(Max's POV)

It was surreal, this whole experience. I got a home, a family, and a new diet in one night.

My thoughts were interrupted by Alice asking me, "Want a grand tour of the house?"

I smiled. "That sounds great. Lemme just get something real quick." I dashed out to my car and opened the trunk and pulled out a coffin shaped guitar case, a pair of drumsticks, and a backpack that I kept everything in. Then I raced back to the house.

Alice eyed the case in my right hand. "You play guitar?"

I shook my head. "Bass. And drums." I didn't own a drum kit, but I tapped out beats on anything in front of me, like tables or the dashboard if I was in my car.

"Cool." She led the way upstairs. The mansion was three stories tall, and very clean.

She stopped in front of a room on the third floor. "This is my room." She opened the door and led the way inside.

The walls were painted in a checkerboard pattern, black and lavender; and the ceiling was painted a solid lavender. The carpeting was also purple, but a darker shade.

I looked around. "Nice room."

"Thanks. You can just put your stuff here." She pointed to a spot in the middle of the floor.

I set my stuff down just as Bella and Jasper were walking past the open doorway. Jasper stopped and pointed to my case. "You play guitar?"

"Nope. Bass."

"Cool. Can I check it out?"

"Sure. Go for it, dude."

He entered the room and opened the case. Bella was leaning against the doorframe. "You play bass too?"

"It's pretty much the same as playing guitar," he answered with a shrug.

I asked Bella, "You play anything?"

She said, "I can kinda play guitar." She nodded towards Jasper. "He's the real musical genius."

Jasper was now kneeling on the ground with the bass on his lap. "Nice bass."

"Yeah I know." It was an awesome Ibanez bass with a red glossy finish and the best pickups known to man. It was my pride and joy. I had saved up the two hundred bucks to buy it two years ago. Back when I was still living in the United States.

Jasper started playing the bass line to "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" by The Beatles. (A/N: One of my favorite bass lines)

I told him, "You're pretty good."

He smiled. "Thanks. I'm better at guitar though."

Alice said, "I wish I played something."

I laughed. "I could teach you how to play drums."

Her eyes lit up. "Would you?"

"Of course."

She threw her arms around me. I was shocked, but I got over it quickly and hugged her back.

Jasper put the bass back in its case and backed out of the room with Bella close behind. "We'll just leave you two alone," he said before closing the door.

(Bella's POV)

Max, a vampire? This was way too weird. How did I not notice it?

Jasper gave me a sideways glance. "What are you thinking about?"

"Oh. Nothing. Just about how weird this all is."

"Yeah. It is pretty weird..."

"How did we not notice it?"

"Because everyone at that school is as pale as us, and no one eats there because the cafeteria food sucks."

He had a point.

We got to our room on the second floor. I opened the door but before I took another step, Jasper picked me up bridal style.

I squealed in surprise but then smiled and rested my head on his shoulder as he carried me into the room.

We went on a hunting trip the next day, so that Max could transition as quickly as possible to the new diet. The only one who didn't accompany us was Edward. I was starting to worry about him. All he ever did was stay locked up in his room listening to music, and when he did come out (for school), I would notice his eyes getting gradually darker. He'd let them go to pitch black.

"What're you thinking about?" I heard Jasper's voice in my ear.

I jumped slightly and turned my attention away from the car window. We were speeding past trees and mountains on our way to Ohio to find a good hunting spot.

Jasper, Alice, Max, and I had taken Emmett's Jeep. Emmett, Rosalie, Carlisle, and Esme were taking the Mercedes.

I looked over at Jasper, who was looking at me concerned. He could feel me worrying.

He repeated his question. "What are you thinking about?"

I sighed. "Edward. I'm getting worried about him. Have you seen how dark his eyes are? What if someone at school cuts themselves. What if he kills them?" I didn't want to have to move and I didn't want innocent people to die.

I was really starting to freak out, and Jasper put a hand on my shoulder to make the calming effect stronger.

It was working. The fear was almost nonexistent. Jasper asked, "Better?"

I nodded and rested my head on his shoulder as he stroked my hair. I felt him kiss the top of my head. "He'll be fine. Nothing's gonna happen."

I believed him.

"I love you, Jasper," I breathed, inhaling his sweet scent.

He kissed the top of my head again. "I love you too, Bella."

"We're here!" Alice said.

Max laughed. "Way to ruin the moment for them, Alice."

Jasper and I laughed and got out of the car. Alice and Max were with us seconds later.

In about a minute, the rest of the family pulled up in the Mercedes. We were in a clearing, surrounded by trees on all sides. But I could smell an array of animal blood: bears, birds, rabbits, deer... Just like with humans, animals' blood smelled differently depending on the animal. Bear blood was the sweetest, which is the reason why Emmett loved it so much. Deer blood was saltier, but my favorite by far.

I looked at Max, who's eyes had darkened considerably at the smells. "You ready?" I asked.

He nodded.

We followed the others out into the middle of the clearing so Carlisle could tell Max what to do.

"Hunting animals is much different than hunting humans. Animals are faster, and their senses are much stronger," Carlise said.

I could tell Max wasn't really listening. He was twitching, eager to sink his teeth into his next meal.

Eventually it all became too much for him. Before Carlisle finished his speech, Max was charging into the forest to hunt.

We all looked at each other and then charged after him. Alice, being the quickest among us, caught up to him first. He had caught a rabbit and proceeded to snap its neck and drink its blood, not spilling a drop.

When he was done, he looked up at everyone, who was staring at him curiously. He was a natural! It had taken me much longer to master those kinds of hunting skills.

Carlisle got over the shock the quickest. "Good job, Max. I see I don't really need to teach you anything. Do you feel any desire to still drink human blood?"

Max shook his head, smiling proudly.

The rest of the hunting trip passed by seemingly fast, when in reality, we had been gone for a day and a half. Eventually we were on our way back home. But I noticed something. Jasper had a smile plastered on his face, but it didn't reach his eyes. Something was wrong. "Jazz? What's wrong?"

"Nothing. Why do you say that?"

"You just look depressed."

"I'm not," he insisted.

I dropped the subject, but I was still wondering.

When we got home, Alice realized that Max only own two pairs of jeans and three shirts and dragged him to the mall before it closed. Carlisle went off to the hospital to work the night shift, and Rosalie and Emmett went for a walk. It was just Esme, me, and Jasper in the house. Oh wait, Edward was here too.

I dragged Jasper up to our room and shut the door. "Ok. Almost everyone's gone. Now tell me what's wrong."

He didn't say anything. All he did was walk over to the couch and flop down on it, his head in his hands.

I walked over to his silently and sat next to him, resting my hand on his back. "Jazz? What's wrong? Come on. You can tell me."

He finally looked up. "Max transitioned so easily to this lifestyle."

"And...?" I pressed.

He sighed. "It just makes me feel weaker than I already do."

I was surprised. Of course Jasper's had issues with self-control in the past, but was it still that difficult for him?

I wrapped my arms around him. "I'm sorry. I didn't know. But you need to give yourself more credit. You haven't killed anyone."

"Yeah. But there's still the temptation."

"Jasper, don't beat yourself up about it. No one's perfect. Not even vampires. So what? You have a harder time with temptation. Considering your past, I'd say that that's a good thing. This shows how far you've come." I kissed his neck.

I felt him relax finally. He wrapped his arms around me and pulled me onto his lap. "You know, you help me out more than you probably realize," he said.

I smiled. "Glad I could help." Then I pulled him in for a kiss.

(Edward's POV. When everyone else is hunting)

The house was silent as I stalked through the main room with my laundry basket, since everyone else had gone hunting. Even vampires needed to wash their clothes.

"Now I can get my laundry done without being bothered."

I entered the laundry room in the basement and Bella's sweet fragrant, floral scent filled my senses. Her laundry basket sat in the corner waiting to be attended too.

I tried to ignore it as I dumped my clothes in the empty washing machine and added too much detergent, hoping the lavender scent would overpower Bella's.

"This is worse than having to resist the smell of her blood," I muttered as I pressed the start button and the machine lurched into motion.

I started to leave the room when I saw one of Bella's tank tops lying in the doorway.

"I should put this back in the basket for her..." As I picked it up, I realized it was the same tank top Alice bought her for Christmas five years ago.

My lust increased as I pictured her wearing it with the jeans I saw on top of the pile of clothes in her basket. If I were still human, an image like that would have made me red all over.

I grabbed three of Bella's tank tops that she had multiples of and ran back to my room, unlocking the door. I walked over to my desk where I keep my work in progress projects. After gently placing the tank tops on my desk, I walked back over to the door and relocked it.

I flipped on the lights, revealing hundreds of photographs of varying sizes plastered on my once plain white walls. Each and every one of them was of Bella that I had taken with care when she wasn't paying attention, many of which were from the years when I was "gone". In reality, I was just in the next town over and I'd sneak over to watch Bella as she performed daily tasks, such as brushing her hair and picking out which clothes to wear for the day, all the things I took for granted when I was dating her. In a few of the pictures, I photoshoped myself in where Jasper originally was.

I popped a CD into my stereo, the CD I made Bella for her birthday, the one that started with her lullaby. Then I removed a large wooden chest from my closet.

I opened it carefully moved napkins with that Bella had used to blot her lipstick or gloss on, random notes that she'd written, and things of the like. Then I pulled out a life sized bust of her that I'd sculpted. I was currently in the process of covering the face and neck of it in skin toned latex, to make it feel and look like human Bella's face. I was also weaving real human hair into the scalp of the bust.

Hours went by as I finished covering the face and neck. I didn't work at my maximum speed, I was more likely to mess up. And I didn't want to mess up one single detail on her beautiful face.

Another several hours went by as I finished up the hair.

I removed a red velvet drawstring bag and emptied the contents of it onto my desk. It contained exact replicas of every piece of makeup Bella owned, bought from the exact same stores.

I applied lip gloss to my sculpture's lips, the same shade Alice had picked out for Bella. Then I applied false lashes, even though Bella didn't wear them. But the bust needed some form of eyelashes.

After that was done, I applied my Bella's favorite shade of eyeshadow to the sculpture's eyelids and then put one of the tank tops on it.

"Look Bella, I got you some tank tops so you can change every day." I kissed the bust lightly on the forehead. "Aren't you glad you left Jasper and came back to me?" ...

"No of course I'm not made at you for dating him. He was just manipulating your emotions."...

"I love you too, Bella." I stroked the statue's hair.

(Max's POV. When they got back from hunting)

I could hear Edward talking to someone from his attic room as I entered Alice's room to get what little money I had. His room is right above hers. I don't know what's wrong with the guy, but he gives me the creeps. At school, he's always staring at Bella like if he looked away for even a second, she'd die.

That's what made me run around to the back of the house and climb the tree next to Edward's room. I peered through his window and saw his walls covered in pictures of Bella. Her getting dressed, brushing her hair, laughing, smiling, kissing Jasper (although Jasper had been photoshoped out and replaced with Edward)... And that wasn't the worst part.

I saw Edward talking to a bust sculpture of Bella, and he even bent down and made out with it!

I let out a gasp and Edward looked up at me. He let out a low growl and gave me a look that said, 'Tell anyone, and I'll kill you.' And I knew that he could too.

I nodded quickly, scared shitless, and jumped down to the ground. I ran as fast as I could back to Alice.

She was leaning against her car, waiting for me. She broke into a grin when she saw me. "Hey Max! Ready to go shopping?"

I managed to plaster a smile on my face and nod. But I was thinking, Geez, that was so freaky!

A/N: Yeah, freaky stalker!Edward... the idea just popped into my head and it fit, so I wrote it. Well, actually Sam did. She wrote all of Edward's POV and the last bit in Max's POV too. So, thanks Sam! Yeah, I know Edward's way OOC, but just go with it.

Disclaimer: I own nothing but the character Max.