NA Ok here's the long chapter I hope you guys like it! Happy Thanksgiving!
Persistence
Before I knew it, it was Monday, Charlotte had already asked her many questions of my so called "date" and having that crappy conversation over with only made this day slightly better. No wait scratch that nothing could make this day any better! Today is the first day that I'll be seeing Luke since the whole kissing/danger/date/rose thing, and I'm a bit nervous. As we finally parked in the school parking lot, I saw that the Silver Volvo was already there, thankfully no one was there so I quickly said 'goodbye' to Charlotte and dashed to my first class. I was on edge the whole entire time. I was extremely jumpy at every little sound, it got so strange that my teacher went and asked, "Ms. McGivney? Are you all right?" I jumped at the sound of his voice and said,
"Oh, I'm fine... nothing to worry about." I got through the rest of history class with no more...huh... interruptions. As the bell rang for us to switch classes I was at that moment dreading ever coming to school, I then began thinking of ways to get out of seeing Luke like; faking an illness, fainting, getting expelled, ditching class, getting hit by a car, anything but having to face Luke today. I walked into the English room and there he was, sitting there waiting for me. He was looking out the window watching as the rain fell against it, he was so peaceful so calm, I can't do this to him, I won't ,I don't care if I die I just don't want to hurt him! Wait...I have to think this rationally, me dating Luke would be completely dangerous and risky and... Completely wonderful and amazing ... Crap this really is going to be the hardest thing that I've ever thought about doing!
As I came closer to our desk Luke turned around and that peaceful exterior crumbled from his face and worry and pain washed over it, he looked as if I had stabbed him in the heart. When I finally got to my desk I could feel his sadness crying out to me saying "Please! Please give me a chance! Please!" I can't do this! I absolutely can't do this. Oh I really can't do this! I couldn't handle the silence anymore so I said, "Hi Luke, how are you doing?"He looked up at me with surprise and said, "I'm fine. How have you been?""I'm ok, just been doing a lot of thinking."Luke's face became grim as he asked, "What about?""You." I said calmly, hey I might as well tell him the truth...maybe he'll make sense of it. He looked at the floor and asked, "So...what's your decision?" "I don't really know... I know you're a great guy, I also know that your dangerous, I know that I like you a lot... but there are also other things that I don't know about you. I guess you could say I'm... torn. I just don't know what to do!" When I was done with my little speech Luke's head perked up and he said, "So... there's still hope!" I nodded in consideration and said, "Yeah I guess there is, but I can't really do anything until I actually know how dangerous you really are, or until I can really trust you. I really don't know what to do!"Luke then began to smile and said, "So there's a lot of hope! Oh Lily, I thought that you were just going to cut me off from your life completely! You really don't know how happy this makes me!" I smiled and said, "Well I'm glad that I made you happy... but how is this good news? How is there hope?"He smiled my favorite excited smile and said, "Oh there is hope! You gave me two doable ultimatums, and one of them is extremely doable...I will earn your trust! I will! I swear it!"I was a little confused so I asked, "Luke why go through all the trouble? I know you like me... I like you a lot too, but you could get anyone. You know! Why waste the effort...I'm not worth it." He looked at me shocked and said, "Oh Lily!" and then he drew me into another gentle embrace, he was strong around me but he held me gingerly, he then pulled me closer and whispered in my ear, "Lily, you are so worth it you don't even know! I will earn your trust and then maybe you'll finally see that!" By this time Mrs. G had come to start the class and Luke still had me in the loving embrace, she paused to look at us and asked, "Mr. Cullen, Ms. McGivney, am I interrupting something?"I looked up at Luke gave him an extra squeeze and then said, "Ms. G, Luke was just comforting me...one of my best friends from back home was in a major car accident and he was just consoling me... I'm sorry if we disturbed you."Mrs. G's eyes softened as she said, "Oh Lily, I'm so sorry! This must be horrible for you!""Yeah, I was a complete wreck all day, when Luke a saw me he couldn't help but comfort me, it's what friends do."I looked up at him with a smile and said, "Thank you so much Luke! I really do feel better!" He looked at me and smiled; he then released me from his iron grip and settled me down in my seat. It wasn't a complete lie, my friend Cassie did get into an accident over the weekend, it was just a little fender-bender, she didn't even need to go to the hospital, but it was a good excuse at the time.
The rest of the class went well, but right after class I was ambushed by a crowd of people giving me my best wishes for my injured friend and trying to console me. I was finally alone as I walked down the hallway to lunch. I was thinking of what Luke had said, and how happy he really made me feel as he told me that he wasn't giving up, or how good it felt when he held me. I would probably be the happiest girl in the world... if not for the whole he could totally kill me thing! Oh, I have to cut myself out of this! There's nothing I can do about this..if I don't know what he his then I can't date him. I can't start feeling this way about him! I just can't, I can't, can't, can't, can't! It was then that I heard someone's footsteps coming from behind me I turned around to see Edward and Bella trailing after me, once they caught up with me Edward grabbed my right hand and Bella grabbed my left they proceeded to lift me up and carried me away. I was all together shocked, I really couldn't say anything... well the fact that Edward clamped his hand over my mouth really didn't help the conversation. All he said to me was, "It's all right, and we aren't going to hurt you! Just stop fighting and I'll explain everything." I thought to myself, 'You are so lucky I trust you or else I just might start bitting you and scream!' He just nodded and kept walking. Edward and Bella carried me outside behind the school, where there was a black foldable chair waiting for me, they set me down and backed away. I glared at both of them and said, "Start Talking!" Bella looked at me pained and looked at Edward and asked, "Do we really need to tell her?" "Tell me what!" I sighed and looked at her as he said, "She needs to know!""Ok if you're going to bicker about whether to tell me or not about why I'm here. I think I'm going to leave." As I said this I began to get up, but Edward just went and sat me back down on the chair. He looked at me and said, " Lily you need to know this and I won't keep it from you... Friends of ours from Ireland are coming to Forks, I really don't want you to get caught in the cross hairs and neither does Luke, so I took it upon myself to tell you." "Are these friends dangerous like... your family?" I asked breathlessly Edward looked pained and said, "Worse.."I looked down at the ground... I couldn't breathe, I couldn't think, I looked up to look at him then at Bella and then back to the ground and asked, "How soon?"Edward look straight into my eyes and said, "A month."
My eyes widened, next month was my birthday! "Ok... so what do you want me to do?" I asked confused."I want you to not go out on your own anywhere, and to avoid anyone with Red Eyes! "Red eyes? Red Eyes! Why does that ring a bell? I've heard of that before... I've seen them before! Where have I've seen them before? Edward's eye brows shot up and asked, "You've seen them before?""What?" Bella asked looking confused Edward didn't answer her question he just looked at me waiting for an answer."Yes, I believe I have...a long time ago...I can't remember exactly, but I remember those eyes!"He looked at me with curiosity but said no more. It began to rain so Edward ushered me back into the school, I was drenched! Hope I don't get sick.