Bella's POV

Edward slipped completely through my window

"How was your day?" his tone was light and happy. He grabbed my waist and pulled me closer to him. I meant to respond. Really I did, but once I was so close to him I had a one track mind.

I pulled his face down to mine, and pressed my lips to his. It was like holding living stone, ice cold and strong. He was my own personal glacier. His lips moved against mine, and I shivered slightly.

"Cold Bella?" He asked, as he pulled his head back. He was always worried I was going to catch hypothermia or something.

"Not really. Just the opposite. I think I'm going to spontaneously combust." I said accusingly.

"Well we can't have that." He said, and stepped away from me, removing my grasp on his shirt. I pouted, but he stayed away.

"Shouldn't you be sleeping soon Bella? We do have school in the morning, and finals are only a week away." He reminded me.

"Oh crap! I completely forgot! Calculus is so going to kill me!"

"It wouldn't dare. I'd kill it first" he said teasingly. He reached forward and tucked a lock of my hair behind his ear. I reached over towards my desk, meaning to begin some overdue studying, but Edward stopped me.

"Bella, it's late. You won't do yourself any good to stay up late and sleep through class tomorrow." Man I hated logic sometimes. I didn't want to sleep yet.

"I'm not tired yet. Why don't you tell me something about yourself?" I asked.

"You already know everything about me." He said. His topaz eyes tugged at my heart.

"I know everything about you, since I met you. Why don't you tell me something about the hundred and 8 years before that?" Now I was curious.

"What would you like to know?" he settled lightly onto my bed, and I sat next to him, not nearly as gracefully, as I managed to knock over a pile of CD's I had set on the bed, and they hit my trashcan, making a loud clanging noise of metal on metal. Edward rolled his eyes.

"How about something about when you lived in Alaska? What's it like with all the snow?" I shuddered on 'snow'.

"Well, we had to be even more careful not to touch anyone, because we stayed around 12 degrees during the summer. We also had to be careful to dress in coats and such, and never be caught out in just t-shirts. Emmett liked it the least, he would complain about how hard it was not to rip the clothes Alice got him while hunting. He kept trying to convince Carlise to move us again. Here is actually his favorite place, because of the werewolves." Edward looked over and saw my face.

"Oh come on Bella, you know Emmett, he always wants to fight. Anyway, Rosalie took Emmett's side, but no one else in the family agreed, so the two of them pretended to move out as a married couple and went down to Vancouver, Canada for a few years. They'd come see us from time to time, but not a lot."

"So it was just me, Alice, Jasper, Esme and Carlise when we moved in at Anchorage. On our first day of school, Jasper came across the scent of other vampires in the parking lot. We immediately went home; if we were going to see other vampires it's better to present a united front."

"Jasper wanted to move before a possible fight arose, but Alice calmed us all down. She said that she didn't see any of us dying, but since we hadn't made up our minds to go see them yet she couldn't see what we were up against. So Jasper Called Emmett and Rosalie and made plans to track down the others together. Esme fretted the whole time, worried that we would get hurt as always. As soon as Jasper made this plan, Alice jumped into the air and laughed, well you know how creepy she can be, and said we wouldn't believe this."

"We all crowded around and waited for her to say. I hadn't been paying attention to her thoughts when she had seen, and she was carefully translating the Iliad into pig-Latin, word by word so I couldn't hear what was going on. Once everyone was there she stopped translating and let me see. She took a few moments to explain to the others. What Alice had seen was us tracking them down and being attacked by them, because they were just as nervous about us as we were about them." Edward ran the back of his hand along my face, tracing my jaw line.

"And?" I asked, impatient. I was unraveling the enigma of Edward before I met him.

"Well, As soon as Alice saw us meeting them, she knew we'd be friends, so naturally she knew their names, where they lived and such. So as soon as Emmett and Rosalie arrived, we showed up on their doorstep, with Alice yelling Tanya's name like a good old friend. Of course all of them flew to the door in a fury, terrified out of their wits. They'd never come across a coven as large as ours before." Edward looked down at me.

"Aren't you tired yet?" he asked

"Nope. Mainly I just feel like a little kid getting told a bedtime story, it's nice." I answered, begging him to go on; my curiosity was getting to me.

"Well the rest of the story is rather simple. Tanya and her sisters came out of the door in a defensive huddle, looking more like they wanted to run than anything. Alice goes right up to Tanya and hugs her, describing some dress that's just perfect for her skin tone, and Irina leaps at her. Well, you know Alice, she grabbed Irina's arm when she was in mid-leap and shoved her back down, and began describing another dress, this time one that would accent Irina's hair. Eventually we explained everything about ourselves and our two covens attempted living together for a while." Edward paused, like he wasn't certain where to go from there.

"Why'd you stop living together as a single coven?" I asked curiously.

"Well, that's not important-" I swear if Edward could blush he'd be bright red.

"Spill it." I said simply, knowing he would. It was really nice to have my constant, my center back. It felt like he was the center of my universe again. Jacob had been a substitute, but he had been minor in comparison, a little twinkle of a star, not a full blown sun. I felt more grounded knowing I had my sun back.

"Well, Tanya and I had a small misunderstanding. She showed a slight preference for me, and I informed her politely that I wasn't interested." Edward must have heard my heart rate increase, because I was thinking- why was Edward with me if there was a vampire he could be with? I wasn't really interesting enough to hold his attention for that long was I? He squeezed my hand lightly and shook his head. Sometimes it was funny how easily he knew what I was thinking even without hearing my thoughts.

"Unfortunately Tanya wasn't pleased with that answer, and she ended up chasing me down to Vancouver and back, before I lost her somewhere in Canada. While she was out looking for me, I spoke with Carlise and we agreed that it would be a good idea if we moved immediately to our closest residence, which was in Yellowknife, Canada. But it turns out that Yellowknife no longer had a post for Carlise at the hospital there, so we moved to our second closest, which was here in Forks." I smiled, I liked the way that part of the story ended… it had created my own personal little paradise…

And slowly I drifted to sleep, with a dorky smile plastered on my face.