Chapter Two:

A WEEK EARLIER. Alice's point of view:

I stared absentmindedly at the orange I had just bought, only to throw away once the lunch bell rings. I can feel Jasper staring at me, knowing he can feel my restlessness and irritation. I listen, my boredom evident in my expression, to Emmet talk to Jasper and Edward about wrestling after school or something and to Rosalie who is complaining about something unimportant, I'm sure, to…oh wait-Is she talking to me? I should nod or something. "Mmmmm" I interject into "our" conversation. Edward shoots me a confused look. Apparently Jasper isn't the only one wondering what's wrong with me. Oh, I'm fine, I tell him. I just…I haven't had a vision in days.

I was actually surprised he hadn't noticed but with him spending all his time with Bella he hasn't really been around much. Suddenly, as if the vision fairy heard me complaining, my focus turns away form the table and to somewhere far away and I recognize the familiar sensation as I sink to my vision.

A young girl, probably thirteen or fourteen, walks along a frozen path with her friends. The girl, who the other girls have started calling Ricky, is obviously the focus of my vision. The shimmering ripples that pulse through my vision are practically radiating from her; she positively glows. She's very pale, not vampire pale, but unusually pale for a human. Actually, something about her just screams unusual. She has soft, straw colored, waves of hair framing her face, with highlights the same color as a brand new penny. She laughs with her friends, making it evident that she's the only one out of the little group that doesn't have brightly colored braces, and that she doesn't need them. Suddenly she stops and stares straight forward, as if she's looking right at me. Her grey eyes blaze, as if there's a fire lite behind them, and bore into me. They're not alight with anger, but with confusion, suspicion and understanding.

Suddenly I'm not being stared down by the strange girl, but instead by Jasper, and behind him the rest of my family. Jasper looks concerned, I don't know why he still worries about me when I have my visions but I have a feeling that he's looking at me with worried eyes this time because he felt the almost uncomfortable wave of emotions that washed over me when the girl with the gray eyes stared at me. Emmett looks curious, I'm sure he's hoping I see him winning their wrestling match after school, and Rose has barely looked up from her untouched salad; she's used to me having visions she doesn't care about. But Edward, sitting farthest from me, but almost directly across from me, gives me a look of understanding and the same confusion apparent on my face. He had felt it too, when the girl with the gray eyes stared at him, he had felt it too! Not now, I tell him. Later.

Ricky's POV:

School has just let out and as I walk home with Diana and Mikale the snow that fell last night crunches beneath my feet. I laugh along with them and my breath curls into ribbons of steam in the air. Diana is telling us about David Landrey's new haircut. I haven't seen it yet, although after this I'm very excited to, but that doesn't matter because Diana is the best story teller I know; I can just imagine David attempting to hide whatever state of havoc his mother left his hair in this time under his dirty red baseball cap as the kids he usually gives swirlys to laugh at him behind his back. Mikale is coming up with a list of suitable nicknames for him when suddenly a strange feeling washes over me and I stop abruptly. I can feel someone watching me, their stare boring into me. I am aware of Mikale and Diana watching me now, but it's not their gaze I feel on me. I stare straight ahead where I sense the spying eyes. I'm not frightened, just alarmed, and oddly enough comforted. Rather than being stalked, it feels like I'm being watched over. Gaurdian angel eyes. How ever heavenly this person may be, they're still watching me and shivers run up and down my spine. And then, suddenly, it's gone, just as fast as it came. I realize that it's started to snow and that Mikale and Diana have gone back to talking; I hadn't even heard them. I start walking again, this time not nearly as interested in David's hair as I had been before.

General POV:

"Alice, what does it mean?" Edward inquired on their way to their next class.

"I have no idea" She answers, almost grimly. Alice does not like being confused. "I don't even know that girl, she certainty doesn't live in Forks. It didn't even look like Washington. And…she…stared…at me"

"Impossible" Edward answers at once "You aren't there, she can't see you. Maybe someone else was walking towards her." he suggests.

"Maybe." She answers doubtfully.

"We'll ask Carlisle when we get home," says Edward. "He'll know."

But would Carlisle know? Thought Alice. Would Carlisle be able to tell them anything about the girl with the grey eyes?