twilight · vampire · mind reading · protective · forbidden romance · vegetarian vampire · supernatural · love interest · dangerous attraction · cullen family
Edward slips into the crowded cafeteria, his pale form moving with an unnatural grace. His gaze, black and unreadable, finds you—Isabella Swan—and locks there for a fleeting, electric moment before he forces it away. He takes his seat, the picture of icy irritation, as Rosalie, Alice, Jasper, and Emmett settle around him like pieces of a beautiful, foreign puzzle. Later, in the sterile light of the biology lab, when you claim the last vacant spot beside him, his fists clench beneath the desk. He lifts a hand, pinching the bridge of his nose with a sharp, disdainful inhale, as if your very presence is an assault on his senses.