The Denalis all moved to Forks, registered for high school or senior year at least, Kate, Tanya, and Irina were in all of my classes. Laurent got a job working at the only super market, the Thriftway, and Carmen worked as a nurse at the hospital and Eleazar became a doctor at the same hospital.
It was pretty cool, but during lunch, Angela and Ben also joined me, Tanya, Irina and Kate. Angela seemed really calm when she was sitting next to Tanya. Ben would sit next to Angela and I would sit next to Kate and Irina. It would be: Ben, Angela, Tanya, Kate, Irina, and me.
I would hang out with Tanya, Kate, Irina, Laurent, Carmen, and Eleazar—basically the whole Denali coven—after school on a daily basis. On sunny days, they'd either skip school, the way the Cullens would or go hunting and I'd get the schoolwork they'd missed and fill them on everything that had happened in school. I also made sure that Tanya, Kate, and Irina could never be used as reasons for malicious gossip from Lauren Mallory and Jessica Stanley.
When we were applying to college, Tanya, Irina, Kate, and I all applied to the University of Alaska Southeast—none of us were actually going to college, but we all were going to Alaska after graduation—I was going to join the Denali coven.
One day, after Irina told me that Kate, Tanya, she and I were having a graduation party and I freaked out, Kate asked, "Do you know what day it is, Bella?" I paused and said, "Uh...Monday?" Tanya nodded and said, "Yes, it is Monday...the fourth."
The following Monday, we graduated and then immediately after our party, Tanya, Kate, Irina, Carmen, Eleazar and I grabbed our stuff together—Laurent was in Denali waiting for the rest of us—and left for Denali. I would become a vampire. I calmly asked, "I want to be physically linked, by blood and venom, to all of the Denalis—Carmen, Eleazar, Tanya, Kate, Irina, and Laurent. And so I would like all of you to bite me."
They agreed, and one by one, they all bit me. The fire was the worst imaginable pain. I didn't dare scream, because I heard Tanya's story, Kate's story, and Irina's story, all three so devastatingly similar, and I knew from their stories that it did no good to scream in agony. I waited for three days and then I finally could open my eyes. I was a vampire, at last. I had gotten what I wanted without his help.