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  he paused, and for a brief moment his stunning faexpectedly
  vulnerable.
  ”i don't know,” he whispered.
  aurned his bae and walked away.
  i was so angry, it took me a few miil i ove. when i could
  walk, i made my way slowly to the exit at the end of the hallway.
  the waiting room was more uhan i'd feared. it seemed like
  every faew in forks was there, staring at me. charlie rushed to my
  side; i put up my hands.
  ”there's n with me,” i assured him sullenly. i was still
  aggravated, not in the mood for chitchat.
  ”what did the doctor say?”
  ”dr. saw me, and he said i was fine and i e.” i
  sighed. mike and jessid eric were all there, beginning te
  o's ged.
  charlie put one arm behind my baot quite toug me, ao
  the glass doors of the exit. i ishly at my friends, hoping to
  vey that they dido worry a was a huge relief— the
  first time i'd ever felt that way — to get into the cruiser.
  we drove in silence. i in my thoughts that i barely
  knew charlie was there. i ositive that edward's defensive behavior
  in the hall was a ation of the bizarre things i still could hardly
  believe i'd witnessed.
  whehe house, charlie finally spoke.
  ”um… you'll o ée.” he huy.
  i alled. ”you told mom!”
  ”sorry.”
  i slammed the cruiser's door a little harder than ney way out.
  my mom was in hysterics, of course. i had to tell her i felt fi
  least thirty times before she would . she begged me to e
  — f the fapty at the moment — but her pleas
  were easier to resist than i would have thought. i was ed by the
  mystery edresented. ahan a little obsessed by edward
  himself. stupid, stupid, stupid. i wasn't as eager to escape forks as i
  should be, as any normal, sane person would be.
  i decided i might as well go to bed early that night. charlie ued
  to watxiously, and it was getting oopped on my
  way to grab three tylenol from the bathroom. they did help, and, as the
  pain eased, i drifted to sleep.
  that was the first night i dreamed of edward .
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  i was very dark, and what dim light there was seemed to be
  radiating from edward's skin. i 't see his face, just his back as
  he walked away from me, leavihe blaatter how fast i
  ran, i 't cat; no matter how loud i called, he never
  turroubled, i woke in the middle of the night and 't sleep
  again for what seemed like a very lohat, he was in my
  dreams , but always on the periphery, hin
  reach.
  the month that followed the at was ue first,
  embarrassing.
  to my dismay, i fouhe ter of attentio of that
  week. tyler croossible, following me arouh
  makio me somehow. i tried to ce him what i wanted more
  than anything else was for him tet all about it — espece
  nothing had actually happe he remaient. he
  followed me betwee at our able. mike
  and eric were even less friendly toward him thao each other,
  which made me worry that i'd gaiher unwele fan.
  no one seemed ed abh i explained over and over
  that he was the hero — houlled me out of the way and had nearly
  beeoo. i tried to be g. jessica, mike, erid
  everyone else always ehey hadn't evehere till
  the van ulled away.
  i woo myself why no one else had seen him standing so far away,
  before he was suddenly, impossibly savih , i
  realized the probable o one else was as aware of edward as i
  always was. ched him the way i did. how pitiful.
  edward was never surrounded by crowds of curious bysta