Over the next two weeks my mothers health to a drastic turn for the worst. She began growing every single day and by the end of the second week she looked as big as I had at my final. Carlisle's hypothesis was, as he believed, that since the genes carried more then one set of vampire genes that the child grew twice as fast. This caused slight worry with me since the child could be more vampire then more human and I didn't want to risk my family being harmed because he or she couldn't control themselves. My mother's face and body looked unnaturally thin and was bruised severally in several places. Her heart beat was weak but the child growing within had one that was very strong. It was so strong it echoed itself. I looked towards the door as it opened and in came Edward. The past week I