So, I was thinking, what would happen if instead of starting to hang out with Jacob in New Moon, Bella writes letters to the Cullen family, in hopes that Alice will have a vision of them? What would Alice's, and the rest of the family's reactions to Bella's situation? And how would that change the plot of New Moon?
Disclaimer: The characters mentioned do not belong to me, they belong to Stephenie Meyer.
Dear Alice,
I wonder, if I write you a letter and address it to your old house, will you see it? What about if I were to write a letter to anyone else in the family? You wouldn't respond, though, would you? Either way, I have to write these letters. This is the only way to keep myself sane. Maybe. Even this might not work.
Charlie wants me to "get help" from a counselor. I think that the main point of going to a counselor is to talk about what happened, obviously that won't work for me. These days, I don't think I even have the energy to make up a lie and stick to it, much less the creativity. Anything useful has been drained out, leaving a gaping hole, like a lasting tear from when he tore at my heart.
It hurts even to think of his name anymore, Alice. If I had much feeling left at all, I might be angry that he was only using me, playing with me that whole time. But I still love him, foolishly. He said that vampires are distracted easily, and he was bored of playing human. Was I just another silly girl in a line of distractions? Sometimes I wonder how many human girls have been in love with an immortal. Surely there haven't been very many. Then I wonder, how many of them survive the pain of a loved one leaving? Did he find a new distraction yet? Did you find a new friend yet?
What makes it worse is that I didn't only lose him. I lost a whole family, because your family had taken me in, or at least acted like you did. Do good acting skills automatically come with being changed?
I miss you. You used to be my best friend. Unless I was only a distraction for you, too. I don't really have friends anymore. I hardly talk at all, except with Charlie. Sometimes Mike Newton still talks to me at work, though. It's nice to know that someone my age still cares a little. Does he feel guilty about that last night? It's not his fault, I don't blame him. It was just my luck to get a paper cut in the middle of a room full of vampires.
What have you and Jasper been up to these past few months, Alice? Does he feel guilty about that last night? It's not his fault, I don't blame him. It was just my luck to get a paper cut in the middle of a room full of vampires.
Are you starting high school again, or skipping through the rest of your senior year to go to a college? Thinking about that makes me wonder, do the "teens" in your family ever play adults? I imagine that that would be hard to pull off, but not impossible. Especially for Rosalie, Emmett, and Jasper. It seems like it would be even harder for you and… Edward to blend in as adults. The two of you just seem younger.
I wish you would send some kind of communication to answer my letter, but I doubt that you will. Why would you? Maybe the new distraction will be luckier than I was, maybe she will have your family around for more than a few months. That would be nice for her.
I'm going to write letters to the rest of the family, too. Well, maybe not everyone. That would hurt too much. So if you see this letter, and especially the coming ones, would you do me a favor by just reading them to the family, or the person that the letter is addressed to?
Yours truly,
Bella
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