Chapter 3

I wake up in the cafeteria. I was alone. No one was anywhere to be seen. I turned my head to the clock on the wall behind me. It was 2:45. Shit I had slept through most of last period. I got up and ran to photography. It was to late the teacher had marked me absent and I was going to get the phone home.

The phone home is when the school calls your house and basically tell your parent, hey your kid skipped take care of it for us. I hated it I had only gotten that call once and I hadn't even skipped I was just late. I was not going to hear the end of this tonight once my parent heard the message.

I walked home with Kassandra in I pissy mood. I couldn't believe I had slept through most of class. Then I remembered the dream.

"Oh my god." I gasped accidentally thinking aloud.

"What? What is it? What's wrong?" Kassandra said startled by what I had said. She didn't really need to worry that much I guess she was still on edge from my fit this morning.

"Oh nothing just thinking aloud." I said to stop her from asking again.

The reason I was so shocked was because I had remembered who had been holding me in my reoccurring dream. It was Edward. At least I thought it was him the dream was dark and I did have trouble seeing but it had to be him I couldn't think of any one else who looked even remotely similar.

I quickly tried to remember the whole dream to see why I had been in Edwards's cold strong arms. I soon remembered the tantalizing whisper that had dance through my ears. "Find me. Find the truth." He had said.

What truth? What did he want me to know and why did I need to find him I already knew him. All these questions rattled my brain as I tried to think.

I was home now sitting in my room listening to music and thinking. I still tried to find the answers to all the questions in my head. I had no leads to any of them and what's worse was I couldn't even ask him anything thing because he wanted me to stay away.

I tried to think about what I already knew about him. He was extremely handsome, bitter mood swings, his skin was as cold as ice if not colder, and he was extremely sensitive to scents. All these things sound weird together like I had heard them describe something else before. I thought harder trying to remember what these things described. I got nothing.

I went to the computer down stairs and turned it on. I knew I wasn't supposed to use it because I already had my own but mine was still broken so I decided it was ok.

I went to and searched all the things I had thought of that described Edward. I got a lot of responding web sites and all of them were useless stuff like hand warms and bipolar medicine. I decided I would have to try something else to search so I just wrote skin like ice and extremely beautiful. This time I still got useless sites but just as I was about to search something else on of the sites caught my eye.

EVERY THING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT VAMIRES was written in big bold blue letters. I eyed it for a minute like I had completely gone mad to think this had anything to do with my thoughts of Edward. Then the words from my dream drifted through my head again like a lovely lullaby. Find the truth. Rang through my mind and I quickly clicked the site.

The site was very plain, nothing like the gothic background I had pictured it would have. The title was written in bold at the top of the page and as you scrolled down it you saw little title to connecting pages. I went to the one that said vampire descriptions and clicked it. This page also had a plain background so I scrolled down to the writing and began to read.

Vampires can be described in many ways by different cultures but they all have 5 things in conman. They have cold skin, they are unimaginably beautiful, they are extremely strong, extremely fast, and they drink blood. Some cultures say just being near one you can feel and uncontrollable connection with them. Others believe that vampires made their pray fall madly in love with them before biting them. All these things have been used to describe vampire but no one will ever know if it is true because vampires have never truly been seen at least not by anyone live that is.

After reading this I felt a strange feeling in the bottom of my gut. Two of the five things that listed vampire traits where in common with Edward but that didn't mean he was one. I tried to think of anything else I had missed that might make Edward a vampire. He was fast, the way he left the class the first day proved that. I had three of the five on the list checked off.

I felt stupid comparing Edward to a vampire but I had this strange yearning to see if the two things left on the list applied to him as well. So I now had to figure out two things. One, how was I going to get him to show me his strength and two, if he did drink blood would I still be so tempted to now.

Tonight's dream was finally different then the dream that had been reoccurring. I was alone in my school wondering, looking for something. I saw a person run by their giggle flew through the air. Alice! I ran to catch up I didn't know why I was chasing her I just new I had to catch her. I turn at the end of the hall and ran down the stairs then stopped in my tracks. Alice stood in front of me a wide toothy smile on her face and walk almost like a dance closer to me. She stopped at about a hands length away and leaned toward me. She whispered in my ear. "Congrats on figuring it out." And then I awoke.

I got out of bed and looked at the clock it was 3am. I couldn't believe I had woken up so early. I looked around my room at the shitty mermaid wallpaper I picked out when I was five. It was really dark in my room so I could barely see it. Then I looked at my couch so I could see if dog was ok but I saw some thing much different then a dog. I saw Edward.

"What the hell are you doing here?" I asked in almost a scream. I was totally freaked out how the hell did he get in here and more importantly how long had he been there.

"I hear you've figured it out. Please tell me what it is you've figured out?" he whispered cockily. I wasn't sure what he was talking. Though I was still in shock he was here especially after all the yelling he had done telling me to stay away.

Then I thought about the question. Who told him I had figured something out and what had I figured out? I thought about it for a wile just trying to rap my head around it. So I decided I might as well ask nothing could make this situation stranger.

"Who told you I figured some thing out?" I asked casually like this situation was no different than standing around in the halls at school.

"You did. Just know in your sleep." He said answering in the same casual tone I had used.

I returned to my thought on what he was doing here. It was creepy. I mean how on earth had he gotten in my parent always locked the door when we go to bed. And he acted like it was normal like he had done it before.

"You never answered my question." I said dropping the former conversation. "What are you doing here?"

"I had to see you." He said walking to my bed his musical voice echoing in my ears.

"Ok hold it right there this morn…yesterday morning you told me to stay away and now your sneaking into my room. Your sending mixed messages here." I said now look into his eyes as he sat next to me. He looked at me remorse in his eyes then turned away.

"You know most girl scream and get mad when a guy sneaks into there room." He sighed jokingly ignoring what I had said.

"Well I am not most girl." I stated happily.

"I'm sorry I made you cry this morning I wasn't trying to hurt you I'm trying to protect you." He said still looking away.

"Protected me? Protected me from what?" I asked with a bit of a shriek.

"From me!" he said in a loud voice. I thought he was going to wake every one up by how loud it was.

"I'm…I'm not safe to be around."

"What are you talking about? How are you not safe? I asked blurting out the question to fast. Leaning toward him like I would get the answers faster if I did.

"I'm just not." He said as he pushed him self off the bed and away from me. It grew silent as we both just stayed there. I wanted to know why he thought he was so dangerous? Why he felt he had to stay away? Then it hit me. What I had searched earlier, vampires they where dangerous. It all made sense now why he had to stay away, the cold hands, the dreams, everything. I felt a chill roll down my spin I was nuts for thinking it but it just seemed to fit.

"You're a vampire." I stated no emotion on my face as I sat there waiting for him to tell me I was wrong. It stayed silent. I started to feel shock take over but I kept my cool.

He turned to me I started to hear a lively chuckle. He thought what I said was funny? Well I cant blame him it was kind of stupid. He kept on laughing as he looked at me then he lowered his head and closed his eyes still chuckling to him self then he said.

"Well it looks like you really have figured it out."