BPOV
"So what led all of this on?" I asked, my eyes on my lemonade bottle.
"What are you referring to?" Edward murmured in his velvet voice.
"I didn't know you liked me." I blushed.
"And here I was thinking that you were so perceptive." Edward teased. I blushed deeper.
"Well, I'm not complaining." I smiled at him.
"Nor am I." He smiled.
EPOV
Logic and everything I had been assuming for the past century seemed false. There were some things that seemed almost certain. I didn't have a soul and my kind was damned to hell. But how could there not be something better than death for Bella?
She sat there smiling at me, even though my mind was screaming how wrong and repulsive this. I knew she deserved a human man, not a vampire man.
"Where would you like to go tonight?" I asked.
I truly didn't care where we went, as long as I was with her. She blushed yet again. I loved that shade of crimson on her soft, pale skin.
"I don't mind." she said quietly. I smiled.
"Lady's choice." I insisted with another smile.
"Dinner? A movie? Just hanging out?" she suggested.
"How would about a movie?" I said.
"Sure." She positively beamed at me.
I could deal with swallowing human food. The worst part was choking it back up later. It was an activity I tried to refrain from, so I was happy that she hadn't suggested dinner in the end.
She smiled radiantly at me.
What is Cullen doing with Bella?
Where's Mike? I wanted to ask him out…
Why won't Edward look at ME that way?
Great, now I can't take Bella to prom…
The thoughts of my classmates swarmed my head, but I hardly noticed. I was more so pleased that Bella and I were considered to be a couple now. I was even more pleased that Mike would not be with Bella and he would never had his chance with Jessica Stanley, who had been working up the nerve to ask him on a date for so long…
I must have looked side tracked. She was perceptive; she caught me on it immediately.
"Are you noticing the staring too?" Bella asked.
"Vaguely." I flashed her my crooked smile.
"I can't blame them."
"Why would that be?"
"Well, I'm wondering as well how someone like you could like someone like me." She admitted.
Someone like her? I was the monster and she acted as though I was the one who deserved praise and she was less than ordinary. Perceptive, yet utterly absurd at some points. She must not see herself very clearly. I was nothing to her.
"Hmm. I'm also wondering how someone like you could like someone like me." I said.
"You're kidding, right?" She raised an eyebrow at me.
"I am confident in that response."
"I wish that you could hear the thoughts of every female in this school!" she started. I tried not to chuckle. "Everyone is thinking the same thing – who will Edward Cullen choose? Who will Edward Cullen deserve? Who deserves Edward Cullen?"
I smiled. It was amusing when she wished I could read peoples' thoughts. Maybe she'd wish that I was human and that could happen too.
"Edward Cullen chooses someone at this very table." I looked at her from under my lashes. She was crimson again.
"Why me? I'm not complaining, but out of all the girls here, how do I deserve you?" she asked.
She didn't deserve me. Bella deserved a man that could grow old with her and love her and cherish her and touch her soft skin… I didn't deserve her, all the light from the world conserved in one person that just happened to not be repulsed by me… it was more than I would ever deserve in all of my existence.
"I'm looking at the only one in the world who I've ever felt this way for." I murmured.
I was being awfully forward considering the girl had barely agreed to go on a date with me. Bella Swan looked at me and blushed yet again.
MPOV
Get a hold of Bella, see Edward's dead heart break, kill her, suck her blood dry, kill him, run. Maybe I was going to extremes to make their lives miserable. Emmett, the only one who was ever half-decent was going to be pissed. I bet I could take him down after Edward.
I ran forward, praying that Alice didn't see me with Bella's blood on my hands.
Maybe Bella deserved to live. But then again, I hadn't even tasted human blood yet, and it smelled delicious. Bella will pay for what she did to me – humiliating me by not wanting me over Cullen. I'd kill her, torture him, and put him out of his misery after drinking up Bella.
I was trying to think of how to approach the situation. Maybe dragging Edward and Bella into the woods behind the school… I'd run them far away. I could hold Edward down while hearing Bella scream as I hurt him. Then I could hurt her and hear him scream as I killed her. Then I could kill him. Sweet revenge… for stealing my girl, for damning me to this life with few perks, to putting me on house arrest and treating me like a pet…
JPOV
"Please tell me what's happening." I pleaded to Alice.
"It's the same vision." She whispered.
"What same vision?"
"Mike and Edward fighting… what are we going to do? I can't see how this happens… it's like I'm blind."
"What can we tell Edward? What about the Swan girl?"
"We have to keep an eye on him. Mike should be at home, I'd see him coming. Edwards happy right now, I'm going to do my darnest not interrupt that."
"I guess that's all we can do." I muttered darkly.
"Well, I'm certainly not going to burst his bubble until necessary." Alice said.
EPOV
We walked slowly back to my car. I didn't want to leave her, I didn't want to let her go. Ever.
"May I follow you home? You can drop off your truck and we can go to Port Angeles." I suggested.
"Sounds great." Bella smiled.
She threw a quick grin at me (accompanied by a blush) and climbed into that hideous truck of hers. I sighed. How I wished I could shower her with gifts including a nice Mercedes Guardian… she needs something to protect her fragile human self.
I grinned back at her and climbed into my Volvo. The others could run home.
Why is Cullen hanging out with Bella so much? Are they dating now? A random person pondered.
I only smiled wider.
So close… I recognised that mental voice.
I turned around and saw Newton's hands opening Bella's truck door, ripping it off in the process.
God damn him.
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