What Goes Up, Must Come Down

By Holly Jane

Disclaimer: Please tell me that you know by now. You don't?! I don't own Twilight or any related characters.


"Hello…?" Alice answered ruefully.

What good is a vision if it happens seconds after you see it with absolutely no time to prepare for it? Pointless. Emmett thought, rolling his eyes.

I rolled my eyes at him rather than with him.

The buzz of the receiver was high-pitched but I could make out Charlie's words.

"Alice? Is that you?" Charlie's low voice said.

"Yes, it's me, Charlie. H…how are you?" she said warily.

"I'm good," he said distractedly. "How's the vacation?" he said cautiously.

Alice giggled forcefully, eyeing everyone in the room skeptically. "Charlie, what is it that you really want?" she bit her lip nervously and tapped her foot impatiently. Perfect timing, Charlie. Maybe we should 'accidentally' break our cells phones or drop them in the 'ocean'.

Charlie grumbled. "You know me too well, Alice." He sighed. "I was actually calling for…for Bella. I can't get a hold of her cell phone…"

Every one's breath caught anxiously. "Actually, Charlie, Bella's out at the moment." She said, her voice smooth and nonchalant, though her expression gave her away.

Charlie sighed again. "Do you know when she'll be in?"

"Um…" Alice said, trying to sound distant and distracted. "No, I don't, actually. But when she is I'll have her call you, all right?"

"Sure…" Charlie said, sounding suspicious now. Crap. Alice thought frantically. "Well, Alice, see, here's the thing—"

"Yes?" Alice asked quickly.

"I'm…I'm—well, I don't really know how to explain it. You're a girl, so, I'm going to explain this as best I can…Bella, well, uh," I could hear him gulp nervously and breath frantically, his pulse quickening on the other end of the receiver.

Alice laughed freely now. "Don't tell me this is about Edward and Bella?"

"Heh, Alice, well…this is no joking matter!" he grumbled defensively.

Alice giggled. "I'll keep an eye on 'em, Charlie."

"Alice!" he yelled.

"I'm kidding, Charlie! Sheesh, lighten up, please." Alice sighed. "Edward and Bella would never do anything like that. They're mature, like Jasper and I. Bella is responsible and knows how to take care of herself. There is absolutely nothing to worry about."

Of course, if Charlie only knew the half of it. The poor man would probably have a heart attack. If he knew that Bella wanted to get highly, scandalously inappropriate with a hundred and five year old vampire that was one thousand times stronger than her and could crush her by a simple touch and on top of that wanted to suckle on her pulse like there was no tomorrow while he was stuck in this horrid forever… I didn't even want to think about it. Definite heart attack. Or worse.

Plus, we weren't even married! Yet.

"And Edward would never allow it, anyways." Alice added.

He grumbled and then sighed. "But—"

"It's a fathers instinct to feel protective of his daughter, I know that, Charlie."

"But—"

"And it's not Bella you don't trust, right? It's Edward."

"Well, yeah. But—"

"No. If Edward even so much as lays a finger on Bella that wasn't meant as appropriate, I'll—"

"Alice! Please!"

Emmett had to stifle his loud guffaws that were so close to surfacing. I sent him a scowl and that only made him want to laugh more.

"Charlie. Don't you start with me. It's never going to happen. You have absolutely nothing to worry about. Would you like to talk to Esme or Carlisle? I mean, my Mom or Dad? I'm sure that would make you feel better—"

"No!" Charlie yelled quite loudly. Esme and Carlisle were now smirking with Emmett and Rosalie. Even Jasper was smirking now. Traitor.

"It's fine. Now, let me go and work on my tan, please?" Alice whined.

Everybody in the room snickered quietly.

Charlie laughed on the other end. "And another thing! Bella didn't even pack. Or, I suppose that you packed for her. The suit cases are still in the basement and everything. Her toiletries are on her desk and her bed isn't made up. That's not like Bella."

The room was tense again.

Uh… "Uh, yeah, heh." Alice laughed forcefully again. "You know me as well as I know you. Bella's clothes wouldn't cut it. I packed for her." She lied smoothly.

Charlie grunted. "And I'm guessing Bella isn't fine with any of those clothes?"

"Charlie!" Alice gasped. "Cut me some slack! The girls wardrobe was so plain Jane. I had to do something about it."

He grunted again. "Yeah. Uh-huh. I'm sure you did have to. Well, er, I guess I'll let you get back to…um…tanning…" He snorted quietly.

Alice rolled her eyes. "Kay. See ya, Charlie."

"Thanks for everything, Alice."

"Yup!" She hung up smoothly the same time Charlie did.

Everybody in the room busted out into laughter. Bella looked up at us in confusion, her eyes still teary from when Alice dropped her. Alice smiled at Bella and skipped over to her. Carlisle was thinking deeply so I tried to block his thoughts, you know, for his right to privacy of personal thoughts.

Only to find out his thoughts weren't so personal. He announced that we should probably stop by Charlie's house at least to retrieve her cell phone. Just so it wouldn't ring while Charlie was trying to get a hold of her. It probably already had, but I don't think Charlie heard it, considering he was confused as to why he couldn't get a hold of her. And we were all a little worried as to what to do about the whole Bella-calling-Charlie back thing.

We should have known things would start to get complicated. Bella can't just disappear off of the face of the earth, either, and we can't stay on vacation for any longer than a month, and even then, what are we supposed to do when we get back if we did happen to stay longer than that, and she was still five years old? At this rate, she would start to grow, she would get older, and by time she was…seventeen…she wouldn't even remember what we had together.

Stop. I was getting ahead of myself. Of course we had time. We had tons of it. So why was I worrying like this?

The next morning, Bella slept until ten. It was odd. Usually she'd wake up around eight o'clock or so. And when she did finally get up, she was grumpy. "Edweerd, you get Awice outta here!"

Alice was highly upset about that. Though, Emmett liked her better.

"But, Bella," Alice had said. "We were having so much fun! Don't you want to play dress up…?"

"No!" she screamed, and buried her head in the pillow.

"Maybe the kid needs a break." Jasper added, leaning in the door way, one hand resting on Alice's shoulder as her head was down, sad.

"No kid wants a break from fun, Jazz." Emmett added in, as if it were obvious, giving him the ever so classic 'duh' look.

"Who's the emotion reader here?" Jasper growled. "I think I know what Bella's feeling, Em. And she needs a break. Nonstop fun can be tiring to a kid her age." He said, giving him the 'duh' look right back.

"Key word: you 'think' you know what she's feeling. You vampires with extra powers think you're aaaaall that." Emmett said, crossing his arms over his chest. "But you know what?!" he growled. "I could kick your ass in an arm wrestling contest! So suck on that, bloodsucking fiend!"

"Has anyone ever told you you're an idiot?" Jasper said, raising his eyebrows at Emmett.

"Ugh! Oh yeah? Well, has anyone ever told you that you have big feet? Ha!"

Jasper rolled his eyes but ever so slightly took a peek at his feet inconspicuously, trying to be sneaky about it.

"Do I really have big feet?" he whispered to Alice.

Emmett smirked.

"Of course not, Jazzie. And besides, Emmett has a fat neck but you don't see me using that over him, now do you?"

Jasper shrugged. Emmett's eyes widened and he raised his hand slowly to his neck, feeling it. Edward, do I really have a big neck? He eyed me frantically.

"No." I sighed, rolling my eyes.

"On top of being a blonde know-it-all emotion reading goody-goody two size twenty million shoes, you have…you have…you…have…."

Jasper and Alice started laughing.

"It is not funny!" Emmett yelled. "Rooooose!" he demanded, stomping out of the room with laughing Jasper and Alice on his trail.

Who knew that vampires could also have insecurities?

I had almost forgotten about Bella until she jerked her head up and smiled at me. "Are they gone?" she whispered.

I smiled. "Yes."

"Phew!" she said quietly, sitting up. "I thought they'd never leave." She smiled cutely at me. "I want to spend the day with yoo, Edweerd."

I was flattered. "Me?"

She nodded. "You, you, you! I awways play with Awice and Emmy. But I never play with you." She pouted. "Pwease?"

I laughed slightly. "Of course."

She beamed. "Yay!"

Hello, readers. It's me, Holly. Somebody, awhile back I think, asked for some more Jasper, so I decided to squeeze him in this chapter. And, also, if you have any ideas that you want Bella and Edward to do on their day together, tell me. I'll be happy to oblige. -Holly