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  oor unwillingly.
  ”bella?” i turned and he was leaning toward me, his pale, glorious face
  just iny heart stopped beating.
  ”sleep well,” he said. his breath blew iu was
  the same exquisite st that g to his jacket, but in a more
  trated form. i blihhly dazed. he leaned away.
  i was uo move until my brai uself. then
  i stepped out of the car awkwardly, havihe frame for support.
  i thought i heard him chuckle, but the sound was too quiet for me to be
  .
  he waited till i had stumbled to the front door, and then i heard his
  ely rev. i turch the silver car disappear around the
  er. i realized it was very cold.
  i reached for the key meilocked the door, and stepped inside.
  charlie the living room. ”bella?”
  ”yeah, dad, it's me.” i walked in to see him. he was watg a baseball
  game.
  ”you're home early.”
  ”am i?” i rised.
  ”it's ,” he told me. ”did you girls have fun?”
  ”yeah — it was lots of fun.” my head inning as i tried to remember
  all the way back to the girls' night out i had plah found
  dresses.”
  ”are yht?”
  ”i'm just tired. i did a lot of walking.”
  ”well, maybe you should go lie down.” he sounded ed. i wondered
  what my face looked like.
  ”i'm just going to call jessica first.”
  ”weren't you just with her?” he asked, surprised.
  ”yes — but i left my ja her t to make sure she brings it
  tomorrow.”
  ”well, give her a e first.”
  ”right,” i agreed.
  i wed fell, exhausted, into a chair. i was really
  feeling dizzy now. i wondered if i was going to go into shock after all.
  get a grip, i told myself.
  the ph suddenly, startling me. i ya off the hook.
  ”hello?” i asked breathlessly.
  ”bella?”
  ”hey, jess, i was just going to call you.”
  ”you made it home?” her voice was relieved… and surprised.
  ”yes. i left my ja your car — could y it to me tomorrow?”
  ”sure. but tell me ened!” she demanded.
  ”um, tomorr, okay?”
  she quickly. ”oh, is your dad there?”
  ”yes, that's right.”
  ”okay, i'll talk to you tomorrow, then. bye!” i could hear the impatience
  in her voice.
  ”bye, jess.”
  i the stairs slo my mi
  through the motioing ready for bed without paying aion
  to what i was doing. it wasn't until i was in the shower — the water too
  h my skin — that i realized i was freezing. i shuddered
  violently for several mihe steaming spray ally
  relax my rigid mus i stood in the shower, too tired to move,
  uer began to run out.
  i stumbled myself se a t to hold the
  heat from the water in so the ag shivers wouldurn. i dressed
  for bed swiftly and der my quilt, to a ball, hugging
  myself to keep warm. a few small shudders trembled through me.
  my mind still swirled dizzily, full of images i 't uand, and
  some i fought to repress. nothing seemed clear at first, but as i fell
  gradually closer to uness, a few ties became evident.
  abs i was absolutely positive. first, edward was a
  vampire. sed, there art of him — and i didn't know how potent
  that part might be — that thirsted for my blood. and third, i was
  unally and irrevo love with him.
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  it was very hard, in the m, tue with the part of me that was
  sure last night was a dream. logi't on my side, or on sense. i
  g to the parts i 't have imagined — like his smell. i was sure
  i cou