Chapter Four - Ithica
We parked at the end of Bella's drive and looked up towards her bedroom window, Edward was just about to leave we could see him at the window saying goodbye.
Edward looked up to see myself and Emmett sitting in the jeep, our eyes full of sorrow, Edward jumped from the window and ran to the jeep.
"What are you doing here, I asked you to leave?" Edward was mad at us, tuff.
"We wanted to say goodbye from afar Edward, if you won't let us say it in person then we must say it from afar, you can give us that much can't you since your making us leave?" Emmett was angry at Edward for his attitude towards us when it was him making us leave not the other way around.
"Fine, say goodbye and then leave please, I do not want to cause Bella anymore pain than I will in two days, Sorry." With that he ran off into the forest across from Bella's house.
"Goodbye my best friend, my sister." I started to break down.
"Goodbye my little sister see you soon, I hope." With that we left looking back over our shoulder to see Bella Leaving her house and get into her truck, she didn't notice us we were to far away.
We drove past forks high school and the police station to say goodbye to Charlie from afar, I was going to miss forks and my best friend and her loving farther.
As we drove out of forks boundaries I whispered "Goodbye forks I'll miss you." Emmett looked over to me and reached over to give me a hug while still driving.
We drove for two whole days before we drove past a sign that said 'Welcome to Cornell' it wasn't as bright as forks it had a dull feel to it, we continued driving for 20 minutes before we pulled into a large drive and up to our new house, it was horrible I prefer forks this place was, well there were no words to describe it.
We walked into the new house to see all new furniture and our boxes had already been unpacked.
"Hello my angel, are you ok?" Esme came up to me pulling me into her embrace.
"Not really mom, we went to Bella's before we left and she just looked so happy when she left her house and all I could think about here was her face when Edward told her that we've gone."
"Alice, Talk to me please." It was jasper who now held me.
"Jasper, I love you but at the moment I can't be around you not knowing that your chose to go against what I asked you to do, I'm sorry Jasper I really am but I can't." With that I walked off.
"Emmett please keep an eye on her for me please." Jasper was asking Emmett to look after me because I wouldn't let him, this made me feel guilty for pushing him away but he needed to see that I needed him before and he chose to go against me.
I went to the spare bedroom the would eventually end up as a sewing room, a computer room or Esme's planning room, there was a spare bed there a lay on it closing my eyes, knowing I wouldn't sleep, but to try block everything out, I was aware that someone had entered the room behind me.
"Alice, can I sit with you please I don't wish to sit with Rose when I'm upset with her, please?" Emmett seemed to be just as upset with Rose as I was with Jasper, Emmett was never upset with Rose always her upset with him.
I couldn't speak so I just nodded.
It was about 9am on the sixteenth September, when we arrived in Cornell, it was now about 3am on the eighteenth, I decided that I should talk to Jasper he was only trying to do what was best for himself and Bella and Edward in a way because if he ever lost Bella to the hands of his brother he would have died.
I walked into the TV room where Jasper was sat with the TV on even though he wouldn't watch it; I walked over to him and sat next to him.
He looked up at me with his golden eyes burning me in apology; I turned to him and said,
"Japer Hale, I love you so much, I know why you chose to leave I just needed time to get used to the fact that I've left my best friend and sister in pain with no one to protect her, no one to hug her close when she cried for Edward, no one to love her the way she deserves to be loved, you need to understand that I love you with all my being Jasper but she was the best friend I had ever had, will ever have and she was a great sister to me, even though she hated it she would do the things I wanted to do, Jasper she is such a loving and unselfish person, I just couldn't understand why Edward would choose to leave her broken." I sat the quietly while what I just said sunk into Jasper.
He pulled me close and whispered in my ear "I love you with all my being Alice Cullen, You are the most important being in my existence and I have hated myself since the night that I attempted to attack my wife's best friend, my brothers life, Emmett's, Rose's, mine and your sister, Carlisle's and Esme's daughter, she did not deserve what I almost did to her Alice, and I hate myself for doing that to her, I now hate myself more for taking you away from her in her time of need, I hate that I have made us do this if it wasn't for that night we would all be happy in forks instead of ripped apart and miserable in Cornell, I love you Alice, please tell me you'll forgive me for what I have done to you please?" he looked down at our hands which were entwined into each other waiting for my reply, thinking the worst was about to hit him.
"Of course I forgive you Jasper, I can't say that I understand what you are going through because I can't, but I will try and help you through what you are feeling right now, I love you." I was now starting to break down again after declaring my love for the being in front of me, because I had put him trough so much pain in the last five days that he needed to hear what I felt for him, though he could probably feel that with out the declaration.
"Alice, I'm sorry also I've been such a rotten person to you Esme and my Emmett even to Edward and Bella, and now we are here dealing with it and I'm so sorry, I know you won't forgive me right away like with Jasper but please think over what I have said now." With that she turned to Emmett, "I love you Emmett and I'm so very sorry that I have caused you pain over the last few days and I hope you can find it in you to forgive me." With that said Emmett had pulled Rose up into the biggest hug possible and said,
"I love you Rosalie Hale, never forget that, I will forgive you but please don't do this to me again, it hurts to much."
Now that our family was all back together and well not happy but not full of rotten sorrow, we could all feel the gap that Bella had filled it was made worse by the fact that Edward had not arrived yet he phoned on the eighteenth to say he had left Bella and had left forks, but it was not the twentieth and we had not heard from him, when we tried to contact him he would just block the call, He was hurting.
We were sat out the garden watching Esme plant seeds when we heard the car pull into the drive, we all jumped up and ran to the end of the drive way outside the house, and waited for him to pull up.
As he pulled up you could see the sorrow in his eyes, I could tell that he was very upset not only because Jasper seemed to get even more upset when Edward pulled up but because he waited a whole ten minutes before he got out of his car and walk over to our loving family, while sat in his car you could see him crying tearless sobs and trying to calm himself before he broke down completely not wanting to in front of all his family he would do that in the privacy of his room.
He walked over to us and walked up to Esme first and she embraced him in a huge hug but said nothing.
Next he went to Carlisle who only patted him on the shoulder and said "son."
He the moved to Emmett and Myself and looked us in the eyes and said,
"I am so sorry for the pain I have caused you both over us leaving but it was the best thing to do for Bella and for Jasper" I held Jasper's hand harder in my hand when Edward said this "If you'll excuse me I am going to my room for a while I need to be alone." With that Edward walked past us and into the house and disappeared up the stairs.
Since we'd been here I never really took in the absolute beauty of the house we now lived in, it was a beautiful three story mansion that looked into the beautiful forest that covered each side of the house for miles, each room had huge bay windows that ran from ceiling to floor, come to think about it, it looks a lot like a dolls house that I once seen on a shopping trip to port angeles on time with Bella. (To see the house I took inspiration from click this link .com/images/uploads/Sea%20Castle-137-propert... hope you like)
Edward had been in his room for about a month only leaving once to hunt for two days with Carlisle, Emmett and Jasper, but since he got back from the hunting trip he locked him self in his room again.
We have been in Cornell now for two months and we have tried to live life as normal as possible.
Jasper has decided that it is time for him to go back to school so he is going to go to Cornell to study Philosophy.
Carlisle is working nights at Ithaca and teaching part time at Cornell.
Rosalie and Emmett are helping Esme restore the house that we are currently living in.
Edward left us about a month ago to be on his own for a while, he checks in every now and again but it's just not the same not having him here with us.
I had been doing some personal research about my human family with the information that Bella had found out from James earlier this year when he had tried to kill her in the ballet studio in phoenix, I didn't feel ready to go back to school just yet to I decided to look into my past.
Name- Mary Alice Brandon.
Date of Birth- June 17th 1907.
Daughter to - Benjamin and Alexis Brandon.
Sister to - Cynthia Brandon.
Date of Death - January 20th 1924.
Cause of Death - Sudden death, Unknown cause.
Further Family information - Cynthia Brandon married Jeffery O'Connor on September 16th 1951- Brandon aged 27- O'Connor aged 29.
Cynthia O'Connor had a baby girl named Elisha on March 15th 1955.
Benjamin and Alexis Brandon died in a car accident on April 16th 1964 Aged 40 and 42.
Elisha O'Connor married Jerry James on January 20th 1975, in memory of the aunt she never knew, O'Connor aged 20- James aged 21.
Elisha James had a baby girl named Sarah on September 19th 1979.
Elisha James had another baby girl names Louise on May 16th 1983.
Elisha James had a baby boy names Lucas on June 29th 1986.
Elisha and husband Jerry live in Biloxi with their loving family.
"Esme, Esme, Come see this quick," I called to her from the computer room.
"What is it Alice what's wrong?"
"Nothings wrong Esme, It's ok, I just found information on my entire family, look." I couldn't hold onto my excitement.
"Oh Alice this is great, I'm so glad you have found something about your family and your past." She gave me a huge hug and run down stairs to tell Carlisle.
When Jasper, Emmett and Rose came home I told them my great news and some other news that I had found.
"I was searching through some old files for this asylum and I found a file on me." Everyone's faces seemed to be quite shocked.
"The date I was committed was the same date on my death certificate and my tome stone, what could this mean Carlisle?" I was quite upset at this point I didn't understand.
"I don't know, Alice, Maybe you were changed on the same day that your were committed or maybe just maybe your parents decided that it might be best to let people think you had died rather than admit that they had to have you committed into a mental asylum, I'm so sorry, Alice, I know this must hurt to find all this information out just for it to be ripped away from you by this but at least now you know." He had a look in his eye that suggested to me that he wanted to investigate more into my past.
Would he.
"Alice!" Rosalie's voice filled the house, it sounded like she was singing.
"Yes, Rose, what is it?" I was sat in the sat in the computer room still looking over the information about my human family when she called.
"Alice I need your help." She sounded very excited.
Rosalie was really excited because she and Emmett had decided it was time for them to have another wedding and she wanted me to organise it.
I am so excited, I love planning weddings and parties, I think she only asked because it she knew that it would cheer me up, and I needed cheering up, I needed something to take my mind off of home