*A/N: Thanks to my lovely beta and awbffe NessiesMomma for beta reading.*

*Disclaimer: I do not own twilight or its characters, SM does. I do however want Edward Cullen to spend eternity in my bedroom ;]*

I groggily woke up to Jake stiffening beneath me. "Jake? Jake calm down." I met his eyes, followed his gaze to a defensive Edward. "Both of you calm down."

"Bella, get away from him," Edward growled.

"Don't tell her what to do!" Jake scowled gripping me tighter.

I was at an impasse, no matter what I chose to do; I would hurt one or both of them. With Jake I had the familiarity and comfort. I knew he always had my back. While things were just starting to shift from friends to more, I wasn't sure if we had that physical chemistry that I was looking for. And Edward? Edward, I was most definitely attracted too. My subconscious definitely couldn't erase him from my mind no matter how hard I tried. He was, for certain, possessive of me, but I wasn't sure if that was a bad thing. I was beginning to get that way about him. Edward encompassed me; mind, body, and soul.

I decided to remove myself from Jake's grasp and stand between them. Edward quickly grabbed my arm and began to pull me away.

"Goodbye, Jacob." Edward called out.

"You don't speak for her!" In an instant Jake phased. There in the place where my best friend had stood, was a massive russet brown wolf, the size of a horse, snarling in our direction. Jake began charging.

"Bella. Get out of here."

I didn't listen. Instead I put myself between Edward and Jake holding my arms out. Jake stopped.

"Stop! Stop! You can't hurt each other without hurting me," I breathed.

Looking between Edward and Jake, I saw Edward relax his stance. Jake closed his eyes, and a sad expression crossed his features. He turned from us and ran off into the woods. I stared after him, sighing his name. It killed me to hurt him.

"Carlisle was right, you shouldn't have come," Edward sighed.

"He's my best friend Edward."

"Bella--"

"Look, it's not that I don't appreciate all that you and your family are doing for me. Cause I do. It's just… I can take care of myself. I don't need looking after. And I certainly don't need a mate."

His forehead creased, "A mate?"

"I overheard you and Carlisle. I know that's all this is for you."

He walked over towards me placing his hands on my shoulders. Even his mere touch, sent shivers throughout my traitorous body. He shook me slightly.

"Bella," he smirked, "This is so much more for me."

"It is?"

"Yes. It's just as vampires we feel everything with so much intensity, it's mating. It's not anything like human relationships."

My face dropped. It just didn't make sense for this godlike creature to have such intense feelings for me. I was a freak to both my kinds. I had nowhere where I truly belonged. For all we knew, I was the only one of my kind.

"What is it, Bella?"

"It just doesn't make sense for you to feel this way about me. I'm human. I'm a vampire. I'm nothing."

He brought me closer to him, wrapping his arms around me. "You are everything to me, Bella."

That was all I needed. The sincerity in Edward's voice did me in. I was his for the taking. I backed away slightly only to bring my lips to his. He responded immediately, cradling my face. Our mouths moved together, learning.

This was so different then our first kiss. There was no desperate need. No frenzy. We were pouring our feelings into this kiss. His tongue licked along my bottom lip and I opened for him, bringing my tongue to meet his.

My hands rested on his chest feeling his muscles. I hummed gleefully into his mouth. He chuckled lightly and pulled away. I pouted in response and was rewarded with a chaste kiss.

"As much as I would like to continue kissing you, I want you caught up to speed with everything we know so we don't have another episode." He smirked.

I frowned, "Can't you just give me the highlights?"

"That hardly seems fair to you."

"I won't mind… much."

He began placing soft kisses along my jaw. "Do you want a ride or race?" Before I could sneak in my dirty comment he edited his question, "I meant, do you want to race to the house or I could carry you. Tsk Isabella, two kisses and you're already turning into a sexual deviant."

"Very funny," I joked. "We'll race."

He winked. "If you can keep up." And he was gone.

I took a breath taking in his scent and ran after him. Within seconds I was running next to him. We pushed ourselves faster and I beat him to the house. I twirled around dancing singing, "I win!" and Edward picked me up carrying me over his shoulder slapping my ass.

He brought us into the living room and Esme and Alice smiled at us knowingly. Carlisle had a pleased smile on his face and Emmett was wearing a smug look.

"Well, someone made up," Emmett boomed. "Eddie boy you want to stop copping a feel in front of the parentals."

"Like that's stopped you before," Edward joked.

I had never seen this side of him. He was usually so brooding and short-tempered. I definitely liked care-free Edward.

He gripped my ass roughly one last time before placing me down gently on my feet and kissing my forehead. He took my hand and brought us to the love seat. Right when I found Edward's nook, Rosalie and Jasper made their way into the room and sat near their respective mates. I immediately felt the pressure of what was to become this night.

"Floors all yours, Bella." Edward stated.

"I just want to know everything you guys know. I don't want there to be anymore secrets," I paused meeting Carlisle and Esme's eyes, "I feel horrible about how I stormed out of here before."

"We understand Bella. It can't be easy having all this thrusted upon you," Esme assured.

"You all had to go through with what I did though. When you all were changed. You all had your lives abruptly changed. I was being selfish and I'm sorry."

"There's a difference," Jasper spoke. "It wasn't a lie to us. We woke up to a new world. A new body. You've basically been lied to for eighteen years."

"And we're going to fix that all now," Carlisle added.

"Thank you," It was all I could think of to show my gratitude for putting up with me.

"Up until two days ago, you had all the functioning of a normal human being. All except your teeth. You were born with a full set of teeth which were all razor sharp. Since that really wasn't much of an issue since you never bit people, your father thought it best to put the past behind him. He asked me if I thought your composition would change and I told him the best I could do was to run tests every few months.

"Your blood work showed no changes as you aged so Charlie began dating. He wanted your life to be as normal as possible. He loved your mother very much and was finding it difficult to move on but he did it for you. When you were three, Sue's first husband, Harry Clearwater, died of a heart attack. Your father was there to console her and two years later they were married.

"He told her everything after Edward proved we could trust her. She was unbelieving at first, as many are, but when she saw you, she fell in love. Leah figured it out several years later after she stumbled upon some pictures of her father in the attic."

That explained why Leah hated me so much. She blamed me for her mother lying to her all these years. The lengths Charlie and Sue had gone for my normal life only made me love them more. I owed them so much.

Carlisle continued speaking, "Eventually I became curious about your makeup and began doing genetic work. It never made sense to me how the only vampire gene that would cross over would be your teeth. I tried to express my concern to Charlie, but--"

"He wouldn't listen," I interrupted. Edward rubbed his thumb on my hand to soothe me. Little did he know, just his presence was helping me get through this.

"No. He didn't want anything to threaten your happiness. All that I can think of was, that the need to save your brother sparked the change. You fully matured to a hybrid."

"The only thing I'm concerned about is my aging."

"We've been trying to figure that out as well. Without previous examples to work from it's difficult to guess whether you're immortal as well."

"Oh."

Edward squeezed me into him, bringing my legs over his lap. He twirled his fingers through my hair and hummed my lullaby.

"You can't be the only example of a hybrid in the world. I'm sure of it," Alice spoke up.

Jasper followed her lead, "We've been searching all through South America where there have been rumors of a male vampire mating with native women. So far, no luck, but we won't stop searching."

"No way!" Emmett boomed. "We'll find this guy."

"Renee can't be the only slip up," Rosalie scoffed.

"We already consider you a part of the family," Esme smiled.

"That's my family crest on your neck," Carlisle pointed to the necklace Rosalie had given me for my birthday. "We hope you think of this as your home. I already consider you a daughter."

I couldn't help the smile that crossed my face. "Thank you."

****

After the discussion, Emmett popped in a movie and we all enjoyed the mood shift. I must have dozed off at some point because when I awoke the next morning I was comfortably in my bed with Edward.

"Good morning, beautiful,"

I brought my hand to cover my mouth, "Morning."

"What's with this?" he gestured to my hand.

I groaned. "Morning breath."

I made my way out of the bed and brushed my teeth. Checking my breath and fluffing out the haystack that was my hair I returned to my bed. I snuggled my way back to Edward and he wrapped me in his arms.

"So," I breathed, "are you just going to watch me sleep for all of eternity?"

"Pretty much," he smirked. "It's very… entertaining."

I brought my hands to cover my face. "What did I say now?"

"Hey. I want to see that pretty face." I brought my hands down past my eyes. "Little better. I love your eyes. But, you just kept repeating my name over and over in the most delectable voice."

Groaning I pulled the quilt over my head. Edward began tickling my sides and he pulled the quilt down from my body and discarded it at the foot of the bed. He began kissing down the side of my neck and along my collarbone. I hummed in response.

"Feel good?" he asked.

"You have no idea."

His hands went along my sides to rest on my hips. His fingers pushed slightly on the hem of my shirt. He hesitated, but only for a moment, before lifting it over me. He brought his lips to mine and wasted no time in adding his tongue. His hands went to my breast where he palmed them before rolling my hardened nipple between his thumb and forefinger.

I moaned into his mouth and brought my hands to remove his shirt. His toned abs led the way to the most glorifying V muscle I'd ever seen. Granted I had little experience, but I'd been staring at Matthew McConaughey for most of my teen life. But, even he had nothing on Edward.

My fingertip worked its way along the muscle and I fought the urge to dive down there and lick along it. I tugged on Edward's lip needing a distraction. Edward's hand moved to my other breast and he twisted and tugged with as much precision as the other one. I was an incoherent mess.

With a last tug of his lip, Edward moved his mouth down my body nipping a sucking his way to my breast. He brought my nipple between his lips and I felt his tongue swirl around it. I arched my back to give him more access and I felt him smile against me.

"You taste amazing." The feeling of his breath against me brought out shivers. "So soft."

He switched between breasts and nuzzled in the valley between them. My hands were woven into his hair, tugging on it and attempting to arch my back further than what was possible. His one hand made its way down my side, over my ass, where he squeezed firmly, to hitch my leg over his hip.

I felt his erection rubbing between my thighs. Needing friction, I began rotating my hips against him. Edward grunted and began pushing himself further against me.

"Edward," I moaned.

"Ah, so this is what you dream about," he stated before bringing his mouth back to mine and attacking it with fervor.

Between his mouth on mine, his hand on my breast, and his body grinding against me, I was beginning to wonder why I waited as long as I did to do this. Then Edward grunted and I remembered why. Him.

My hand traveled down his body to the waistband of his jeans. I fumbled slightly with the buttons before freeing it and pulling down his zipper. I felt the waistband of his briefs and slipped my hand beneath grabbing hold of his erection. I squeezed gently and Edward froze. My eyes met his and the dark gold was back

"Can you… you show me," I stuttered. "I've never--"

He stopped me with his mouth as he slipped his tongue between my lips. His hand went down our bodies to join mine around his shaft. He gripped it tighter and I tightened mine. He began working our hands to move up and down his shaft. My thumb rubbed over his tip smearing the drop of creamy liquid releasing from it. Edward's kiss became hungry and full of need. He removed his hand from mine and brought it back to my breast and I began pumping him.

"Bella," he grunted.

He kissed his way to my neck, nipping it. I picked up my speed and Edwards body stiffened. With two last strokes he found his release. We just laid there trying to catch our breaths.

"First drawer," Edward stated in a hoarse voice.

I reached over to the nightstand nearest to us and opened the first drawer to find a box of tissues. I grabbed a few and handed them to Edward before taking some for me and whipping my hand. A small drop remained present on my finger and I brought it to my mouth slowly.

Edward's eyes stayed trained on my finger and watched as I placed it on my tongue and brought my lips around my finger and sucked the juice from it. It had a sweet but tangy taste. I swirled my tongue around my finger to lick all of it. Pulling it from my mouth I released it with a pop.

If possible Edward's eyes grew darker. His hadn't moved his eyes from my mouth.

"What?" I shrugged. "I always wondered what it tasted like."

He closed his eyes trying to shake himself from his stupor. "You are going to be the death of me."

I giggled softly. "We should get dressed."

"They'll be wondering what I've been keeping you up too." He kissed my lips chastely and stood walking to the door.

"I'm pretty sure they heard."

He turned the knob, opening the door. "I'm sure you're right." He smiled my favorite crooked smile. "I'll see you downstairs." And shut the door.

As soon as I was positive he was down the hall, I squealed kicking and flailing my hands. Once I was done with my "happy dance" I walked over to my closet and grabbed a pair of dark jeans, a blue sweater, and my favorite chucks. I showered, did my hair, and got dressed quickly and opened the door to find a wet haired Edward wearing jeans and a V neck t-shirt.

"Took you long enough," he smirked.

I answered by bringing my mouth to his and swirling my tongue around his own. "What were you saying?"

"I've created a monster."

In the living room, Emmett and Jasper were playing COD and asked Edward to join them. With a kiss to my forehead he ran over and sat on the ground, controller in hand. I walked into the kitchen to find Alice, Rose, and Esme chatting over Esme's new kitchen remodel. I grabbed a piece of toast and poured myself a cup of orange juice and joined them.

"I'm thinking of doing a granite counter-top center island and do all steel appliances. I like the clean finished look in here," Esme pointed to her drawings.

"That'll look beautifully. Are you going to paint?" Rose asked.

"The deep red looks the best," Alice said with a faraway look in her eyes. "Which is funny considering our diet."

"Have I ever tried blood?" I asked curious as to my own past again.

"You use to drink it in the womb," Rosalie answered. "Couldn't get you to have anything else. Makes sense, since you were in the body of a vampire."

Alice came over and put an arm around me, "But after that you'd faint at the sight of it."

"Yeah, blood makes me a bit queasy."

Just then the doorbell rang. I heard Emmett grumble and stand to get it.

"Well there go our futures. Must be the dogs," Alice mumbled. I stared at her questioningly. "I can't see futures when they're involved."

It was then that I heard Jake's voice.