Chapter 3 - Awake

Bella's POV

When I woke, I was groggy. The only thing I knew was that it was very dark and I wasn't alone. As I opened my eyes, a dark figure moved beside me, I glanced around the room and saw more figures, six, to be exact. They were all moving slowly, as if not to scare me.

"Bella, are you okay?" someone asked, I wasn't quite sure who it was, they sounded very distant, like my head was under water.

"Umm . . . I'm not really sure. Everything sounds mumbled, like I'm under water." I said very confused. I wasn't sure what was happening.

"That's okay, it should be back to normal any second." The voice said, and he was right, I could just barely make out that it was Carlisle.

"Carlisle?" I asked anyway, even though I knew it was him. I heard a low chuckle and I knew it was Emmett. Who else would laugh at me in my time of weakness.

"Yes, it's me Bella." He said with a smile in his voice. "Alice can you turn . . . " but before he could finish his request, she was at the switch, and the light was on. "Ah, thank you." He said and she flashed him a wide grin. "Bella, could you please look at me."

I turned and faced him. I heard him gasp and everyone came over to investigate what was wrong. "What's wrong?" I asked, starting to get very scared. I didn't know what could possibly be wrong, I wasn't in pain, and I felt great. "What is it?" I asked again while everyone was gaping at me. "Edward?" I was terrified, the panic wasn't just bubbling, and it was boiling over the top.

"Your eyes . . . " Jasper stammered. "Carlisle? How . . . how is that . . . Possible?" he managed to spit out, after about a minutes of stuttering.

"I don't know. I've never seen anything like this. I don't understand, the transformation is complete, but her eyes, they're, I just don't know." He said, obviously very confused and frustrated.

"What do you mean? I don't understand, what's wrong? I'm scared" the panic was clear in my voice and Jasper was too preoccupied to do anything about it.

Edward put his finger under my chin and turned my head to look straight into his topaz eyes. "Love, it'll be fine. Are you in any pain at all?" he asked with concern thick in his voice.

"No, I feel excellent. What's wrong with my eyes?" I asked, the worry bubbling down just a little.

"It's just that they're normal . . . too normal, you know." He tried to explain, but I just wasn't getting it.

"No, I don't know. What do you mean?" the panic was still there but now I was starting to get really irritated.

"Here, just a second. Alice, go get your little mirror for me." He asked, and she was there then gone. It was amazing how fast she was, but what was more amazing was that I saw her. I saw her move! When I realized, I gasped. "What?" Edward asked, his normal cool, calm voice was cracked.

"I saw Alice move!" I exclaimed with wonder and excitement.

I heard Jasper chuckle. "It's okay. You get use to it." He said with another chuckle.

"Here Edward." Alice said, as she passed the mirror to him.

He took it and said "thanks." Then he looked at me and handed me the mirror.

I slowly moved my hand and took the mirror. I resisted, not moving the mirror to my face, after the weird awakening, I really wasn't sure what to expect anymore. After what felt like hours, I finally lifted the mirror to my face.

I gasped. My face was gorgeous. My hair, usually messy after waking, was billowing around my face, like I just finished doing a shampoo commercial. My skin was very pale, ghost white, but it was beautiful, and smooth. Every one of my features were exact, they were perfect, angular, and super model like. My eyes I left for last, when I took a first glance I didn't notice anything different, I still didn't understand why they were so shocked. Then it hit me, they should be different, they should be burgundy red, but they weren't, they were still the same deep brown with just a hint of ruby around the edges.

I examined my eyes closer than I probably needed to, but I was confused. "What's going on?" I asked, true worry sinking in.

"I'm not sure. You're a vampire, that's for sure, but it seems like it's not total, like your still part human." as Carlisle said this I heard every single one of my family members gasp.

"How is that even possible?" I asked. "What happened?"

"I'm not sure, I'm going to have to do some tests." He said. He was obviously very curious, that's for sure. "How are you feeling?" he asked curiosity burning in every word.

"Surprisingly, tired. How long was I asleep?" I asked now I was the curious one.

"You're what?" Esme asked, shocked.

"I'm tired?" I was questioning myself now.

"Tired? How is that possible?" She was questioning Carlisle now.

"I'm beginning to think that anything is possible for this little creature." He said with a wide smile and a chuckle.

Just then everyone broke into a fit of laughter. Edward pulled me on to his lap and soon the laughter turned to silent giggles. "Will why don't we do a little experiment." Edward said getting more and more excited.

I looked at him, "what do you mean?" I asked him just as excitedly.

"I mean, why don't we see if you can sleep." He explained calmly.

"Oh, okay . . . " I said, I wasn't sure if I could sleep when I knew everyone was watching me.

"Why don't we give them some privacy?" Alice said to everyone. They all agreed and then they were out the door.

"Can you sing me to sleep, or try too at least?" I said with a giggle.

"Of course, I thought I had sung you to sleep for the last time five hours ago, but maybe that's not the case." He said truly excited by the very possibility. "And if you can sleep, that means I can still get into your mind." He said matter-of-factly.

"What?" I said totally shocked and surprised. "I thought that you couldn't read my mind."

"Oh, I can't but you say so much when you sleep. It's like all your thoughts throughout the day just spill out while you sleep." He said again matter-of-factly.

"Oh." Was all I said, I was slightly embarrassed, I knew I always said too much while I slept through the night.

Edward chuckled, and I buried my face in his chest, if I could blush I would have. As I laid there in his arms, he started to hum my lullaby, it was even sweeter than I remembered. And before I knew it, incredibly, I was nodding off in his stone arms.