Following the breakup, it took Bella a week to return to school. She knew her father worried about her, so one day she decided that she was ready to return. She was in a zombie-like state, though, and nearly missed the rumors that were flying around the halls.

Apparently, Edward had killed Glenn over Bella, and then had been forced to run for fear of being arrested.

That snapped her out of her mood like nothing else, and she became furious with anyone who repeated the rumor within her hearing range. Of course, she couldn't prove anything because Glenn had yet to appear and no one knew where he lived, but she knew Edward would never do anything like that, and she remembered that Edward had told her to stay away from him because he wasn't a vegetarian vampire.

Suddenly, she was filled with hope. If she could convince im to change her, then she would be able to go searching for Edward, and he wouldn't have to worry about damning her immortal soul. It was the perfect plan, she just had to wait until he reappeared at school.

It turned out that she only had to wait until Wednesday. Well, after school on Wednesday, all through the day he was surrounded by people who wanted to know why he had been gone for an entire week, and there were too many people around anyway. She managed to corner him in the parking lot.

"Can I talk to you?" she asked, butterflies welling in her stomach.

"Sure." He held up a finger to Charoum, telling him that he was going to be a minute.

"I was wondering if you could turn me into a vampire," she said. "I know that's what you are, and I really need to find Edward. Please."

Shisui blinked in confusion, twice. "What are you talking about?"

"I know. Edward told me about you and your guardian, what you are. I'm begging you, I need this!"

Luckily, the parking lot was mostly empty.

"You see that car over there?" he jabbed his thumb at the car Charoum had acquired in a less than legal way. "Follow it, alright?"

He really, really didn't want to have to deal with this, but it was time to leave Forks anyway and Char wasn't going to stand for her knowing. Quite frankly, he wasn't going to either. He would leave it up to Char whether they turned her or just killed her.

"Thank you!" Bella wrapped her arms around Shisui, not realizing that he really wasn't big on physical contact. Then she pretty much sprinted to her truck, a hulking monstrosity, and got it started.

"Stealing Edward's girlfriend?"

"Oh hell no. I can't just leave her here though, she knows."

Charoum banged his head on the steering wheel, though he didn't hit the horn. "It's official, this place has some kind of curse on it. Well, we can't kill her."

"Why not?"

He started driving, and the oblivious girl behind them followed. "Because, Jasper made it clear that she was a good friend of Alice's, so killing her would be rude."

"They left her behind," Shisui whined.

"Worried that she might become my favorite?"

"No way, I couldn't care less. No, she just seems really annoying."

"Give her a chance, Shisui. She might not be that bad."

Charoum didn't lead Bella to their apartment, but to an abandoned warehouse he had found and apparently decided to use in emergancies. All three of them got out of their respective vehicles.

"Are you sure you want to do this, Bella?" he asked her. If she said no, he would have no choice but to kill her. As rude as it was to kill a human that belonged..? he wasn't sure if that term applied anymore, to another vampire, it was even less polite to turn her into a vampire against her will.

"Yes," she said, though her pulse had quickened and her breathing had become more rapid.

Charoum placed one hand on the back of her head, and the other along her jaw. He sunk his teeth into her throat while Shisui kept a lookout. Once Charoum had nearly drained her of blood, he opened a wound on her own skin and let a few drops drip into her mouth. He had learned from watching another vampire who, at the time, had been trying to create an army, that it was best not to let them suck directly on the wound, as they tended to go overboard.