Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight.

A/N: I do not have a Beta and I'm too lazy to read over my work. So, sorry in advance for what I'm sure will be numerous grammatical mistakes and probably some missing/wrong words in several places.

The rest of the journey was long and boring. We talked most of the time, read some of the time and I slept the rest of the time. After that first day of being on the road, the only places we stopped to eat were fast food places and I was always hidden in the back while whoever was driving would order for me. We still slept in a hotel because that was more than easy to hide from. The front desk never had to see me; especially since we had been in the cheaper hotels were the entrance to the rooms were all on the outside and our rooms were to the back where no one was.

The rest of the trip was spent with making sure that I wasn't seen by anyone and that we got to the house as quickly as possible. It had been decided that once we got home, we would talk a little more about me being changed, made sure that I knew what to expect. I was sure that I already knew everything, but they wanted to make sure I knew everything. We were going to talk about everything the second day I was there. The first day though, I was going to rest and get over being in a car for so long.

We didn't get to the house until it was very late. Even though I was tired and wanted to fall into a nice, non-hotel bed to go to sleep, I was still able to admire how beautiful their… our… house was. It was just as large, if not slightly larger actually, than the Cullen's house. The difference was that the Denali house was made to look more like a cabin to fit in with the surrounding forest, whereas the Cullen's house stood out with how modern it looked in the forest. I felt the Denali's were better at not showing off their wealth and instead just used it to make life comfortable; as compared to the Cullen's who seemed to love to show their wealth off to everyone.

The inside looked vastly different to the outside. The outside blended very well with the surrounding forest, but inside was definitely all modern and comparable to the Cullen's. I didn't spend much time looking around because I was just wanted to sleep. Kate lead me to their, soon to be our, room that was upstairs. She told me that they would show me the room I would use until I had my strength under control when I woke up.

By the time I woke up, was time for lunch. I was nervous about what the day would bring, but I was also excited to start my life. The Denali's, including Carmen and Eleazar, were going to make sure I was fully prepared for the change. I was confident that I already knew everything they were going to tell me, but I still was excited to see what they had to stay. The first thing I did when I woke up was get something to eat. I had gone downstairs and saw Carmen placing a plate on the island for me.

"Good morning, or afternoon, Bella." Carmen greeted me with a warm smile. She reminded me of Esme at the moment since Esme loved to cook for me and always had a warm smile on her face. It was bitter sweet because I did miss Esme, but I didn't want to compare Carmen to the woman. I knew they weren't the same and I didn't want Carmen to think I was expecting her to be the same as Esme.

"Afternoon." I greeted with a sleepy smile since I was still in the process of waking up. "Thank you for cooking for me; but you didn't have to." I said as I sat down in front of the plate.

"I know, but I haven't cooked since I was human and I just wanted to see if I still had the ability." Carmen said as she sat down across from me. "I figured since you wouldn't be a human for much longer, that I would take advantage of the opportunity while I could. I hope you don't mind."

While she spoke I had taken a bite of the food she had made, something I knew was a native dish of Spain which was where I knew she was from. It wasn't spicy like I had thought it would have been, but it was definitely delicious. I couldn't help but moan slightly in appreciation.

"This is delicious." I complemented once my mouth was empty.

Carmen looked like she was about to respond to me, but she was cut off by Kate as the blonde walked into the room.

"How is it that you're the first one to get her to moan Carmen?" Kate teased as she sat next to me.

"Volunteer to cook for her next time." Carmen teased back and Kate gave her an annoyed look that made me giggle.

"Do you even know how to cook?" I asked in between bites.

"Never bothered." Kate said with a wave of her hand. "In my day, cooking was nothing like this and once I was turned and didn't have to eat human food, I never bothered keeping up with the new cooking methods."

"More like she was just too lazy to learn." Irina commented as she strolled into the kitchen.

"I wasn't lazy." Kate said with a pout. "It's not like you know how to cook." She accused.

"Yes, I'm not the one complaining about Bella liking what she's eating." Irina said with a smirk. "When you're done, can you meet us in the living room so that we can make sure we're all ready for your change?"

"If you don't mind, I can show you where it is in case you don't remember from last night." Carmen offered. "I was actually about to continue reading and I wouldn't mind waiting for you finish." She offered as she gestured towards the book that was lying on a counter off to the side.

"That would be nice, because I really don't remember." I admitted with a soft blush.

"We'll see you in a little bit then." Irina said just before she disappeared from sight. Kate gave me a small wave before she also left the room.

I was thankful for Carmen's offer to lead me to the living room. I was sure that I would be able to find it fairly easily but it was nice to have company while I ate so I wasn't alone. I was also grateful that the Denali sisters weren't staying with me and watching me eat. They seemed more than willing to let me eat in peace and didn't seem to have the need to keep me company while I ate. I knew Carmen was keeping me company, but she was reading and not talking to me. What Carmen was doing was different than having someone sitting in front of me and watching me eat and waiting for me to finish. It was nice.

Once I was done eating, I cleaned up the dishes I had used to eat and then followed Carmen out of the kitchen. I couldn't believe I would ever think it, but it was nice to clean up after myself. I understood that having a vampire cleanup was faster than me cleaning and could be more convenient as far as saving time was concerned. But, and I didn't realize it until I had put up my own dishes, it almost seemed like they were treating me as a kid when they cleaned up for me. I could understand them doing it every so often because it was time saving, but the Cullen's had always cleaned up after me. I really liked that Carmen didn't even attempt to clean up. She had cleaned up her mess and, I assume, believed that I would clean up what I had used. I really liked that.

"I'll leave you three to it." Carmen said once we had walked into the living room. Eleazar had been sitting on a recliner in the corner. But when Carmen walked in he got up, grabbed her hand and they started to walk out on the other side of the room.

"There's still a few things we wanted to get for when Bella is a newborn." Eleazar explained as they walked.

"It's almost like getting ready for a newborn baby. Instead of baby proofing the house, we're baby vampire proofing the house." Carmen teased with a wink directed at me before she and Eleazar were out of the room.

"I haven't thought of it that way!" Kate loudly said before she laughed.

"Carmen has her moments." Irina commented with an amused smile.

"Come and sit next to me Bella." Tanya offered with her hand held out towards me.

I took her hand and Tanya pulled me down to sit next to her and Irina on the couch. Kate had taken over an armchair with her legs over one armrest and her back leaning against the other armrest. Kate seemed to be very relaxed and it made me think that the conversation wasn't going to be as intensive as I had been thinking it might be.

"Now, we know that you know what to expect during the change and after the change." Irina started. "So, we're not going to dull you or ourselves with repeating the information."

"There's only so many times and ways you can be told something before you completely start to tune out the information and ignore it all together." Kate said as she hung her head backwards and turned it towards the three of us on the couch.

"I know Edward probably would have kept telling you over and over about the risks and what to expect and would probably tell you the same thing so many times that you would eventually just ignore what he was saying and not listen to his warnings." Irina added.

I could see Edward doing that. Especially since he was so against me being one of them, he would probably tell me all the time about how horrible being turned is as often as he could in hopes of trying to change my mind about it. I know I would have still wanted to be changed but I would have wanted to out of spite instead of wanting to be changed to be with him.

"Probably." I admitted. Being reminded of how he would have acted made me even more thankful that these three women were my mates and not Edward.

"So instead of doing that we want to tell you a theory that we have and think is true due to Kate's and Irina's change." Tanya explained and she definitely caught my attention. This promised to be a much better conversation than them telling me how much being changed would hurt and how little control I would have once I was changed.

"What is it?" I eagerly asked.

"It was an accident when I was changed and done on purpose with Irina." Kate started as she turned slightly in her chair so that she was facing us a bit more. "I was told a bit about what to expect, but I was still turned fairly quickly."

"Sasha, the woman who turned us, noticed that Irina had a bit more control than I had when she was turned. So when she went to turn Irina, she gave Irina a bit more time to get used to the idea of being turned before turning her." Tanya explained and at my confused look, Irina added more.

"She thought that if someone were able to mentally prepare themselves for being changed into a vampire, they might be able to have more control when they're a newborn." Irina said and she definitely had my attention. The sooner I could control over my strength and hunger the sooner I cannot be isolated in the wild. "She thought, and so do we, that if you mentally prepare yourself before being changed the change can enhance your ability to keep control of your thirst."

"I only had a few days to prepare for being changed and I really didn't want to at the time." Irina said. "With the limited time I had to mentally get ready for being changed, I was able to control myself in front of humans faster than any of them were able to. We're hoping that since you've had a lot of time to prepare and the fact that you actually want to be a vampire, you'll have a lot more control as a newborn than any other we've run across."

"So you're saying that because I've been preparing to change by listening to you guys, know what to expect and that I want to be changed, I should have a bit more control?" I asked. I really hoped that was true. I didn't see how it was, but I guess it could be just a simple mind over matter type thing.

"That's what we think." Kate confirmed.

"We think that the reason newborns have so little control is because they are so overwhelmed by everything. The heightened senses, enhanced strength and speed, the bloodlust and the realization of not being a human anymore always initially frightens a newborn. At least for a moment. But in that moment, the newborn loses control and listens to their baser instincts and that's where all the trouble lies." Irina explained.

"So you guys think newborns are so out of control is because when they first 'wake up', they are overwhelmed and because newborns are so in tuned to their instincts, they hold onto the overwhelming feelings until they are older and don't rely so much on their instincts?" I asked.

"That's exactly it." Tanya said with a smile as she wrapped her arm around my shoulders and pulled me into her as a sideways hug. Once I was leaning against her, she didn't let go and I had no problems leaning against her. "So, because you know what to expect, we think you won't let the overwhelming feelings stay with you."

"There is a small risk that you won't remember your human side and therefore won't remember all that you've learned about being changed." Irina cautioned.

"But, in theory, your subconscious will hopefully remember everything and allow you to regain control of yourself as a newborn." Kate said and then grew a wicked grin. "At least control on some things." She didn't need to say anything else for me to know what she was talking about and I could feel my face flush in understanding.

"So we're hoping that when we change you, when you wake up you'll have control quickly." Tanya said. "That said though, we wanted to make sure that you were still okay with being changed the day after tomorrow?"

"Yeah; I think it would be best."

I didn't really want to be changed so soon after moving and losing Charlie but the risk of having possibly having the Volturi checking in on us any day made me nervous. I didn't want to have to worry about them showing up. I knew that Alice would probably have a vision about it; but that wasn't a guarantee. Since I wasn't really directly involved with her family anymore, there was a high chance that she wouldn't have a vision about the Volturi visiting us because it may not affect the Cullen's right away. She may only have a vision that the Volturi already saw that I wasn't changed and decided to visit the Cullen's, she might not see that the Volturi had made any decision until they decide to check with the Cullen's about why I wasn't changed when it was Edward and Alice that were told to make sure I was changed.

I may not have wanted to be changed so soon, but I would because it was the safest thing to do. I didn't want anyone, Cullen or Denali, to be hurt because I was delaying being changed.

"Then tomorrow we'll take you out to enjoy your last day." Kate said with a wide smile. "It can be our first date all together."

"Actually, can I just stay in?"

Going out into the world and seeing what I would be missing for a while would be depressing. Even if I had really good control like they were predicting, which would be awesome, I wouldn't have absolute control so I would still have to stay away. Even if my bloodlust was completely under control I would have to learn to control my strength, speed and apparently the lust I would feel for my mates. I didn't want to be out in public and then get hit by a wave of lust and try to have sex with my mates in the middle of a park or restaurant or something. I wasn't sure if it worked that way, getting hit with a wave of lust and having to cure it right away, but I didn't want to risk losing control in public and doing something that was either inhumanly possible or socially unacceptable.

"You don't want to go out?" Kate asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I just want to relax on my last day as a human." I readily admitted.

"Then that's exactly what you'll do." Tanya said.

"What a boring day." Kate mumbled.

"Kate." Irina scolded. "Bella can do whatever she wants for her last day. If it was your last day you would rather play video games all day before you would have to stop while you learned to hold a controller without breaking it."

I couldn't help but smirk at not only Irina's defense of me, but also from the fact that I could definitely see Kate wanting to do that if she were in my shoes.

"And I would learn real fast how to hold that controller." Kate smugly said.

"Until someone pissed you off because they did something you didn't want them to." Irina remarked back. "Even now you 'accidently' destroy controllers when someone really pisses you off on one of those games." Irina even used air quotes around accidently so emphasize her point.

"And there were accidents." Kate said with a small pout. "I'm not perfect."

"Enough you two." Tanya said with a smile. "Why don't we start off your relaxing day with watching a movie while we wait for Eleazar and Carmen to come back?"

"I think that sounds like a really good idea." I said with a smile as I relaxed further into Tanya. I moved in a way so that I could almost stretch my legs out while I leaned against Tanya in a way that had my back against the couch and I could face the television. After I had settled into my spot, Irina grabbed my legs and put them over hers so that I could lay stretched out in a more comfortable manner. "Thank you." I said with a smile towards Irina.

"Of course." Irina said with a reciprocated smile.

"In that case, I call picking the first movie." Kate said just before she sped off towards the large case that held a lot of videos from all sorts of genres.

"Would you be okay with us having Carmen and Eleazar picking up something for you to eat later for dinner?" Tanya asked me.

"Sure."

"I'll text them to pick something at random for you then."

From there Kate picked a horrible horror movie about zombies and Irina moved into a more comfortable position so that she was somehow awkwardly laying so that her upper body was laying on my hip while I had my head on Tanya's lap. It was very comfortable to have the three of us laying there. Kate had eventually taken up residence on the floor in front of us. She had leaned against the back of couch so that she was right next to Tanya's legs. At one point, I have no idea when, I had moved my hand down and across Tanya's legs so that Kate could hold my hand.

The four of us were in that position when Carmen and Eleazar showed up saying that they had made bought the rest of the supplies they thought they might need for when I was turned. Apparently all they had mostly bought was supplies to fix things. They were preparing for a lot of maintenance work to fix what they thought would be mostly everything in the house while I was a newborn. I honestly thought they were exaggerating about how bad it could be but Kate admitted that one time she had gotten so mad at Tanya for drinking more blood than her when she was a newborn that she had nearly destroyed an entire village. If it wasn't for Sasha and Tanya, Kate would have destroyed the village and they would have been in a lot of trouble with the Volturi. They weren't sure how likely it was that I would I lose control like that, but they wanted to do what they could to prepare for if I got mad or annoyed and decided it would be a good idea to destroying things.

By the time I was hungry for dinner, I was already looking forward to my last day as a human.