It was the most beautiful day for both Bella and Edward as they both lay on the meadow carpeted with daffodils, looking at each other smiling. The sun was soft on their skins. On Bella's pale skin and Edward's glittering one.

"I wonder if I sold you to the jewelry shop, how much would you think they'll pay for you?" she asked coyly.

"Would you sell me?"

"Not for a single cent!" and she rolled on him. They laugh gaily. Edward plucked a single daffodil and clipped it behind her ears.

"You're so beautiful."

"Thank you!" and she nipped the tip of his nose.

"You don't mind skipping school?"

"Not if I spend the time with you."

"You really know how to charm a guy, don't you?" he smiled sexily.

Bella laughed.

Then suddenly, his mood changed. He became serious and got up.

"What's wrong?"

"I want you to watch over yourself."

"Yeah, about that. Why?"

"The town is not safe."

"Why isn't it safe?"

"You know Old Bill?"

"Yeah, he was attacked by a wild animal."

"Well, it wasn't an animal. He'd known how to fend off a beast."

"Then, some crazy maniac?"

"No."

Bella lift her eyebrows and gave him a question mark.

"Vampires."

"There're others like you out there?" she gasped.

"Many. Scattered around the world. But they usually kept to themselves."

"So…it's a vampire that killed Old Bill?"

Edward nodded. "It's 3 actually."

"Omg…"

"I don't want you to go anywhere alone, okay? Stick to your friends. ALWAYS!" Edward stared at her with so much love in his eyes. "I can't bear to lose you. I've waited my whole life for you."

"You really know how to charm a girl, don't you?" she smiled.

"This is serious." But even he could help laughing.

"Alright." She giggled. "But I'm sticking mostly to you, aren't I?" She cooed sexily.

"Hmm…let me think of 10 reasons why you should not…"

"Oh, damn you, Edward!" she laughed slapping his back.

"You know, you're not hurting me at all. In fact, it feels kinda messaging."

"Oh, really? Try this!" and she hit him harder.

And they both laughed and chased each other around until, in the far distance, they heard the last school bell rang.

Emmett understood the reason of Edward's gigantic, hard-to-get smile when he saw Bella clinging at his arms. She too was smiling. Everyone watched them. Some looked curious, some looked resentful and some even just shook their heads. But none of them looked happy. Well, with the exception of Alice, who totally approved of them from the starting of the day when Edward first met Bella.

"Aren't they just so cute?"

"Yeah, but Carlisle wouldn't like it." And he entered his car with the others.

Edward led Bella to his car and opened the door for her.

"Now, show me your house."

"Okay, but I'm warning you first," she smiled. "My dad's gonna be highly suspicious about you fetching me home."

"I'll take the risk."

And they sped off.

Leah watched as the two love birds sped off. Everyone was watching them, including her. She might just be too late. No! She will not be. She was counting on herself. Her mentor was counting on her. The whole council would be watching her too. She cannot afford to let them down. And by meaning 'them', she was referring to herself and her mentor. Not the council. She never cared what the council thinks. So long it doesn't interfere in her tasks, she's fine with them.

It's time to shift to plan B which wasn't good. Because there was no plan B in the first place. Leah hugged her books. She had better come up with something by night fall or she's not taking dinner, something she looked very forward to the whole day.

Edward was grinning to himself the whole journey from Bella's house to his. She was his. All of her. His heart was beating like it's gonna burst out of his chest. He parked his car like a pro and got out of it.

"Hey."

He looked up and standing by the door adjoining the garage and the kitchen was Esme.

"Hey back."

"Rosalie told me everything."

"Did she mention how I was going to turn Bella into a vampire?" he chuckled. Right now, not even Rosalie could spoil his moods.

Esme smiled. "Do you love her?"

Edward stared at her. She was always beautiful, Esme. And she was looking at him with a strange calmness.

"Do you love Carlisle?"

"Yes, I do. I loved him for more than a century already and I will for the next couple more."

"In that case, I love Bella too."

"She's a human."

"I know."

Then, she turned away as though the conversation was over. He frowned. But the thought of having Bella came back to him in rushes and he was all happy again. He was on top of the highest mountain and no one is going to drag him down. He belonged to his beloved and his beloved belonged to him. This was the feeling he thought he would never experience. The consequences they will have to bear.

Leah walked towards her favorite spot. It has patches of grass that were not wet, considering there was a small pond in front of it and the common weather of Forks. Forks was a very peaceful place to live in. The people were nice enough. The weather was always changing from gloomy to sunny, which she doesn't mind at all and actually loves it. Changes were good. With changes, people learn to adapt to new environments. They learn to cope with obstacles that come with changes. Hence, people become more immune. Not only that, changes brought excitement. If you have the same thing over and over again, it would be boring. Maybe after she has taken over mentor, she might move into here.

She reached the particular place and sat down with her picnic basket. This place was far away from the Cullen House. She hoped she never would have to face any of them at this moment. At this moment, she needed to think and she couldn't think if one of them were here.

Leah opened her basket. In it was a bottle of lemonade, 2 slices of bourbon squash cake, a bag of carrot cookies and another bag of orange-yam muffins with pecan streusel. Her mouth watered. Nothing but good food to spike up her brain.

Edward changed into a fresh pair of t-shirt and rinsed his face. He had a lot of thinking to do. The future now is uncertain. In a few second, Edward was already a few miles far from his door of his room. The air of the woods filled him afresh. This was where his mind was most clear. With the help of the chirping of the birds, the breeze of the cool air and the trees that shoot high up to the sky really allowed him to think. He jumped down a tree and ran to a clearing that was his sanctuary. The grass was dry there and a small pond teaming with fishes and frog. Since, there were frogs there; the place didn't have any mosquitoes. It would really bug him a lot if there were.

He stopped at his tracks. What the-! A girl was sitting right at his spot. Who was that?! She was humming to herself and a rattan basket was beside her. He couldn't see who she was since her back was facing him. Damn! No one knows about this place except for him.

"Hey, Edward." She turned around. It was Leah. "You must be a good tracker. I didn't even hear you coming."

He walked cautiously, circling the little clearing. She was munching a biscuit or something. "Then how did you know it was me?"

"Your cologne. I recognized it."

"What are you doing here?"

She giggled. "What do I look like I'm doing?"

"Eating?"

She laughed. "I'm picnicking."

"Don't you have any homework or something?"

"Tomorrow's Saturday, Edward. You don't really expect any student to be doing their homework on a Friday."

"Well, they should."

"You talk a lot for a guy who skipped school with his girlfriend."

That shut him up.

"Oh, don't worry." She laughed again. "Come here and sit with me."

He was not sure what to do. He never planed this. He didn't even sense her when he was approaching this place which wasn't odd since he was thinking of Bella and her kisses.

"C'mon. I don't bite." She grinned. "I'm the one who should be afraid since you're the one who do the biting."

Now he was really tensed.

"You know who I am?"

"You're Edward Cullen. What are you talking about?" she laughed even harder as though he ask something funny.

"What do you mean by I'm the one who does the biting?"

"Well…you're always in a black mood. It's a metaphor!" she was rolling over her stomach now. Edward felt embarrassed. "You thought I meant it literally?" and more laughter from her.

"Okay…you're making me embarrassed." He smiled and sat beside her.

"Oh…oh…I'm sorry." She stared at him. "I would offer you some of my luxuries," she indicated her picnic basket. "But I have a hunch you would refuse."

"How would you know?"

"Because somehow, you do not have the craving for food."

"And what makes you think so?"

"Because you don't eat?"

"And how do you know that I don't eat?" he smiled.

"Because you never eat during recess. You and your whole brothers and sisters."

"And how do you know I DON'T eat at home?"

"Err…now that's hard. But anyway, you would refuse some muffins, right?"

"Yeah, I just had my lunch."

And she laughed out loud. "I knew it!"

"There's no cup for you to offer me a drink anyway." He smiled at her. She was so happy, for a girl whose supposed parents are in the middle of a divorce.

"No. You're supposed to take a swig right from the bottle. But you don't want lemonade too, right?"

Edward shook his head, smiling.

She laughed.

"Aren't you afraid of sharing saliva?"

"Well," she took a long swig and licked her lips. "You can't catch HIV that way, can you? The most I would catch is a cold."

"You're really happy, aren't you?"

"Why should I be sad?"

"Your parents are divorcing. You're alone in your house. Half of the class thinks that you're a freak."

"Bah! You think that those are a few reasons why I should be sad?" she scoffed. "Edward, the world is so big. You humans should know that. There's so much to see out there, people to meet, food to taste, things to do, music to enjoy. So many. And that should be one reason not to be sad."

Edward looked at her. His judgment of her was clouding. Right now, she doesn't seem dangerous at all. She's just a regular girl. An extraordinary happy regular girl. However, he still wasn't sure about her parents. He still had doubts about that. He stared at her. She was throwing bits of bread into the pond and watching fishes rise to the surface and gulped the bread crumbs. Her hair was straight and it reached until her waist. But then he realized something. She was wearing a…

"Why are you wearing a dress? Aren't you cold wearing that?"

She looked back at him, then at her cream-brown strap dress. "You mean this?"

"Well, what other clothing are you wearing?" it wasn't a very daring dress. It did not expose her cleavage, just her long slender arms. The hem reached just below her knees. It was a pretty dress, he admitted to himself. It even had a ribbon behind it.

"Well, I thought it was rather a cute dress and I liked it."

"You don't feel cold?"

"Not really."

"Why are you wearing a dress in the middle of a forest? And why are you even picnicking here? People don't usually do that you know."

"As for the question about my dress, I already told you. Go rewind your memories. As for the picnicking, well…it is a lovely weather after all. Why not take the advantage? You know, people always take what they already have for granted. But you're not, which is good." She smiled.

"Why do you say that?"

"Well…" She was holding the bottle by its neck, shaking it a bit. "I could ask why are YOU here."

She sure damn hell knows how to catch him off-guard, he thought.

"I came here to think."

"About Bella?" she grinned.

"Do you know how to read minds?"

"Did I read you correctly?"

He chuckled; she certainly knows how to play games too.

"Yeah, you did."

"You looked really happy when you walked her to your car. You looked…" she stared at the sky. "You looked proud." She looked back at him. "Am I right?"

Edward thought. He had felt proud. He didn't even realize it. He just thought he was bloody overjoyed.

"Yeah, you can say that."

She gave out a light laugh. They were quiet for a moment.

"I see you play the piano." he broke the silence.

"Yes, I do. I just adore music."

"And food?"

She laughed loudly. "Yeah, and that too."

"You played pretty well."

Her faced changed, she looked angry. "How dare you say that?"

"What did I said? I praised you." A confused Edward said.

"You said I played pretty well!"

"It's that an offense?!"

"Yes!"

"Why?!"

Then she let out a cackle. "Because I played pretty damn well."

"And you're a pretty damn good actress too."

"Did you mean I'm pretty and a skilled actress or a very, very skilled actress?" she grinned childishly at him.

He smiled. "The second one."

She nodded her head. Then she stared off into the sky again.

"You really love her, do you?"

He looked at her. "Yeah, I do. Very much."

"Good for you then."

Then the clouds slowly begin to part, allowing sun rays to pass through.

Edward got up hastily. "I got to go."

"Homework?" she grinned.

"Yeah." And he ran.

"Edward!" she called out.

He stopped and turned around. "Yeah." He can take his time now; he was under a shade of a tree even though the clouds haven't parted completely.

"You don't know what homework teachers gave us." She grinned.

He laughed. "You're right."

"Write an essay on the importance of meiosis. There will be a quiz on Monday on a random Shakespeare's poems that we've learned and do a research on history chapter 4."

The sunlight penetrated into the small clearing. The place was bright now but he was well shaded. But just then, Edward felt a strange déjà vu. He stared closely at Leah. The way the light shone on her hair, it became golden. He felt like as if he's been here before, as if he's seen her before. But where?

"What's wrong, Edward?"

He jerked back with the mentioned of his name on her lips. It sounds so strangely familiar.

"Nothing. You just remind me of someone." And he ran away, not so fastly.