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  it. it makes me… happy.” he shrugged, smiling slightly.
  ”i'm glad,” i said, smiling back. i'd worried that he might regret
  tellihings. it was good to know that wasn't the case.
  but then, as his eyes dissected my expression, his smile faded and his
  forehead creased.
  ”you're still waiting f and the sg, aren't you?” i
  guessed.
  a faiouched his lips, and he nodded.
  ”i hate to burst your bubble, but you're really not as scary as you think
  you are. i don't find you scary at all, actually,” i lied casually.
  he st his eyebrows in blatahen he flashed a
  wide, wicked smile.
  ”you really shouldn't have said that,” he chuckled.
  he growled, a low sound in the back of his throat; his lips curled back
  over his perfect teeth. his body shifted suddenly, half-croused
  like a lion about to pounce.
  i backed away from him, glaring.
  ”you wouldn't.”
  i didn't see him leap at me — it was much too fast. i only found myself
  suddenly airborhen we to the sofa, knog it into
  the wall. all the while, his arms formed an iroe
  around me — i was barely jostled. but i still ing as i tried to
  right myself.
  he wasn't having that. he curled me into a ball against his chest,
  holding me more securely than iron s. i glared at him in alarm, but
  he seemed well in trol, his jaw relaxed as he grinned, his eyes bright
  only with humor.
  ”y?” he growled playfully.
  ”that you are a very, very terrifying monster,” i said, my sarcasm marred
  a bit by my breathless voice.
  ”much better,” he approved.
  ”um.” i struggled. ” i get up now?”
  he just laughed.
  ”e in?” a soft voided from the hall.
  i struggled to free myself, but edward merely readjusted me so that i was
  somewhat more ally seated on his lap. i could see it was alice,
  then, and jasper behihe doorway. my cheeks bur edward
  seemed at ease.
  ”go ahead.” edward was still g quietly.
  alice seemed to find nothing unusual in our embrace; she walked — almost
  danced, her movements were so graceful — to the ter of the room, where
  she folded herself sinuously onto the floor. jasper, however, paused at
  the door, his expression a trifle shocked. he stared at edward's face,
  and i wondered if he was tastimosphere with his unusual
  sensitivity.
  ”it sounded like y bella for lund we came to see if
  you would share,” aliced.
  i stiffened for an instant, until i realized edward was grinning —
  whether at her y response, i 't tell.
  ”sorry, i don't believe i have enough to spare,” he replied, his arms
  holding me recklessly close.
  ”actually,” jasper said, smilie himself as he walked into the
  room, ”alice says there's going to be a real stht, a
  lay ball. are you game?”
  the words were all on enough, but the e. i gathered
  that alice was a bit more reliable thaherman, though.
  edward's eyes lit up, but he hesitated.
  ”of course you sh bella,” alice chirped. i thought i saer
  throw a quice at her.
  ”do you want to go?” edward asked me, excited, his expression vivid.
  ”sure.” i 't disappoint such a face. ”um, where are we going?”
  ”we have to wait for thuo play ball — you'll see why,” he promised.
  ”will i need an umbrella?”
  they all three laughed aloud.
  ”will she?” jasper asked alice.
  ”no.” she ositive. ”the storm will hit over town. it should be dry
  enough in the g.”
  ”good, thehusiasm in jasper's voice was g, naturally. i
  found myself eager, rather thaiff.
  ”let's go see if carlisle will e.” alided up and to the door in
  a fashion that would break any ballerina's heart.
  ”like you don't knoer teased, and they were