Her window was slightly ajar… she would never notice if I were to enter. I closed my eyes and tilted my head up towards her bedroom window. The scent of her, I breathed in deeply… The painfully delicious and toxic scent of her swam down towards me and enveloped me completely. It danced around my head and teased me with its powerful draw. What a sweet scent to come from a mere mortal… So desperately calling to me, pleading with me to come closer… What I wouldn't give to take her right now… How easily I could enter her room and stand over her sleeping body, without so much as to cause her to stir. How intense of a desire I felt to take her into my arms, so gently as to not even wake her, and bury myself into the soft, tender flesh of her throat. The desire was overpowering, and my mind became a manipulative beast as to how I would take her. I reveled in her scent and let it wash over me, filling my mind and taking over my senses. My mind wandered and created a picture of her lying in her bed, helpless. My dark, looming shadow standing over her tiny frame like a scene from an old horror movie. I would kneel beside her and breathe in some of that sweet scent directly from her skin… My teeth would bare unconsciously and move toward her exposed flesh…

I leapt to her window ledge with the slightest of ease, and then I saw her…

A gush of feelings came over me, saliva and venom flooded my mouth. I wanted her more than any creature I have ever crossed. I wanted to take her and have every last drop of her life's fluids. I wanted to savor each delicate beat of her heart as it gave me more and more of what I desired in a desperate attempt to save itself. I starred at her, and I felt a sudden lurch in my stomach.

"Edward…" Bella whispered, and for a moment I thought she had seen me, but as she rolled over, I could see she was still fast asleep.

"I love you… Edward… I… I love you…" she mumbled. Even in her sleep I could hear her voice flooded with emotion. Confusion blanketed my desires and I shifted swiftly into her bedroom and perched myself on her floor. I listened to her as she moaned softly in her sleep and my name fell gently from her lips again…

"Edward…"

The way she spoke my name struck me hard in the chest. She let it flow out of her mouth with such ease, desire and longing that it overwhelmed me. I rested on my knees beside her bed and listened to her breathing. With each breath I could smell the scent of her again, but the more I inhaled, the less I wanted to destroy her, and the more I wanted to protect her. I watched her face and the expressions it made as she sighed heavily and groaned. I reached out to her and touched her face lightly, just stroking her cheek with the back of my hand.

The connection was too much.

The sheer warmth that radiated from her skin was so powerful… I raised my hand to my own face and held it there, feeling her warmth against my cold skin.

It was in that moment I knew, I knew she was the one.

An over-powering sense cascaded over me… I wanted her, I wanted to love her and her to love me in return. I looked at her again, and her face was different. It was beautiful and powerful. It was delicate yet radiant. She was more than I could imagine. I leaned over her sleepy, beautiful face and I kissed her lightly on her forehead.

She would be my love…

I leapt out her window and landed without a sound on the damp earth. I took one final gaze up to her window and my decision was final. We would be together, no matter how difficult, no matter how furious it made my family…

I ran home with a different kind of lightness below my feet. I was happy, joyously happy. And in that moment I wished my heart would beat again, so I could hear it thunder with the delirious happiness that filled me.

Now came the difficult part… I would actually have to talk to her tomorrow…