I knew the moment it happened. Someone had made a decision that would affect my family; in ways no one could have ever predicted. Scenes shot through my mind's eye of a petite brown haired girl. Many different scenarios played out. This girl, sitting at a lunch table at Forks High, locking eyes with my brother, the two of them sitting in a beautiful sunlit meadow together, once again starring into each other's eyes, her funeral with her parent's sobbing into each other's arms and Edward hiding in the shadows, eyes almost completely black but with a hint of red still lingering, and her being changed into one of us, a creature of the night. Endlessly I saw this last scenario. I can't even explain how many different ways I saw this girl becoming one of us.
Thankfully the boys were out hunting, there's no saying what Edward would have done if he had seen what I had. His future so tangled with that of a human girl. This girl's future was so uncertain, it could end up in so many different ways. One thing was for sure though, no matter what scenario played out, my brother would be involved, in one way or another. This was unavoidable.
I thought long and hard about what this could mean. About all of the different scenarios I had seen in my head. Things could be so different, and if they turned out well, if Edward did not give in to the bloodlust that could obviously so easily overpower him when it comes to this girl, then he would no longer be alone. I know Esme worried about him. We all did. We had all found our mates and although Edward always seemed completely comfortable with his solitary life, the Edward that I had just seen in my visions looked so different. He looked at peace. Something I had never truly seen in him.