I am sooooooo sorry for taking so long in getting this out. My teachers all suddenly decided that the last two months of school were the best time to teach us the whole curriculum. I'll probably only get the first chapter out today as I have a social exam in the afternoon. I would just like to warn you that this story isn't all that great, I'll try and fix it later but so far, I'm not liking it too much, unfortunately.
You'd think that, being one hundred and seven years old, I'd be able to find something to occupy myself. Alas, that was not the case. I stood downstairs in the middle of the living room, bored out of my mind.
"EDWARD!!" It was Alice.
"I don't want to go shopping Alice." I didn't even turn around, "I suffered several hours of that yesterday, I would rather be bored than tortured."
"Oh but pleeeeeeese?" She was jumping up and down now.
"Edward, please go do something." Esme had walked in now, and I turned around to face her. "You can't just keep brooding around like this. You should find something to do."
"I'm not brooding."
"You're brooding. Go."
"Carlisle, come help me! I don't want to go shopping again."
I heard Carlisle speaking from his office, "Well then find something to do Edward. You're bored, I know it."
I sighed. "Alice, why don't you go with Jasper, or Rosalie?"
"Rose is with her car and Jasper doesn't really want to go to a crowded mall."
"Well neither do I."
"A crowded mall full of people. He's not that great in public, you know that."
"I know. I can read thoughts you know."
"Please, please, please, please!!"
I sighed and looked at Esme, who just looked right back at me. I heard Carlisle think from his office, "Go Edward. Just get CDs or something."
"Ugh. Fine Alice, fine. I will go to the God damned mall with you and carry your bags, because clearly, I have nothing better to do."
"YAY!! Oh thank you Edward. I'll buy you something pretty, I promise! Eeeeee!! Now I I don't have to go shopping by myself like some loser. Alright, in the car."
"We're taking my car, I'm driving." I said, walking towards the garage.
"Fine with me." Alice smiled sweetly, it's got a bigger trunk, I heard her think.
I sighed again and walked into the garage.
"Hey Rose." I said, seeing her legs stick out from under her BMW.
"Going shopping Edward?"
"Yes." I said, strained.
She rolled out from under the car and looked straight at me.
"You've got to do something Edward. You can't just keep going on this way."
"And the solution to that would be shopping, would it?"
"No." She looked at me pointedly and rolled back under her car.
I rolled my eyes and got into the car.
"Come on Alice, lets get this over with please." I said, no louder than I would have had she been right beside me. And then all of a sudden, she was.
"Ok, I'm ready, lets roll!!"
"Yeah..."
I started up the car and drove out of the garage, cringing.
We drove along at impossible speeds, Alice having requested the mall that was bigger, and therefore farther away.
"Listen Edward, I've been thinking." Alice said, as soon as we about 100 miles away
I laughed, "I know."
She smiled. "Edward, I know that you've always been the...independent one, but, I don't know. Lately, and by that I mean at least the last 20 years, you've gotten become rather more, removed."
I tensed. Why were people always going after me about this stuff? I was perfectly fine doing things on my own, that way it was harder for other people to mess them up, was it a crime that I liked things done my way. God...
"Alice." I turned to her, taking my hands off the wheel. "Look, I appreciate your attempts at...making me do things. Really. But you've got to understand, I'm fine. I am several hundred years old, and perfectly capable of occupying myself." I was glad that she couldn't read my thoughts.
"Oh Edward, who are you kidding? You are sooo bored. You pick fights with Jasper and Emmett just so you don't have to sit around staring at the ceiling for forever."
We pulled into the parking lot of the mall, and I got out, trying desperately to ignore the truth in her words. Alice walked over to me and put her hand on my arm.
"Edward. Please, you know I'm right. There's something I have to tell you."
"Ah?" I went to get a cart, but Alice held fast to my arm. Well, maybe this was serious, or she now thought carts were pedestrian and I was going to carry all her bags like some sort of valet.
"The other day, I saw something. I saw... Well, here." She closed her eyes and brought the vision back.
"Wha..." And then I saw it. In Alice's mind I saw the most beautiful face I had ever seen. The girl in Alice's head had the most amazing brown eyes. They had un-natural depth for brown eyes, considering how brown eyes usually looked flat. Her wavy brown hair contoured her heart shaped face wonderful. She was literally, the image of perfection.