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Chapter Seven
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Time went on and I wasn't sure what day it was anymore. It felt like I had spent years laying on this table, but finally I felt the fire begin to fade from my fingers and toes. I kept my eyes and mouth closed as I felt the pain ease away more, but as it left parts of my body, the fire around my heart began to burn even hotter. I arched my back as my heart started beating faster and the fire increased. Then, out of no where, my heart beat one last time before stopping, the fire was gone, too. I began to wonder if I was dead.
"Bella?" I heard a smooth, velvety voice. "Open your eyes, it's all over." I listened and slowly opened my eyes and was amazed at what I saw. Above me, I could see rainbows reflecting out of the lights, I saw every dust particle, and most importantly, I saw Edward's beautiful face looking down at me.
"Edward?" I asked, my voice sounded like bells. "What happened to me?" His face seemed to scrunch up in pain when I asked this.
"I'm so sorry, Bella." He whispered, looking away from me. I sat up and grabbed his face, forcing him to look at me. I realized that as I moved, it was instantaneous.
"Edward, what do you mean? Why are you sorry?"
"Bella, you're one of us now, you're a vampire." He said softly making sure that I didn't over-react.
"I am?"
"Yes, Maria tricked me and bit you." He turned his head away again.
"Edward," I got his attention, "don't blame yourself. This isn't all a bad thing!"
"Bella, none of us wanted this life for you." When he said 'us' I looked around the room and noticed that we weren't alone. My brothers and the other Cullens were all standing there watching us. They all looked even more beautiful than I remembered, they were all flawless.
"Wow." I sighed, they all laughed at my reaction.
"How are you feeling, Bella?" Jasper asked me.
"Shouldn't you know that?" I teased him, everyone laughed again.
"Haven't changed a bit." Emmett said.
"How are you feeling, Bella?" Carlisle asked this time.
"Well, a little overwhelmed, but other than that I'm fine." I shrugged.
"How does your throat feel?" He asked. Once he mentioned it I felt the slight burning in it.
"Well, now that you said something, its burning a little, but it's nothing I can't handle."
"Edward, you should take her hunting before we test Alice's vision." Carlisle said.
"Okay, we'll go now." Edward grabbed my hand and led me to the window. I heard a weird clicking noise and looked down to see that I was wearing black, stiletto heels and a blue, silk dress.
"Alice! I can't hunt like this!" I complained.
"But you're not going to trip, why can't you?" She complained back.
"I'm not hunting in a silk dress and heels." I folded my arms across my chest.
"Fine, but you have to look in a mirror before you change." She grabbed my hand from Edward and pulled me to her room, everyone followed us. She placed me in front of her floor length mirror and when I looked at it, I saw the most gorgeous woman ever staring back at me. Her hair was down to her waist and had shine and natural highlights in it, her skin looked like smooth porcelain, and she had curves in all the right places. When I looked into her eyes, they were blood red.
"My eyes?" I asked.
"Will change over time as you drink the animal blood." Alice told me, I nodded in response.
"Okay, now let me change so I can hunt." I turned to stare at her. She sighed and shoved some clothes into my hands before pushing me into the bathroom. I pulled the dress and heels off and was happy to see that she had given me jeans and a t-shirt. Deffinately not Alice's thing, but I think she realized that this was my first hunt. I walked out of the bathroom, with a smug smile on my face, and headed straight over to Edward so he could take me hunting. He grabbed my hand and pulled me out the back door with him and we took off running through the trees. Running was amazing, I let go of his hand and pushed ahead as fast as I could go.
"Bella!" I heard him yell. "Stop running!" I stopped where I was and waited for two seconds for him to catch up.
"If you want to go to Alaska, we can take a car." He teased me.
"Oh, sorry." I apologized.
"You're fine." He told me. "Okay, now I want you to close your eyes and focus on listening."
I shut my eyes as tight as I could and listened to everything around me. My eyes snapped open when I heard six faint heartbeats in the distance.
"Now, let your instincts take over." He said and I took of running towards the sound. As I got closer I was able to smell them, deer. I took down the biggest one I within seconds and drained it of it's blood. When I was done with it, I set it off to the side before taking down another one. Right as I finished my second, I smelled something else. This other thing smelled absolutely delicious. I ran towards it, curiousity got the best of me, but stopped when I saw two humans, a couple, pushing a baby stroller down a sidewalk. I stayed in the trees and just watched as they walked by, enjoying the nice weather. I felt and heard Edward come up beside me, being careful to not frighten me.
"Bella?" He sounded worried. I turned away from the beautiful scene in front of me to look at him.
"Yes, Edward?" I asked him. "Is everything okay?" He just stared at me with an incredulous look on his face.
"How are you not attacking those humans?"
"Should I be attacking them?" I was confused.
"As a newborn, you shouldn't be able to sit here and resist their blood, you should have already attacked and killed all of them."
"Oh."
"Hmm...come on. Let's get back to the house and talk to Carlisle." He grabbed my hand in his and we took off back towards the house. He didn't stop pulling me along until we were standing in front of Carlisle at his desk.
"Edward, Bella. Can I help you?" He asked us.
"Carlisle, something happened while we were hunting just now." Edward started.
"What happened?" He asked us.
"Bella caught the scent of some humans." I heard everyone downstairs gasp before running up the stairs to be included.
"Edward, how could you let that happen?" Esme scolded him.
"I know, I should've double checked. But there wasn't a problem at all."
"What?" Everyone asked, surprised.
"She didn't attack them even though they were only 200 feet in front of her." He told them.
"You didn't attack? How?" Carlisle asked.
"Well, I don't know. I was just finishing my second deer when I caught their scent in the breeze. I did notice that it smelled delicious, but I was just curious as to what it was. I followed the scent and stopped once I came to the edge of the forest and saw a couple pushing a baby stroller. I didn't want to attack them at all." I explained. Alice started bouncing up and down.
"I told you she had great control!" She exclaimed.
"Wait, you knew I would come in contact with humans but didn't warn me?" I asked her. She nodded her head, still bouncing up and down.
"Oh." I thought for a minute. "So what does this mean?"
"It means that you can still live with your dad, and go to school. You don't have to pretend to die like your brothers did." She told me.
"Really?" I checked.
"Yes! I've already seen you go back to school and act as if nothing has changed."
I was so excited to hear this. I wasn't ready to 'die' yet, and I don't think my family could take another death so soon.
"You're going back home tonight, and Edward will pick you up in the morning for school. We called and told them you were sick the past 3 days." She told me.
"Wow, okay. Will you come stay with me tonight?" I asked Edward.
"Of course, love. Leave your bedroom window open and I'll come in when Charlie is asleep." He kissed my hand.
"Take these before you leave!" Alice thrust 15 shopping bags into my hands.
"Alice! What did you do?"
"She went shopping while you were changing, no one could stop her." Jasper spoke up.
"Oh, and make sure you put these in since your eyes are still going to be red for a while." She handed me hundreds of contact cases. "They're as close as I could get to your old color. When you put them in, they will cloud your vision a little, but not enough to keep you from functioning like normal. Also, you have to change them every two hours because the venom dissolves them. You don't have to wear them if you're not around humans, though."
I went upstairs and packed my bags to go back home with Charlie. Edward and I drove home in my old truck and talked about getting me a new and faster car. I finally agreed that he could buy me a blue Audi TT, it's simple but still fast. I pulled up in the driveway and grabbed my bags as I walked into the house. I took a deep breath of fresh air before opening the door just to be safe.
"Hey Bells, did you have a good time with the Cullens?" Charlie asked when he heard me come in.
"Yea, we had a lot of fun. We did a lot of shopping, so I have tons of new clothes." I told him.
"Sounds like lots of fun."
"Yep," I faked a yawn, "well I'm tired, so I'm going to go to bed and I'll see you tomorrow."
"Alright, night Bells." I heard as I walked up the stairs to my room.
When I got to my room I ran straight to my window and let Edward in. He came over and kissed me right away, but it was different. I pulled away and he seemed to understand. He told me how we're the same temperature, so he wouldn't feel cold to me anymore. I kissed him back before changing into some pajamas just incase Charlie felt the need to check on me in the middle of the night. We laid down on my bed, my head on his chest, and just relaxed. I let my whole body relax and it felt like there was a 'wall' around me that was being pulled down. I still can't believe I'm a vampire.
"I know, love, neither can I." Edward said. I looked up at him, confused.
"What are you talking about Edward? I didn't say anything."
"Yes, I heard you say 'I still can't believe I'm a vampire'." He quoted me.
"No, I just thought that, I never said it." I felt the 'wall' go back up.
"You mean I read your mind?"
"Yea, I think you did."
"Think something else." He was excited now. One of my pictures of Emmett, Jasper, and I caught my eye so I thought about my brothers.
"What am I thinking?"
"I can't hear anything." He thought for a minute. "Hey, before you were really relaxed. Try and relax again and see if that helps."
I let my body relax and once again felt that 'wall' get pulled down. I continued to think about when my brothers and I were building our treehouse that's in the backyard.
"I can hear you! You're thinking about building the treehouse with your brothers."
"Yea." I paused. I wonder if that 'wall' has anything to do with this.
"What do you mean by a 'wall'?" He asked me.
"Well, when I relaxed my whole body it felt like there was a 'wall' around my mind that seemed to fall away." I explained.
"Bella, I think you have a power!"
"Really?"
"Yea, you must have a sheild that protects your mind. That's why I couldn't read it." He told me.
"Wow, I have a power."
"We'll tell the others tomorrow."
"We could just surprise them and have you answer one of my thoughts." I laughed when I imagined some of their faces.
"Sounds good, we'll do it after school."
We spent the whole night talking. He told me everything there is to being a vampire and answered any questions I asked. When it started to get light outside he went back home to get his car and come pick me up. I decided to wear one of my new outfits to make Alice happy. I decided on a pair of dark skinny jeans, my red long sleeved shirt that says "Peace" on one side and a pair of black boots over the jeans. I could hear Charlie downstairs pulling his boots on and leaving the house before getting into his cruiser and driving off. Two seconds later I could hear another car pulling into the driveway and smiled knowing that it was Edward. I ran down the stairs, out the door, and straight into his arms.
"I missed you." I whispered.
"I missed you, too." He chuckled. "Come on, we need to get to school."
School. I was nervous. Those humans the other day smelled wonderful, but I didn't want to attack them at all. I just hope that I can control myself around hundreds more. I took a deep breath before I stepped out of the car and held it.
"Hey Bella!" Alice called from across the lot.
"What, am I invisible?" Edward mumbled, feigning hurt.
"Yes," Alice told him seriously, "you can breathe Bella, you'll be fine."
"I'm just a little nervous." I said, using up all of my air. I grabbed onto Edward's hand and lowered my shield.
"I'm going to take a breath, take me away if I can't control myself." I thought to him, he nodded just enough for me to see. I took a small breath and felt the familiar burn in my throat, but it didn't bother me like it should. I smiled and loosened my death grip on Edward's hand.
"See, I knew you would be fine." Alice said as the bell rang. She grabbed my arm and pulled me towards our class and away from Edward.
"I love you!" I thought before putting my shield back up.
School was as boring as it was before. I was so happy once lunch time came, it meant that the day was half over and I could see Edward again! Rose practically had to restrain me from running to him. We got to the table and Edward had a smirk on his face, he must have heard Rose's thoughts. We all sat there picking at our food a little bit before it was time for class. Edward and I walked to biology hand in hand and kept getting a lot of stares. I was pretty happy when I found out we were just watching a movie in class. I dropped my shield and talked to Edward all hour. After that my last two classes seemed to fly by and it was time to go home. Edward and I took his Volvo while Rose and Alice took Rose's red convertible. When I got out of the car I was immediately attacked by Emmett. He picked me up and slung me over his shoulder before running into the house. He ran past a table with a vase on it and knocked it over. I reached out and was able to grab the vase just before it fell knowing that Esme would not be very happy. He threw me onto the couch and started laughing.
"Where did you get that?" He asked.
"I saved it when you knocked it over." I handed the vase to Esme and smiled apologetically to her.
"Thank you so much Bella." She went to put it back.
"So what should we do?" Alice asked us. I dropped my shield and decided that now was the time.
"Edward," he looked at me, "can we go to our meadow?"
"Sure, love." He replied earning confused looks from everyone.
"Edward, who are you talking to?" Jasper asked cautiously, they all looked at him like he was crazy. He smirked when he heard my thought.
"Bella, of course." He told them.
"Bella didn't say anything." Rose said.
"Yes I did, you guys." I tried to convince them hoping that Edward would pick up on my idea.
"When?" Emmett asked. "I didn't hear anything." Everyone agreed with him.
"Let's just go now, let them figure it out themselves." I stood up grabbing Edward's hand.
"Sounds good." He told me. We ran out of the house leaving everyone else confused. I started laughing as soon as we were far enough away. We didn't speak until we got to our meadow.
"I can't believe they didn't figure it out." He said.
"Yea, we can tell them when we get back. Right now I just want to relax." I pulled him down to the ground with me and we just laid there until it started to get dark. We talked about everything and anything we could think of. When we got back to the house we saw everyone still sitting in the same positions they were when we left them three hours ago. I couldn't help myself from laughing out loud, and I saw Edward chuckle next to me.
"Are you still trying to figure out what happened?" I asked once I stopped laughing.
"Yes, you never said anything! No one but Edward heard you." Jasper said.
"That's because I told him through my thoughts."
"What?" They were all just more confused now.
"The other night we discovered that I have a mental shield protecting my mind, and when I relax or force it down, he can hear me." I explained.
"Why am I the only one who doesn't have a speical power?" Emmett yelled.
"You're not the only one, Emmett." Rosalie reminded him.
"But both my brother and my sister do! It's not fair, I'm from the same family!"
"I'm sorry, Emmy-Bear."
"Whatever." He sulked as he walked out of the room.
"He'll get over it." Rose assured me before following him.
"Let's get you home now before Charlie worries." Edward pulled me out to the car.
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