I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THESE CHARACTERS, THEY ALL BELONG TO STEPHANIE MEYER, I AM MAKING NO MONEY OUT OF THIS STORY AND AM ONLY WRITING IT FOR THE ENJOYMENT OF MYSELF AND IT'S READERS. ALL CREDIT FOR THE ORIGINAL CHARACTERS AND STORY GOES TO STEPHENIE MEYER.

Our intense staring match was broken by a trolley nudging me in the back by and elderly women who politely asked me to move. I suddenly realised that I was still stood in the doorway to Walmart, effectively blocking people from getting in.

I scrambled to get out of the way and apologised profusely to the woman. Waving off my apology she started to go about her shopping, leaving me no other option but to look back up at the vampire stood a few feet from me. Hm, that's weird, I thought to myself as I realised he was no longer stood where he had been previously, I wasn't fooled though. Oh well. May as well get on and do my shopping.

20 minutes later I was walking out of Walmart with three plastic bags holding the stuff I'd bought, no sooner had I stepped out of the door, than the blond vampire fell into step with me, taking my bags from me in the process.

So he waited for me, I wasn't all that surprised, stupid vampires. I looked up at him, trying to gauge why he waited and if he was planning to eat me, but he was looking straight ahead giving nothing away. Maybe he was trying to lull me into a false sense of security.

We reached my car all too quickly, and as I was unlocking my trunk he muttered in a deep rumbling voice "You're strange," looking me up and down critically in the process.

"Umm, thanks?" I wasn't really sure what to make of his statement.

"Aren't you scared?"

"No, should I be?" He raised his eyebrows disbelievingly at my answer, "You guys aren't actually as scary as you think you know."

The expression on his face turned from disbelief to downright shock as I said this. He was about to reply as I reached across in front of him to lift the trunk so he could put the shopping in, not that it was causing him any discomfort, when he gasped, dropping my shopping and grabbing gently on to my wrist. I tensed; I didn't know what he had seen.

"How have you got this? You should be dead or like me, but I can hear your heartbeat."

My shoulders relaxed visibly and my hope that he hadn't noticed was in vain as he looked up and raised a questioning eyebrow at me. I decided to ignore it.

"The venom was sucked out."

"The venom was sucked out?" He repeated my answer as a question, scepticism colouring his voice.

"Yeah, why is that so hard to believe?"

"You should be dead!"

"Well you're a ray of sunshine and optimism today aren't you," I replied dryly. As I said this I walked around to the driver's side, unlocking my door. Just as I was putting the key in the ignition he pulled open the passenger door and hopped in, doing his seatbelt up in the process.

"A vampire wearing a seat belt, I've seen it all now." I didn't bother questioning why he got into the car or telling him to get out, he'd be able to follow me back to the motel anyway.

As I was pulling out of the parking lot I blurted out "Are you going to eat me?"

He looked shocked at my question, but then snorted and smiling he replied "Naw, Darlin', I ain't gonna eat ya," his Texan twang coming out in full force, I hadn't noticed that before. I didn't really believe him but I decided not to press the matter.

"So, the bite mark?" He pressed, I sighed, couldn't he just drop it.

"As I said the venom was removed before it could spread. End of story." By this point my hands were pressed tightly around the steering wheel, this conversation was starting to bring up memories that I really didn't want to think about.

Deciding to change the subject, I asked him with genuine curiosity, "So what were you doing in Walmart?"

"Dunno Darlin'," he said with a shrug.

"You don't know what you were doing in Walmart? Are you pissed or something?" Can vampires even get pissed? I thought to myself.

"Naw, sometimes I just get these feelins', that I have to be places or do stuff. They've never let me down before."

"Is that your gift?"

"You know an awful lot about vampires don't ya Darlin'? I suppose you could say so, I think of it more as a sixth sense, and it was tellin' me to be at Walmart today and then to get into ya car."

The rest of the car journey to the motel passed in awkward silence, once I pulled into the parking lot of the motel the strange vampire was out of the car getting my shopping out of the trunk.

As I showed him up to my room I could feel that he was starting to get tense, and once we reached my room I could tell why, the door was hanging off of its hinges in a way that no human could have made it.

He pulled me behind him and then turned to me, giving a hand gesture to indicate that he wanted me to stay where I was. I may not have known him but I there was no way I was going to do otherwise, I knew he'd be able to smell who was in the room and do a better job than me of defending himself if they were still in there.

A few seconds later he was out of the door, holding all my stuff and a piece of paper in his hand. Without giving me chance to ask he said quickly "That was a vampire in there, you're comin' to stay with me." I didn't even have time to question what was going on or why he'd care enough about me to take me to stay with him, because he was pulling me down the stairs and back towards my car.

Once there he pulled open the passenger side door pushing me gently towards the seat, he then walked round to the driver's side, depositing my stuff in the trunk as he went, and climbed in, silently asking for the key by holding his hand out towards me.

I had no idea where we were going or why, but the nameless vampire who was currently driving my car seemed tense and was beginning to look scary, so I decided not to ask. Instead I settled in my seat, in the process I noticed the piece of paper he had brought out of my room laying face down on the dashboard.

Curiously I picked it up, not remembering leaving it in my motel room, but what I saw not only caused me to realize why the blond vampire had got me out of there, but also made the blood drain from my face and my body slump in my seat unconscious. It was a note, written in blood red lipstick, reading, 'I'll see you soon Bella, I can't wait. ~V

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