Chapter One: Neverland

Edward's POV:

Even in the dark I could see her. Bella. I wondered briefly if she would remember me. I took a step forward, then back. No expectations, Alice had said. I hoped, prayed, that she remembered me, even a little. If she did, she would never be mine, anyway. She would probably avoid me—the natural reaction for any sane human to my kind.

She rolled over.

This is a dream. Any minute, I'll wake up back in the 1900s, with no love. But, too bad for me, I am denied that privilege. If love at first sight is true, then this girl won my heart. You know, if I had one.

Ha! I'd only met her once, on the streets of Seattle. So ironic.

Flashback

"Why are we here?" Jasper asked, holding his breath.

"Oh, come on, it's been decades since your last attack. Haven't you gotten over that?" Emmett asked.

"Blood? No way," Jasper admitted sarcastically.

"Human blood. You knew what I mean."

Hmm, Jasper thought, she smells good.

I glanced around, trying to pin the girl he was talking about. A girl with mahogany hair was walking toward us with a group of people. I inhaled and was stunned. I closed my eyes, breathing deeper. It would be easy to lure her away from her friends. But did I want to kill her? I opened my eyes.

A guy's arm was slung around her shoulder and she was laughing.

"Do you remember that?" He asked. "When the pudding ran down his nose from laughing so hard?"

"Ew." She was still laughing.

"Hey, I resent that!" A boy beside him innocently defended himself.

"Ty, you know you did it," the boy next to her said.

Why are those guys staring at Bella? They're hot! A girl adjacent to her thought.

I like Bella's shoes. I'll have to ask her where she got them later..., Another girl thought.

I wonder where we should eat. Yet another pondered. Chinese, perhaps? Or Mexican?

Is Jordan with Bella? No way. One of the guys thought.

Whoa! That store looks creepy! Another thought.

The girl—Bella, they had thought (I was pretty sure that they had been thinking about this goddess with the mahogany hair—spotted me. Her face went blank and I chuckled, smirking. The usual response was gawking.

She stopped in front of me.

I flashed a grin in her direction and looked at her from under my eyelashes. "Do you know where Roger's Deli is?" I asked.

The boy beside Bella looked me up and down, then did the same to my family, and looked back at me, narrowing his eyes.

No way on Earth he's flirting with my girlfriend, he thought.

I chuckled.

Alice glanced at me, puzzled. There's no deli by that name in this area, she thought.

I smiled; I knew that. I just wanted to hear her voice.

"Uh, no....I'm sorry," she said softly, a little nervous.

Why are you talking to her? Rosalie thought bitterly. She didn't exactly love humans—just their blood.

"That's okay."

"I hope you find it," she said as her group and her walked past us.

I tried to hear what was jumping around in her mind, but was unsuccessful. I frowned and tried harder.

Still nothing.

Jasper sensed my frustration and sent a wave of calm through me.

"Thanks, Jazz," I said, confidence in my voice.

"No problem."

I turned around and watched her stride away.

What a dork. But he was so hot. Hotter than Jordan or Ty, even, one of the girls—other than Bella—thought.

End of Flashback.

When Alice had seen the life being literally sucked out of Bella, I couldn't stand it. I was a hopeless romantic. Hopeless being the key word.

I sighed and looked out of the window of her room. The stars shone brightly against the black velvet that was the sky.

I pulled my cell phone out of my pocket and dialed Carlisle's number.

"Hello?"

"Hello, Carlisle. It's Edward."

"Are you there?"

"Yes."

"Is she okay?"

"She fine."

"Good."

There was silence for a moment.

"Do you know why Alice would have a vision of someone none of us really knew?"

More silence.

"I really don't know, Edward. Stay there for the rest of the night to make sure she's okay."

"Okay." I didn't think that I could leave her, anyway.

AN: Sup? C here. So sorry for the late update and the shortness of this chapter. :( I've had writer's block, (not to mention being busy with algebra) and have been reading a lot of good books, one of which being Kissed by an Angel (the new one with all three books of the series in one, big book) by Elizabeth Chandler (but that's only her pseudonym—her real name is Mary Claire Helldorfer). It was great. It had a big love triangle, lots of mystery, and a sad (to me, at least) ending. It was as good as Twilight saga! I recommend Kissed by an Angel to any teen who liked the Twilight saga. Okay. Please review and thanks for reading.