I do not own any of the characters, Mrs. Meyer does.

EPOV

Jennifer came bouncing down the stairs, looking stunning. "You're beautiful."

She moved her head back to look at me. "You look striking too."

I pulled her closer to me, and guided her outside. She gasped as she saw the surprise waiting for her. 'How romantic! Thank you Edward! And thank goodness that blond isn't ogling at Edward. He's mine.'

My gaze was focused on Jennifer as we both took a seat.

"What kind of blood would you like, Miss?" she asked Jennifer first. I was pleasantly surprised; usually waitresses asked me first.

"Black bear's blood." 'Hmm, I heard from Emmett that it tasted the best, so why not try it?'

She turned towards me, a warm smile on her face. "What kind of blood would you like, Sir?" Her thoughts were focused on the book that she was reading, running through everything she read over and over again at a vampire speed. Odd.

"Mountain lion's, please." I stuck with my favorite kind.

She walked to the board and returned quickly, filling our cups to the brim. I noted that her thoughts revolved around the insignificant book that she was reading at a ridiculously slow pace.

Jennifer gulped down her glass greedily, enjoying the flavor. I started sipping, but the blood tasted too good to savor slowly, so I poured it down my throat.

Before I could process what was happening, I saw Jennifer lunging at me from across the table, knocking the table out of the way. She pounced on me like a hungry feline, and suddenly, she was the predator, and I was the prey. I found myself tearing at her dress. Her hands had unbuttoned my shirt, flinging it behind her head, and now they reached for the waistband of my pants, trying to find the button.

Wait, I was trying to form a coherent thought, I couldn't let her go this far. I tried to stop her, but to no avail; the animal in me had won over the gentleman side of me.

Then, I saw the waitress walking towards us, two pitchers in hand. Wait, we didn't call her, did we? I glanced at the table, which was now upside down, the button against the ground. Oh, no! I looked at the waitress just as she sucked in a deep breath, taking in the sight in front of her.

I opened my mouth to speak, to apologize and say that we didn't need more blood, that she could go home, when I heard her thoughts. 'They were going to—' Memories of…me…kissing her were dancing in her mind. They were fuzzy, indistinct. But why would I kiss a human? My brain was working slower than it ever did. I looked at her again, as if expecting her to divulge answers.

Her golden eyes stared right back at me, seemingly uncovering every corner of my mind. Then abruptly, I couldn't hear her thoughts anymore, and a vampire with mahogany hair was running into the forest.

She knew me. But I wasn't sure I knew her. I wouldn't let her just run away.

Jennifer had gotten around to undoing the button on my pants, oblivious to the waitress's sudden change and disappearance. "Jennifer, I'm so sorry, but Alice is calling me," I thought of a random lie. "How about I make it up to you tomorrow night?" I re-buttoned my pants and slid my arms in my shirt.

"Huh?" She wasn't paying attention to what I was saying. Then finally, when my word had sunk in, she jumped up. "NO! Alice can wait." 'Does he have cold feet about proposing? And we were so close!'

"No, it's really urgent, I need to go now. I'm so sorry." I leaned down and kissed her softly on the lips, pulling back before she could deepen it.

"But…Edward!" I heard Jennifer shout as I flew across the river. I could sense that she was chasing after me.

The brunette vampire's scent was strong, so I followed her winding trail easily, expecting to catch up to her soon. But after a few minutes, she was still nowhere in sight. As I began to slow down, her scent abruptly vanished. Huh?

I stopped, wondering why I couldn't smell her anymore. I listened closely, trying to hear something that would indicate that she was close by, but I was greeted by ominous silence.

"Edward! Where's Alice?" Jennifer had caught up to me. 'I don't see Alice here. Or maybe he just didn't want to progress to that stage yet. But then that means that he lied to me! How could you, Edward?'

"I don't know where she is, she told me to meet her here."

'Edward, don't lie, I smell a foreign scent here.' "Alice is not here, so why don't we pick up where we left off?" This time, she out rightly tore my shirt apart, and shredding my pants. Great.

"Edward." This silky, female voice seemed like she was right beside me, "I am quite disappointed in you. You run away from a date, to follow an unknown scent, leaving your poor," the sarcasm was evident, "date behind, and now she is forcing herself on you and you do nothing about it." She sighed.

Jennifer growled. "Edward, who is this?"

"Oh, Jennifer, don't worry." The voice changed was now overly-sweet, the voice that teachers use when they talk to 3 year olds. "He'll just leave you in a few months, when he gets tired of you. It's very normal, and you should be glad that I gave you advance notice."

"No! He wouldn't!" Jennifer was shouting at the trees around us, making the animals in the forest scurry back to their homes in fright. "He said that he loves me."

"Oh, but he said that to me too. He told me 'I love you' many times, but that didn't stop him from abandoning me." Her voice held genuine sadness, pain.

"No, I did not," I denied. I had only said 'I love you' to…Bella, and Jennifer. And Bella was dead, gone to heaven.

"Oh yes you did, Edward. Unless, of course, you forgot? But vampires have an infallible memory, remember? You told me that yourself. Or, maybe, you pretend you forgot, just in case you run into one of the girls you had hurt while you were with some other girl. I had never thought of you as a player…You always seemed so…gentlemanly with me, but I guess I was wrong."

"No," I defended myself, "I only said 'I love you' to two people: Bella and Jennifer. No one else."

"And what makes you think that I'm not one of them?"

"Well, because Jennifer is right here with me, and Bella," I choked on her name. "Well, she's in heaven right now."

"What makes you think that she's in heaven right now? How can you be so sure?" She was getting on my nerves.

"Becau—" I didn't finish. I was gaping at her, my mind going blank as soon as I saw the figure stand in front of me.

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