Complicated-1

[Alice POV]

It had been thirteen years since Renesmee Carlie Cullen had been born. Bella and Edward had gone off to Dartmouth and graduated with prestigious degrees. Luckily, none of their fellow Forks High School graduates had remained in Forks after college; Angela, Eric, Ben, Mike, Jessica... all had dispersed. This was the only reason we had returned to Forks. We actually liked it here.

Which is why the news was such a shock.

"What do you mean, another coven is coming?!" Jasper demanded, shaking my shoulders. I sighed, opening my eyes and quickly glancing around at my family. Edward sat next to me on the couch, shock on his face. Bella held his hand, gazing worriedly at his face. Rosalie sat in the one of the armchairs, her hands gripping the armrests as she glared off into space, hatred in her golden eyes. Esme stood behind the chair, her hands clutching the chair back, her shoulders slumped a bit forward. Emmett paced furiously in the center of the room, hands clasped behind his back. Jacob sat in the other chair, a fully-grown Renesmee in his lap. Carlisle stood tall behind the chair, his face worried; yet he was calm as always.

"Alice!" Jasper roared. I leapt to my feet.

"What do you think it means, Jazz?!" I cried.

"How many?" Emmett growled, still pacing frantically.

"Ten," Edward said numbly.

"Fantastic," Emmet mumbled. "As many of them as there are of us." We counted Jacob in the family tally now, of course. He and Nessie were officially an item. Edward grudgingly put up with the match; Bella was just happy that Jacob had finally found someone for him, and that her daughter was happy; the rest of us were getting used to having a dog around most of the time. (Rosalie, of course, was slower to adjust than the rest of us.)

"When?" Carlisle said tensely.

"I'm not sure. Soon, very soon," I replied quietly, sitting back down. Edward sighed.

"Do they know we're here?" Esme asked.

"No," I replied.

"Good," Emmett replied, planning already. "We'll have the element of surprise."

"They don't want to fight, Em," Carlisle said calmly.

"Only because they don't know we're here!" Rosalie shouted.

"But they will," Renesmee said softly.