Project-X
~ Alice's Dream

Alice didn't get a chance to tell her younger brother the response Bella had given her during school hours as they didn't share any classes. Even though he could read her mind he didn't like focusing on people's thoughts that he could see. The Cullen family had sat down yet again at the table to work on their homework.

Rosalie was the first person to speak up. "Did you ask Bella that question?"

"If she would go to the dance with Edward?" Alice piped up rather innocently.

Edward cocked an eyebrow at her. "I never said anything about asking her to the dance. Where did this come from."

"From the fact it is rather obvious that you have a crush on her." Rosalie let out a deep sigh while she flipped her hair over her shoulder.

"I didn't notice." Emmett blinked a couple of times.

Jasper suddenly patted him on the back. "That's all right. You tend to not notice a lot of things."

"I do not have a crush on her and I won't be asking her to the dance." Edward shook his head.

"That is probably a good thing. I didn't have to ask the question because she told someone else that she doesn't like going to dances. I thought you would already know that Rosalie." Alice held her chin in her hand. "I can see why Edward wouldn't know as he doesn't listen to gossip and he happens to have missed the rumor that one chick is spreading that he'll ask her to the dance."

"I was hoping I could get a dejected look from our youngest brother." Rosalie suddenly smiled at Edward. This simply caused him to close his book and head upstairs.

"I'm going to finish my homework in my room and then hit the sack. We've got football practice in the morning and I don't want to be tired for that."

Alice let out a deep sigh. Eventually she ate dinner and went to bed herself. That was when it happened, when she got a dream. It was different from the others where she saw a bald headed man asking them if they wanted to join the academy. That was a light in mood dream while this was dark dream.

This dream though was over cast with dark clouds and the rain began to poor down in sheets. The school day tomorrow was going to end in a massive rain fall and everyone would have to go home in that kind of weather. Alice never liked the rain when it was like this and she preferred it when it snowed.

That is when she saw Bella walking home by herself, soaking wet in the rain while other students walked by. She saw Bella glance up and suddenly heard the screeching of tires right outside of the school grounds in an area she clearly recognized. It was then that Alice suddenly found herself sitting up in fright.

Getting up she walked over to Edward's room and knocked on the door, waking up her younger brother. A muffled reply told her to go to bed so she knocked on the door again. Suddenly, footsteps could be heard and the door opened. "Alice... what do you want?"

"Dream..." The girl's face was an icy pale color and Edward let out a deep sigh before letting her into the room.

"What was it this time?" Edward let out a deep yawn while his sister plopped onto the bed next to him.

"Bella might die tomorrow."

Edward glanced up at her, his face twisting up. "You knows what happens when we try to change the fate of others outside of our family. They find out and we are ridiculed."

"You and Jasper now can use your powers together to change memories, remember." Alice placed her hands on her knees. "It is going to happen right outside of the school parking entrance. It is going to be raining. Bella is nice. I get to talk books to her. Besides... I talked to her about Professor Xavier. I think he is the bald guy in my dreams an I think there is a connection to the two of them."

"You shouldn't jump to conclusions." Edward let out a deep sigh. "We aren't supposed to talk about those papers."

"Have you thought about secretly getting on the net and reading them?" Alice piped up.

"No."

"Well, I have. I think this guy I the real deal. He believes that we... mutants as he calls us, are the advanced form of the human species and that we should also live together. We happen to have a certain gene that identifies us and sets us apart."

"You shouldn't be reading that stuff."

"I started having the dreams about Bella and change after I read those papers though, that paper." Alice glanced up. "At first, I thought it was a bad dream because it meant we would be leaving, but I think the change would be a positive one."

"Could we not talk about this? Why don't you go talk to Bella about this? It is bad enough that Eric gabs my ear off every chance he can get." Edward flopped onto his bed.

"I can't. Bella says she doesn't like talking about those papers." Alice kicked up her feet. "I think she knows things, more then what mom and dad do." She paused. "Why don't mom and dad read the papers despite the fact the are as knowledgeable as they are?"

"They are afraid of quacks. You remember what happened when you were younger." Edward frowned. "They also remembered how they were treated when they were younger too, which is why they tried at first getting rid of your powers using that quack. They don't hate their powers or ours, but they also know the pain that comes from being different."

"I wouldn't have met Bella if it hadn't been for my ability."

"That isn't true. Eric talked about Xavier with Bella and I've been listening in. We got curious about how she blocked my thoughts. It is as simple as that."