Chapter Nine - Don't Think About Her
Alice was thankful that Edward's Volvo wasn't in the garage when she arrived home. She debated on going for a quick hunt but realized the hunger and burning dissipated the more she calmed herself down. The burning almost completely gone, she could finally think clearly.
She didn't know what was hurting her more; the fact that she left Bella behind without a word or the fact that she didn't have as much control as she desired.
"What's with the long face?" Rosalie was the first to see her walk through the door.
More than a few things on her mind, Alice needed someone to talk too. Normally she would've turned to Edward but that option was no longer available; especially when it involved a certain human. "Can we talk?" She nearly whispered, her golden eyes avoiding Jasper and Emmett, who were both sitting on the couch on either side of the blonde female.
Rose frowned but nodded, "Sure."
"Privately?" Alice muttered and started to make her way up a set of marbled staircases. She sensed Rosalie right behind her and shut her bedroom door when they both entered the room. "Look, I know you have a strong dislike towards Bella-"
"Whoa." The blonde shook her head and held up her hand. "I actually like the girl, don't get me wrong. I just think it's useless to have you and Edward fight over her."
"She's going to be one of us, Rose." Alice spoke gently, almost too gently.
"Okay. I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to stop talking about Bella like that because you've never steered us wrong with your visions before." Rosalie nodded and sat down on the bed. "I'm sorry." She added on later.
Alice couldn't help but smile and sat down next to her sister. "That was sweet Rose, but that's not why I wanted to talk to you."
Rosalie looked at the short girl curiously and sat back, intrigued. "Oh? Do you need my help to bury her body?"
"Rosalie!" Alice hissed and frowned in disapproval. "That's not funny."
"Whatever," the blonde vampire shrugged and looked at her manicured nails. "Jasper can sense the desire oozing off of you whenever you think about her. It must be hard to control yourself."
Alice nodded and thought for a few minutes in silence. "Bella's different."
"So you guys keep saying," Rosalie sighed.
"Well aside from the fact that Edward can't get a read on her," the pixie trailed off before taking a deep breath. "She's messing with my visions."
"Yeah, you mentioned being able to smell and feel emotions through them, right?" Finally Rosalie was paying more attention to the seriousness in Alice's statement. "Hybrid?"
"What? No." Alice shook her head. "She's 100% human, trust me. I feel the warmth of her blood flowing through her body, not to mention the smell. Her heart is stronger than most humans I've ever come across."
Rosalie stood up and started to pace, her high heels clicking along the polished wooden floor. "Wait, you feel the warmth of her blood?"
"Strange, isn't it?" Alice breathed and shook her head.
"Maybe you should talk with Carlisle?" Rosalie asked more softly as she watched her sister sit on the unused bed sadly.
"Not yet. If I talk with him and he can't figure it out right way, it'll be on his mind constantly. Edward will find out how serious it is if I went to Carlisle and find a way to intercept somehow. He'll be going to Bella and prodding her with questions and I've already seen him hurt her feelings one time too many." Her statement was finished off with a scowl.
"When you get these types of visions, is it only around Bella?" Rosalie asked, knowing her sister came to her for a reason and wanted to help.
"Yes." Alice nodded and furrowed her eyebrows together in thought. "It actually only seems to happen when we're touching."
"Ew." Rosalie scrunched her face up semi-playfully.
Alice ignored the comment, her head filling with recent events that had happened to cause her visions to spring into her own mind as if it were all real. She blinked and realized that she could no longer see Bella at all. "Great!" She grimaced and threw herself back on the bed.
"What?" Rosalie stared at the other girl.
"Bella's with Jacob I guess." She sighed and stood up, making her way towards the door. "I can't see her."
"I have to say Alice, Bella's pretty stupid to be getting caught up in the pack from La Push and us." The blonde shrugged and followed Alice out of her room.
"She's not stupid." Alice stopped and looked over at the taller blonde. "She's known the pack a lot longer than she's known us obviously. Jacob seems to keep her safe and I don't judge what she wants to do."
"And that makes you stupid." Rosalie smirked and when she was shot a death glare, she cleared her throat. "I'm just suggesting it's not normal for a human to be mixed up in all of this. I actually like Bella, I'd hate to see her get hurt."
The smaller vampire placed a hand on her hip. "I would never hurt that girl, Rose."
"Maybe you won't," the taller girl shrugged, "but we have others in this house that seems to be losing control. Not to mention Jasper's struggle already with the whole co-existing with humans."
"Jasper can manage just fine, thank you. He's good with it all, he's better than he was in Pennsylvania."
"Whatever, my point is just be careful around her okay? And don't stir Edward up too much. I know he overreacts but that's his nature." Rosalie walked off in front of Alice, ready to join her husband and Jasper again.
"Rose?" Alice whispered her name. "Please don't think about this around Edward?" She had trusted Rosalie to keep her thoughts to herself. The blonde didn't like it when Edward would dig into her mind so she practiced at keeping her thoughts blocked; only giving Edward what he wanted or what she wanted.
"You can trust me." Rosalie nodded before making her way towards her destination.
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**I'll have more Bellice, no worries! I just need to dig deeper the next chapter and then hopefully it'll all start to string together a little more**
