MPOV
We ran far away from the house, Carlisle right on my tail. I wanted to get another 5 miles away before I started to think of something, anything to get me to school. I figured that we were far enough away after another five minutes.
How could I get to Bella? Surely she would smell good. If that person in the woods were nearly enough to make me lose myself, what would Bella's be like? Edward will never let me go to school. He wanted Swan for himself. That wasn't going to happen. Ever.
Usually, I could wait until everyone was asleep and sneak out to test my resistance to human blood, but naturally, I lived with a family that never slept. Helpful, isn't it? If Edward, Emmett, Jasper, Alice and Rosalie have to go to school and Carlisle is at work, it should be easy enough to follow that stupid, shiny Volvo to school. Esme won't be a problem. I just have to be at school long enough for them to see that I can handle it.
There really isn't much time for testing self-control in this brilliant plan of mine. My father always called me reckless.
EPOV
Ah, school. I could see Bella today and Mike never would. It's one of those silver linings during a fiasco. I all but tied Mike to Esme as we all left.
I hadn't really thought that it was a good idea to leave him with just Esme, that maybe one of us should stay. I couldn't stay, Bella was at school today. I couldn't bring myself to force it on Jasper. If I chose Alice, Jasper would stay with her and that would hurt him as much as if I had made him stay in the first place. Rosalie… I'd rather have Mike as a second head before I asked her. Emmett wouldn't do it because of Rosalie. I could never ask Carlisle, he would make me feel… like a child. Carlisle had this way of making me feel guilty. He wouldn't be impressed if I forced my own problems on him.
So Mike was sitting with Esme on the couch, staring at a point above the television they were supposedly watching.
His thoughts had been relatively decent all night. No complaints, death threats, Bella fantasies… I had a good night. It just made me all the more suspicious and unwilling to leave him unattended.
We climbed into my car and sped off towards school. Driving this fast was second to running. I had no idea how humans could stand driving at thirty sometimes. It made no sense.
We parked into the school parking lot. I scanned to lot and found Bella tripping over the tire of her car. Relief swept through me, followed by humour and concern as I watched her face as she picked herself from the ground. It wasn't a hard fall; she had landed on the patch of grass behind the car.
Wow, look at Edward… why won't he look at me like that? What's so special about Bella Swan? She's not even pretty… Jessica Stanley was thinking.
Well, you idiotic airhead. I will never look at you because you are annoying, rather unintelligent, utterly absurd, and rather hideous with all of your makeup and overall annoying. Bella Swan on the other hand, was beautiful, modest, interesting, beautiful, loving, generous, beautiful, different and eternally beautiful. Jessica vs. Bella was a pointless competition. It was like… Mike vs. the Volturi angry. There was an obvious preference. Two guesses who.
Ha! Wouldn't it be the day if Mike was here right now and killed Jessica? And then the Volturi killed him for exposure to our world! And Bella would realise that she loved me too…
Speak of the devil himself.
BPOV
I didn't see Edward at first, but I caught his eye eventually. He was looking at me with… relief? I didn't know what to think. I was confused and didn't notice the tire in the way of my walking. I tripped onto the grass. Oh Joy. I grabbed my books and while blushing fiercely, walked to my next class.
"Hey, Bella!" A horribly familiar but all too different voice called.
MPOV
I hid in the trees. I tried to keep my thoughts normal. Edward could mistake them for anyone, right? I had to find her. The scent was intoxicating. I gulped in a mouthful of air, knowing that it was going to get that much worse when I walked out.
Would anyone notice how different I looked? Would it look like I had a haircut? (I added that last part in for my… brother's benefit, just in case he was listening.) I hope not. But then again, it would be pretty sweet for girls to be all over me for once.
I tried to make my thoughts innocent. I tried to make them blend in.
And then it hit me.
The scent, the overwhelming scent. A hundred bodies pulsing with rich, pure blood. My throat roared. For about half a second, I remembered that this would get me into serious crap if I acted on instinct. That was only for half a second, though. I tried to gather myself. I ran backwards a few meters and the scent subsided slightly.
I saw her. She looked hot, that's for sure. I took a few breaths, trying to get used to it.
"Hey, Bella!" I called.
I took a deep breath and walked forward. I tried not to breathe so badly, but a thousand daggers struck my throat as I approached her. She smelled damn good.
She looked me over. Ha! I bet she wished she hadn't dumped me now.
"Mike?" she asked uncertainly.
"Last time I checked." I shrugged.
It hit me again. That last breath for talking was it. I lunged.
EPOV
Stupid, idiotic, retarded, repulsive, mental, sick vampire! He came out of the trees. I was in shock for a second. How had I not heard him? There was no time to act, he was next to Bella in an instant.
He greeted her and I stood there shocked. How had he resisted?
She smelled damn good… I can't resist anymore… the scent. One taste…
"NO!" I shouted.
I ran forward and grabbed Mike around the middle. Bella stared at us in horror. Better she hated me than her being dead. I shuddered at the thought. I wrestled Mike away from her and dragged him to the forest.
"Bella!" I called over my shoulder. "Keep quiet and I'll explain later!"
We were invisible to the public now. I wrestled him to the ground and scanned the schools' thoughts. No one had seen. What luck. Mike seemed to regain some control. He was sobbing tearlessly on the ground. How pitiful. How disgusting.
"Shut up, you idiot." I snarled.
"I'm sorry, Edward." He choked.
I struck his face. He closed his eyes and winced.
"Please." He whimpered.
If I can't get you off me by talking, you'd better remember that I'm way stronger than you, Cullen. He warned.
I growled at him.
"Don't even think about it. You've already almost exposed us several times. And I match you evenly." I tapped my temple impatiently.
"Ah, right. The mind stalker." He said.
His breath was still coming out shaky and his eyes were piercingly red.
"I will kill you." I whispered.
"Do it. Carlisle won't be very happy with you. Emmett won't be either." He pointed out.
"You're worth punishment."
"Really? That's so sweet, Eddy."
"You're worth killing for punishment." I corrected bitterly while hitting him again.
He winced. Good.
"One day, you will rot in hell with every other worthless person. And my life will be complete." I fantasised.
"And one day, you'll try to kill her too." He said simply.
That time, he did deserve to be punched. And I always treated people the way they should be treated. He cried out slightly.
"Get up, you worthless excuse for a man." I snarled.
I dragged him up by the scruff of his collar. We ran home awkwardly, him swearing with my anger-caused speed that caused him to be literally dragged the entire way.
I scanned the minds of students. No one had heard anything. Bella had fulfilled my only wish. Thank the Lord.
BPOV
What the heck had happened? Mike was really handsome suddenly. He had red eyes, for heaven's sake! And then he randomly attacks me? And then Edward comes along and saves me, promising to explain things.
Edward Cullen wasn't human. And now Mike wasn't either…? I was so confused. What were they? They were not human. No human was like that.
I walked around that entire day, biting my lip and waiting for a sign of Edward. His family wasn't even there anymore. Something bad had happened. I could tell. My friends hardly noticed that my mind was elsewhere. I tried to think of possibilities.
MPOV
This was bad. Cullen had dragged me home. Alice was the first one I saw, looking absolutely furious. Rose or whatever her name was glared at me. Emmett laughed. Of course he would laugh. Carlisle even looked pissed.
Alice marched forward and slapped me. What the hell was up with people hitting me today?
"What the hell?" I demanded.
"WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING YOU INSENSITVE, IDIOTIC MISERABLE EXCUSE FOR A CULLEN?" Alice shouted in her high voice. It was more of a squeak, actually.
"He will never be a Cullen." Edward said bitterly.
"Damn right." Rose said.
"Stop freaking out! No ones hurt, no one saw, no harm done!" I said.
"There was too harm done!" Alice squeaked again.
"Bella knows something. You just exposed us. If she doesn't tell, I'll consider saving you some brutal torture during your long death." Edward said.
"Bella won't tell. You know she's a goody-goody." I said.
"You better pray that happens." Edward growled.
"Nice one, bro." Emmett said to me.
"I will give you one more chance, Mike Newton. I will attempt to live with you if you never leave this house expect for animal hunting in a close region that doesn't expose us, if you never call me Eddy again, and if you promise to shut up." Edward said. "If you break one more rule, ever, I will personally rip your head off."
And he stomped out of site.
"He's right. One more incident and we will have to kill you." Carlisle said gently. "You can't risk everything we've made. You can't sentence us to death with the Volturi."
And he walked away too.
"Don't hurt Bella! Edward is finally happy! Leave him alone and you'll live. Bother us again and I don't need to be psychic to predict your death."
And Alice walked away too.
"Don't touch my stuff."
Rose walked away too.
"Don't piss off Rose or we'll all have hell to pay." Emmett warned. "Nice job with freaking Eddy out. Couldn't have done it better myself."
Em walked away too, after Rosalie.
"I'm sorry again." Jasper muttered out of the shadows.
He sulked out of sight.
Esme came out of the forest and frowned at me.
"Don't hurt Edward." She said softly.
And then I was sitting on the ground alone.