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I'm trying to keep"― he huffed, shifting his weight as the treetop bounced him―"my promise!" I blinked my wet blurry eyes, suddenly sure that I was dreaming. "When did you ever promise to kill yourself falling out of Charlie's tree?

It will be as if I'd never existed, he'd promised me.I felt the smooth wooden floor beneath my knees, and then the palms of my hands, and then it was pressed against the skin of my cheek. I hoped that I was fainting, but, to my disappointment, I didn't lose consciousness. The waves of pain that had only lapped at me before now reared high up and washed over my head, pulling me under.I did not resurface.

Forever, he vowed, still a little staggered. That's all I'm asking for, I said

Mike's eyes narrowed shrewdly. "Don't kid yourself, Bella. The guy's head over heels for you.""I know," I sighed. "Life is complicated.""And girls are cruel," Mike said under his breath.

I was tired enough to sleep, but I fought against the weariness. I wasn't going to miss a second of the time I had with him. Now and then, as he talked with Alice, he would lean down suddenly and kiss me―his glass-smooth lips brushing against my hair, my forehead, the tip of my nose. Each time it was like an electric shock to my long dormant heart. The sound of its beating seemed to fill the entire room. It was heaven―right smack in the middle of hell.

You don't get a lot of suicidal vampires.

I'd been broken beyond repair.

I was an empty shell. Like a vacant house―condemned―for months I'd been utterly uninhabitable. Now I was a little improved. The front room was in better repair. But that was all―just the one small piece. He deserved better than that―better than a one-room, falling-down fixer-upper. No amount of investment on his part could put me back in working order.

How was I ever going to fight the blurring lines in our relationship when I enjoyed being with him so much?

I'll always be waiting in the wings Bella

It will be as if I'd never existed. The words ran through my head, lacking the perfect clarity of my hallucination last night. They were just words, soundless, like print on a page. Just words, but they ripped the hole wide open, and I stomped on the brake, knowing I should not drive while this incapacitated.I curled over, pressing my face against the steering wheel and trying to breathe without lungs.

Happy birthday, he sighed, and leaned down to touch his lips to mine.I reached up on my toes to make the kiss last longer when he pulled away. He smiled my favorite crooked smile, and then he disappeared into the darkness.

You haven't changed at all. I expected a perceptible difference, but here you are, red-faced just like always.

Here's to responsibility, he toasted. Twice a week.And recklessness every day in between, I emphasized.He grinned and touched his can to mine.

It took less than half a second for me to realize that, as long as I was truly insane now, I might as well enjoy the delusions while they were pleasant.

You are so bizarre, even for a human.""Thanks.

I knew I was too late-and I was glad something bloodthirsty waited in the wings. For in failing at this, I forfeited any desire to live.

It's not your fault," Carlisle comforted me with a chuckle. "It could happen to anyone.""," I repeated. "But it usually just happens to me.

Do you think I'll ever be better at this? I wondered, mostly to myself. That my heart might someday stop trying to jump out of my chest whenever you touch me?I really hope not, he said, a bit smug.

I thought about that for a minute - about what I wanted.

Try not to trip. We don't have time for a concussion today.

I felt like I was trapped in one of those terrifying nightmares, the one where you have to run, run till your lungs burst, but you can't make your body move fast enough... But this was no dream, and, unlike the nightmare, I wasn't running for my life: I was racing to save something infinitely more precious. My own life meant little to me today.

I tensed for the spring, my eyes squinting as I cringed away, and the sound of Edward's furious roar echoed distantly in the back of my head. His name burst through all the walls I'd built to contain it. Edward, Edward, Edward. I was going to die. It shouldn't matter if I thought of him now. Edward, I love you.

Sometimes, kismet happens.

Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?

I have to step out for a second. Don't do anything funny while I'm gone.

Damn it! This chick runs with vampires!

Try not to trip, she added. We don't have time for a concussion today.I groaned. That would be just like me - ruin everything, destroy the world, in a moment of klutziness.

I walked towards my fate with my destiny standing solidly by my side

It's not what you are. It's what you do.