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It was just another normal night. Emmett and Rose were who knows were doing who knows what, Carlisle was in the armchair, reading a novel thicker than a dictionary, and Edward was playing Esme's favorite on the piano while she stood next to him and listened. And I was sitting on the couch, with the love of my existence sitting on my lap, her head against my chest. I tightened my arms around her, never wanting to let go. I was tired of sitting though, so I whispered, "Follow me," as I lifted her off me so I could get up. I grabbed her hand and pulled her toward the deck right out side our huge wall of glass on the western side of the house. When we made it out to the deck I walked a few feet in front of her, ducked my head slightly, put one hand behind my back and the other extended toward Alice. She giggled and grabbed my hand. I grabbed her waist and we began to twist and twirl, just like you see in the movies. Alice loved to dance. It was one of her most favorite things in the world. She was excellent at it too, being so graceful.
I heard a rhythm change in the music being played in the house, and I realized Edward had been watching us, and decided to give us some appropriate music.
"Perhaps a little slower," I thought chuckling to myself. I know Edward was listening. I could hear him chuckling in the house,and mid spin Alice suddenly froze. I let go of her hand and waist and grabbed on to her shoulders instead.
"Alice? Alice, is everything alright?" I asked anxiously. She recovered almost immediately.
"Yeah, everything's alright." she told me, piercing me with her big golden eyes. "We're just getting a new student tomorrow. Isabella Swan."
"How exciting," I said without much enthusiasm. And then we picked up where our dance had left off.
As always, morning came too soon.
"We have to go get ready for school now," she sighed, breaking away from our dance.
"Alright," I said reluctantly as she pulled me upstairs to our room on the third floor. She skipped over to our huge closet and danced around, trying to find the perfect outfits.
"Alice, do I ever get to choose my own outfit?" I joked following her as she flipped through the clothes racks hanging on every wall.
"With your fashion sense? No." She threw a navy blue shirt and faded blue jeans at me.
"That'll do," she said as she danced over to her side of the closet to hunt for her outfit. I quickly changed, and went to go sit on our bed and wait for her. Alice designed our room, and I loved it. The walls were a blood red, with black squares overlapping in various places. We had dark wooden floor and a matching dresser and bed. We had red blankets on our bed with large white flower embelleshments and plain black pillows.
Alice didn't take long, she came back and was stunning, as always.
"How do I look?" she said, twirling in a circle."
"Perfect, as always." I said smiling at her.
She flashed me her glistening smiled and then skipped to where I was and tugged on my hand.
"Lets go Jazz." and then she pulled me downstairs where our family waited. Carlisle was already gone, he must of headed to the hospital. Emmett and Rose were now here, standing at the door waiting for us, along with Edward.
"You guys ready to go?" Edward asked us, opening the door.
"Yup!" Alice sang as she grabbed our coats. We really didn't need them, but they were all part of the charade. We all crammed into Edward's volvo, Alice in the front, and me, Emmett and Rose in the back. It was very quiet on the way there, it usually was. The only noise was the changing music coming from the radio. Edward wanted classical, Alice wanted pop. They were constantly switching it back and forth. They never said anything, but I was sure Alice was to him in her head. The ride would be a quite long ride, but Edward, and the rest of us for that matter, liked to drive fast. We were speeding down the black highway, approaching ninety miles an hour. The rain hammered on the wind shield, but I knew Edward could see out perfectly fine. All of us could. Our acute senses were very handy.
I really hated school sometimes.
The age limit between Alice and I limited our classes together. All we had was gym, lunch, and advanced biology together. Plus it was hard to not feel bored, when that was almost always the aura of the classroom. Advanced Biology was me and Alice's first period, and that class was bearable, Alice was at my side. The following four were a boring review of things I'd already known and memorized.
Finally, it was time for lunch. We all sat quietly, none of us touching our food in front of us. We could hear the new girl, Isabella, talking about us.
"Who are they?" She asked a quite annoying girl named Jessica. Edward's head snapped up, and he looked at the new girl. He looked at her for a few second's then looked down.
"That's Edward, Emmett and Alice Cullen, and Rosalie and Jasper Hale." Jessica answered her.
"Well, what the heck..." Edward said, picking at his food. He was irritated and confused.
"What?" Alice asked.
"I can't hear the new girl's thoughts."
"How is that possible?" Alice wondered.
"I don't know..." Edward said, obviously frustrated. The girl looked at him again, and Edward looked back, still trying to read her thoughts. She looked away, and so did he.
"Well, let's go. We don't want to be late." Edward said. Our conversation had been so low no one could have had a prayer of hearing. We all got up and went our separate way to class. Roaslie and Emmett to Spanish, Edward to Biology, Alice and I to gym. We walked together, not talking, not holding hands. Alice and I had a very special relationship. We didn't need to talk much. We knew each other inside and out, two pieces to the whole.
We went to our separate locker rooms and changed quickly then met each other back in the gym. Volleyball today. Lovely. Gym was not difficult, it was actually too easy. We had to be sure that we blended in, not showing our true strength.
Alice and I were on the same team, as always. We were only a couple serves into the game when Alice took in a shocked breath, and her face was a blank stare that I knew very well. I dragged her to the wall of the gym. She recovered as I shook her shoulders.
"Alice?"
"I need to talk to you," she told me urgently.
"Okay, sit down and look in distress." She slid down the wall covering her face with her hands. I needed to find out what was causing her this anguish, and then stop it. I walked over to our gym teacher.
"Coach Clapp, Alice isn't feeling too well. Perhaps, I should take her to the office, or outside to get some fresh air at the least."
"Sure, tell Alice I hope she feels better." he told me, playing close attention to a game near us. I walked back over to Alice, helping her up, keeping up the sick pretense.
"He can't do this!" Alice exploded as soon as we were in the hallway alone.
"What? What did you see Alice?" I demanded, holding her face in my hands.
"Edward..." Alice choked out, closing her eyes in pain. "Carlisle will be so disappointed..."
"What? Tell me already Alice!" I could feel her rising tension.
"Edward is going to kill someone."
"Who? Why?"
"The new girl, Isabella. Her blood is... potent." Her eyes were still closed. "He's sitting right next to her. His future is flickering, her is thinking of ways of getting to her. At one point it was luring her out, then it changed to slaughtering the whole class, right now he's trying to resist."
"What do we do?"
"Well, we can't just barge in there and drag him out. So we just wait and hope for the best."
"I guess you're right. Want to go back to gym now?"
"Do I want to? No. Do I have to? Yes."
"The day's almost over, hang in there." I told her as we walked into the gym, and tried to act normal. Alice was fine for the rest of gym, though I could tell she wasn't all there. Carefully monitering Edward's future. I was in the locker room changing, when I heard Alice calling in from outside the door, much too low for the humans to hear.
"Jazz, get over here!" I immediatly sprinted to the door.
"What?" I said, alarmed.
"Calm down, the girl's fine. Edward's stronger than I gave him credit for. But he's leaving us. Going to Alaska, he just left to go tell Carlisle."
"Esme'll be upset. Perhaps we should leave early and break the news to her." Esme hated when our family was divided. We were like her children.
"Sure, we'll just say I got dizzy or something." And we made our way to the office. We passed the new girl, Isabella, on her way to gym. She had a twinge of fear when she saw us, I'm sure that was a reaction to the way Edward had acted toward her earlier. The secretary easily let us go, she always did. To our shock, Edward had left the volvo. It didn't feel fair that we should leave Emmett and Rose without a way home, so we ran in and got them from their Social Issues class.
"What the heck is this about?" Emmett asked us when we were safetly outside.
"Edward left, and we thought we should all be there when we tell Esme." Alice explained, taking the driver's seat in the volvo.
"Why did Edward leave?" Rose asked. Alice explained while we made our way home.
"Why didn't Edward just kill her? We've been there before."
"Yeah, thanks to you." Rose snapped. "Edward actually has a conscious." The rest of the ride was quiet.
Esme reacted just the way we knew she would, with anguish. She tried calling Edward, to beg him to come home, but his cell phone was turned off.
"He's in Denali, he's fine Esme." Alice assured her. Even though Alice and I had only been in this family for a while, we still loved them. Time could only tell if our family would ever be whole again.
I'm such a hopeless romantic, I know.
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