There were things I never pictured happening before Jared Grant waltzed into my life as I filled my tray in the cafeteria sophomore year in high school.

I always pictured myself growing up and getting the heck out of Alaska, far away from a state that spends most of the day in darkness for part of the year. I thought I would ride off into the sunset, and as much as I hated to admit it, I always pictured myself following Allison. I wanted to escape to the ocean, and run just as she had.

It all changed when my eyes met his across the cafeteria, and suddenly I wanted to live in some cottage across the state where wilderness overpowered the city with him. I was completely delusional, something my father continually pointed out to me as often as he could.

I couldn't picture Jared hurting my family, just like I never imagined Jasper hurting me.

Rosalie

"Carlisle, it's been two days already, are we sure she's going to turn?" I sigh, running my fingers over the blanket Alice unnecessarily placed over her yesterday morning.

"She's still feeling pain; I can hear it." Edward states, pacing in the corner.

"Of course she will, I've seen it."

Since the bite, Alice has gone on as though adding a newborn to our coven is completely typical.

"You get things wrong all the time." I scoff, looking down at Calina again.

Emmett places his hand on my back, soothing me sweetly, but all I can feel is anger towards our family for putting an innocent girl, a human, through something she may not even want. Only Kate and Edward seem to share the same sentiments as mine. Though Tanya and Irina were upset at first, they both came to accept the new member of one of our covens.

I look down at Calina again, knowing that when she wakes, she will never have the life she craved again. During the first hours, she screamed, and I thought Jasper was going to beg us to kill him as self-detrimental as he was being. Luckily, he just broke lots of things and tried to take on all her feelings so she wouldn't have to feel them. That just made his mood worse.

If he would have asked me to kill him, I would have ripped him apart, but he did not. I just tried to send him as many hateful emotions as I could.

After those hours, her screams stopped, although I could see the grimaces flash across her sickly face.

"Rose, she will wake." Carlisle assures me "Her heartbeat is fainter ever hour that passes. I have no doubt that she will be up within the day."

"If you believe so." I lean back in my chair, watching over her and the rest of the family.

Kate and Edward are now whispering in the corner, but I do not care to pick up on their conversation.

"I know you do not approve of this Rose." Emmett whispers in my ear, taking my hand into his.

"I don't." Is all I can muster, looking over at Jasper.

"She was going to be one of us someday anyways, don't keep torturing our family simply because you wish she could have a different fate. Who knows, she could love it." He shrugs, kissing my cheek lightly.

"I just wish she could have gotten a choice."

Jasper takes his eyes off his mate, looking up to me like he wishes the same. He's grown rather sickly looking, even for a vampire, over the past few days. He just stares at me, or through me, either way it makes no difference.

Curling against Emmett, we all watch Calina, each of us waiting as her heart slows.

What seems like hours later, there is a falter in hear heart, one we all hear, and I look over to Edward with wide eyes. He nods at me, and I know that it is time.

"She's starting to feel less pain, and she's scared because her heart is stopping." Edward murmurs quietly, taking a step back from her bed.

"Is she unhappy?" Esme asks the question we've all been waiting to hear the answer to.

Her fingers start to twitch, and my chest feels impossibly tight for a being with no need for air.

Jasper's head snaps up, and he gives us the answer with more pain on his face than I have ever seen.

"Yes, she's unhappy, incredibly so."

Emmett pulls me back with the rest of our families, leaving Jasper as the sole person by her side, and as he does, the silence we have all been waiting for hits like a hurricane.

She doesn't even open her eyes before jumping up, leaping into a corner faster than I can even think. Her face contorts as she takes in the people all around her, and unconsciously she seems to calm as she picks up on Jasper standing in front of her, before she looks purely pissed.

"No." she cries, running her hands over her body and looking to Jasper "You did this. Why?"

No one in the room dares to move a muscle, and my heart aches as I watch her sob tearless cries. Somehow her screams now are more haunting than even before.