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  in asto, and heard low chuckles behi my rea.
  edward looked at me casually, the music still surging around us without a
  break, and winked. ”do you like it?”
  ”you wrote this?” i gasped, uanding.
  he 's esme's favorite.”
  i y eyes, shaking my head.
  ”what's wrong?”
  ”i'm feeliremely insignifit.”
  the music slowed, transf ihio my surprise
  i detected the melody of his lullaby weaving through the profusion of
  notes.
  ”you ihis one,” he said softly. the musibearably sweet.
  i 't speak.
  ”they like you, you know,” he said versationally. ”esme especially.”
  i gland me, but the huge room ty now.
  ”where did they go?”
  ”very subtly giving us some privacy, i suppose.”
  i sighed. ”they like me. but rosalie arailed off, not sure
  how to express my doubts.
  he frowned. ”don't worry about rosalie,” he said, his eyes wide and
  persuasive. ”she'll e around.”
  i pursed my lips skeptically. ”emmett?”
  ”well, he thinks i'm a lunatic, it's true, but he doesn't have a problem
  with you. he's tryih rosalie.”
  ”what is it that upsets her?” i wasn't sure if i wao know the
  answer.
  he sighed deeply. ”rles the most hat we are.
  it's hard for her to have someoside kh. and
  she's a little jealous.”
  ”rosalie is jealous of me?” i asked incredulously. i tried to imagine a
  universe in whieoaking as rosalie would have any
  possible reason to feel jealous of someone like me.
  ”you're human.” he shrugged. ”she wishes that she were, too.”
  ”oh,” i muttered, still stunned. ”evehough…”
  ”that's really my fault,” he said. ”i told you he was the most ret to
  try our way of life. i waro keep his distance.”
  i thought about the reason for that, and shuddered.
  ”esme and carlisle… ?” i ued qui from notig.
  ”are happy to see me happy. actually, esme wouldn't care if you had a
  third eye a. all this time she's bee me,
  afraid that there was something missing from my esse i
  was too young when carlisle ged me… she's ecstatic. every time i
  touch you, she just about chokes with satisfa.”
  ”alice seems very… enthusiastic.”
  ”alice has her own way of looking at thihrough tight lips.
  ”and yoihat, are you?”
  a moment of wordless uni passed between us. he realized that i
  kneihing from me. i realized that he wasn't going to
  give anything away. not now.
  ”so what was carlisle telling you before?”
  his eyebrows pulled together. ”you , did you?”
  i shrugged. ”of course.”
  he looked at me thoughtfully for a few seds bef. ”he
  waell me some news — he didn't know if it was something i would
  share with you.”
  ”will you?”
  ”i have to, because i'm goile… ly protective
  over the few days — or weeks — and i wouldn't want you to think i'm
  naturally a tyrant.”
  ”what's wrong?”
  ”nothing's wroly. alice just sees some visit soon.
  they know we're here, and they're curious.”
  ”visitors?”
  ”yes… well, they aren't like us, of course — iing habits, i
  mean. they probably won't e into town at all, but i'm ly not
  goi of my sight till they're gone.”
  i shivered.
  ”finally, a rational response!” he murmured. ”i was beginning to think
  you had no sense of self-preservation at all.”
  i let that one pass, looking away, my eye