Edward bolted the minute Bella spotted him. He ran and hide behind the nearest vehicle he could find. He peeked at her window. She was gone. He could up and breath in Fork's night air. Something was amissed. He could tell Bella was upset, very upset. It wasn't because he could read her mind but it was written all over her face. Downstair, he saw Chief Swan sitting on the sofa, with his hands covering his face. Old Bill died. So, Chief Swan was depressed. Because Chief Swan was depressed, Bella would be too, Edward thought, trying to put the pieces of puzzles together.

Old Bill died!

Shit! Because of a wild beast? No way! Old Bill would know how to fend off himself. Old Bill wouldn't die because of that. He faced even more a dangerous enemy before! It was be something else! It must! In fact, he snorted to himself while thinking, there wasn't any wild beast in Forks. He practically comb every inch of the forest and at the most there were was wild boars. Surely Old Bill can handle a wild boar. It doesn't make any sense if he was killed by a wild animal.

Old Bill died.

No more poems talk about. No more music to creat together. No more stories to share. No more being comfort for having to control the thirst for blood. Yes, Old Bill was the only human who knew that the Cullens were vegetarian vampires and also sworn never to tell another breathing creature. It was a sunny day when Edward went out hunting for animal blood. He was very hungry that he didn't sensed another human being close by. When he caught an elderly deer and lower his teeth to its neck, he didn't realize he was draining the blood in front of a gasping Old Bill. When he heard the sound of a rifle dropping to the ground only did Edward looked up. He got up and tried to assure Old Bill that he was harmless and meant him no harm. But Old Bill gather himself quickly.

"Are you human being?" he asked calmly.

Edward shook his head.

"Are you a vampire?" he asked again, this time more cautiously.

"A vegetarian vampire." Edward corrected him.

Old Bill then broke into laughters. "A vegetarian vampire, you say?" and more laughters. Edward soon laugh too. Before this incident, they had been friends for nearly 2 good years. Long enough to convince that vegetarian or not, the Cullens were a good and harmless family. After all, the father was a good doctor.

Edward felt tears swelling in his eyes. No! He would never cry. Tears show weakness. A trait which he never wants to own. Then, he heard a door opened. He looked up and saw Bella coming out of the house.

"I'll be back soon, dad."

"Okay."

"And get somemore milk, we ran out of it 2 days ago."

"Sure."

Bella closed the front door and got into her pick-up truck. The engine roared to life and she drove away. Edward watched as the truck disappeared around a corner. Then he ran to Fork's Local Hypermarket.

And got there before she did.

Then, someone unexpected came. From a bend appeared Leah Turner. She was walking happily towards the door of the hypermarket. No, correct that. She was skipping happily towards the door of the hypermarket. How could he be so lucky? He get to spy at Leah while watching Bella. Edward inhaled. He wasn't lucky. Old Bill's dead. He's hiding behind several unwanted boxes outside the hypermarket, patheticly stalking Bella. Two girls had outwitted him. In addition to that, he was denied human blood. He was practically the most unluckiest person at that very moment. Just then, Bella's truck came down the road. She drive into the car lot and parked her truck. She silenced her engine and got out of it. She didn't skipped like how Edward almost thought she would. She actaully looked like she drag herself to the door. The death of Old Bill really affected her indirectly.

He wanted to go up to her and ask "what's up". But before he could get out from his hiding place, she was walking towards Leah. Damn! He IS the unluckiest person. Edward had a bad feeling about this. Leah lied about the reason she moved to Forks. Therefore, she's dangerous. She was only a human, Edward knows this. But there's something more sinister to Leah. The way she conducted herself in school, the way she answers her teacher, the looks she gave them as though she was challenging their authority. So, she finally got into the good books of Forks High. But it doesn't change his point of view. Hence, the last thing he wants is Bella having a chat with Leah, albiet a casual one. She might be exposed to a danger Edward doesn't even quite recognize. He focused and concentrate. Their conversation confirmed his thoughts. The way Leah answer question related to her parents, the way she paused before answer, proves that there was no divorce settlements. But if there were no divorce settlements…. Wait. This wasn't the best place to think. Edward looked up and saw Bella was gone. However, Leah was looking around her with a very alert look on her face. He didn't want to know what caught her attention and he ran back home.

While choosing between brands of taglietelle, Leah felt a tinge of changes around her. Some one was feeling frustrated or angry or something in between there. She looked around her left and right. Everyone seemed normal. She looked outside and ran for the door. On her right was an old lady begging for money, on her left was a pile of boxes. She non-chalantly toss in a a single 100 dolars note into the old lady's cracked tupperware. She walked towards the pile of boxes. There was nothing behind it. Just a squirrel. She picked up the squirrel and stroke it. But Leah knew, someone was here.

The moment Edward came blasting through the door, Alice called out to him.

"Hah! I got you before you can disappear again. We're having a family meeting. Something came up."

"Alright. Let me just washed up first." So he went to his room, washed his face, put on a fresh t-shirt and went to the living room. The whole family was there already.

"Finally he's here! Can we get on now?" Rosalie moaned.

Edward walked to the fireplace and leaned against it.

"Okay, now that everyone's here, I would like to tell you all something." Carlisle began. He looked at Edward. "As you all know, Old Bill was murderded about two days ago."

Gasped came from everyone except Edward and Carlisle.

"And…and what has that got to do with us?" asked Esme slowly.

Carlisle chose his words carefully. "He was murdered by vampires. I think there were more than one."

That explanation silenced everyone. They just stared at each other. No dared to say anything.

"and I hope, Edward," Carlisle broke the silence, shifting his glance at him. "I hope that you will not find these vampires."

"What made you think that I would?" he asked coldly.

"Because he's your best friendly, moron!" Rosalie said rather cruelly.

"Rosalie! That is NOT funny. You WILL applogize to Edward." Esme said in a very authoritive way, that no one dared to defy her. however, it only made Rosalie retaliate.

"What if it wasn't a vampire? Can't you see? It might be a human." She shot back.

Everyone looked at her with a question mark. Edward only narrowed his eyes at her.

"What do you mean?"

"Maybe Old Bill accidentally spilled out the beans. And whoever now know that we're vampires might want to tell the whole town."

"So….."

"So Old Bill wanted to tell us and that person just murdered him. Of course, he or they, butchered him to look like some wild beast." Rosalie explained, clearly enjoying watching a fuming Edward.

"Are you trying to tell me that I'm the reason Old Bill was murdered?!" Edward unfold his arms, clearly not enjoying what Rosalie was speculating.

"What if I am?"

And Edward lunged at her, almost preparing to tear her neck and her head apart. Carlisle quickly tore them apart. Alice hold Edward back. The two siblings was panting with anger.

"You shouldn't have told him!"

"I didn't tell him, alright! He found out by accident!"

"If you'd only pay attention when you're out hunting, he might not found out!"

"For shit sake,Rosalie, it happen almost 2 freaking years ago!"

"Children! Be quiet!" Carlisle let out. And they were quiet. It was very seldom Carlisle let go off his temper. And when he does, it's best everyone to get out of his way.

"Rosalie's explanation might be logic." Injects in Emmett.

"Well, it isn't!" shot Edward, almost wanting to attack him too but did not after seeing Esme looking very worried. Alice let him go and sat back down.

"It isn't a human." Carlisle assured them. "The bite marks on his body confirmed that it was a vampires."

"How do you know it was more than one?" asked Jasper.

"Different sizes of bite marks." Explained Carlisle. "My guess would be three vampires."

"What are we going to do?" Esme asked.

Suddenly, everyone looked exhausted.

"We need to be careful, that's all we can do. Do not interfere with them."

"What about the future victims?" Alice asked.

"We're not police, Alice. Even if we are, we have no rights to stop them anyway. Vampires killing human beings is normal. Something that is expected from any common vampire." Carlisle said coolly, stressing the word 'common'.

Just then, Jasper got up and walked away angrily. No one bother to ask him why. Everyone knows that of all of the household, Jasper had a very hard time controlling his thirst for human blood. But the fact that he didn't was because his good conscious always won the battle over his bad one.

Everyone began to dispersed, pretending whatever that just happen, did went to his room. He was very worried for Bella. He began pacing around his room like a man deep in thinking. She's exposed to another danger besides Leah. This time, it was a danger he recognized.