Alice's POV-

"Coffee, that's what I need, I need coffee," Becca complained to me as we shut our lockers at school on Monday.

"Too bad that there's no coffee around, right?" I laughed back at her.

She rolled her eyes and clicked her tongue. "Where is Bella?" she asked suddenly.

"I don't know," I shrugged.

Becca pulled her phone out of her pocket and started texting her thumbs off. "She's on her way. She woke up late."

"Ugh, I knew that fashion show wore her out," I shook my head.

We walked around the school for a while, stopping to talk to Lauren and Becca's cousin Amanda. Edward eventually found his way over to us. He, of course, just wanted to know where Bella was. Becca rolled her eyes and told him we had kidnapped her and she wouldn't be back for years. Edward rolled his eyes back and walked off. He can be such a cry baby sometimes!

Bella finally got there about two minutes before the bell rang. She threw her stuff into her locker, grabbed her stuff for first hour, and then turned to us with a smile.

The day went by super slowly, at least for me. Finally, the final bell rang and I raced to my locker. "C'mon," I complained as I waited for everyone else to finish whatever they had to do, "Mom is waiting for us, and I want to get home!"

"You do know that you have to come back here tomorrow, right Alice?" Edward asked sarcastically.

"Why, yes my dear brother, I do know that."

Becca's POV-

I only half listened to Alice and Edward bicker after school. I looked down the hallway toward Emmett and Rosalie. I felt like growling. The two of them were absolutely disgusting, making out in the middle of the hallway as if it was there right. Bella and Edward didn't even do that, and neither did Alice and Jasper! Ugh, couldn't those two just keep their hands off each other for a second? It made my stomach sick just watching them.

I didn't notice Edward and Alice walk down the hallway with Jasper. I didn't notice when Bella came up beside me, following my glare. She made an ugh sound and I suddenly was alert. I jumped about four feet into the air. "Oh, hey, Bells, didn't notice you there."

I tore my eyes away from Rose and Emmett to put my homework in my backpack. "You know," Bella said, "I bet you and Emmett would make a better couple then them."



I froze. "But I don't like Emmett," I chuckled back, hoping my nervousness didn't show through.

"Hmm," Bella made a noise that sounded skeptical. "That's exactly what I said about Edward, wasn't it? Besides, you can tell me you know. I'd be more than happy to get rid of Rose as much as possible. Obviously, we can't avoid her forever because she's Jasper's sister…but still."

I took a step back, causing Bella to trip over her own feet a little bit. She recovered just fine, though. I shut my locker door, put my lock on and then turned back toward her. "You know," I started, looking right at her, "getting rid of Rose is going to be harder than it looks."

She flashed me a smile. "Whatever it takes."

"You must really hate her," I laughed.

"Who doesn't?" She smirked back.

I was proud of Bella. I had actually given her a slightly cruel side. Not to mention, it was showing up just when I needed her the most.

Bella's Pov-

Becca and I hurried out to the Cullens' car and hopped in. Emmett and Rosalie weren't there yet. "Ugh," Alice complained. "Can't we just go already? Emmett can get a ride home from someone else."

"I'll call him, Esme," offered Becca.

"Alright," she nodded, Becca pulled out her phone.

"Emmett," she greeted him, "Get out to the car now! Everyone is waiting on you!"

A moment passed by. "Do you really think we care?"

Another minute. Emmett sounded slightly angry from what we could hear of his muffled voice.

"Fine, then. I'll tell your mom," Becca said before hanging up. "Esme, he's going to go to Rose's house for a few hours."

"Alrighty then," she said before putting up the little screen thing and pulling out of the parking lot of our school.

Yep, we were in the Cullens' stretch hummer. Edward held my hand and talked to Jasper about something I couldn't understand at all. It was probably about sports. I, myself, was trying not to smile. Becca and mine's plan to get rid of Rosalie was going to have to be spectacular. We were going to have to be careful though…and very, very tricky. Everything was going to have to be extremely well thought out and planned.



I looked at Becca. She was playing with the radio. Alice was bouncing up and down, chattering about something that I probably didn't even care about. I nodded, as if I was listening and scooted just a little closer to Edward. He squeezed me hand and kept talking to Jasper.

When we got home, we threw our bags into Alice's room and went into the room with all the musical stuff. Okay, yes, they have an entire room dedicated to music. On one side of the room there's a piano that I know Edward can play. Alice was telling me all about it. Becca can play too, but she doesn't like too. She rather likes to sing along apparently. "Edward," Becca started, "Play something for Bella. She's never heard you play!"

I felt the heat rise to my face. Edward squeezed my hand. "Bella, do you want me to play?"

I nodded a yes. He walked over to the piano. "I'm not very good," he warned.

"Oh stop lying!" Alice laughed.

Becca hopped up on top of the piano. "You know I hate it when you do that," Edward told her.

She shrugged. "Play something I know. I feel like singing."

He rolled his eyes and started to play. Becca smiled. "Good choice."

"I promise, promise to be here with you

No matter what you do

I'll be here no matter what you say

Just feel the presence

Just feel it with you

Mmm that's me"

Ugh, this was not fair at all. These people, who had been together for practically forever, were way too talented. Was there anything that they were bad at? At all? Becca kept singing,

"You will find me wherever you go

I'll be watching over you

I'll be loving you even if it's from afar

Don't cry for me

I'm looking after you"



Alice was swaying along, and Jasper grabbed her hand. They started dancing flawlessly. One more thing they were perfect at.

"Don't let the world get you down

You are with me forever

Love me like I'm still there

Don't forget me

Mhm I know

Don't forget me

I'm looking after you—"

And then she stopped singing and just smiled. Edward played a little at the end and then finished. Alice and Jasper bowed. I clapped quietly. "Wow," I managed to say.

"That's the shorter version. Obviously, that's not a very good song either, it's sort of a mesh of what me and Alice and Emmett were fighting about," Becca laughed.

"They handed that over to me and I asked what the hell they were thinking," Edward agreed.

"Emmett writes songs?" I asked in complete shock.

"Yep, believe it or not, that big pile of idiot has written many songs. Most of them are actually decent," Alice nodded.

"You people are way too awesome," all I could do as I said that was shake my head.

Alice laughed along with Edward and Jasper. "Oh, I know how amazingly awesome I am," Becca smiled.

"Yes, Becca, you are the most amazing, gorgeous, sporty, brat I have ever met," Alice joked.

"I know," she answered yet again, flipping her hair over her shoulder.

Jasper's POV-

About an hour or so after the piano and the music, we were supposedly finishing up our homework. It was actually more like this: Edward and Bella were already finished and were trying to explain the science homework to Becca, Becca had everything but science finished because she's a genius at everything else, Alice decided to just finish later and was doing her very best to distract me. She tended to be very good at that. You'd think that after knowing her for forever, and going out with her for almost a year, I would be used to this. No, of course I wasn't used to it.



"Jasper, come help me get dinner ready. Mom and Dad are going out tonight so I have to cook," she commanded.

I stood up and followed her out into the kitchen like a good boyfriend. She turned around and smiled. "So, what do you want for dinner?" she asked sweetly.

I was slightly memorized by how…well just gorgeous she looked. She was just standing there smiling at me. She grabbed my hands and kept smiling. "Are you alive?" she giggled.

So, of course, I kissed her because I couldn't talk. She had me speechless without doing anything, really. She pulled away and giggled, turning and walking to the fridge. "We have pizza, some other random stuff, we could always order take out," she laughed.

"Alice," I finally managed to say.

"Yea?" she asked, still looking through the fridge.

"I think that," I started.

"You think what?"

"I think that we should order take out."

"Alright. You don't have to make such a deal out of it though. Just spit out what you want- I promise to try and take it into consideration. I'm not Becca," she laughed at her own little joke at the end.

I nodded and sat down at one of the stools. Alice practically floated over to the phone and dialed the number for the Chinese place. She ordered and then hung up. Uh-oh, she was headed toward me again.

I really wanted to say three little words that had been on my mind a lot lately. At first, I wasn't sure that I wanted to say it. I didn't want this to be another meaningless little middle school relationship. I didn't want to be another couple that said those three words and then the next week broke up. I refused to do that. I refused to be stereotyped like that. Yet, in the past couple of days, I had been rethinking it. What was the harm of saying those words as long as I actually meant them? It was Alice. There was just no other way to put it.

I stood up off the stool and hugged her. "Alice," I said.

"Yea?" she asked as she pulled out of the hug and sat down on one of the benches herself.

I put my arms around her waist and tried to say what I wanted to say. I lowered my voice to a whisper. I didn't want to ruin the moment by yelling in her ear. "I just want to say…," I trailed off.

She leaned her head back a little and rested it on me. "Mhm," she muttered.

"I love you."



Finally, it was out there. She sort of froze, and I suddenly felt the relief wash into fear. Had I said it too soon? Or did she not feel that way about me? Maybe it was exactly what I feared; another meaningless middle school relationship.

"Jasper," Alice muttered back, relaxing again. "I love you more."

Bella's POV-

"Becca, you just have to put this above this one!" Edward said, obviously exasperated.

"That makes no sense!" my friend fumed. "This one would sooo eat that little wimp!"

"But it doesn't!" Edward exclaimed.

"Ugh, I'm done with this," Becca closed her book and crossed her arms over her chest.

"You two are so stupid," I announced.

Then we heard the door slam and a scream. Edward laughed, "That'll be Emmett."

"Don't ever let me walk in finding you two like …THAT ever again!" we heard Emmett's big booming voice yell.

"Uh-oh," Edward laughed.

"Ugh, C'mon Bells, let's go make sure our best friend's boyfriend doesn't get his ass kicked."