Stephenie Meyer owns Twilight, I'm just messing with her characters.

No one knows what it's like To be hated To be fated To telling only lies But my dreams They aren't as empty As my conscience seems to be I have hours, only lonely My love is vengeance That's never free

Behind Blue Eyes- The Who

May 18, 1956. Ten o'clock p.m., an eighteen-year-old high school graduate leaves a graduation party thrown in her honor to walk home. Light posts line the street, but all are burned out, leaving darkness as her only company. Even the moon isn't making an appearance; it's hidden by the clouds. She grips her handbag closer to her and continues her walk, telling herself only two more blocks and she will be home safe. She passes a wooded patch of the neighborhood, she picks up her pace. Sweat beads on her brow and the hair at the nape of her neck stands on end.

A man steps in front of her, blocking her path. She jumps back and tries to turn the other way, he moves to block her again, he's very fast. She looks at his face and finds that she recognizes him.

"Hello, Demetri," she says surprised, and relieved.

"Would you like me to walk you home? It is awfully dark out here," he offers, she accepts. She had been out with this boy before, he was a perfect gentleman. She places her hand in the one that he extends to her.

Her family and friends held a funeral for an empty casket, they told stories, and shared one another's sorrow for the lost girl, never seen again after that night.

I watched on as they did this.

I, Alice Brandon, watched as my family lowered a casket that should have contained my body into the ground. They had given up hope of finding me. I saw their tears, heard their words, and felt my loved one's sorrow, but I could do nothing about it. I had never felt as helpless as I did in that moment. Not even as Demetri pulled me into the forest and crushed my left arm and leg, or as he dragged my limp, defenseless, but still conscious body over the rough, uneven ground did I feel as if I didn't have hope. Knowing that I could never see or speak to my family again, never give them the peace they deserved, that was when I truly felt broken. But with this brokenness came a resolve, if I couldn't give my loved ones peace, I would damn well find it for myself, and I would make something of the new life forced upon me. I would destroy the one who destroyed me and do my best to make sure this never happened to anyone else.

Demetri wanted me for his own; he told me this as he bit me.

Demetri told me he loved me, constantly said that I was everything to him. For a while, I believed him. I stuck by his side, hunted with him, slept with him, and cared for him, but it didn't last. Demetri always wanted excitement and I wore out as the new, shiny toy. He would leave for months at a time, but always expect me to be there waiting on him when he returned. I used my vision to keep up with his arrivals and departures, and in his absence I lived my life as I wished. I gave up feeding on humans and found that drinking the blood of animals was just as satisfying, if not more, for me.

I never told Demetri of my ability to see the future, I felt like it was the only thing I owned that was solely mine, no one could take it from me. So I used it to my advantage, Demetri had lately been coming home with the scent of other females and humans covering him. I was breaking the promise that I had made to myself, I vowed I would never let anyone be faced with what I had to go through, and here I was letting Demetri leave and return with the stench of his kills and wickedness filling our house.

After one year of putting up with his bullshit, I put an end to it, I found my peace. I saw that Demetri would return on the anniversary of his biting me, and I concocted my plan. The anniversary came upon us, and I heard him enter the back door of our house, I waited in the bedroom, "Where's my beautiful piece of ass?" he called.

"I'm in the bedroom, Metri," I answered sweetly. He crossed into the bedroom and I watched as his jaw dropped. I had put on my sexiest black lingerie and was perched in the center of our bed waiting for him, "This is such a pleasant surprise, my love. You must have remembered what day it was," I said nothing as he shed his clothing and moved to the center of the bed with me. He gripped his hand through my hair and pulled my face to the side allowing him access to my neck where he nibbled and kissed his way to the top off my breasts. He began to unzip the delicate corset that covered my body when I stilled his hand, "This night is for you, big boy. After all you are the reason I'm here," I said lovingly. I slammed my lips to his, and heard him groan as I moved my mouth down to his neck; I opened my mouth and sunk my teeth deep into the pale flesh there.

"What? What are you doing?" Demetri yelped.

I removed my mouth from the incision that my teeth had carved and placed my hands in the gash, widening it, "I'm getting my revenge, after all you are the reason I'm here," I repeated this time with anger and hatred in my voice. His attempts to throw me off of him were useless as I pried his head from his body. I was wild with freedom; I soaked it in as I threw his head and body out the window and jumped to the ground below me with my matches already out.

I lit the bastard on fire and ran.

I ran for weeks, crossing state line after state line, searching for a place that was popping up more frequently in my visions. I cleared the United States ten times, sprinting from coast to coast until I finally found my destination.

Forks was the last place I expected I would settle down in, but it turned out to be exactly what I wanted. I found the Masen family as I was hunting one day. I watched from a treetop as I saw each of them take down a deer on the ground below me. I stepped off of my limb and landed lithely in the middle of their feeding circle. They all looked in my direction and grew defensive. They moved to join each other in a group. I took in each of the five vampire's eyes and saw that they were, as mine, golden-brown. A smile broke across my face as I stepped towards the group with my hand extended in their direction, "My name is Alice Brandon," I said cheerfully, "I know I sound crazy but I can see the future and you guys are it!"

The blonde man at the head of the group spoke first, "I am Carlisle Masen, patriarch of this family," he said motioning to the vampires that stood by him, "Would you like to come to our home?"

I nodded my head in agreement and followed the Masens to their home. I felt pure happiness as the house that I had seen so many times in my head solidified and became a real place with a real family. I shared my story with them. They found it astonishing that I had already switched to the blood of animals after only being a vampire for such a short period of time. I was introduced to each member of the family and given a shortened version of their history, Carlisle and Esme, the parental figures, where turned together in 1918, they had a son, but could not remember much other than that from their human life. Masen isn't even their real last name, they awoke with their vampire life in the basement of a hospital; Carlisle found a piece of paper in his pocket stating what his wife and he had become and the word Masen. Their son was never mentioned, they never knew what became of him. They never spoke his name, but told me he had Esme's green eyes and bronze hair color, but had Carlisle's gentle and compassionate personality. I could tell that he was greatly missed.

I learned that each of the children, as Esme termed them, were found with death eminent and changed by Carlisle who opened his home to them. Jasper was first. He was turned in 1920, Carlisle found him in a ditch on a remote stretch of highway not far from their house, he was robbed and his car had been stolen, he was left to die with stab wounds to the chest. In 1945, Emmett was hunting elk with a friend when his friend's gun malfunctioned leaving Emmett with a mortal gun shot wound, his friend ran off too afraid of being caught. Carlisle caught the scent of human blood while hunting and found Emmett in the nick of time. And there was Rosalie who's father was a drunk who decided to take his repressed anger out on her and her mother by beating them. In 1950, her mother died, and Rosalie ran away, only to have her father find her two miles down the road and beat her once again, this time she couldn't get away, Carlisle found her and saved her. They all shared a passion to not be what they had become, they all fought against the vampire nature within them.

All of their human lives had grim endings, but now they had found happiness beyond belief, and I was able to be a part of it. In 1960, I watched as Rosalie and Emmett were married by Carlisle in our backyard. Two years later, Jasper and I were married in the same place; I had fallen so deeply in love with him. He was everything that I could hope for, everything that Demetri could have never dreamed of being.

My visions slacked off, I would only get them about once every three months, they were glimpses of our next feeding or a new gift that Jasper wanted to surprise me with, nothing too important. I went for years without seeing the future at all until 2007 when a human began revealing herself to me through visions.

She had long brown hair that fell close to her waist, and deep chocolate brown eyes; she was around five foot three inches and had a thin body, she was nothing too spectacular, she was common. She was standing by an old red truck at the local high school, looking confused and afraid. This was the first vision I had of her. It confused me; I went to Carlisle asking him if he knew anything of the girl, he explained that her father was the new Chief of Police and that they had just moved here from Phoenix, Arizona. The young girl's name was Isabella Swan. She would begin at Forks High School in two weeks.

My next vision of her gave me the answers that I needed to know. She was at school once again, but I was there also, I was trying to persuade her to come shopping with me. She was being stubborn, saying that even though I was her best friend, shopping just wasn't her thing. Best friend, two words that I hung on to, this human was to be my best friend, I was ecstatic. I enrolled in Forks High School that day, and the rest is history. Bella had really become my best friend, her blood never bothered me and she never saw me as anything other than a human being. Of course, I had the blue contacts to cover the gold of my eyes. I always wore clothes that covered my arms and legs, and I carried pocket-sized hand warmers around with me. She never felt the difference of skin temperatures between her and me.

My visions of Bella were always happy ones, her smile when I gave her a gift, her excellent grades on her report card, small things that were important to her.

Then her mother was murdered, and I lost any vision of her future, it was just blank. I didn't forsee the attack that left Bella motherless, and I was devastated when I heard what happened. I was determined to help pick up her pieces. Jacob and I, although we never saw eye-to-eye, agreed that we would be there for Bella no matter what. We tried our hardest to make her happy, but I could tell that she was truly broken inside; nothing we were doing could fix that.

And then Edward graced us with his presence and everything changed. My visions turned from blank to black, her mother's murder case was closed, and Bella was smiling and joking again, but only with Edward.

To me, he was a stranger, I didn't trust him. He obviously drank from humans, and his sudden arrival and interest in Bella sent off alarms in my head. It was like Demetri and me all over again, and I would not allow what happened to me to happen to Bella. I stuck close to them, listening to everything he would say to her, and it all seemed innocent enough, but that only put me more on edge. When he asked her on a date I knew I had to figure him out, I couldn't let her go off with him.

He proved to be an asshole just as expected, but he had only been that way with me, he claimed that Bella was tired of being treated like a child, and that I should leave her alone. He seemed to have some kind of feelings for her, and she was actually happy for the first time in awhile. So I allowed the date to happen, and I backed off.

When she called me I panicked, I just knew something was wrong and that Edward had screwed up. Well, I was right about one part, something was wrong but Edward was not the cause of it, he actually prevented anything else from happening. The red mark that was beginning to bruise on Bella's face surprised me, I couldn't believe that Charlie would actually strike his daughter; I was only focusing on Bella when Esme dropped the vase. I glanced between Carlisle, Esme and Edward; their expressions were of complete shock.

"Uh, um, yeah," Edward was stammering, "You're safe now, Bella, right?" she nodded. I could tell she was highly confused, I was as well, "Well, I'm going to leave, I should be getting home. I'll see you on Monday," he said quickly and leaned in to kiss her cheek. Her heart beat fluttered and she smiled as he left.

"Alice, will you please show Bella to her room and get her settled?" Carlisle asked quietly. I took Bella's bag and grabbed her hand leading her up the stairs to the third floor guest room.

"What's going on?" she questioned. I honestly had no answer. I just shrugged my shoulders in response, "Well do you mind if I take a shower? I feel gross."

"No, go ahead, Bella. Does your head or cheek hurt? I can get some Tylenol," I was trying to play a good hostess and best friend but I was really curious as to what was going on downstairs, I had heard Carlisle and Esme exit the house.

"It's nothing a hot shower can't fix," Bella said as she closed the door to the bathroom. I listened for the shower to come on and I flew down the stairs and out the front door.

I stopped dead in my tracks when I hit the porch. Esme was clinging to Edward, and he was holding her just as tightly, Carlisle stood to the side with his arm wrapped around Edward's shoulder, "I can't believe its really you," Esme was sobbing, but no tears fell from her eyes. Realization was beginning to hit me.

"Where have you been, my son?" Carlisle patted him on the shoulder. Edward is their son, the precious son that they had lost so many years ago. He had found them, they had found him, and they were a family again.

"It's him, right?" I asked from my spot on the porch. They turned their attention to me; I don't think they even noticed that I had been standing here.

"This is my baby!" Esme exclaimed, her smile could light up the darkened forest, and Carlisle was beaming just as brightly. Edward hugged them both tightly once more, and looked to me.

"I've found my parents, Alice," he stated, and it was as if he were a little boy, gazing into the faces of his parents like they were the greatest superheroes ever. All of the animosity that I held for him dissipated in that moment, he really was just a kid, like me. We may have existed on this planet for a long time, but we were still teenagers, as we would always be, we were frozen in our youth. I heard Bella turn the water off in the shower and I excused myself from their company.

I stepped into Bella's room just as she was about to leave, "I was just about to come find you," she said as I blocked her path.

"You found me!" I said, I shut the door behind me and moved to sit on the bed. Bella joined me.

"So, did you find out why your parents acted so weird when they met Edward?" she wanted an explanation to something that I couldn't explain to her, I had to think fast.

"Apparently he's the son of some friend's that they used to know. They hadn't heard from him in awhile and were surprised to find that he was in the area," that wasn't too far from the truth.

"Oh, that's cool," Bella yawned, "Edward should invite his parents over, oh and James. I'm sure Carlisle and Esme would love to reconnect with them." I smiled politely, there wasn't much I could say, "Well, I guess I'm going to sleep now," she said as she slid under the comforter of her bed, "Thanks for letting me stay here Alice, and will you pass along the thanks to Carlisle and Esme?"

"Sure thing, Bella," I said as I exited her room. I stood outside the door until I could tell that she had fallen asleep, then I tiptoed into my room, I found Jasper lying on the bed watching a movie, "What's been all the commotion, honey?" he questioned as I snuggled next to him.

"You know those vampires that I told you about? The two that just out of no where show up at Forks?" he nodded, "Edward, the one who took an interest in Bella, is Carlisle and Esme's son, their real son."

"Are they sure?" Jasper questioned skeptically.

"He matched their description perfectly, Jazz. They're positive it's him," I answered.

"Well, it really is a small world," he said with a smile, "What about James? What role does he play in all this?" That was a mystery to me, James really had no piece of the puzzle that I was trying to figure out, he was just there. Being in his presence was unsettling, Bella pegged it as having new student jitters, but I knew better than that. He had an almost sinister presence about him. He is a vampire and we all carry that intimidating demeanor with us, but he just seemed to be… evil. Even Edward tended to shy away from him.

"Now, that I am still trying to figure out, but I don't trust him, Jazz, at all. There is nothing…good about him," I tried to find the right words to describe him.

"We'll figure it all out, doll," Jasper comforted me, "Should I go meet this Edward? After all, he is our brother," I hadn't thought of it that way. Would Edward want to come live in our house? How would we explain that to Bella? There were too many questions that needed to be answered. How had our lives become so twisted upside down in such short amount of time?

"I think he has already left, dear, maybe tomorrow. Right now, I really just want to be with you, my love," I said as my lips found his neck.

"Anything for you, darling," he sighed as he pulled me to him.

Wow, this chapter was tough to write. I didn't want Alice's history to go on too long but I kind of got carried away, if you have any questions or if anything is unclear, don't hesitate to ask. Let me know what you think, leave a review! Thank you so much for reading!