AN: This chapter is dedicated to princess-bella13.
Disclaimer: Don't own it! I only wish…
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"No…" I looked up at Jacob and Sam; they look on their faces was enough. I was a Vampire, but how…
I stared at myself in the mirror in Emily and Sam's bathroom unable to believe what I was seeing. My skin was paler, my lips fuller, my cheekbones higher and I had the most beautifully defined curves. There was a knock at the door.
"Bella, don't you think we should talk?" Sam asked through the door.
Talk I thought, hadn't we already done that?
After the realisation that I was somehow a vampire, Jake, Sam and I headed back towards Sam's house in silence all of us as confused as the other as to how this had happened.
When we had reached Sam's, the other wolves stood on the porch looking at me in shock.
"Bella, do you know how it happened?" Quil (AN: Remember it's been eleven months) asked.
I shook my head.
"Um Bella, you aren't thinking about trying to drink our blood are you?' Embry asked with a hesitant but serious face. The others all looked at me a little sharper.
"Um not in the slightest, besides no offence or anything but you guys smell horrible."
"HEY!" They all yelled defensively.
"You don't exactly smell all that great yourself!" Jared laughed.
"I don't?" I questioned sniffing myself but not smelling anything repulsive.
"Come on let's go sit down and talk" Sam had said, suddenly finding his voice again. The wolves all headed inside and Sam, Jake and I followed. After everyone had sited themselves at Sam and Emily's kitchen table I had excused myself to go to the bathroom, after assuring them I wasn't going to go find someone to eat.
"Bella" Sam knocked at the door again. Sighing I turned around and opened the door.
"Checking to see if I'm still here?" I asked. He grimaced
"We should get back." He said turning around and heading down the small hall to the kitchen. I followed him into the kitchen where the boys sat eating and talking, when I entered they all went silent, a sure sign it had been me they were talking about.
"Look" I snapped.
"I don't know what's going on either, but I'm not going to suddenly lose it and try to kill you all, so stop looking at me like I'm some kind of freak!"
They all turned a slight shade of red and turned to look at anything that wasn't me.
"I'm going home." I said and turned towards the door.
"Wait Bella, it might not be safe, you know for Charlie…" Sam said rubbing the back of his neck sheepishly. I frowned, as if I was going to hurt my own father!
"I uh mean, you don't know how you're going to react around… well normal humans…"
Whatever sour comment I had meant to throw back at him got stuck in my throat, he was right I didn't know how I was going to act around Charlie.
"Jacob take her home, if she says she can't handle it bring her back." Sam said looking at me in almost a warning way. Jake nodded and started for the door, I followed him and we headed towards his house where I had left my truck earlier this morning. The fact that I had been human only this morning seemed surreal, my feelings were all jumbled up inside of me and I wasn't sure how I was suppose to react. We reached my truck and Jacob hopped in the drivers' side. I snuck a glance at him out of the corner of my eye. He had not said a word since he announced that I was a Vampire and had a moody and almost hurt look on his face.
"Jake" I whispered. He looked at me and sighed.
"Do you hate me?" his face tightened. Please don't let him hate me I begged, I couldn't stand it if he hated me.
"Of course not Bella." He glanced over at me.
"I could never hate you. I just don't know how I'm suppose to react Bells, I mean you're a Vampire, my mortal enemy, I'm just confused."
"And you don't think I am? This morning I woke up a normal human being, and now look at me!" I nearly screamed certain that if I had been human I would be crying right now. He stopped the car and reached across to me, pulling me into his arms.
"I'm sorry Bella," he whispered into my hair.
"Are you going to leave me Jake?" I mumbled. He pulled me out to arms length with a stern look on his face.
"Of course not Bella, I would never do that to you, I am not him!" he spat the last word.
I cringed. His face softened
"Sorry he said and started the car back up.
When we reached Charlie's it was almost dark, we sat in the truck staring out at the house.
"Whoa, check out the car" Jake whistled under his breath. Parked in the driveway was a fancy silver car. Puzzled I threw opened my door and went to investigate.
"It's a rental by the looks of things," Jake said coming up behind me. Who would be able to afford such a car that knew Charlie? I wondered.
"Come on, let's go inside" Jake said heading for the door. I followed him and taking an unnecessary deep breath, opened the door.
"Welcome home Isabella" a voice said to the right of me. I froze, I knew that voice, I hadn't heard it in a few years but I knew it.
Sitting in Charlie's old lounge chair sat my Grandmother in all her glory.
I hadn't seen her since I was thirteen. Whenever she would visit us when I was a child Renée would dress the four of us kids in fancy dresses and suits, and we would be forced to act like dolls for the remainder of her visit. She was a woman who believed children should be seen not heard. To the four of us she had always appeared cold and unlovable, not at all how we had pictured a Grandmother to be. We did not feel right calling her Grandmother as she never felt like one, so when I was five and he was twelve Nate had dubbed her 'The Grandmother' and it had just stuck, I sometimes found myself going to call her 'The Grandmother' to her face and would just catch myself.
"Grandmother" I said, the shock evident in my voice.
"What brings you to Forks?" I questioned.
"You" she said. Me I thought, she never wrote nor called, so why would she suddenly come to visit me?
"I see you have already experienced the change" change, what change? I nearly growled, the lack of information was being to get to me. Just then, Charlie walked through the kitchen door
"Ah Bells, you're home." He stated. I blinked and stared at Charlie. He looked unusually happy. Charlie was the only person I'd ever met who seemed to actually enjoy my Grandmothers company.
"Hey Jake"
"Hey Charlie" Jake said observing my Grandmother.
"Isabella, I wish to speak to you" As long as I could remember my Grandmother had called me Isabella, when I was younger I would stubbornly tell her my name was Bella, she had just looked down on me and said 'Isabella was the name your parents gave you, was it not?"
"I uh should get going." Jake said from behind me. He looked at me
"You gonna be ok?" he whispered to me. I smiled
"Yeah, absolutely no cravings" I winked at him and he smiled
"See you later Charlie, ma'am" he said nodding at my Grandmother.
"Night Jake" Charlie said.
"Take a seat please Isabella," my Grandmother commanded, that was just like her telling me to sit down in my own house. I moved across to the couch and sat, Charlie sat across from me.
"So uh, why would you come here for me?" I asked
"To tell you about our family's history." Uh ok then, I thought, can't imagine why'd she fly all the way here just to tell me about our family tree…
"Um, ok" I said clearing my throat.
"It's important you know these things Isabella, after all I'm sure you wish to know how that happened to you." She said gesturing toward me.
"What happened to me?" I asked, frowning.
"How you became a Vampire," she said, staring directly into my eyes.