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Chapter four

EPOV

I stood outside Bella's house for a moment, just to bask in the feeling of contentment of having her presence near to me after being so far away from her. But it wasn't close enough for me. I had to see her face. I looked down at my watch, it was ten o'clock, she would be asleep now. I listened to check if she and her father were asleep. I heard Chief Swan's snores at one end of the house then I heard Bella's deep breathing and steady heartbeat at the other.

I was about to go up to her window, but then thought it may be better if I hunted first. So I ran into the woods to find some small snack. I soon found some elk, I realised that I was in fact thirsty since my eyes were black. I drained a few until I was satisfied, then I couldn't wait anymore, I went back to Bella's house.

I climbed the walls of the house til I reached the window I knew to be Bella's. There she was. My goddess. She looked so peaceful, so beautiful. I cursed the glass that barred me from her, so I quickly opened it. It wasn't easy, the window was very stiff, but that wasn't the problem with my strength. The problem was how much noise it made. I cringed as it made a loud bang when it finally reached the top. Bella stirred. I panicked, but she only turned on her side. I breathed a sigh of relief.

I landed in her small bedroom. It was quite messy. Clothes were on the floor, books piled untidily on top of each other, her laptop still open but obviously not running, pencils scattered on the same desk as the laptop and some had fallen on the floor. But none of these insignificant details mattered, all that mattered was the sleeping beauty in the bed.

I just stood there, not bothering to move or sit down, staring at her in awe once again at her beauty. Immediate relief entered me when I stood so close to her. I would have liked to hold her closer still in my arms, but I knew she was likely to wake if I did. I didn't mind though, I was content enough to be this close to her at least, to watch her calm face, listen to her breathing and heartbeats, to feel the warmth radiating from her. Then I heard something else.

"Mom..."

I panicked again, was she awake? I looked at her face. Still sleeping.

"Mom, its in the closet"

Bella talked in her sleep. Could she get any more adorable? I smiled as I listened to her dream. This was one way I could get into her head at least.

"Too green"

What did she mean by that? Oh, forks. I chuckled. I realised how strange her new surroundings must be to her. She'd grown up in the sun, the heat, cactus's, and constant blue skies. Now she had come to rain, trees, and cloudy gray skies. Not to mention a couple of vampires, one who just happens to be madly in love with her. What would she think when she found out our secret?

The next thing I heard I was sure would be enough to make my dead heart beat again.

"Edward..."

She was still asleep. Then why did she say my name? Could she... no.. surely she wasn't dreaming about me? Maybe she was having a nightmare? That possibility made my heart sink. But her face didn't look troubled, in fact the opposite, she had a tiny smile on her lips. It wasn't a nightmare. Was she thinking about what an idiot I was? That was plausible considering the way I'd acted today, and what she'd heard me say.

"Beautiful.."

She thought I was beautiful? My felt my heart soar. So much happiness was bubbling within me because of what I'd just heard her say. I felt like jumping and dancing with joy. But a mental image of me looking a lot like Alice made me hold back, but I couldn't help letting a few giggles escape me. Giggles? What had this imprinting done to me? I felt like a giddy school boy whose crush just said yes to go to the school dance with him.

She liked me! It wasn't love, not the same kind of love I felt for her, not even close, but it was enough to give me hope. Hope that one day soon I would be able to call her mine. But I didn't want to own her as a possession, not in a twisted kind of way at least. I just wanted to be able to know that I was the only one that she would ever want, that I would be the one she would turn to when she needed help, or wanted to feel happy, feel safe and protected, to feel wanted and loved. And I would always give her what she wanted. Because whatever she wanted or needed I would also want and need the same.

Images started to enter my mind, but they were not like the nightmarish ones from earlier, they were beautiful. Me and Bella at the movies holding hands like a couple, me holding Bella in my arms at the meadow, holding her in her bed as she slept, my family surrounding us all laughing at happy, Bella on her father's arm walking down the isle looking more beautiful than ever in a white wedding dress smiling towards me showing nothing but love and happiness in her eyes.

I could only pray that those dreams could one day, one day come true.

I stepped closer to Bella's bed. I needed to touch her. I knew that if I touched her in even the smallest way I would want to touch her more, but I was overpowered by the feeling to feel her soft skin. I had to be careful, one lapse in my self-control and I would probably be making love to her right there and then without a second thought. But I also knew it was good for practice, after all, it wouldn't do any good if each time our hands touched I ended up jumping her.

I knelt down so that our faces were on the same level. I could feel her sweet breath fanning my face. I looked at her for a long time, also testing my self-control, before I hesitantly reached out my hand to stroke her cheek. Her skin was so warm and soft. Her mouth twitched and my eyes of course focused in on her mouth. My mind went back to the kiss we had shared earlier that day as I stared at her pink lips. Oh no.. I had an erection again.

You just had to get closer didn't you?! My thoughts screamed at me.

I had to stop before I did something stupid. I quickly jumped backwards and I slammed against the wall with a loud 'crash" sound. My breathing was very ragged and my hands were twitching as if begging me to go back to Bella. I clamped my hands together to control myself. I squeezed my eyes shut. My erection was still intact and was not helping matters at all. I was aware of some movement in the room, but I was too consentrated on regaining my self-control to pay attention.

After several minutes, I finally relaxed myself. I slowly unfolded my hands, my breathing had slowed, and I slowly opened my eyes. Now I saw what had moved. To my horror I saw Bella sitting up, wide-eyed, in her bed.

"What the fuck are you doing here?!" she hissed angrily.

What was I going to do?

BPOV

Normally I wasn't one to swear, but what would you do if you woke up in the middle of the night and found a boy you barely even knew in the middle of your bedroom?

What the fuck was he doing in my room, in the middle of the night?! Oh no! He's gone all stalker on you! Come on, remember the way he was staring at you all day long and not to mention he kissed you! Of course he's stalking you! Why else would he be here!

Several moments passed and he still hadn't answered me. He was just staring at me, obviously worried about what to say. Well, what could he say? There was nothing he could say to make this situation go away, and we both knew that.

"Bella-" he started "This isn't- I mean-I- I can explain"

"Yeah" I said sarcastically "How?"

He stood there deliberating for a long moment. He started pacing the room. I just sat there watching him walk back and forth the room. He kept running his hands frantically through his hair and tugging on it. What was wrong with him? Why couldn't he just simply tell the truth about him stalking me?

He finally stopped at the end of my bed and looked into my eyes. I noticed, even though it was dark in my room due to the night sky, that his eyes had changed. I remembered that his eyes had been coal black today, but now they were a sort of golden brown color. That's weird. But I held onto the current situation at hand. Oh god, he was even more beautiful with the new golden eyes. I became a little dazed. I was disgusted with myself that he still had that effect on me though I knew he was stalking me.

I shook my head "Well?" I demanded.

He sighed deeply. He slowly walked over to me, but I backed away against the headboard. He grimaced in pain when I did that. Well could he really blame me for being scared of him?

"I'm not going to harm you, Bella" he said softly. His eyes told he was telling the truth, and I don't know why, but I trusted what he had just said. He wasn't going to hurt me.

He reached out his hand in front of me for me to take. And again I couldn't understand why I trusted him, but I took his hand anyway. A small smile played on his lips, but he quickly got rid of it. His hand like before was very cold. He reached behind into his pocket and got out a cell phone. He dialed a number then put it to his ear.

"Alice, its me" he said into the receiver.

I heard a voice on the other end.

"I know, I know" he sighed.

"Alice we have no choice. I have to tell her now else she'll never understand"

What wouldn't I understand?

"Just prepare them"

He snapped his phone shut and drew his attention back to me.

"What's going on?" I demanded.

"We're going to see my family. Bella there are things you need to know, and I can only tell you with my family's help"

What did his family have to do with this? I was actually interested in what they would have to say about this. I just nodded.

He took me to the window.

"What are we going to do, jump?" I asked sarcastically. Apparently that was exactly what he was planning. He threw me onto his back, still gently though, and he jumped from the window. I gasped, but before I could scream we were safely on the ground.

"How d-did.." I stuttered, still amazed at the speed we had reached the ground and the fact that we were unharmed.

"You'll know soon enough" He muttered, more to himself than to me.

"Close your eyes" he added softly. I didn't understand why he asked me to close my eyes but I did anyway, scared of what was about to happen.

Then I felt him moving beneath me and the wind was blowing my hair back. I didn't dare open my eyes for fear of what I would see if I did.

After a few minutes we stopped and he told me I could open my eyes again. We were in front of a large house, larger than any house I'd ever been in. I stayed there in shock for a moment at the sight in front of me. Edward's chuckle brought me back to reality.

"Do you like it?" he asked, amused.

"I guess" I mumbled. He chuckled again, but his mood soon darkened when he remembered why we were here. I got off from his back and he led me inside the house. Inside all his family were gathered waiting for our arrival. I wish I knew what this was all about.

Of course I'd seen Alice, Jasper, Emmett and Rosalie but there was another couple whom I had not seen before. I assumed they were Dr. Cullen and his wife. They were both pale like their adopted children and had the same now golden eyes. Then I realised that all of their eyes were now golden, though I had clearly seen their eyes black when I saw them in the cafeteria. Dr. Cullen had light blond hair and was very handsome. Mrs Cullen had wavy light brown hair and was also very beautiful.

Dr. Cullen walked slowly towards me seeming hesitant.

"Isabella, I'm Carlisle, Edward's adopted father and this is my wife Esme" He gestured to the women behind him. She smiled warmly at me. "We have something very important we'd like you to know"

Edward gently touched my arm and gestured for me to sit down. I sat on a white loveseat which faced the other chairs. Edward sat beside me and the others sat in the opposite chairs. Carlisle was the first to speak.

"Now, Isabella-"

"Bella. Em.. I prefer Bella" I said automatically. I saw Edward smile at me from the corner of my eye.

"Bella" Carlisle started again "Have you noticed anyhting strange about us?"

I thought for a moment and replied truthfully "Well, you all have pale skin, your eyes are differant from when I saw you today, your skin is cold, when Edward jumped from my room it was very quick and we weren't hurt, and also your son was in my bedroom"

They all chuckled at the last part, but soon got back to the matter at hand. It was Carlisle that spoke again.

"There is a reason why we have pale skin, why our ours change color, why our skin is cold, why neither you or Edward when he jumped from your room, and why he was so fast. We can do other things too. We are very strong, we have very good hearing and sense of smell also"

"Why..?" I said in a shaky voice. I was getting scared and Edward saw that. As if in automatic response he reached to touch my hand in comfort but I drew my hand away from his touch. Like before his expression was pained when I recoiled away from him. Edward spoke this time.

"We're not... human, Bella"

I stilled. What?! Not human?!

"What.. are.. you.. then?"

He sighed "We're vampires, Bella"

That was all I heard before I fainted.

Minutes later:

"Bella! Bella, love?" I recognised Edward's velvet voice in my ear

I opened my eyes to meet his golden ones. Then it all came back to me. Vampires. The Cullens were vampires. I backed away from him quickly. I was more terrified than I had ever been before in my life. I cowered on the floor into the corner of the room and brought my knees to my chest. I stared wide-eyed and scared at them.

The girl I remembered as Alice walked upto my side and knelt down next to me. I moved further back, but I felt comfortable with her so I allowed it when she put her arm around my shoulders.

"I know this is hard for you, Bella" she said in a soothing voice "But you have to believe us when we say that you are not in any danger from us"

"How can you say that? You're vampires! I mean, don't you want to drink my blood or something"

They all laughed.

"We're vegetarian vampires, which means we don't drink human blood we only drink from the blood of animals"

"Oh" I couldn't say anything else. I sat there for a few minutes just to absorb what I'd recently discovered. I didn't seem as scared anymore. My curiosity got the better of me and I started asking questions.

"So.. what other things do you do as a vampire?"

"Well, pretty much just all that we've already told you, but some of our kind have other powers. Like myself, I can see the future, Jasper can control people's emotions, and Edward can read people's thoughts"

That one shocked me. I looked at Edward who was now smiling down at me.

"You could read my mind the whole time" my voice was shaky to sound angry

"No, your mind is the only one I cannot read" he replied

I nodded.

"Um, Bella.." Alice hesitated "There's another thing you should know"

I looked up at her curiously. I didn't like the edge in her voice.

"You see, as vampires, we have a special way of finding our soul mates. We find our mates through this thing called imprinting. Its a very powerful thing. Its like love at first sight only a lot stronger. Its eternal, once we find our imprint its done and it can't be undone"

"Why are you telling me this?"

Alice looked at Edward and my gaze followed her's. Edward took Alice's place beside me then took my hand in his and looked deep into my eyes.

"Bella, you are my imprint. I love you, Bella, and will do anyhting and everything in my power to make you happy"

I stared at him stunned. Was this way he looked at me in that strange way? Why he kissed me? I couldn't think of anyhting to say. I could only stare at him shocked by what he had just told me.

"Bella, love, please say something" he practically begged.

"Is this why you stare at me funny?" I had to ask

He chuckled "Yes"

"And why you kissed me today?"

"Yes"

"And why you were in my room?"

"Yes"

I was silent again. I was glad that I understood now, it was actually a relief to have this finally in the open. But I knew what was coming now. I knew he loved me very much, anyone could see that, but the thing was I'd only just met him today. I knew it would be irrational to think that I was in love with him, and I knew I didn't love him yet, but I did however have some feelings for him, feelings I couldn't explain. I felt some connection towards him. Could I eventually love him? I knew he was about to ask me.

"Bella, I don't ask you to accept me now, but I just want the chance to know you better and for you to know me better, so that one day you can love me too. Will you give me that chance, Bella, to prove to you that I love you more than anything else in this whole world? Bella, you are my whole world"

Once again I knew he was telling me the truth. All he wanted was a chance, and I knew that I would give him a chance. Because I wanted to get to know him better too, know him better as a person and not as a mythical creature.

I looked up at him, ready to give him an answer. "Okay. We'll get to know each other for a couple of weeks and then we'll see how I feel"

His face lit up like a kid who just got an early christmas present. My heart warmed at the sight and I smiled at him. He just looked so sweet. Sweet? I can't believe you just thought he looked sweet! I was pleased as I remembered that he couldn't read my mind.

"I think you should get Bella home now" Alice said.

Edward held my hand as he helped me to get up. He smiled noticing that I didn't move away from him.

"I'll see you soon, Bella" Alice called. I smiled at her. I liked Alice.

Edward got me home the same way he'd done taking me to his house. I closed my eyes again while he did. I didn't even notice we were in my room until Edward reached behind to touch my shoulder gently. "We're here, Bella" he said softly.

I was about to step down, but Edward just swung me around to his front so he could carry me bridal style over to my bed. He gently placed me on my matress and pulled the covers over me. He softly kissed my forehead and smiled down at me.

"Goodnight" he whispered.

"Night" I whispered back.

I closed my eyes and wrapped my covers around myself. Just before drifting into unconsiousness I heard Edward's voice whisper "Goodnight, my Bella".

Then I fell into deep sleep.

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