I can't feel the pain anymore. Instead of opening my eyes, I took in the fact that I am not in pain anymore. No more "fire" is running through my veins. This is great. I can finally be free of being crippled by my humanity. What to tell Charlie? What to tell him, and what to tell Jake?
I roll over and I feel him. It wasn't until that moment that I was consciously aware of my angel laying next to me. "How are you feeling, love?" I force my eyelids open and mutter meekly, "fine". I hate lying to him. A look of disbelief was plastered on his face. "Tell the truth. Your thoughts are still a mystery," he chuckled, "as if I expected them to suddenly become clear, just because you're a vampire now."
Did he actually just say that out loud? "I'm not lying. I guess I am just relieved that the painful part is over with, and I can finally get on with the good part of my choice." I stated. He took my hair in his fingers and started to play with it. "I am just glad your back, and that your not screaming anymore. I missed you" He murmured. Amazing. I didn't even remember screaming-but knowing me, I probably did, a lot.
"I missed you too" I whispered back. Well that was the truth, even though he was probably by my side the entire time.
A knock on the door stopped the conversation in its tracks. "Can we come in?" It was certainly a relief to hear Alice's perfect bell tone voice. Edward shifted us so that I was sitting in his lap on the bed and then he said "Come in". Alice stepped in the doorway, flanked on either side by Emmet and Jasper. Alice came and sat on the edge of the bed, while Emmet and Jasper hung back. She turned and faced Edward and asked "So, how long has she been..." Alice seemed to be searching for the right word. Her eyes grew thoughtful and then shifted to decided. "awake?" I had to laugh at her word choice and I threw my arms around the shoulders of my favorite new... sister. She didn't feel cold to me anymore. As a matter of fact, Edward didn't either.
"Alice" I nearly shouted. "Well hello there." She chuckled. Edward glanced at her from around my shoulder and said "I was just about to come and tell you she was... awake" He snorted out her word. "when you, Emmet, and Jasper came barging in." This seemed to satisfy Alice, for the moment. Then, she turned back to glare at Emmet and Jasper. "Come and say hello to our new baby sister" she chided them. "It's not everyday we get a new sibling. Especially one that we like."
Emmet needed no further convincing, he ran right over to the bed and grabbed me in a vice tight bear hug. It had been so long since I had been hugged like that and I grew wistful at the memories of Jacob and LaPush. Though it didn't last long because Emmet let me go and then spoke. "What's up little sis?" I smiled and said "Just being a vampire, I guess." At this comment Emmet blinked - stunned, and then he, Jasper and Edward all burst in to a roar of laughter.
I glared at my brothers, and my husband. However their laughter make me start to giggle. It took a few moments for me to realize that Alice wasn't laughing. At all. I glanced over at her and she had that same blank look in her eyes that I knew all too well.