AN: short chapter but major. The next chapter is bound to be a good one, but it wont be up till maybe next week (can you stand it till then?) I'm going to try to update the story 'child' today, so if your reading that look forward to a new chapter by today.

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Chapter eight: "what I am"

I left the hospital that night with my senses going wild. It felt as if the whole world was spinning. Every smell was oddly intense. My eyes sight was far better than it previously was. And my legs, They seemed to never want to stop walking. I took the city bus to my house, and climbed in to bed, not wanting to go against the doctors orders. Dr Cullen; much like his son, he reminded me of my Dad. His eyes were pure gold and the way he spoke seemed timeless.

I didn't sleep that night. I never got tired. I just tossed in my bed waiting for my lids to feel heavy. But the sensation never came… it didn't come the next night either.

I missed school for five days. Locked up in my little house. Angela from school came by to bring me my missed schoolwork. She told me that Bella And Edward were going to Florida over the weekend, to visit her mom. Bella sometimes told me of her mother, and I'll admit when she talked of her I was jealous. I wish I had a mother to talk about. I said my 'thank you's and closed the door. This town was suffocating. Within that instant I decided to leave. I would do the same as I did before, hitchhiking my way somewhere far away. I chose Forks because it seemed so far away and distant. Now it was dangerously close.

I packed quickly. Ignoring all of my useless items I acquired over the year. My small backpack was full of sanitary items and cloths. Necessities I needed on the road. I wore comfortable close as I left my house and headed to the bank. I took out as much money as I could and left. I seemed to walk for hours on end till someone picked me up. He was a balding man with a red face, but his eyes seemed kind. He said he was headed down to Arizona, and asked if I need a ride "yes thank you" I said in a meek voice.

We road in silence for about an hour. The voice of Johnny cash playing form the stereo. I guess he and the song 'ring of fire' on repeat because that was the only song I heard as I stared out the window. The black night passing me by.

After a while the man seemed to get figidy. I just passed it off as him needing sleep. We left the main road and went down a dirt one. "Where are we going?" I asked him

"To get something to eat, I know this great little diner" to told me. And like a fool I bought it.

We continued to drive for a while till we stopped. We were in the middle of the forest, a place where he knew no one would hear me scream.

I panicked, and tired to get out of the car. But the man was too strong. He went around to the passenger side and dragged me out, saying with a deep voice "don't fight" as I struggled he laughed. He pinned me down to the cold ground, holding my wrists down with his hands.

I don't know what happened. One minute I was struggling the next I lunged forward and bit him, striate on the neck. Blood pooled in my mouth and he scream incoherently.

Next thing I knew I was over powering him, drinking up the warm fluid escaping from him. It was intoxicating. The hunger that had grown in my stomach was finally subdued.

I continued to drink, till I realized the man moved no more.

I jumped off him and stared at his body. The angel reminding me eerily of the night I found my best friend murdered.

After that it was noting but pain. I fell to the ground screaming. The fire seemed to spread through my body within and instant. My very being seemed engulfed in agony.

I yelled out for someone to stop this invisible flame that overpowered me. In the distance I could swear I heard someone laughing.

I lay writhing in pain for god knows how long before finally someone came. My vision was blurred and I couldn't make out their features but I remember their cold hands touching my skin, cooling off the fire.

I don't know how much time passed before I could truly understand the world again. Until I could make out the words that they were saying. I was in a brightly lit room. The white walls confusing me. 'Where am I' I thought

"Anna?" I heard a calming voice say. Before I could look to see who it was, he was standing over me. It was Dr. Cullen.

Within that instant I realized what had happened.

I was one of them.

I drank a human's blood…. I was like my father.

I was a vampire.

A realization dawned on me and I seemed to fall a thousand feet within an instant.

I tried to run from this fact. The fact that one day I too, could be one of the 'immortal'. My father told me once.

"Its in you Blood Anna. This…curse. It lies dormant within you, waiting to take control. If you do not resist it, it will over take you and no longer will you be human."

"Is that why mother left?" I asked him.

"Your mother…she left for a much different reason. She didn't leave ' you' she left 'this'"

And now 'this' is what I had become. No longer could I run from this fact.