"Mine's bigger than yours!" I sang to Edward as I sank my teeth into the neck of my prey and began draining it dry.

"I let you win this time Alice, I always win." Edward assured me.

"Sure you do, just you watch, I'll make you wear rags if you continue to be mean to me." I threatened him whilst jutting my lower lip out in a pout.

"Oh no Please Alice, Not rags!" He said with mock horror.

"Oh yes, I'll make you wear rags. So you better be nice to me from now on." I folded my arms across my chest.

"Carlisle says he needs us back now. He and Esme want to go hunting before Carlisle goes into work tomorrow. If we aren't back in five minutes he's going to assume I didn't hear him and is going to ring us."

"Why doesn't Carlisle and Esme just come out now? Why wait for us?"

Edward listened to Carlisle's thoughts for a moment and a smug smile spread across his face. "Mom wants you to clean your room."

"Ugh. Come on then, let's go." I moaned but didn't wait for a response, I ran towards the house and of course he caught up easily and soon enough he was sprinting ahead of me. It was pointless to challenge Edward to a race so I didn't bother. I of all people should know the outcome.

It felt nice to have the warm air brush across my face and feel the soft dirt beneath my bare feet. I did love my fast sports cars but nothing could ever compare to running. I didn't have to worry about bumping into trees because I could see so clearly. I could see everything. To humans, if they were moving at this speed, everything would appear to be a blur to them and they'd surely bump into a tree. (If I bumped into a tree then the only one who would be hurt would be the poor tree.) I could see every feather of every bird. I could see every spec of dirt on every leaf on every bush. I could see every colour of every insect in the bark of the trees.

I could smell every life source's blood. I could smell the trees. I could smell the dirt. I could smell Edwards scent. I could smell all of the different scents carried through every gust of wind. I could pick them out individually even though the smell of everything is combined and mixed together. It would be like separating categories.

I could hear every sound. I could hear the sound of my feet brushing against the soft ground. I could hear Edward's feet too. I could hear his breathing and I could hear mine; the same tempo as someone who was just sitting down. I could hear the breathing of every animal that we passed too. I could hear their heart beats accelerate as they realized the danger of our approach.

When Edward reached the river he leaped over it without stopping and somersaulted just before he landed stealthily on his feet and continued to glide through the air towards the house. I leaped without stopping also but grabbed a branch and swung an entire 360 degrees until I was back upright again and released the branch to fall onto the balls on my feet and flew after Edward.

When we reached the patio in the back garden Edward slowed to a walk and so did I. Edward was greeted by Carlisle at the clear glass doors.

"Ah, my son, how was your hunting trip?" Carlisle asked politely and patted Edward's right arm.

"It was good thank you. Alice caught a bigger kill than I." Edward pretended to shake his head in shame.

"It's true. I'm so proud of myself." I beamed.

"Congratulations dear." Carlisle chuckled as he strode over to greet me in a quick embrace.

"Alice! Could you go clean your room for me please dear?" Esme called as she darted out of the house and toward me. I grimaced but complied.

I spent the rest of the evening picking up clothes off of my bedroom floor and dancing around to some of my favourite music to make it more fun. Once I finished with that I picked out mine and everyone's clothes out for the next day and placed them into their rooms.

Knock knock.

I was startled by a gentle tapping on my bedroom door but without taking my attention from tomorrows outfit I told them to come in.

"I missed you." Said the only voice in the entire world who I wanted to hear right now.

Jasper had been in Southern America for the last week visiting his friends Charlotte and Peter. Considering he hasn't seen then in a few decades I decided not to put up a fuss and just spend the time he's away preying that he will come home soon.

"Jazz!" I jumped across the room and through my arms around his neck. "How was your trip?"

"I wish I didn't go. It was very boring, there wasn't much to talk about so I spent the whole time site seen and thinking about you. It's good to be back."

*****

Jasper and I spent the rest of the night talking and time passed very quickly, as it normally does for a vampire. When the sun rose I got dressed in today's ensemble, a pink silk dress which was low cut and had a ribbon tied around the waist, it had a conspicuous bow at the back but it wasn't so big that it looked ridiculous. I wore matching dolly does and slung a matching bag over my shoulder. It had a long chain strap with pink ribbon wove into it; the purse was pink with a bow on the bottom centre of the opening flap.

I sighed whilst admiring myself in my full length mirror. "Oh Alice, you are such a genius."

Why was I blessed with two wonderful gifts in my immortal life? I can see the future and am a fantastic fashion guru. No designer in the world could possibly dream of competing with me.

"Alice, you think much too highly of yourself." Edward muttered while he just walked right into my room. How rude! He didn't even knock! He was still doing up the buttons of his turquoise silk shirt and was barefoot. He wore the black trousers I picked out for him.

"Alice, why would I need to knock? You should have seen me going to enter your room. For someone who sees everything you are amazingly unobservant."

"Get out of my head you freak. Now go back to your room and finish getting dressed, I don't want to hang around waiting for you to drive us while you take eternity putting on a sock."

Before I could blink, Edward ran out of the room and was back fully dressed. He had a black waistcoat that matched his trousers on and smart Italian black shoes.

"Are you ready to go?" He asked eagerly.

"Sure." I sang. "Emmett, Jasper, Rosalie, we're going now." I said at the same volume. They would be able to hear.

"Emmett's waiting by the car with the others, come on." Before he finished his sentence he was already bolting out of the door, down the hall, gliding down the stairs, into the kitchen and stopped abruptly in the garage where, Emmett, Rosalie and Jasper leaned against his silver Volvo.

I leaped into the front passenger seat and stuck my tongue out at Jasper as I beat him there. He chuckled and went to sit in the back with Emmett and Rosalie.

Edward put the radio on and we all sang happily to the music. We arrived at school in very short time, of course it would have been shorter if we ran, but that's a bit conspicuous when you can move at the speed of light.

I stepped out of the car and inhaled the new yet old air. The scents of a few thousand humans dwindled along with the wind. Flowers, sweet honey, fruity kind of scents too. Each scent made my mouth water and my throat tingle a little burning sensation in response. I could hear the sound of thousands of hearts; I could hear how they pumped the warm, wet, delicious blood around the humans' bodies. Oh how I love his place!

Ring ring, ring ring.

The bell rang and many students who were dawdling idly in the car park hurried off the class. Edward was already gone and opening the door of Bella's rusty old Chevy for her.

I walked over at an infuriating human pace to greet Bella.

"Good morning, Bella!" I chirped as I threw my arms around her gently, she is ever so fragile. "How did you sleep?"

"I slept good thank you, how about you, Alice?" We laughed.

"I bet you got more sleep than me, I just found it impossible to drift off." We chuckled again.

"We've got to get to class, the bell has already gone." Edward said as he dragged Bella away from me. She seemed to be struggling to keep up.

I danced off to class murmuring about over possessive relationships.

English passed in a daze, I was only vaguely away of my surroundings. I was too busy day dreaming through it all and by the time the bell rang, I was surprised; I'd only just sat down.

French followed in pretty much the same fashion. I was thinking about planning a shopping trip soon with Bella. When the Bella rang, again, it startled me and I collected my books as Angela and Ben approached me with warm smiles. The beatings of their hearts became more profound the more I listened to them.

"Hello, Alice." Angela smiled at me. Ben stood next to her with his arm around her waist.

"Hey." I replied politely.

"Alice, I love your dress, where did you get it?" Angela asked in awe as we began walking down the corridor towards the canteen.

"I ordered for it to be specially made by a very well known designer in France. I got another friend of mine from Germany to work on the trim; it needed to be just perfect. I'm so glad that you like it." I beamed.

Angela continued to look at me with obvious awe and then decided to change the subject.

"Have you heard about the new kid?"

"What new kid?" I pressed, suddenly thirsty for new gossip.

"His name is ... urm... oh that's it Ravner. Ravner Lurt Blades, Weird name." She said. "He just moved up here from La Push. His dad died and now he lives with his aunt, apparently she is his only relative. He is absolutely gorgeous too." Angela was beginning to remind me of Jessica; she knew a lot gossip these days. Ben frowned.

"Oh, that's too bad about his father."

"Yeah."

By now we had reached the canteen and were taking our seats next to Edward and Bella, I sat opposite Edward and next to Angela and Jasper, Bella was beside Edward and Mike was next to her, Ben sat next to Angela.

"Here, Alice, I'm not hungry." Edward said as he shoved a plate towards me.

"Oh no thank you, Edward, I'm not hungry either." I said as I tried to read his expression. He had a smirk on his face but in his eyes it was as if he was trying to communicate with me.

"No, Alice, I insist, eat something." He pressed. I sighed. I'm not about to pass up a dare.

"Okay." I said cheerily. I picked up a slice of pizza and, reluctantly, bit a small chunk off of the end. I chewed it hard and swallowed. I smiled at Edward.

Thought I'd chicken out, didn't you? I thought.

Edward, Bella and Jasper laughed, everyone else looked at us as if we were mentally unstable, I laughed harder.

"Look, there's the new kid." Ben said for the first time today. He was staring at a table at the other end of the room. It was empty but for one person. A young boy sat there, he was pretty and had very unusual pale blue eyes. He had very pale skin to match, although not as pale as me. His brown hair was smooth, shiny, soft looking, and straight and cropped short at the back. It was long at the front where he smoothed back over his head where it stayed. He was picking at his sandwich, hardly eating any. His eyes were kind of red and puffy; I guess he's been crying. He was dressed nicely, for someone who wore things that were obviously not at designer origins. He wore a black and deep blue checker shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows. He had a grey thin top underneath and black jeans. He had his ankles crossed and on his feet were plain black chunky trainers.