The next day I hoped to talk to Bella, at find out why didn't she like me. I pulled into school, waiting to see if I could see her arrive in the parking lot.

I saw the Cullens arrive. Emmett was riding on top of a Jeep. That seemed to be dangerous but I didn't think much about it. I noted that Rosalie, Elena, and Jasper were also there but no Bella. Where was she? Had I really scared her off? Did she really hate me when I hadn't even done anything to her? I had to find out why she wasn't here.

So in my English class, I decided to talk to Elena.

"Um hi." I said.

"You want to know where Bella is, don't you?" She asked. I wondered how she knew what I was going to say.

"Yes." I replied.

"Bella is out sick today." Elena responded.

"Is she going to be okay?" I asked.

"She'll be fine. Our father is a doctor and he just thought it would be best if she missed a couple days of school. She should be back by Monday." The Cullen girl answered. "She also feels bad for how she treated you yesterday. She's not really like that. She'll probably talk to you about it when she gets back."

"That's good to know." I commented.

"Though I think, it would be a good idea if you weren't friends, I can't tell you what to do." She said as she began to pay attention to the teacher. I guess that was her way of saying that she was done talking to me.

So it was a couple days before Bella returned to school. Not much had happened in that time frame. My group of friends had decided to invite me to go the beach at La Push this weekend.

"Would we be swimming?" I asked.

"Probably not." Angela said. "It's more for the feel of the place and there's some whale watching."

"But if you wanna wear a bikini, I wouldn't object." Eric piped in. Angela hit him in the arm. "Ow."

"There's also surfing." Jessica added. "Do you know how to surf?"

'You can't really surf in pools." I remarked. "I've never been close enough to the ocean to learn."

"I could teach you if you want." Mike offered. What would it take for him to know that I wasn't interested?

"Thanks but I think I'll pass." I replied. I noticed Bella was talking to her family about something. I figured it would be best to wait until biology to talk to her. I ran several different scenarios of what would happen in my head. I also couldn't help but wonder what Bella's voice sounded like. I had always been quite fascinated in people's voices. Sometimes I have an idea but sometimes it turns out to be completely wrong.

I walked to the biology lab and found that Bella was back in her seat. I took my seat next to her.

"Hey." She greeted. Her voice was soft and beautiful.

"Hi." I reciprocated.

"So listen, I wanted to apologize for what happened the other day." Bella said. I didn't say anything because I wanted to listen to everything that she had to say. "I was sick and I reacted very rudely toward you. Can you forgive me?"

"Can I ask what you had?" I questioned.

"I had a cold, nothing too serious." She replied as I noticed that her eyes were golden.

"Did you get contacts?" I asked.

"Pardon?" She countered.

"Your eyes were black the other day and now they're golden." I explained.

"It must have had to do with the lack of light." She responded. "So we're going to be studying onions today."

"How do you know that?" I asked.

"I overheard the teacher talking it earlier." She said.

Bella ended up being right, we were studying the different phases of mitosis in onion cells. I had no idea of how we would ever use this in the real world. I wasn't going to study biology and most people who did were probably going to be doctors or veterinarians, neither involved observing mitosis in onion cells to my knowledge.

"So my friends invited me to the beach this weekend, do you wanna come?" I asked.

"Which beach?" She questioned.

"La Push." I remarked.

"I can't." She said.

"Why not?" I asked.

"My family and I don't get along with the locals." She explained. I decided to drop it at that. If she didn't want to come, she didn't want to come.

"So I'll see you tomorrow." I said as I walked out to my truck.

"Yeah I'll see you too." She added. I guess I was wrong. Bella didn't hate me. I was happy because as far as I knew, everyone at the school liked me. Yay me!

As I was walking out, I noticed a glazed look in her eyes.

"Are you okay?" I asked.

Bella then looked at me. "I'm fine." She said. "By the way you might want avoid Division Street."

"I'll keep that in mind." I replied as I went out to my truck.

On the way home, I noticed that there was a pretty bad wreck on Division Street. Luckily I had learned a few alternate routes to get home. But I couldn't help but wonder how Bella had possibly known about it ahead of time.

The next day, it was raining and Bella decided to talk to me once we got done with class.

"So why did you move to Forks of all places?" She asked.

"It's a long story." I replied.

"I can keep up." She responded.

"Okay so my mom got remarried." I said.

"And you don't like the guy?" She asked.

"No, that's not it. Phil's really nice." I stated. "He just plays baseball and travels a lot."

"So what teams has he played for?" She asked.

"Well he's never really made the majors." I pointed out. "Anyway my mom always stayed home with me. So I volunteered to move here rather than Jacksonville."

"The weather's definitely a lot nicer there than it is here." She stated.

"Yeah." I concurred. "So I need to go but I'll see you on Monday I guess."

"Yes I should be here on Monday." Bella agreed.

I walked out to my truck and began to dig through my backpack before I got in. I then heard the sound of tires screeching. I looked up to see a large van being driven by Tyler that appeared to be out of control. And it was coming straight toward me. I tried to move my feet but I was frozen in fear. I was going to die. I was going die at school. What a terrible way to go. I closed my eyes and waited for the impact.

So I was surprised when I felt nothing. I only heard what appeared to be a door crushing. I opened my eyes and saw Bella kneeling beside me. Her hand was pressed against Tyler's door and it left a huge dent in the van. How did she do that?

"Are you okay?" She asked as I nodded incredulously

I then heard the sound of an ambulance and Bella leapt away in a rush.

"Alice, are you okay?" Tyler asked.

"Um yeah." I said before I fainted.

The next thing I knew I was in the hospital. I must have been brought there. There was an extremely attractive doctor in front of me.

"Hello, Alice. I'm Dr. Cullen." He said.

"What happened?" I asked.

"You appear to have suffered a mild concussion." The doctor replied.

"It would have been a lot worse if Bella hadn't showed up when she did." I replied.

"Right." He said.

Before he could say anything else, Charlie rushed over and hugged me. He threatened to take Tyler's license away.

"Good afternoon, Chief Swan." Dr. Cullen said.

"Is she going to be okay, Carlisle?" Charlie asked.

"She should be fine. The x-rays turned out negative." Carlisle replied. "You can always bring her back here if you need to."

So Charlie filled out that paperwork to get me discharged. As I as waited. I noticed Bella and Rosalie.

"You almost exposed us." I heard Rosalie say.

"You know I have to protect her, Rose." Bella countered. Rosalie looked like she was going to say something back but then she noticed me and said nothing.

I couldn't help but wonder what the blonde had meant by almost exposed us. Were the Cullens a family of superheroes like in my favorite movie ever, The Incredibles?

There was one thing that I did know. Somehow Bella had just saved my life and I needed to be grateful no matter how she had done. I also knew that I needed to find out how she did it.

So you have made to the end of chapter 3. This chapter features much more of the Cullens than the previous two chapters. It also serves as the beginning of Bella and Alice. Horray Bella and Alice. Don't forget to review.