Chapter 19: Human
I sat up in bed and rubbed the sleep from my eyes. My aunt didn't move even an inch. I listened and noticed that the house was empty apart from the two of us.
"Where is everyone?" I asked her.
"They went hunting but I stayed behind because I wanted to talk to you,"
"Okay?" I was a little worried. Did she not believe that I was who I said I was.
"It's okay Nessie. I just wanted to talk to you about turning me human,"
I rubbed my ears. Surely I hadn't heard her say that she wanted to become human again. That was just pure absurdity.
"I'm sorry it sounded like you just said that you wanted to be human again," I said.
"No you heard me correctly. That is exactly what I said,"
I tried to think of any rational reason why she'd want to be human. I couldn't think of any. She'd be giving up her beauty, her strength, her speed, her immortality. Who would want to give all of that up?
"I don't understand," I admitted.
"You don't understand why I want to trade all of this in for being human," she gestured toward her gloriously inhuman body.
"Not at all. I mean why would you willingly want to give up this life,"
She smiled gently. "Has Edward or Bella told you my story of how I came to be a vampire?"
I shook my head. "I know my dad hears a lot of things that he wasn't meant to hear but he doesn't go around telling people's secrets,"
"I know. I owe your father a lot for that. Everyone else knows my story and I think it's time you knew also. It's a bit dark and it doesn't have a happy ending. But maybe you'll understand me a bit more and why I would give anything to be human again,"
I listened as my aunt begun telling her story. I was in awe of the world she described. It was so vastly different from my own. I supposed that life was different in the early 20th century though. But it was one thing to read about it in books and another to hear about what it was actually like. I wondered if my world seemed as strange to her as hers does to me.
I just listened to her story as she told me about her upbringing. How vastly different it was to my own.
"The first time I was truly jealous of anyone else was when my friend Vera had a baby boy. I realized then that I longed for a baby of my own. I had it all. Looks, money. This was the first time I ever wanted something more meaningful,"
"So you were jealous of your friend because she had a baby?"
"and a loving husband," she added. "I was jealous until I met Royce King II. He was the most eligible bachelor in town," her voice was suddenly laced with acid.
I kept on listening as she told me her story about how he began to court her. Everything happened so fast and they were engaged within a short period of time. But I knew things were not going to end well. I could tell just from her tone of voice.
Then she got to the week before her wedding. She'd found Royce in his friends drunk. She stopped the story there and spared the details. But I then knew what had happened to her that night. If it weren't for my grandfather smelling all of the blood she would've died that night.
"Things did get better after I found Emmett. But we will always be this. We'll never grow old together. We'll never have children or grandchildren. Or so I thought. Up until now the possibility of becoming human and having a baby was inconceivable,"
I took a deep breath.
"You see Nessie this isn't a life I would have chosen for myself and I would do anything to be human again,"
"So that's why you want me to change you back?"
"Yes. I want you to change me back and I want you to do it now,"
"Are you sure about this? What if it can't be reversed? Don't you want some time to think about this? Or time to talk this over with Emmett?"
"Nessie there is nothing for me to think about. There is nothing to talk about. I don't care if I can't be turned into a vampire again. I don't want to turn back,"
My stomach was in knots. I'd never turned anyone on purpose before. Yet I could see that my aunt was dead set on her decision. I thought she should take some time to really think about this. Time to talk about it with her husband instead of making such a big decision without him. But it wasn't for me to say.
"Okay," I shook my head. "I'll do it,"
She smiled and hugged me tight. "Thank you Nessie. You have no idea what this means to me. Do it now,"
"Maybe you should lay down first," I suggested.
She nodded her head in agreement. "Yeah that's a good idea,"
I followed her to her's and Emmett's room. She looked very eager for this as she laid down on the bed. I hesitated for a few seconds. I wasn't exactly sure what to do. Bite. Yes. That's what I had to do.
I leaned in and bit her neck. Her skin hard as granite was no match for my teeth. I could taste the venom in my mouth as I injected it into her system.
I waited. At first I was not sure if it had worked. That is until the screaming started.
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