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1. FIRST IMPRESSIONS

This house… Is huge… I walked up the dimly lit driveway, which seemed to stretch on forever mind you, to the front door. It was about seven in the evening and the cab had just dropped me off. I felt weird about barging in so late, even though I was invited. One of the many glass windows were open and from inside I could hear a man's voice, only, his voice was so smooth. Like satin. It has to be one of the vampires Bella told me about.

"Bella, have you told anyone about us?" The voice said.

There was no response for a while and then finally a girl's voice broke the silence, "Of course not…" It was Bella of course. Even if I wasn't the person she had told, I would've known she was lying. The man she was talking to had to know.

"Get the door," he said. How did he know… It has to be Edward. The mind reader. Ok, this is going to be intrusive…

I heard footsteps, stumbling, and more footsteps. Yeah, Bella's answering the door. I heard Edward chuckle. The big door opened, and Bella smiled at me. "Terry! I'm so glad you found the house! Edward. Edward come here, meet Terry."

Looking in to the house, I saw Edward stand up from the couch he was sitting on and walk over to the door without making a single sound. That's so weird. No sounds, Bella was right.

"It's not that weird, Terry." Edward said, so smoothly, almost seductively without even trying. His bronze hair went well with his liquid topaz eyes, that Bella has told me about on many occasions.

"That's gonna take some getting used to." I extended my arm for a hand shake. "Nice to meet you Edward."

He just looked at me for a second, looking almost confused, if a confused expression could be carved so perfectly in stone. But he then grabbed my hand and I flinched. Wow, that's cold. Bella wasn't joking. "Sorry about that. The pleasure's all mine, please come in."

I took a step into the house and passed by Edward and caught a whiff of his scent. It smelled surprisingly good. He can probably hear my thoughts about how good he smells… I need to watch what I think about…

"It's fine, Terry. Everyone thinks that. You don't need to be ashamed." He laughed a little.

Bella seemed upset, "What are you guys talking about? I can't stand not knowing what half of the conversations are!"

A deeper voice called from down the hallway, "Why is it so hot in this house?! Leech-I mean Edward… You guys are killing me here… Please turn the heat down, I don't care if Bella freezes. It's soooo hot…"

"Bella, I need to talk to you. It's rather important. I need to know how much you told Terry." Edward took on a very serious tone. It shocked me how serious he could sound.

Bella looked rather worried, I was gonna ask what the big deal was but then she cut me off, "Terry, you should go meet Jacob, I think you'll like him. I have to go talk to Edward."

With that Bella and Edward walked up the stairs, out of sight. I just kinda stood there awkwardly. I dropped my bags to the floor, and called down the hall, "Hey, uhh Jacob?"

"Yeah? Who's asking?" Jacob walked down the hall to where I was, he was much different from what Edward looked like. Where Edward was pale, Jacob's skin was much darker. And from what I could tell he wasn't joking about him being warm. He wore only a pair of cut-off jeans that hugged snuggly around his toned waist. Above that, a chiseled torso rose and sank very rapidly. Why is he so out of breath?

I looked up to see him staring directly at me. Our eyes met and it felt like he was staring into my soul. I couldn't even look away. I barely managed to get out, "H-hi… I'm Terry…"

He didn't say a word. He just stared into my eyes, with a very interesting face. I can't even explain what it looked like. It was just an expression I have never seen before. Finally he broke eye contact with me and stared at the ground. His facial expression changed to a really confused one. Without saying anything, he just stormed out the door, faster than I've seen anyone run before. He ran out into the woods and disappeared.

"Bye…?" What was his problem? Why was he staring at me so intensely? I was still staring out the door when Edward and Bella came back down the stairs.

"What happened? Where did Jacob go?" Bella asked. I didn't even know she was there. I was still staring out the door.

After a few more seconds I turned to face Bella, but I caught Edward's face and his expression confused me too. Then I realized that he was reading my mind. I spoke to Bella, "I don't know. He came from down the hall asking who called him, he just looked at me, and then left."

"That is a unusual face isn't it?" Edward said, referencing my recollection of what just happened. "I wonder what was going through his head."

Bella spoke up, "Well we can call Jacob later and ask what his problem is, for now let's get Terry to his room."

"Bella… You think you might have mentioned him staying here to me, or Carlisle, or someone before he just showed up."

"Bella! You told me you had it all figured out." I was surprised she lied to me and I fell for it.

Bella smirked at Edward, "Yeah but if I had told you, you could've said no. But since he's already here, you have no choice but to let him stay." She hugged Edward and then grabbed my arm and lead me upstairs, leaving Edward dumbfounded.