Chapter ten
Biology was interesting because once again, Tanya glared at me throughout the class, but besides that, she had to sit with Mike Newton. A male, who has not stopped staring at me.
Edward caught on to why I giggled and smile at me.
During school the next day, Edward and I did not really talk to each other. Not because we were avoiding each other or anything but because we were so caught up in our thoughts about tonight that we haven't really talked at all to anyone.
At home, I was flipping out. I had no idea what to wear! I know I could just wear jeans but I had no shirt to wear! I was in a state of panic.
I searched and searched through my big closet. Nothing. Rose and Alice then came in with shoes, shirt and jeans.
I smiled at them and said, "Thanks girls! You are the best sisters ever!" I said and gave them a hug.
"It's what we're here for." Rose smiled and she and Alice walked out.
I got dressed and looked in the mirror. Not too casual but not too fancy either. It was perfect! I was wearing a brown and white tube top, black leather jacket with some pumps. (.com/cgi/set?id=15536199)
I walked down the stairs and never really noticed the time until now. Wow, I just noticed I was in my closet for two and a half hours straight. Only a half an hour left. I hurried up the stairs again and into my bathroom. I straightened my hair quickly and put on lip-gloss and a little eyeliner. I walked out of my room, down the stairs and went straight to the living room where I collapsed onto the sofa.
"Ha ha. It is quite funny seeing you run around your room and closet trying to find something to wear for your date with Edward. It shows you really care about how you look around him." Alice smiled. "Either that or I am washing off on you."
"You are washing off on me. What are you contagious? Plus, I want to look nice for him I mean, he beautiful while I'm… not." I said. "And don't say it's because he's a vampire because he'd still be beautiful if he was human or any other creature."
"Bella, you are beautiful. You may not see it, but you are." Rose said.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door.
I got up and opened the door. The stood Edward, he didn't look happy.
"What is it?" I asked.
"You really think you're not beautiful?" He asked, looking deeply into my eyes.
"Eavesdropping much?" I asked, he just stared, waiting for my answer. "No, I don't think I am beautiful."
He didn't say anything, he just pulled me into a hug. He pulled away before saying, "I told you before… you are beautiful Bella. Every guy in the school things you are. I should know."
"I don't know. I still think they're half blind." I said.
"I'm not though. My eyesight is perfect remember? And right now I see the most beautiful women I have ever seen in my existence." He smiled.
"You could be a little biased."
"I could be, but then again, the others are not biased." He said, then asked, "Are you ready to go?"
"Yeah." I said then yelled, "See you later girls."
"See ya!" Yelled Alice.
"Get out of here you two!" Rose said from the living room.
"I feel so loved." I said after I shut the door.
Edward walked me over to the Volvo and opened my door for me.
"Always a gentleman." I said.
"wouldn't be much of myself if I wasn't" he said before shutting my door and walked over to his side.
He got in, started the car and said, "Bella, you are the most unique and wonderful women I have ever met," before backing out of the driveway and off to Port Angeles.
"Thanks. You're pretty unique yourself." I replied.
He chuckled and drove easily down the highway. We drove in a comfortable silence until Edward decided to break it.
"So how was your life before moving here?"
"Not that exciting. I did not live on Fairy island with my father and mother though. When we got old enough, our parents got us a house near the island and we would live there during the week but on Fridays after school we would go back to the island and stay there for the weekend." I replied.
"What does the island look like?" He asked.
"It's truly beautiful. I wish to go back one day to see the flowers, trees, and the beautiful lake that the water fairies created for the kids. My mother used to take us there all the time. Everything was at peace before. Now, it's tense and everyone's scared."
"It sounds way more fantasy then reality."
"It does, it is sometimes hard to believe it is real. But then I remember, I'm the princess and I go back and everything is still there."
"You hope to go back one day don't you?" He asked sadly.
"I have to." I looked down at my hands then said, "I hope you can come with me when the time comes. You and your family would love it there, everything Is peaceful, and everyone would know what you were so there wouldn't be any secrets." I smiled at him.
His face lit up when I said that and said, "You would really want to take a vampire to your island even though vampires are what started the trouble in the first place?"
"You and your family are different. I believe that. Your family is not like those creatures who would like to believe they are civil. You are all different. You're different." I voice lowered at the last sentence.
"I would love to come and see this place that you call home." He smiled, looked at me, and then quickly turned back to the road.
I smiled and asked, "So what's your favourite color?"
He looked at me, laughed then said, "You want to know my favourite color?"
"Yeah, I want to know everything about you so start talking!" I replied.
"Blue." He replied, "Yours?"
"Gold." I said without thinking. I blushed, he definitely noticed, and I said, "Or Brown."
"Why did you blush and hesitate when you said gold?" Of course, he would ask.
I blushed deeper and said, "It's embarrassing."
"I won't judge or laugh I promise." He smiled.
"Fine, it's… the color of your eyes right now." I said looking back down at my hands.
I think I saw a smirk on his face, he actually enjoyed that I liked the color because it was his eye color.
"Why brown?" He asked in confusion.
"Because I miss brown. Everything here is green and on the island, they have the nice sandy beaches that were the lightest shade of brown. I used to spend most of my time there." I said looking out the window.
"What did you do on the beach all the time?" He asked.
"I just stared out the ocean, thinking. When I was little I used to imagine what the outside world was like. I never started going off the island until I was fifteen. We were home schooled until then." I said.
"What do you think about now when you look out into the ocean?" He asked.
"You really want to know everything about me don't you? I thought I was asking the questions?" I laughed.
"Well, I'll answer all of yours if you answer mine and as for your first question. I'm interested in everything about you." He smiled at me again before turning back to the road.
"Well, I think about life. I usually just think about fairy tales." I blushed looking out the window.
"Fairy tales? Why?" He asked.
"In fairy tales, princesses get their prince. I always wonder when I'm going to get my happy ending."
"You will get your happy ending, Bella. You have to." He said looking out the windshield, his face serious.
"I don't know, I think I'm going to be one of those princesses who fall for a commoner, because every prince I have met have been spoiled rich kids who don't know how to hold a door open for a girl. Trust me, Rose went all out when one prince did that to her. It was bad."
"Well, let us hope Emmett can be chivalrous. He likes her a lot."
"Really?" I asked.
"Yeah. He couldn't stop talking about holding her up when she was weak after you girls left." He chuckled.
"That's good considering she likes him too." I smiled.
We then pulled up to a little restaurant. It was perfect for a first date.
"You sure know how to pick a place." I said.
"Well, I have been known for my keen sense in these things." He said, got out and walked over to my door.
"Oh so you take all your first dates here?" I asked as he opened my door.
"Oh yes, considering you are the very first girl I have gone on a date with in over a century." He laughed.
"Well, so far, you are doing alright." I smiled.
"Good to know." He smiled before holding the front door of the restaurant open for me.
"Why thank you." I smiled.
"Nothing less, for a princess." He whispered in my ear as we walked over to the podium.
"You're a poet and I didn't know it." I said to him.
"I can do a rhyme anytime." He chuckled as the women assessed Edward. I gave her a little glare and she ignored it.
"Table for two?" She asked.
"Yes, please." Edward said politely.
She took us to a table in the back. I was surprised that she didn't bring us to the middle where she could keep an eye on Edward. Guess she moved on or something.
"The waitress will be out to take your orders shortly." She smiled, and then moved on.
"Wow, first girl besides you, Rosalie and Alice who hasn't been drooling all over me."
"So I've noticed." I smiled at the fact he didn't noticed I kind of did drool over him after first talking to him. "So, back to the questions… what's your favourite genre of music?"
"I have to say, classical. Hip hop and rock is just too much for me." He smiled. "Yourself?"
"Classical, Debussy is great." I said.
"You like Debussy? Never would have guessed." He said, not totally convincing. I knew that look from Alice.
"You knew I liked that, how?" I asked.
"I don't know what you are talking about." He said.
"Uh huh. You have the look. Alice's 'I'm lying' look." I said.
"Okay, well…" Then he stopped just before the waitress came, took our drink orders, then left.
"One, why are you getting something? You don't eat, second, continue what you were going to say." I demanded.
"Well, I'm not ordering anything to eat, but I'm ordering a drink for you." He smiled, "And… I kind of knew you liked Debussy because…"
"Because…?"
"Well, this might seem like stalker material but, I seen the CD… in your room."
"You were in my room?" I asked.
He nodded and said, "You're interesting when you sleep. You talk."
"Shouldn't you have been sleeping?"
"I don't sleep."
"Never?"
"Not at all. So, I was hunting when I just wanted to see you so I strolled passed your house and heard you talking. You said my name and I thought you might have seen me but when I looked up at the window above me, it was dark and no one was there so I hopped up and seen you sleeping." He explained.
"So you…?"
"So, I watched you sleep. You talked a lot. But while watching you I saw the Debussy CD on your desk."
"So that's why I smelled you in my room! I thought I was going crazy! You know, a normal person would think that was weird, but…" I started, he looked worried before I said, "I think it's kind of sweet."
He relaxed and said, "Really?"
"Yeah, I mean, what other guy would just sit there and watch a girl sleep. Any other person would have thought it was boring."
"It wasn't all that boring, like I said before, you talked." He said.
"What exactly did I say that amused you?" I asked just before the women came back with our drinks. She asked, "What can I get for you?"
Edward looked at me.
"I'll have the mushroom Ravioli." I said, she quickly jot it down on the pad then turned to Edward.
"Nothing for me." He said.
"You sure?" She asked.
"Yes, thank you." He gave her a breath taking smile before she turned and walked away. Edward turned back to me and said, "like a said before, you said my name a little, you said a couple of things about 'sand' and, you said that… uh…" He looked down.
"What did I say?" I asked, immediately alert.
"You said that… you loved me."
I blushed so deep I think I would have burst, "Oh my god!" I didn't know how to react to that, I was so embarrassed. We haven't even finished our first date yet and I already technically told him I loved him. This is so not going how I planned it."
"Don't worry about it. It was just a dream." He said.
"But…"
"I said don't worry about it. It's okay that you don't feel that way in reality." He reassured me.
" But, that's just it…" I said, "It is true."
"You do love me?" He said, sadness that was there before has quickly dissipated.
"Yes, but it's alright if you don't love me." I said looking down at my hands that were placed on my lap.
"Bella, look at me." He said, I was too scared to but I did. "Bella, I love you too." He smiled.
"Really?" I asked, shocked.
"Why wouldn't I, is the question to be asked." I laughed considering my sisters had asked me that same question. "What?"
"My sisters asked me that same question, after we kissed, while we were carrying Alice home." I blushed at the memory.
"Well, they were right to ask you that. I do love you." He smiled.
"I love you too."
The waitress then came with my meal, asked Edward if he had changed his mind and when he refused her, she left us alone.
"So, what do you like to do in your free time?" I asked.
"Uh, well I play the piano and I read a lot, but I usually hunt when I have absolutely nothing to do." He said.
"What do you hunt?" I asked out of plain curiosity.
"Well, whatever is near by mostly. However, we have to go to over populated places so we don't endanger the wildlife around here."
"That's a good. Not the having to far away part but the not endangering animals part." He looked at me weirdly, "I am the nature fairy you know. animals are a part of it." I added and he just nodded.
"So can you talk to animals or something?" He asked.
"No, I just get a general idea of their emotions and what they desire. I usually just help around the forest. I don't know exactly what they are thinking." I answered.
"that's cool. You and jasper have something in common." He said. I looked at him weirdly, "He can feel animals emotions?" I asked.
"Not animals, humans. He's an empath. He can feel and control the emotions around him." He explained.
"That is so cool. No offence but that is cooler then mind reading." I said to him jokingly.
"Oh I know it is. I would rather know what a person is feeling then what they are actually thinking sometimes." He laughed.
"Yeah." I said and took a bite out of my ravioli.
"So what do you do in your spare time?" Edward asked.
I swallowed before saying, "Well, I like to play guitar, I know a little bit of the piano but, not very well. Alice is the music person in the family. Music comes with her power in some ways. But I like to read, I write a little, um… and I love photography. Landscapes are the best to photograph." I said.
"Really? Why landscapes?" He asked.
"Well, I think pictures can sometimes show someone of some things soul. And that's exactly what it does to nature. It shows the pure soul of nature." I explained, "Plus, I like to capture the moments no one pays attention of."
"I wonder what a photo would show of me considering I have no soul to show." He said.
"I don't believe you do not have a soul Edward. If you didn't, we wouldn't be here." I said and finished my dinner.
"That is to be debated. Are you ready to leave?" He asked.
"Yes." I said. I was still in the shock that Edward believed he had no soul. The good kindhearted man I am with right now, he would have to have a soul.
Edward paid the bill and we both left. We were next to his car but after he opened my door I said, "Edward, don't think you don't have a soul because, if you didn't, you wouldn't be you." I smiled and got in the car. He smiled as he walked over to his side and got in quickly.