"Alice... Alice... Are you okay?" I heard Esme whisper, she shook me gently. "Alice? Answer me.. Please!" Esme's voice saddened as if something had been terribly wrong. Which most likely was true and it was coming soon very soon.
I wanted to tell her it was okay, don't worry. But it wasn't. It was hard for me to lie to her. For one thing it wouldn't be right. Secondly, it would be held over me for the rest of life with a sickening feeling of shame inside of me. My head was completely froze, I couldn't think straight.. Nothing like this had happen before, I guess you could say it sent 'chills' down my spine. My eyes blinked in confusion..
This couldn't be right at all, I hope this vision wasn't real. I thought we were safe? How could this happen? My emotions were probably going to bother Jasper. I didn't like that, but they couldn't be hidden.
"Alice?" Carlisle questioned as he walked into the room. He's eyes went from my face to Esme's, and hers was in shock. Like someone committed a terrible crime. This all happened because my head froze and I was unable to think, better yet, I was unable to respond to my environment.
Speechless. Useless. Frozen.
Finally it snapped out of me.
"It's...It's.. okay, I just had a slight vision problem, I think." I said reassuringly. "I'm sure it's nothing important." I lied. I'm sure it was difficult for any of them to believe me. I mean... A SLIGHT vision problem? Actually it was a Major vision problem.
"Alice, are you sure.. What happened? I'm getting extremely worried, you've been acting like this for a while now.." Esme asked eagerly with the same saddened tone in her voice. Her and Carlisle exchanged looks.
"Im sure it's nothing at all... Besides it's hard to explain, and it doesn't seem very important." I lied again. I felt like I was burning up, I hated doing this to them. Because I knew it wasn't nothing. It was very Important.
"Carlisle?" Esme questioned him eagerly."I'm really worried about Alice...We have to do something..." She trailed off.
"Well...." He seemed unsure of himself.. "I'm sure its nothing that bad...But we should still be aware in case." he stated. "Alice, do you think you can hold on like this for a few more days?" He waited for me to answer.
"I guess so.. I mean it's not that bad." I lied. "It'll be fine.." I continued. "Really I promise, don't worry."
"Ok, but if anythings wrong..Please Tell us." They said together their voices were in harmony.
lie lie lie. My head kept reminding me. I had to change the subject.
"Oh and me and Jasper are leaving for vacation to the Amazon next week, don't forget it!" I said trying to sound excited. Jasper already knew about my visions, he promised not to say anything, We didn't want to put the anyone on alert. But now that they got a little worse I'd be un eased, and Jasper would feel uncomfortable. He'd rather have people at ease.
I left the room without waiting for a response.
It started to get dark outside now, I was laying with Jasper on the couch, his arms around me with his expression serious. He flinched at the fact I was uneased, It didn't make me happy to see him like this. I tried to cover my mood, but it wasn't working that well.
Ever since the visions occurred I haven't been in my normal happy joyful mood. I was actually sort of worried about them, it set me off track to even think about them, But for now I was going to forget. I'd have fun on my vacation in a week, meeting up with the Amazons again to see how they are doing. It would be like when they visited last year to help against the Volturi, but it would be more welcoming. And there wouldn't be any 'almost wars' interrupting our visit.
I kissed Jasper lightly on the lips and snuggled against him. I loved him and I always would. There was something about him, it felt like I was dreaming when I was around him. I never wanted to lose Jasper.
Soothing. Warm. Welcoming.
Jasper kissed me back. I smiled excitedly my normal mood slowly came back.
"Where are we going to stay when we get to the Amazon?" I asked.
"Well, Zafrina had told me they had an empty hut right next door to theirs." Jasper stated as he hugged me tighter.
"Okay." I grinned. "I wonder if there's any additions to their family" I said to myself out-loud."I mean, if their is I can be great friends with them too." I said.
Jasper chuckled quietly at me, I always wanted to new friends. It was just the type of person I was, willing to accept almost anyone that gave me a chance. Just like Jasper had when we first met. I can remember it still, it made me happy to think about it. It's basically what I thought about when ever I'm in a bad mood and I need to feel better. Or just seeing his face was good enough. I was so glad I had accepted him. I don't know what I'd do forever if I didn't have him.
I put my head on his chest, I was fairly comfortable. He was mine. Jasper Hale.
The next morning I ran into the woods to go hunt, today I was hunting for something on the lines of elk. It didn't really matter, all I knew was I was thirsty.
It almost saddened me to think about even having to hunt humans, Jasper explained to me their moods when they were dying.
Sad. Helpless. Fear.
He got disgusted at the thought of himself hunting humans. He's done it before, he can't control as well as the others.
I trilled through the forest, today I was in my normal over-joyed-happy mood.
Suddenly, I stopped dead in my tracks before I even got the chance to find any sort of animal, my head was frozen again, what I had just saw really didn't have an explanation to it yet. I'd thought I'd better warn Jasper right after hunting before I forget it. Maybe I'd tell Edward too. Thought I'm pretty sure he's searching through my head right now like it's a file cabinet.
Oh look he's already here. Great. I thought sarcastically, and sighed out-loud.
"Alice!" Edward called. "Are you okay?" he questioned. "Somethings been wrong with your visions? Bella Love, explained that you had been acting weird so she wanted me to come check up on you. She insisted."
"Yeah. I'm fine." I said. "Esme and Carlisle told you?" I said in a high voice.
"Yes. And I sort of knew before them.. I read your thoughts, you know. A few days ago, when it wasn't that bad." He stated.
"So then you know what I had seen-- Wait, what do you mean when it wasn't that bad?" I asked with a lost expression on my face.
"Well, I sort of know what you seen. I meant not that bad because now I can't even read your visions." He told me worried.
"That's....Strange.. I'm getting more and more visions like this everyday, but don't say anything to anyone else. I don't want anymore people to be worried." I exclaimed.
"I won't.. But if it sounds serious we're going to have to be aware." Edward warned me.
"I'm ahead of you, I'm already aware." I said grimacing.
So after a few minutes I had explained everything to him.. About my visions:
Strange black figures running around at night running around the forests of the Amazon. The Volturi were scattered dead? This didn't make any sense to me. What did they have to do with anything? A strange dark cavern.. That seemed very mysterious like nothing in my life I'd seen before.
This all took place in the Amazon, where we were going for Vacation.
When the key part of the vision tried to come in everything went black. As if someone was controlling my visions and trying to block me from seeing what's really going on.
(I hadn't told him about the Amazon part, because I didn't want him worried too. And I don't want everyone on alert yet)
"Alice! You're not telling me everything! I can tell from your tone of voice. Your trying to hide something." Edward groaned disappointed.
"I don't need everyone worried yet.. Okay, maybe later. But Definitely not now, I'll only tell you if it gets a lot worse" I said in a lower voice. "I need to get to hunting now, so talk to me later about this?" I questioned, but I left without an answer.
I was now on my own in the forest, worried about my visions, but I tried to continue on my hunt. It didn't do much good to try not to worry, because it didn't even help that much. Either way I was still panicked. Finally, I was close to where the elk were. I could smell the blood, by now I was pretty much dying of thirst because Edward had to stop me in my path to hunt and make me explain. My blood was rushing like I was in an Adrenaline.
I spotted the elk in my path. I took no attempt to slow down, Instead I just went with full force. My train of thought was lost, but I continued going. I got the elk directly in the neck. I heard a crack. Like as if I attacked a human. I winced. It was the elk, I was just worried.
I ran back home.
I should find Jasper now, I need to apologize for just running off like that. I was dying of thirst. I hope he understands. I really have to explain the vision I just had to him too.
I walked in the door to find Edward and Bella sitting on the couch, being their normal selves. Emmet was outside and up to no good- I didn't know what though. Esme was in her room looking at papers with Carlisle.
Oh wait.
There's Jasper, I should go tell him now..
"Jasper!" I called.
He turned around. He had been outside with Emmet and Rosalie just a few minutes ago. I had a vision of where he would be. Normal for once.
"Hey Alice" he said warmly and welcoming.
"I missed you. I'm so sorry, I was dying of thirst and I left you without explaining to you anything. I felt bad--" I had a whining tone to my voice. "I love you." I said and jumped into his arms, he held them out for me.
"It's fine after all I kind of did go earlier without you, so were even now." he said "I love you too" he grimaced. And kissed my forehead and held me closer.
I had to tell him about the Vision I'd had when I went out hunting. I remembered.
He look curiously at me.
"Oh.. I had another Vision, This time the Volturi guard were dead.." I said confused. "So there's a chance it could be even more powerful then us, but I don't know why they are involved."
He was being Protective now. Expressionless. Just as he was when I talked to Bella when she was a Vampire for the first time. I could tell he wanted to stay with me in case anything bad Happened. He never wanted anything bad to happen to me.
I knew he would try anything he could, he already had scars from the newborn vampires that he use to train, and from being in the military and all. But, I'd try anything I could too. I loved him.
"I think we're going to leave to the Amazon earlier then we thought." I stated.
He agreed silently.
It was a few hours later, we we're ready and packed for everything, ready for any encounters we would have with what was in my visions. I brought everything. Since I wasn't sure who or what it was in the first place. We didn't exactly tell anyone that we were leaving on short notice. Instead we had left them a note like last time we left for the Amazon. When no one was looking we took the car, and left.
