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*Edward*
I followed my father up the steps to my room. I could hear the thoughts of my mother and my sister, Esme always the worrier, she was worried about Bella and I, and how our relationship would change because of this. Alice on the other hand was singing the National Anthem of China, definitely hiding something.
"Esme how is she?" I asked.
"She seems fine! She lost consciousness just after you left the room!" said Esme. She was sitting next to the bed holding Bella's hand.
"Did she say anything else?" I asked. Alice and Esme exchanged a look, and Alice stopped singing the Chinese National Anthem.
"What?" I asked.
"Edward, she has made it clear that she will not be staying with us when she finishes changing!" said Esme.
"What?" I nearly screamed.
"Edward, control yourself!" said Carlisle.
"You want me to control myself, when she says she wants to leave me! Its not bad enough that she will be a new born vampire ready to slaughter entire towns, but she doesn't want to be with me and you want me to calm down?" I said slightly lower but still not in control of my voice.
"Edward we must respect her wishes!" said Carlisle.
"And how exactly do you suggest we do that without putting all of Washington at risk of becoming her next meal!" I asked.
He didn't answer me; instead he turned back to Esme. "Did she say why she didn't want to become part of our family?" asked Carlisle.
"She said that she respected Edwards' decision, and that she wouldn't force herself on him, or on this family!" said Esme. "What decision was she talking about?" she asked.
This couldn't be happening, she couldn't really truly think that I didn't love her, and she couldn't really want to leave me. "I told her, when we left that I didn't love her!" I said quietly.
"I'm sorry, I didn't hear you, you what?" asked Alice. I didn't bother to repeat myself; I knew that she heard me.
"Edward, why would you do such a thing?" asked Esme.
"I didn't have a choice, what did you want me to do! She wouldn't let me leave her. She has no sense of self-preservation. She is a danger magnet, and I just increase that danger by 1000 percent!" I said.
"You could have told her the truth, it would have been better than a lie! Anything would have been better than a lie!" said Alice.
I simply shook my head. I had been miserable since we left Bella, and I had convinced myself that she would be happy. And she had been, she had moved on, she was dating Jacob. It was clear that he loved her, and she had been crying over him. She had had her heartbroken twice, and both times it had been my fault. There was nothing that I could do about it this time.
"I am going to go for a run; I need to think things through!" I said running from the room. I took off out the front door and didn't stop again until I was in Alaska. I had finally gotten everything I had always wanted, and now she didn't want me. What was I going to do?
*Alice*
I sat by Bella's side for the next three days while she continued to change. She never regained consciousness, and she didn't move. The only thing I heard was her heart beat as it continued to slow. As twilight appeared on the third day her heart took its final beats.
She opened her eyes slowly and looked around the room before sitting up. "Where am I?" she asked.
"Bella?" I asked.
She sat up slowly and looked at me. I gasped in surprise. Her eyes were still brown, how could that be?
"Bella how do you feel" I asked.
"Fine I guess is that my name?" she asked softly.
"You don't remember your name?" I asked.
She shook her head slightly.
"Oh my, this certainly will complicate things!" I said. "My name is Alice, and I am….your sister!" I said.
"I have a family?" she asked.
"Yes, and we love you very much. You are at our families' house in Spokane, Washington!" I said.
"And my name is Bella?" she asked.
"Yes, Isabella Marie….Swan," I said unsure. I didn't want to lie to her, but I didn't want her to go running off and leaving both myself and Edward behind.
"I feel stiff, how long was I asleep?" she asked.
"About three days!" I told her.
"Was there an accident?" she asked.
"Yes Bella, there was!" I said.
"You were a college student at Whitworth, and you were attacked!" I said.
"Attacked? Attacked by who?' she asked.
"Victoria, she is another one of our kind!" I said.
"Our kind?" she questioned. "Well, yes, our family we are vampires!" I said simply. There was no good way to put it, she would either freak out or she wouldn't and now she was one of us…..kind of.
"I am a vampire?" she asked surprise evident in her voice.
"Yes, when you were unconscious you were changing. Your heart stopped beating, and slowly you changed into one of us!" I said.
"My brother saved you, from being killed by Victoria!" I said.
"What happened to him, is he okay?" she asked.
"He is fine!" I said smiling. She didn't even remember Edward, for all she knew she had never met him, and here she was worried about him, so typically Bella.
"And Victoria?" she asked.
"He killed her, Jasper and Emmett took care of her!" I said. "
Jasper and Emmett?" she questioned.
"Your other brothers!" I said.
"So your brother that saved me from Victoria, is he my brother too?" she asked. I had to laugh.
"Not exactly, you see we are a very special family!" I said.
"None of us are actually related, we just live as a family, Esme and Carlisle are our parents, Rosalie and Jasper are "twins," Emmett and Edward are brothers and I'm just the lone one out! Rosalie and Emmett are married, Jasper and I are married, Esme and Carlisle are married….!" I said.
"And that just leaves Edward and I!" she said.
"Yes!" I said.
"Were we ever….?" She asked.
"You were, but not recently!" I said.
"Why not," she asked.
"I had better let him explain that to you when he comes back, right now what do you say to meeting the rest of our family?" I asked.
She smiled. "I would like that very much!" she said.