This is Chapter 17: Alice from Alice's point of view.

Shoes make me happy. I'm superficial. Whatever.

Those will look great on Rosalie...Oh and Edward needs more polo shirts...I'm thinking a dark green...That will go nice with the gold eyes...I need more makeup...I can probably get that at Ulta. Oh...they will be out of my size in those heals...I'll have to order them online...Is that jacket in brown?

My thoughts bounced from one thing to the next as I crossed the street. I was already holding many shopping bags but I still had more to do. It was such a hassle to walk at human pace...well, it was a hassle to shop at human pace. I sighed slightly. I should have had Jasper come with me to hold my bags… I felt a gaze on me and my eyes shot up to see a young girl sitting at a coffee shop, looking at me. I was used to people looking at me but this girl was different. I tilted my head to the side, studying her. Her leg was shaking slightly, probably a habit of nervousness. She was bitting her lip slightly, probably not even realizing she was doing it. She looked sad, tired, and bit upset. She also looked familiar. I had definitely seen her somewhere before. I walked past her before freezing.

I was in my beautiful, yellow porsche, driving down the road towards Forks. This girl was sitting in the passenger seat, giggling while I smirked at her. And then it was gone. The vision ended and I was left standing on the street in Port Angeles. I turned back around so I could sit with the girl. I normally didn't associate with humans unless I had to, but I could tell already that this girl would be my friend. I wasn't sure why but I wasn't passing up the opportunity to make a friend. I didn't really have anyone outside of my family, and while they were great, it would be nice to have someone else.

"Is it okay if I sit here? All the other outside tables are taken." I asked, smiling at my future friend. She looked a bit startled but shook her head yes. I took a seat, placing my precious shopping bags on the ground. "I'm Alice Cullen." I told her, sticking my hand out. She smiled, shook my hand, and introduced herself as Kim Connweller.

"Are you from Forks?" She asked. She must have recognized me too...I wonder if she goes to Fork's High School… I nodded my head. "Thought so, you look familiar. I'm from La Push." Ohh… A waitress came over, asking what I would like. An elk. I thought, smirking slightly at the thought, but instead, ordered a black coffee. I needed to at least keep up the human facade.

"I couldn't help but noticing when I walked past that you looked a little sad." I observed, stirring the coffee that the waitress had brought over, with my finger. I wouldn't actually drink it but it felt wonderful on my cold hands. She grimaced and I gave her an apologetic look. I had been right. I usually was.

"I had a fight with my boyfriend." She admitted. "Well, I didn't really have a fight. I'm mad at him because he lied about something important." I nodded my head in understanding. I had always wanted to be a therapist. I was thinking that my next college degree would be in counseling or psychology.

"Did you talk to him about it?" I asked, genuinely curious. Something about this girl just drew me to her. She shook her head no. "He doesn't even know I found out about his lie." Hm… I attempted to look into the future to find Kim and her boyfriend but found nothing, just little flashes of Kim. She was smiling in all of them. The wind blew and a revolting smell passed through my nose. Wet dog. I studied Kim for a tenth of a second, the faint smell was coming from her. Well she does live in La Push...

"Who is your boyfriend?" I asked slowly. "Uh...Jared Thail. Do you know him?" She questioned. Ah… That explains a lot. Does that mean she is his imprint? The mutts don't date unless it's their imprint...

"I know him well… My future sister-in-law is good friends with Jacob." I told her in understanding. No wonder I couldn't see her very well… She was with the pups. "I think…" I thought over my words carefully, "That you should talk to him about it." She cringed and shook her head no. What could she have found out? That he was a werewolf? That would be...not very good. She obviously didn't know I was a vampire so he probably hadn't told her about the werewolves. Does she really know? She seemed very reluctant to want to talk about it with him and she hadn't given me any details.

"What I found out...he didn't want me to know. I can't tell him I found out because it could ruin any shot we have." She confessed. I wanted to know what she found out, but I could see she wasn't going to tell me, no matter what. I shrugged at her, "That might be the case but you can't keep him forever if you don't tell him the truth. You never know, maybe he wanted to tell you the truth all along but just wasn't ready to say it out loud. Maybe you weren't ready to hear it." Yeah, I am totally becoming a therapist.

"I miss him." She said softly, looking down at her coffee. "I was really mean to him yesterday. He looked like a kicked puppy when I told him off." I smirked, I bet he did.

"Do you love him?" I asked eagerly. I loved love. She nodded her head without hesitation, causing me to grin. "I think I do."

"Then you should talk to him." I reasoned. She seemed to think about it for a second before she put some money on the table, nodding at me. She seemed to be in a trance, completely focused on one thing...or person. She pulled a pen and pad of paper out of her bag and I gave her a confused look.

"I need to go see him, right now." I smiled triumphantly. Maybe I should be a relationship guru… She handed me the piece of paper and I glanced quickly at it. It was her phone number. I smiled wide. I had a friend. "Thanks, I really needed someone to talk too. Call me sometime and we will hang out or go shopping. You look like you are a great shopper and we could have some fun." Shopping! I loved her already. I saw a flash of us shopping and trying on shoes. I held back my squeal and nodded my head, probably a bit to fast for a human.

"I'm glad I stopped, we are going to be great friends Kim. I just know it." I told her, truthfully, hugging her. She was warm, it was so new and refreshing to hug and be near someone who was so...human. I guess that was because she was human… I always did have Bella but she was so anti-social sometimes. She would choose Edwards over me any day and she would never want to do fun, girly stuff. I had a feeling Kim was the exact opposite.

She grabbed her bag and started to walk away. I added a few dollars and started to pick my shopping bags up, before pausing.

"Oh, and Kim?" I called to her. She paused and turned to look at me. "Keep an open mind to things. You never know the full side of the story." I told her. She nodded her head, looking a little confused at me. I pulled out my phone. I needed the whole story, I hated being out of the loop.

This is Collin's point of view from when Kim arrived at the parking lot until she left with Jared.

"Brady, just run by her house later and see if she came back. Jeez, you're almost as bad as Jared." I told him rolling my eyes. It was common knowledge to everyone, except Kim, that Brady had a little friendly crush on her. I didn't blame him, I mean, she was hot and really nice but I liked my head where it was, attached to my body, not under Jared's paw. Jared didn't like it and would constantly bagger him about it. We knew Brady didn't mean anything by it though, he wouldn't do that to another pack brother. It was rather innocent but still hilarious.

I laughed and suddenly smashed into Brady. "Ow Man, what the fuck? I was kidding!" I growled. He didn't respond but followed his line of vision. Sitting on top of Paul's car was Kim. Brady took off, sprinting towards her and I quickly chased after him. Brady reached her first and pulled her off the car into his arms.

"We've all been so worried. Jared was about to die, he thought you weren't coming back but I told him you would. I knew you would." Brady told her, nodding to himself. I knew he was relieved to see her, I was too. After she freaked out yesterday no one had seen her, we had no idea where she had gone and Jared was freaking out all day because of it. Sam had ordered him to stay at school saying, 'she needed time and would be back soon'. Oh wise alpha, you. She pulled away and came over to me, wrapping her little arms around my waist. I hugged her back. I hadn't let on just how worried I was. She had scared me yesterday and I just hoped she was alright.

"I am so so so sorry. I freaked out on you yesterday. I shouldn't have taken my problems out on you. I am so so so sorr-" She immediately started apologizing. I turned her face into my chest so she would stop talking. I rolled my eyes at Brady who was watching her with those bright, puppy dog eyes.

"It's fine Kimmy. I'm not mad. Are you alright though? You were pretty upset yesterday." I asked. She had scared me yesterday, I never wanted to see her like that. She was upset and no one knew what to do, not even Jared and she was his imprint.

"I'm a lot better now." She said. I noticed how she didn't really answer the question but I decided to let it slide. I took a deep breath in. I should go find Jared. I tensed as a sickly sweet smell rolled off of Kim and into my nostrils. I leaned in closer to her and sniffed. She was looking at me peculiarly as I did this. I locked eyes with Brady whose hands were vibrating slightly. He smelt it too.

"Where were you today?" I asked, teeth clenched, trying to control myself. She had been with a leech. A leech had touched her. She backed up, away from me, into the side of Paul's car. She looked scared...of me? I controlled my shaking immediately, her expression making me calm myself.

"I-I...I went to Port Angeles and went shopping then had coffee with a friend." She stuttered. "Oh." I mumbled, "I just wanted to make sure you weren't sick or hurt or anything." I knew she saw through it.

"More lies." She said quietly, a human wouldn't have heard but Brady and I did. The two of us glanced at each other before both saying, "What?"

"Nothing!" She said quickly, too quickly. She gave us a panicked look before composing herself. We did lie to her but she didn't know that. Did she know we were lying about something? Something was up with her but I decided I should go warn Jared about not only Kim being back, but the vampire smell on her.

"I am going to be right back. Stay with Brady, Kim. And please don't run away or leave, please see Jared first. He's been messed up all day." I told her. She nodded her head, looking guilty. I felt bad about making her feel bad but she didn't even realize how messed up Jared had been. He had howled and cried outside for a long time before finally going to Emily's and whining there. It was rather depressing.

I rushed in the school and spotted Jared whining while Paul looked like he was containing himself from killing Jared. I sighed. "Jared! Jared!" I said in a rush. I needed to explain to him what was going on before he went to Kim. They last thing we needed was him freaking out at her and her leaving again. He looked up to me and saw my panicked expression. "What is it? Whats the matter? Is it Kim?" I took a deep breath.

"Listen to me. If you running into that parking lot, we're going to have a problem." His eyes flashed to the door and then back to me. The door, back to me. His curiosity got the best of him and he stayed looking at me. "Kim was in Port Angele's today and she has some vampire smell on her." Jared's already panicked eyes, bulged, and looked like they were going to pop right out of his head. He took off in the direction of the door. Great. I ran after him, the rest of the pack on our tails. "Jared! Don't yell at her. She's fine and safe and she didn't know she did anything wrong." He nodded his head, scanning the parking lot. When he spotted her, he rushed over and she practically jumped into his arm.

She started saying how sorry she was, over and over again. Of course, Jared told her she had nothing to be sorry about but she ignored it. I could tell how hurt she had been and I knew she felt awful about how she treated Jared and me.

"Ask her about the bloodsucker?. Embry hissed, much to quiet for her to hear. We all looked expectantly at him.

"Why'd you go to Port Angeles?" Jared asked her, somewhat casually. She bit her lip but I could tell that the words she was telling us were true. "I was really upset and I didn't think I could face you guys so I went up there to go shopping but then I was sitting at this coffee shop and Alice. You know Alice Cullen, right?" We all froze. Alice Cullen. Is was a relief that she was with a vegetarian vampire, but still, it was dangerous. She continued on. "She said she knew you. Well anyway, she convinced me to come talk to you and I'm glad I did because I-" She noticed our expressions and stopped, looking fearful again. I noticed her shrink slightly away.

I fought to keep composer and softened my expression. I nudged Brady who loosened his stance and calmed down. Seth, of course, seemed perfectly at ease, just smiling away like it was his freaking birthday. I rolled my eyes. Jake jumped slightly as his phone vibrated and he pulled it out.

If you didn't figure it out, Alice texted Jake wanting to know what happened. This is their text conversation.

Is Kim, Jared's imprint?

Yes. Why? What did you tell her?

Nothing...I just thought she was and wanted to know.

What did you do with her?

We had coffee and talked for a bit. I didn't take her hunting or anything.

Don't do it again.

Will you tell her that I found the most beautiful dress for her?

No.

This is why I don't have a pet dog.

Really, it's not because you wouldn't drink it's blood? Did she tell you why she freaked out?

Touché. Yes, she just had a bad day...her parents were mad at her for something.

Oh. She told us that her mom upset her...I thought she was lying…

Guess not. Why can't we have civil conversations like this in person?

Because I hate you.

Can I take you shopping?

I'm going to go hunt some bloodsuckers now. Bye.

Have fun, puppy!