Ch. 7 Moonlight

Edward's POV

"Are you guys ready to go hunting?" I asked.

I was really thirsty, my eyes were pitch black and plus we needed to hunt before we went to the strip club.

"Edward!" Alice panicked.

"What's wrong Alice?" I said worriedly.

"Look at this!" She said while I looked at her vision. It was a vision of me with this beautiful human girl. She had long brown hair and chocolate brown eyes that you could lose yourself in. It was night time and we were staring into each other's eyes. Then the vision ended.

"So?" I asked Alice.

"Edward you're so blind! Don't you see it?"

Jasper ran in toward Alice and asked worriedly, "Alice what's wrong?"

She shook her head, but had another vision and we both gasped at what we saw. The vision was her and girl hugging each other and smiling. What did this mean?

"Edward I'm going to love her too you know." She said.

Love her too? What did she mean?

"What do you mean by love her too?"

"Edward you are really slow! You are going to fall in love with her!"

Fall in love with her?

"What? No! It can't be!" I yelled.

"Yes it can." She said calmly.

What was I going to do! I had to stop this from happening.

"When will I meet her?"

"Tonight at the strip club, she's one of the strippers."

"WHAT?" I shrieked. How was I going to fall for a stripper?

"Edward are you okay bro?" Jasper thought. He could feel how my feelings were confused.

"Edward you should be happy, you're finally going to find your soul mate." Alice said.

I was still speechless, when Esme came in and saw my expression. She rushed to my side.

"Son what's wrong?" she asked worriedly.

I shook my head but Alice told her, "Edward is going to meet his soul mate soon."

She left out the part about the strip club which was good or else she wouldn't let us go. Everyone rushed in when they heard this. They were all in shock just as I was.

"What?" Esme gasped. I can't believe that he's finally going to find his soul mate! My son deserves happiness. This is amazing news! I can't wait to meet her. She was thinking.

Then thought toward me, "Oh Edward I'm so happy for you!"

I still was in speechless, so I just nodded. Was my mom right? Did I deserve happiness? But I was a monster, how could someone fall for me?

"Is it true? Is Edward really going to find his mate?" Carlisle asked.

"Yes he is." Alice answered.

"Woohoo kid! Finally you have your bait! You can finally do all those things you've been missing out on like: kissing and sex…"

"Emmett!" We all yelled.

"What? It's the truth! I'm happy for you bro! So who's my new little sister? When will I meet her?" He asked excitedly.

I rolled my eyes at him, but was kind of happy that he was so eager to meet her as much as I was. Wait! No! I can't think that way. I was all wrong for her. She didn't deserve someone like me.

"She's a 17 year old human…" Alice said quietly.

"What?" They all gasped.

Then Emmett started laughing his booming laugh.

"Nice Edward! A human?" Hahaha! "Bro you're full of surprises!" He managed to choke out.

"Carlisle you have to see the danger in this. We can be exposed by this human, then we would have to move again and we just got here!" Rosalie complained.

Ugh! How I hated her sometimes. She only thought about herself.

"I agree with Rosalie." Jasper said while looking at Alice.

"Jazz listen, she is going to be my best friend. I want to meet her and have my best friend... Don't worry she won't tell anyone. She's going to be great!" She said excitedly.

"Well if you say so Alice, then I approve of the girl." Jasper said.

I was still had nothing to say. I wanted to say something and when I tried to, it sounded like I was choking.

"I don't know what to say…I want to meet her so I can be happy, but on the other hand I don't because she doesn't deserve a monster like me who will ruin her life."

"Edward! Don't say that! You deserve happiness son!" Esme chided.

"Esme is right son! You deserve to have a mate. Go for it son, we are all with you. I know it will be hard since she's human, but I trust u. We all do." Carlisle said compassionately.

I looked at each one of their faces. They mostly showed happiness and sympathy. Except for Rosalie; she was pissed off. Emmett was happy for me, but was still amused.

"Sorry bro, but I'm sure it will all work out." He thought.

"Can we please just go hunting already?" I asked.

"Yes!" Emmett screeched.

Then they all went to kiss and say goodbye to their wives before we left.

Before I stepped out the door Alice thought to me, "You better tell the guys that you will meet her tonight at the strip club. They need to be warned."

I gave a slight nod and left.

We finished hunting and were headed to my Volvo and decided it was time to tell them.

"Wait." They stopped and looked at me.

"What's wrong son?" Carlisle said worriedly.

"Yea bro what's up?" both Jasper and Emmett thought.

I slowly started, not sure how they would react.

"Alice didn't tell you guys everything about the girl…" I paused.

"I'm going to meet her tonight… at the strip club…she's a stripper…" I said and looked down scared for their reaction.

Then Emmett said, "Oh yeah! I didn't know you had it in you little bro! You're so lucky you get a professional stripper as your mate. You will be having a lot of kinky sex, I'm jealous!" he said pouting.

Trust Emmett to try and make a joke out of your situation.

Jasper hit him in the head. Good, he deserved it. Jasper thought, "Edward it doesn't matter what she does. She's going to be your mate, so don't be embarrassed about it." Of course I couldn't trust my feelings near him. I nodded at him and gave him a smile appreciating what he said. He was right it shouldn't matter what she was, I still was going to love her.

"Son its fine, I'm sure once you two met she will change her ways. The only thing that matters is your happiness, so it doesn't matter what she is." Carlisle thought. It was kind of funny how his and Jaspers thoughts were the same. I looked at my father and smiled.

"What are we waiting for? Let's go meet my new little sister!" Emmett boomed.

With that we ran toward my Volvo. As we ran toward it I was both excited and anxious to see her in person. How would she react toward me when we met? How would I react when I met her? We reached my Volvo and started driving towards my future…

When we arrived at The Big Bang we sat upfront on the left. I wanted to be as close as possible to her. The thoughts around us were disgusting. I tried tuning them out, but it was hard.

"I can't wait to see these girls dance on that pole like there's no tomorrow."

"My wife will kill me if she finds out where I am."

"I can't believe this is my last night being single! I'm going to try and make the best of it by being all over these girls."

"I'm excited to see Bella tonight; I've missed her so much. She's the sexiest of them all."

That one caught my attention and I hissed.

"Edward what's wrong?" My father asked me worriedly.

"It's just hard for me to hear what some guys are thinking about her."

He nodded understanding my pain.

"Edward please try to calm down." Jasper thought and sent a wave of calmness. I instantly felt better.

"Thank you." I said and he nodded.

I tried focusing on my families thoughts for distraction.

"I feel wrong doing this to Esme." Carlisle thought.

"Man! When is my little sis coming out?" Emmett thought impatiently.

His impatience rubbed off on me because I suddenly couldn't wait any longer to see her. All of a sudden a young lady with long red hair came out onto the stage with a microphone in her hand and Carlisle gasped. We all looked at him in confusion. I read his thoughts.

"Oh my! That's Bella's sister!" I saw how he had met her on Wednesday at the hospital and I saw something I didn't expect to see and gasped.

"Carlisle! That's her!" I said excitedly.

"What do you mean son?"

"Bella, she's the girl I'm going to fall in love with!"

He stared at me in shock, and then said "Son that's amazing! From what I saw Bella is a nice girl, but wait! She's a stripper?" he said in shock and I nodded.

Emmett and Jasper were completely confused.

"Tell us what the hell is going on!" Emmett said.

"That lady up there is Victoria. I met her on Wednesday at the hospital. She had brought Bella and Vivian with her. The three are sisters; well at least that's what they had told me. They were there because Bella was sick. It wasn't that serious it was only a cold." He said and looked at me because I had let out a gasped. Although I knew that she was fine it still bugged me that she had been sick. Then I thought Bella… What a perfect name for her. It described her perfectly. I wasn't paying much attention to Victoria until she mentioned Bella.

"…and lastly Bella is back!" All the men went wild at her name being brought up. It bothered me that all these men were after her, but could I blame them? She was beautiful and desirable.

Then Victoria said, "Calm down guys! She will be out soon. For those of you wondering Bella, the star of the show was sick and wasn't here for two days, but tonight in celebration of her return our girls are dressed in naughty costumes!" The men went crazier at her saying that. For a second I tried imagining Bella in a costume, I bet she looked tempting and beautiful. Oh how I ached for her to come out already!

"OH MY GOSH! Bella is the star? Now I'm really jealous! You're so lucky!" Emmett said. I rolled my eyes and was about to say something when Victoria interrupted my thoughts.

"Okay! Enough talking lets introduce the girls. First up we have Jessica!" the guys applauded and whistled. We applauded to because it would be weird if we didn't. When Jessica came out Emmett, Jasper, and I were shocked because Jessica went to our school. She had tried hitting on me since we got there; it was pathetic to see her try. Lauren was also there that didn't surprise us though because she seemed like she would do that. The one that shocked us the most was when we saw Angela because she was a straight A student and was really shy.

I was about to go crazy because Bella wasn't coming out when Victoria said the words I had been waiting for, "And last, but certainly not least, our star of the show Bella!" The crowd went wild, me included.

I stared excitedly to the entrance on the stage. When I saw her, she walked out in this nurse's outfit; it was really short and revealing. She looked so beautiful and tempting. She looked out to the audience with a smile and I tried reading her mind, but I heard nothing. What? That was strange! This has never happened before! Why couldn't I read her mind? I stared at her in frustration trying to hear something. As if she could feel my gaze she looked over at me and stared right at me. Frustration was all gone in that moment, I only felt happiness. In that moment I wanted to run up that stage, grab her, and make her mine. After staring at her chocolate brown eyes for a while she blushed and looked away. No! I didn't like that! I wanted her to look back at me. She looked at Carlisle and looked embarrassed. I guess she was embarrassed being caught.

"I can't believe that such a young beautiful girl would do this job." Carlisle couldn't help thinking.

"Damn! My little sis is hot and naughty! Edward you better go have her check you out since she's a nurse at the moment." Emmett thought wiggling his eyebrow at me. He looked like he was holding back laughter.

"Edward what's wrong?" Jasper asked.

"I can't read her mind…" I said.

"What?" They all gasped.

"How is that possible?" Emmett asked.

I just shook my head not knowing the answer.

A song started and they all started dancing. Then Victoria said, "Give it up for the bachelor!"

Bella and Vivian went down to get the bachelor. Bella grabbed the bachelor while Vivian grabbed the chair and started taking him towards the stage. I was jealous of the bachelor because Bella had her hands on him. She pushed him on to the chair and started dancing on him. He started feeling up her thighs and touching everywhere he could. That made me furious, I wanted so badly to rush up there and take her away from that vile man.

"Bro calm down!" Jasper said.

I tried to but failed. Then Bella looked over me and that was enough to calm me. I saw something in her eyes that I couldn't tell what is was. In that moment she got off the guy and went straight to the strip pole. Then she started dancing in a way that should be illegal; it was very sensual. All the guys went crazy at that, I couldn't blame them because I was going crazy myself. My imagination went wild.

"Whoa! What a freak she is!" Emmett said laughing.

I kicked him under the table.

"Hey!" he complained, but we all snickered.

They finished dancing on the bachelor and the girls one by one went to dance on the strip pole or were giving lap dances. I kept looking for Bella; she was nowhere in sight. It was hard to find here since I could read her mind, but I looked for her in the minds of the other girls back stage. I was looking for her when I finally found her she was talking to Vivian and Angela, when this guy came up to her. I recognized him he was Ben Cheney he went to our school too. Wow did everyone work here?

He said, "Bella this guy just asked for you to give him a lap dance."

"Okay." She simply replied.

What! No! I didn't want Bella dancing on another man. I don't think I could handle it! Jasper sensing my distress sent me a wave of calmness. I looked at him and nodded appreciating it.

I saw Bella and Ben walking out the back. He was leading her to the table. I saw her sigh, what I would do to hear her thoughts! Then I saw where Ben was taking Bella, to Mike Newton. Oh my god! Was everyone from our school here? I read Mike's thoughts and he was drunk. I froze, I didn't want Bella near someone that was drunk it was dangerous.

"Man is she sexy! What a body!" He thought.

I hissed silently.

Only my family heard me and looked at me.

"What's wrong son?" Carlisle asked.

"Mike Newton is wrong." I growled looking over at him.

"Oh my god! He's here too?" Emmett thought.

"Hi." Bella simply said.

"Hey gorgeous, I'm Mike."

She nodded not really caring. That made me smile; at least she didn't care about him. She started dancing on him, but her mind seemed somewhere else. Ugh! What I wish to know what she was thinking! I hope it was about me, but I doubt it why would she? She didn't even know me. I thought about asking her to give me a lap dance. I imagined her on my lap with my hands on her soft body, her curves, having her that close enough for a kiss... What was I thinking? I couldn't do that! I was cold and hard. She would notice I wasn't human and run away screaming.

I couldn't keep my eyes away from her while dancing with Mike; although it was hard for me to stare.

"I should ask Bella to go have sex. I'm getting tired of her teasing me. I want to see her naked and hearing her sigh my name…" Mike was thinking when I couldn't bare it anymore. I wanted to go over there and rip him apart. I clenched my fingers together trying to keep control of myself. That's when I Bella turn and looked at me. Could it be possible that she was thinking about me? She stared at me intently like as if she was trying to figure me out as much as I wanted to figure her out.

"Edward calm down, you're scarring her with that serial killer look." Jasper whispered to me.

I looked at him glaring.

"You look very beautiful." I heard Mike mumbled to Bella drunkenly. I looked over at them.

"Thanks." She said seeming bored.

"You look super sexy." He kept going.

"Thanks." I looked at her expression she seemed annoyed with him. Couldn't he see that?

"How about we go and have some fun." He said. I held my breath looking at Bella waiting for her to respond. No! I didn't want to imagine her sleeping with him or any other guy. I wanted to run over there and take her far away from that vile Mike Newton.

I looked at her expression she seemed amuse and shocked. Ugh! What was she thinking? Then she looked over at me as if to see what I thought about his offer. I wanted to say to her, 'No, don't do it!' As she saw me starring at her she blushed and looked back at Mike. She looked so beautiful when she blushed, seeing the blood rush in her cheeks made my mouth fill with venom. I looked away from her unwillingly. Oh how I hated the monster in me! It wanted me to go over there and drink my beautiful Bella's blood. I could never do that, I wouldn't allow myself to lose control with her. She was my everything now even though we hadn't formally met.

"Sorry I can't." She said.

Did I just hear right?

"What? Why not?" he argued.

Yep I had hears right. I had a huge smile on my face.

"Apparently you weren't informed, but I don't sleep with the clients." She said. In that moment, hearing those words made me want to jump in joy.

"What is wrong with her? Does she not think I'm good enough?" Mike thought.

"Ha! Burn! You tell him Bella!" Emmett thought excitedly.

"Bro you should be happy she's still a virgin. You know what that means you can be the first one…" He said wagging his eyebrows.

I rolled my eyes at him, "Shut up Emmett!" He was right though, I could be… No I had to stop myself, I couldn't do that with Bella. It was dangerous.

I saw her get up and walked away before he could say anything and saw her go backstage.

"Bella are you alright?" I heard Victoria ask with concern in her voice.

"She looks sad…maybe still sick…" Victoria thought.

"Yeah I'm fine, just exhausted." I heard Bella answer.

"Phew! That's a relief."

"Okay then, I need you to go out there and end the show."

What? I had to leave Bella? I don't think I could stand being away from her.

"Okay." She mumbled.

"Here I go… I can't wait to get home and sleep." Victoria thought as she walked out to the stage.

"Sorry guy, but the end has come!" the guys awed as she said this. "To end the show Bella will dance for us like always."

"Man now I have to go back home to my wife." One man thought. I rolled my eyes. Humans were horrible how could they think such things?

"Finally, I want to go home back to Esme…" My father thought.

"Man! We didn't get to meet my little sister… At least I get to go try out the new moves on Rosalie…" Emmett thought.

"I can't wait to get to Alice…" Jasper thought.
Ugh! Why did I have to hear these things!

After seeing my Bella dance so wonderful and go backstage, we started get up like the rest of the people. We went to my Volvo, but I wanted to wait to see if I saw Bella. Carlisle, Emmett, and Jasper couldn't wait any longer to get home so they left. Wow! Someone was horny! I chuckled as I waited in my car for Bella to come out.

The parking was almost empty except for a few cars that belong to the girls I assumed. I wonder which one was Bella's car…

That's when I saw Bella walk out in a tank top and jeans and wore no makeup. She looked so gorgeous. I saw her walk to a really old, red Chevy truck. She stood there seeming to be waiting for someone. I wanted to go over there and talk to her, but how could I approach her? I could just go up and tell her she was great. I was getting out the car when I heard a familiar voice.

"Hey Bella! Let's go have sex now." He said and grabbed her arm. She tried shaking him off.

"Let me go! I told you already I don't sleep with clients!" She yelled at him.

"That's stupid! You're a stripper! Obviously you sleep with clients because you're a slut!" She slapped him across the face. Good! He deserved it for disrespecting her. I wanted to go and kill him for saying that, but I couldn't so I tried to calm myself.

He rubbed his face and said, "Oh that's how you're going to play?"

He grabbed her and pushed me against her truck. He started taking her shirt off and she kept trying to push him off.

I was going to kill him! I started running over to them.

"Get off me!" she yelled again.

"Get off her!" I growled.

They looked over at me.

"What is Cullen doing here? He just ruined a perfect moment!"

I stopped myself from growling.

"Make me!" Mike slurred.

I could and I was. I took him off Bella and pulled him near my face. I gave a death glare. In that moment he saw the monster that I was, but he wouldn't remember it since he was so drunk. He looked at me in fear and I whispered to him so low Bella wouldn't hear. "Stay away from Bella or I'll kill you. Understand?" He gave a slight nod and ran for his life. I slowly turned around to face my Bella, hopefully she wasn't scared or in shock.

"Are you okay?" I asked.

My eyes glanced down her body. Her arms were tightly around herself, I saw that her shirts had some rips. Stupid Mike Newton! She starred at me intently. Oh how I wished I knew what was going through her mind.

"Yes, thank you for saving me." She said in a beautiful attractive voice. I just realized this was the first time she was speaking to me. It made me want to jump in joy.

"My pleasure." I answered her with a smile. Her heart started fluttering at my smile. In that moment I knew I would do anything for her, give her anything she wanted, if it meant she was safe and happy.

I tried holding back the laughter from listening to her fluttering heart. I decided to distract myself by talking to her and expressing my worries.

"You shouldn't be alone at this time of night, it's dangerous."

"I know, but I was waiting for my friend." Her heart wouldn't slow down. Who was she waiting for? A boyfriend… Ugh! This was going to kill me, not having access to her mind. Then I realized she didn't know who I was and I wanted her to know who me, if I was going to try a relationship with her.

"How rude of myself, I haven't introduced myself I'm Edward Cullen." I introduced myself.

"Well I'm Bella, but you probably knew that already." I chuckled and she stuck her hand out to shake my hand. I stared at her hand. I couldn't shake it, my hand was cold and hard she would realize there was something strange about me. I wanted so badly to shake it though to touch her skin. I argued with myself until I decided to shake her hand. I reached her hand and it was so warm and silky. It felt right touching her, it was like nothing else in the world. We stared into each other's eyes for a long time. Staring into her eyes felt like the time had stopped and only the two of us existed. This moment was so perfect and romantic under the moonlight and stars. Under the moonlight she looked glorious like she was glowing. I wanted so badly to tell her I loved her, how glorious she was, and how I wanted to spend forever with her, but I controlled myself. I would scare her if I did.

After a while I broke the silence. "You were great out there tonight." I lied she was more than great, she was outstanding. She just kept staring me as if she didn't know what to say.

"Uh thanks." Was all she said.

I wanted to badly to scoop her up in my arms and kiss her…

"Bella!" I heard someone yell. I looked over and saw Vivian.

"You were so great out there tonight! I swear all those guys left with boners from starring at you. When did you learn how to dance like that? You have to teach me!" She yelled from across the lot. She was right all those guys were crazy for Bella. Hmmm… she had never danced like that? I wonder what caused her to.

She hadn't noticed me until she was a few feet away from us. She stared at me in shock.

"Whoa! What a hottie!" she thought.

"Vivian this is Edward, Edward this is Vivian." Bella said introducing us.

"Nice to meet you." I said politely.

"Whoa! What a voice! What I would do to get him in my bed…"

I wonder if Bella thought that way about me… I decided it was time for me to leave, these girls needed their sleep.

"Hi…" She managed to say.

"Well I got to go. See you around Bella." I said. It hurt to say goodbye, I couldn't do it. It was like I was ripping half myself and leaving it with her.

I decided I would follow them home without them noticing me. To make sure they got home safely and to see where Bella lived. Plus I didn't want to go home now since they were all going to be having sex tonight, since they were horny from starring at strippers.

"Bye." Bella and Vivian said as I walked to my Volvo. They watched as I left, I didn't drive far and parked off the road waiting for them.

I saw Bella driving away, so I followed. I tried listening to their conversation.

I heard Vivian flood her with questions. She told her everything how Mike had tried to rape her and how I had saved her. I was shocked that she was honest, but then again that was her sister. I wonder why Bella had called her, her friend. A mystery. Then Vivian gushed.

"Wow! That's amazing! How romantic! He's your hero now and he is so gorgeous! Bella you are so lucky!"

"Man what I would do to him…"

Disgusting.

"What are you talking about?" Bella asked.

"You guys share a bond now after that. You totally have a chance with him!" Yes, she did have a chance with me. I would give her as many chances as she wanted.

"Vivian someone like him cannot fall for someone like me." Bella said sadly.

What? Was she crazy? Did she not see how gorgeous and wonderful person she was?

"Why not?" Vivian argued. Thank god because I wanted to know too.

"Because I'm wrong for him. He's perfect and gorgeous, while I'm just plain and a stripper." Bella spat.

Yep. She was crazy. It didn't matter what she did for a living all I cared about was her.

"Bella that's bull! You're gorgeous first of all and any guy would be lucky to have you." Vivian yelled back.

Good! She needed to know the truth.

"Whatever. You're being ridiculous." Bella said rolling her eyes.

"Bella I'm pretty sure that Edward likes you. He would be dumb is he didn't." Vivian kept arguing.

She was right, I would be dumb and yes I did like her very much.

Neither of them said anything for the rest of the ride. All of a sudden Bella parked in the side of the road in front of this big, white, two floored house. It looked nice. They got out and went inside and I looked through Vivian's thoughts as they both got into bed said their goodnights. I decided to park across the street and wait for them to fall asleep, so I could climb up her wall and into her window to see her and be with her.

As I sat there in my car I realized that Bella didn't see herself clearly and my goal was going to be to love her as much as possible and show her how wonderful and beautiful she was…

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