Alone

Because there was so much hate towards Evie from the previous chapter i've let her nicer side come out now she just with Edward. So I hope you enjoy :)

Also i've used Edward's previous last name of Masen and Evie's previous last name of Brown. Just thought i'd warn you now just in case you get confused.

At the Cullen mansion Evie and Edward were relaxing in his room whilst watching the modern version of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.

"What a mess they're in." Edward commented as he leant further back into the black leather sofa.

"Humans don't know what they want." Evie replied as she watched Hermia caught in between the affection of two men. "They're always torn between decisions that they think are trivial. In fact the answer is always pretty simple. Follow your heart."

"Love is a complex notion. I don't expect you to understand it." Edward stated as he looked in her direction. "You know it's real when you feel an intense passion for another person, a sense that no one else in the world could be as right for you apart from that one beautiful being. You feel jealousy when you see someone other than you around them, and it drives you crazy, but it doesn't consume you because you know that they love you. And only you. You feel pain when you're away from them because your hearts are so connected, that you feel like part of it is missing when you're not with them. You know that you could die for that person if you had to, because you know that they're the most important being in your life and you will shield and protect them for as long as you live."

Evie looked wide eyed into his serious topaz eyes. For love to be put so beautifully and so passionately it made her want to curl up in a ball and just stay next to him forever.

Of course she felt passion for him; she knew there was no other person in the world that would be good enough for her except for Edward. She felt jealous every time Bella kissed him and it drove her crazy, but she never did anything because she knew deep down, that he had eyes for none other than Bella. Seventy years of pain in her chest had torn her apart and it had only stopped throbbing the moment he'd appeared on the stairs yesterday. Finally, she knew that she would die for him if she had to, because he had been the most important person in her life since the moment he'd found her down the abandoned alleyway. He would be the one, the only person she would ever love, even if he didn't love her back. He'd just have to remain oblivious, she wouldn't do anything to hurt him and if that meant leaving him to be happy with Bella, then so be it.

"Why do you love Bella?" she asked him curiously. He'd just explained what love felt like, but she wanted to know why he felt all his for Bella. He was risking everything to be with her, he was continuously fighting the urge to kill her because her blood smelt so good, but was Bella really worth all that resistance?

"I love her because she's different to everyone else, whether they're normal or supernatural. She sees things people should never see and yet, she deals with it in a way that no one else could. She's the only person in the world apart from you who that I cannot read, in mind or by physical expression and that just drives me wild! Every face she pulls I want to know everything behind it, but she finds it hard to explain. But I think it's the way she makes me feel. She makes me feel as human as I'll ever be and that's what I love her most for."

"Wow. Do you think that she loves you with that much intensity?"

"I am certain of that. I actually think that she loves me with a lot more intensity than I do her." Edward replied smiling a little sadly. "I know this because she's willing to give up her mortal life just to spend eternity with me."

"So why don't you let her become a vampire then?"

"I'm opposed to it because it would be selfish of me to make her give all that up in order to be with me."

"She'd be losing mortality sure, but she'd be gaining you. I don't think even I could ask for a better trade."

"You don't need to say all this to keep me happy Evie. I'll be keeping Bella human for as long as I can, just in case she changes her mind. Because after that we can't go back to the way we were, well, not straight away. She'll be a newborn and she'll need a lot of training just like you did."

"You said to me that love is complex." Evie explained as her eyes flickered to the TV she spotted Puck and Oberon scheming against Titania to teach her a lesson. "It seems pretty simple to me. You and Bella are so in love with each other that you're fighting on the opposite side for exactly the same thing. Each other's happiness. The only way that's going to happen is if you change her. Then you'll get your fairytale ending."

"Bella's already living her fairytale." Edward argued "Princesses don't become monsters by the end of the book."

"Are you trying to argue that yours and Bella's story is a traditional one? Because last time I looked, vampires weren't taking the role of the prince."

"So who are you supposed to be Miss Know-It-All?" he asked with a grin, their serious conversation had taken a happier turn. The film was still running but they weren't really watching it anymore.

"I don't know. This is your fairytale, you choose who you want me to be."

"If we're going against tradition then I'd have you as my trusty sidekick."

"So the young vampire prince is aided by his female sidekick to hang out with the human princess?"

"That sounds about right."

"I'm assuming that the evil werewolf is to be played by none other than Bella's best friend Jacob?" Evie grinned at him.

"If that's what you think." He shrugged as he smiled back.

"Why did we start talking about fairytales again?" Evie asked confused, they'd smoothly moved from something deep and meaningful to something stupid.

"Because your train of thought is non linear, it jumps all over the place. One minute we're having a conversation about love, and next we're talking about vampire princes and evil werewolves."

"And how would you know that my mind is non-linear if you can't read it?" Evie questioned with a raised eyebrow.

"I just have to listen to your conversations to figure that one out."

"So what do you wanna do now? I think we've had enough of Shakespeare and his trials of the heart." Evie sprung up from the sofa and switched off the TV. She stood in the middle of the room with her hands on her hips and her brown hair tumbled down her back as she brushed it away from her shoulders.

"What do you feel like doing then?"

"How about a driving lesson?" she asked with a cheeky smile.

"Not today." He told her, he knew that she'd been talking cars with Alice and Jasper earlier on. He saw a nice red Mini Cooper in Alice's mind and he knew it must have been what they'd decided on.

"Let me race you then."

"What do you mean by race?" Edward asked intrigued by her proposal.

"Bare foot race. Me against you. Last one to the meadow is a loser."

"Are you being serious?"

"Deadly." She replied taking her trainers off. "You afraid you're gonna lose Masen?"

"Far from it Brown."

Edward had now stood up and was removing his own shoes. She watched him with a grin on her face; she was planning to cheat of course just so she'd win.

"Let's get Emmett to start it." She suggested as she took his hand and dragged him down the landing. She knocked on Rosalie's bedroom door and she opened it with a curious smile as she saw their hands interlinked. "Do you know where Emmett is?" Evie asked innocently.

"Downstairs trying to play Jasper at chess." Rosalie replied as she threw her blonde hair over her shoulder.

"Thanks Rose." Edward replied pulling a sheepish face as he was lead away from her room and down the staircase.

"There you are Emmett." Evie shouted as Jasper took his rook with his bishop.

He looked up and broke into a smile which showed his dimples. "What do you want me for Evie?"

"I've challenged Edward to a race; I wanted you to start it."

"Edward's pretty quick Eve. You won't beat him." Emmett warned her.

"So you say. Come on, let's see who's quicker shall we?"

Jasper stood up in interest and followed them all out into the garden. Alice appeared from the garage and joined them; she wasn't sure who was going to win so it was an interesting race to watch.

"On your marks!" Emmett boomed.

Evie and Edward took crouching stances on the ground.

"Get set!"

They both lifted their bums into the air.

"Go!"

They sprinted full speed across the grass. Their skin was gleaming out in the sunlight; hair was whipping against the wind and their feet hardly touched the ground.

Edward was ahead of her but only by a couple of paces. He turned his head round to pull a smug grin of victory as they were approaching their destination.

That's when Evie decided to cheat.

Suddenly Edward couldn't see Evie anymore; he looked around only slowing his sprint marginally as he tried to look for her. This decrease of speed was all she needed; only beating him by a couple of inches she reappeared in front of him as they crossed an invisible finish line.

"Ha! I win!" she giggled.

"You distracted me! I demand a rematch."

"Alice must've seen the outcome. I don't think she's going to let you live this one down sadly."

"I want a rematch. Back to the house." Edward demanded furious as he looked at her dancing around the meadow in victory.

"I'm tired. No more running." She replied lying on the smooth bed of grass in the centre and looking into the sky.

"You're a cheat." He stated as he sat beside her looking moodily into the trees surrounding them.

"You didn't say I couldn't use my powers against you."

"I thought you were going to play fair."

"Didn't your mother ever tell you to never trust a thief."

"I won't next time." He grumbled.

"Come on Eddie, smile. It's a beautiful day and we don't have to sit in a stuffy classroom going over something we could teach better than the teacher."

"I don't feel like smiling right now."

"If I said I was sorry would you forgive me?"

"Tell everyone that I won and I will." He told her as he looked up into her eyes and ran a hand through his hair.

"Do I have to?" Evie groaned as she started to weave a plait into her hair. He looked at her wordlessly and she decided to give in. "Fine, you're record is untarnished."

His face broke into a huge smile and she couldn't help but smile back.

Why did she have to love a taken vampire?

"Have you ever thought about a life where Bella fell in love with someone else?" she asked looking straight ahead instead of looking at his face.

"It's crossed my mind from time to time." He answered. "There is that possibility, and the unselfish side of me wants so much for that to happen. I want her to do all those human things; grow up, get married, have children, grandchildren and then have the fortune to die. But the more selfish side of me refuses to let Bella go because I know that I can't live without her. I already established that a year ago when I thought she'd killed herself. It seems to me that life has no meaning without Bella in it. However, I've always said to her that I'd be around for as long as she wanted me, not once has she told me to stay away."

"So if that ever happened, would you look for someone else?"

"Probably not. There's only one Bella in the world and she's the only person I want to be with."

"You know I wish I had what you do Edward." Evie told him as the wind blew and a strand of hair blew away from the rest.

"You will find love Evie. You've just got to look for him."

"What if I've found the person I love but I know that it's never going to happen?"

"How do you know that this person doesn't love you back? You won't know until you open up. You might be pleasantly surprised."

"I doubt it. I don't know why I even brought this up. You don't need to hear about my silly dramas." She replied feeling embarrassed, why did she have to open her mouth and let seventy years of emotion pour out?

"We have to take chances in order to get what we want." Edward told her as he pushed the strand behind her ear. "I had to go against all the rules in order to find my happiness with Bella. Why can't you?"

"Because it's different!"

"In what way?"

"Bella wasn't taken ok? She loved you from the minute she caught you looking at her across the cafeteria. This guy is different; he wouldn't ever fall in love with me."

"Who is it?"

"I can't tell you." She was now biting her lip. She was digging herself a deeper hole and now she was stuck in it.

"You can tell me anything."

"It's you Edward. I love you."

Evie took off before Edward could say anything back. She ran back to the mansion in tears and sat with Esme as she buried herself in her 'mothers' arms. Edward on the other hand just sat motionless in the meadow as he tried to understand what she'd just said to him.

She couldn't be in love with him; it was impossible, implausible even. Evie couldn't love him; he was in love with Bella. He was happy with Bella, they were just friends. Close friends, or was there something more to it all?

No, there wasn't anything there, not romantically anyway. Their love for each other was plutonic (well it was for him). He didn't feel any of what he described earlier towards Evie, there was no passion, no jealousy, but there was pain. There was the pain from being apart from her, the pain of missing her cheeky smile and her argumentative remarks. He admitted he would die for Evie too but he would die for any member of his family.

Now the lines between his and Evie's relationship were becoming blurred. Just like Bella and Jacob's relationship.

Through the haze of confusion he managed to make his way back home to find Carlisle standing by the door waiting for him. He extended an arm out and led him into his study; he was sure his son had a lot to get off his chest and now was the perfect time to do just that.

Next up is a Bella/Jacob chapter, don't worry they're just friends!

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