"Thats what your bothered about? All of the things you were just thinking and Bella Swan is what you're concerning yourself with?" Edward looked at the girl as though she had grown three heads, was that really all she was bothered about?
"Well..... yes?" Maybe it didn't matter to Edward but it did to her, and unless he gave her an answer on it then she wasn't really bothered about anything else he had to say.
Whereas Edward wasn't interested in the subject of Bella Swan, sure she was pretty but she wasn't special, in fact she was rather boring looking. However he knew that answering Charlotte's question would make her a bit happier, so it's what he was going to do.
"Yes."
"Yes?" Charlotte couldn't believe what she was hearing, it was the truth? Jessica wasn't lying.
"I know what you're thinking, and none of it is true." Well, it was partly true. "Yes we kissed-
"-Ugh." Charlotte rolled her eyes, a scowl taking over her face as she interrupted.
"-thats the simple and nice way of putting it... but if we're putting it in the honest and rather harsh it's more like she kissed me. Did I kiss back? No. Did I want the kiss? No. Do I hold any negative feelings towards Isabella Swan for it? No. She was consumed by emotion at the time and wasn't thinking straight. Is that okay for you?"
Edward's way of explaining things annoyed Charlotte. She didn't need all the rhetorical questions, she just needed a yes or a no, and if it was wanted or enjoyable.
He always had to add in silly little details. Charlotte didn't care if he held any negative feelings towards Bella.
"No it's not okay, so what you're saying is she forced herself on you? Hmm?"
Edward knew this was coming, of course he knew, he could read all of her thoughts. Which luckily for him meant he was already prepared for this question.
"No. To some people, yes." Again with the small details, "But to me, no. I was comforting her and giving her mixed signals. The poor girl felt like I wanted it as much as she did. I knew she liked me and I knew what would happen if I got too close to her, and I did get too close to her. So personally I want to take the blame."
"You shouldn't." Charlotte mumbled in reply "She doesn't deserve for you to be kind to her."
Edward didn't want to spend any more time talking about the chiefs daughter so instead ignored Charlottes comment and changed the subject back to why he had brought her here in the first place. "Lets go back to thinking about whats wrong with me."
"Some manners would be nice." Charlotte snorted.
"Please." Edward pulled a sarcastic smile towards the irritated girl, but complied with his request.
"Okay, so for some reason you know what I'm thinking. Which is weird, I don't exactly class myself as an open book. You're extra pale. It's like you've never even seen the sun," Charlotte paused, "Building on that last point, whenever the sun is out, you are never here. I mean, why would you choose to miss the sunny days, buy come in on the rainy days? Surely it's the other way around. Erm......Unordinary golden eyes that change colour. Super fast. Super strong. You always have food but never eat. Which is mega weird." Then another thing popped into Charlottes head that she had always thought was strange but never thought much of "Sometimes it looks like you and your family are talking, but it's so fast, I can never tell, its like your lips don't move. And then sometimes its like you all hear when I'm saying but aren't anywhere near me."
Edward suddenly moved like a blur to stand so he and Charlotte's chests were touching, he was so close that she had to look up at him. "Think about it. Think about the legends that Angela told you about."
Angela had told Charlotte about some stupid stories that Isabella had been told by the people on the Reservation. Charlotte thought it was make believe and forgot about it straight after, there was no reason to dwell on it- she hadn't seen any Damon Salvatore's or Rebekah's wondering round.
But here Edward was stood against her, telling her to pick apart everything about him. Forcing her to discover his secret. A secret that she didn't know if she wanted to find.
"You're gonna need to give me a second to process what you just did before I can think." She muttered, looking at the taller boys chest. He was freezing, far too cold to be normal or healthy........ maybe he had cold blood.
Cold blood. "Oh my god." Cold blood, cold ones, the cold ones. "V-vampire." She stuttered out, pushing herself away from his rock hard chest, trying to put as much space between them as possible.
Had someone slipped drugs into Charlotte's drink? Because she refused to believe this wasn't a hallucination and that it was actually coming out of her mouth.
"Surprised?" One second Edward was in front of her, the next he was behind her whispering in her ear.
"Well fucking obviously." Charlotte exclaimed spinning around and shoving her finger into Edwards chest. It wasn't like her to use bad language, but she really couldn't help it right now. "It's not everyday someone drags you into the woods, tells you their a vampire and then sucks your blood."
He had to be lying. But she couldn't help but take it as the truth.
Edward released a loud laugh that bounced off the trees "Suck your blood?"
"Well yeah? Isn't that what vampires do?" Charlotte couldn't help but be embarrassed, she was sure that they were like leeches.
"As much as I would love to, it wouldn't work out well for me, everyone saw me leave the school with you. I don't really fancy prison." Edward pulled Charlotte back against his chest, wrapping his arms around her, leaving her heart beating faster than before. "Can I show you something before you freak out or start asking a million questions?" He whispered softly to her.
Charlotte couldn't responded so instead she just nodded her head and blushed.
The girl was almost annoyed at herself. Edward placed his hands on her and all sane thoughts leave her head. If Edward was Mike Newton, Charlotte could be straight on the phone to a therapist.
But then it all happened so fast, Charlotte barely had time to process her thoughts. One second they were surrounded by trees, the next they were stood at the top of a cliff, surrounded by nothing.
Is he planning on pushing me off?
"No, I aren't going to push you off." Edward answered in a tone as if it was obvious. "I want you to look."
Before Charlotte could ask what he wanted her to look at Edward had unwrapped his arms from around her and gone behind her, out of sight, maybe he was going to get something, so Charlotte just looked at the drop in front of her waiting for him to get back. She hoped he wouldn't be long, she hated heights.
All was quiet until a few seconds after the clouds above had parted and Edward decided to speak up from where he had been stood the whole time.
"Charlotte.... look now." He spoke in his usual soft tone.
The confused girl started turning her head and body, until her eyes landed on Edward.
Her eyes started watering at the sight, she opened her mouth and then closed it into a smile, not sure what to say about the sight in before her.
"You can fucking sparkle!?"
edited: 12/10/21 x
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