WOW, my 30th chapter!!! I want to thank YOU guys for all of your wonderful comments that makes my day even when I'm feeling sick:( I stole a lot from the book Betrayed in the HON series, I cried my eyes out and while writing this, I cried my eyes out too!


Previously on Ch.29:

"In all my existence, I would have to say that dying from the Change as a child would have to be the worst possible death - partly because you never expected when your body would reject the Change." My voice dropped, and my eyes fell to my hands that were on my lap.
"Which brings me to how I met a girl named Addy."

Now, Ch.30:

"Addy?" Edward asked me and I nodded.
"It was one day while sitting in my dark room that the scientists brought in a new girl - she was the same age as me, and her skin was horribly shallow and pale. She had long, light brown curls, and dark brown eyes that almost seemed black. They told us that we were roommates now, and shut the door and left.
"Then she began crying, and I tried to comfort her by putting my arm around her shoulders. 'How can these people do this to us?' she asked me through her tears. 'I don't know, they're trying to make us immortal.' I explained, and she looked up at me. 'They took me away from my family,' she whispered sadly. 'I know, they took me away from my family too.'
"She finished crying out before asking, 'So what's your name?' I smiled. 'Bella. What's yours?' she smiled too, 'Addy, will you be my friend?' I grinned wider, 'I'd love to Addy.' And that began our friendship - we soon knew everything about each other, and to the other children, we were inseparable as sisters. We helped each other through the darkness. . ." I murmured as my own darkness enveloped me.
"Well at least you weren't alone in the end. Where is Addy now?" Alice asked me, grinning, though she had no idea of the truth.
I inhaled deeply, blinking my eyes and thinking, Don't cry Bella.
"It was three months after she had arrived, and we were both in the largest room where the scientists allowed all the children to meet and talk every once in a while. . . Since I had lasted the longest, everyone assumed me the leader, they all looked up to me. . . And at the time, they were all my only family, and we all considered ourselves brother and sister."
I peeked at Alice, and she was still smiling as if she thought this story had some sort of happy ending, when in truth, there was no 'happy ending.'
"Addy and I were standing in the middle of the room, chatting, when a boy across the room called for my help on something, and so I quickly obliged. But then Addy coughed lightly and she smiled back at me. 'Just a frog in my throat,' she replied, and I didn't think anything of it, so I just smiled and went to the boy who needed my help."
I then looked at all of them.
"I was across the room when it happened. I heard Addy cough loudly into her hand and I closed my eyes and whimpered, 'Please, please no. Don't take Addy from me.' When Addy looked into her hand, and her eyes grew wide in fear, everything became silent. The boy who had asked for my help came up beside me. 'Bella, she needs you,' he said at the same time Addy shouted, 'Bella!'
"I ran to her at inhuman speed - shocking everyone, but I didn't care. 'Addy!' I shouted, and caught her in my arms as she fell. I sank to my knees, holding her in my arms as blood spewed from her nose and ears. 'Get some towels!' I ordered to everyone around me who were faintly stunned. 'Bella. . .' Addy sobbed as she began crying out her own blood. 'It's okay. . . I'm here,' I said, barely able to talk over the knot in my throat," I began sobbing quietly, though keeping my red-tinged tears at bay.
"'It's going to be okay. I promise. It's going to be okay.' I tried to hold strong as Addy coughed a gut-wrenching cough. 'It's not. It can't be. I'm dying.' Her voice was weak and gurgled as she tried to speak through the blood hemorrhaging in her lungs and throat. 'I'm staying with you. I won't let you be alone,' I said.
"She grasped my hand and I was shocked by how cold hers was. 'I'm scared, Bella.' 'I know, I'm scared, too. But we'll get through this together. I promise.' Then one of my sisters handed me a towel and I began wiping her face clean of the blood, but she started coughing up blood again and I couldn't keep up. There was just too much blood. And then she began shaking, and I was crying as I wrapped my arms tighter around her and I rocked her back and forth, telling her over and over that it would be all right, that I wouldn't leave her.
"'I'm not scared anymore Bella. You'll make a great leader, and I'll. . . always. . . be. . . with you,' she whispered, slowly closing her eyes as they slowly became dead white. 'No! Stay with me Addy! You can't go, please don't leave me,' I wailed out through my tears but she was already gone, out of my reach. And there was nothing I could do to re-wind time and prevent her death." My voice broke in places, "I held unto her body with my new profound strength as the wretched scientists came and told everyone to leave the area - but I wouldn't go. I could not leave my sister and let them discard her as if she were nothing more than trash to them. But eventually, they managed to pry me away from Addy's blood-covered corpse, and I was sent away into the darkness, all alone once again. . ."
Then my built-up tears gushed out as if I had broken a dam - only these tears, my tears, were not the usual tears.
They were tears of my own blood.