EPOV.

In 150 years lived, I had experienced love in almost all its forms. I loved my siblings, my parents, my food, my hobbies, my memories... but i couldn't understand romance, passion, or even lust. Family or friends are easy to love, one does not expect them to be perfect... but to find perfection in a pair of eyes that see beyond ordinary details, to have hope for someone to understand the disgusting monster I was, filled with rage because in reality, fear is all that lives in me... You have no idea.

It's not her beauty... its the delicacy with which she intends to understand the pain or depth of others. I wanted her to see me, to scan my feelings and to understand who I was.

Edward, no! My sister's voice yelled in my head. She was in her car, driving behind me, trying to stop me.

I saw them, surrounding Bella. Defenseless... I jumped out of the car and threw myself over them without thinking. I heard myself yell something at Bella, but my blood ran so fast it was all I could think of. I had to hurt them badly, so they wouldn't hurt anyone else in the future.
Everything was so quick, even effortless.

Edward... what have you done?

Alice was not horrified at the men that laid on the floor. She placed an image in my head, one that she had seen with her own eyes; Bella's terrified expression, running for her life.

If I had once hope for happiness, it was long gone now.
I finally met, in my 150 years alive, a woman that understood beyond herself. She could see beauty in emotion, emotion in creation... and I desired more than anything for her to accept me, because I was already hers.
I would have given anything just to hold her and let her know that I was the one destined to give his years protecting her... but how can she see me now as a protector when she ran for her life... from me?

I got inside my car and Alice followed. We looked around for Bella.

She's here!

Alice parked outside an alley and I stood out of sight. My heart was beating like crazy, I could feel it in my throat. Alice got out of her car and walked inside the alley and smelled her behind a trash can.
Bella was hugging her knees, pale, petrified and shaking. My arms wanted to hold her and calm her... but I was the reason of her shock.

Alice sat in front of her. "Hey... Bella?"
Bella nodded, still shaking.
"My name is Alice, I am friends with Mike Newton" she knew that introducing herself as the monster's sister wouldn't help.
"Can I offer you a ride home?"

Bella remained in trance. "You have his eyes." She managed to say.

Alice sighed. Nice, brother. "Listen, Bella. I'm sorry about what you saw. I am Edward's sister, true, but I assure and promise you that I...we mean you no harm. Just a ride home, that's all."
I saw that Alice had a vision of Bella getting home safe. So I turned on my engine on and left the alley, and with that, my hope for happiness.


BPOV

I couldn't feel my legs, and the girl -Alice- helped me to get in the car. It was warm inside, and I did feel safe inside closed doors. She entered the car and turned on the engine.
"Do you know where Mike lives?" I asked after clearing my throat, with a broken voice.
Alice nodded.

It took me the whole ride to realize I would loathe to spend this night alone.
"I know this is odd to ask, since I just met you tonight..." Alice's mind seemed to be all over the place, but somehow I noticed confidence in her voice that disguised some fake nervousness towards me. "Do you mind if I stay over? You've had a tough night and a little pampering and company wouldn't hurt."

I nodded, and she smiled. Somehow I felt she was going to stay the night over, and the whole asking and accepting was just mere social protocol.
My nerves were calmed and my hands shook no more, I could easily manouver the keys and open the door.

Alice entered before me, as my father usually does. A way of checking if the place was safe. She looked around and entered the bathroom, prepared the shower and waltzed to my room. She opened my drawers and took out a big old white shirt I used as my nightgown, underwear and a towell.
The invasive girl didn't bother me, at least not now. I took the clothes that were being handed to me and entered the shower.

My mind was starting to run fine. I was no longer scared, or shocked. I rewinded the scene... he did say don't look. Obviously, it's not my fault, but it means he has done this before. It was natural in him to be this violent, to be this strong... how did he find me?

I wanted answers... not sure why. Was Alice like this too? What about Tanya, she also had these... penetrating, golden eyes. Why were they defying the laws of human nature? Were they not humans?

After stepping out of the shower and wrapping my head with the towel, I went to my room. Alice was sitting in the end of the bed, with a worried face she didn't have when we entered the apartement.
"You have questions for me" She stated. Another oddly, unnatural behaviour. She smiled, "I can see your questions... what a clever and perspective woman you are."

"How and why do you know them?" I asked, as if I was asking a casual question about her high school boyfriend or her favourite dinner plate.

"I can see the future. I saw what Edward was going to do but I went after him when it was too late. I can see your questions, and I can see that we are going to be friends. But you can also sense that, don't you?"

My sight remained in my hands, but my attention was on her voice. Seeing her face made me feel uneasy. I nodded.
She got up and walked to the kitchen. I didn't even noticed that she was boiling water for tea. She returned with two cups and handed me one.
I got inside the blankets, facing down and supporting me with my elbows, and Alice did the same. It was more comfortable this way.

I stared at the cup in my hands as she broke the silence. "Edward and I are not really blood brothers... but we are infected by the same poison.
The same venom that turned us into what we are. I wont betray him and tell you his secrets, but I can tell you about me. I have lived 132 years frozen in this body. That's why I don't age or die by 'natural form' and that's why 'I have his eyes'. We are stronger, we have different capacities, our senses are sharper."

-"So you're not... human?" I asked.
-"We once were human. But some of us remember it better than others. It's a blurry memory to me."

What was I going into? I lost my sleep even though I was very tired. My eyes were completely open. Alice talked about her special abilities, her loved ones, and our future as friends. She laughed at a joke I would tell her in a month... which was a joke that my mother told me before I got on the plane.

Then her face got serious again. I was wondering about Edward, somehow I was worried about him.

-"Yes, you may ask." Alice inquired.
-"How...or why does Edward knew where I was?"

Alice sighed deeply.
"I can't know exactly. Edward's the one who reads minds, but I know him enough and he has never done something like this before.
I mean... I'm sorry if this scares you, but we all have been this savage at some point in our lives. You see, when we got turned, our emotions are out of control and we can't measure our strength. I believe this is the first time that Edward had felt something for another woman, and he saw her in danger.
I can't ask you to give him a chance, and believe me I want to. He's my brother and he has a very good heart... but this is your decision to make. I can only ask you to understand where he comes from, how confusing this might be for him, because believe me, when Jasper and I fell in love, we did a bunch of very stupid things."

Stupid things... Stupid is him stalking me, but I bet those guys are dead by now.

"I don't know, Alice. It's all very recent. I can promise to sleep on it, ok?"

She smiled and nodded, then she turned off the lights and kissed my head. She had to leave now because she also does not sleep.