It's my birthday. I've been here for seven days. I've been fasting for four, only allowed water and sleep.

I'm weak, lightheaded, energy is nonexistent. Alice has been tasked with keeping me bathed and dressed. Edward brings me water. In between their visits, I just sleep. It's all I have the energy to do anymore.

But it will be over soon. Tonight is the night.

Elsie Reeves, human girl, dies.

Elisabeth Cullen, vampire, will be born.

I close my eyes, sleep some, open them, close them again when I see the sun is still out.

At some point, I fall into a deeper sleep.

And then night finally comes. The sun sets on my human form one final time before I'm woken up by Alice gently tapping on my shoulder, waking me up.

Her gold eyes glow in the sliver of moonlight seeping into the room between the curtains.

"It's time."

She helps me up and carries me into her room.

A week ago, if you'd asked me, I would have said I'd never choose to do this. I'd never abandon my humanity, my father, my entire life for something as dark and grotesque as this. I don't think I'd have even believed this, they, existed. But something in me changed when I was carried through the doors of this house. Something in me lit up and burned when I saw the way Edward ripped into those animals. Something in me grew during my four days of fasting and silence.

Something in me woke up when I tasted that drop of blood on my lip.

I don't know who I am anymore. All I know is that I'm more sure now than I'd ever been sure of anything in my entire life that this was what I wanted. Tonight, I would become new and enter territory I never even thought was possible. I would die and come back new, reborn.

I wasn't scared anymore.

I was eager.

I was ready.