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"What did you say?" I asked. I was completely stunned. Did that fucker just read my mind?
He mumbled something under his breath, a curse maybe. Before looking straight at the wall and not at me.
"Nothing. I said nothing," he lied.
"Liar," I accused. "So I just said something out loud then?"
That's when he turned to me. "No…..we both just…said nothing. That's all," he said. Does he think I'm fucking stupid?
"No I don't think your stupid," he said before clasping his hand to his mouth quickly.
I moved quickly around him to grab my bat from the bed. He grabbed the end just as I grabbed the base. I tried to pull it from his hand but all it did was stay still, my efforts a complete waste.
"Let go of my damn bat or fucking explain," I said threw clenched teeth.
He squinted at me, his lips turning into an angry frown. But he let go of the bat and pushed it away from himself.
"You wouldn't hit me with that bat. You've never hit anyone with a bat," he said.
"Read my mind again huh?" I said. He let out an angry sigh and shook his head at me.
"No. I did not," he said.
"Liar."
"I am not a liar!" he said and got up from the bed. He walked over to the window, standing like I had been, staring out at the night.
"How did you know what I was thinking?" I said slowly. "Can you read my mind?"
He looked toward the carpet again, his only salvation I guess, before turning and looking at me. "Sort of."
"What?" Oh dear god this shit is fucked up. "You really need to explain."
He looked at me, his face stone in thought, before he walked over to the bed and sat down across from me. His hands folded together as he began to speak.
"I can read any mind anywhere, but yours," he said.
"But you said you could….sort of read my mind…."
"Sometimes I can hear you, then I try to listen its gone. I'll look at you and try to hear your thoughts and their just quiet. But sometimes I'll hear them so clearly, clear as everyone else's."
I swallowed thickly as I tried to concentrate fully on everything he was saying. So my mind was fucked up. I always known my feet were fucked up because I was so clumsy, but I would never have guessed my mind was fucked up to.
"So my minds fucked up, right?" I asked, my fingers tracing the creases in my bed sheets.
He chuckled under his breath. "You think your messed up, but I'm the one who can read minds?"
"Well you can and can't hear me so there must be something wrong with me!" I said, my hands going up in the air in frustration. He laughed fully this time.
"No, Isabella. There is nothing wrong with you. At all," he said. His hand twitched by his side, as if he would have reached out and patted my hand but he restrained it. "Its so hard not answering your thoughts when I can hear you," he said, grabbing my attention again. "Your thoughts are so……loud and clear and they sound as if your right by me, just talking. That's why I answered you when you were thinking."
"Can you still hear me?" I asked. His head turned to the side as he looked at me.
"No. Sadly, I can not. Its like a switch sometimes. Its on then its off," he said with a small sigh. We both got quiet, thinking. I felt free to think what I wanted now, now that the switch was "turned off."
Edward had never even touched on anything I had said about the….vampire stuff. But I had gotten somewhere with him. Edward could read minds. Wow. I always believed in that stuff. I remember some great-aunt who could see the future who had been invited to some birthday of mine, but her present for me was telling me, in detail, every Christmas present I was to get. And I got everything she said. In every exact detail.
But aside from that: I had I dilemma. Do I just go on and ask him about the vampire stuff even with the fact that he will, most likely, not answer? Or do I just not even mention it at all? So I flipped a mental coin. Tails ask. Heads don't ask.
Tails won. Of course.
"So um…." I started to say. "What about the um……stuff from the 1918's? And the article about your father?"
Edward looked toward the closet, before speaking. "I thought you had forgotten about that."
"I don't forget things easily."
"Yes I know," he said turning to me and smiling.
"Well. Aren't you going to explain? Yes, its all real? No, its not real?"
"Can I please see where your getting your information from?" he asked.
I quickly grabbed my phone off of its charger, pressed the right buttons, and brought up the webpage. I was still zoomed in on the small date in the corner. I zoomed it out, catching a small glimpse of Edward's picture. I scanned the small screen before delicately handing him it to him. I noticed how he tried very, very hard not to let our fingers touch as the item was passed. He looked at me quickly before looking at the screen. His eyes twitched as he read, his index finger moving quickly and lightly over the screen to zoom or move the page. But when he zoomed down to the pictures he sat frozen.
"Edward?" I said. I had to stop myself from reaching out and putting a hand on his shoulder or arm. If he didn't want to touch me then I don't want to touch him.
He looked up at me, then back down at the screen a minute before setting it down on the bed.
"Bella. There are things in this world that you would never had thought existed. There are things in this world that shouldn't exits. Me, Bella, I shouldn't exist," he said, leaning toward me.
"And if you shouldn't exist then what are you?"
"You already know that part, Bella."
"Vampire……" I said quietly, almost a whisper. I couldn't believe I was saying it, I didn't believe it but maybe it was true.
"Yes……" Edward said, in a whisper also.
We didn't say anything after that, just stared at each other.
Edward was a vampire, Edward was a vampire, Edward was a vampire, Edward was a vampire, Edward was a vampire, Edward was a vampire.
It kept running threw my mind. Over and over. I didn't even care if he could hear it or not. A vampire was sitting on my bed, staring at me. A vampire sits next to me in biology. Edward Cullen is a vampire. Edward Cullen is dead, but he's a vampire.
"How old are you, Edward?" I asked, disturbing the killing silence.
"17."
"How long have you been seventeen?"
"One-hundred and four years."
Edward is 104 years old, Edward is 104 years old, Edward is 104 years old,
Edward is 104 years old, Edward is 104 years old, Edward is 104 years old.
Edward is a fucking vampire and I'm about to go insane. I'm about to have a fucking heart attack and Edward is a damn vampire!! Holy shit!
"Whoa!!" I shouted, jumping up from the bed and grabbed the bat from underneath the covers. "Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hold it right there guy!"
I clutched at my chest because it was becoming harder and harder to compute things and to breath.
"So you're a fucking vampire?" I said. Edward looked up at me curiously.
"Yes. I've been one for one-hundred and four years. I was dying of Spanish Influenza, in the hospital my father worked in, just like that article said. That picture was taken my seventeenth birthday," he said.
I breathed deeply in and out. "Okay. So you're a…vampire and I'm a human. And your in my room. At night. Wow, isn't that bad?" I asked with a nervous laugh.
"Yes, its hard for me to be around you. But I have control, I've been living with this curse for as long as I can remember and I know how to control myself. But you have to understand something about me Bella," he said, standing up and mirroring my stance. "I'm a monster, you shouldn't even be near me. I have control but control is easily broken."
Okay, he's a vampire and bipolar.
"So your dangerous but you hang around me, sneak into my room, sit on my bed. You put me in danger but you ask me not to hang around you, when its you who are hanging around me?" I said, totally confused.
"I know it may seem that way but if you say the word, right now, I'll leave. Never come back here. You'll never see me again. Just say it," he urged. He stepped toward me, his arms out almost like he wanted to hug me.
"I would never tell anyone, human or vampire, they had to leave," I said. "That's not my choice. And it will never be. But you're a vampire anyway so you could do anything you want, you don't have to listen to me."
"It doesn't work like that," he said, acting like I should now what he was talking about.
"Then how does it work?" I asked, truly frustrated. But then I realized he would give me some crazy fucking answer and I would be even more confused and frustrated. "Wait you know what, don't even worry about that. Just……just I don't know! Shit, look you don't have to go anywhere, I really don't give a fuck. Just try not to be so fucking confusing to me!" I let the anger flow freely now, and fuck did it feel good to get it all out.
He just stood there, and listened, taking it all in, before nodding his head and agreeing. "Yes, I need to be more……understanding in the fact that you may not understand everything I say or do. And I'll fully explain everything."
"Good," I said. A long silence filled the room.
Edward looked over at the old clock on my wall then at me. "You need to sleep."
"I'm not tired. And what about you?" I said, looking at the clock also. 12:47.
"I don't sleep."
"No coffin?"
"No. No coffin," he said and chuckled lightly.
"Well that's interesting," I said, nodding at him like we were just talking about the latest news.
"Please just lay down and I'll answer some questions," he opted, pulling the covers back to make the bed look inviting. And now that I thought of it I was tired.
So I walked slowly to the bed, say down (the bat still clutched to my chest), and accepted the covers from him. He reached out, his hand suspended in air, as if he wanted something.
"What?" I said.
"The bat. You don't need that to sleep. Hand it over."
"Are you fucking nuts? No, this bat goes nowhere tonight," I said, he looked at me sternly, rolled his eyes, then sat down at the end of the bed.
"Alright, so what do you want to know?" he began. It was like fucking vampire story time.
"Sunlight?" I played with the edge of the pillow as I talked and listened.
"We can go out into the sunlight, but we don't burn up or die." Well that's good to know.
"Garlic?"
"Myth."
"So you don't know any other vampires named Lestat or Louis?" I said, giggling.
"No but I was an extra in that movie," he said, smiling.
"Are you fucking serious?!" I said and sat up. "Wow!"
"Not a big part. I jumped out of one of the coffins in the background when Louis burns down the theater. But, of course, my name isn't mentioned as an extra. It was very exciting to do though," he said with a smile.
Once we both stopped laughing, I continued with questions.
"Will you tell me times when you've read my mind?" I asked, laying back against my pillow.
"Your first day here, in the cafeteria. When you wondered how many times I had rejected Jessica Stanley. The day of the accident, in the hospital, when you asked me to explain and I wouldn't. I felt horrible listening to the things you were thinking. Oh and the day you set up Mike Newton and Jessica Stanley, Forks Match Maker. I could hear you the whole day after that, and when we yelled at each other I felt horrible. When you were sick and going to the bathroom, I heard you as I was….arguing with my sister," he said.
"You were arguing about me?" I asked, twisting a piece of colored hair.
"Yes," he said with a sigh.
"My dream wasn't a dream was it?" I asked. He knew what I meant.
"No. It wasn't."
"I didn't think so," I yawned.
"Your very perceptive, Bella."
"I think that's the only compliment you've given me since I got here," I remarked.
"I know," he said, shaking his head.
"But thank you," I said. He smiled at me. Then he looked at the clock again.
"You need to sleep, Isabella," he said, the concerned parent.
"Sure, Dad," I sneered then snuggled into my pillow. The bat laying against my leg.
Edward got up and turned off the light. He leaned into me and whispered "Good Night, Bella."
"Good Night, Edward," I whispered back.
And he was gone, and I was incredibly tired.
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