Chapter 11-The Wrong
Run! That's what I had to do. I couldn't let them near me. They wanted something, maybe they wanted me but they would never get it. Not from me. So running was the only alternative. Faster, Aro and Caius were chasing me. Their cloaks were blowing after them. I turned and ran faster. They were gaining. I had to escape, for everyone. I had to. I ran into someone. Marcus. He caught me. I tried to free my self from his grasp but he held firm. I fought, I couldn't let them win. Aro came closer and bared his teeth and leaned closer to my face.
"Four hours Carlisle, what does that mean? Don't tell me to stay calm, Alice! Your not here, you don't know what happened, so butt out!" Edward's voice yelled. Alice? She was here? "What did I do wrong Carlisle? Did I kill her? What do I do? Tell me what to do!" His voice was loud and panicked. He was talking on his cell phone I realized. "FOUR HOURS! We don't ever so I don't know what your talking about!-!" Edward said. He obviously was not getting the help from Carlisle that he desired. What was wrong? What happened? I opened my eyes. The cabin ceiling greeted me. "NO! You stay on the phone until you find one!" Edward continued to holler. I lifted my head to see him. He was pacing in front of the bed and fidgeting. "I am calm. If I wasn't, this phone would not still be in tact." I knew I could calm him with whatever his problem was.
I tried to move. I groaned with stiffness and pain. Edward turned around fast and looked at me. He threw the phone he was holding at the wall and jumped on the bed about two inches from my face.
"Bella!" he exclaimed. Who was he expecting? He pulled me up by my shoulders and crushed me to his body. "Are you okay? Talk to me, how do you feel?"
"I feel..." I trailed off trying to decide how I felt. Everything felt different.
"Thirsty? Are you thirsty?" he said in a rush. Why was he talking about drinks? Did he want me to get drunk?
"Uh, sure, water sounds good." He sat back on his heals and cocked his head to one side.
"Water?" he looked at me questionably. "No Bella t-h-i-r-s-t-y?" He sounded it out like in a spelling bee answer.
"No." I wasn't really; I just wanted to make him happy.
"Bella you haft to be." What? Why did I haft to drink something?
"Edward. What are you talking about? And what went wrong? Why were you yelling at Carlisle, and Alice?" He looked as puzzled as I felt. He shook his head as if he was missing something.
"Back up. What do you remember?" He asked.
"Wedding. Honeymoon. New York. Dartmouth. Honeymoon. Scary Dream. You yelling on the phone. You asking me to drink something." I said in chronological order.
"Scary dream. Tell me about the scary dream." He encouraged impatiently.
"Just my average nightmare: Aro running after me. Some pain thrown in their too." I explained. "Oh and at the beginning of it I think I dreamed you turning me-"
"That happened! I did! You are!" He said almost excitedly.
"A vampire?" I asked disbelievingly. He nodded. Then his phone vibrated on the floor. He didn't even acknowledge it. "But it was just a-" he shook his head from side to side.
"I bit you and your... one of us." One of us, how could I be one of them when I was still the same? Was I the same? Then the phone on the night stand rang. Edward hopped up picked it up and slammed it down. He sat next to me. He touched my face I kissed his palm. His skin felt normal. Like a human. I touched his face and that to didn't have the icy feel it usually had. Edward felt less like stone and more like a man. "You scared me half to death when you didn't jump up and demand to go hunting." The phone rang again on the night stand this time Edward picked it up slammed it down and set the receiver on table next.
"Shouldn't you answer them?"
"I want to know what is going on first, before I tell them anything. Bella you haft to be thirsty. It is night time we can head out now and I'll teach you." Edward tried not to sound too panicked but I heard the edge in his voice. I finally swung my legs to the side of the bed. That caused pain. I stood up and my legs felt as if pins were being stuck into them. As I walked to the mirror the stiffness in my limbs had melted to the floor. Edward remained on the bed and watched me. Though my body felt it as if it ran around the world, twice, I got to the mirror faster than I ever thought possible. I looked different, nothing dramatic but still different. My skin was now pale white (it looked pretty close to what it had before). My lips were redder. But the thing that bothered me was my eyes. Newborns always had blood red eyes. I leaned closer thinking it was just the light but they were brown still, definitely bloodshot but brown. I turned around to Edward, who looked nervous. I could see better, that I could tell easily. The world of sound seemed to have expanded too. "Bella?" Edward asked as he stood.
"My eyes aren't red." He looked confused and shook his head.
"They haft to be you're a newborn." He said as if I didn't just look at myself.
"Their not, their brown as always, blood shot but still brown." He stepped closer and turned me so he could get a better view from the lamp light. When he gulped I knew something was wrong with me.
"Okay. It's fine." He said more to himself than to me. "Can you see better, everything brighter, more crisp?" I nodded. "Hearing much improved?" I nodded a second time. "Are you thirsty?" I shook my head slowly, that should have been easy to answer for a newborn. Edward rubbed his forehead. He looked scared. Was he scared of me? What was I doing that was so scary? "Alright then, how do you feel?" I pondered at question I felt unlike me, like I was stuck in someone else's body. The air had more smells and the world brighter more vivid colors. However, I did feel something.
"I'm tired." I stated, knowing that I should not feel that way, vampires don't get tired.
"Tired?" he asked in his normal voice.
"It is as if I have been up for twenty four hours straight." I said trying to compare it to something human, something I could identify with. He stared at me for the longest time. He finally turned and grabbed his cell phone.
I didn't know what to make of that. I walked into the bathroom and shut the door. I heard him talk in hushed tones to Carlisle. I looked at myself in the mirror. Different, yet the same, I thought. I did expect to be thirsty; every vampire I had ever met mentioned thirst in one way or another. Why not me? Why didn't I want to trample Edward to get outside to start causing death and destruction? I splashed some water on my face. It felt more organic to me now. As if my skin could feel the molecules that made up water. It felt nice. I could also smell it, it smelled so different from rain and the ocean but still like water. I decided to change clothes, who knew how long I had been in the ones I was wearing. I grabbed a clean pair of jeans and pulled out a shirt Alice for packed me. I leaned in closer to the mirror before I put on the shirt. I wanted to see where Edward had bit me but nothing was there. I repeatedly rubbed the spot but felt nothing under my finger tips but my skin. I sighed and finally pulled the shirt over my head. I didn't want to face Edward yet, so I brushed my teeth. After I was done I examined them. Did they hold venom like Edward's? Maybe I was just defective. Like how Edward couldn't read my thoughts, maybe I couldn't become a vampire. I packed up all my things and zipped up my suitcase, because I knew what Edward was going to say when I opened the door.
I pulled it slowly open. His head was in his hands, he looked distraught. Me being deficient was beyond what he was capable of handling. He raised his head from his hands when I walked out of the bathroom. I knew the words he was going to say before he spoke them.
"We're going back to Forks."