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  ong both sides of the road was like a black wall
  — as hard as a wall of steel if we veered off the road at this speed.
  ”relax, bella.” he rolled his eyes, still not slowing.
  ”are y to kill us?” i demanded.
  ”we're not going to crash.”
  i tried to modulate my voice. ”why are you in such a hurry?”
  ”i always drive like this.” he turo smile crookedly at me.
  ”keep your eyes on the road!”
  ”i've never been in a, bella — i've en a
  ticket.” he griapped his forehead. ”built-ior.”
  ”very funny.” i fumed. ”charlie's a ber? i was raised to abide
  by traffic laws. besides, if you turn us into a volvo pretzel around a
  tree trunk, you probably just walk away.”
  ”probably,” he agreed with a shh. ”but you 't.” he
  sighed, and i watched with relief as the needle gradually drifted toward
  eighty. ”happy?”
  ”almost.”
  ”i hate driving slow,” he muttered.
  ”this is slow?”
  ”enough entary ,” he snapped. ”i'm still waiting for
  your latest theory.”
  i bit my lip. he looked down at me, his honey eyes ule.
  ”i won't laugh,” he promised.
  ”i'm more afraid that you'll be angry with me.”
  ”is it that bad?”
  ”pretty much, yeah.”
  he waited. i was looking down at my hands, so i 't see his
  expression.
  ”go ahead.” his voice was calm.
  ”i don't know how to start,” i admitted.
  ”why don't you start at the beginning… you said you didn't e up with
  this on your own.”
  ”no.”
  ”what got you started — a book? a movie?” he probed.
  ”no — it was saturday, at the beach.” i risked a gla his face.
  he looked puzzled.
  ”i ran into an old family friend —jacob blatinued. ”his dad and
  charlie have been friends since i was a baby.”
  he still looked fused.
  ”his dad is oe elders.” i watched him carefully. his
  fused expression froze in place. ”we went for a walk —” i edited all
  my sg out of the story ”— aelling me some old legends —
  trying to scare me, i thiold me oed.
  ”go on,” he said.
  ”about vampires.” i realized i ering. i 't look at his
  faow. but i saw his ken vulsively on the wheel.
  ”and you immediately thought of me?” still calm.
  ”ioned your family.”
  he was silent, staring at the road.
  i was worried suddenly, roteg jacob.
  ”he just thought it was a silly superstition,” i said quickly. ”he didn't
  expect me to think anything of it.” it didn't seem like enough; i had to
  fess. ”it was my fault, i fore.”
  ”why?”
  ”lauren said something about you — she was trying to provoke me. and an
  older boy from the tribe said your family didn't e to the reservation,
  only it sou somethi. so i got jae
  and i tri,” i admitted, hanging my head.
  he startled me by laughing. i glared up at him. he was laughing, but his
  eyes were fierg ahead.
  ”tricked him how?” he asked.
  ”i tried to flirt — it worked better than i thought it would.” disbelief
  y tone as i remembered.
  ”i'd like to have seen that.” he chuckled darkly. ”and you accused me of
  dazzling people — poor jacob black.”
  i blushed a my window i.
  ”what did you do then?” he asked after a minute.
  ”i did some resear the i.”
  ”and did that ce you?” his voided barely i his
  hands ed hard oeering wheel.
  ”no. nothing fit. most of it was kind of silly. aopped.
  ”what?”
  ”i decided it didn&#3