The trip to the Cullen's wasn't all that long thanks to Alice's extremely fast running. When we stepped through the door, Carlisle was the first one at my side.
"Welcome Bella. It's great to see you again." I beamed up at him. The next person to welcome me was Esme. She embraced me tightly as if she never wanted to let me go.
"We thought you were gone forever," she whispered in my ear. To tell the truth, I thought that they would be gone forever too. When she finally let go of me, I looked around. Jasper, and Rosalie, and Emmett were also there. Rosalie was actually smiling at me. I was so surprised that I thought that my eyes were deceiving me.
But my eyes weren't, because she then walked up to me and hugged me. Emmett and Jasper joined in. After about two minutes in a group hug, everyone came up for air.
Emmett kept staring at me with a weird expression on his face. I thought it was a cross between awe and confusion. When he spoke, my guesses were far off.
"Edward's coming. He doesn't know, so you may want to leave for a little while we explain to him what you've become." I nodded. Emmett was right. If Edward found out that Alice had changed me into a vampire he would plotz.
Jasper spoke next. "Alice, when will he be here?" Alice closed her eyes and her face became smooth as stone, and just as unreadable. A minute later, her eyes opened in alarm.
"He's just around the corner." That was all the information I needed. I ran out the back at the speed of light without tripping. This was going to take some getting used to.
I ran into the forest, not knowing where to go, but apparently my body did. When I was done running, I was in Edward's meadow. Today was overcast, but the meadow was still beautiful as always.
I lay down on in the middle, closing my eyes for immeasurable moments. While I was lying there, I heard a twig snap. I sat up fast, and across the meadow; I saw a russet brown wolf. I gasped.
What would Jacob say when he found me like this? What would he do? I thought fast and ran away as fast as I could. Now, my body didn't know where to go. It just kept running and running, not knowing when it was the time to stop.
A few minutes later, I stopped. I didn't hear anything, so I decided to run back. But when I whirled around, I was face-to-face with Jacob Black.
He growled at me.
"You filthy leech! What are you doing here?" he yelled at me. I sighed in relief. He didn't recognize any part of me, so all I had to do was a fake a voice and run away.
"I'm terribly sorry," I said in a high voice. "I was just looking around. I didn't mean to trespass."
He studied me for a moment, then asked, "Do I know you?" I thought fast.
"No, you must be mistaken. My name is Bertha Sellers." He was silent for another moment.
"Well, don't let it happen again," he growled. I nodded, and then I ran away as fast as I could. Jacob didn't recognize me. For all he knew, my name was Bertha Sellers.
While I was contemplating this, I ran across a deer. It's blood smelled simply delicious. I pranced up to it, stroked it, and then sank my teeth into its neck. After a minute, it ran dry so I removed my teeth. I no longer needed to drink blood for a while.
I wiped my mouth, impressed with the fact there was no blood on my clothes. I looked around, wondering where I was. Cars where whizzing by from Seattle. A creek was babbling in the distance, and there was a soft patter of rain on the trees. The rain was breaking through the leaves, leaving a soft drip drip.
After a while of listening, I ran to the Cullen's house. They must've already told Edward. After a few minutes, the Cullen house came into view. Edward was on the front porch.
His face was scrunched up in disgust and horror. He was just sitting there, still and perfect as Adonis. His face, in scrunched up, was as inhumanly beautiful as ever. I could definitely understand why he no longer wanted me.
Finally, straddling up as much courage as I could, I walked up to the door. His eyes snapped up to my face; his topaz eyes hard.
"Hello, Isabella." His formal greeting was a formal punch in the face.
"Hey Edward!" I said cheerfully. I danced past him into the kitchen. Alice was waiting for me with a look of sadness.
"He isn't too happy, is he?" I said cheerfully. Alice looked at me in shock.
"You're happy?" she said incredulously.
"Why shouldn't I be? I'm a vampire, my best friend just came across me and nearly killed me, and now my ex-boyfriend is mad at me. There is NO reason for me not to be cheerful!" Of course Alice saw through my phony cheerfulness.
"Jacob Black nearly killed you?" she whispered.
"Yep. I had to lie and say I was from outta state, and my name was Bertha Sellers. He actually swallowed that story. I was surprised. I was sure he was smarter than that."
This was where Edward stormed in, walked straight past me into the living room, and I heard a magnificent crack. The sound of the crack was oddly familiar, like the sound of wood…
I gasped. "Alice," I whispered, "I think he broke the piano." Alice ran out with me trailing after her. There we saw a pile of wood, strings, and piano keys. I stared in shock. He had broken the grand piano.
"Edward…" I whispered. He looked at me, sorrow plain on his face. He looked like he would cry if he could. Alice was at his side, glaring at him.
"What you just did was stupid and inconsiderate. Edward, honestly. There was a better solution to this."
"Can I buy a vowel?" I asked, clearly confused.
"He is ticked that I changed you and that we got back into your life." I groaned.
"Edward, you're 105. GROW UP already!" Alice laughed hard at this, but Edward didn't find the situation at all humorous.
"Bella, I told you my reasoning for leaving and not changing. I thought that you had finally understood what I was getting at. I thought you finally understood what I did was to protect you."
"I do Edward," I growled. "But you don't have to worry about me any more."
"And why is that?"
"Because," I said like he was dense, "the deed is done, AND you're no longer my boyfriend." The statement had come at him like a kick in the groin. Well, at least the pain expression that ran across his face looked like it.
After a while of awkward silence, I looked at Alice and quietly asked, "Can I stay over in your room? I don't have any where else to go." She nodded to me, and I ran up the stairs.
I didn't mean to hurt Edward, really I didn't, but what he was saying was just making me so mad that it was almost unbearable. And the pained expression he wore stabbed my heart like a butcher attacking a piece of meat with a huge knife.
After a while, I realized I shouldn't feel so bad. I shouldn't. He released me, and it was time to let go. I kept repeating that and repeating that, but nothing worked. Finally, I hopped into the bath.
I turned it all the way up, and stayed there. The ice hot water felt good on my cold skin. I listened to a fight going on downstairs with Rosalie and Emmett over what color to repaint the white walls of their bedroom.
"But I want pink polka dots!" Rosalie complained. Emmett shook his head.
"We should just get a light shade of blue! I'll even take puke color, but Rosalie, I draw the line at anything 'pink' and 'polka dotted.'" I tuned them out.
My hole was burning listening to a couple deeply in love fight over paint color. I decided to intervene.
"Hey Emmett!" I called.
"Yeah?!"
"Dark blue and soft pink stripes!" I heard silence. Either I had won the argument for them, or they made it quieter so I didn't eavesdrop again. I sighed and put my head under the water.
Since I didn't have to breathe, I stayed there until Alice walked in.
"Hey," I grumbled. She looked at me kindly.
"It's not your fault, Bella. Edward's just acting like a seventeen year old."
"No. He's acting like temperamental, I-have-to-have-my-way-all-the-time hundred and five year old man."
"I heard that, Isabella!" Edward called.
"Screw you!" I called back. I heard him laugh. I decided to get out and put on pajamas that Alice gave me.
"Did you feed?" she asked.
"Deer tastes so good," I said slyly. She laughed.
"In that case, see you in a few hours."
"'Kay. Bye." Then, she ran out of the room. I settled in, waiting for morning. I wished I could sleep, but I wasn't tired. TV was boring, so finally, I got dressed and went out to the creek by the house. I saw some one there.
"Edward?" I called. He turned to look at me.
"Can we talk, Bella?"