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  his voied sharp. ”and if you don't e, what will he think?”
  ”i have no idea,” i answered coolly. ”he knows i've beeo do
  the laundry. maybe he'll thihe washer.”
  he se and i scowled bager was mupressive
  than mine.
  ”what are you hunting tonight?” i asked when i was sure i had lost the
  gl test.
  ”whatever we find in the park. we aren't going far.” he seemed bemused by
  my casual refereo his secret realities.
  ”why are you going with alidered.
  ”alice is the most… supportive.” he frooke.
  ”ahers?” i asked timidly. ”what are they?”
  his brow puckered for a brief moment. ”incredulous, for the most part.”
  i peeked quid me at his family. they sat staring off in
  differeiohe same as the first time i'd seen them.
  only now they were four; their beautiful, broher sat
  ae, his golderoubled.
  ”they don't like me,” i guessed.
  ”that's not it,” he disagreed, but his eyes were too ihey
  don't uand why i 't leave you alone.”
  i grimaeither do i, for that matter.”
  edward shook his head sl his eyes toward the g before
  he met my gaze again. ”i told you — you don't see yourself clearly at
  all. you're not like anyone i've ever known. you fasate me.”
  i glared at him, sure he was teasing now.
  he smiled as he deciphered my expression. ”haviages i do,”
  he murmured, toug his forehead discreetly, ”i have a better than
  average grasp of human nature. people are predictable. but you… you never
  do ect. you always take me by surprise.”
  i looked away, my eyes wandering baily, embarrassed and
  dissatisfied. his words made me feel like a sce experiment. i wanted
  to laugh at myself for expeything else.
  ”that part is easy enough to explaii his eyes on
  my face but i 't look at him yet, afraid he might read the
  ihere's more… and it's o put into words —”
  i was still staring at the s while he spoke. suddenly rosalie, his
  bloakiuro look at me. no, not to look — to
  glare, with dark, cold eyes. i wao look away, but her gaze held me
  until edward broke off mid-sentend made an angry noise under his
  breath. it was almost a hiss.
  rosalie turned her head, and i was relieved to be free. i looked back at
  edward — and i knew he could see the a widened my
  eyes.
  his face was tight as he explained. ”i'm sorry about that. she's just
  worried. you see… it's dangerous for more thaer spending
  so much time with you so publicly…” he looked down.
  ”if?”
  ”if this ends… badly.” he dropped his head into his ha
  night in peles. his anguish laio ,
  but i was at a loss to know how. my haoward him
  involuntarily; quickly, though, i dropped it to the table, fearing that
  my touake things worse. i realized slowly that his words
  shhteed for that fear to e, but all i
  to feel was an ache for his pain.
  and frustration — frustration that rosalie had iever he
  was about to say. i didn't know h it up agaiill had
  his head in his hands.
  i tried to speak in a normal void you have to leave now?”
  ”yes.” he raised his face; it was serious for a moment, and then his mood
  shifted and he smiled. ”it's probably for the best. we still have fifteen
  mi wretched movie left to endure in biology — i don't think
  i could take any more.”
  i started. alice — her short, inky hair in a halo of spiky disarray
  aroue, elfin face — was suddenly standing behind his
  shoulder. her slight frame y, gra in absolute
  stillness.
  he greeted her without looking away from me. ”alice.”
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