Chapter 3

Bella POV:

"My name is James." He finally said after we'd been walking for a while.

"You obviously already know my name." I said with a frown in my voice.

"You said you wanted to be dead anyways, I gave you a better option."

"No you didn't, I just don't have to deal with anybody from school or my family anymore. No, now I have to deal with drinking people's blood. The worst part is that I still can't run and I'd still probably be the ugliest girl in school. Did you know that people only talked to me because I was better than all of them at soccer and I scored all of the goals?"

"You must have not really taken a very good look of your self in the mirror. You were beautiful even before I turned you."

"You really should stop bluffing. I'm not any less smart… at least I don't think I am." I stopped walking and looked at him. God, he was really beautiful. "Can we just slow down? I need to know everything there is to know about being a vampire."

"Yeah, sorry. Make yourself comfy, it's a pretty long story." He turned to the right and disappeared through the trees. I followed and saw that he had sat down in a pile of moss propped up on a tree. I sat next to a tree that was about 5 feet away from his and stared right at him.

"Why can't you run?" he asked.

"I thought you were going to talk the whole time."

"I just wanna know."

"I was in a car accident. Drunk driver hit me in an intersection, I was getting ready to turn left and I didn't even see him coming. I hadn't even started to turn yet, he came from the side of the road in which I was turning into and he was going 70 mph and he flipped my car. My leg got stuck when the fire department was trying to pull me out; I ripped out a ligament and a nerve in my knee. I can run but I limp the whole time and look retarded so I prefer not to." I said with an exasperated sigh.

"Well you don't have to worry about it anymore. When you're a vampire, the only thing that can kill you is fire. Someone has to rip up all of your body parts and burn them to finally kill you. Our skin is impenetrable to mortals, we have unimaginable strength and speed, you don't have to breathe at all, we don't sleep, and we're the most beautiful creatures on the earth.

"Our scent, touch, everything about us is irresistible to humans. They open themselves up to us so easily, it's unbelievable. That's why I'm surprised that you held your ground so well against me the other night. Most girls would either be in fear or in lust and do anything I wanted."

"So you were planning on drinking my blood but then I wanted you to kill me so you lost interest?" I asked.

"I didn't exactly lose interest, more like I gained interest. You were different from everyone else."

"Oh. So do we just roam the earth killing people all alone?" I asked.

"You don't have to. You can travel with me; I can show and teach you all the tricks of being a vampire."

"But why were you all alone? Is there something I should know about you?" I said with a smile.

"I was only turned about a decade ago. I never met who did it to me, and I never met up with any other vampires."

"Oh, I'll stay with you. Plus I need some guidance anyways so this 'Volturi' don't come looking for me."

"Oh, they're not that scary. You just have to avoid going in the sunlight when any human is around and don't kill someone in public and things like that that will expose your nature to humans."

"Oh, where are they now?"

"Well I think they live in some sort of castle in Volterra, Italy."

"How do you even know about them if you've 'never met up with any other vampires'?"

"Well I did meet up with this one clan once before. I was pretty much a new born, almost. I hadn't even been a vampire for a year, and they told me the order and rules of the vampire world."

"Oh, why didn't you stay with them?"

"They weren't really my type. Vegetarians."

"You can be a vegetarian if you're a freakin' vampire? Freaks never go away, do they? But, how are they vegetarian?"

"They don't like to take innocent human lives and they drink animal blood instead."

"Oh, what's the difference?"

"Human blood is so much more delicious. Animal blood tastes disgusting compared to human blood."

"Then why would you even drink animal blood? What's the point? Can't you drink human blood without killing them?"

"Yeah, but you turn them into a vampire. And once you taste their blood it's almost impossible to stop."

"Oh. How do we uh…how do we drink blood exactly? Do we uh…do we have uh…fangs?" He looked at me for a few seconds and burst out laughing. I took that as a no to the fangs, thank god. That would be a dead give away to humans too.

"Since we're on the topic of hunting, are you thirsty?" At the mention of 'thirsty', my throat starting burning. It wasn't like the burning of the fire but it felt like I hadn't drunken any water in days.

"The aching in my throat, does that mean that I'm thirsty?"

"Yes, yes it does." He laughed and got up to his feet and starting walking away. I loved how he didn't say where we were going, and just started walking somewhere, expecting me to follow.

"Where are we going?" I asked, matching my strides to his.

"Back to the clearing."

"Why?"

"You'll see." We walked back into the clearing in which I woke up in a little while ago. He walked into the middle of the clearing at looked back at me since I hadn't followed him. "Pretend I'm a human and do what you think you're supposed to do."

"I can't."

"Why not?"

"Because I would never kill someone as good looking as you."

"Oh so I'm good looking?" He smiled.

"Yeah, just a little bit." I said as I started walking towards him seductively.

"How much is a little bit?" He asked with his smile growing wider.

"I guess you'll just have to find that out, won't you?" I was face to face with him

now. I moved my face closer as if I was going to kiss him and then quickly moved my lips down to his neck. "Is this right?"

"Yes, perfect actually. I was actually fooled myself." I moved my head back to look up into his eyes. He leaned his head down towards my lips, but I turned around and walked toward the edge of the clearing.

I turned back to look at his face when I was close to the edge and he was still in the same position. His head bent down slightly, and his lips slightly pushed together as if he was about to kiss someone. "Which direction is the closest town?"