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My mouth just about dropped to the floor. He was beautiful, the way his curly blonde hair lay on his forehead. The way it complemented his pale features. I couldn't help but look at him. My head was screaming 'Turn away! Turn away!', but his beauty was so captivating. He made eye contact with me and I looked down, blushing. I turned to hear Jessica explain who they were. "That's Edward and Emmett Cullen and Rosalie and Jasper Hale; they all live together with Dr. Cullen and his wife."
Bella looked over, "They're beautiful." She sighed.
"Yes!" Jessica agreed with another giggle. "Rosalie and Emmett are together but Jasper and Edward aren't with anyone. And they live together."
I chirped. "Well they're not really brother and sister."
"Oh, they're not. Dr. Cullen is really young, in his twenties or early thirties. They're all adopted. The Hales are brother and sister, twins - the blondes - and they're foster children." Bella giggled. "How old are they?"
Jessica sighed "Jasper and Rosalie are both eighteen, but they've been with Mrs. Cullen since they were eight. She's their aunt or something like that."
"Dr. and Mrs. Cullen must be really nice people." I smiled looking over at them.
"I guess so," Jessica admitted reluctantly, and I got the impression that she didn't like the doctor and his wife for some reason. With the glances she was throwing at their adopted children, I would presume the reason was jealousy. "I think Mrs. Cullen can't have any kids, though," she added, as if that lessened their kindness.
Bella chimed in. "Have they always lived in Forks?"
"No," she said in a voice that implied that it should be obvious, even to a new arrival like Bella. "They just moved down two years ago from somewhere in Alaska."
Bella was looking pretty interested. "Who is the guy with the reddish brown hair?"
"That's Edward. He's gorgeous, of course, but don't waste your time. He doesn't date. Apparently, none of the girls here are good-looking enough for him." She said jealously.
I zoned out again thinking about Jasper and I stared, because their faces, so different, so similar, were all devastatingly, inhumanly beautiful.
Then it hit me, there was no way that they were human. They couldn't be and that was when I noticed Edward was staring at me. I blinked a couple of times and then looked down at my tray.
I heard him tell his siblings that they have a problem. I tried to ignore it and take my mind off them while he was talking. He whispered so low I knew that a human wouldn't be able to hear. I quietly sat back in my chair to listen to what he was telling them.
"Edward what are you talking about; 'we have a problem'?" Rosalie snarled at him.
I didn't dare look up at him because I felt like they were staring at me again. "She knows we're different."
Emmett laughed. "They all think we're different, what makes her any different?"
"Because I can read her mind, come on Emmett use your brain for once!" Edward snarled at him.
I glanced up to casually look around and I noticed that now all of them were looking at me. I tried to not make it obvious as I looked over at Bella and Jessica again and looked back down at my tray, blushing.
"Alice, are you okay?" Bella asked me, concerned.
I smiled. "Yes, I'm perfectly fine. I was just thinking about what we can do when we get home. We have a dinner date remember?"
"How could I forget, 'sister bonding time'." She said, giggling.
I saw Edward looking at Bella like he could shoot laser beams at her. I tried my best to not think about Jasper, or the rest of the Cullens. I wondered what Edward meant when he said he could read my mind. Was he gifted like me? The bell finally rang and the Cullens got up and left in a hurry. I walked to my next class and sat in the back. I wanted to get as far away as I could from people.
I had a vision that a girl called Lauren was going to be really mean to me if I sat in the front. I figured if I sat as far back as I could, maybe she wouldn't notice me. But to my surprise and annoyance, that wasn't going to work. Apparently, she changed her mind and wanted to sit in the seat I was in now.
"Move it. I want to sit there today." She yelled. This made the whole class turn towards us and watch to see what I will do.
"Um excuse me, but we don't have assigned seats, right?" I asked sweetly.
She growled. "No, but you can't sit there. That's where I sit all the time. So move it, or I'll make you."
I snapped back. "Well today I'm sitting here, I figured it would be safe because it's in the back. Please just leave me alone."
She grabbed my books off the desk and threw them to the other side of the classroom. "Now listen here you little freak, I don't know where you got the idea that you can talk to me that way but you can't. I will ruin your life at this school. I'll make you pay for upsetting me. You take your little body and your crap and get out of my seat. NOW!" She yelled to my face.
The whole class was laughing at me at this point, so I got up and walked over to grab my books, when I noticed that someone already had them in their hand.
I continued to look down not wanting to embarrass myself more. "Can I please have my stuff back so I can leave?"
I waited for them to hand me my books but they didn't. I finally looked up a second later and my eyes went wide. There was Jasper Hale looking straight past me, staring at Lauren.
If looks could kill, she'd be on the floor. He had so much anger in his eyes, which scared me. I looked back down and then a vision hit me.
'Jasper hands me my books and it happens so fast. Lauren is lying there on the floor, her neck broken, with blood flowing down it. I look away, too scared to move, too scared to even speak. I watch Jasper kill everyone in the class, leaving me for last. He walks slowly over to me and takes my hand pulling me to him. I pull away trying to get away from him. Knowing that this is going to be the end, I prepare myself, knowing I have lived a long and good life.'
I shook my head coming out the vision, and the only thing I could think to do, was to run. I ran at human pace, out of the classroom and down the halls. I heard footsteps behind me and I looked to see who it was. Jasper was chasing after me.
"Alice stop, please!" I heard him plead.
I knew that if I stopped, he was going to kill me. I knew vampires like him, I was different, my blood smelt different than a humans. I had had to fight my fair share of vampires trying to kill me for my blood and I knew that he wasn't any different. I kept running until I felt him grab my hand. The electricity that flowed through our hands as they touched, scared the crap out of me. I pulled my hand from his and looked up into his eyes. They looked sad and scared. They didn't look like he was going to hurt me. But my instincts told me differently.
"Please don't run, I just want to talk to you." He said sadly
I shook my head. "I'm sorry, I have to go."
I turned and ran as fast as I could at human speed towards the woods. I knew once I got there I'd be safe from human eyes and I could run far away from Jasper.
I ran as fast as I could until the school was just a distant memory. I looked to my visions to see if he was following me.
I was relieved when I saw that he wasn't. I finally came to a stop and fell to the ground. I wrapped my arms around my knees and began to cry. I couldn't believe how mean Lauren was to me and I couldn't believe that Jasper was thinking about killing me. But the way he looked at me, wasn't the way a monster that wanted my blood would look. Jasper's eyes looked as though he was really concerned about the way I felt.
I re-played the vision in my head, thinking about it. Trying to figure out everything that happened in that split second. I thought that maybe, just maybe, he wasn't going to kill me. He hadn't looked at me like I was a meal. Maybe I just over reacted. I shook my head, no that can't be right. I couldn't bring myself to believe that he was different. I couldn't bring myself to believe that he didn't want to hurt me, because experience told me that he was dangerous. I had thought I liked someone once but he ended up verbally and physically abusing me. He left me for dead.
-Flashback-
'No one will ever love you little Alice." He taunted, laughing.
"You're a broken girl, a vampire could never love you, because your blood will be too strong for them to handle. You could never love a human without them knowing your secret.
You will always look like a 18 year old, while they will grow old and die." He mocked.
I curled up in a ball, crying. "How could you say those things to me? After everything I've done, everything we've done together?"
He smiled. "Stupid Alice, you really thought I could love you? Of course I couldn't. My mate and I found you and we knew you would be an easy target. I pretended to love you, so you would use your visions to help us get other covens. It was never you and me, It was always her and me."
I looked up at him. "But you took everything from me! You made me leave my family; I left everything behind because I thought you cared about me. How could you?"
"Alice, you're naive. You believed the whole line I feed you. You were so easy to manipulate. Of course I was going to use you to my advantage. Who wouldn't? As soon as I found out about your gift, I knew you'd be useful to me. I couldn't pass it up." He said smirking and shaking his head.
"But before I leave I'd like to make sure I take everything I can from you. I want to leave you damaged, leave you so damaged that for the rest of your life, you'll remember me." He looked at me with disgust.
Within second he had me down on the ground touching all over my body. He ripped my clothes off and threw them to the side. I tried to push him away, but I felt another pair of hands wrap around my neck.
"You move, and I will rip your pretty little head off your shoulders." She said, gritting her teeth.
At that moment I knew that his mate wouldn't stop him. But how could she watch as he took my innocence away from me? Does she love him that much? I lay on the ground while he pushed himself in. The pain was overwhelming. I tried with everything I had in me to get him off.
With the stress and the emotional damage he had caused, my gift of touch finally kicked in.
I made him and his mate scream in pain. The pain I was feeling, I pushed towards them. I shut down all their senses, making them see complete darkness.
I grabbed their arms and pushed them into the room they'd locked me away in.
I heard him laughing. "Alice you can lock us in here but we'll get out. I'll find you and kill you, like I killed your dear old Aunt."
My heart sank. "You killed her?"
I started to cry as I ran as fast as I could away from my tormentors. I knew I couldn't kill them on my own. They were trained fighters. They had locked me away most of the time or they fought my battles for me, making sure no other vampire could touch me. I wasn't trained, but I knew after this I would find someone to teach me. So that if he did find me I could fight back. I would kill him one day.'
-End flashback-
My heart ached and I tried to push the memories out of my head so they wouldn't come back for a long time. I guess that's why I stayed away from other vampires, so I wouldn't have to deal with my issues. Jasper probably thought I was crazy and losing my mind.
I felt my phone vibrate.
"Alice, where are you? I was looking for you at gym. Text me please, I'm worried. -B"
I text her back. "Sorry, I felt sick and thought I'd head home. -A"
"Okay, school is almost out so I'll see you at home. Do you have the truck? -B"
"No I asked a friend I made to take me home. See you soon. -A"
I ran home and got into bed so that when Bella came home my story would check out. I heard the door open and I could smell it was Bella.
"Pixie, are you okay? I was so worried about you." Bella said, bringing me some water.
I smiled at her. "I'm fine, I just got sick and needed to lie down." She didn't need to know I was almost killed and that I ran for dear life. "How was the rest of your day at school?"
She rolled her eyes and huffed. "It was great until Biology, Edward Cullen was in my class and he pretty much just stared at me like I smelt like shit. Then he ran out of class like a bat out of hell. I was so mortified. I have no clue what I did to him."
She took another breath. "On top of that I went to turn in my schedule to Mrs. Cope and he was there begging her to switch his class. I'm so mad at him, he pissed me off, bad. Tomorrow at school though I plan on asking him what his problem is."
"Bella, just leave it be. I don't know what their problem is. It's best that we don't go looking for trouble." I mumbled.
God that's all I needed, Bella pissing off a vampire coven and them coming and killing her.
I smiled, trying to hide my fear. "Anyways aren't we doing sister bonding? Let's go get something to eat."
"Okay, I'll be downstairs waiting." She laughed.
Bella and I started 'sister bonding time', but the whole time all I could think about was the next day at school. I was thinking of faking sick again, but I knew that it would only get me so far. I looked to my visions to see what to expect at least, but I noticed that Edward nor Jasper was going to be there.
It made me happy, but it also meant I would have to deal with Lauren all by myself. I wished I could just kill her, it would make my life so much easier. But of course the human in me was repulsed that I would even think that. I shook my head. I knew that if I wanted sleep I would have to stop thinking about them.
I figured since I was restless, I would go hunting. Once Bella and Charlie were asleep I jumped out the window and made my way towards the woods. It was a chilly night, I could feel the cool air on my skin. I looked up at the crystal clear sky and was just relaxing, taking in the beauty, when I was snapped into a vision. My heart started to race as I saw that Jasper would be here in less than 46 seconds. I looked around, trying to figure out what I could do. But either way it was going to be too late. He would smell me, and chase me. So I waited.
I smelt his scent before he got to me, it was amazing. I would love to snuggle up to him and just sniff him for hours. I shook my head, why was I thinking like that? I was creeping myself out. I thought back to the electricity that flowed when we touched. I wonder if he felt that too.
I've totally gone mad. Here I am thinking about the guy who wants to kill me, like we can just run off and cuddle in the woods. I heard his steps now and I turned towards him.
"Hello Jasper." I said confidently. Maybe if I sounded confident, he would be scared off.
He came into sight. "Alice, can we talk please? I don't want you to run." Then I saw him turn his head to the side and laugh. It was the most beautiful sound I'd ever heard. "How did you know it was me?"
I looked down and turned red. "Erm...I could smell you. Oh god that sounds weird. I saw you coming...ugh..." I rambled when I was nervous. I looked up at him and he was smiling a huge smile.
I suddenly felt myself wanting to relax and I felt calm. I tried to fight it because I knew I shouldn't get comfortable.
He laughed again. "Don't fight it."
I looked at him in shock. "What are you talking about?"
He rubbed the nape of his neck. "I'm trying to help you relax. The only thing I can feel is how scared, nervous and frustrated you are."
I was trying to process what he was saying. I frowned and bit my lip. "How do you know…erm…how I feel?"
"Well," he said reluctantly "I know you are like me by the way you smell. When you're surrounded by a lot of humans you kind of blend in with their scent. When I was beside you in the classroom my suspicion of you was confirmed because you smell like me, like a vampire. I'm sure you're aware that our kind have gifts. Well, my little gift is empathy; I can feel and manipulate other's emotion."
I nodded my head with understanding.
"With that being said, why are you scared of me?" He said, looking deep into my eyes.
I hesitated. "Well, don't you want my blood?"
"Erm...well you do smell good to me, and I thought about killing you today at school. But I just couldn't bring myself to move. I saw the way Lauren was treating you and the first thing I thought of was killing her, and then killing the whole class."
I cut him off. "And then finishing me off last."
He looked at me, grabbing my arms. "I was not planning on killing you, trust me on that. When I touched you I felt a pull that was driving me insane. I was trying to figure out what to do. I have never felt the emotion I was feeling then, before. Then you ran from me thinking I was going to kill you and I felt like a part of me ran away with you. I realized then what I felt. For the first time in almost a century...I felt hope"
