A/N: Hey! So sorry for the late update for chap 3; there were problems with fanfic.. But all that is sorted now! :D. I hope you liked it.. Your reviews really made me and my friends, Sunrise2705 and TwiJunkie, reaaaaallllly happy ! We were really jumping for joy;D. One review sent me way over the edge with happiness, Stephaniiie! I love her fics and it's an honour to have her as a follower:]. Well, I know this one isn't going to be as good because I haven't really been up to it.. Excuse me if it's horrible :c, don't expect much.. I'm only 13 and my mind doesn't really get "out of the box" much, I'm more of an organized-everything-in-it's-own-box-in-my-head-type-of-girl ;p. Anyway, on with the story! R&R :D.
*Champagne's for Celebrating (I'll have a martini)-Mayday Parade
* The Bird & The Worm- The Used
*These Walls- Teddy Geiger.
*Don't Trust Me- 3OH!3
*The Dressing Room- Breathe Carolina
*Roller Coaster- Blink 182
*Bad Romance- Lady Gaga
*The Truth- Kris Allen
*A Little Less Sixteen Candles A Little More Touch Me- Fall Out Boy.
Previously
"Oh, well, there has been an incident. Jasper-" he said calmly.
"HE WHAT?!" I interrupted "did he attack? No he wouldn't. Would he?!"
"No, no calm down, Alyy. He's seen blood by Jessica Stanley's car and he heard some things by the administration building. We'll discuss this later, where we can't be heard. Tell Emmett and Rose we're leaving early and I'll meet you at the car." He said.
That explained why Jessica's seat was left empty in Psychology today. I just hope she's alright.
RPOV
It was my first day at Forks High and I was already captain of the cheerleading squad, leader of my little pack and every boy's dream and every girl's envy as I walked down the hallways with Emmett on my arm. There was this one boy who dared to touch me when Emmett was out of sight, Mike Newton. He grabbed my ass while walking down the hall, I supplied him with a well deserved kick in the nuts and a phone call from Emmett. I sure do hope he's learnt his lesson now.
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JPOV.
As we rolled onto the narrow driveway of the Cullen house Rosalie spoke up in a scornful manner, "What is it, Jasper?!" she scowled, "I was having a great day!"
"Shut up, Rose," said Edward, she pushed the door open and walked out slamming the car door sending bits of silver metal off the hinges onto the stony path. Edward let out a girlish agonizing scream that sent Esme running out in a hurry.
"What is it?!!" she said, frantically.
"Edward's being a baby and Jasper seemed to find it hilarious to ruin my day and drag me back home," said Rose with a sarcastic smile.
Edward walked into the house giving Rose a deathly glare as he headed into out makeshift kitchen.
"Well?" questioned Rose as she folded her arms over her chest and tapped her 6-inch death traps on the marble floor of the kitchen angrily.
"There's been an incident…" he began
Anonymous POV
This was it! They've figured it out! It was the mind reader, I'm sure of it! He heard my thoughts! Well, he must've! Singing meaningless tunes in my head all day, FOR NOTHING?! I felt the sickening urge to grab Lady Gaga by her boney throat and strangle the 'ra ra ra' right out of her!
"The Stanley girl has gone missing," said the mind reader.
"I heard the principal speaking with someone and they said they haven't seen her all day," said the blonde emo, "Her car was in the lot, a silver Volvo, I found blood splattered on the door handle and a puddle of it all over the floor, but the scent of the murderer was no where to be found, all I could smell was the putrid stench of Clorox and Ammonia burning my nostrils". Drat! I should have waited for the rain before the attack, the Clorox and Ammonia was going to become normality to them, and they would eventually learn to ignore it and smell past it. I had to move quickly.
"And this Stanley girl," said the angry blonde in an uninterested tone, "What's she to us?"
"Think with logic, Rose," scoffed the mind-reader, "Any suspicions that rise would lead the Volturi straight to our doorsteps. We are prime suspects at Forks High!"
That's as much as I could hear as they continued the rest of their conversation concerning their "battle plan", as the burly one called it, in murmured whispers.
APOV
Jessica Stanley? Missing?! What happened? Why? Who did this?! Or more importantly, could it be a what?! Human? Werewolf? … Vampire? The last two words lingered in my mind questionably. The only werewolves in Forks were the Quileutes, and they call them selves "The Protectors", unless there's a new one in town.. Vampire? Werewolf? I weighed the options out in my head. Was it even remotely possible? But we'd pick up the scent wouldn't we? Surely 5 vampires would smell out one of our own, or possibly our infamous enemies. But that dreadful stench of chemicals was drowning out our senses and making it impo--
My train of thought was interrupted by a slam on the kitchen counter, sending Esme back downstairs angrily. "YES ALICE!" said Edward excitedly.
The others looked at him dubiously wondering what caused his sudden tumult.
"What is it?" said Emmett eagerly.
"Two options, Vampire and Werewolf." Said Edward grinning widely.
Jasper grabbed a post it note off the kitchen counter and scrawled a few words on. "Suspects" in bold writing in the middle, "Vampire" and "Werewolf" with a line dividing the page into two halves.
"We have two options on our list here, Werewolf and Vampire. We have to remove one name to clear the other, and find our murderous fiend." He said with a smirk playing at his lips.
"Alice," said Jasper, "Call Bella and invite her over for a sleepover, we need to keep her safe while we clear this mess up. Give her a briefing of what she's up against when she gets here." He smiled at Edward as he said her name, and at that moment, if Edward wasn't a Vampire, I could've sworn I saw a blush creep up his neck.
We all knew what Jasper meant by "briefing", but we daren't say it out loud. The Volturi has one rule, and one rule only, it was a vow we had all made when we entered this world as one of their kind, "Thou shall not expose thyself." The words pounded in my head as I thought about what I was about to do and the consequences of it.
"Emmie, Eddie-boy," said Jasper with a smirk, using the nicknames they both hated, "We've got a battle plan to work out". He let out a wide ear-to-ear grin as he turned to the staircase and began to jog upstairs.
I picked up the phone and dialed Bella's phone number shakily.
"Hey Bells, it's me, Alice" I said.
"Hey Alice, what's up?" she said.
"Come over, for a sleepover.."
"Alice? Are you alright?" she asked worriedly.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Be quick okay?"
"Sure, bye!"
And she hung up.
I sat in the kitchen thinking of what to say to her while Rose applied bronzer to her cheeks.
"Rose, what am I supposed to say!?" I asked.
"I don't know just tell her straight out." She said uninterested.
"Umm hey, Bella. I'd just like to tell you that we're vampires who suck blood. Today I had a deer for lunch, how was your day?!"
"Yeah, something like that. But try and keep the irony out" she replied as she stood up and walked away.
Ding-Dong!
The doorbell. Bella. She's here! I ran to the door frantically. I opened the door a peek, sun. I can't go out, she'll have to come in, I opened the door wider, moving out of the sun's rays and allowing her to walk in. She walked in quickly throwing me into a hug.
"Hey Bells!" I said, her scent burning my throat even more than usual.
"Hey Alice!" she replied.
We walked up to my room as fast as my human façade would allow me to and she sat on the bed cross-legged and gave me a smile.
"So, what is it?" she asked, draining me for some gossip, "A cat-fight? A date? A new episode of One Tree Hill? A crush on a guy? Or is it a girl? Listen, Alice if it is a girl don't worry I won't judge you, I'm your best friend and I-"
"BELLA!" I said, interrupting her ramble, "Shut up and let me talk." I said as I smiled sweetly.
She urged me to speak.
"Okay well.. I kinda need to- Wait! Did you just call me your best friend?! Aww! We need to start doing more best friend-ish things together. Port Angeles on Friday? Whataya say? Or maybe we should drive up to-"
"ALICE!" she yelled. "Stop trying to avoid it, spit it out."
"Okay, okay" I said reluctantly, "Well there's this biig secret.. You know about vampires?"
"Umm yeah.." she stuttered "they're not real.. Bats flying and turning into people, burning under the sun, drinking blood and Romanian accents." She giggled slightly.
I let out a nervous laugh. Boy was this going to be hard..
"Well.." I said "Not exactly."
"What do you mean?" she said, profusely confused.
"Well, they don't burn, they sparkle.. They don't have fangs, but they do have awesome eyes.. They don't have Romanian accents.. Well not all of them but.." I then decided it'd be better just to show her. I grabbed her wrist, "Follow me," I said.
We walked towards the garden door where the rain had just stopped and the clouds were beginning to reveal the yellow sun creeping behind them. I stepped out, one foot at a time, and took off my cardigan.
My skin began to give off sparkly diamonds, reflecting the sun's rays. Her mouth morphed into a perfect 'O' shape and her eyes grew wider.
"Surprise?" I stuttered.
She turned towards the door and ran to it, I followed her in, still at my human speed.
"Bella," I said. "Wait! Maybe I didn't tell you the right way"
She locked the door and stood there, her eyes still wide and frantic.
"Alice.."
She began to speak but there was a loud crash outside.
"Bella, bella listen." I spoke in a quick whisper but slow enough for her human ears to catch up. "There's someone in Forks, in the high school and he/she or it has been the cause of a missing student. We called you here to keep you safe, if it's one of the things we think it is, you're in huge trouble."
"Wh-What?" she stuttered
"We think it might be a vampire, the danger to you then is your scent, it's extremely alluring, especially to Edward but that's another story. In the other case, it could be a werewolf. Werewolves are our enemies, they will do anything to protect their kind, and keep us away. There is a treaty, they cannot harm us as long as we do not harm a human, they will still try anything to drive us away, even if it is hurting someone close to us, in this case, you. You have to stay Bella you have to! I cant-"
"Wait! This isn't some sort of trick so you can lock me up in a coffin and feast on me later on, is it?" she said quietly.
"No, Bella it's not. The Cullens only feed on animal blood, and about the coffins, those are just a stereotype. We don't even sleep and-"
"Alice. The crash. What was it? Go find outt!" she said as she pushed me towards the door, not even budging my marble figure.
I opened the door a peek, cats. I could smell the wet fur.
"Just a false alarm, a cat rummaging through the garbage."
"Oh great.." she sighed with relief, "Now.. tell me more about your.. Condition?"
A/N: So? What did you think?:D. Please be honest:]. I'm actually quite happy with it, honestly;$. I know at first I said I wasn't in the mood but, wow.. When I started writing I just couldn't stop! Thanks for reading! I'm sorry that it's been so long since the previous update which was on .. Tuesday I think? Well, Wednesdays are a long shot, since I always spend my day with my friends, Thursdays and Fridays are my weekend, so the chances of me updating then are pretty slim unless I'm bored at night. I hope this chapter made up for our lost time, it's longer than the others. Hope you liked it! R&R.
Xo's
Ray.
