Prologue

As soon as I saw Bella Swan I knew my life had changed. I was consumed by thoughts of her and found myself taking different routes in the hallways just to catch a glimpse of her. Yes, I, Alice Cullen, was reduced to something as childish as following her in the halls. I felt possessive of this girl, even though I had no rights. Tired of feeling this way I took my problems to Carlisle.

"Alice, although I've never heard of this happening between a human and a vampire, it seems you have found your mate. "

Through my shock, his words made sense. I felt like I held a claim to Bella. Every time someone made her smile or laugh, I regretted that it wasn't me. Every friendly arm that loped around her shoulders made me insanely jealous. The only question now was how to make her mine.

APOV:

Today was the day. I had bribed Mike Newton into switching seats with me for Biology the day before, simply by glaring at him as he debated refusing my offer. Needless to say, he switched me. I can be highly persuasive. As soon as she walked in, Mike's eyes locked onto her. I fought the urge to growl and gouge his eyes out, but only because I didn't want to scare Bella off the first time we officially met.

"Erm, Alice? Isn't that Mike's seat? I mean, I don't mind you sitting there and all, but why'd you move?"

I blanked for a second and smiled and came back with "Well, I couldn't see the board very well from back there, and so I asked Mike to switch me. " Of course, it was a lie, but Bella didn't have to know that. Yet.

Bella smiled and took her seat, and I felt my dead heart melt.

"Alice, I don't have the notes from yesterday on genetics. Would you mind if I borrowed them from you?"

I wouldn't mind if she wanted to stab me for the hell of it. As I handed her the notes, our fingers brushed, and a shock went straight through my very core. I smiled to cover up my initial shock and pretended to listen to the lecture. The whole time I kept my attention focused on Bella. She was beautiful. God and she smelled good. Not good in an "I wanna rip your throat out" kind of way but in a different way altogether. I was so tired of chasing after other girls, only to be burned, or let them down by not being able to give them what they wanted. Could it be that I had finally found the one who none of that would be an issue with?

"Thanks, Alice. I would've been lost without these." Bella said as she handed my notes back to me and smiled.

If I had any doubts about Bella, the fact that I melted into a puddle at her smile and couldn't even find the words to say back, erased them all. By the time I had collected myself enough to murmur a "You're welcome" she was gone. As I left Biology and headed to the lunch room, I realized something. Edward could read my thoughts.

"Fuck." I muttered as I squared my shoulders and walked towards our table, where Edward was already grinning.

Edward's shit-eating grin only got bigger as I got closer to our table. As I sat down, he loped an arm around my shoulders.

"Hey there, little sister, I got a question. Are you sure you took Biology, and not Anatomy?"

If I could've, I would've blushed. He'd obviously overheard every little thought I'd made about how perfect her body was in every little graphic detail. Sometimes, having a telepath brother REALLY sucked. I felt a brief flash of rage at the thought of Edward seeing what I saw, until I remembered he didn't bat for my team.

Edward burst out laughing. "No, sugar, I certainly don't bat for your team. Although from the looks of it, a certain police chief's daughter sure does. "

"What are you talking about, Edward? There is no way that anyone like Bella sees anything in me."

"Oh, well, the way she's staring at you sure says a lot different to me."

I stiffened, not daring to believe Edward. I turned around, and sure enough she was staring at me. I looked at Edward, who was smiling even bigger now, and then got up and started walking towards her table.