BPOV

January-

A few weeks after winter brake and I was on a plane, transferring schools wasn't hard with my grades and that fact that UCR and UCSB just happened to be sister schools. Looking out the window it started to come back to me.

June-

It was too much for Alice and me, the thought of him stone cold, we had to get away from his house, his things, his way of life. Three days after we returned home, on the eve of graduation, she spent the night at my house. We set up on my bed, watching Scrubs re-runs and drinking flavored water. We were finally laughing, looking forward to going and rooming at UCR together, finally I had to ask.

"Alice… What happened? I still haven't gotten the story straight… I mean… he called me before he got on that plane, he was on his way home, he had loved the campus… he…he…" I stopped short.

"Bella… his plane… it crashed…one of the wires came lose, honest mistake, but the pilot lost control…"

"Okay…yea… Okay"

"Bella…"

"Yea, Alice"

"I'm glad you are here with me" she said as she leaned over to give me a hug.

"You are like my sister Alice, we can get through this together."

January-

I was going to miss Alice… but she had a new boy in her life, Jasper, as oddly gorgeous and inhumanely brilliant he was… he fit with her, she would be okay. My plane was landing; I would grab a taxi and hope my bags were already at my dorm.

APOV

January-

Reflecting on it, this year has been that hardest after Edwards's death… the Belle I knew is gone, in her place is a façade, a shell of the happiness she used to emanate. Starting college, I'm just glad I found Jasper last Semester. I noticed him in my humanities class, godlike, immediately I was drawn to him, oh, and something else… he just so happens to be a vampire.

I laugh to myself at the thought, really the only difference was his inhuman beauty, rock hard cold skin, and oh, did I mention he drank animal blood instead of eating food? He looks so paper pale in sunlight, almost translucent, but still, he can pass for human, if you don't look to close. Initially I guess it was a shock, but I don't care, I love him too much to care, my only regret is that I can't tell Bella. I just hope she is happy at UCSB; she needed a change… well… cheers to a new semester.

EPOV

June-

I open my eyes one at a time, the room is dark but the bed I am lying on is soft, I feel cold, happy the pain is gone.

"What the hell?" I say to myself.

I thought back to myself, for once really figuring out who I had become. Emmett walked into the room.

"I was supposed to graduate today." I tell him. He looks at me, his face grim, understanding. "My family, Alice, oh god Bella… BELLA… oh god. What do I do now! What the hell HAPPENED why did you change me into this... this…this monster!!"

" Breath… well you don't have to, but for my sake pretend to at lest breath. Rosalie and I heard you on the phone with her, before you got on the plane and the plane was going down. We couldn't let you die, so I bit, and we jumped."

"AND?"

"And what?"

"What do I do now!?"

"You learn control, we will help you, you can stay with us as long as you like, then when your ready in a few months you can stay, or go on your way… you could even go to the local college it you like, this is a beginning, embrace it."

"Without Bella I don't want to embrace anything."


" I understand, this will be hard, but… some of our kind come in contact with humans…some even date…marry…change them…" Trust me please, would you rather be six feet under?"

I understood where he was coming from, but still.

"Okay… ummm…last question… where are we?"

"Santa Barbara, California"