"L-Lilly!" Miley stammered, "Y-your eyes!"

"What's wrong with my eyes?" Lilly asked. Miley reached to the side table and grabbed a mirror. She held it up to Lilly's face. Lilly looked rather surprised.

"How…how did my eyes turn gold?" she said.

"They've changed because Edward…attacked you." Miley managed to say.

"So?" Lilly said, like it were nothing.

"Lilly," Miley explained, "you're a vampire." A deathly silence fell. Lilly looked shocked and scared beyond words.

"No…" she whispered, her newly topaz eyes staring at Miley with fright, "No, I can't be…" They stared at each other a long time. Miley heard the door open behind them. She turned to see; it was Oliver.

"Lilly!" he whispered breathlessly, "Lilly! Are you okay?" He ran over to her and grabbed her hands with his free one.

"Oliver…" Lilly said. Oliver leaned in close. "No, go away." She waved her hand at him. Oliver leaned back and looked to Miley.

"She's not what you think she is anymore." Miley said. Oliver gave her a confused look. "She's…Edward…" Oliver flinched at the sound of the name.

"What? What'd he do to her? Miley!" he yelled, for Miley wasn't looking at him, "You better tell me what that thing did to her!" Miley slowly raised her head to look at Oliver.

"Edward turned her…" she said, "Lilly isn't human…anymore…" Oliver didn't seem to understand at first. Then it began to sink in…

"No!" he shouted, standing up, "No! She can't be! She's not…! When I see that thing again, I'll tear him limb from limb! I'll make him suffer! I'll murder him, I tell you!" Miley and Lilly stared at him in disbelief as his words became darker and he started to cuss.

"He'll regret it!" Oliver ranted, "I'll murder him! I'll make him suffer like Lilly suffered, like I suffered, like you suffered! I-"

"I would think you'd be out of breath by now." The three whipped their heads around to face the doorway.

Edward was standing there.

He knew he had to go. Carlisle told him to visit Miley and the others. Esme said it was best. Alice, through her tears, begged him. Emmett and Jasper nodded their heads in agreement. Rosalie kept silent.

He didn't want to explain and apologize this way. He didn't want to say it after the damage was done. He felt like it was useless, though it wasn't. He wished he could just run away, and all would be better. But that couldn't happen.

When he arrived in the room, several things happened at once. Lilly started screaming and gripping the bed; Miley turned pale, with a trace of green; Oliver's face turned red with anger and he charged Edward.

"No, Oliver!" Miley shouted over Lilly's panicked screams.

"I want to kill him!" Oliver yelled, his hands balled into fist, "A shot in the mouth, a jab in the stomach, he deserves every painful blow I'm going to give him!" Edward was ready for this. He knew Oliver couldn't hurt him again, at least if he expected it.

"Miley, could I talk to you?" Edward asked calmly. Oliver looked even angrier.

"She won't forgive you! Miley, don't listen to him! He'll kill you too!" Oliver shrieked, but Miley simply said she'd be okay and for Oliver to stay with Lilly. She stepped out into the hall with Edward.

"Well, what do you want?" she asked callously, her blue eyes unusually cold.

"I tried to explain this before." he said, "I had an urge to kill Lilly ever since the first day." Miley looked at him, seeming unforgiving.

"Why didn't you say so? Then we could've prevented this!" She swept her arm dramatically, indicating the room Lilly was in.

"I wanted to, I tried. I told Lilly…but, unfortunately…I acted on it."

"Edward…I know you care but this is…this is bad. Oliver hates you, Lilly's scared to death of you-"

"I know, I know. Maybe…maybe I should leave."

"Yeah, you should." Edward pulled her in to hug her. Reluctantly, she did so. When they pulled away he looked into her blue eyes.

"If I can," he whispered, "I'll come back." In a flash then, he was gone.