Edward's POV

"I like her." Alice claimed, dancing toward me as soon as I came in the door. She was so graceful and elegant that I couldn't stand it. That's the kind of girl I needed. Someone different and girly and sweet.

Bella Swan was all of those things. But she was human...and dreadfully clumsy. I caught myself wanted to smack her when she tripped over every possible obstacle in her path. Look where you're going already! But Alice wasn't like that.

She was perfect. But she was Jasper's. And the worst part was that he knew how I felt about her and I knew that he thought I had absolutely no chance.

"You do?" I finally acknowledged her words, although they caused a lump in my throat. "Yeah, me too." I lied.

She narrowed her eyes. "Edward. She's nice enough, but the future I'm seeing isn't good. You won't be happy with her."

"How would you know?" I snarled.

"Because I can see it."

My heart dropped. Obviously, her seeing it meant that I would take Bella as a mate. She was the most interesting girl that I could find to replace Alice. Because Alice and I couldn't happen. She continued to look at me firmly but suspciously. "What are you thinking?"

"Wouldn't you like to know?" I mumbled, stalking toward the staircase to go to my room.

She was suddenly in front of me, her arms stretched to touch the wall and banister, banning me from passing her. "I really would like to know. Don't go and sulk. Tell me. You can tell me anything."

"No I can't Alice." I ground out between my teeth.

Her lips came out in an adorable pout. "Why?" she demanded.

"Because it's about you!" I blurted. She looked as shocked as I felt as she dropped her hands and backed to one side of the staircase so I could go around her. But I couldn't leave now. "Alice...I'm sorry. I didn't mean it that way. It's nothing bad."

"Sure." she said quickly and her thoughts were very far from believing me. And then, in her state of pure sadness, she let a thought slip. We're never going to be together. Why am I so stupid? Why would I even-

Her thoughts were cut off when I suddenly grabbed her and crushed her lips to mine. She gasped and yanked away and I suddenly felt stunned. Holy shit! She'd never said that 'he' was me. What if she'd been thinking of Jasper all along.

And then, as fast as she'd stopped me on the stairs, a smile broke out across her face and I saw the visions flashing in her mind. Me and her, together in the livingroom, walking, eating, laughing, kissing, fucking...

"You do want me?" I breathed. She nodded, and then we were kissing again.

Jasper's POV

I wasn't sure how to feel really. I'd loved Alice completely once. So why was I now watching her and Edward kissing passionately, and feeling only defeated? Yeah, I was slightly angry that either would do such a thing that they knew could hurt me...but I couldn't stay angry for long. Because the way they kissed, as if no one else existed...told me that they'd each found their mate.

Edward had refused Rosalie, but he'd never got the chance with Alice. When we joined the family, we were already together. She was taken. So what had happened to turn them from best friends to lovers so suddenly?

And why wasn't Edward flipping out? He should be able to hear my thoughts by now as I watched them from the treeline. Didn't Alice have a vision of me stomping and beating their faces in. Well...his face. I couldn't hit a woman unless in battle.

Finally, Edward disengaged from where they'd been making out at the window and he glanced out, straight at me, and his face suddenly wasn't so lusty and in the moment. He looked completely tortured and then he turned and ran, leaving Alice dumbfounded in the livingroom.

I turned around, going back to the woods to hunt. I couldn't go in that house without breaking something. I had to burn off some anger first.

Leah's POV

I was in human form, and I didn't have to patrol, but a walk in the woods was always refreshing. So I was just walking along, looking around in wonder when I caught that sickly sweet vampire smell. It was very faint and the breeze was blowing it straight into my face.

I growled and then he came into my view, obviously alerted by the growl. I'd never seen him before but I knew he was a Cullen. Sam had told us all about the Cullens. Or at least what he remembered. They were the only vampires we would meet with gold eyes instead of red.

The blonde daddy, Carlisle. He was said to be nice. He was the only one that they spoke to directly.

The brunette mother, Esme.

The burly brunette boy, Emmett.

The lean brunette boy, Edward.

The petite brunette girl, Alice.

The blonde boy, Jasper.

And the blonde female, Rosalie.

They were dangerous, with vampiric abilites to make you like them and rumors were whispered about one that could read your mind. But the wolf in me was supposed to counteract the human in me that would willingly give him my blood. And yet, I felt a pull. A very strong pull.

And I was werewolf for Christ's Sake! Now I understood why humans were so helpless around them.

And why was the vampire revealing himself to me? Because if he thought I was some sort of push-over because I was female, he had another thing coming to him.

Was this the kindly doctor or the empath? They were both blondes from what I heard and no one knew much else. This man...uh, leech, had scars that covered his face and peeked out of the sleeves of his shirt. It didn't distort his features though, and in a way, he looked more dangerous because of it.