Five days later I finally got the news I had been waiting for.
Ever since Alice's promise to give me up-to-the-second अपडेट्स on Renesmee, I hadn't even gone home. I followed Alice around on her heels; I even went hunting with her. I ignored the nasty looks Rosalie gave me and the incredulous headshakes Emmett gave me. "You're प्यार sick, bro," he would tell me. I shrugged. He was right anyways.
Alice and I were cutting फूल to put in vases around the house in honor of Valentine's Day. She had really gone overboard, in my opinion. Red, white, and गुलाबी गुलाब overflowed the crystal vases. Just as she was about to tuck in an extra red rose, she froze, her hand freezing in the air, her face going blank.
I knew that look.
I bent right down अगला to her, almost kneeling, and waited impatiently for her vision to stop.
After a few minutes, she blinkled slowly and smiled a dazzling smile.
"She loves you."
I closed my eyes, letting all the anger, fear, and frusteration I had gathered over the past few days drain out and let only प्यार and happiness fill its place. I had never felt so happy and I thought I would end up floating to the ceiling.
I opened my eyes and let my grin spread across the length of my face. "You're sure?" I demanded.
"Yes."
We stared at each other, both so happy. I wasn't sure what she was so happy about, maybe just happy to finally be rid of me.
"What's happening now?"
"I...I can't see...I guess you're going."
I grinned and sprinted away from her, grabbing my keys from my pocket.
"Wait, Jacob!" she grabbed my wrist, her small hand barely fitting around it. The cold didn't make me flinch as it once had.
"What?"
She paused, unsure to speak. "I'm glad you're happy," she finally said. I could tell she meant it.
"Thank-you," I kissed her hair and then sprinted out the door. I was almost going to sprint all the way to Delaware to get to her, but decided that a car and plane ticket would be faster.
Driving at और than three times the speed limit, I got to the airport in no time. I never drove so fast with Nessie, for fear I would hurt her.
People stared as I ran at a slightly unhuman pace through the airport. My only worry was that I was so dangerously on the edge, a mixture of giddy and powerful adrendaline, that I would shift if I didn't be careful. I tried to cool it but couldn't make myself do it.
Eventually I got to the boarding gate for Delaware. I purchased a ticket. Something about my wild expression kept the ticket seller from taking too long. Maybe she thought I was suicidal. It didn't matter anyhow. I boarded, not even minding when a noisy family sat अगला to me, and spent the five घंटा ride with Nessie.
I was too hyped up to sleep; so I stared impatiently out the window. The plane seemed to be moving very slowly, though I knew it was faster than my sprinting. Alice called me a few hours later, unsure if I was there या not.
"No, I'm on the plane."
"Oh."
"Yeah, it sucks. Have आप called Renesmee?"
"Did आप want me to?"
"Please."
"Alright, hold on a few minutes."
"Thanks, Alice. You're the best." I felt closer to Alice than I did to Rachel या Rebecca at the moment. They had never helped me get any girls.
I kept my phone tight in my hand, ready to answer it if it rang. I tried to count the number of trees that were below me to pass the time.
After half a ring, I answered the phone. "Hello?"
"Have आप planned on how you're going to meet her?" Alice had a plan up her sleeve, I could tell, but I wasn't sure what she meant द्वारा this question.
"I was thinking a knock on the door, flowers, a hug, that sort of thing," I said.
"I've got a better idea."
Of course she did.
"Let's hear it."
"Okay, so her Valentine's दिन dance is tomorrow. She told me that she's on the decorating comittee, so she'll be there between four and eleven pm. Just time it right. You'll need a fresh shirt..." she trailed off.
"Alice? Alice! What exactly will I do?"
"Oh. Right. She'll be decorating in the meeting room, which is building number twenty six. Find her, sweep her off her feet, that sort of thing. Whatever आप come up with, she'll be extremely happy to see you. She wanted to come घर today, but I told her आप were out of town."
Sweep her off her feet. I could do that. "Thanks, Alice," I कहा fervently. "I owe आप huge."
"Happy to help out," Alice laughed.
Just then the plane's wheels bumped against the ground. "We're here, I have to go."
"Good luck, Jacob!"
I didn't have any luggage, so I practically ran off the plane, ignoring the complaints of the flight attendants I shoved past.
There was a big clock once I was inside the airport. Geez, it was three in the morning! In my haste to get to Delaware, I couldn't even go to Brenton to see her! Not now at least. I felt myself shaking and was surprised at myself. I usually controlled my temper better than this. But then again, I had never been this close to true प्यार before.
I got something to eat at a stand in the airport, then called Alice.
"It's three a.m!" I complained.
She giggled. "You're the one who sprinted out the door before I even finished talking," she reminded me.
I sighed. "Yeah, I guess I am. So what do I do now?"
"Wait."
"Can't I just go to Brenton?" my voice had a whiny edge to it, like I was fifteen again. I almost smiled.
She sighed. "Fine. Just don't let her see you. I'll be in touch. She's in dorm four. Good-bye, Jacob."
"See आप around, Alice."
Luckily shuttles were still going to and from Brenton. I hopped on one, ignoring the rude stares people gave me. It was like sitting अगला to albinos, I was so tanned. And tall. I stared out the window and I saw Brenton.
Holy crap, it was huge! But I knew where she was. I set out to find her, getting और and और eager with every step.
Edward Cullen (born Edward Anthony Masen) was born on June 20, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois, and is फ्रोज़न in his 17-year-old body. While dying of the Spanish influenza, he was changed into a vampire द्वारा Dr. Carlisle Cullen after Edward's mother, Elizabeth, begged him to save Edward as her dying wish. Edward only drinks animal blood and has the special ability to read minds, with the exception of Bella Swan's. He falls in प्यार with Bella soon after she arrives in Forks. Edward knows that he could kill Bella easily, a fact that torments him so much that, in the book New Moon, he decides to leave Forks with his family so they won't be able to hurt her. He returns, however, because he realizes he cannot live without her. Edward marries Bella in Breaking Dawn and they have a child, Renesmee.
