[Twilight] Bright sunshine

"What's going on?" Bella was squeezed by me to the door of the Chevrolet, her already pale face could not see any blood, and her voice was terrified. "How...how did you rush here?" For a moment, her eyes were childish, and she looked at Edward in a daze.

Three seconds ago, Edward was standing on the other side of the parking lot, next to his silver Volvo.

Bella couldn't remember it wrong, because their eyes were still on each other, and all kinds of solutions were whizzing through my head, and I saw Edward bit his lower lip, and some kind of crazy emotion rolled in his eyes.

Confidentiality measures.

Bella's suspicious eyes were as dangerous as asking for a scythe from the god of death. My back felt cold, and the feeling was aggravated by sitting on the wet and low-temperature ground.

And Rick's eyes are also very strange, I can't help but hold on to his clothes, there is no temperature at all, the inside is very thick, and... my trembling fingers are still stroking his back.Another kind of weird doubt made my trembling fingertips slowly bend, and the texture seemed wrong... I explained to myself that I actually only felt the clothes he was wearing. With a little force, you can touch the muscles on his back under his clothes.

But I don't know why this movement happened, it's like affirming something, the human body...fingers tightened, I grabbed it hard...the arm suddenly tightened, Rick had already pushed my whole body away, my Before his fingers could do anything, they brushed against his clothes and left their positions.

"Look at me, Claire, where are you hurt?" Rick's voice was a little shrill, and he pushed me away just to see if there was any defect on my body.

There are still tears on my face, which makes me more like a painful injury that has just been crushed by a wheel.

I didn't know what to say for a moment, and the suspicion in my eyes had no time to put it away, and it was exposed in front of Rick's eyes.He clearly saw my tense fingertips and restless heart, and he didn't know what to think, his expression became gloomy. Under the lightless sky after the snow, his expression was cruel and cold, closer to the limit of pain than mine.

"No, I'm fine." I stared at him, wondering what he was going to do, but why did I think he was going to do it?

"This is not your own conclusion, you are not a doctor." His gloved hand was still clasped on my arm, and I saw him holding his breath obviously, suppressing some distortion, and then he Look at Edward.

Edward seemed to have been touched by a demon in his hair, his hand had left the van, and the depression there was undeniably obvious.Then I heard his dying cover, speaking to Bella, but his eyes were on Rick, almost pleading, "I'm always there for you, Bella." He said it so earnestly and without any One can hear lies in his demeanor and voice.

"You stand by the car." Bella's brown eyes rolled in confusion, and then the muddy chaos finally became clear again. She bit a hair that accidentally stuck to her mouth, and some stubborn qualities made her not perfunctory .She shook her head and refuted without any mercy, refuting Edward's lie. "You... no, that's not the case."

Inescapable, such a poor lie.But I couldn't bear the heart of Edward fighting alone, Alice and the others stood in the distance, watching us coldly.

Edward was going to screw everything up, they knew it.

"He's been by your side all the time. You didn't see Edward because he always walks faster." I started talking nonsense, trying to fool Bella. "You bumped your head, Bella. I'm sure Edward was standing next to you just now. You almost fell and he tried to help you up."

Rick's grip on my arm increased, and I couldn't help but let out a low cry, and he relaxed again.He knew I was lying and, if I was not mistaken, he was furious.

"Why?" Bella looked at Edward strangely, became confused again, and turned her eyes on me as if asking for help.

Of course I knew what she was wondering, she was wondering why even I had to lie to her.I could have avoided making these unrealistic lies so ridiculous, but a certain string in my brain was tense, as if I didn’t immediately force Bella to admit her mistakes—even if these mistakes were is real.

she will die.

"Because Edward likes you very much, maybe he came to help you because he wanted to invite you." I was tormented by worry. If I want to confuse this matter, who else can I witness?Convincing Bella, even for a few hours, would not bring her back to expose the lie now.

She will die, this warning was as cold and bloody as a knife piercing my heart from the second the car stopped.

Bella's eyes widened in surprise, and a conspicuous blush emerged from her face, which was stunningly beautiful for a girl in her prime.

"Claire." Edward was obviously fed up with my nonsense, he bit and tore my name like a snarl, and it was obvious that I was very unkind in confessing to him.

"You have been standing by Bella's side, no one can deny this fact, right, Rick." Without any hesitation, I turned my head to look at him, and I saw a terrifying expression on Rick's icy face. mocking smile.

I don't know how long this smile has been on his face. It is similar to a pervert who is ready to kill. The nervous madness makes people's scalp tingle.

...I hoped that I was wrong, and my voice couldn't help lowering, "Isn't it, huh?" I thought my eyes were weak and restless, but I want everyone to believe this kind of stupid lie.

The schadenfreude smile on the corner of Rick's mouth gradually disappeared under my panic-stricken eyes, and another kind of irritability and forbearance that I couldn't understand occupied his smiling face.What was he weighing, and he also felt that my lies were too easy to expose, so I continued to call him in a low voice, "Rick." The excessive anxiety and discomfort made this call seem like a pleading.

"Of course, if that's what you want?" He let go of my arm and said softly, more like a kind of useless reassurance.

Edward didn't relax a bit, he tried his best to suppress the urge to disappear immediately, and all the students from the other side of the parking lot came running, screaming in confusion.

"Jesus, call 911, Bella?" It was Mike's voice, we were stuck between two cars, and he had jumped straight into the van.

"Get Taylor out first." Someone yelled and began to open the door of the truck.

The chaos at the scene reached its climax. I heard the teacher's commanding voice, and in the distance were the police cars, ambulances and fire engines that were coming after receiving the emergency call.

It is estimated that Taylor, whose head hit the glass, was the most seriously injured in this car accident. Of course, without Edward, his out-of-control car may kill three people.Edward didn't leave immediately, he would play his role well, a passerby who stood beside Bella and was accidentally affected.Rick reached out and dragged me fiercely, pushing away all the students who were trying to get close to me, and he didn't allow others to touch me.

I took Bella's hand, she was trembling all the time, those fleeting flushes couldn't stay on her face for long, she was still pale.

The ambulance rolled down the stretcher, and both I and Edward immediately asked them to take care of Bella first.

She hit her head, we say that to everyone.

Bella couldn't calm down at all, her suspicions were so obvious, it was as if Edward had just killed someone, and I buried him, and we both talked her out of it.When the police came, Charlie saw us terrified.Especially Bella was already lying on the stretcher, her face looked like a dying patient, luckily it was just the three of us, because when we stood up there was nothing wrong except dirty clothes.

"You owe me an explanation." Bella asked us calmly before being loaded into the ambulance by the medical staff. In her eyes, the three of us who hadn't been put on the stretcher had been completely reduced to gang.

And Edward was behind me, and when everyone turned their eyes away, he quickly stretched out his hand to smooth out the depression made by him.I'm sure Rick saw it, his eyes narrowed so dangerously that there was none of Bella's surprise and rightful fright.

We got into the ambulance and Edward ran quickly to the front seat.On the way to the hospital, I was in a trance in a dream. I kept looking at my hands, and it seemed that there was still Rick's cold touch that made me feel strange.

But I dare not ask, even Rick is next to me, I dare not even lift my eyes, he is so close to me.Crazy, I said to myself, what a mess of nonsense and suspicion.When we got to the hospital, Bella and I both had a medical checkup, and it was impossible for Edward to let any medical staff near him, except his father.He turned the others down easily, convincing the paramedics to let Carlisle run his examination, knowing full well that none of us were actually injured, except for Taylor, the one who started it.

Rick wasn't getting any medical checks either, and I don't think it's a complete mess to describe the scene of the accident.Entering the emergency room, there are already various patients receiving treatment, and the pulled down plastic curtains separate the beds.I saw Carlisle shortly after, and he didn't look very refreshed, with the shadows under his eyes that made him look tired on his enviably handsome face.

"Claire, what do you think?" Carlisle came next to me, and Bella was in the bed next to me, and she was still having her blood pressure measured, and I knew she had all sorts of questions because she barely took her eyes off of me, so silent and strangeness.

"I'm fine, no bruises at all." I knew my condition, and so did Carlisle, because Edward would probably be in his office, and he told Carlisle all about it.

"I know." Carlisle said softly, he stretched out his hand and touched my forehead pretending to check, the familiar coldness made me shiver. "Charlie is in the waiting room, you can leave the hospital now, Claire." Then he turned his head and looked at Rick, who was standing beside my bed, "I think you need to be tested, if you don't mind if."

"I don't think I need those things, I just came here to make sure Claire is okay." Rick looked at Carlisle in disgust, the look in his eyes was so obvious, full of malicious look.

I'm sure Rick hated the Carlisles, they knew... but Rick kept emphasizing to me that he didn't even bother to know the Cullens.

"I think you should go and see Bella, she has a concussion, it should be." I said with a guilty conscience against Bella's wronged gaze on the next bed.

"Looks like she needs a more detailed examination." Carlisle smiled at me, the traces of fatigue on his face not detracting from his charm, and he walked over to Bella.

I got out of bed immediately, and I was able to leave the hospital without any delay, almost relieved, because there were more terrible things waiting for me.An explanation, a flawless explanation that conceals the vampire's secret.

Superman, Spiderman, nuclear radiation mutations, adrenaline, or aliens... I'm going crazy.

I dare not go up to Bella to take care of her. She will never believe any of my nonsense anymore. Just now, Edward and I lied to her, a lie so stupid that it makes people want to cry.

And the scariest thing is none of that, it's Rick... I'm out of the ER, Tyler Crowley has just been wheeled in, and the poor school football quarterback is moaning in pain from having his head knocked out.I was so ruthless that I left without even giving the most ordinary condolences, and there was another person's footsteps behind me.

Edward suddenly appeared, and then pushed away the out-of-control truck with one hand, and Rick could see it clearly.Combined with my obvious obfuscation attitude, he must have known what I knew, but he seemed so abnormally normal.

I rushed into the hallway, God knows I shouldn't have exploded, the best thing I could do was to stay calm, and it was best to treat it like a normal car accident and not mention anything.

"You... don't you have any doubts?" I turned around vigorously and quickly, and finally mustered up the courage to face him. This is a hospital, and I shouldn't have a showdown here at all.

Rick followed me. He was puzzled by my sudden stop. He seemed to be thinking just now, thinking about some doubts that needed results. The harshness and darkness had no time to clean up.

I think he is the kind of person who is very angry when his face is expressionless, and what is even more frightening is that he is expressionless most of the time.

"You don't need to think more carefully, or have you come up with a more perfect excuse to explain how Edward Cullen's speed out of the earth's gravity and the strength to stop a car with one hand come from?" He sneered sinisterly, and the white teeth that were exposed were really piercing.

It seems that he is not strange, but the way of being strange is different from Bella's. In his heart, he already suspects that Edward is not human.

I breathed a sigh of relief, and I don't know what my slightly relaxed mood is, but I won't be able to relax soon, because if Bella can fool it for a while, I... look at Rick's picture is not good at all With a flickering face, I feel that if I really want to say that Edward is an Olympic weightlifter, he will definitely laugh at me severely.

"Really, I didn't see anything." I laughed bitterly, under his fierce eyes, the pressure was so great that the blood in my veins was flowing backwards.

"Are you sure, don't give me a reasonable explanation?" Rick didn't seem to let me go at all. He slowly approached me with excitement on his face, "You won't lie at all, Claire."

I really want to jump away and turn into an ostrich and run all the way back to the desert, Edward, you come and clean up the mess you left... Although I am so grateful to him for his reckless behavior, which saved us all.

"I didn't see anything." I cling to this answer and say nothing. If this terrible secret is leaked, I can't even imagine the tragedy after Volturi intervenes.

"Are you lying to me? In your eyes, am I just like that useless woman, an easy target to deceive?" His eyebrows were pressed down hard, which made his dark eyes That kind of anger was more prominent, and the strange thing was that he didn't shout at me angrily, and the decibels of his voice remained within the normal speaking range.

It looks like he has schizophrenia.

And I was surprised by his hostility towards Bella, he described Bella as feeling like she had a grudge against her.

"Rick, I don't mean that." I said as if asking for help, I hope he can let me get rid of the pain of being about to reveal the secret, and stop pursuing it.But he still has a gloomy face. He doesn't think my concealment is good for him. He only has the feeling that I don't pay attention to it and deceive him.Impulsively, I reached out to touch him, trying to appease his apparent irritability.

As soon as his hand touched his clothes, he took a chance, and he dodged, and the speed was so fast... the kind of doubt that I can't explain ran out again.I clearly saw that after he avoided it, he immediately showed some kind of annoyance. He should have stood still, but it should be nothing to him just touching the clothes.I hesitated for a moment, then approached him again, "Can you give me a hug, Rick." If it was normal, I wouldn't be able to ask for this, for me, a couple holding hands is very satisfying.

Asking for a hug or a deeper movement, I'm too scared to say it, shyness burns me.But this request, I didn't have any feeling of blushing, rapid heartbeat, or rising body temperature. I was a little cold and scared.

Rick pursed his lips, and he looked at me warily.

A hug, difficult for him?It's so weird, I want to be more sure.That... at the scene of the car accident, after I hugged him impulsively, I ignored the strange feeling because of panic.

Hug between human and human, is that kind of touch?Heavy clothing, cold temperatures, and... I'm not sure, I need more precise information.

"I just want to hug you." I approached him step by step, like a late-night hooligan who wanted to molest others, I was embarrassed by this description.

"Are you sure?" Rick stood upright, tense all over.

My outstretched hands had already touched his waist, and I paused, I didn't know what I was suspicious of.Finally, he lowered his head and asked vaguely, "It's just a hug." For couples, this is really normal.After I finished speaking, I tried hard to hug him with both hands, but Rick backed away again.

"I'll take you back." Rick looked calm, as if his retreating back and forth didn't happen at all.

I retracted my hand in a daze, and gave an uncomfortable grace.He was two steps away from me, turned around and walked out, and I followed.His steps are very steady, I followed behind him cautiously, one step, two steps, three, four, five steps almost like running, I rushed over quickly, just touched his back, and it was empty in one go, the whole person was very tired He fell forward in embarrassment.Rick stretched out his hand to hold my arm and asked me to stand still. I looked at his very ugly face with a little embarrassment, and immediately lowered my head, "I'm sorry."

He slackened a little because of my softened attitude, and my other hand immediately went to touch his chest unrepentantly, or I should throw myself into his arms and roll.Rick took only one step back and easily dodged all my attacks, then he let go of my hand and walked away quickly, and I followed without saying a word.

"Just a hug, Rick." I couldn't say anything, I couldn't express my doubts that tormented me.

The more he dodged, the more panicked I became.

"I think what you need now is enough rest." He responded perfunctorily to my request.

"Of course, I think so too." I pounced on him again, but he dodged nimbly, this time I didn't even catch the hem of his clothes.

He froze for a moment, his resentment grew stronger, he turned around and left without paying attention to me, and I followed.

Then a weird scene appeared in the corridor of the hospital, he was running fast in front, and I was chasing after him desperately.It's really a turn of events, turning into a gazelle chasing a lion.

"What are you afraid of?" I yelled at him, it's so weird, what secrets does his body have, why is he avoiding me.

This doubt made him very angry. He walked fast, and I chased harder.He rushed out of the hospital, and I ran out of the hospital. I didn't know where he was going. The icy cold rain began to fall from the sky. He actually walked directly into the nearby forest, as if he was about to disappear in a flash. I ran quickly go in.There are fallen branches everywhere, there is no light in the dark forest, and the rainwater falling from the moss of the big trees falls on the back of my neck, which is icy cold.

Rick slowed down, is he afraid of losing me?

I looked at his back helplessly, in fact, now I don't have the courage to rush over to hug him again, this kind of action is extremely daring to me.

After calming down, I thought, maybe he just doesn't like human contact. Anyway, he has so many problems, maybe there is some mental illness that hasn't been cured.

The rain was getting bigger and bigger, and the transparent raindrops condensed into rainballs, rolled down on the leaves, and were accidentally hit.I dodged the onslaught of cold, stepping on slippery layers of rotting leaves, a weather unsuitable for trekking in the forest.

I've shaken the initial idea that he's not, he can't be.

At last I chased him down to the creek, and there is always this kind of water here and there, which only makes the air in the forest more humid.I should persuade him to leave here. If he is afraid of being hugged by others, I will not force him.

Rick finally stopped, and one step further was the sloping stream.I stumbled to him, and found that he was looking at me strangely, and the expression of repeated evaluation appeared again. He thought for a few seconds, and then looked at me intently for a while, as if hoping to find something in me. What, something he needs.

"Don't you think about it and explain to me what's going on with the Karen family, Claire."

I didn't expect his first sentence to return to this most irreversible question. I longed for all the people who saw the disaster to lose their memory. The rain in the forest was about to boil. His fingertips were numb and his back was stiff.

"Can't you forget?" The question made me sick, the Volturi cast an unimaginable shadow on me, and I didn't want him to be involved.

Because if he knows that the vampire thing is discovered, I have no power at all to protect him.

This is so bad I don't have an answer and I can't convince him.So I cringe and just wait for Rick to give up on his own.

"Why do you want me to forget, what are you afraid of, who is persecuting you, what secrets are you keeping. Why don't you want me to know, tell me." He occupied the most favorable attacking position, and he did not relax I pressed for questions, but he was smiling.

I don't want to put him down, but he's smiling enough... sinister and tyrannical.

"Don't pursue it anymore, Rick, this is not what you should know." Didn't he know that he had been asking how to get closer to Death?Would he die without so much curiosity?

He was ten thousand times harder than Bella.

"You're protecting me?" he said unexpectedly, his voice sharpened uncontrollably, sounding excited.

"Yes." I said decisively without any hesitation.

Then he was silent, with a sense of loss on his face that had lost his smile. It was a kind of empty and thin satisfaction after victory.

He was so satisfied, yet at a loss.

Then he opened his hands and whispered to me in a seductive, sweet and silky whisper, "Come here, Claire."

Did he let me go over and hug him?I think I was bewitched by his voice, I raised my feet and walked slowly, the cold was not the only feeling I had, I had hallucinations, Rick's voice turned into a warm flame, no one could resist his light.

"Have I got you at last?" He couldn't be sure, sighed so distrustfully.

"Rick?" I approached him hesitantly, he was a little different than usual.

"Don't move, keep your feelings for me, remember this feeling of protecting me." He became serious and serious, put his hands on my shoulders, then leaned down very slowly, he was hugging me, no Then run away and refuse.

The hug seemed so labored and difficult that I didn't dare to move.This is very dangerous, I am hesitant, at such a tender moment, my intuition comes out to make trouble.

He is still going on, his face is close to my ear, and he has come to my neck, and has not yet touched my skin... I am wondering what, my body hardly obeys my command, and I back away in panic , Rick's hand was even broken free by me, I saw his eyes turned cold and became firm, and he stretched out his hand to catch me, just like hunting.

I stepped back on the ground, and the whole person fell backwards. Rick stood there, watching in amazement. This expression made me not know what to do. I just refused his hug. I don’t know why my body hurts. Dodge automatically, is it because you have been single for many years that you don't like intimate actions?

I fell into the stream. At a depth of more than two meters, my lucky value has always been negative. It is estimated that the place where I fell happened to be the deepest part of this narrow stream.The MadeIn stream pushed me down heavily, and I quickly settled down, and the tumbling water curled my hair.

I opened my eyes, the stream was gray and clear, the cold carried by the water penetrated into my bones, holding my breath made my lungs ache.Just when I was about to swim up, a muffled sound of diving hit me, and countless water bubbles rose up in front of my eyes.Behind the crushing foam, in the dark stream, his face was white as snow, his golden hair was flying upwards, and for a moment I thought he was dead, because his eyes were almost closed, still and distant.

I was so amazed by him in the water that I lost my strength and fell slowly. I was worried that he would faint and wanted to hug him.

When I finally crossed the deep water and touched his face paler than bones, a hand grabbed me, and I couldn't help closing my eyes because of the water, and Rick had already dragged me across.He hugged me, in the water, cold is the only temperature, our body temperature is exactly the same, in the middle, every gap is filled with cold water.The scarf around his neck was washed away by the water, and I wanted to pull him up quickly, as soaking in the stream for a long time in this temperature weather would kill a person.

When something, something cold touched my lips lightly, it was too late when I reopened my eyes in bewilderment.His red lips were close at hand, less than a centimeter away from mine. This was a kiss, and I felt nothing. My eyes widened and I almost choked to death.

Rick seemed to laugh, and quickly pulled me up, leaving the deepest stream pool, and we came to the knee-high stream hand in hand.His gloves seemed to hold better because my fingers were colder than his.

We were just landed, two wet fish, looking pitiful and lonely.

Rick turned his back to me, not knowing what he was thinking, I started to tremble, he glanced at me sideways alertly, before I could see anything clearly, he turned his head away again. "Let's go." He couldn't bear to condemn me any more, fell into the stream by himself, and refused his hug.

I lowered my head in embarrassment, looking at his messy blond hair and clothes covered in water, I followed him back without saying a word.

"I'm sorry, I've actually been suspicious of you." I was very guilty, I didn't dare to look at him and lowered my head, my lips were trembling with cold.

Rick obviously froze, he almost snorted doubts in his nose, "Oh?"

I was a little scared, afraid of hurting him because of my mistrust. "In fact, I have always suspected that you are not human, and of course I won't in the future."

His hands also started to tremble like mine, is it cold?I gripped harder, although it was useless because of the gloves.

"Why do you have such thoughts?" His calm voice sounded more extreme than cold, without any emotion at all, and he didn't even turn his head.

I thought about it, and finally said honestly, "You're so beautiful." Too beautiful to be human, and vampires happen to be that way.

Rick,...

"There won't be any in the future." I promise tremblingly.

"Why don't you doubt anymore?" He asked strangely, unable to believe that I just gave up like this.

I smoothed my water-covered hair in a panic, and I had no image at all in this state. "I think... a couple should trust each other."

He didn't speak, but looked ahead.I don't know what mood he is in, maybe it's not good. "If I asked you, are you human, would you answer?" Actually, it was good to ask at first, and I looked up, waiting for him to turn around.

After waiting for a long time, he suddenly growled very angrily, "What are you thinking in your mind, would you believe me if I said I am a human being? Would you believe it so easily?"

"I believe." I whispered, then repeated, "I believe in you."

He took a deep breath, and finally he dragged me away without saying anything.