Chapter 2: Changing

Bella's POV

I woke up. I was still in the ER. I still felt sleepy. But I knew I had slept for hours. I didn't feel…normal. My vision was blurry. It soon cleared up, and I realized that I was staring into golden eyes. They held so much concern. Who was it directed at though? I soon found out that, one, I was staring into Edward's eyes, and, two, the concern was directed at me.

I looked around. I could see everyone in the Cullen family staring at me. My mom and dad were mixed in that group as well.

"What's going on?" I heard my own voice ring across the silence. It wasn't exactly clear. It was fogged and ragged, also weak and held so much pain.

"Bella, honey, you were out for about seven hours. We were all afraid you weren't going to wake up again," my sweet mother, Renee had replied.

I started getting up. "What? I was asleep for seven hours? How can that be?"

"Um, well no one really knows. You must've been really tired though 'cause you fell asleep in a seconds time. Well, that's what I heard."

"Oh."

"Mr. and Mrs. Swan, please may you exit the room. I will speak with you in a few minutes. My children, Esme, please, also will you exit the room," Carlisle asked everyone else. They all nodded, and left. Now Carlisle walked over to me.

"Now Bella, would you like to have surgery, and be bedridden for half a year at least. The surgery would take about a week or two, and would be very painful. Or you could be in pain for three days. But I warn you, the second choice comes with prices. Like not being able to see your parents for a while." I thought about this. I loved my parents, but they never were together. Except this time. This was the only dance contest here, in Forks, Washington, for at least three years. I wouldn't be able to see my dad, and I would be too busy, at hospitals, trying to recover so I wouldn't be able to see my mom either.

"I choose…the second one." Carlisle's golden eyes suddenly turned sad and held understanding. He smiled and nodded.

"Okay then I just need you to lie down, and rest. I need to speak with your parents. But first I need your permission."

"Permission to do what?"

"To adopt you silly. You wouldn't mind being Alice and Rosalie's sister would you? By the way, the girls aren't really related to Jasper and Emmet. You don't need to be related to Edward. Or technically any body."

"I definitely would not mind if I lived with your wonderful family."

"Good then. I just need to talk to your parents now." He walked out of the room and then Edward walked in.

"I heard the choice you made. And I'm not happy about it. I want you to take the other choice."

"No way am I taking that choice. Aren't you happy I'm gonna be in your family?"

"Yeah, I guess so." Just then Alice came in the room with a huge smile plastered on her face. She sat down next to me and took my hand. Her hand was as cold as always and was soft, but also hard at the same time.

"So, I hear we're going to be sisters. You should've seen Emmet. He is so psyched about it. Rosalie and Jasper are too. Edward seems to be the only one upset about it."

"Alice stop putting things into her mind. We all know Rosalie is not "psyched" about it." He used the word Alice used to describe it.

"For your information, Eddie, I don't care whether or not Rosalie cares. I'm happy to be in your family, and with one of my best buds." Alice raised an eyebrow at me

"One of your best buds? Who's the other?"

"Breeze, duh. I haven't seen her for a while, though with all the traveling. So as long as I'm with you, I guess you're my best bud."

"Eeeeeee! I am so happy. We can go shopping like every Saturday, and I can do make up experiments on you on Sundays. Well I guess we don't have to go every Saturday because those are party days." Alice like shrieked every word to it's fullest.

"Cool." I didn't have much to say. Then Carlisle just came in. Alice got up off my bed and walked out the door. Carlisle kneeled in front of my bed.

"Bella, good news. Your parents agreed to letting you live with us, but on a few conditions. When you are feeling good call them, okay?"

"That's great. And I will call them."

"Okay. Um, I don't really know how to put this. You realize my family isn't exactly what you call human, don't you?"

"Of course I do. That's why you have golden eyes and have cold, hard skin."

"Good. Would you want me or Edward to change you to what we are?"

"No offence, but I prefer Edward for some reason."

"That is perfectly fine. I'll go get him. But first I need to call Jasper." He pulled out his cell phone and called Jasper. Carlisle mumbled something into the phone. I don't know what, but he probably said for him to come here because Jasper rushed into the room.

"Ah, Jasper, my son." He gestured to me. "May you?" I started to fall asleep. The last thing I heard was Carlisle talking to Jasper and saying, "Nice job. Now let us go get Edward and tell him the news. Remember keep your thoughts out of the subject." Then I fell into a pit of darkness. All I saw were my eyelids as I slept.

***

I was probably only asleep for an hour before I started burning. It felt like I was thrown into a fire place; And being pushed to stay there. I didn't know what to do. Maybe Carlisle had put me into a fire, but he seemed so nice. He wouldn't do that. Then again, some people seemed nicer than they were. No, but I knew him. He would not burn me. I couldn't find the courage to open my eyes. I didn't want to know what was happening. The burning was every where. Then, it started to retreat. It left my fingers cold, and the heat went into my heart. It started coming back from my feet, hands arms, legs, shoulders, hips, torso, neck (which actually seemed really dry), and my head, which seemed to be larger. All the heat that retreated went to my heart that was beating erratically. I was going to wake up soon. I knew it. So I waited.

Edward POV

I hated doing this to Bella. She just lied there. Her eyes shut tightly. I wanted to take all the venom I put into her out, but it was too late to change my mind. All the heat the venom created would now be in her heart. It was beating sixty times a minute.

"Edward, hello? Stop moping. You need to leave. I'm gonna change her outfit." I just got up and stocked out of the room.

Alice POV (A/N: I apologize for the quick changes of POVs)

I undressed Bella as quick as I could. She would be waking up in an hour. Edward had been staring at her forever until I came in.

"Kay Edward, you can come in." I barely had to shout because he was right outside the door.

"I'm going to take her to our backyard. Then we'll wait until she decides to cross the river. She will just be discovering her new self. Oh, and wait on the other side of the river for her." I picked her up gently and exited out the window. I ran to our house and lied her down on the area of overgrown grass in our backyard. I felt we needed the area of grass overgrown and now I know why. She looked so peaceful. It seemed as though she was smiling. She would love her knew self. I knew it. I didn't have a vision. Just a gut feeling.

Bella POV

I woke up in a clearing. There was a river. The same exact river in my dream. I wanted to jump over the river now. As though something was calling me there. I got up from where I was and ran. I was running faster than usual. And I was running gracefully. I ran up onto a boulder and jumped. The seventy foot wide river passed underneath me very quickly. I reached the ground on the other side easily. This was where I checked my reflection.

A girl with a pale complexion stared back at me. Her eyes were wide. And they were crimson; A deep, bright, glowing red. Her lips were full. Her mahogany hair went to her torso, which was bare. Her midnight blue shirt was rolled up, so it showed the girl's belly button. She had a black denim skirt that sparkled in the sun. Her skin was also sparkling. I looked at my skin. It was, as in the reflection, sparkling. Then, I looked at my shoes. They were sky blue flats. I looked back at my reflection. Whoever dressed me was very smart with fashion because the dark colors of my clothes contrasted wonderfully with my pale complexion.

I could hear quiet footsteps as someone approached me. I kept my eyes on the river. Edward walked up behind me and grabbed my hand. I stiffened. This was basically my dream. Not something normal. I looked up into his face. His perfect, golden eyes held hurt.

"Edward, are you…okay?" My voice was very clear and sounded almost…perfect.

"Oh, well, it's just that you seemed upset that I held your hand."

"No, no, no. It's definitely not that. It's just… this kind of happened in my dream. I'm afraid of what I had dreamed."

"Your saying, you didn't want to be one of us?"

"No, I mean, in my dream, you and Jacob. Well first, I know Jacob is a wolf. Second of all, you fought, and you both died. I don't want either of you out of my life."

"Bella, I promise that I would never want to leave you, but I might have to, to keep you alive."

"Well I guess I'm part of like some sort of super humans. So, I don't think I would be able to die."

"Well, you see you can die. But you would have to be torn up by one of our own kind and—"

"Burned."

"How did you—"

"How did I know? Well you were in a fire in my dream, and there seemed to be no life left in you."

"Is that why you screamed?"

"Yes," I barely whispered the word but he could still hear it.

"Oh. Well, I better explain what we are. My entire family, well we are—"

"Wait. Let me guess. Vampires"

"Yes, but how did you know?"

"It's kind of easy to figure out, especially after all the things I figured out I could do. Like run half a mile in seconds, jump over a seventy foot wide river, and land perfectly, without a bone out of place."

"Smart. Well we aren't the normal, human blood drinkers. You see we refer to ourselves as—"

"Vegetarians. You drink animal blood."

"Would you please stop interrupting? And where are you learning all this?"

"I don't really know. I think I've dreamt all this before.

~Flashback~

I woke up sobbing and screaming for my mom.

Honey, what's wrong?" My mom had let herself in because then I was only seven and didn't have a lock on my door.

"I was burning, Mommy. Then I woke up, and was speaking to this teenager. We had a conversation, Momma. He said his family was made out of vampires, but they drank animal blood. I had looked at my reflection, and…and…I had red eyes. And was like fifteen years old. Mommy, what's going on with me?"

"I don't know, baby girl. I don't know. These dreams have got to stop or else I'm…I'm… I don't know what I'm going to do." She breathed a shaky sigh. "Don't worry though. There is no such thing as a vampire, and your not going to be one."

~End of Flashback~

"Boy was she wrong."

Edward surprised me by saying, "Definitely wrong."

"Whoa, did you just see my flashback too?"

He smiled at me. "Yes. I have mind reading. Now let's go see the rest of the family. Then you'll have your first hunting lesson."

"That sounds good. I wonder what kind of power I'm gonna get?"

"We'll have to find out later. Come on." Then we jumped back over the river, still holding hands.

Hy. What ya think? Pretty good? Horrible? In the middle? Do you think my writing skills would improve as I grew up? Would I be a good author? I'm already working on three different books, with my own characters, so you can't bring my hopes down!