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The first rays of Fork's grey sunlight started to filter into my bedroom window, shedding light on the scene that was Carlisle and myself. We had sat for the longest time staring- practically glaring- into each other's eyes ever since I had given him my truth. The night had been so massive in so many ways, and yet so silent. We had spoken between us maybe forty words, if we were lucky...and that includes my pathetic stammers.

Finally, Carlisle broke his gaze and looked directly into the approaching light. Ducking his head and wiping his face with his hand, he finally spoke,

"It's been a really long night and you have school in three hours. I suggest you try and get some sleep. I'll be back to pick you up for school later" He stood swiftly and walked over to the window. Pausing, he turned to look at me pleadingly for a moment, and added,

"Please, take care of yourself. For the next few hours at least," Before turning and vaulting out my window.

Taking note of his earlier words, I cleaned up the mess I had made in my moment of weakness and climbed into bed. I was willing to try and reach the blissful numbness of sleep,but my hopes were not high. Every night, the routine was the same. I would go to bed late, after procrastinaing for hours with homework and cleaning. I would take a boiling hot shower, trying to scald myself into sleep, I suppose. Then I would blast my hair with the blow-drier, flit around with my pyjamas and be pedantic about the smallest thing in an attempt to distract myself. I would check my emails one last time before bed and see if anything interesting had come up, and finally I would lose all excuses and be forced into bed. I would lay there for a while, desperately trying to reach my escape and would eventually reach it...Only to wake screaming. The night terrors plagued me so viciously, it was so hard to cope. And sometimes finding that I could not cope, I would allow myself to be weak and would befriend my glinting blade once again. This was where Carlisle had found me....In the throes of friendship with my blade. God, I was pathetic.

Finally falling into a restless sleep, I was hit by the terrors once again, although this time they were not quite so...disturbing. For whatever reason, I managed to get a fair bit of sleep and awoke at 7, giving me only an hour to force myself to be distracted.

Hauling my gaunt body out of bed, I shuffled over to my closet and picked out the first things my hands touched. My clothes had mainly become black nowadays and there was no issue with whether or not anything matched. Unless I tried putting two pairs of pants on, I was pretty much covered. Turning round bleary eyed, I went to walk into the hall in the direction of the bathroom, Only to be stopped by the image of someone sitting in my rocking chair from the corner of my eye. Droppng my clothes, I shrieked louder than a fan at a Yankees game. I very nearly wet myself, before realizing that it was only Carlisle. Resting my back against the nearest wall, I held my hand over my heart trying to calm it.

"Christ Almighty! You scared the hell outta me!" I said breathlessly to the statuesque vampire currently poised in my rocking chair. We stared at each other for a long time, him with a blank face and me still in a state of shock, before his facade finally cracked and he let out a small chuckle.

"Well, as lovely as it is that I can still amuse people, I need to bathe, so if you'll excuse me..." Walking briskly to my door, I was stopped suddenly by a ridiculously quick vampire. Tugging on the messy ponytail I had slung my hair into the previous night, I was rewarded with a cheeky grin and a "You're fun". This was totally new for me. The night before I had only seen the horrified, disappointed, livid Carlisle, Though I had only seen Carlisle like that once before, I had expected him to be that way again that morning. I really was shocked to see Carlisle this happy and mischievous. But still, it was a pleasant surprise. Hurrying to the shower, I determined that I would avoid the subject of the previous night as if it were the plague, absolutely adamant that I would not allow myself to ruin Carlisle's good humor.

Totally aware of the god-like creature residing in my room, I rushed through my morning routine, doing everything as speedily as possible. Finally freshly showered and dressed with my hair done and my socks on, I ran downstairs to grab a granola bar, only to stop short realizing the god-like creature had migrated and now sat at my kitchen table with the paper. Noticing me, he looked up and smiled at me,

"Those jeans look good on you" He said, pointing to my plain black jeans with a silver chain hanging from the belt loop.

"Ah, thanks," I said, totally taken aback by the compliment, "Where's Charlie?" I asked, for the first time noticing his absence.

"He went in to work early. I heard some stuff on my way into town about some wild bear attacks so it's possible he's gone in to look into it."

"Oh," I said with my hands in my back pockets and shifting uncomfortably, "Um, speaking of you coming into town...Not to be rude or anything, but why exactly are you here?" I asked the question I'd been dying to know the answer to as politely as possible. Unfortunately, Carlisle's expression darkened slightly and I realized a bit too late that I had probably just ruined his good mood. Drats!

"Actually, Alice had a vision. She got worried and decided to confide in me, so naturally I came running" He said, to my great amazement. I was so sure that once they had gotten their "Clean Break", that they would effectly cut me out of their lives. I was surprisingly touched by Alice's concern. She had always been such a good friend, but still....I was so sure. Seeing that I was in no hurry to respond to him, he prompted me,

"She saw you...Like I did last night" Unable to say the words, he took the easy way out. For that I Could only be grateful. I wasn't going to say that I was OK with the fact that he knew my secret, but I was glad that he didn't say the words. Somehow it would make it more real if he said it. It sounded ridiculous, but it was true.

"About that. I know you won't want to speak about it, but we have to. And we will...After school. Right now, we have to get going if you're going to be there on time." He said to me. Noticing my saddened expression, he pulled me to him in a surprise hug. Holding me to him tightly, he whispered soothing things into my ear,

"It's alright. I'll make it alright. I promise you, darling. I'll make it ok."

Rubbing my back soothingly, he pulled back and looked into my eyes, as if sealing a promise. And in a way, I guess he was.

My day passed in a blur of colour and movement, and by the time I came out of my stupor I was packing my stuff up with ten minutes to the final bell and Angela was looking at me as if expecting an answer.

"Sorry, I sorta zoned out there. What did you say?" I asked her, totally clueless.

"It's ok, I just wanted to know if you had a ride home. I noticed your truck wasn't in the parking lot. Is everything ok?"

"Oh yeah, it's fine. Just a friend of mine gave me a ride here and He's coming to get me after."

"He?! There's a he that's coming to get you after school. As in he doesn't go to school. As In OLDER MAN?!" She bumped me gently with her hip and gave me a grin that practically split her face in two.

"Soooooo.....Who is this mystery man?" She questioned, absolutely overjoyed at the thought of me getting another man and getting over E-...Him.

"No no, nothing like that. Just a friend of mine. We're only friends, ok? He just got back into town last night and wanted to spend some time with me" I rationalized with finality. Looking at Angela she seemed to accept that,

"Okay then. Who is it though?" She wanted to know anyway. Damn, she really wasn't gonna like this. Sucking in a deep breath, I blurted out,

"Um...Just Carlisle Cullen" Looking down I herd a shard intake of breath and quickly looked back up at Angela who had a mixed look of suspicion and a "Deer Caught In The Headlights".

"What?!" I demanded from her,

"Nothing, it's...nothing" She said looking away from my scrutinizing gaze.

"It's something. What is it? Tell me, or I'll think it's something much worse than it actually is and you'll have me all paranoid for no good reason" I looked at her, moving and putting myself directly in her sight line, forcing her to look at me.

"It's just....I thought you were, you know, Over the Cullens," She looked at me finally, trying to decipher the puzzle that she thought I was, "You are over them right? I mean, you had that really dark period, and then you came out of it and you're fine now, right?" She asked, desperately trying to assure herself I was ok. It was true, I had had a really dark period. I could barely get out of bed for a while, let alone socialize or anything. I had been so lost then, but then I started...doing certain things and I became able to speak to people. I could laugh and smile and be happy. At least on the outside.
"Yeah. Yeah, I am" I said, nodding my head and "Smiling". "Of course I am. I'm just being nice. Dr Cullen just came up for some medical conference thingy and decided to check up on me and see if we could hang out. Just because he's my ex's father doesn't mean we can't be friends, you know?" I Said.

"Yeah, I suppose. Just- Just be careful okay? I don't want to see you so dark again. You really scared us there" She said smiling. Just then, the bell rang so I was saved from more of the awkward conversation. Angela walked me to my locker and gave me a hug before running off to meet Ben. Grabbing my books, I walked out of the school into the parking lot, stumbling upon the breath-taking scene that Carlisle made. Stood leaning against his Mercedes Carlisle was the center of attention with his beautiful blond hair and his graceful ageless look. He was gorgeous. Looking around to lock eyes with me, he smiled gorgeously at me, effectively dazzling me. Walking around to the passenger side of the car, he opened my door and gestured to me from across the parking lot.

Looking round and finding that everyone was staring, I took a deep breath and started out across the lot with only one thought in mind.

"Oh Boy, here we go"

*A/N. WOOOOT! How friggin' cool am I? Lol. Four chapters aaand 2000 words, not including Authors Note. I think thats pretty awesome. Lol. Anyways, yeah. Thanks heaps and heaps to everyone who reviewed, I seriously cannot tell you how much it means to me. However, and I really do NOT want to sound ungrateful here but come on guys. This story only has 15 reviews, yet it's on the story alert list of 40 people! 40! To those of you who added me to story alert, Thanks heaps, but I really would love a review once in a while, even just a "Hey, great story" Or something. Every review I get gives me warm fuzzies and it makes me want to update a lot more frequently. Also, about the updates. School has just started up again in Australia as of Thursday 29th of January so updates are probably going to be hard, but I'm really trying. And reviews will help heaps! So please just a little shout out. Even if it's anonymous. Anyways, I'm rambling so I'll finish this off now and If I've forgotten anything I'll tell you next chapter. So yeah, Thank you VERY much to the what, 7 people who reviewed and I love you guys heaps, so please don't forget to review this chap. Thanks heaps. Oh! And I'm still searching for a beta. Let me know if you're interested!

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