Beach

"I'm going inside." Edward nudged me as the sun rose.

It was amazing how we could just lay around for hours and not say a word. When I'd first met Edward we'd never stop talking. It was funny how I tried to keep my secrets from him, and he knew them all already. But now that we've been together so long, we had nothing to talk about, nothing we both didn't know, nothing to hide.

When I opened my eyes Edward had left and the sun was now up. I brought my hand up over my eyes to block the light but it only intensified off my skin. Moaning, I got up and stalked back into the kitchen, blanket in hand. After shoving the wet grass-stained blanket into the washer, I went to my room.

The first thing that caught my eye was the black thing that laid on the side of my bed. It was a bathing suit and cover ups. I went over and picked it up. Of course it was my size, this is what Alice was getting at yesterday? Going to the beach. Edward was planning to take us to the beach. A piece of paper fell of the floor…it was from Edward.

Put it on. Come downstairs.

I slid into the bathing suit and put the mesh skirt on. Then placed a black long sleeved shirt over top.

"Edward." I said mono tone going down the steps.

"Yes." he held the s.

"We can't go to the beach." I stated rolling my eyes.

"Why ever not?"

"We are vampires. You know beaches are usually … sunny. All of the Cullen's, glittering on the beach most likely wouldn't be the best thing ever."

"It's only me and you going, and duh. I know that."

"Fine." I shrugged. I still couldn't read his mind. "As long as we take my car."

"Of course we're taking your car." he rolled his eyes. "It has the best tint."

"Whatever." I went back upstairs and grabbed some flip-flops, a towel and went back downstairs. Edward was waiting by the back door. He was wearing black swim trunks and a white t-shirt. Oh and flip-flops. That was a bigger first.

I grabbed the keys as I went to the door. We walked to the garage and got into my baby. My Aston. I slid into the passengers seat and sighed. The car was so heavenly. I placed the keys in Edward's hands and in seconds the engine purred to life. He pulled out and we were on the main road within seconds.

"So what beach are we going to terrify today?" I questioned while going through the CDs which were neatly organized in the glove box.

"I'm not telling you." Edward replied looking over and helping me choose a CD to play.

The Temptations filled the car. We sang along and laughed the whole time. We were going about 150 and were pretty much in our second state. It wasn't hard to know he was going the short way to where ever we were going.

We had to ride with the windows rolled up because the sun was out. Our skin still shimmered though. I pressed my head to the window and looked at the ground flying around us. The funny thing was, it only looked like we were going about two miles an hour. Everything looked so stationary.

The sun was setting when the car came to a stop.

"This was you're idea?" I laughed.

"Its smart isn't it."

"Brilliant." I rolled my eyes and smiled.

When the sun set we got out. No one was one the beach. Not a single soul. We walked slowly on the sand. It was so soft and formed around my feet, between my toes. But the water was better. The moon glistened off of it perfectly.

We sat on the edge of the shore, where the water gently came up to surround us.

"What's it smell like?" I asked Edward with my eyes closed.

"It smells like, a burning in your nose. But it's a good burning. It's a unique smell, one you wont find any other place, well except a beach of course." he looked over at me. "What does it look like?"

"It's amazing. The water looks like a black silk sheet blowing through the wind never blowing the same way. The moon looks like a white pearl incrusted with tiny diamonds. The two look like they are making love with each other. I wonder if the moon gets jealous though?"

"What do you mean?" Edward asked from curiosity.

"Because, the moon lays on the water all night, making it more beautiful. But all day the sun sits on the water doing the same thing. It's like the water is cheating on both the sun and moon. Maybe that's why you never see them fully at the same time. You see the moon waiting for the sun to go down, and it watches as the sun takes its place."

"You have a different way of looking at things don't you?"

"It happens." I laughed. "Why don't you think of the smell and I'll think of the way it looks and we can exchange the thoughts."

"Okay, sounds like a good idea."

We both thought of the different things. The scent came into my mind and filled every crevice. It was amazing. It was so clear and distinct. It burned and healed and I could almost taste it in my mind.

A smile spread across my face. I jumped up and opened my eyes. Edward was still sitting, he was smiling too.

"Come on! Lets go swimming!" I didn't wait either, not that I had to. Edward was up in an instant, following me into the water.

The water was probably cold, but it was impossible to tell. We went out really far. Naturally, I couldn't touch the bottom. We went under the water and looked around, found some fish. They instantly swam away though, with us being vampires, it sent out a natural signal. The dolphins wouldn't come near us, but we could still see them. They were beautiful in their own way.

We swam back to the surface, then decided to go to the shore. It wasn't hard to swim against the current. If we didn't reflect the sunlight we'd be the best lifeguards ever.

After we got dried off and dressed, well Edward didn't have anything but a t-shirt and his swim trunks on and I had my cover ups, he said we had somewhere else to go. We got back in the car and drove to the pier.

It was very bright and colorful. The rides looked slow.

The instant we pasted some people they were already looking at us. We were to pale to be on a beach. That instant, Edward and I started cracking up laughing. Which made more people look at us. We turned around and went back the car.

The ride home seemed faster than the trip down and when we were almost to the house we both knew something was wrong.

Once parked we entered the house quickly and went straight to Carlisle. Everyone was in the same area anyway.

"What's wrong?" Edward asked first.

"You two are to go to the Volutri?" he replied, looking at Alice who nodded.

"The who?" I questioned.

"Why?" Edward asked at the same time.

I searched Carlisle's thoughts to get my answer. The Volutri. They were in Italy, were older than Carlisle and were his friends. Why was Edward so upset?

"They want to see your powers." Alice replied.

"Aro." Edward scoffed.

"What's the big deal?" I asked Edward, who ignored me.

"Do we have to go?" he asked Carlisle.

"You know you have too, they are the higher ups. We don't want conflict Edward."

Edward crossed his arms, he was obviously disappointed by that answer. I still didn't see the problem.

"You have to leave tomorrow." Alice said extremely low.

"WHAT?!" Edward blurted out.

I inched away from him.

"Are you kidding? We just got back!"

"They want you there as soon as possible."

"You already packed for us didn't you?" I asked Alice.

She smiled and nodded. I instantly grabbed the back of Edward's shirt and headed up stairs.

"What are you doing?" he asked still mad.

"You are going to repack because you know what Alice packs. I'm going to repack too. Tomorrow we are leaving."

"I don't want you to meet them." he stated.

"It doesn't look like we have a choice."

"You wont like it."

"That's probably true, but we have to go. Stop complaining and go pack."

He gave me a look, a look he'd given me before. Like he was afraid he was going to lose me.

"I don't want to know." I replied instantly. I darted to my room. Whatever the Volutri did, it wasn't good, but we didn't have a choice. We had to go. Tonight was so much fun too.

Wow. Okay I finally got this chapter done. Ugh, I wish it could be better. : /
I'm sick btw : so yeah. cough
I dont own Steph's characters. But I do own the beach...lol jk. I own Julia and the story that is all.

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