10 CH 10

Suddenly we were hugged from behind by someone with an excited squeal. Edythe gave an exasperated sigh, as if she expected this person.

I looked at my back and saw the pixie sister of the Cullen Family, Alice Cullen, hugging us excitedly.

"I told you not to eavesdrop, Alice" Edythe admonished with a sigh.

"Oh come on," Alice protested "you have kept us from meeting him for so long. I think we can meet him now since you guys are officially going out."

Before Edythe could say anything else, Alice turned to me with a huge grin on her cute little face "Hi there, I am Alice Cullen, the cute little sister and best friend of our darling Edythe here."

I broke out in a grin of my own, Alice's energy was infectious "Hi Alice, I guess Edythe has already told you a lot about me huh?"

"Oh yes, our sister cant stop gushing about you. Why just the other day she was talking about how your muscles look-" Alice began to say but was quickly muffled by Edythe's hand.

She gave Alice a deathly glare, as if she had revealed some secret she was not meant to say. But it was too late, as I had already heard a keyword that would give away the secret.

'Alice said Edythe talked about my muscles? But how can that be, when I never undressed before her even partially, not even when I was injured and she was staying at home with me.'

'Moreover, my muscles were nothing to speak about earlier. Only now that I have undergone the upgrade in my physique recently, can I say my body looks a bit impressive. But how would Edythe know that?'

My mind spun as it tried to piece together the puzzle, 'Unless she happened to see it after I trained. Which means she somehow entered my house without me knowing, while also spying or stalking me.'

'But was that the only time she did that ? Or has she been doing it ever since that time she took care of me?' Lots of questions and suspicions emerged rapidly in my mind.

A cool hand touching my arm brought me out of my thoughts. I found that the hand belonged to Edythe, who was looking at me nervously.

Alice was glancing at me from behind her, joined by their other brother/adopted sibling, Jasper Cullen, at some point. A wave of calm washed over me as I glanced at Edythe with a serious expression.

"How long?" I asked her simply. A slightly guilty expression passed over her face for an instant before she took a slight breath and let it out.

"Since a few days after you were well enough to start coming to school. You looked a bit tired and distracted everyday, arousing my curiosity. I wanted to make sure all was fine." she admitted after a bit of hesitation.

"How much did you see and what do you know?" I asked flatly. There was no way she missed my power practice if she had been watching me everyday for so long. One or two day maybe she could have missed, but every day? Not a chance.

"Everything, including the 'change' and 'growth' you underwent." she admitted. By this time, we were already a bit late for class and the hall was nearly empty.

I controlled my expression and just left while clutching my bag. She quietly followed a step or two behind me, as we walked in silence.

We didn't talk for the rest of the day, my head head full of random thoughts about what I should do now.

Was I mad at her? Sure. But was I going to hurt her to make sure she keeps silent or anything? No, not even in the least.

Being hurt by her actions made me realize just how close we had come, and that even now I was willing to become a freak to the rest of the world rather than try to hurt her to make sure my secret is safe.

My turmoil continued as I briefly considered escaping from Forks or dropping out from school and become an eccentric shut in.

I could just focus on mastering my powers, until the point that even if my secret was leaked, I wont have to fear anyone. Feeling too confused to continue the rest of the school day, I just took a half day slip from the school office with some excuse about health, and drove back home.

When I reached home, I was surprised to see Edythe standing in front of my house, no car in sight. Just how did she manage to reach home before me?

I got out of my car and walked towards her. Before I could say anything, she interrupted me "We need to talk, there are things about me that I want you to know."

There was an awkward silence in my living room as Edythe and I sat opposite to each other on the either side of a coffee table.

She had opened her mouth multiple times to speak, but every time would stop after making a few unintelligible sounds which was either gibberish or too fast for a normal person to be able to comprehend.

After the seventh time it happened, I sighed and decided to take pity on her.

"Look Edythe, it is fine. I know you might feel guilty about spying/stalking or maybe you don't. Either way I am not going to hound you for knowing my secrets."

"I don't think I have the resolution to hurt you anyway. So, I think I am just going to leave Forks for some place secluded where people might not look for me. I do have some connections to India so I might take this chance and visit there at some point-"

"No!! You can't leave! Please, just give me a chance to explain. And I do feel guilty and want to explain. Its just, I can't find the right words." Edythe said, visibly upset as she kept clasping her hands in nervousness.

"OK, I guess I will help you explain then" I acquiesced "So how was it when the first time you saw me change?"

"Well, initially it was just normal thing" When I raised my brow at normal she quickly explained "I mean normal as in watching you train in the pseudo gym you have created for yourself".

Seeing my eyebrow still being in a raised position she retorted with a pout, "I am attracted to you and like to watch you train, so what?"

"I can point out many things not normal in it, but go on." I responded with a exasperated shake of my head.

"Well, so that time I was just watching you train as usual. It was then that I saw you holding one of the dumbbells and slowly your hand started becoming metallic, same material as the dumbbell."

"I was shocked and even started thinking I was hallucinating and had problem in my eyes, despite the fact that it can never happen to me. I saw you controlling that effect then, turning your hand to normal then metallic again and again."

"It was then that I realized that it was not an accident and that you were conscious of your actions. I also realized that you probably knew for quite some time that you can do that and you were probably hiding it from me deliberately when I was living here for that recovery period." Edythe finished with a shrug of her shoulders.

"So the moral you took from that is despite me trying to hide it from you, you should deliberately spy on me more?" I asked incredulously. Just what went on in this girls head?

"Will you let me finish?" Edythe raised her voice a bit for he first time. I could see this was hard for her to admit and talked this out in the open like this.

As such, despite the fact that I was the one who got spied on, I silenced myself and gestured her to continue.

"Thank you, and Sorry for raising my voice." Edythe apologized almost immediately, "I am going to tell you things I never thought I would share with anyone. So please just hold on for a bit longer, so that I can make you understand why I did what I did."

"I am listening" I replied while folding my arms across my chest.

"Well, before you can get why I spied on you, you need to know why I approached you that day at school when we first met." seeing me nod in response, she continued "the reason that my attention was drawn to you that day was for two major points."

"One, you are really attractive and from the first day I felt a sort of weird pull to you that I never felt to anyone else."

"Before I met you, I used to keep myself extremely isolated, barely even talking to my family. But that day, seeing you made me gravitate to you subconsciously and before I knew I had tapped your chair and started talking to you." Edythe admitted hesitantly.

"Okay, that part I can understand, since I was attracted to you to from the very beginning. What is the other reason?" I asked.

Edythe took a deep breathe before shuddering slightly. "I am a mind reader."