She ran up and hugged me. For some reason, she wasn't crushing me up in one of her hugs. When she backed away, she eyed me speculatively.
"Well! You're as beautiful as ever!" she saw the confused look on my face. "You don't know." I shook my head. She handed me a mirror.
Then, I realized why I felt so different. My skin was white, eyes a deep red. My face was perfect, much perfect than before. Now, I understood.
"Who did it?" I whispered, trying not to sound to frightened.
"Me silly!" She laughed her wind-chime laugh. When I spoke again, and the change was audible to even me.
"Why?" She looked at me like I was missing something dreadfully obvious. Then the light bulb started to flicker…
"You had a vision…"
"Yes." Then, the light bulb suddenly switched on. I was missing something dreadfully obvious.
"That you had enough strength to turn me into a vampire." She smiled gloriously.
"Bingo Bella!" For the first time in months since he left, I laughed. My laugh wasn't much different than Alice's, but it wasn't as high. Then, another light bulb clicked on.
"Where is he? Does he know?" She smiled at me sadly.
"No. We haven't seen him since we left here."
"That reminds me…Why are you back?"
"Bella, don't be silly! Everyone really missed you! Especially Esme. Even Rosalie missed you." That was surprising. Rosalie hated my guts for coming into her family's life and for being human. To hear that she missed me of all people was amazing.
"Then I suppose we shouldn't keep them waiting." Alice squealed.
"You aren't mad then, for me knocking you out and changing you without permission?"
"Alice, you could've knocked me out and threw me into a vat of crap and I wouldn't have cared." She laughed her musical laugh, then led me toward the Cullen house.
"So…" I started conversationally.
"So…?"
"Where do you think Edward"-wince-"is?" She shrugged.
"The last time he called, he was in Greenland, and then he said he was planning on going to Chicago. But that was weeks ago. He could be in Switzerland for all we know."
That information was oddly comforting. Seeing him again would only punch a second hole in my chest. Then, I remembered something.
"Oh no, Jacob!" I exclaimed, stopping dead in my tracks.
Finally, the bad side of this was sinking in. Charlie, Renée, and Jacob. People I could never see again. Alice looked at me curiously.
I started hyperventilating, and I couldn't stop. I never got to say good-bye or anything. I would never see them again… Now, I was curled up on the bracken. I didn't breathe, I wouldn't let myself.
"BELLA!" she yelled. I couldn't stop. Finally, she slapped me. Then I stopped.
"Jacob…Charlie…Renée…" I breathed. She understood.
"You can say good-bye."
"Not to Jacob," I said woefully. She stared at me.
"He's a wolf, Alice." Then, she understood. And she was mad.
"You were hanging out with a WEREWOLF? Well, Bella, you might as well hang out with a scorpion!" At that point, she had picked me up and ran me to the house.
"Alice. Don't say that. He's my best friend." She glared down at me.
"Well, now that you're a vampire, that may no longer be the case." I looked away from her face to the blurring trees. What she said was true. I wasn't his best friend anymore.
I was his best enemy.