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**Of Caresses & Crimson Eyes**

I was falling, falling deeper than I had ever assumed it to be possible to fall for another person. My heart raced in my chest whenever I looked at her and when her pouty lips curled up into a smile my insides melted, turning my legs into a boneless mass underneath me.

And it was so easy to fall for her. She was pretty, not just from the outside but from the inside as well. She was kind and caring, her mood always cheerful and light apart from when the visions washed over her. I realized that it was more the fact that she couldn't influence what she saw than the vision itself that scared her.

One morning a small red-haired woman entered the shop and Alice paled as soon as she saw her. I talked to her and showed her several silver bracelets but none of them was affordable to her. She complained loudly over the exorbitant prizes before she left a few minutes later, closing the door behind her with a loud bang.

"Poor woman," Alice whispered as soon as she was out of sight.

"She didn't look that poor to me. Aren't you feeling well? You are still so pale."

"I saw her…I saw her in one of the visions and…," she hesitated for a moment and cleared her throat nervously before she continued. "Do you believe in hell?"

"What? No…yes…I'm not sure about that. I never wasted much time thinking about stuff like that."

"I never believed in hell. It sounded so completely ridiculous to me. Father O'Brian was always angry at me when I told him that as a child. He tried to heal me from my visions by splashing holy water all over my head as a child."

As a child? She had all these visions since she was a little kid?

"Well, to make a long story short, one night I had a vision about the devil and since then I know that there in deed is a hell. I hope I will never get there. It was so frightening."

I placed one arm around her shoulder and pulled her against my chest, my fingertips caressing the small of her back. I wanted so badly to kiss her hair, to kiss all of her face but I knew it was impossible right now. If someone would come into the shop while we were kissing each other that wouldn't exactly please people.

"His eyes were all red…I never thought eyes could be such a crimson color…like blood somehow."

"Mary Alice, stop telling your little horror stories to Miss Swan." Alice's father snarled at her.

I dropped my hands from Alice and took two steps backwards. Then I quickly kneeled down on the floor and pretended to be searching for something down there until my reddened face had returned to its usual ivory color.

"I don't mind her telling me things."'

"So, don't you. Well, maybe it's a good thing Mary Alice has someone who is willing to deal with her issues. She never had much contact with people her own age. They tend to shy away from her. Oh and I have almost given up any kind of hope she'll ever find a suitable husband."

"I'm sorry, father." Her voice sounded lifeless to me and it was something I didn't like at all.

"If that's okay with you, we'd like to go for a little walk. My head is hurting."

We walked out of the shop and she instantly looped her arm through mine, planting a quick kiss on my cheek as soon as we were hidden behind the first row of oak trees. I never liked trees so much for existing…

"Is your head really hurting? I could ask mother to make some aspirin for you."

"No, it's not. That was just a…white lie. I wanted to be alone with you."

She giggled and hugged me from behind, letting her lips flutter over my neck in feather light kisses. I stumbled over a piece of dried wood on the grass and she landed on top of me. Her mouth found mine and when the tip of her tongue slipped between my parted lips warmth spread through my entire body. I pulled her closer, my knee rubbing against her left thigh until she shifted a little higher and a low groaning sound escaped her mouth.

"Am I hurting you?" I whispered worriedly into her ear when I realized that her body had started trembling slightly. I didn't want her to be hurt—ever.

"No, it feels good when you rub against me like that. It makes me all tingly…down there…oh…oh…yes, like this…don't stop."

I rocked my hips back and forth, feeling how the slick moisture between my legs soaked the cotton fabric of my underwear. She moved with me and I reached out my hand to circle it slowly over the small roundness of her bosom, trying to fumble the first buttons of her blouse open. I wanted so much to feel her skin underneath my fingertips, so very much, even if it was just a tiny bit of it.

"Bella…I…I…never felt like this…it's so good…so good." Her lips crashed against mine and I sucked her tongue between my lips while her dainty hands caressed my hips, slowly moving up my sides until she eventually cupped both of my breasts through the organza fabric of my dress. I shivered and moaned into her mouth while she continued stroking me gently. Our hips bucked against each other, up and down and up and down, until the throbbing between my thighs was getting unbearable. My hand moved under her skirt, stroking over her dainty ankles and up her slim thighs, already feeling the damp warmth between them I held my breath. Then something cracked behind us and Alice jumped from my lap. I pulled her against my side and starred to the place behind us, not able to visualize anything there apart from a hint of crimson and when I blinked it was already gone.