I was nervous and anxiously waiting for Edward. I was tempted to drive to his house. He was coming back today. What had happened in Italy? What was the final answer?

Alice was nervous too.

"You don't see anything Alice?" I asked her again.

She blinked.

"Most of Edward's future is tied up in knots."

She was keeping something from me, I could tell.

"What is it Alice?"

"Nothing." There was doubt in her voice. "I can't be sure what the outcome of their conversation was. It's difficult to see Edward's future." She was looking into the distance, trying to see what only she could.

I played with my fork. I didn't have an appetite today.

"Edward's future is very confused." Her eyebrows furrowed.

Jasper hadn't come to school, he had called in sick to be there when Carlisle arrived.

Emmett had boomed again and again, that, "Edward Should have been the one who called in sick when he left."

In which Jasper had responded, rolling his eyes, "If he felt terrible, he could always call in sick."

He had a point! Edward really could call in sick, because now he really was feeling bad most of the time. I didn't like the sound of that.

I wanted to be there when Edward came home. I wanted to know what they knew. If there was anymore reason to feel like this? If everything was going to be alright?

There would still be a reason to feel like this if…. if he was going to turn human. I put the hood over my head while I walked outside.

I saw him. He didn't move, he just looked at me with an unfathomable expression, one I had never seen before. I ran and threw my arms around him. I wanted to know what had happened and What was going on?... but right now, I was just happy that he was back here home. He put his arms around me and picked me up off my feet, as he spun me around to quickly for my senses. He held me close. He was smiling, a breathtaking smile. He leaned down and kissed me. It was an uninhibited deep kiss. I lost myself quickly. He pulled away suddenly. He remembered himself.

"I'm glad your back." I said.

"I'm happy to be back, near you."

"What happened? Is it… what we think? Is Carlisle right?"

He hesitated. "From what we can tell, it appears to be."

He told me about the vampire they had seen in Italy, and what he had told them. I couldn't believe my ears. He poured out the whole story.

"There was a vampire, he ran off before Romano could examine him. He sent him a letter, he had lived out his life as a human." He smiled at that part.

That night I was quiet but stunned. Edward stayed with me. I left my light on longer than usual. I just couldn't sleep. I leaned up against him, his arm around my shoulder. I didn't feel cold even with him so close. My blanket covered us.

There was something about his face, what I remembered, his skin had a chalkiness, before he had left. Did he feel different? He was sick before.

"Edward how do you feel?"

"Quite at ease, I cannot say the same for you Bella, you should calm yourself, I can hear your heart racing."

"Is it possible to turn human?"

"Apparently it is possible. That is what… he saw with his own eyes. It is just not common." He paused, "That 1 in a million chance." He snapped his fingers. "Just a lucky shot, that I was there in that moment. That is what Carlisle and I have decided."

"Human in you." I whispered.

"If that's what caused it, were assuming that it brings back the human nature dormant of our humanity."

Edward didn't care what the reason was, he was just happy that he was going to be human.

"What is going to happen to you?"

He furrowed his eyebrows. "I will most likely become as a human."

"What does that mean Edward?"

"I am as perplexed as you are, as to what that entirely entails." "From what he said the vampire will start to weaken. Basically, he started to change become different, not as a vampire… he couldn't hunt." His face straightened… "One vampire fled only to live out his days as a human."

Edward was keeping something from me again.

"What about the other vampire? What did he say about him?"

He was serious.

"His symptoms, very much matched mine. The weakening of the vampire seems to be related to a transformation."

"Edward, what happened to him?"

"He died."

…

They were watching him attentively again especially Jasper. What Edward said yesterday had stopped my heart, but Carlisle was insistent that everything would be fine. The change would be slightly gradual. That was something I couldn't process.

He kept looking at me. I couldn't tell if he was nervous or afraid. He didn't seem afraid. Out of all of us, he was the one that wasn't worried about this at all.

"I want to know what you're thinking right now." He asked.

I looked down at my hands.

"I'm thinking if this is what he said it is.. I'm worried that… it will hurt you."

He looked towards the forest. "Carlisle believes it is unlikely the transformation will kill me."

He gently took my hand in his. "I know it won't."

"What will happen Edward? One day will you just be human?"

I found myself having a hard time believing it. It was easier for me to believe Edward was a vampire, than to believe Edward was going to turn into a human.

"The change will be slightly gradual." He assured me.

"Carlisle will be watching for anything that happens." He touched my face with his fingertips, a feather light touch. "I am certain I will survive it."

We still didn't know that much about it. I looked at Edward.

He was a vampire.

All the changes that was happening to him. It wasn't common for a vampire to change back, it was unnatural, so much so that barely any vampires knew it happened. Carlisle hadn't even heard about it.

Edward brought me up the tree. I sat on the tree branch hesitantly. I loved the view, even if I wasn't crazy about being up high like this. He was looking out, towards the mountains.

"Now we can be together."

He had said it so quietly, but I realized that Edward liked that this was happening because of me. He was not afraid, because for him this was a dream come true.

"Always could." I said with conviction.

He smiled crookedly at me.

If Edward was turning into a human, he would get his wish.

The biting cold was returning. Edward blinked, then shook his head.

"Edward are you ok?"

He shook his head again. "Yes."

He looked around… "It is a strange sensation." He whispered.

"Why? What is it?"

He blinked twice looking into the distance.

"We should get down." He said.

We had to tell Carlisle, if Edward felt bad.

"I should get my phone.'' I was looking way down where my things were at the bottom of the tree.

"Yes, you shouldn't be up here with me." He looked in all directions.

He steadied himself, and carefully took me onto his back.

"Hold on."

He climbed down slowly, then took a large leap from the tree and landed. I had to close my eyes for that one.

"Edward what happened?"

"It was the heights."

"Because we were high up!" I said.

"Yes, this is not the only time it's happened, my head becomes light and…. I lose my balance."

"How?"

"I felt dizzy."

"You feel dizzy?"

Edward had gotten dizzy. Edward never gets dizzy.

…

He was sitting across the table, and staring at everything around the room. I kept thinking there was something different about his face. He was at ease, and he didn't have that tense nature, he had had since I met him. He was also happy.

Edward's eyes suddenly became black. Edward looked over at Mike Newton, across the cafeteria, his eyes tightened. His fist tightened in the middle of the table. His grip made it look like he wanted to punch him. Then he shook his head. I looked at him shocked. was he angry? I looked over at Mike Newton and then looked back.

"Can you read his mind?"

"Yes." He put his fist back in his pocket. "Enough." He mumbled.

I was still surprised over his reaction, he never liked Mike Newton, but it seemed more intense now.

"I can't stand the odious boy."

The chalky color of his face had changed. The dark shadows were more obvious. Today he didn't seem as pale. We sat across from one another. I looked up at him, and then again.

Then I noticed it.

"Edward."

He looked up at me.

"Your cheeks!"

He took my pocket mirror, and looked at his face.

I never saw his eyes widen. His face stiffened and he dropped the mirror. Mouth dropped open.

Pink cheeks! Was that what my eyes could see?

What I saw the other day had been real. I touched Edward's cheek. His temperature was different. I touched his face; the tone was different. He skin wasn't pale white, he wasn't like me, yet not pale. He put his hand over mine.

"Do you like what you see?"

I was to befuddled with amazement to think. I looked at him. He was still Edward, and looked like something different. Something supernatural! But he was starting to look human. Edward was going to be human. He looked at himself.

"There is no question now." He said looking at his reflection.

"You will be human." I said.

His eyes searched mine.

After that, I didn't know quite how to explain it. Edward was thrilled! He was happier now than I had ever seen him. There was a spark of hope in his eyes when he looked at me. The flame was ignited. He grabbed my hand with renewed passion.