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Bella POV
The next day I didn't go to school. To face a crowd full of people was one thing I couldn't handle right after my confrontation with Jacob.
So he had officially turned into a wolf now and his pack had told him my whole history. Great, I thought sarcastically. He would hate me for a long time. When he finally forgave me would our friendship be too broken for it to go back to where we were?
I had driven to the hospital as soon as I had awaken (obviously getting ready before I left) and spent the whole day there. Charlie didn't question why I wasn't at school. He knew something had gone on between me and Jake, so he just left it. I was grateful for this. I didn't want to have to lie to Charlie.
Around 10pm I went home and slept. The whole night I felt like someone was watching me, like they were watching over me. For the first time in a while, I felt safe and slept well despite the chaos of the last few days.
Edward POV
I couldn't bring myself to confront her in that state. She was balling her eyes out over the stirring wheel, and that was definitely not the time to talk to her. I fixed her truck as quickly as I could and stayed in the bushes, watching over her, making sure nothing went wrong. I had told Alice to drive home and that I would do it some other time. When twilight hit she left the lay by and drove away. For a split second I swear she saw me among the trees but if she did she didn't show it.
The next day Bella wasn't going to be at school, Alice had seen her sitting in the hospital room beside Charlie, just thinking. I'm sure she had a lot to think about, but I wouldn't know. It was so frustrating not knowing what she thought, not knowing what type of person she was. I sat in class all day, hardly paying attention, wondering what she was doing at that very second.
When I got back home after school I went straight to her house and waited. I didn't plan to confront her; I just wanted to be in her presence. A part of me told me to run, get out, and not go near her. That she was bad news and would ruin our lives. But a stronger, more defiant part said that if I
went away from her now it would cause me the most unbearable pain, and that I loved her, more than life its self, and that love was stronger than the lust for her blood. But I knew I could always be wrong and hated myself for taking the chance.
When she got back, she went straight to her room and closed the door. I waited until I heard a steady breathing, and then climbed through the window and sat in the corner on her rocking chair. I just watched her sleep and it made me relax. I could really not comprehend why I loved this human but, to be honest, I didn't want to. Love was one of those rare things that you find once in your life. I had been waiting for it for 100 years, and now that I had found it I would do anything I could to keep it. I didn't think I would tell her this for she needed to make her own mind up and I wouldn't want to push anything on her. I wanted her to be happy.
In the middle of the night she started to talk, at first I thought she had seen me but when she rolled over and started to sore slightly I knew she was still a sleep. So she talks in her sleep? Interesting. She started to mumble lots of different things that didn't make sense.
"Mom… Jacob doesn't… one year left until…Edward Cullen…" at the last words, I froze. She was talking about me? Don't get your hopes up Edward, I told myself; she was probably just thinking about the biology lesson.
I stayed in her room until dawn. Then, I got up and left through the window again. I went home and changed into some clean clothes ready for school. Every one was wondering where I had been, but I wasn't going to fulfill there curiosity, what happened last night was private – though I knew Alice had seen me and was very aware of my feelings for Bella.
We had devised a new plan to find out what Bella knew about us. We, well Alice and I, would get to know Bella and slowly and subtly find out what she knew. This gave me the perfect excuse to talk to Bella without the rest of my family knowing how I felt. I knew that Bella would be at school today and that we both had biology today as well. Alice didn't have Spanish with her until tomorrow and so today it was just me. There was always the chance that Bella would find out what we were doing, but it was very unlikely.
We drove to school in the normal way. Alice and I in the front bickering, Em and Rose in the back being all lovey-dovey and Jasper next to them trying his hardest not to listen to them. We then pulled up into the school parking lot. We all got out and went to class, it was another typical day in Forks, so it was absolutely freezing, miserable and wet. The water was frozen all around the school so you had to be careful where you put your feet –well normal humans anyway.
I watched as Bella Swan pulled carefully into the lot and parked. She got out, holding onto her truck and then walked to her friends slowly, slipping a
few times on the way. I chuckled to myself and walked to class. I didn't have biology until third period and so I had to wait a bit until I could talk to Bella. The day, up till then, went very slowly. First history and then Latin and when bio finally arrived I was desperate to see Bella again.
I walked in and there; sitting in her usual place was Bella. She looked up from her notes and sighed. What was she thinking?
Bella POV
I looked up from my notes and saw him come in. He had a picture of worry on his face until he saw me sitting at my desk. I sighed. What was this lesson going to be like? I hadn't really thought about Edward since my last biology lesson, but he had been there, sitting at the back of my mind. Did he have control of himself yet? Was he safe? Well we were about to find out.
He walked to me with a crooked smile on his face and my heart began to melt. What is wrong with you, I asked myself, you have seen vampires smile a thousand times and it had never had this affect on you. I looked into his deep eyes and smiled back. They were now a rich gold and just as interesting as before. He sat next to me and turned towards me. He looked like he was breathing; maybe he has super self-control or something.
"We didn't really get off to a good start last time," he told me, the smile turning in to a full beam. "Lets start again. Hi, I'm Edward Cullen," and he held out his hand to me.
"Bella Swan," I said taking it. His hands were cold and his grip tight. We let our hands drop and sat in silence for a moment staring into each other's eyes.
Then it hit me. He wanted to know what I knew about his family. With the reactions I had been giving them, I probably made it too obvious that I knew something I shouldn't know about them. And the fact I smelt like another vampire. I frowned and he looked at me confused and, quite frankly, annoyed. I smiled at this. I couldn't tell them that I knew, not until he came right out with it and asks, "How do you know we are vampires." I would say I knew, but that was it, wouldn't tell them but that was it, I wouldn't tell them how because I wanted to keep that part of my life out of Forks.
"So Bella, how long have you been in Forks for?" he asked trying to sound like he was making polite convocation. I would try and stay along the truth as much as possible.
"Since I was about 10, my mom lives abroad and she wants me to stay with my dad. I go and visit her every summer and she comes here every now and then," I told him lightly, making nothing of it.
"Your parents are divorced?" he asked, actually sounding genuinely interested.
"You could say that," I told him smiling. Technically, Charlie and Renée are still married because the papers never came through and neither of my parents really cared. He looked at me in annoyance, like he knew I wasn't giving him the whole picture. I started to feel self-conscious.
"What?" I asked him, snapping him out of the trance.
"Your very hard to read. I am…err… very good at reading peoples emotion and thoughts and things, but with you there's nothing. I can't read you," he frowned. So he was basically telling me, in a very subtle way, that he was a vampire with the gift of reading minds, like Aro, and that he couldn't read my mind, like Aro. But I guess Edward's power worked differently then his, for Aro had to touch you to read your mind.
I beamed at him when he told me this. I must intrigue him. "I have often been told that," I smiled wider and his frown got deeper.
The teacher walked in and cut our conversation short.
Edward POV
She was the most frustrating human I had ever met. All these comments she came out with, like she was hiding something, was the most infuriating thing I had ever come across. It's like she knew what I was trying to do and so was making it 10 times more difficult for me. All I knew was I wasn't going to break first and admit that we were vampires. She was going to admit first that she knew we were vampires.
After class I walked with her to the canteen, she seemed smug and this just annoyed me more.
"What do you know? It is killing me, just tell me, your hiding something," I told her through gritted teeth. We came to the door of the lunchroom and she turned to face me, her chocolate brown eyes looking deeply within my golden ones.
"I don't know what you mean," She smiled at me and walked over to her friends. I watched her sit and get out her sketchbook before I went to my family.
That went well, Alice thought sarcastically as I sat down.
"Thanks Alice," I told her in the same tone.
"Well you could have done better. She owned you in that round," she said bluntly.
"Don't you think I know that," I said through my teeth.
"Edward got owned? By who?" Emmett suddenly jumped into the conversation.
"Bella Swan," Alice said smugly. Emmett booming laughter echoed through the hall and everyone turned to look at us.
"Nice going Emmett, why don't you just make everyone look at us," Jasper said from besides him. A huge grin erupted from Emmett.
"Edward just got owned! This will only ever happen once, it might tune down his ego slightly," he goes smugly.
"What ego?" I asked him in surprise. Everybody on the table laughed, I didn't want to know.
I turned to Bella and see a pained looked planted on her face, she was looking down at a piece of her work.
"Bella?" Angela turns to her in concern, peeking over her should to look in Bella's book. Bella pulled the book shut quickly and turned to her friend with a smile.
"Yes," she replied to Angela.
"Err…nothing," she said, turning back to her Jessica.
I started to think about what Angela had seen in Bella's sketchbook. It was of a dark skinned boy, of around 16, with long silky hair. I knew who this boy we, he resemble his grandfather far too much to be mistaken for anything else. He was a Quileute, a werewolf, and Bella was friends with him.
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