Chapter Five
I blink my eyes and I saw little black dots, I tried sitting up but something was keeping me down. When I could finally see clearly, I looked up to see what it was.
"I…what… huh?" I wasn't making any sense; I probably have a concussion, which would explain why Edward was right before my eyes!
"Edward... what the hell!" I yelled at him, and then hit him on the head. it kind of made sense…
He didn't even flinch, and my hand hurt like a bitch.
"Bella… there's something you should know, but I don't know if I can tell you" he said not meeting my eyes.
"Well you better tell me, because I'm just about to go crazy over here" I told him very seriously. It hasn't really sunk in yet that, Edward's right before my eyes.
"It's hard to explain, I'm just getting used to it now…" he mumbled.
"What are you alien, or something?" I said jokingly but the look on his face made me stop.
I didn't say another word. I brought up my hand to his cheek, and I really looked at him for the first time in three weeks.
He looked the same, but he was more… shaper? He looked great the before he disappeared, but he looked, like a Greek God, he was stunning.
"Why do you look so different?" I asked so low I could barely hear me saying it.
"I now this is going to sound so stupid, and I know you not going to believe me, because it's insane. I'm a… vampire; I think," he said so quickly; it was hard to keep up.
After it registered what he just said, I finally say something after several minutes.
"You think?" I ask calmly, surprising. I think he's gone insane from getting lost in the woods…
"Well, when I woke up there was this guy hovering over me and it was really creepy. He said something about you weren't meant to die, and said 'this is your life now, get used to it' and was gone before I could blink." He said very seriously.
"Okay, well talk about this later. But first I need to get you to the hospitable, I have no idea how you survived out here for three weeks, but we need you get you check over" I said, very concerned for his safety.
"Bella I know what you're thinking, but it's the truth. You have no idea how hard it has been to stay here after I learned what I was… if I came back to find you, I was too scared to think what would happen…
"Edward, you with me right now, and I'm fine" I said trying to pull him towards the way I came from. I didn't fail to notice how cold he was, I pushed in back in the corner of my mind.
I could see that Edward was very frustrated from me not believing that he was a 'vampire'. In a flash Edward put me on his back and started racing throw the forest. The trees where just a green blear, I couldn't see anything else besides from that.
I tried to close my eyes, but they wouldn't no matter how much I tried. They widen in fear and shock. After about 10 seconds, but felt more like hours, Edward placed me on the ground carefully, as if I would break into a million pieces.
I had to hold onto the rock nearby, I could feel my legs tremble. I couldn't think straight; I was just staring at him in disbelief.
He caught me just before I fell and then I noticed his eyes. They turned from his emerald green to pitch black. You could see black lines around his eyes, as if his vanes turned black…
Before I could blink I fell to the ground and Edward was on the other side of the clearing.
"Now do you believe me? Now do you see how dangerous I have become!" he yelled at me from across the clearing.
His whole body was shaking and even from afar I could tell that he was breathing heavily.
I was speechless, I felt like I couldn't breath properly. So many things were going threw my head at the same time. I couldn't believe it, even though I had proof before my very eyes.
Several minutes later after a lot of heavy thinking, Edward walked back over to me and gently put his arms around me.
"How did you know?" I quietly asked, with my arms around his waste.
"After a couple of hours when I woke up, I went into town to try to find you. But when I made it onto the rode, there was a car broken down on the side of rode. Even from where I stood, I could… smell them. It scared the hell out of me, and took everything in me to come back here, and not to…" He didn't finish his sentence.
"But what about now, how come you can be so close to me. Doesn't it bother you?" I asked calmly, I was taking this a lot better than a normal person would.
"I honestly don't know, I think it's because I know I would never do anything to harm you," he said after a minute.
"Okay then. So you're a vampire?" I bluntly asked.
He nodded slowly.
"But the suns out and your not turning into dust…" I stated just realizing that vampire can't go out into the sun.
To my complete surprise he chuckled.
"That's true sort of. If we touch sunlight we burn, then so on," he tells me.
I look at him confusingly.
"Edward I hate to break it to you, but your standing in the sunlight and I don't see any smoke" I tell him slowly.
He holds up his right hand, and on his fourth finger is a very unusual looking ring. It looks like it's made from stone with something craved onto it.
"I found this on me when I woke up, when I toke it off the sun was burning me. I figured it out pretty quickly and put it back on straight away," he said seriously.
"So a ring so you can came out in the day time. Cool" I said nonchalantly.
He rolled his eyes and pulls me in for a hug.
It was quiet for a while.
"What's going to happen now?" I mumbled into his chest, scared of the answer to come.
"I don't know, I can't go back if that's what you mean. I don't trust myself around anyone just yet, and then how would I explain a couple years from now when I don't age. I think it's for the best if I just disappear…" he told me sadly.
"NO! You can't just take off, you can't leave me again, and you have no idea how I was the last few weeks. I couldn't sleep, waking up from nightmares just before we blacked out in the car, or how I had nightmares that you were dead and everybody was at your funeral" I said with tears running down my face, and my voice was cracking and making it hard to me to talk. "How I would barely eat anything because it made me sick that I ate and you were somewhere unknown and had no food, no shelter! I couldn't cope! It as if half of me died without you there, I felt dead on the inside and I wouldn't give up on you, because I knew you were alive, I would of known if you had died. Then mum starting talking about shrinks and how to sort though my grief, then I told her I knew you weren't died and my own mother thought I was crazy!" I sobbed against his chest, I couldn't stop, all my pent of emotions from the last three weeks had finally caught up with me.
Edward was rubbing soothing circles on my back, in attempt to calm me down; it only worked a little bit.
"Okay I won't leave you again, I promise just please don't cry" he told in a strangled voice, it almost sounded like he was close to tears.
"Okay" I whispered into his chest, and then I hiccupped.
He laughed softly into my hair and gave me a gentle kiss to my forehead.
"Come on" he said, taking my hand and pulling me over to the grass. He sits down and pulls me down, so that I'm siting with my back to his chest.
I didn't even realize I fell asleep, but when I opened my eyes it was dark.
"How long was I asleep for?" I ask with my voice still full of sleep.
"A few hours, it looked like you needed it," he tells me.
"Edward I have to go back. Can you please come with me?" I pleaded with him.
"Bella, I cant. I already told you this," he said forcefully.
"I know, just stay in my room so no one can see you. We still have a lot to talk about" I say to him seriously.
I can tell he's thinking about it, and after a few minutes of thinking he gives me a slow nod.
I beam at him, and take his hand and pull him towards the way I came.
"This ways faster" he says hurriedly, and he scoops me into his arms and he's off running again.
This time he thinks ahead and faces my head into his chest so I don't see how fast where going.
Not even a minute later Edward gently puts me back on the ground and I make my way towards my car.
"Get in" I tell him and walk around to the driver's side.