When a hand touched her arm to stop her from walking, she was jerked by her thoughts. Both by the cold of that hand and by the fact that she realized she nearly walked out into the traffic. She blinked and then looked up, and her eyes landed on his. Topaz. Her chest constricted the moment that she realized who it was, constricted like she was going to break.
"E..Edward." She stammered, she couldn't say much else. She didn't know what to say. "I wasn't..trying..to..do anything stupid. I just..wasn't paying..attention." Breathing was becoming hard. Exceedingly hard. Because she thought she'd never see him again. While Alice had said that Edward was here, she didn't believe her. And though some part of her had been hoping to see him, she also knew that it was going to cause more of a break in her that Jake was going to have to put back together again. He seemed to be good at that, putting back the pieces of her that broke time and again.
"I..uhh..you..what..you..here.." And then that was the end of Bella's literacy for the moment. She looked at his hand on her arm and gently pulled at it, freeing her arm from his touch. Otherwise she really wouldn't be able to think and he always did have that amazing ability to make her stop thinking for any given amount of time. Now that she'd found her voice again, she looked at him. "What are you doing here?"
There, that was out of her mouth now. Now she didn't have to worry about trying to talk again until he started talking to her. She was here by pure accident and never had been able to get back to Forks or even call there. So she'd given up.