Disclaimer:Twilight is still mine only in my fantasies.

"I have seen it." Alice began sinisterly. "The Brandon Eye never lies." I giggled at Alice's antics. She was the first person I'd called after my talk with Carlisle for she always made me feel better and I needed someone to do just that after the ultimatum Carlisle had given me. She claimed to have an "Inner Eye" that saw the future. Too bad it was not true.

"He'll say no."

"You won't know till you've tried Bella." Alice dropped all pretense (and that creepy baritone) of soothsaying and her sweet voice cut through the speaker with an impatient edge to it.

"But it will break his heart."

"Well, he needs to accept the fact that you're no longer six but rather a grown woman capable of making her own-"

"It's not that Ali. You know how he is. I think he'll more afraid I'll end up in a ditch somewhere."

"I know Bells." Alice sighed. I could almost picture her shaking her head sadly.

I sighed to, thinking back to the time when we'd played a practical joke on Jasper. He was too silent, too brooding for his age and I was too young, just six, to understand the reason behind said silence. I'd seen Jared Paul laugh when he found out his friends had hid his favorite teddy as a joke. I'd decided I would do anything to see Jasper laugh like that, and I'd concocted a plan which had seemed nothing short of brilliant to my six year old self.

What no one had anticipated was that when Alice burst into Jasper's room, bereft and wailing that I was nowhere to be found, he'd shut down so entirely that they'd have to hospitalize him. The sad thing was he didn't say one word to me after I sobbed and asked for his forgiveness, just hugged me to his chest, kissed my forehead and then refused to let me out of his sight for three days. He did shut out the bearer of the news though, my best friend and partner in crime, Alice Brandon.

Poor, sweet Alice, who was madly and deeply in love with him.

He did go to therapy on Carlisle's insistence, but till date he always flinched whenever we had to be apart for more than a few days. With time Carlisle managed to convince me that the incident was not my fault, rather a delayed reaction on Jasper's part on losing his parents at an age when he was old enough to understand, yet not cope, with the loss of a loved one. I even went to therapy with him once or twice, but I had been so young when the incident had occurred that I found I could not even remember their faces, let alone try to find an outlet to grieve over their loss.

"But pull up your big girl panties now Bella!" Reproached Alice, pulling me out of my reverie. "I know how long you've fantasized going off to college, learning the works of the Bard, maybe even becoming a writer yourself. Hell, you're the smartest person I know, and if there's anyone who should be going to college to show off their mad skills, it you! To hell if you're giving up your dreams only to appease Jasper."

"Wow, impressive Alice, and that was all in one breath too." I snickered, though I knew I was stalling. I heard her make a disparaging noise from the other end of the line.

"But you're right Alice." I sighed, "Carlisle knows, and he's told me in no uncertain terms that it's not right to keep it from him." I sighed once again. "I'm actually going to tell him. Tonight."

"Yay Bella! I knew you had it in you!" Alice squealed. I pictured her jumping around her room. She was truly a piece of work. With hair sticking out in every direction and an insane belief that she was psychic, she was shorter than a pixie but with more energy than an Energizer Bunny. We became friends instantly the day she threw a mud pie at me and I rubbed sand in hers in return. It was as if we were soul mates. We just got each other.

That was also the day Jasper helped her pick out all the sand from her hair because I told him to and she fell in love. She, however, was content in letting him think they were just friends. I'll take him in whatever capacity I can have him, she always said. I just wished she would pull up her big girl panties too and tell Jasper how she really felt.

But right now, it was my turn, and I knew exactly how I was going to drop the bomb on him. Time to pull out the big guns.

A/N: Any guesses what Bella's "big guns" are? Review and tell me.