Chapter 3
Bella the Newborn
BPOV
The burning was slowly starting to leave my fingers and my feet. I took a moment to digest this. I have been listening to Victoria talk now for several hours and it sounds like she is so sad. Is she coming up with new ways to torture me? I wasn't sure but I thought that maybe everything that Victoria had been saying was the truth. Maybe Victoria did feel sorry for the way Edward had treated me, and that by Victoria saving me from the river was that Victoria didn't want me to die and that when Victoria bit me that it to had been an accident and that with no way to save me from becoming a vampire that she had tried to speed up the change because Victoria honestly did not want me to be in pain.
Bella could feel the flames getting hotter toward her heart and was wondering if she looked as charred as she thought herself to be yet. Finding her voice Bella asked the one question that had been bothering her most and she wanted it to be answered now. Gritting her teeth so that she would not scream in pain Bella turned her head toward where she could hear Victoria's soft breathing. "Victoria? Why are you not trying to kill me?" Bella asked. Bella could hear surprisingly every step that Victoria took from two rooms away and coming toward her. Wow Bella thought I must be getting all my heightened senses I though Victoria was sitting right next to me. Bella heard the door to the room she was in creak open slightly as Victoria entered. Wow and the door was closed too Bella thought.
"Bella are you still in pain?" Victoria asked slowly probably looking at the clock on the wall. Which Bella could now hear the tiny gears in it turning? "Yes I am still burning and its closer to my chest now it hurts" Bella groaned in agony. Bella felt something very cool touch her skin was it Victoria's hand? Maybe but Bella was still not going to open her eyes incase there really was a fire burning her chest to ashes. "The change should be over soon I can hear your heart getting faster I am truly sorry Bella but I am here and I wont leave you." Victoria declared. Bella was confused but she would wait for the answers latter because the burning fire was just to hot and her heart sounded like the blades of a helicopter and getting faster and faster. Instinctively Bella knew her heart was racing to its final beats as all the fire receded from her limbs and all went into her heart then suddenly her heart just stopped. The fires that had been burning her also went away at the same time. Bella realized that she had been holding her breath but her lungs didn't feel the urge to breath yet Bella counted the minutes on the clock as five minutes passed and her lungs were yet to burn with the need for air Bella realized that she would never have to breath again if she did not want to. Bella tentively took a small breath and it was like nothing she had ever experienced before it had so many tastes and told her so many things at once sure if she didn't want to Bella could go forever with out breathing but she loved breathing it felt so good. And Bella's mind seemed so much larger than it used to be when she was human. Bella had so much space in her head it was unreal to her at first. As she opened her eyes Bella was astonished at how clearly she could see things now. It was so different from being human. Bella slowing turned her head to look at the vampire that still held her hand. Bella gasped Victoria was beautiful, she knew that all vampire's were unbelievably pretty but with these heightened senses and these new eyes to look through every thing had so much more detail than her weak human eyes ever could see. Victoria smiled lightly and meet Bella glance." You should see yourself you look so beautiful Bella" Victoria said pointing to the mirror the hung o the wall. Bella took a tentative look at the mirror, and gasped again. Victoria was right no longer would Edward out shine her in beauty for Bella looked beyond words to describe her new looks.