Okay so, I've written previous Bellice fics that just haven't really worked or I just haven't finished so I'm trying another one, hopefully it's not going to be cliched but I really want to write another one, this time much better. So review and read. Thanks :)
Isabella Swan had once again found herself in an embarassing situation. Whilst walking to class on a typical wet day in Forks, she managed to slip down a small flight of stairs leading out to the walkway on her way to her Art lesson.
"Shit." She cursed under her breath, trying to regain her composure.
"What a retard." Sniggered a tall, intimidating blonde girl named Rosalie.
The rest of her pose' followed her laughter like sheep, now all joining in the taunting. Bella felt her numb cheeks redden, looking up at the group she flinched simply from their presence. The only expression of remorse she received was from a tall, slender, handsome boy with bronze coloured hair and an angular face. She knew his name was Edward, she'd only had a crush on him since she'd started at Forks high school, which wasn't that long ago, but it had felt like forever to Bella. Under his gaze she felt her cheeks go another two or three shades redder and quickly turned away in embarassment.
There was something scary about that group, be it their perfect composure, gacefulness or fearlessness, Bella couldn't begin to wonder why they taunted her, did they have nothing better to do?
Finally having enough, Bella shuffled to her feet and turned to the now unamused group.
"Shut the fuck up." She regretably spat, mainly directed towards Rosalie.
Suddenly a jolt of worry tore through Bella as the blonde advanced upon her, an unforgiving expression on her beautiful features.
"What did you say?" Her voice was venemous.
Involuntarily stepping back, Bella felt a lump form in her throat as she eyed the furious girl inches away from her, awaiting some kind of a response.
"I-I.." Was all she managed to splutter.
"Don't ever talk to me or my family like that, ever!" She demanded, almost touching Bella now.
"B-but-"
"Enough, Rosalie, leave her alone." Edward said, feeling a stab of empathy towards the girl.
She turned to look at him, her expression was nothing less than of outrage. They continued to stare at each other, Edward did not look like he was going to lose this battle, and she rolled her eyes and scoffed in defeat.
"Whatever." She added immaturely, before glaring at Bella and stomping off.
"Sorry about her." Edward directed at Bella.
For a moment she faltered. Was he seriously talking to her?
"Oh, um, It's fine, really, I uh, have to go, thanks.." Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! She mentally screamed at herself after she bolted off.
Bella momentarily looked back to see if he was still standing there, she glanced back to see him having what seemed to be a subtle argument with his other sister she knew as Alice. Bella had never taken much notice of the small, pixie like girl, but now that she was looking she took in a whole new perspective. She was considerably shorter than the rest of her family, with a petite figure bordering on being almost too skinny, chocolate brown, almost black, short cropped hair, spiking out in every direction, a small, sharp nose, rosey, carved lips, porcelain skin and what was most noticable about Alice cullen was her honey coloured, orb like eyes. They seemed to twinkle and gave her face an extra touch of softness.
Almost becoming entranced by the small girl, Bella was snapped back into reality by the sudden aversion of their eyes upon her. Shit! She turned away instantly, feeling like a complete idiot. As if she already hadn't made enough of a fool of herself infront of them.
She shook her head, upset with her idiocy and felt immesely flustered as she half ran to class. Why can't I just be normal for once? Come off as cool?-
"Hey.." Came a careful, melodic voice.
Ugh, who wants me now?..Oh.
"Oh..hi.." Bella replied, too nervous to look the pixie in the eye.
"Sorry if my sister upset you..she's just like that sometimes." She said with a hint of sorrow.
She looked adorable with that sad look on her delicate features. Bella couldn't help but admit to herself that Alice Cullen sent shivers down her spine.
"It's fine..really, used to it." She wasn't intentionally trying to make Alice feel bad, but when she saw her pretty features sadden further she felt her heart sink.
"Don't worry about me, I'm tough." Bella said, forcing a somewhat convincing smile.
Alice beamed back at her, as if ecstatic all of a sudden. Her amber eyes were now dancing with sparkles, it was beautiful enough so to enthrall the least sentimental of people.
"Not to be rude or anything..but why are you talking to me?" Bella had taken the same class with Alice since she started at Forks High School and not once had they interacted unless it was completely necessary.
"I don't think you've had the best impression of me so far." Alice said with an adorable pout.
Bella wasn't sure how to reply, she didn't want to say, oh yeah that's for sure, you've been a complete bitch along with your stuck up sister, although she thought on it for a minute.
As they had continued walking Alice suddenly stopped dead in her tracks and began to stare blankly into nothingness.
"Alice? Are you okay?" Bella asked, wondering what the hell she was doing.
The raven haired girl continued like this for the next few seconds until snapping back into reality with a confused look on her face, much like the expression Bella wore on hers in the exact moment.
Bella raised her eyebrows as if the question the pixie, and in response Alice looked at her in complete awe as if she'd just done something outrageous.
"What?" Alice whispered, but loud enough for Bella to hear.
"Alice, what the hell-"
"You.." What the hell, why was she suddenly acting so cryptic?
"Nothing." Alice said almost too quickly. "We're late for class."
What the hell had just happened? Bella couldn't stop wondering. Throughout the lesson she'd try to signal to Alice asking what was up, but every time she caught her eye, she'd look away in a split second. Was it something she said?
Alice looked extremely distressed, unlike Bella had ever seen her before. At one point she was covering her nose and mouth as if there was a bad smell, and then she shifted uncomfortably in her seat after giving Bella a pained glance. This was all so confusing and odd.
When the bell went, Bella's eyes were lucky to catch a flash of the pixie bolting from the room. Great, now she'd done something to discomfort Alice and she had no idea what it was.
She had biology next, of course another Cullen she would have to face and of course it was the one she'd fallen madly in love with. At least that's what her crush felt like.
She sheepishly entered the Biology lab to be signalled by the familiar bronze haired boy to join him. Her heart skipped a beat as she realised he was actually asking her to sit with him, her mind filled with panic, nervousness and excitement all at the same time as she stumbled towards him and ungracefully slumped in the seat beside him.
For a moment he seemed pained, but then came back into reality.
"Hey." He said cooly, grinning at Bella ever so cheekily.
Bella blushed furiously, how was she going to get through a whole lesson sitting next to him if she almost vomited from nervousness at one word?
"H-hey." She stuttered, now feeling even more like an idiot.
Her face was burning now, why was she such a complete an utter fool when it came to interacting with other human beings?
She felt Edward shift beside her, she looked up to see now that he wasn't looking at her, rather looking the opposite way with his hands digging into the table. Great, now somehow she'd upset another Cullen, oh this day couldn't get any better.
Within the next few minutes Edward eased up and sat more comfortably, regaining the ability to communicate with the strongly scented human beside him.
"You smell wonderful." He said with darkened eyes, which Bella noticed.
"Your eyes.." In that instant Edward snapped his head the other way in such speed she almost didn't notice.
"Sorry.." Bella said in an aplogetic tone.
"Don't be, you didn't do anything, I'm just not feeling that well today." Well wasn't that just the universal excuse for something being wrong.
"Alice was acting the exact same way towards me in Art, I must have done something to upset you both.."
"No, the whole family is sick, stomach flu." His tone was final and she knew that whatever it was they didn't want her to pry.
For the rest of the lesson they sat in an awkward silence. Bella couldn't help but notice the momentary glaces Edward would shoot at her every now and then, she also couldn't help returning them, heightening the tenseness.
By the end of the day Bella was relieved to finally get home and away from the dramatics of the days events. She heaved in a long breath and released it slowly as she sat down on her bed. Although her mind was revolving around Edward, she also couldn't erase the image of Alice's angelic, beaming face sending warmth into her soul. These thoughts were becoming begrudging for Bella and no longer did she want the tight feeling of anxiety in her throat and chest. Doing what she usually did to clear her mind, she knelt down and reached a hand out under her bed, rummaging around to grab ahold of a hard, cold object, Bella attempted to pull it out from under the bed, but it wouldn't budge. Was the bottle stuck or something?
She now lowered her head down to see the cause of the problem.
"WHAT THE FUCK?" Bella screamed, inhumanely jumping halfway back across the room in terror.
Out crawled from under her bed, was an evily giggling Alice Cullen. This had to be the most bizzare day Bella had ever had the displeasure of witnessing.
"Calm down Bella." Said Alice, still giggling yet her face turned somewhat regretful.
"Calm down? What would you do if you found another living being under your bed?"
"Well, depending on who it was.. but it'd probably be better if I didn't share that information with you." Bella had no idea what she was talking about, or what the hell was going on.
"Why the hell were you under my bed Alice? Some kind of sick joke? You know this thing, it's called a front door, you knock on it, in fact you should probably be using it to leave right now!"
The giggling stopped immediately and suddenly Alice felt horrible and attacked by Bella, her words had hurt her. Bella noticed this and felt bad for being so harsh but the girl literally almost gave her a heart attack.
"Sorry." Alice mumbled adorably, half pouting at Bella.
As if she had worked some kind of charm within seconds Bella instantly forgave her, even to the extreme of wanting to take the small, adorable girl in her arms and squeeze her tight.
"It's okay, but you still haven't answered why you were there.." Bella said more carefully this time.
"There's something I need to tell you Bella." She said seriously, taking a step closer.
Bella gulped at the sudden change in proximity between them, probably only a few inches distance, she began to feel extremely nervous, her heart rate intensifying. If Bella wasn't mistaken, Alice's eyes had just grown darker, exactly like Edward's had earlier, but seconds later back to normal, it was suspiciously weird.
"What is it?" Bella asked, her voice not but a squeaky whisper of anticipation, fear and confusion.
"You must promise to believe me." Alice said sternly with a hint of calming smoothness.
Bella meerly nodded her head submissively.
"Okay, well the reason I'm here, and acted so weird today is because.." Alice hesitated for one of the first times in her life, doubting what she was about to tell the human.
"Is because I'm psychic." She knew all along that she was never going to reveal to Bella that she was a vampire, she didn't even know the girl let alone trust her with her and her family's lives.
First Bella looked dumbfounded, but having an open mind she considered the statement. She guessed it made sense, the blank staring, sudden mood change. What did she see then? Today she had stared blankly into space and then become a different person towards Bella.
"Alice, what did you see today?" Now it was Alice's turn to be surprised.
Not only had Bella just completely pushed the incredulous idea of her being psychic to the side but jumped straight into the questions.
"Oh um.." Alice had to think, she couldn't tell her what she really saw, not yet anyway.
"I saw you drunk, it was really bad, you left the house and started wandering around, you could have been in serious danger and so I came here. I knew if I had just knocked on the door you would have sent me away, so yeah that's why I took the stupid approach of hiding under your bed."
Bella once again blushed embarrassedly, Alice had seen her drunk and acting like a complete fool, it was true though, she did have a stash under her bed and intended on using it. But it made sense now, well not the fact some random she'd just met had half surprised her to death and told her she was psychic, but the part about Alice acting odd did.
"Wait..how did you get inside?" Bella saw Alice flinch for the slightest moment.
"You left your window open." Bella could have been sure she didn't and even if that was the truth, how the hell did she climb that high to get inside? Once again it all made no sense.
"Anyway, can I now trust that you won't do anything rash?" Alice interjected, changing the subject.
"I guess.." Bella replied, her mind elsewhere.
"Okay then, just wanted to keep you safe." Said the pixie with a bewitching smile.
"Wait!" Bella called out as the girl turned to leave.
"You can't leave on that note, I have a lot more questions to ask than that." It wasn't really true, she just felt comforted by Alice being there and wanted to get to know her.
Alice turned around to greet Bella with that delightful, heart wrenching smile.
"Okay Bella, but I can't stay long." She said, more excited than her tone expressed.
Walking back into the room Alice waited to be directed by Bella as to where they would reisde for the rest of the conversation, but no such direction was made.
Alice noticed that she was being surveyed by the mouthwatering human infront of her, possibly even being checked out. Thankfully as a vampire embarassment wasn't easy to come by and her blush was only exisant in her emotions, not on her face.
"Bella?" She questioned, not being able to keep the grin off her face.
"Huh?" Bella said stupidly, realising from Alice's amused expression that she'd been staring.
"O-oh..uh..sorry.." Bella stuttered, turning around to hide her flaming face.
She felt a cold hand caress her shoulder, sending shivers down her spine, she told herself it was the cold that caused the shivers, although her heartrate told her otherwise.
"It's fine Bella." Although this should have sounded comforting, there was a rasp in Alice's voice that sounded almost dangerous.
Turning around, Bella was now face to face with a black eyed Alice. No longer the adorable, innocent pixie, in fact the look on her face would have sent the toughest of people running.
"Are you okay Alice?" Bella asked, fear now bubbling inside of her.
"I'm fine Bella, didn't you want to talk?" She said in her high pitched happy tone once again.
She removed her hand from the touch of Bella's warm skin rather quickly, Bella noticed but disregarded it.
"Yeah.." But once again there was no indication of a conversation forming.
"I'm sorry Bella, I know I can be intense, I hope I haven't upset you, I'd really like for us to be friends." There was no disobeying that pleading, puppy dog look.
"You're so beautiful.." Bella blurted out before she could stop the words from coming out of her mouth.
Shit, fuck, shit! What is wrong with you Isabella Swan? She looked amazed at herself for even letting herself say that.
"You're sweet." How could two words effect Bella so much? Was it the way Alice said them? She didn't know, she couldn't put her finger on it. She only knew that this girl made her feel alive and like a complete fool at the same time.
"You're quite beautiful yourself, Bella. Such a fitting name." If you could combine every time Bella had blushed in her life and put it into one moment it was right after Alice had said that.
The shorter girl moved towards the bright red one, this time in a non predatory way.
"Modest too." She said, now cupping Bella's face in her tiny, soft, cold hand.
The cool sensation against Bella's burning face was a satisfying relief. Instictively Bella placed her own hand over the vampires.
"You're freezing." Bella said, removing her own jacket to place over the pale feature infront of her.
"No, no Bella, I'm fine, that's just how I am, promise!"
But Bella refused to listen, wrapping Alice in the garment.
"Nooooo!" Alice cried in the cutest, whiney tone ever to grace Bella's ears.
Alice soflty shoved a reluctant Bella back playfully, both now beggning to laugh like children. It was a nice moment, their first laugh shared together as friends.
"Ohhh so that's how it's going to be!" Bella exclaimed. "I do love a challenge."
She playfully charged at the smaller girl, careful not to put too much force into it as she was a lot bigger than her. As they collided Bella yelled out in pain.
"Fuck! You're a rock!" She said in amazement, now rubbing her arm.
It was rare Bella would curse, but it really hurt.
"God, do you work out or something?" Alice was in fits of giggles now, she knew Bella wasn't injured badly from her melodramatic tone of voice and accusations.
"Stop laughing! It's not funny!" Bella complained, though not actually angry at the joyful ball of enthusiasm laughing melodically next to her. To be honest, she could have listened to that laugh for a long, long time.
"Sorry-" She took a breath in, resisting more laughter. "Are you okay?" She took a step closer towards her.
"No, I'm dying, thanks a lot." Bella's tone was still joking.
"Aww, poor Bella, let me see." She lifted her sleeve up and surveyed a non existent bruise.
Alice rolled her eyes.
"You're fine!" She said.
"Pff! Looks can be deciving!" You got that right. Alice thought.
"Does baby Bella want me to kiss it better?" She said in a mock concerned voice.
Bella could have been sure that she was only kidding, but suddenly the air turned thick and the joking tone faded as Alice leaned down to place a mind numbingly slow, tender kiss upon Bella's upper right arm.
She could hear Bella's heart thumping like a drum and her blood flowing like a raging river and before losing control, removed herself from the possiblity of hurting the terrified or excited girl in front of her.
"I have to go, I'm sorry, I'll talk to you tomorrow."
And before Bella could object, like a flash of lightning she was gone.
Well that was by far the weirdest day I've ever experienced.
She thought, eyeing the now burning sensation on her arm caused by a clear liquid.