[AN:] This is my first story. Please be nice =]

If there are any mistakes I'm sorry.

The story is told from Bella's POV. It's basically Alice taking all of Edward's places. I obviously don't own Twilight, Mitch is my own charater.

Hope you enjoy. Please review!


I sat on my bed in a dark tank top. I hadn't told anyone that Alice almost crushed the bones in my arm. Somehow.

I stared at the deep purplish/blue mark ringed around my left bicep and…wait aren't there two different names for the muscle on top of your arm and the one under it? Whatever never mind.

Point is, I hadn't told anyone. It hurt like crazy to move my arm. Mitch was starting to wonder if something was up. I kept telling him I was fine, but I could help flinching every time I stretched or reached for something with my left arm.

I especially hadn't told Alice.


I hadn't been able to wear a short sleeved shirt since the major show of strength from Pixie girl.

I glanced over at their table at lunch. Alice was looking at me. She looked really sad. I made a disgusted face to her and turned my back.

"Hey Bella, La Push?" Erik asked, cheerful as ever.

"Should I know what that means?" I smiled. Mitch showed up and dropped down next to me.

"La Push beach. It's down at the Res." Mike chomped down on some of his food. "There's a big swell coming in." Jessica nodded.

Erik jumped up. "And I don't just surf the internet." I laughed at that one.

Jessica rolled her eyes. "Okay you stood up on the board one time Erik, and it was a foam board."

Angela smiled. "But there's wale watching too. Come with us." She smiled sweetly. Like Alice.

"It's La Push baby." Erik repeated. I guess he was trying to be sexy, but was failing miserably. "La Push."

I took a bite of something Mitch handed me. "Okay I'll go if you stop saying that." The others laughed. "It is kinda weird." Mitch took out his cell.

I didn't like the cookie Mitch gave me. So I decided on a salad.

"Edible art?" I jerked in surprise. My apple fell. A small foot stopped it before it could hit the ground and tapped it up into a pair of pale hands.

"Alice." My voice was bitter, and I wanted it to be. Because I felt bitter. And was angry because I was bitter and I was confused because I was angry because I was bitter. I was just a huge mess. "What do you want?"

She stared at me for a moment. "Bella…" I rolled my eyes and took my apple back from her open hand. "Thanks."

I decided I should tell her how annoyed I was.

"What's wrong with you?" Alice asked curiously. I scoffed.

"Okay seriously, your mood swings are getting annoying and old. Are you happy or angry? Pick one and stick with it." I snarled.

"Look I'm sorry about the whole field trip thing. I didn't mean to hurt you. Are you okay?" She seemed to be generally concerned. So I told her the truth.

"You really hurt my arm."

"I'm sorry."

"You left a huge bruise you know." I mumbled. She looked scared now, grabbing my hand and almost dragging me out of the lunchroom.


Alice dragged me into an empty bathroom. "Let me see it." She demanded.

The only way I could was to take my shirt off. The sleeves were to tight to pull up. I sighed. "Fine."

I felt Alice watching intently as I pulled the shirt over my head and off. She gasped in surprise when she saw the mark she made.

"Bella, I'm so so sorry." She whispered.

I felt bad. "It's not that bad. It'll go away in a week or so." I tried to calm her down, she looked like she was going to cry.

I jumped when Alice took my arm in her hands. "Your hands are like ice."

"I'm sorry." She mumbled over and over. I shivered when she pressed her lips gently onto the bruise she'd made. She was so cold.

To cold.

We walked back into the lunchroom about five minutes later. No one the wiser to what had happened. Or so I thought.

Edward met us half way back into the room. "Are you okay?" The question was directed at me but he was glaring at Alice. How…?

"Yeah I'm fine. Why?"

He continued to glare at Alice. "Nothing. Sorry." He went back to their table.

"That was…odd." I looked at Alice, she smiled. "That's just Edward."

I nodded. Edward did seem like an odd guy. But way to uptight. "Hey um…"

"Bella, if you were smart you'd stay away from me." Alice cut me off and I paused for a moment.

"What if I'm not smart?"

"I think we both know you are."

"Would you tell me the truth if I was?" I had to weasel it out somehow.

Alice shook her head. "No Bella. Besides…I'd rather hear what you think." We made our way back to the salad bar. The one I'd made earlier was gone. So I started a new one.

"I have considered everything Alice. Even kryptonite." I thought that sounded kinda sad. Seeing as it was obviously not real. Or well hidden from the people by the government.

"So you think it's all about the hero? Bad guys can do some amazing things too." Smart fact, one I couldn't deny or ignore.

"So what you're the bad guy?"

"Yes."

"No…you're not. I can see what you're trying to do. Just to keep me away from you."

Alice's brow furrowed. She was obviously thinking quite hard about something. And I wanted her to tell me. But I knew she never would.

"Why don't we…I dunno hang out or something." This place was getting to me. I had never had an edge, but this place was smoothing me out like a stone. Making me just as plain as everyone else, with no face or different personality from the others. I didn't like that.

Alice's face lifted into a light smile and a small laugh. I smiled at her tugged at her sleeve, I suddenly felt like Mitch. "Everybody's going to the beach. Come with us."

She smiled. "What beach?"

"La Push."

"Mm…sorry. No can do Izzy." She smiled apologetically. I had been so caught up in her I almost missed Mitch's childhood nickname for me. I tugged her sleeve sharply. "Don't call me that."

"So only Mitch can call you that?" She smiled sweetly. I nodded, somehow feeling childish.

"Aw come on. Please?" She took my hand, I shivered. I felt like I couldn't say no.

"Fine. But only you."

"So Mitch can't use it anymore." Damn she was twisting me around. But I went with it.

"That's right."

She hummed.

"So…you can't go…or you won't go?"

"Can't."

"Why? Is something wrong with that beach?"

She glanced over her shoulder. Erik and Mike looked back down at their food. I smiled. She squeezed my hand gently. "It's just a little crowded. Sorry."


To say I was let down by Alice's rejection was an understatement. Though I hadn't really been rejected. I had really wanted her to come though.

Mitch was a cool about him not being able to call me Izzy anymore. He said because it was a habit it'd be hard to stop calling me that, which I could respect, he said he'd come up with a better nick name.

The beach…well I guess it was a beach. But it was still freezing cold. Not for Mitch of course. He shot down to the water in nothing more than swimming trunks.

"Bella, you're brother is like…a major one in a million." Jessica smiled at me and looked down at the beach to see Mitch hop into the water.

"That he is." I smiled to myself. I was proud to have someone like Mitch in my life. Especially as a brother, I really couldn't have got a better one.

Jessica, Erik, and Mike turned their full attention into getting their wetsuits on.

Angela sat in the van with me. "So I keep thinking Erik is gunna ask me to the dance, but he doesn't."

"You should ask him." Why do girls never ask boys to a dance? Cause the guy will feel like a bitch or something? God history is so sexist. Tradition really needs to start changing.

"Really?"

I nodded and looked up at her. "Take control. You're a strong, independent woman." It was true. Angela was the best.

"I am?"

"Yes."

She smiled like she was about to melt. I guess no one ever told her. They really should.

Jessica came over and ruined the moment for Angela, or I figured she had. "Can you zip me up?" Like the suits didn't have huge zippers so you could zip them up yourself? She just wants attention, anyway she can get it.

Jake and some of his friends showed up. They could have been family of course.

"Hey, Bella." He smiled, he was surprised to see me around.

"Hey Jake. Guys this is Jacob." I made the small introduction. Jake said hello and sat beside me. "What are you like stalking me?" I offered him a sweet.

"You're on my Res, remember?" He smiled and took the offering. " Thanks. Hey are you surfing?"

"Definitely not." I scoffed at the idea. I'd probably fall off the board and drown.

"You guys should keep Bella company." Jessica smiled. I always thought her smiles looked a little off, like they never quite reached her eyes. "Her date kinda bailed." I'd never wanted to hit someone in the face more than right now.

"What date?" Erik asked quickly.

"She invited Alice, or so it looked like that's what she was doing." Angela smiled down at me knowingly.

I frowned. "I just thought it'd be nice."

"It was. Nobody ever does invite them to anything." Angela went on. Wow…never? That seemed kinda harsh.

"Yeah that's cause the Cullen's are freaks." Mike smirked. I decided I didn't really like him at all at that point.

"Yeah you got that right." One of Jake's friends smiled oddly.

"You guys know them?" Wow! What kind of dark stuff was hidden in this town. People pretending to be nice, with a shallow end less than a foot away.

"The Cullen's don't come down here."

I had wanted to ask why. But I thought better of it. I turned to Jake. "Wanna go for a walk?"

"Sure."

I ignored Mike and Erik glaring at Jake as we went down to the beach.


Mitch waved to Jake and I as we walked by him. "Yo Jake!" Jacob waved back. Mitch told me they'd kept in contact. I kinda wish I had, Jake had been a great friend from what I remember.

"So what did your friends mean?"

"Hmm?"

"You know, when he said the Cullen's don't come down here."

"Ah, to be honest I'm not really supposed to say anything about it?"

"About what?" He knew something about them. I wanted to know. Anything to help to constantly growing curiosity and wonder.

"It's basically just an old scary story that isn't so scary." He gave an odd laugh to show me he was uncomfortable. But I wanted answers. Even if they were from old stories.

"Okay well…did you know we're the descendants of wolves?"

"Like real wolves?" That was cool.

"Yeah." He seemed happy about it as well. "It's our tribe legend."

"Okay. So where do the Cullen's come in?" I was confused. It seemed to happen way to much lately.

He seemed hesitant. "Well they're supposedly descendants of this…enemy clan."

"My great grandfather found them hunting on our land. They seemed to be something else wo we made a treaty with them."

"If they stay off our land, we wouldn't expose what they really were." Really were? This was getting interesting.

"I thought they just moved here."

Jake seemed to toss ideas around his head. "Or they could have just moved back."

I laughed. This was way to off. Maybe I was in over my head. But I'd get to the bottom of the mystery that was the Cullen's.

"It's just a story Bells. Come on."

He was right I guess. Maybe it was just a story. Then again…maybe not.


I did a full internet search when I got home. I checked almost every possible link. Found a lot of odd things.

I studied 'the cold ones' for hours. Jake's tribe history. I searched it all.

The root answer was always the same.

I ignored the feeling in my stomach and looked for directions.


The sun was bright and it was finally warm in Forks. Mitch was sulking in the shadows somewhere actually wearing a jacket. He claimed it cooled him down.

I really didn't get him sometimes. I had been looking around for Alice.

"She's not here." Jessica mumbled. She glanced down at me from her table perch. "Whenever the weather's nice the Cullen's disappear."

Odd. "They just ditch?"

"No, Dr. and Mrs. Cullen take them hiking and stuff. I tried that on my parents. Not even close." She went back to sun bathing.

I felt kinda sad. I hadn't seen Alice since the lunchroom meeting.

Angela walked up to us, she was really giddy. "Guys…I'm going to the dance with Erik. I took control." I smiled. A real one. "I told you that would happen." I gave her a small hug.

"Are you sure you have to go out of town?" Angela was the only one who seemed down about it. I guess she was my only real friend out of the bunch.

"Oh yeah it's a family thing." Lie! I just hated dances.

"We should go shopping before all the good dresses get snagged." I looked around for Mitch. Where was he?

"At Port Angeles?" Jessica nodded. "Mind if I come?" She smiled another fake smile.

"You have to come! You have to help me pick out my dress." She was a bad actress. Course she could have been so good I thought she was bad. Either way I didn't like her.

"And mine!" Angela squeezed my shoulder. I laughed.

"Alright alright. I'm welcome." I pretended to be happy. Maybe I was happy. Since I met Alice…I was never really sure of anything, and it scared me.

I tuned out the mindless droning of them going on and on about dresses. Why couldn't they just pick the one they liked the most and keep it? They do have changing rooms after all.

When they ask about it. I just say it looks nice. And they do. I'm not really a picky person. Neither is Mitch, who is still missing.

"I kinda just want to go to this book store. I'll meet you at the restaurant?" They nodded and went back to their shopping.


I got the book. But…walking took longer than I thought. It was getting seriously dark.

I was walking down a small alley when I saw two guys passing. I took a step back, turned, and walked back the way I came. I could hear them calling after me.

Disgusting.

If I said I was afraid, I'd have lied. I was actually more annoyed than anything.

They ganged around me. Trying to be big men but failing horribly. One grabbed at me, he regretted that action, his legs buckled and he fell to the ground.

I broke out of the small group as a car screeched around the corner and stopped just inches away from 'gang'.

Mitch and Alice jumped out of the car. "Bella, get in the car." Mitch ordered. He seemed scary, so I just did what he said and climbed into the passenger seat and closed the door.

They were saying something to Alice and Mitch. Alice stepped forward and Mitch looked like he was cracking his knuckles.

The guys backed off.

Alice and Mitch climbed back in the car. We drove past them.

Mitch was staring out the back window. Alice was glaring at the road.

"Alice?" I spoke timidly.

"What?"

"Are you okay?"

She laughed. She was shaking. "I should be asking you that."

"Then ask me." I looked to Mitch, he was facing forward now, he nodded.

She was gasping for breath, she still looked worried. "I…are you okay?"

"Are you?"

"I don't know."

When she said that…I was even more confused.


We stopped outside the restaurant. I got out along with Mitch.

Angela and Jessica walked up to us. "Where were you? We left you messages." She seemed genuinely worried.

"Yeah but we were like starving so…" Gee…Jessica was so nice wasn't she?

Alice stepped up beside me. "I'm sorry about making Bella miss dinner. We just ran into each other and got to talking. Really sorry." She sounded bright and cheery now. A far cry from how she'd been a few minutes ago.

Angela and Jessica brightened. "Oh…not it's okay. We um…we were just leaving so…" They were so awkward. "Bella, do you…?" Alice stepped forward and turned back to us, interrupting Jessica.

"Ladies…man…I think I should make sure Bella gets something to eat." Alice smiled sweetly. "Only if that's what you'd want though. I can drive you home after." I nodded dumbly.

"Yeah we'll see you tomorrow." Angela grabbed Jessica's arm.

I turned to look at my brother. "Hey would you guys mind dropping him off?"

Angela shook her head. "Come on Mitch." He waved goodbye to me and climbed into the car with Jessica and Angela.

Odd how I was kinda the older sibling sometimes.

They drove off and it was just me and Alice, who was looking at me in a really funny way.

I turned and she followed me into the restaurant. "Um are you sure you're okay?" She touched my arm. I nodded. "Yeah I'm fine. Really."

Was I? Now I wasn't really sure.


Alice stared intently at me as I got my food.

"You're not getting anything?" I asked curiously. She shook her head.

"I'm not hungry Izzy, but thanks for asking." I liked it when she called me Izzy.

"Okay…you've seriously gotta give me some answers."

She looked thoughtful. "Umm…5678309?"

"What?" I laughed. She shrugged. "Yes. No."

"I don't mean random answers to anything Alice." She giggled.

"What do you want to know then?"

"How did you know where I was?" I wanted answers. So many answers to so many questions.

"I didn't."

"Fine." I stood up. She grabbed my sleeve.

"Don't go. I'm sorry."

I sat back down. "Are you like…stalking me?"

"No…it was just a feeling. I'm sorry if I freaked you out. It's just…"

She could go from composed to this in minutes. I wondered if it was me. "It's just?"

"I feel really possessive I guess."

"Possessive?" What the hell did that mean?

"I was just gunna stay away, unless you needed me." She explained slowly.

"So you were stalking me."

She looked guilty now. "I'm sorry Izzy. I'd only done it tonight."

"Why?"

"I'd seen it. So I wanted to stop it."

Oh…wait…she'd seen it? Like… "Seen it like how?"

"Um…I can uh…kinda see the future." She could? Wow.

"That's cool." She laughed. "What?" Had I said something stupid?

"I tell you I can see the future…and you think it's cool."

I laughed with her on that. Wouldn't most people run away by now? I guess I wasn't most people.


The ride home was mostly quiet. Alice had turned on the heater to warm me up.

"I think I'm warm now." My hand brushed Alice's as we both went to turn it off. Her hands were still so cold.

"Your hands…" Alice curled her fingers tightly over the steering wheel. "They're so cold." Before I had thought it was because it was cold outside. Now…I wasn't so sure.

"Sorry." She mumbled. I nodded. I remembered the information I'd found on the computer.

I saw the flashing lights. I had Alice drop me off.

I found out someone else had been killed. Charlie was really upset about it. He gave me some mace and we headed home.

Before I went to bed, Mitch on the computer looking for a school assignment, I read the book I'd gotten at the bookstore. 'Cold one' came up many times.

I remembered that Alice's eyes changed color from black to soft gold all the time. The book said their eyes often changed colors.

"La-la?" I looked up at Mitch.

"What?"

He smirked. "La-la."

"What's that?"

"Your new nickname. Anyways…I think you're reading to much into whatever you're researching." He stood up. "Maybe you should just talk to whoever you have the questions for." He walked out of my room.

I sat there thinking about what he'd said. Then I remembered the nickname. "La-la? God, what a kid." I closed my book and went to bed.


That morning I went back on the computer and started searching for the Cold Ones.

Every history of almost every country had stories.

Small simple words stuck to my mind.

Undead

Speed

Strength

Cold-skinned

Immortal

…Alice was fast. I know she was across the lot when I was almost crushed. She was strong, she'd made a huge dent when she stopped it. Her skin was freezing cold when she touched me.


I didn't sleep much through the night. When I did sleep, the pictures I'd seen played back through my mind.

At school I spotted Alice, watching me, again, from beside her car. Her brothers and sister were chatting, but she was just watching me.

I watched as she broke away from her family and leaned against the stairs that led into the side of the school. She looked like she was waiting for something.

Everything was moving so slowly it seemed like forever before I passed her, by the stairs, into the woods. I knew she would fallow me, but I'm not sure how I did.

I looked over my shoulder, Alice was turning to follow me. I saw Mitch watching. He gave that same goofy smile and offered me a peace sign with his hand, he walked off with some of his own new friends.

Into the woods…it seemed so cliché didn't it? I felt a twinge of fear pull at my stomach, but I pushed it down. I heard feet crunching the sticks and half frozen leaves as I stepped over large tree roots.

I stopped at a large tree and dropped my bag. The footsteps behind me stopped.

"…Are you going to tell me the truth?"

Alice just hummed behind me.

I huffed. "You're fast…way stronger than most people…your skin is freezing cold." I was kind of hoping I didn't sound dumb. "Your eyes change color. And you speak different than most kids."

"…So you're a kid?" She asked quietly. I could hear the laughter in her voice. She was enjoying this.

"Don't change the subject."

"Sorry."

"You never eat or drink anything."

"Who said I didn't drink?" True, if she was what I thought she was she had to drink.

"You never go out in the sunlight." I went on.

I heard her step closer. I felt her touch my arm. "How old are you?"

"Nineteen." She got closer. She didn't look it at all.

"For how long?"

She hesitated. "A bit longer than most."

I couldn't breath. I was right then. She was…

"Did you figure it out?" She whispered. I nodded.

"Tell me."

"…Vampire."

I wondered if she was smiling. It somehow felt like she was. "You're not scared are you?"

"No." It was the truth. I wasn't afraid, but I was a little nervous.

"Do you know what we eat?"

No.

"You're not going to hurt me." I turned to face her. "Are you?" Why was I so sure? She could rip my throat out of she wanted.

"No. I don't think I could."

"You don't eat people do you?"

She smiled. "Everyone always makes it seem like we eat people…like eat eat them." Thinking about it, she was right, Didn't they just drink blood?

"Sorry."

She tugged on my sleeve. "Not your fault. Old people…old rumors. But we don't drain people." She took my hand and led me further into the woods.

"Where are we going?"

"Up the mountain obviously."

"For what?"

"To get out of the clouds." I didn't want to ask anything else, if I kept asking why she may think I'm an idiot, I actually kinda felt like one right now.

We weren't going to walk all the way up were we?

I let out a small scream when Alice lifted me into her arms. "You're not walking, I'm running." She said carefully.

Next thing I knew, everything was a blur. Everything but Alice.


Alice set me down carefully when we apparently reached our destination, or rather, her destination.

She stepped away from me and walked over to a small spot were the sun broke through the trees.

I gasped. She stared at me with a small smile. "I figured you'd want to know why we aren't around on sunny days. This is why." She explained, she looked sad.

I stared…I didn't know what to say. It looks like crushed diamonds had been sprinkled over her skin.

I noticed she looked scared now, possibly afraid of what I may think. "Say something." She whispered.

"…Your beautiful."

She smiled but looked away. "No one's ever called it that before. When people sometimes find out…they run."

I walked closer to her. "Who's people?"

"Almost everyone who finds out."

I smiled kindly. "I'm not almost everyone." She looked at me, still smiling. I couldn't get over how beautiful she was. "No you're really not." She stepped out of the sun and jumped onto a large rock.

"We're killers Izzy. You should really stay away." She mumbled.

I sat on a tree root. "I couldn't if I wanted to."

"I know."

"I don't believe your killers."

"Every vampire kills someone, once a killer always a killer."

I sighed and shook my head. "I don't believe that."

"Do you believe anything?" She asked smartly.

"I believe you're a nice person, and you're a vampire, and you're beautiful." Way to state the obvious Bella.

She smiled again. "I wouldn't have hurt you if I was nice."

"It was an accident." Right?

"Is it still there?"

"It's getting lighter. At least it's not purple and blue anymore."

"I'm really sorry Izzy." I smiled, I loved that.

Alice sighed and stood up. "You know that vampires are designed to kill don't you?"

"I don't care. You won't hurt me. Will you?"

She stood in silence for a long time. "No…I won't."

Something still seemed wrong. "What is it?"

"I've killed people before Izzy. When we first met I wanted to kill you." That didn't surprise me as much as it should have. "At that time I don't think I'd wanted anything more."

"I trust you." But why did I?

"You really really shouldn't." She jumped down from the rock and climbed onto a branch in the tree I was under. "I don't care. How many times do I have to say it?" She was trying really hard to push me away. I wouldn't let her.

She sighed. "My family is different from others of our kind. We only hunt animals. It's really hard to control the want for human blood." I could only imagine.

I stood up and moved closer to her. She leaned down. "Why did you hate me so much when we met?"

"I didn't. I just wanted you so badly…I had to try and stay away. I couldn't…just like you can't. I'm still not sure I can control myself."

I climbed onto the branch she was perched on. "I know you can."

Now it looked like she was scared of me. She basically fell out of the tree, just barely landing on her feet. Her back was faced towards me.

I jumped down after her. I touched her arm. She pulled away, and before I knew it she had pushed me into another large rock. "What are you thinking about?" Her eyes were staring into mine.

"Now I'm a little scared. Or maybe nervous."

"Maybe that's a good thing." She stepped away from me. I didn't like that.

"It's not you I'm afraid of." I got into her personal space, she looked uncomfortable, I didn't care. "I don't want to loose you."

"I'm not going to vanish off the face of the Earth you know." She smiled and looked away.

"But you could vanish from my sight and leave me." And she could…but I didn't want her to go. Ever.

She was quiet. But only for a moment. "I think I was waiting for you."

It was my turn to smile. "Really?"

"Yes. Someone who won't run away. Someone new." She touched my throat. I shivered. "Someone alive."

There was no one more alive than me right now. My heart was pounding so fast.

I wondered if Alice could remember her heartbeat.


I skipped school. To sit on a mountain and talk to one of the most gorgeous creatures I'd ever seen.

We didn't talk about anything overly exciting. Just talked. About what she liked, what I liked, what we did on our free time. Nothing special. But I loved it.

I fell back onto the grass, Alice laying down next to me. I looked up at the treetops.

The sun broke through again. I looked back over at Alice.

A thousand tiny diamonds, I thought vaguely. I couldn't stop staring.

We didn't say anything else, we just stared at each other. Why did people need to talk anyway?


I lay on my bed, Mitch on the computer again, I was only really thinking about Alice. So him being here didn't bother me.

I wanted to tell Mitch, he was my most important person. Alice was the only one who'd ever mattered the same amount to me. I had to tell him, it wouldn't be right not to.

"Mitch?" I sat up and picked at my fingers.

"Hmm?" He turned to me. Another great thing about my brother, he'd drop anything if I needed to talk to him. He'd even ignore his current girlfriends if I needed to talk.

"Can I tell you something and you promise not to freak or tell anyone else?" Mitch always kept his promises. I could trust him more than anyone on this planet.

"Shoot."

"Promise never to tell anyone?"

"I promise." He smiled.

"Okay…what if I told you I know that vampires are real?"

He stared at me. "You're serious?"

"Yes."

"Who's the vampire?"

"The Cullen's."

"All of them?"

I nodded. What he did next I really wasn't suspecting.

He jumped up and pumped his fists into the air. "I knew it!" He shouted.

"You…you knew?" How did he figure it out?

"Well I checked out that book you got. The blue one. It was pretty interesting. So I looked up what had me interested. The Cullen's match everything I found."

I gaped at him. He was good, no could deny that. I laughed and shook my head, he gave me that goofy smiled and bolted out of my room.

Well…I was sure of three things.

1. Alice was a vampire.

2. There was another part of her I didn't fully see. And I didn't know how strong it was.

3. I was beyond and crazy in love with her.

I walked to the window down the hall. Alice was waiting for me.

I got ready for school. Mitch would take my truck, leaving Alice to drive me. In the back of my mind I had wondered what people would think, then I realized…I really couldn't care less.


Alice parked the car, Mitch parked a space away from us. He hopped out and his friends swarmed around him, like I said before, he was always a hit.

Alice opened the door on my side and helped me out. She took my hand, closed the door and walked with me to the school.

"Everyone is staring." I whispered to her. I'd never seen her so happy.

"Who cares what they think? It's just about you and me." She squeezed my hand gently. "We're breaking all the rules Izzy." I laughed to myself as we entered the school.

We missed the rest of the Cullen's watching us.


After school Alice took me to the lake. I still had more questions.

"So…does a person have to be dying…to become like you?" I wanted to be careful with how I asked.

Alice glanced at me and smiled. "No…that's just Carlisle. If someone had another choice he wouldn't. He really only turns people who are at Death's door."

"So how long have you been like this?"

"Since 1920."

"Who turned you?"

Alice's became serious, she was obviously thinking quite hard. "I…don't remember."

"So it wasn't Carlisle?"

"It might have been."

"Why were you turned?"

"Someone was after me. The only way I'd get through it was if I was a vampire. And…well here I am." She smiled at me. I had to smile back, as always.

"Did it hurt?"

"It was more painful than anything I'd ever felt before."

"What's it like?" I was curious…don't judge me. It's not a sin.

"…Kind of like…dying from the inside out. You can feel it. It's horrible."

"Do you miss being alive?"

"Sometimes. But I've already forgotten most of what it's like to be a human."

I nodded. I couldn't even being to imagine what that must be like. To forget yourself, you past. Mitch was my past, I'd feel unbelievably guilty if I ever forgot him.

It started raining. Alice took us to a small cliff. We sat, but we still got soaked. "Carlisle, is really strong. He can fight off his thirst better than others."

"Wow." I played with my sleeves. "Is he the only reason you don't feed of humans?"

"No. I don't want to be this way. But I am…so it's kinda of 'oh well.' My family…we consider ourselves vegetarian because we only feed of animals. But it's still hard."

This was so much to take in. Once again I wondered if I was in over my head.

The mystery that was Alice Cullen and the Cullen family always seemed to get deeper.


[AN: I checked...Alice is nineteen. 1901 to 1920 =p Just thought I'd say that if anyone new to the series said she was seventeen.]