A/N: Here is the first instalment in the Lost in Orbit: Side Orders story. It is for all the missing moments, memories and chapters I couldn't fit into my main story, Lost in Orbit.

This scene was mentioned in chapter 16. You don't have to read the story to understand this. But it'll probably be best if you did, as there are two original characters in this chapter that you won't be familiar with.

Alice, Rosalie, Emmett and Robbie are thirteen, whereas Bella is fourteen and Henry is fifteen.

Disclaimer: I don't own very much. But I do own Robbie Grayson and Henry McCarty. If you're going to be picky, then I guess I don't really own the surname McCarty. That belongs to Stephenie Meyer, as does everything else Twilight related.

Something to Tell the Grandkids

31st October 2004

Alice POV

"Emmett, you're crazy," I whispered as we stared up at the large iron gates that led into the cemetery. "You're even worse, Henry."

The brothers laughed, eliciting an eerie echo around the quiet area. I shivered and shuffled closer to Robbie, who was next to me.

"Oh, come on, Short Stuff, it'll be fun," Henry said, nudging me in my side. I rolled my eyes at his idea of fun.

"Fun?" Bella cried as she stared at him with wide eyes. "How is it fun to go into a cemetery, at night, on Halloween?"

"Blush," he began, making her glare at him. "You know we've talked about this. It's Halloween. It's like a tradition to go into a scary place."

It might have been a tradition, for him, at least. Last year, he'd dragged us all along, with a couple of his mates, to go into this creepy abandoned house on the outskirts of Forks. It was an experience I never wanted to go through again. I had vowed that I would never let Henry rope me into anything like that again.

That vow had clearly been broken.

"I told you not to call me that," Bella said, pouting. "I hate that nickname."

He smirked. "You know all you have to do is stop blushing and I will stop calling you it."

"Come on!" Emmett exclaimed, sounding impatient. "We're wasting time! Let's do this already!"

Henry and Emmett walked forward, not bothering to wait for us anymore. I glanced at Bella and Rosalie. They both gave me scared glances before turning to watch the brothers disappear through the iron gates, and yes, into the darkness ahead of them.

Robbie pulled on my hand, signalling for me to walk in there with him. But I shook my head. He sighed and looked back towards the gates before untangling his fingers from mine and walking away from us. He was following the brothers inside.

"Robbie!" I cried, shocked. I made it sound as if he was walking to his death. If I wasn't so scared, I would have found it comical. Even if it was just a cemetery, I didn't want him going in there on his own.

I flashed the girls' one last look, before following in his footsteps.

"She's crazy," I heard Rosalie mutter from behind me. I smiled to myself as I stepped through the gates. Yes, I was definitely crazy.

I went straight towards where Robbie and Emmett were standing, looking into the darkness surrounding the church. I shuddered, but kept going. Henry wasn't anywhere to be seen.

Where the hell was he?

"My girl is brave," Robbie said as I came to stand next to him. I smiled up at him, momentarily forgetting that we were in a dark, scary cemetery. I looked away when I heard Emmett grumbling.

Robbie laughed just as Emmett handed him a five dollar bill. "This is so unfair. I was so certain that Rosie would be the first girl in here."

I blobbed my tongue out at him as he finished. I hadn't realised they'd placed a bet on which of us girls would be in here first.

"Where is Henry, anyway?" I asked as I looked around. I couldn't see him at all. "He isn't in there, is he?"

I pointed towards the dark area ahead of us, and they both laughed. "You'll see in a minute," Emmett muttered as he signalled towards the gate I'd just walked through. We all turned around to see Bella and Rosalie walking in, clutching each others hands tightly.

A second later, Henry jumped out from the darkness and roared at them. There was no other description for it. Both of them screamed louder than I'd ever heard them scream in my life. It was even louder than that time we were watching horror films on one of our sleepovers.

Bella was practically trembling as she turned and shot daggers at Henry, while Rosalie charged at him and started smacking him repeatedly wherever she could reach. He deserved it.

Emmett and Robbie were laughing their asses off beside me. I felt like slapping them myself for being such boys. After Rosalie had finished beating Henry down, she took hold of Bella's arm again and they made their way over to us pretty quickly.

"You're really, really cruel, Henry!" I exclaimed as I shook my head at him. All he did was laugh in response. Was that all they ever responded with? I swear they laughed at everything these days.

"Yeah, you idiot, are you trying to give me a God damn heart attack?" Rosalie cried as she hit him yet again.

He dodged out of the way as she aimed at him once more. "Hey! Rosie, chill out, and quit smacking me! I don't see Blush hitting me. So why do you have to be so different?"

"Just look at her!" she shot back as she pointed at a very pale looking Bella. She really was quite fainthearted. But Henry knew that. Actually, it was probably why he did it. Meany.

"What am I supposed to be looking for?" Henry asked lazily, knowing he was just winding Rosalie up even further.

"Hey, leave my girl alone," Emmett interrupted, finally. Rosalie gave him a winning smile before sticking her tongue out at Henry.

"Alright, enough of this," Robbie muttered. Now he was the impatient one. "I thought we came in here as a dare, and not to rib each other. We could have done that back at the house."

I wanted to glare at him, or hit him like Rosalie had done with Henry. But I did neither.

"Let's split up," Henry said, grinning. "There are six of us here. I say we go in pairs and make a full lap of this place, and no cheating by cutting across the middle."

I looked at Robbie immediately and he nodded. I saw Rosalie glancing at Emmett, but before he could nod at her, Bella piped up.

"Oh, no you don't, Rosalie." She shook her head quickly, looking at Henry as if she didn't trust a bone in his body. "There's not a chance in hell that I'm going to walk around this place with Henry."

"What's wrong, Blush? Don't you wanna be in the dark with me?" he asked, as he wiggled his eyebrows at her suggestively. Ever true to sticking by her nickname, she blushed furiously and looked away. Rosalie and I shared a quick, knowing glance. Bella had admitted to us a couple of weeks ago that she had a teensy crush on Henry, and with him making comments like that, it made us believe that he knew as well.

Maybe one day I'd have to play matchmaker with those two. I think, and I knew Rosalie would agree, that they would make a very cute couple. Below the relentless teasing, Henry cared for her immensely.

"Actually, Henry, I really wouldn't put it passed you to drag me out to the darkest part of this place, and then leave me to fend for myself," she muttered with a slight pout on her lips once again.

He chuckled as she finished. "No, Blush, I'd never do that to you."

And even though I knew he was telling the truth, I could still see the devious glint that never really seemed to leave his eyes.

"Well, brother, it looks like it will be you and me, then," Henry said with a sigh as he slapped Emmett on the shoulder.

But then he turned to look at Rosalie. "That is, of course, unless you want a couple of minutes in the dark with me, Rosie?"

Again, he wiggled his eyebrows. You can tell he's nearly fifteen years old. He had an innuendo for absolutely everything, and he was never shy to throw one out there, regardless of the situation he was in.

I sighed. Rosalie rolled her eyes. Emmett glared at his brother.

"As if," Rosalie scoffed. I had to smile at how audacious she always seemed to be. Even when we were younger, she was never one to back away from a challenge. Rosalie was the kind of person who said it how it was, and didn't take crap from anyone. It was one of the reasons why we were best friends.

But darkness, that was her weakness.

"Come on," Robbie whispered in my ear. I turned to look up at him, and smiled when he signalled for us to sneak away. I was still unsure about walking around this place in the dark, but with Robbie by my side, I guess I felt as if I could do anything if I tried.

I took his hand once again, and tangled our fingers together as we quietly walked away form the group, who were still bickering between themselves. I was apprehensive of my surroundings, as if I expected a zombie or vampire to suddenly jump out and kill us.

It was stupid of me to think like that. Nothing was going to happen. So what if there were dead people buried under every headstone that we passed?

Okay, that isn't helping my situation, I thought quickly as I tried to rid my mind of its current musings.

"Let's go this way," Robbie whispered as he nodded towards the pathway that led towards the church.

I frowned, but followed him nonetheless. I thought the whole point of the stupid dare was so that we went around the outside of the cemetery, and not through the middle. Technically, that was cheating, but who was I to complain? It wasn't as if I actually wanted to follow the rules Henry set.

But as he led me towards the side of the church, I began to wonder what he was actually doing. It was only when we got right up to wall, and he stopped, that I questioned him.

"Why are we stopping here, Robbie?" I asked in a hushed voice, as if I was worried that someone would hear me. He smiled and wordlessly pulled me closer to him.

"We're stopping because I would like a couple of minutes in the dark with you," he murmured as a nervous smile played across his lips. His comment made butterflies flutter excitedly in my stomach. I'd never felt like this before, but the sensation felt nice.

It was completely silent as I watched him bite his bottom lip nervously. But I really couldn't figure out what he was actually nervous about.

Then he leant towards me ever so slightly and delicately placed his lips onto mine. Oh, oh.

This kiss wasn't like the one he'd given me on my birthday. Because this time, he didn't pull away, and even though I didn't really know what I was doing, I was glad he didn't.

He shifted ever so slightly in front of me as he reached up and brushed his finger along my cheek. His movements were tentative, but still, I was on cloud nine.

I could feel his hesitancy as he pulled away briefly, before tilting his head ever so slightly to the side and pressing his lips to mine with a little more force than before. I didn't really know how to react, so I found myself mimicking him.

The kiss wasn't amazing, and it didn't make my toes tingle, like those girls would say in the magazines. But it was unique, it was perfect. But most of all, it was us.

I wanted to reach up and place my hand on his cheek, but I was too chicken to do it. So I left them floating idly between us.

Then suddenly, from just around the corner, someone let out a blood curdling scream. We both pulled away, and I screamed my head off as my eyes darted in the direction of the scream, where I was half expecting a crazy axe woman to come tearing around the corner.

Seconds after I screamed, Robbie wrapped his arms around me protectively, and pulled me against his chest. Due to our height difference, my ear was pressed right where his heart was. His frantic heartbeat was so loud that it was all I could hear. But it made me feel better, because it reminded me that I wasn't alone.

But then I heard something else, something that made me eyes narrow into tiny slits. I heard two people laughing. It was two very familiar people laughing, in fact.

"I'm going to kill you two!" I screeched as I pulled away from Robbie. I stormed, rather courageously, I might like to add, around the corner, where I found Henry and Emmett standing, clutching at the stomachs as they laughed uncontrollably. There was a portable cassette radio player beside them.

They didn't even try to dodge out of the way as I stomped forward and slapped them as hard as I could across the arm. Robbie came to stand next to me a second later, with a very irritated expression on his face.

"You two are complete and utter idiots," he hissed, glaring at them both. I'd never seen him so annoyed like this before. Was it wrong of me to feel happy, knowing that he was angry because our kiss got interrupted? For I was sure as hell feeling happy, even though I still wanted to squeal in frustration.

"Aw, were you scared, Robbie?" Henry asked in an annoyingly babyish voice. "Did you think that some big old lady was going to come running around the corner with a chainsaw?"

"Oh, shut up, you idiot," he muttered crossly. "I was not scared."

We all knew he was lying, considering how his heart rate had tripled the moment we heard the scream. But I wasn't going to mention it because I couldn't blame him, really. I was absolutely terrified myself, and from the shared expression on the brothers' faces, I knew they weren't about show him up by calling him out on his blatant lie.

"Oh well," Robbie said with a sigh as he turned to look at me. "I guess it's something to tell the grandkids, huh, Alice?"

I giggled over the numerous butterflies that were setting up home in my stomach, and then nodded. "I guess it is, Robbie."

Emmett and Henry both gave us questioning looks as Robbie and I tangled our hands together yet again. I was sure that, at some point, Robbie would tell Emmett what had happened before they interrupted us just now. They always seemed to talk about that kind of thing with each other. But right now, it was going to be our little secret.

It was silent for a long moment, which was a very rare occasion when we were together like this. I took that moment to look around, noticing that we were missing two people from our group.

"Hey, has anyone seen Rosalie and Bella?" I asked, making us all simultaneously look around.

They were nowhere to be seen.

A/N: So what did you think? Did you like seeing them all when they were younger? Wasn't Alice and Robbie's first proper kiss so cute? I thought so, anyway.

If you're wondering where Edward was, then I'll remind you that he doesn't arrive in Forks until about halfway through 2005. If Edward wasn't in this story, then Bella and Henry would so have been together.

If you're wondering where Jasper is (and you've read Lost in Orbit) then I'm going to slap you. If you haven't read that story, then Jasper doesn't turn up until September 2008.

And if there is a certain scene, or a memory that you would like to see that isn't already in the story. Then feel free to tell me. You never know, I might actually write it for you.