Ok, here's the next chapter of Evening Star! ^_^


As usual, at night, I sticked by Bella's side, watching her sleep in peace. It made me smile when she said my name over and over again. Sometimes she make full sentences saying, "I love you, Edward."
I kissed her forehead, and said, "I never get tired of you saying saying that, I will always love you too."
As if she could hear me, she smiled slightly and drifted into deeper sleep.
I rubbed her arm, letting her know that I will never leave her out of my sight again.

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It was already the next day, and Bella and I were walking from Spanish class to the Cafeteria. Almost everyone ignored us. But I remembered back in last January when everyone stared at us when Bella and I were together. It seemed so many years ago, back when I had a hard time resisting Bella's blood. But I knew the pain if I lost her, so it never tempted me again.

It may be just me, but Bella seemed to be more excited today then usual. It made me feel happy to see her like this. To see her, with a happy life with no problems. But too bad that wasn't true, there are still some problems to concern.
But Bella wasn't the only one who seemed to be lively today. It was almost graduation, and everyone is getting ready to go to College. I sighed, they have such a nice future ahead of them. I hope that Bella will go to Dartmouth with me first, to delay her.
We got our "human food" and sat at the table where Angela, Ben, and Alice were sitting.

"Have you sent your announcents, yet?" Angela asked.
"No. There's no point really. Renee knows when I'm graduating so there;s no point really." Bella told her.
She's so lucky that she didn't have to write invitations. I wonder about the Cullens...
"All done." Alice told her while smiling. I knew she was lying, since all of our family is dead and since we are graduation for the 100th already. But this fact didn't bother me.

"Luck you. My mother has a thousand cousins and she expects me to hand-address one to everyone. I'm going to get a carpal tunnel. I can't put it off any longer and I'm just dreading it." she complained.
"I'll help you. If you don't mind my awful handwriting." Bella volunteered.
I smiled at Bella's suggestion. Not only she's trying to follow Charlie's instructions, she is also being with her other friends again.

Angela sighed.
Wow, normally Bella never suggests to help out. But that's sweet, and it gave my hands less trouble.
"That's so nice of you. I'll come over any time you want."
Bella took a deep breath.
"Actually, I'd rather go to your house if that's okay - I'm sick of mine. Charlie un-grounded me last night." she smiled. I smiled too, for her freedom from Charlie.
This is great! I can't believe Bella is un-grounded!!!
This time I knew that this was Alice's thought, not Angelas'. I made a quick glance at Alice, and she looked excited. I sighed.

"Really? I thought you said you were in for life." Angela said, surprise from the news.
"I'm more surprised than you are. I was sure I would at least have finished high school before he set me free." she said, smiling wider.
Maybe this is the reason Bella was so lively earlier.

I continued staring at the lunch. I was disgusted to eat this, but I had to keep up the human charade. I gulped down a slice of pizza. I automatically wanted to take it out of my mouth, but swallowed, unwillingly.

"Well, this is great Bella! We'll have to go out to celebrate!" Angela told her, excited.
"You have no idea how good that soudns." Bella said a little relieved.
"What should we do?" Alice said, and in her thought, she was thinking about taking a plane ride to Paris, or Tokyo and maybe go on a shopping spree. I grimaced. These were the things Bella will never agree to. Before I could reply to her thought, Bella spoke as if she could read Alice's mind as well.
"Whatever you're thinking, Alice, I doubt I'm that free."

Typical Bella

"Free is free, right?" she urged.
"I'm sure I still have boundaries - like the continental U.S. for example." she said.
Alice grimaced when Angela and Ben were laughing. I laughed too, though Alice was actually disapointed.
That would be fun for Bella though.
"Don't worry about it, Alice. I'm sure Bella would want to go international anyway." I whispered to her so low that only she can hear it. She sighed and nodded.
"So what are we doing tonight?" she asked.
"Nothing. Look, let's give it a couple of days to make sure he wasn't joking, It's a school night anyway." Bella told her.

Bella was wrong though. Charlie already thought it over before letting Bella go free. But I didn't correct her. She didn't want to go celebrate tonight at least.
"We'll celebrate this weekend, then." Alice concluded.
I groaned. It was always impossible to discourage Alice.
"Sure." Bella sighed.
See? Bella does want to celebrate! Alice thoughts told me.
Alice continued to think about ideas for the celebration tonight and talked to Ben and Angela for more suggestions. I ignored them. I stared at Bella's face, though, I didn't think she could see me. Her thoughts had taken her away to another world. Her eyes were full of pain and disturbance. I wish I could see what she was thinking about. But then someone else's thought took over. Alice. Alice is having another vision, and this one, is far more dangerous than I thought. Victoria is back.