Author Note: I have no affiliation with Stephenie Meyer or Twilight in anyway. This is my take on her character Alice's life before the Cullens.

10. Love

As the days passed I made my way to Pennsylvania. I continued to have visions of the man from the diner and he consumed all of my thoughts. The visions gave me glimpses of who he was and I learned his name was Jasper. In my visions he was a sweet southern gentleman. Through my visions I had fallen in love with this stranger. I was very impatient and wanted to find this diner. Through all the visions I had never figured out where it was. I wondered the streets at night and hid during the day. I found out quickly that I did not require sleep. The more I learned about this new life I was living the less I really wanted to know about my life before. I killed a few more people to my own horror because I could not control the fire in my throat. I tried not to wallow in my guilt for fear it might consume me. I never ran into another vampire in these treks through new cities, I was wondering if there weren't any others at all.

One night while walking through Philadelphia I decided to stop and watch the people who came and went in order to entertain myself I would make up stories about their lives. I had taken blood early the morning before so I thought I could handle being around so many humans. I walked into a nearly empty diner and my body reacted with joy as my mind processed my surroundings. I had found the dinner where I meet Jasper.

I took my place and waited on the stool at the bar facing the door. I twisted from side to side tapping my fingers impatiently.

"What can I get for you today ma'am?" the shabby looking man in an apron asked me from behind the counter. I shook my head without turning.

"Nothing, thank you but I'm just waiting for someone," I said softly and persuasively. I didn't want him to bother me anymore.

I sat at the stool for hours and Jasper never entered the diner. I twisted and jumped every time the door open or someone passed the windows. When the sun was about to rise I got discouraged and left to find a place to stay for the day. I again had a vision of my meeting with Jasper but this time I could see the clock on the wall behind the counter.

"11:26, I'll be there every night for as long as it takes," I whispered to myself. I had bought some books and clothes with the money Katrina had given me and found a nice hotel. I decided I could stay there during the day and entertain myself until it was time to go to the diner. I thought a lot about how I would introduce myself to Jasper and what I would tell him. I knew from the visions what was going to happen already but I still consumed my mind with those thoughts.

After a week of sitting at the diner I started to get discouraged. I didn't know how my visions worked so I didn't know when I was supposed to find this Jasper. The employees of the diner wrote me off as a lonely and insane woman but I didn't bother to say anything to them. I still took the blood I needed to cool the fire in my throat every few days but the guilt tortured me. On the seventh night of waiting I had a new vision. I saw a home deep in the forest of a town covered in snow. As I came closer to the house I realized that Jasper was at my side. I saw a few people moving throughout the house through the windows. There was a woman and a man sitting on a couch having a low conversation and another woman came down the stairs. Jasper and I knocked on the door and the beautiful woman who had come down the stairs answered the door and glared at us. Her eyes were a beautiful golden color and she was a vampire.

"Who are you and what are you doing here?" the woman asked coldly flipping her hair. I grinned at her.

"I'm Alice and this is Jasper. We've come here to stay with you," I told her excitedly. I tried to walk in the door but she blocked my way.

"Rosalie, don't be rude. Let our guest come in," the woman who had been seated on the couch said.

"I'm Esme Cullen and that is Rosalie. This here is my husband Carlise. Please come in and talk with us," Esme greeted sweetly ushering us into her home.

This was a completely new vision. I had never seen these people before and I was ridiculously curious. I sat on the stool all night but decided not to go back to the hotel. A storm blew in at around 5 AM so I decided I would stay out that day. I replayed all of my visions in my head and watched the one with the time very carefully. I hadn't even considered that this time could be during the day. If my heart could have been beating it would have jumped out of my chest. I began to get extremely impatient and bouncy in my seat. I couldn't stand the suspense any longer.

I looked up at the sound of the door opening and smiled broadly. Jasper had finally come and he was more beautiful than my vision had given him credit for.

"You've kept me waiting a long time," I joked and stood to greet him. Startled he gave me a half smile and bowed.

"I'm sorry ma'am," he said to me and laughed softly. I took his hand and led him back out of the door and onto the street.

"Jasper, I'm Alice. I know that this is going to surprise you but I already know you. I saw you coming two weeks ago when I woke up. I can see the future, I was told I'm a prophet," I confessed to him. When I turned to look at him he was staring at me with the shock of my words written all over his face.

"Alice, is it? I'm not sure what you mean here. You're telling me that you've met me before," he asked skeptically. I laughed at him again and led him to my hotel. We could talk comfortably and safely there.

"I've seen this conversation like twenty times but I'm still so looking forward to it. Okay, here's the thing. I woke up in a clearing about two weeks ago like this," I gestured to myself. "I don't remember anything that happened before waking up. I found this note on the ground that said my name was Alice and I was a vampire. I went off to figure things out and found a woman named Katrina who gave me money and sent me on my way. I had my first vision of you right after I woke up and I've been having them ever since. I like this life and the advantages but I feel awful about killing innocent people. I don't know what to do or where to go and I was hoping you would be the one to stick around and help me. See I've kind of fallen in love with you through these visions of the future," I said quickly as I sat on the bed in my hotel room. Jasper pulled up a chair across from me and sat down with a thoughtful expression.

"Well the guilt from killing I have felt as well. You see I am from the south and my creator was a power hungry female vampire who tried to use me in her quest to gain more control. I trained a vampire army and made friends with one of them. He soon left with a female vampire he fell in love with. I left shorter thereafter and I feel like there should be something more to this life than there is," he confided in me like I knew he would and I smiled gently taking his hand.

"That life is where all your scars come from, both mentally and physically. I think I've found away there could be more to this life. I had a vision of a coven of vampires with golden eyes instead of red. I'm unsure of how they got that way but there name is Cullen and I believe they live on the west coast somewhere," I explained eagerly. The eyes had to mean something, I was sure of it.

"You are a very confident girl aren't you? I can feel that confidence flowing freely from you. It's quite uplifting. You say you can see the future, I too have an ability. I can sense emotions and influence them as well," Jasper told me. A smile spread across his face slowly and he squeezed my head. Hope surged through me in that instant.

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