A/N oh my goodness I got so many story alerts and favorites when I woke up this morning! That made me so happy I was dancing! Hehe Well here is the third chapter and the song is My Hero by Foo Fighters. ^-^ Enjoy!
Too
alarming now to talk about. Take your pictures down and shake it out.
Truth or consequence, say it aloud. Use that evidence, race it
around.
There goes my hero. Watch him as he goes. There goes my
hero. He's
ordinary
Don't
the best of them bleed it out, while the rest of them peter out?
Truth or consequence, say it aloud, Use that evidence, race it
around.
There goes my hero. Watch him as he goes. There goes my
hero. He's
ordinary
kudos
my hero leaving all the best. You know my hero; the one that's
on
There goes my hero. Watch him as he goes. There goes my hero.
He's
ordinary.
There goes my hero. Watch him as he goes. There goes my hero.
He's
ordinary
Edward's POV
I saw that angel walking through the parking lot with her head down and arms wrapped around her chest. She looked scared to even be here, and the oddest sensation came over me. I wanted to know what she was thinking, I wanted to make her feel comfortable here, I wanted to see her smile. Then, Newton, the one guy that gets on my nerves, starts running to her. "Hey! Hey Isabella!" he yelled. She turned around and I could hear her heartbeat flutter. Was she happy to see him? Then I took a look at her face, and I noticed there was no way she could be pleased about this. "Hey, I'm Mike." He said and flashed her a really corny smile. "I'm Bella." She said softly. He put his hand out for her to shake, and she slowly took it. "So how do you like Forks so far?" he asked; not letting go of her hand. Her heart began to pound faster, her breathing accelerated, and Jasper thought 'She is extremely afraid...' and none of us could figure out why.
Then my pixie of a sister got a vision of Bella in the bathroom curled up into herself and unable to breathe; she was having a panic attack. 'Not on my watch.' Alice thought. We all knew that Bella was going to be great friends with us, and I had accepted that about a week ago. We could have other friends outside of the family for a while, it couldn't hurt right? Alice rushed up to her and got her away from Mike, which I was thankful for. I didn't like where Mike's thoughts had taken him. He thought Bella's reaction to him was because she 'wanted' him. God, he needs a new hobby. Bella was even more beautiful up close, and didn't react to me, Jasper, and Emmett the same way she did to Mike. Maybe it's because we didn't really touch her.
I was a gentleman to her, and I admit it, she was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. The most fascinating thing in the world to me was her. She was beautiful, she was shy, she seemed afraid through the thoughts of other guys when they tried talking to her; and most fascinating at all: I couldn't read her mind. I have tried countless times in class when the teacher sat her next to me. Every time I did so she would look up at me and ask me what I'm staring at her for. It's not like I could tell her; she would probably freak out or something.
I gave her a hug after school was over, and she seemed to be opening up a bit more towards us. Which I was grateful for. I wanted to know what made her so scared; I noticed she only acted that way with guys. I didn't know if I should try to assume, I might get it wrong. I walked to my car and was greeted with shouts in my head from Alice, "OH MY GOD SHE IS SO AMAZING!" Alice shouted at me. I grinned and nodded to her, showing her I agreed. Bella was amazing, beautiful, fascinating, gorgeous, and everything else that was good. Then suddenly Alice was gripping onto the car, 'please don't hurt the car' I thought to myself as Jasper pried her hands from it and shook her, then I saw it. Bella, standing next to me holding my hand, as one of us. I growled out loud and went into the car. No, Bella was not going to be one of us if I could help it. She didn't deserve it. My brothers and sisters filed into my car as I glared out of the windshield. "Edward…" Alice said, "No Alice, it's not going to happen, forget it." I told her and sped towards home.
I dropped them off at home and went for a run. Yes, I liked Bella, and I loved Alice's vision. Loved it, 100%, totally, completely, and in a sick way I wanted it to happen. I wasn't sure as to where I was going until I got there. I was now in front of Bella's house, and I heard her talking on the phone. "No mom today was a good day for me… I made some friends." I heard her say softly. "I am very proud of you Bella, what are your friend's names?" her mother asked her. "Edward," Oh my god she said my name first! If my heart could beat it would be fluttering. "Alice, Rosalie, Emmett, and Jasper." Bella said, and I could hear the smile in her voice. "They are all one family, and well Alice saved me from a panic attack too." Bella finished, "Oh Bella that's great, so you actually talked to some guys?" her mom asked. I could hear Bella's heart begin to flutter. I walked around the house and found a window that I could see her through. Hopefully she wouldn't catch me spying on her.
Bella was blushing and smiling, "Yeah, I don't know what it is, but I'm not afraid of them. Actually, I feel really safe, especially with Edward." She said and blushed even more. I smiled, I made her feel safe, even though most humans stayed far from us, she welcomed us with open arms. "Wow Bella, I'm glad you moved in with your dad then, you are making so much progress and it's only your first day there!" Her mom exclaimed, she sounded so happy for Bella. Of course, I was horribly curious now. What is it that makes her afraid of males? "Thanks mom, I'm actually glad to. Maybe, I will even be able to stop having the nightmares." Bella said the last part very quietly. "I really hope you do Bella… It broke my heart every time I heard you in your sleep… I wish you would have stayed home that night…" Her mom said to Bella. Hmmmm… this was very interesting. Now I couldn't help but guess. Some man, or men, must have done something to her.
I would have to find out; I was just way to curious now. "I'm sorry mom… When I woke up this morning Charlie was in my room, he thought someone was actually in my room." Bella said softly. This must be something she didn't like to talk about, when she was talking about me, she was smiling and everything, now she was frowning and tracing circles on the countertop. "Aww sweetie… I'm sorry. I told Charlie that you do that but I guess he just had a hard time staying away just like Phil and I do."Her mom said. "Yeah, that's what he said too. I just wish I didn't do that, I hate worrying people." Bella confided in her mother. "I know sweetie. But maybe after a while the nightmares will go away, hey I'm really sorry but I have to get going if I'm going to make it to Phil's game on time." And that was it, they said their goodbyes and I love you's and Bella went through the kitchen and began to make a meal.
I wanted to see her, I wanted to talk to her right now, but for one I didn't have my car, and two I shouldn't know where she lives yet anyways. But then I remembered, Alice! Alice has Bella's number and I could get it from Alice and ask Bella if she would like to hang out for a while! Perfect! I took one last look at Bella then ran full speed all the way home. Alice was already out front with the phone in her hand. "Make sure you don't pry too much, that's the best friend's part, which means that's mine and Rosalie's job." Alice said with a roll of her eyes. I smiled at her and took the phone and scrolled down for Bella's number. It only rang three times before she answered.
"Hello?" she answered. "Hi Bella, its Edward." I said. I felt really silly right about now. "Oh! Oh hi Edward." She said. "I was wondering if you wanted to hang out for a while tonight, we have tons of homework and I thought maybe we could help one another." I said. Now I was feeling really dumb. I didn't want to assume anything, and of course I knew I didn't need any help. "Oh, uhm, well, I guess." She said. "Okay, awesome, so do you want to come to my house or do you want me to go to yours?" I asked. If I could blush, I would be such a deep shade of red right now. I could hear Jasper laughing his ass off somewhere in the house and I vowed I would get him back for that.
"Uh, you can come to my house, if you want. Alice has my address." She offered. I narrowed my eyes at Alice, if she would have told me that I wouldn't be going through this humiliation. "Alright then," I said with a big smile plastered on my face, "I will go find Alice again and I will be there soon." I said. We said goodbye and I gave the phone back to Alice. "I know you don't need it, but here." She said and handed me the paper, "Have that in your hand when you knock on the door so that way she isn't suspicious." Alice said and gave me a smile before she took the phone and walked back into the house. I got into my car and sped my way to Bella's house.
When I got there I heard a loud crash and I heard Bella screaming, "NO NO GET OFF ME!!" I didn't even bother with knocking; I ran in there and found another vampire leaning over her. I snarled, "GET OFF HER!" I warned and leaned down into a crouch in the doorway. The vampire looked over at me with wide red eyes. Bella's heart was fluttering so bad I didn't know which was worse, the fact that she was afraid of the fact that there was a vampire in here that drank human blood and was clearly after her. "What gives you the right to come in here and tell me what to do Cullen?" the vampire sneered. "This is MY territory, not yours. Get. Out." I snarled. I could hear the thoughts of my family as they raced to Bella's house. There was no way in hell we were getting out of this without Bella finding out about vampires.
Emmett and Jasper circled around to the back door and came bursting in. "Shit." The vampire cursed and stood straight up, but then lowered his crouch and faced me, he wanted to fight me. I snarled, and he snarled back. "NO JAMES! DON'T HURT EDWARD!" Bella shrieked and tried getting to her feet. Esme held her down, "It's okay, Edward knows what he is doing." Esme tried to reassure her. My heart felt like it was swelling, she barely knew me and yet she didn't want me to get hurt. Then again, here was all my family making sure she didn't get hurt, and she didn't even know us all yet. And now I knew what happened, James was the one that hurt her in the past. He was the one that made her afraid of every other guy that walked her way. I got so mad all I could see was him. I wanted to rip him to shreds, I wanted him to burn. And I wanted to do it alone.
"So you're Edward huh? Well, I'm James." The vampire said. I sneered at him. "If you leave, I won't have to rip you to shreds." I snarled at him. He took a step closer. "I'm not leaving, she is MINE, I got to her FIRST." He said, talking about her like she is a property. I growled. "Emmett, Jasper, take him outside, I will be there in a moment." I said and my brothers did what I said. James' thoughts were willing enough, he wanted to fight me. I stood up from my crouch and walked over to Bella. "Bella, did he hurt you?" I asked her softly.
Her eyes were opened wide, she was shaking, and she was bleeding. I resisted the growl that tried to claw its way out of my throat when I saw her arm cut from what looked like the broken glass on the floor. She nodded and held out her arm. There were a million questions in her eyes. I stepped closer to her, and she didn't pull away. I raised my hand and slowly went to caress her cheek, she leaned her head into it and closed her eyes. At least she wasn't afraid of me, for that I thanked my very few lucky stars. "Bella," I said to get her attention, she looked up at me with wide eyes. I looked her straight in the eyes, "I'm going to go take care of him. I want you to stay in here with my mother Esme and my father Carlisle, he is a doctor." I told her. She nodded, and so I kissed the top of her head, by the time she would be opening her eyes I would be gone.
I stalked out of the house, my hands curled like talons. James began to laugh at the sight of me, but my brothers backed off. They knew exactly what I was like, James, he had no freaking idea. "You. Hurt. Her." I snarled getting right into his face. He smiled, "Of course I did, I did it two years ago, and I just did it again!" he snarled at me. I could tell from his thoughts that he was human when he first did it. I grabbed him by his throat, "You will never hurt anyone ever again." I told him, then his head was disconnected from her body and my brothers started taking about the rest of him and set it up in flames. Good thing we were in the forest, no human could have seen that without oh I don't know, passing out?
I walked back into the house and quickly found Carlisle stitching Bella up. She looked up at me, "Edward." She sighed a breath of relief. I sat down next to her and held her hand, she didn't seem at all surprised at how cold it must have been to her. "I'm so glad your okay." She said softly. I chuckled. "It's going to take a lot more than that to hurt me Bella." I told her. This got a smile out of her. "You didn't have to do that for me you know…" she said and looked down. I put my other hand under her chin to make her look at me, "Yes, I did." I told her. "Why?" she asked. "Because, I couldn't let anything happen to you." There was no need to tell her I was already completely and totally infatuated with her just yet. She tried looking down again but I wouldn't let her. "Thank you." She whispered. I ran my thumb across her chin, "It was my pleasure." I said.
Then Charlie walked in, and I could tell that all hell was getting ready to break loose.
