Chapter 1

"Edward I'm sorry," I say finally, "but this is how things have to be."

Ok let me catch you up here, its spring and my senior year in high school. So much has happened, Edward left me, my best friend Jacob has become a werewolf, and Alice has taken me to Italy to save Edward, who thought that I was dead and was going to kill himself.

Well we've saved him and are now being, interrogated, I guess you could call it, by the Volturi. They have given me a choice, become one of them or watch them kill Edward and Alice

I was quiet for a long time thinking not about giving up my life for them so much as how best to convince Edward that it was the only thing to do. He seemed to know my answer before I spoke.

"No" He growled at me.

"Edward, I'm sorry," I say finally, "but this is how things have to be"

"No, Bella please," He begs me, know the plea is futile and that it wont work.

I stand on my toes and kiss him for one too short moment, then slip loose of his grasp and slowly back away.

"Bella…"he says just barely loud enough for me to hear.

"I love you Edward." I told him as I turned away from him and walk to Marcus. When I reached him I turned around to look at Edward. My eyes full of sadness and determination.

"I'll see you soon." I whisper, knowing he can hear me. Then I follow Marcus to a small room off the left side of the hall.

Why didn't it work? I don't feel any different or look any different. I thought that if I was bitten I would become stunningly beautiful like the Cullens but I'm not.

We should not have made this deal…..she is too powerful, more powerful than all of us put together.

What was that? I look to Edward to see if he heard it too. I can tell by the look in his eyes that he did.

It doesn't matter….she doesn't even realize……she still thinks she's human…

I hear snatches of a conversation as I walk quickly to Edwards side. As soon as I reach him he hugs me close and kisses me lightly on the lips.

"Your safe now." He whispers. "I wont let them go near you again."

When he said that I realized that I was shaking. I couldn't speak I was shaking so bad so I just hugged him tighter as we waited for Marcus to come back. We didn't have to wait long.

"You are free to go where you please now," he told us. "But I do ask that you never return to this city."

"No problem" Alice said tightly.

"Very well, Alex will show you the way out."

"Great"

Oh no! We've got to go back down through the tunnels with all the bricks and other thing on the floor for me to trip over. I thought as we walked down the bright golden hallway again. When we reached the doors at the other end we stopped for a moment.

"Bella, are you ok?" Edward asked, his face filled with concern.

"I don't…know, I feel…" and that's all I was able to say before the darkness took over.

I woke some time later to see Edward leaning over me, his eyes filled with relief.

"What…happened?" I choked out. My throat felt extremely dry.

"You passed out three days ago." He said pulling me gently onto his lap. "You weren't moving or breathing." Pain crossed his face as he remembered these things.

"We..we thought you were…were dead." I had never seen him struggle so hard for words before.

"I'm alright." I whispered to him. "Where are we?" I asked as I looked around the room. It didn't look like Italy.

"We brought you back to our home in Denali." He replied, smiling that crooked smile I loved so much.

"Are you hungry?" he asked as ye slid me off his lap to stand up.

"I…..in a way?" I said warily catching the sent of human blood on the breeze.

"I kind of figured" he said a mischievous look coming into his eyes, "see while you were asleep you began to change, you have become a vampire, the same white skin as all of us and the same amazing features." He explained.

"What?!?" I exclaimed. "but why did I take so long to change?"

"We're not sure, Charlise is still looking into it." He replied. Then he grabbed my hand and pulled me to a full-length mirror hanging on the back of the door so that I could see myself.

I gasped at what I saw. I was beautiful like Edward and Alice. Just like a real vampire.

"Gorgeous" he said as he stood behind me and wrapped his arms around my waist, kissing my neck. I blushed and my heart began to beat faster.

Edwards breath caught as he heard it. I stared at him, my eyes wide with surprise.

"That's…not supposed to happen. Is it?" I wondered out loud

A/N I know it's a really short chapter and not that exciting but it will get a lot better I promise. This is my first fan fiction so please don't be too hard on me with the reviews