Caffeine Fix -Chapter 6
Hey guys, i know it's been a while since i last updated, but i hope this makes up for the wait- i will try and post as often as possible from now on- cheers x
Alice's p.o.v
Mornings were always my favourite time of day. It was something to do with a fresh start, and all the possibilities that came with a new day. I'd gotten used to a certain routine since coming back to Forks. I now sat on the couch every morning, drinking my juice and watching the sunrise. I'd never thought I'd miss having the freedom to wake up when I wanted and do what I wanted in the mornings, until it was taken away from me. But now, I couldn't imagine not starting the day by watching the sun rise, bringing with it all the undiscovered possibilities.
I sat up, stretching and looking around the Cullen's lounge room. Sleep didn't come that easy to me last night. I spent most of the night replaying last night's events in my mind. Bella, wonderfully quirky beautiful Bella had kissed me last night. Ok, I would have been completely obtuse if I hadn't noticed she was attracted to me- I may be fresh out of a Psychiatric facility, but I wasn't so completely void of human interaction that I couldn't notice the flirting and lingering touches. I admit, I had done my share of flirting with the girl, which had been wrong. With me being, sanely challenged I knew I shouldn't be in a relationship. Not to mention, who'd want to be with a crazy person? Apparently Bella did. She'd kissed me after finding out I was in a 'loony bin'. Although she'd only heard the 'rumour' version about what happened to me. Would she want to be with me if she knew the whole truth? Does she still want to be with me after practically sprinting out of her house after we kissed?
It was a good thing that my best friend's house was also my shrink's house, 'cause I needed a good long conversation about my feelings- and Esme was the best shrink out there. Not to mention she was like another, slightly better, Mother to me.
Footsteps sounded from the stairway and were followed soon after by Emmett, wearing nothing but his blue boxers. When he noticed I was awake he gave me one of his signature dimpled smiles.
"Morning Ali-cat! Sleep well?"
I spent so much time at the Cullen residence, that they were like family to me, and Emmett being Emmett took that to mean that he didn't need to feel embarrassed about being almost completely naked around me.
"Morning Em." I shifted on the couch, before smiling weakly. He nodded, knowing about my sleeping troubles he also knew that no answer was code for 'don't wanna talk about it'.
He plopped himself down next to me and turned on the television. "Where's ? He not awake yet?"
I shrugged, pulling up the blanket and nonchalantly covering Emmett's lap with it. We were close but not close that close. Plus boxers weren't always that reliable covering certain areas. I don't think Emmett and I could be friends if that ever happened, I'd be beet red every time I looked at him.
"He had a big night last night."
Emmett guffawed loudly, "That's true. Last night also proved that two people can fit in Bella's hallway closet," his eyes grew bigger for a second, before he snorted, "I guess Edward and Jasper both came out of the closet last night! Get it? Cause I opened the closet door and they fell out! Out of the closet!" He through his head back and laughed, practically shaking the whole house with his thunderous guffaws. I couldn't help but giggle also, before I rolled my eyes and elbowed him in the stomach.
"But it also proved that liking blondes is genetic."
I rubbed my chin thoughtfully, before turning back to him grinning, "Yeah you both must get it from Esme."
Edward appeared at the bottom of the stairs, Pyjama clad and hair even more unruly than usual.
"Well his hair is pretty damn sensational. Like a meadow of silky golden straw just before a harvest."
Emmett snorted, "Gonna start writing poetry bro? Cause I should warn you, don't quit ya day job."
Esme closed the study door, before making her way over to the leather armchair opposite mine. As she sat down, I kicked of my shoes and positioned myself cross-legged on the extremely comfortable armchair. Esme crossed her leg over the other, tucked her caramel coloured hair behind her ear, before focusing all her attention on to me.
"So how have you been Alice?" I loved Esme's voice, so motherly yet professional at the same time.
I shrugged, "Alright I guess. The med's are helping, at least I think they are."
Esme nodded before writing something down on her clipboard. "Any side effects? Nausea, dizziness, headaches, tiredness, or loss of appetite?"
I fiddled with the tip of my sock, "I guess loss of appetite. But I was never a big eater to begin with."
Esme studied me quietly for a couple seconds, before scribbling once again on her clipboard.
"It's your body Alice, and if you're not comfortable with the side effects or the dose you're on now, I'll speak to Carlisle about lowering it. He might suggest seeing if the lack of appetite goes away after your body adjusts to the medication."
I didn't like the sound of lowering the dose. The medication was actually making me feel happy, and I was freaked out, that if they lowered the dose, the darkness would come back and I wouldn't be able to escape it this time. I liked being bubbly bright optimistic Alice. And if it meant loss of appetite was the side effect of it, it'd gladly give up an appetite altogether to achieve it.
I nodded, "I'll stick with it."
And once again Esme nodded and scribbled something on the clipboard. Surprising enough, I wasn't even a tad bit curious as to what she was writing; I'd prefer not to know how crazy she thought I was.
"So tell me about last night. Edward mentioned something happening last night at Bella's."
"Of course he did." That's Edward for you, frets like a little old lady.
I sighed deeply, before recounting the events of last night, in excruciating detail.
*Back to Bella's p.o.v*
To say I wasn't having a very good day, would be putting it lightly. Too say I was one wrong order away from grabbing a shotgun and going all Bruce Campbell on everyone's ass would also be underplaying the situation. Maybe.
I placed the two lattes on the table, forced myself to smile at the customers, which turned out to look more like a pained grimace, wiped my hands on my little black apron and walked back over to the counter.
Yep, today was definitely not my day. And neither had yesterday apparently. It had been over twelve hours since I last saw Alice. Seen Alice, and kissed her.I'd been on edge since last night. Had she wanted me to kiss her? Did she like me back? Why was I being so frickin' spastic about it? Oh yeah that's right, about three seconds after our kiss Edward had burst in, frantic looking and asking why the hell I let malicious people like Jessica-fucking-Stanley into my house. The rest of the night was sort of a blur- Alice left with Edward, Emmett and Rosalie, giving me a quick smile and saying something about 'calling me later' or something, giving me no clue as to what she was thinking. So I was left with an extremely giddy looking Jasper and an extremely pissed off looking Angela, too clean up the mess, while wondering about the enigma that is Alice.
"Yo Bella! You in there girl?"
A raised voice and snapping fingers brought me back to reality. I focussed all my energy on looking calm and collected, and looked up to give my best 'what can I do for you' look. Jasper just grinned back smugly from the other side of the counter. Since when did he come and hang out at his place of employment on his rostered days off? Oh that's right; it's our 'thing'. I rolled my eyes at him,
"Whatcha want?" I asked, dropping the look and replacing it with the 'I-sooooo- wish- the- girl- that- I- liked- would- call- me- and- tell- me- that- it- was- ok- for- me- to- kiss- her- and- that- she- enjoyed- my- kiss- and- thinks- I- have- great- skin' look. One of the looks I hoped to never have. Jasper's smile faded slightly and replaced it with a sympathetic look.
"aaaaah that look, that's bad."
I crossed my arms over my chest, "What look? I have many looks, each as different and as special as the last."
He rolled his eyes slightly before continuing, "The 'I-sooooo- wish- the- girl- that- I- liked- would- call- me- and- tell- me- that- it- was- ok- for- me- to- kiss- her- and- that- she- enjoyed- my- kiss- and- thinks- I- have- great- skin' look."
My brow crinkled in confusion, and I dropped my arms. "How the hell-"
"I know you Bella; I can read you like a book. And that's how I knew it was the 'skin' one instead of the 'and-i-hope-she-also-likes-calligraphy' one."
I shook my head in amazement. Maybe he knew me too well. And that in turn reminded me-
"Hey, so why were you so happy last night? Actually that's an understatement, why were you so 'giddily-ecstatically-over the moon-happy last night?"
His grin turned devilish and he quickly looked over his shoulder. I let my eyes wonder to the table next to the door and noticed a familiar looking head of unruly bronze hair. I looked back over at Jasper, eyes wide and mouth slightly agape. Oh no he didn't!
His smile widened and he nodded, as if to say 'OH YES I DID!'
I guess 'operation-best-friend-hook-up' worked. Alice would be over the moon. Oh great, I can't think about anything without eventually working my way back to Alice.
"So, You guys.." I pointed at Jasper then to Edward then back at Jasper, "are an..item?"
He nodded enthusiastically, and then pulled out his wallet. "Yes and No. Yes we're together, and no we're not not together." I did my sarcastic laugh and rolled my eyes, Jasper's sense humour sometimes reminded me of my grandma's.
"So I'll have two grande mocha's." He handed me the cash, and I couldn't help but smirk.
"So you've been dating for, what, twelve hours and you're already drinking the same beverages and paying for both of them. Jazz honey you're whipped!"
He narrowed his eyes at me as I handed back his change, before shrugging, "I guess somebody's not getting a tip."
He turned to walk away, and I leant over the counter holding both my hands out in front of myself in an overdramatic fashion.
"But I need those tips, how am I going to feed my children? My children Jasper, think of the poor little bastards!"
I could sometimes be a tad 'overdramatic' when it comes to certain things. Some think it's a flaw, I on the other hand consider it a gift.
I'd tried, oh how I'd tried, to stay away from Jasper and Edward's table for the past hour. But all I wanted to do was sprint over there and demand to know what the hell was going on with Alice.
But I knew that Jasper wouldn't appreciate me interrupting his coffee date with Edward sexyhands.
I lasted another twenty-five minutes, until I snapped. I Marched over to the nearest table, picked up a chair, then dragged it over to their table, plonked it down between their chairs, sat on the chairs and almost yelled,
"OK, what's going on with Alice?"
Jasper looked like he was going to duct tape my mouth shut, but Edward on the other hand didn't seem all to surprised at the question.
He ran a hand through his hair, before rubbing his slightly stubbled chin.
"You'll have to ask Alice."
I huffed loudly, and crossed my arms across my chest.
"Duh Captain Obvious, that's what I wanted to do- but she been ignoring my calls and I haven't seen her all day."
Again Edward just rubbed his chin, looking quite torn between telling me and letting Alice talk to me.
"I don't know what to tell you Bella," I opened my mouth to say something along the lines of 'tell me why the frick she's ignoring me' but he quickly interrupted me before I could get a word out.
"She wouldn't want me to tell you. She'd want to do it herself. It's her life, her story and it's her choice whether she tells you or not."
On one hand, I respected Edward for not blabbing, but on the other hand I just wanted to wax his eyebrows off.
I stood up, tore my apron off and threw it on the table.
"Fine! I'm off." I turned to leave the coffee shop but paused and turned back around, "If you happen to bump into Alice, tell her I want to talk to her. And tell her it's important. She can reach me at my place."
I didn't wait to see if Edward nodded or even acknowledged what I'd said, before I turned and stormed out the door. Feeling as worried as I had at the start of my shift.
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