Chapter 3

This is Edwards POV on directly after the 'shooting'
Disclaimer: I don't own twilight (weeps) or Edward (sobs)

Edward's POV (this POV starts just before she shoots him)

I groaned as Bella cracked another awful joke, at first I had at least appreciated her effort to lighten the mood, but now it was just torture, "Shoot me now."

I watched Bella's eyes light up and wondered instantly what she was up to, "Gladly" she said, smiling as a look of concentration flashed across her face- the look a person gets when they're wishing for something. Almost instantaneously a revolver popped into her hands, and before I could even think about it she pulled the trigger and shot me in the head.

The bullet that would have killed me back on Earth rebounded off my forehead, and I felt only an annoying flicker of pain- kind of like a rubber band- still I was in shock and I yelled, "OW! I can't believe you just shot me!" Bella was, at this point rolling on the ground crying with laughter before recovering and smiled sweetly,

"You asked for it, besides, you know it was hilarious." She said, clearly unrepentant. I tried to stay mad at her, I really did, but I couldn't, how was I even supposed to try, when every time I looked at her I got shivers up my spine and the intense desire to kiss her.

"You're right, I did technically ask for it, although I think you'll have to give me a little while to get over the torment of my 'near death' experience before I find it 'hilarious'" I smiled at her to let her know I wasn't mad at her and continued, "I wonder how often people wish for a gun in Heaven." I was betting it was a very small number, but then Bella seems to be one of a kind.

"Probably not very often, and it wasn't near death, you were already dead." I was just going to nod, when I thought of something that could very possibly get me more quality time with Bella,

"You still owe me."

"I did shoot you." She said smiling, "so what do you want me to do?" When she said that a lot of images ran through my head, some very inappropriate for someone in Heaven to think of. I was going to have to watch myself; at least until I knew how she felt, hence I decided to let her decide,

"What do you think you should do?" I asked, Bella smiled again, perhaps even a little coyly,

"I wouldn't want to give you any ideas." She said, too late Bella, too late. Instead of suggesting she kiss me as I desperately wanted to do, I decided to just stick with my original goal of getting to spend more time with her,

"I'll tell you what, how about I sleep on it and get back to you later?"

"So you'll be seeing me later, will you?" she asked. CRAP, had I assumed too much, did she not want to see me again?

"Well you know, only if you want me to see you later." I said nervously.

"I'm fine with seeing you later Edward… although it does depend what kind of payback you have planned." I gave a small chuckle at her almost nervous expression,

"Oh don't worry, I promise it won't be anything worse than what you did to me."

"I shot you, how much worse can you possibly get?" she grumbled. Before I had a chanced to respond, she looked her watch- how strange, most people in heaven didn't have one of those, the whole eternal thing made them a little redundant- and gasped,

"Oh gosh Edward, I have to go and check in on my family." I had to control my face so that it didn't fall, I wanted to spend more time with Bella, but of course I understood why she needed to go. She had already explained to me how she felt about her family, from the sounds of things they were the most important things in her existence.

"Oh, okay Bella, can I meet you here tomorrow, same time?" please say yes, please say yes, please say yes. To my delight and relief, she beamed

"That sounds great Edward." She looked like she was about to leave when out of the blue she leaned in to me and gave me a kiss on the cheek, "See you tomorrow" she said, getting up and jogging away.

What the Hell was that?

Bella kissed me. She actually kissed me. What did that mean? Does she like me or is kissing people on the cheek just friendly thing for her?

I already knew how I felt about her of course, I knew from almost the second I saw her. I had 'existed' for almost a hundred years and I had never felt this way before.

I can't believe I actually like someone; I had just gone for a walk- hoping for some peace and quiet- and BAM. There she was, an angel. At first of course I was merely drawn in by Bella's beauty, but as I talked to her I realized it was something more, she was just so unique, so caring, so funny, so frank and just, WOW, so different.

Of course everyone in Heaven was nice, and essentially good, but that didn't mean they weren't irritating, nearly all the other girls my age in Heaven just threw themselves at me. Not Bella. I wonder how all the girls I had rejected over the years would feel if I told them that if they wanted me to like them then they needed to shoot me?

Bella was just so surprising, that's the thing about her. Sure I've only known her for all of an hour, but I already knew she wasn't the kind of girl who ever did what anyone expected of her.

So what did you think? I don't think its my best unfortunately, but hopefully it cleared up any confusion about how Edward feels, in short he knows she's special and really likes her but he's not like eternally in love with her or anything. sorry its so short as well
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