were Rosalie and Mike. Rosalie never liked me, I could gather that much. So she was pleased that Edward cut off all contact with me. Mike, on the other hand, thought he had a fighting chance now with me and he could just swoop in and take me now.

I sucked up all the hurt I felt at this situation now and I forced myself to engage in useless chatter, seeming to be happy and I would smile when the occasion called for it. I worked hard not to show how much Edward avoiding me was actually affecting me.

Jessica was not at all a happy duck at Mike showering me with his affection. I had bluntly told her that I was not at all interested in Mike. She was extremely pleased at that and then told me she was going to ask him to the dance. She informed me then on the spring dance and how it was women's choice this year. I wasn't very enthused about that. I didn't like going to dances since I wasn't born with a good balance to begin with, so dancing and me were worst enemies.

Also I knew I would have a bunch of guys waiting on baited breath for me to ask them to go and since I wasn't planning on going, they would all be disappointed.

That was why, on a Wednesday, Mike came up to me during Biology. He seemed nervous and his soul was hesitant. I stared at it for a minute, actually surprised that it wasn't thinking something perverted. I found out that Jess asked him to the dance right before class started and Mike told her he would have to think on it. He was waiting for me to ask him to the dance.

He shifted from foot to foot before he dredged up the courage to ask me. "Bella, would you please go to the dance with me?"

I blinked at him, not sure how answer him. "Mike," I began, "Has Jess asked you to the dance yet?"

I wanted to get that topic out of the way first.

"Yeah, and I told her I would think about it," he told me truthfully. I was thankful he didn't tell her no.

"Mike, I think you should go to the dance with Jess," I answered him. I saw out of the corner of my eye that Edward turned towards us.

"Oh, did you ask someone already?" Mike's voice turned sour as he briefly glanced at Edward, already noticing his attention on our discussion.

"No. I'm not going to the dance." I shrugged my shoulders. Mike's eyebrows drew together in confusion over my statement.

"Why?" he asked, clearly questioning my sanity on not liking dances that had lame music and people could press their bodies together.

I rolled my eyes. I was getting annoyed that he wasn't taking no for an answer. "I hate dances and I'm certainly not going to a dance with you," I answered truthfully with a bite in my tone. He looked crestfallen, but that was not my issue since I had been telling him from the beginning I was not interested and I even tried to push Jess to him too.

He walked back to his seat, his soul disappointed that he wasn't going to get anything from me, but he would keep trying anyway.

I rolled my eyes, completely fed up with him and his obsession.

I glanced to my side to see Edward staring at me. I fully turned to face him, a bit surprised when he met my stare head on. I glanced up when I heard growling only to see his soul glaring menacingly at all the boys in the class room. I stared a minute longer than I should, but I found out that his soul realized that I was his just like he was mine, completely. I tried to stop a smile from appearing on my face when I saw the exact moment he realized this. Though I was a bit surprised that he was in denial this whole time, even though he knew since the beginning.

"The answer, Mr. Cullen?" Mr. Banner asked sharply. I snapped my head to the front, breaking the eyes connection with him.

"The Krebs cycle, sir," Edward answered politely. I took a silent breath, trying to calm my beating heart. I knew that small eye connection meant more to me than it probably did to him. I couldn't be sure though since I wasn't looking at his soul.

The rest of the day was uneventful with some guys sending me looks and their souls screaming 'Ask me out!'

I almost went to the nurse because I felt so sick. I was thankful once I got to the parking lot, making a bee-line to my truck.

Once I got in I quickly started the engine, quickly checking my mirror, only to see Tyler making his way to my truck. His soul had the same intentions as Mike did.

I was half-tempted to back up my truck on him. Maybe we would be even that way.

I hid the smirk, quickly pulling out, and just barely missing Tyler.

I leaned my head out the window, "Sorry!" I yelled to him.

I didn't get far though since Edward's Volvo backed up right in front of my car, making me do a quick break check to avoid hitting him.

Tyler quickly jogged up, seeing his window of opportunity to ask me.

"Hey Bella, I was wondering if you would…" I cut him off before he could finish that sentence.

"Not interested and I hate dances so, No." I didn't even look at him since I was too busy glaring at the stupid soccer mom's car in my way.

It was so tempting to slam my foot on the gas pedal and cause damage to it.

Edward got out of the car, smirking in amusement as he sauntered over to the driver's window.

"What the hell do you think you were doing? I could've ran into you!" I cried. I was really in no good mood today, especially with Edward.

"I wanted to give Tyler a fighting chance to ask you. So, why are you not going to the dance this weekend?" he leaned his arms on the window, looking truly interested on why I don't want to go.

I shrugged since it wasn't a big deal. "I hate dances and parties. There are too many people for my taste and it makes me uncomfortable," I answered. I slightly winced at the thought of all those souls in a room, constantly chatting away or screaming their selves hoarse on trying to be heard. Plus the hormones the souls would give off once they look as something they like. It was disturbing seeing those thoughts the most.

He cocked his head to the side, looking thoughtful for a moment. "Well then, how about this. What if I ask to take you out this weekend, not to the dance, but just out?" he asked. His golden eyes stared at me sincerely and I could hear his soul hoping nervously that I would say yes.

I leaned back in my seat, thinking about his answer. He hurt me a lot since he stopped talking to me and I don't know what the sudden change was about, but I couldn't bring myself to say no to him.

I sighed. "Alright, I'll go with you, but I want to talk to you tomorrow on where we are going." I gave him a stern look to let him know I mean it. Edward just gave me a bright smile while his soul did a little happy dance. I thought it was cute.

"Deal, I'll see you tomorrow then Bella." He got off my car and swiftly got into his with his family inside it. I could all tell they were surprised by what he asked of me, not really expecting it. Only Alice and Emmett were truly happy for him. Jasper was a bit cautious and Rosalie was downright pissed.

I was excited to talk to Edward the next day and I was even happier to see that it was sunny when I woke up. I quickly drove to school, wanting to see Edward as soon as possible.

But the Cullens weren't there. I thought they would come later in the day, but when I asked Jessica she told me that they Cullens don't come to school when the sun is out.

"Why?" I questioned her, feeling a bit hurt that I wouldn't be able to talk to Edward today.

"Dr. Cullen and Mrs. Cullen like to do outdoorsy stuff with them, like hiking, camping, and other fun stuff. I wish my parents would do that," she mumbled as she leaned her head back to get more of the sun's rays.

I felt a bit put out on that. Maybe he would be here tomorrow then.

That never happened though since the next day was sunny.

When Saturday rolled around, I kept glancing outside to see if Edward's car would pull up into the drive. I was hoping it would since it was cloudy and the weather wasn't calling for sun anytime soon either.

I was disappointed though since he didn't show up all weekend without a note or call to let me know he wasn't coming.

I was upset, humiliated, and thoroughly pissed off at him.

I slammed my car door shut on Monday morning, seeing the Volvo out of the corner of my eye. I walked right past it, not sparing it another glance. I could feel his eyes boring into my back, but I was too mad at him to care anymore.

It was a field trip in Biology today, so thankfully I didn't have to go to classes. Unfortunately Alice, Jasper, and Edward were with me on the field trip. I climbed into Bus A while they boarded Bus B. I sat in the back with my Ipod blaring music in my ear. I was trying hard not to show him that he made me upset with what he did.

Once we arrived we all piled out of the buses to appear before a plantation that housed plants and used resources to recycle and make better fertile soil for the plants.

I walked slowly through the greenhouse, barely listen to Mr. Banner go on and on about the benefits of recycling plants and compost tea. I just stared at all the green plants, watching as the relaxing souls floated above them.

To me, it was always weird to see a plant or animal with a soul. It wasn't like a human soul. Far from it actually.

Every living thing has a soul. That was a basic principle I learned when I was very young. A human had a soul that would basically do everything a human would do, but it recorded everything they did in their life, whether the mind remembered it or not. A soul never forgot things.

An animal's soul, however, was very much like an animal. An animal's soul was much like a human's in looks, but it reflected the animal, like the human's soul reflected the human. It had all the instincts ingrained into it and it knew straight away when danger was coming. It too, recorded the animal's whole life, but the animal's soul grew faster than a human's soul. In a year, depending on the animal, their soul would grow 3-5 years in the time a human would grow 1 year. What was also interesting about the animal's soul was how intelligent they are. They could understand us so well it was as if we were one of them.

A plants soul, however, was the slowest growing soul. It didn't think and it was just a blob of translucent mass that hovered above the plant. The soul had no thoughts or ideas or instincts. All the soul did was float in a calm way that always made me relax. Flower's souls were more interesting because they had the same color the flower had. I remembered when I was little, I love flower shops because it would look like thousands of tiny balloons would be floating in all different colors and they didn't speak either.

I noticed Alice looked back at me with Jasper before they quickly went another direction in the green house.

I looked at a peach flower with a peach soul floating above it and smiled slightly. I walked past Edward who was right in front of me. My good mood was suddenly gone.

"So, what did you do this weekend?" Edward asked me suddenly. He sounded nervous and a bit rude. I glanced back at him before continuing to walk ahead.

"Why do you want to know?" I asked right back, not really in the mood to talk with him.

His eyes shifted from me then back to the surroundings. He looked uncomfortable.

"You didn't answer my question," he quickly said. I almost rolled my eyes at him. I didn't want to put up with his moody attitude today.

"Well, you don't answer any of mine, so why should I answer yours?" I fired back, glancing back at him to show I wasn't really thrilled with him. "You don't even say hi to me."

Edward tried hard not to look at me and instead looked at the plants around us. "Hi," he said.

I huffed, "Real cute Edward," I replied. We walked a bit further before I spoke again, "So, are you going to tell me how you stopped the van?"

I already knew he was a vampire, but I didn't know what all he could do.

"Yeah, I had an adrenaline rush that caused me to move the van away from you. It's a very common thing. You can look it up," he sounded as if he rehearsed this kind of answer.

I nodded my head. "Uh-huh, that explains so much," I said sarcastically. My patience was wearing pretty thin with all his lying and for once I just wanted an honest answer out of someone again.

I looked off to the side, not really paying attention, and suddenly I tripped over something on the floor. I closed my eyes briefly, tensing up to hit the floor when a hand grabbed my elbow.

"Can you watch where you walk?" he asked harshly. I stared at him in shock from his harsh tone before I glared at him and stormed ahead. Jess bounced up to me before I could leave.

"Bella, you will never believe who just asked me to prom," she was extremely excited about this news and I already knew that Mike probably asked her to go with her since prom is a month away now. I smile politely at Jess as she rambled on about Mike asking her and how she was sure Mike was going to ask me to prom.

I assured her that I had no interest in Mike.

I was thankful when it was nearing the time to go and I headed out to my bus to listen to my music. I smiled tightly as Eric shoved a worm in my face and I almost made it to the bus when a hand grabbed my arm for the second time that day.

"Bella, we shouldn't be friends," Edward started, staring into my eyes and looking extremely uncomfortable while also looking unsure about his words.

I stared at him incredulously. I had the strong urge to yell at him.

"Oh, so now you figure this out? You should have figured that out sooner," I replied, a bit of bitterness lacing my tone. I started to feel a bit of a burning sensation in the back of my eyes as my chest started to tighten.

"You should have just let that van crush me," I ranted, "It would have saved you a lot of regret." I was trying to get past him to get onto the bus, but he blocked my way.

"You think I regret saving you?" he seemed surprised by what I said. I looked up into his eyes, feeling frustrated at this whole situation.

"I can see that you do, so just drop this whole thing and let me move," I made to move around him, but he blocked me again.

"You don't know anything," he stated, looking a bit frustrated with myself.

I glared up into his eyes with tears gathering into my own. "Well maybe if you talked to me, I would know something," my voice sounded strained and I bit the inside of my lip to keep from crying.

We stared at each other before Alice appeared next to us in a blue designer jacket and jeans.

"Hi Bella, are you going to be riding with us," she asked, Jasper appearing behind her. "No, our bus is full," Edward replied before I could speak. Alice huffed at him as he got on before turning to me.

"Don't worry about him. Edward is just grumpy today. I don't think I introduced myself though, I'm Alice Cullen and this is Jasper." Alice came right up to me and gave me a soft hug. Her soul was so overjoyed at finally being able to talk to me. I tightly smiled at her and nodded to Jasper. He nodded back, his opalescence glow flaring around him constantly.

"Nice to meet you guys. I'm going to get on my bus now," I pointed behind me as I started to head back to my own bus.

"Bella, we're going to be great friends one day," Alice called to me. I looked back at her disappearing back, hoping that she was right.

Aww, poor Bella. Dont worry, I'm sure things will get better for her soon. Thank you for reading and please continue to enjoy my story. Please R&R by leaving comments, ideas and suggestions for future chapters or stories!