Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or any of its characters.

A/N: Too long, I know, I suck. It's been a crazy couple of weeks, birthdays, work, doing favours for friends, babysitting, getting my vacations together, etc, etc. I'm soooooooo tired. And I'm sad because I didn't get to write sooner, I really wanna get this story going.

I just realized that I left one of my favourite sentences of the book out of last chapter, :-(. I might change it a bit and add it, I will let you know if I do. By the way, it's "Edward Cullen is staring at you" only because then I get the chance to write "Edward Cullen is staring at you again" and I love that :-).

I don't like this chapter that much, just like last one I had to go to by the book and I didn't really want to do that. I think after this chapter is when things start to come out different, we'll see…

I woke up in an unusual mood the next day, unusual for me anyways. I felt a silly grin on my face as I got out of bed which I didn't fully comprehend, but liked. I looked forward to go to school today, to see her, the one who I thought hated me and now treated me kindly. Every time I closed my eyes I would see her, her beautiful face, her hypnotizing smile. I felt very silly.

I was still weirded out by the fact she lied about her eyes and that she could be a little cold and hostile at times but I was somehow drawn to her.

Before heading downstairs I tried to hide my smile a bit, to avoid mockery and embarrassing questions and succeeded halfway – Emmet looked at me grinning suspiciously and Alice told me just by staring at me and smiling that she knew something was up.

When we reached the school's parking lot I saw her by her rusty old Chevy truck. I parked about 30 feet away from it in one of the last spaces left. As soon as we got there everyone hurried out of the car, leaving me to finish parking. I was stepping out of the car and closing my door when I heard a high-pitched sound. It sounded like breaks on the street. I turned around to look at what was going on and froze.

A lot of things happened at the same time and I was amazed at the ability of my brain to process them all.

Lauren's van was coming in my direction at an amazing speed, and she was definitely not in control of it. Suddenly something cold knocked me to the ground and forced me to stay there.

The van hit the car next to me and then I saw her, one hand pulling me down, her shoulder blades on my Volvo and her other hand on the van as if to stop it from crashing us. I didn't understand, she couldn't have been there.

The van moved away drawing circles in the ground, but it returned soon enough and I felt her moving me around to place me at a safe spot and pushing the van away. This time it fell on its side finally stopping.

Suddenly people began screaming and approaching us, I could hear Alice worried screams among them, but couldn't bring myself to worry about that at the moment.

"Edward, are you alright?" Bella said preoccupied.

"Yeah, I'm fine." I said, still shocked.

I tried to stand up, but she stopped me.

"Be careful, I think you hit your head pretty hard."

"How did you…?" My head was fine, but I was confused. I didn't really understand what had happened. "How did you get here so fast?"

"I was standing right next to you, Edward." She said in a very serious tone.

I knew what I had seen made no sense, but it was the truth, it had to be.

"You were over there, by your car."

"No, I wasn't." She said harshly.

"I saw you." I was getting a little tired of being lied to.

"Edward, please." The sadness in her eyes had come back and I thought about it giving in, but it didn't matter because when I was about to answer her, people started to get close.

They started to check on Lauren who seemed to be in bad shape. By then someone had already called 911 and I could hear the sirens getting close. Before I knew it I was being moved into a stretcher, I tried to refuse, but wasn't allowed to. My siblings were there by now and had called Carlisle to alert him that I would be heading to the hospital, all of their faces filled with worry as I tried to explain to them that I was unharmed. Bella let the EMTs set her in another stretcher without complaining even though we both knew she really didn't need one.

When we arrived to the hospital we were set in the emergency room. I felt silly, there was nothing wrong with me and unfortunately I didn't get a chance to speak to Bella again since there were people all around us.

After a few minutes Lauren was brought in and as soon as she saw me she started telling me how sorry she was.

"It's okay, it wasn't your fault." I replied.

"I should have been more careful, I'm so sorry." I didn't understand how it was possible, but I sensed that even though she was badly injured she was hitting on me somehow. The way she spoke, the way she stared. I think Bella noticed to because suddenly she started smirking.

"How did you get out of there so fast?" The million dollar question was asked.

"Umm… Bella pulled me off the way." What else could I say, anyways?

"Who?" She said probably thinking she heard wrong.

"Isabella Swan, she was standing right next to me." I said glaring at Bella which took the smile out of her face.

"Oh." Said Lauren quite surprised. "I didn't even see her. I suppose it was the shock of it all." She spoke as if Bella wasn't even in the room.

I could tell Bella was glad she had swallowed that, I, however, wanted answers.

After a few minutes my father rushed into the emergency room.

"Hello, son. Are you ok?" He said a little bit worried.

"I'm fine, I think Lauren got the worst of it."

"He hit his head pretty hard." Bella spoke directly to my father.

"In that case I would like to run some tests just in case."

"I am really fine." I said glaring at her.

"Edward, better safe than sorry." I knew I had no way out. "And how about you, Miss Swan, are you ok?"

"Yes, I got away unharmed." Carlisle smiled at her, she looked at him as if trying to convince him. He never gave up on anything so easily, but somehow she got away with it.

"It is quite the miracle." I said with a smile on my face and a calm tone so that only she would understand the hidden meaning in my words.

She glared at me, but the sadness in her eyes was evident.

After about an hour or so I was finished with all my exams and was free to go. I was heading outside when I saw Bella talking to someone in a police uniform, actually I assume they were talking because really their lips were barely moving. I assumed it was her father, Chief Swan. He was so much like her, his skin pale, even though he wore his hair short it was evident he had curly hair, and he seemed cold and distant.

I decided to take the opportunity before me and I approached them.

"Hi. I'm sorry to interrupt. My name is Edward Cullen. May I take Bella away from you for a couple of minutes?" Chief Swan stared at me oddly and then at Bella as if looking for her consent.

"Fine." She said reluctantly and we moved to a deserted part of the hallway.

"What do you want?" She said as soon as we settled, her tone cold as ice.

"I want to know what happened. You owe me an explanation." I replied in the same cold tone as her.

"I saved your life, I owe you nothing."

"I saw you, it…, what happened, it isn't possible."

"You hit your head, you don't know what you saw." The sadness in her eyes grew by the minute, as if she hated having to be there, lying to me. As if she hated how harsh I sounded.

"My head is fine." I was getting more frustrated by the minute.

"What do you want from me, Edward?"

"The truth."

"What do you think happened?"

"All I know is that you were 30 feet away from me and Lauren's van was coming at me and suddenly you nailed me to the ground and pushed the van with your hands, and…" I couldn't go on, it all sounded so crazy.

"You think I stopped the van?" She said almost mockingly.

I nodded infuriated.

"Nobody will believe that, you know?" She spoke with anger clearly in her eyes.

"I wasn't planning on telling anybody."

"Then why does it matter?"

"It matters to me."

"Can't you just thank me and get over it?" She was getting really frustrated.

"Thank you." I said still waiting for her explanation.

"You're not going to let this go, are you?" It was amazing how her feelings kept changing from anger to sadness with every word that came out of my mouth. I couldn't understand what was making her so sad and I desperately wanted to.

"No."

"I hope you enjoy disappointment, then…" After scowling at me for a few seconds she left, for a minute I thought she would start to cry and I felt sorry for the way I was treating her.

When I arrived home Esme was really upset, but as she saw me, no bandages, not a starch in my body she was relieved. She hugged me tightly and shed a couple tears that she quickly dried away with the back of her hand.

I excused myself from dinner claiming I was too tired, but in truth I just needed to think. I was up for hours trying to make sense of what had happened, but nothing I ever came up with could justify any of it. Eventually I drifted off to sleep.

That was the first night I dreamt of Isabella Swan.

A/N: I hoped you enjoyed it. I'm going on vacation tomorrow for a week (first vacation in a year) so I won't get to update at least until next Sunday… and on Monday I start my classes…

Please, please, review!!!! I get sad when you don't and I get really happy when you do which encourages me to write. And I am still looking for suggestions on how Edward finds out and any other ideas you may have.