Chapter 4

Bella POV:

The closest town to where we were was Geneva, New York. We walked towards the town holding hands as if to make us look like we were a couple. I could tell he was enjoying it, though. It was dark out, but it sounded as if a lot of people were still out so I knew it wasn't that late.

"We need to go to a club. There will be a lot of wasted people there; easy prey." James whispered in my ear. "Once we get there, just act like you don't even know me. More boys will crowd around you then."

"What about our eyes? Are mine red too, because that's a huge turnoff." I turned my head up to look at him.

"Well looks like we'll just have to go like this. We wouldn't be able get color contacts fast enough, and any eye doctor places are probably closed. Plus, some people get red contact lenses to look cool anyways."

"Oh, yeah that's true." We got closer to the town and the scent hit me. It was almost irresistible, and I stopped abruptly and buried my face in his chest and gripped his arms tightly to keep myself from losing control.

"What's wrong?" He asked with a worried look on his face.

"The smell…I'm going to lose control." I struggled out between my closed teeth.

"Oh! I totally forgot about the first hunt! I'm so sorry Bella; we can go back to the forest before you lose control."

"No, I'm fine I can do this. It'll just make me look like I'm on drugs, the guys in the club will just think of me as even more vulnerable."

"Ok, when you find someone who will do whatever you want, make him follow you out to the forest." I nodded and we continued walking into town. Now, I was just gripping his right arm tightly with my left to restrain myself. Once I got more used to the smell, I released my iron grip and grabbed his hand. ****

We walked into the club at different times so as to look like we had no relation to each other. I went first, and walked straight to the bar, making no eye contact. I sat down at a bar stool and tried to control myself since the smell was two times as worse in here than it was on the street, and there wasn't even that many people in here.

I waited about five minutes before somebody walked up to me.

"Hey pretty lady, can I buy you a drink?"

"No thanks, I'm good. I drank too much last night, major head ache today."

"Still? That sucks, I hate those killer hangovers. That's why you look so down. Do

you wanna get outta this place?"

"How's the forest sound? A nice quiet place where we can talk, and maybe some other things, too." I flashed him the same seductive smile that I gave James just a little while ago. The look in his eyes told me that he was going to say yes.

"Actually that sounds way better than staying here."

"Great, maybe my headache will go away in the fresh air." I led the way to the door and looking for James on my way out. He was talking to a girl in the corner, he looked up at me and I winked at him. He nodded and I walked out the door.

We walked in silence until I reached the edge of the forest, then he started talking.

"Is your head feeling any better?" He started.

"Nope."

"What's your name?"

"Isabella."

"That's a really sexy name." I turned around and smiled at him.

"I know." He came towards me to start kissing, and I backed away and walked further into the forest. We were still pretty close to the town so someone could see what I was going to do to him.

"Where are you going?"

"I want to go somewhere where it's completely silent."

"What if we can't find our way back?"

"I know my way around the forest really well. I come out here a lot." We walked for about five minutes when I finally stopped and turned back around to look at him. "Right here's fine."

He walked towards me and started kissing my neck. His scent was overpowering and I let myself go to my instincts. It was like a monster just took over my body, the little training that James made me do was useless because my instincts just took

over. I pushed him to the ground and sunk my teeth into his neck. Once the blood hit my tongue it was like an explosion of sweetness, totally unexplainable.

It was like nothing I had ever tasted. I heard him moaning underneath me, but I couldn't stop, the taste was too good. After about a minute of the explosion in my mouth, no more blood came out.

I lifted my head from his body and looked down at what I had just done. I saw him lying lifeless on the floor, and I just started crying, but no tears came out of my eyes. I sat next to him and just kept crying at what I had done. I understood now why vampires chose the vegetarian route.

James found me with my head on my knees crying a little while later. I couldn't tell how long it was before he found me and picked me up and flew somewhere where, it seemed.

I was still crying when he set me down again. He lifted my face up to his, and I saw worry in his eyes. I calmed myself down enough so that I could speak.

"We can fly too?" I asked with a shaky voice.

"Fly? I wish! Why would you think we could fly?"

"Because when you picked me up, it felt like we flew away." He started laughing at me again. Maybe I just shouldn't ask him anymore questions if he's going to laugh at me every time I do.

"That was just me running. Like I told you, we have unimaginable speed."

"So I could do that too?" I asked.

"Yeah." I fell to the floor on purpose, so that I could sit down. He sat down next to me and put my head on his chest. We stayed like that for a while until I finally calmed down all the way. It just hurt me to see his body laying lifeless on the floor beneath me, and knowing that I was the one who had done it to him.

"So what was it that just made you crack?" He finally said after a while of just sitting there. He started running his hand through my hair and on my cheek.

"Just seeing his body on the floor lifeless, knowing that I was the one who had done it. I just couldn't take it. What if he was the manager of a business or had a family he was going to go home to?"

"Well by the way he was hitting on you, it didn't look like he had much of a family back home."

"Well he still probably had family."

"You can't think of those things, it's the way of life. It's not like we're supposed to hold ourselves back. We were created to hunt humans, not animals. Just like humans were created to eat meat like cows and pigs. In their own way, humans do the same thing to chickens and pigs and cows."

"It's still different though."

"No, actually it's pretty much the same. Do you think coyotes feel bad when they kill rabbits to survive? Rabbits are lower in the food chain, that's just how life works. We just happen to be higher in the food chain that humans. They think they're at the top, but they're wrong." I sat up and looked at him directly.

"Now that you pt it that way, you're exactly right. They are like rabbits and we are the coyotes."

"Yeah, there's nothing you can really do about it. To make it easier, we could go up into New York City and start killing all of the thieves and criminals that we saw who were supposed to be in jail anyways."

"I'd like that a lot better. We can make our way across the country doing that. It's kind of nice that we never get tired and we never have to sleep. We have so much more time on our hands." He stood up and held out his hand to me, and I took it.