Alice's POV
Esme called us into her class room. She didn't say much, but she was pacing. Finally she just held up the note that Edward left her. Everyone read it, even Carly. We thought it was only right to allow her to do so. She was shocked right out of her seat.
"Edward has an ex-love?" she stared Jasper down. She has learned by now that her emotions can pressure him into giving her the answers she wants. Jasper stayed strong though and looked away. Carly looked at Noah and he had 'the look' on his face that made her know he knew. "Un-friggin believable," Carly groaned. She threw her hands up and stomped out of the room. I had a vision of her sitting along is Rosalie's car.
Now we are plotting what to do. Esme seems to know the most about this girl, but Noah knows a lot about her to.
"I ran into her in the parking lot," he murmured and then, as if he was suddenly all alone he said, "she was so beautiful… she smelt like mint and strawberries." We all stared at him.
"Strawberries… yep sounds like she is Bella's daughter," says Jasper.
"Yeah, Bella always did small like strawberries," agreed Rosalie.
"When we visited you this morning Esme, I noticed she looked like her too," said Emmett.
I blocked out their jabber. I needed to look for Edward, try and see what he was doing with Bella's daughter, whose name Esme has not yet told us…
I'm in a room. It's our living room. Edward is pacing. Bella is sitting… no, Bella's daughter is sitting on the couch. Edward asks some questions, Bella's daughter only nods or shakes her head. The vision gets super blurry and fades out.
That's all I see. I jump up, worried as hell. "We have to go," I say, "I can't see them!" my family members know what this means and we all hurry to our cars. Esme is going to head home a little later after she tells the office she is leaving with us and they'll have to have someone substitute her class.
Rose and I get in her car where Carly has been waiting. Jasper and Emmett go in his car. And Noah takes his own car. We all drive out of the parking lot. Carly is in the back seat, her head in her hands.
"You ok, Carly?" Rosalie asks her. She looks up; she seems so upset and confused.
"Just tell me one thing… did he change her?" she asks us.
"No," I say and I look at her so she can see how much I mean it.
"Than I'm fine," Carly says, and she looks out the window.
Eloise's POV
"Who is you dad?" Edward asks. He has been drilling me for awhile now. Most of the questions have been yes or no questions so I haven't been talking. He brought me to a big white house and we are sitting in the living room. I've been eyeing the Fender Telecast Bass Guitar that is in a stand next to the white, grand piano. But now my attention is draw fully to Edward, he has stopped pacing and is looking at me.
"Our dad… his name was Mike," I say.
"His name was Mike?" Edward asks. I want him to change the subject.
"HE died in a car crash, like my mom."
"Your mom died in a car crash?"
"Yes."
"Were they in the car together?"
"No, he died four years ago. He was never there though; he actually tried to deny he was my dad…" I trail off and think about the time Mom brought me to him, when he denied he was my dad.
"I always knew Newton was scum… wait, you said 'our' dad," says Edward. I look at him and he seems frustrated.
"Yeah, um, me and Ethan's dad; Ethan is my brother," I say and suddenly I can't take these questions anymore. I stand and I run out the door. I'm fast, really fast and even though Mom's stories say Edward is fast, he only walks after me. I know he could catch up and grab me, take me back, but he doesn't.
I run and I run and then I fall. I hit my leg on something hard and I land in water. I feel blood in my mouth and realize I hit my head as well. My eyes feel heavy; my mouth is warm and stinging with blood. I know I'm about to black out and right before I do I hear a voice shout my name. The weird thing is though; it isn't Edward's voice… I think, its Noah's.
Edward's POV
I walked after her. She seemed upset and it seems like she runs when upset. But I regret my decision not to run after her. Not to grab her and drag her back to the house and tie her down and make her answer all my questions. But I didn't do that and now Eloise has fallen.
I panic and start running, as I do I hear the footsteps that had been following me, begin to run as well. I knew my siblings were following me, I had known since I heard their cars pull into the drive that they would hear me following Eloise and they would follow as well.
I reach where I saw her fall. It is an old well, abandoned a very long time ago. I've never seen it there before. I hear my siblings get closer. Noah reaches me first. He is fast, almost as fast as me… not quite though. He sees Eloise in the bottom of her well. We watch, stalling for five seconds as he eyes close and she begins to slide under the water.
"Eloise!" Noah shouts. I don't know what is wrong with him. It is odd, I didn't know he even knew her, let alone cared about her. However, he has jumped into the well and is holding her head above the water. She groans a little but I can tell she has passed out. That is when Alice, Rosalie, Carly, Jasper and Emmett reach us. Emmett jumps into the well and helps Noah take her out.
I stare in shock at her body. It reminds me of when James attacked Bella. But Bella was savable; we immediately see that Eloise is going to die. "No, no, no, no, no, no, no…" Noah repeats it over and over. I look at Alice and she has a vision… one of Noah biting Eloise; one of him changing her.
"He has too, or she'll die," I whisper. I look a t Alice and she nods her head, like she agrees it is the right thing to do. She instructs Rose, Emmett and Jasper to carry Eloise back. Carly grabs my hand and we follow them. Alice takes Noah on a longer route back to the house; she tells him what he has to do.
Noah's POV
Eloise fell.
She fell.
When I heard what happened, when I heard her fall down the well and heard Edward start running I panicked. I know it is unreasonable but I felt like I was losing something, like Eloise belonged to me. Alice is taking me back to the house now. The route is longer, but she says Eloise will be alive when we get there.
"You love her," Alice says. I stare at her in shock. "She is your singer. Her blood sings to you."
"Wouldn't I want to bite her then?" I ask.
"Not exactly; you have amazing self control, so you might not want to bite her. However, when we were at school, the way your eyes got darker when you thought about how she smelled. The venom in you rose in your thought. Don't deny it Noah, I know that it did."
I stare at Alice. She is right. Let's face it, she's always right. So, Eloise is my singer. That may explain how much I felt like just killing her, then and there at the bottom in that well. I had wanted to speed up the pain she was going through and just make it be over for her. Then, I could suck all the blood out of her entire body… oh my god Alice was right!
"You're right," I whisper. Even my voice sounds like I am shocked. I shouldn't be though. My siblings told Carly and me from the beginning 'Alice is always right'.
"Then you can understand that the sensible thing to do would be to change her," Alice says. I stare at her even more now, "Noah, she is dying. You love her, even though you've only talked to her once before. She sings to you. That is a big deal and you know it! Think of your sister! She sang to Edward and look at how happy they are together now that they can be together forever. You have to save her Noah, you have to; it's the only way she'll live."
Alice stops talking and we run. We run hard and fast and right through the open door of the house and up to Carlisle's study. It is only sensible that they would've taken her there. Carlisle meets us outside the door.
"It's the only way," he whispers. I nod, they have me convinced and I walk into the room. They don't follow; they just shut the door behind me. This isn't like them, when Carly and I decided to change there was a procedure, they prepared for it for a month. But I suppose the circumstances were different then. But why didn't Carlisle come with me? Maybe they decided to let what happens happen.
I walk over to Eloise. She is laying on a gurney type hospital bed… thing. Carlisle wrapped her leg to try to stop it from bleeding, but it has soaked through. Her head is cut and the wrappings on it are soaked through with blood as well. The venom in me rises in my throat. It's true then? She is my singer?
"Noah?" she asks. She is looking at me and her eyes are open a little. I'm next to her in a moment and she doesn't even flinch. I think she knows more about us than we gave her credit. I stroke her cheek and my hand comes away with blood on it.
"I feel strange around you," she whispers. And then she starts breathing really heavily. Something in my venomous, stone hard, ice cold heart aches in pain. I knew it isn't but I feel as if this is my fault.
"Is it a good kind of strange?" I ask her. It is a ridiculous and insecure type of question to ask but I do anyways; I am stalling what I have to do.
"Yeah… I think it is."
"You know," I say as I stare at the blood still on my hand, "I could make the pain go away. You could be able to live… forever."
Eloise looks at me and I see questioning in her eyes, then she asks, "Forever… with you?"
"Yes," I say. She smiles, it's a small smile. She closes her eyes and takes really deep breaths.
"That would be nice… Do what you have to do then," she says and she slips away. She isn't dead, but she is getting close. She said living forever with me would be nice. I don't even know her and I'm planning to spend forever with her. I look at her face, it has blood on it; it looks so much worse than when I first saw her.
"It will be nice, Ella," I say. I lean over and bite her. It tastes so good… so good. But I stop myself. I can't suck her blood; she has already lost so much. I bite her wrists as well. That's what I remember Carlisle doing to me. I don't know what Edward did to Carly, but she had wanted him to change her. I hadn't cared; I just wanted to stay with my sister.
Ella's eyes fly open. Her body spasms and she looks at me, "you said… the pain… would go… away."
"It will, Ella, I promise," I say and I pull a chair next to her and prepare to sit there for however long her change takes. She is my singer, I won't leave her alone.
I'm sure none of you expected that to happen. To tell the truth, I hadn't really expected it either. I just wrote what I thought, and I thought of her changing this way. So, tell me what you think about it in a review. =)
