Dreams... (A Twilight Fanfic)

Chapter 11

Chapter Eleven

“Love you know the first half of the story already. After I left the meadow, I was very …Thirsty. My throat was scorching and I did not know what to do about it. As numb as I was inside and out after I …lost you, I walked endlessly for hours. I didn’t know what I had become Bella. After hours of being in the forest, I smelled something that made my hunger almost rabid. I wasn’t sure what the smell was, but it beckoned me to get to it as quickly as possible so that I could drown the flames in my throat. Once I ran to where that scent was coming from, I knew then what it was. I hesitated, wondering how Bella would react to this. “Love, are you sure you want me to go on?” I asked uncertain whether I should go on.

“Edward, I accept what has happened to you, so the answer is yes. I want to know how you came to be with all of them. Please continue.” Bella said calmly, too calmly.

Unsure of how and why she was taking this all so easily or if she were wearing a guise to relax me; I went on. “When I smelled them, I could not control myself. I had no one to tell me what was right or wrong. All I knew is that their scent was too strong for me. Love would you like for me to skip this part?” I said after I saw her face flush.

“Um yeah, considering I am still human, please.” She stated as a fact.

“…Alright, well after what I had done, I felt that I was now a product of the devil. At the same time though, I felt relieved...Full. My throat quenched immediately, the extreme hunger vanished. Then I traveled farther into Canada, trying to figure out what I was to do with this new life. All of sudden, I caught a scent of something in the forest that I did not recognize. When I approached it closer, I heard this person talking to himself. He couldn’t have been human – I knew that much because his blood didn’t attract me as the other humans did. He was talking about attacking a deer to feed off of. This confused me, I realized then that he was like me, but different. I instantly thought that he was the one that changed me and possibly…well, took your life. So I instantly went into a defensive stance and jumped onto a boulder above him.

He sensed me and turned around, saw my positioning and put his hands up to defend himself but he was still talking to himself, trying to determine how to approach me in a manner that would not scare me. I was in such a fury at first; I did not notice that he was not speaking aloud.

I yelled at the top of my lungs with a strange voice that I did not recognize, telling him that I was not scared of him. When he heard this, he realized that I was reading his mind, but I was clueless, so he began to tell me in his thoughts that he was a friend, not my enemy. Again I yelled. How was I supposed to know which he was to me? Then he smiled and put his hands down and said “Young one, you were left alone to fend for yourself, am I correct?” He said calmly.

I began to calm down myself and answered yes. He introduced himself as Carlisle Cullen and said that if I needed help, he would offer his time. This confused me, because he was the only one like me that I had run into and if he did not do this to you and I then who did? So I asked him if he was near the location of the meadow recently and he stated that he was not. Then he started to ask me if I knew that I could read minds. This took me off guard, I asked what he meant by this. He asked me to watch his lips while he demonstrated. Curious now, I watched him intently.

Then he asked, “Son could you kindly tell me your name?” That was when I knew that he was correct. His lips were not moving when he spoke. I smiled at this new development and answered his unspoken question. “My name is Edward Anthony Mason…well it used to be.”

He began to speak aloud. “Edward, I can help you if you would like?” I stated that I did not know how he could help. He replied that I could join him for a while and if I would like, it could be a possibility if I chose, I could become a part of his family. At this point, I did not know what else to do but take him on his offer.”