A/N: At my middle school and high school we've had a rollerblading unit. For me, that unit is completely normal/expected. For those of you who don't have that unit in your schools, I'm sorry if the fact that I've written about a rollerblading unit in Forks High has confused or upset you in anyway. I thought putting Bella in that situation would be fun to write.
Sorry about the long note,
Pengirl
Chapter 4-A Road To Somewhere
I saw a small pixie-like girl standing there, beaming hugely with wonderful golden eyes. She opened her mouth and spoke with the most enchanting voice, "I knew we'd find you."
"What?" I said in a shaky voice. She beamed at me.
"What did you just say?" I asked again, a little louder this time. We were the only people in the locker room, so now one else heard.
"I'm just glad that I can finally talk to you! I've been waiting for so long for you to come back." She said. She walked over and sat beside me on the bench.
"I told them that you'd be coming back one day, and that you would find us again. They didn't believe me. That was really stupid of them, I'm usually right about this kind of stuff. Anyway, I said you'd be seeing me again, so here I am!" She looked at me, excited and waiting for me to speak.
"Why haven't you changed?" I asked stupidly. Wow, I thought, I sure am blunt.
"You look exactly the same. Why?" I continued.
"Why Bella, now's not the time for those sorts of questions. We've got to get to gym anyway."
I looked around. The locker room was filled with girls changing and talking and laughing.
I was still looking around, dazed, when Alice pulled on my arm. I slipped off the bench and landed on my butt on the hard tiles.
Alice looked down at me, rolled her eyes, and held out her hand. I grabbed it and pulled myself up.
Her hands were freezing. Just as cold as Bronze-boy's hands. Why are their hands so cold?
She quickly pulled away and started walking. "Are you coming Bella?" she called over her shoulder.
Girls were staring at me wide-eyed and watching me with curiosity. I blushed a deep scarlet, and quickly followed Alice away from all the staring.
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I rubbed my hip where I'd smacked it against the ramp. I'd probably have a bruise in the morning. I rolled as best I could over the bleachers, trying not to fall in the process. Alice was already sitting there, rollerskates off, and filling out today's reflection sheet. I managed to skate over there without hurting myself further.
I sat down on the bleachers with as much grace as a marionette that's strings were just cut off. I lifted my foot up and unbuckled one skate then the other. I started puling one off, but it was stuck. I pulled harder but it wouldn't budge. I pulled as hard as I could and the skate slipped off my foot and came barreling towards my head. I ducked, but I still got knocked on my head really hard.
"Stupid rollerskates." I mumbled. Alice looked over and started laughing. Her laughter sounded like wind chimes. I tried my best to glare, but she just laughed harder.
"It wasn't that funny." I said while blushing a deep scarlet.
"Y-yes it w-wa-wa-was!" Alice blurted out between laughs.
I looked down and pulled of the other skate a little more carefully. I grabbed the reflection sheet and started filling it out."What was your favorite part of today's class? Why?" The sheet read. Hmm, I thought, I'd say tripping over my own two skates and then falling and smashing my hip against the ramp. That was the best part of today's class. I sighed and wrote, Being able to skate around the gym once without falling. I filled out the rest of the questions in the same way.
Alice grabbed my hand and said, "Come on Bella, lets go change!"
Alice had been treating me like her best friend throughout the whole period. She skated with me, helped me when I fell, and even mocked me once or twice. Now I'm not saying that I didn't have fun, but I've only known Alice for about forty-five minutes. She seemed to know a lot about me, while I knew barely anything about her. The only stuff I did know was that she was wild, crazy, a little insane, always freezing cold, had four siblings, and her last name was Cullen. That's like a drop of water in the mysterious ocean known as Alice.
On the other hand, she knew almost everything about me, almost as if she'd been following me my entire life. It was creepy. She knew about my old home and school, she knew about my life here. She even had my class schedule memorized.
I walked into the locker room slightly dazed. I stood in front of my locker, lost in thought, trying to come up with the best way to ask Alice about her strange life.
"Bella," Alice said exasperatedly, "You have to change. Come on."
She grabbed my clothes and pushed them into arms. I stripped down and changed quickly, wanting to talk with Alice as soon as possible.
"Alice," I asked, "Was that really you back in the forest?"
"I was in the forest? I don't remember being in the forest very recently. Maybe you saw someone else." She replied.
"No, I'm absolutely positive it was you. I talked to you, and you gave me this ring." I said while walking out of the locker room and holding my hand out for her to see.
"Oh that ring is so beautiful!" Alice replied, obviously dodging the question.
"Yes, I know, you should too because you gave it to me." I said bringing us back to my interrogation.
"I did used to wear a ring very similar to that, but it wasn't mine." She replied vaguely.
"Oh, whose was it?"
"A friend's…or maybe Rosalie's."
I was stumped. She wasn't answering my questions, or letting out any information. Hmm, what to ask next? I did want to know more about her family…
"Hey Alice, what about your family. What're they like?" I asked.
"What do you want to know?" She said warily.
"Well…First of all, which one's which?" I asked as we reached my truck.
Alice laughed, "Okay, I'll tell you."
I climbed into the drivers seat while Alice climbed into the other side.
"Well, since I only have one sister, she's obviously Rosalie."
"Yeah, I figured that one out." I said, and started the engine.
"Okay, now for my brothers. Emmett has dark brown hair, and he's very big. He's tall and has a lot of muscles." Alice paused.
"Continue!" I not so subtlety urged her as I pulled out of the parking lot and started driving down the highway. She gave me an exasperated look and continued.
"Edward has reddish-bronzy hair." This is him, I yelled excitedly in my head while doing an internal dance.
"He's pretty tall and thin, but he's strong. No doubt about it." She said that last part so quietly that I assumed I wasn't meant to hear it.
"Okay Alice, what about your last brother?" I asked, even though I knew the answer. She didn't respond.
"Alice?" I asked again. She still didn't say anything. I quickly pulled into my driveway and looked over at her.
Her face was hard and cold; her eyes were distant and glazed over. I'd seen that look on Alice before, about four years ago.
"Alice?" I asked, a little more scared this time.
"Alice!" I shrieked. I was so worried; I leaned over and put my hands on her shoulders. I leaned in close to her face, looking directly into her pitch black eyes. Wait, weren't her eyes golden this afternoon? How did they do-
"Umm, Bella, would you mind?" Alice said.
"Oh, right, sorry Alice." I said while scooting back over to my side of the bench.
"Um, actually Bella I have to go. I'll see you soon, bye." She said. I watched as she got out of the car and called "Bye Alice!"
I got out of the car and started walking towards the house. Then I realized that Alice would have to walk back to school since I drove her to my house. "Oh Alice!" I yelled while spinning around to where she had left. She was nowhere to be seen. "Alice!" I called out. She didn't respond. I ran over to the road and looked to see if she was walking away, but there was no one, not even any cars were driving by.
"Where did she go?" I murmured to myself.
Well, this was something else to put on my list. I would need to go over this later, the list was getting long.
