[Disclaimer] Everything Twilight belongs to Mrs. Stephenie Meyer. I just borrow her characters to have some fun.

[A/N] Hi everybody, I've got good and bad news for you. Well the bad one is only bad for me. I've got laryngitis and I'm not allowed to speak for an entire week. Not an easy thing for a chatterbox.

The good news is that I don't have to work and that means I have lots of time to write for you guys.

#Thanks and hugs to everyone who took the time to leave a review on the last chapter. I really appreciate all your encouraging words and your questions. #

~ How can Alice hang out with Bella and Melanie? Doesn't the sun cause issues?

Yeah it does, that's why they can only meet inside buildings like the mall or at night. It was probably a little bit stupid of me to choose such a sunny place for my story.

~ Are any of the other Cullen's going to show up?

Yep all of them – even Rosalie lol.

But now without further interruptions from your verbally handicapped author, here's the new chapter.

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**About unanswered questions**

"Melanie, I'm not really sure if that was such a smart idea." I told her while we were sitting in the school cafeteria. She took a big gulp from the bottle of orange juice that was standing on her tray and grinned at me.

"Come on, it's just a few balloons and stuff like that. Anybody could do that, and Alice said she wanted to help me with the party decoration."

I nodded my head and continued nibbling on the chicken sandwich in my hands.

"You'll see what I mean, when you won't recognize your house anymore. Alice can be a little; well, enthusiastic when it comes to stuff like that." I tried to explain diplomatically.

"As long as she doesn't tear down walls or something like that it'll all be fine." She assured me while she took off her glasses to clean them on her shirt.

Then she cleared her throat before she spoke up again.

"Promise not to tell her, but Alice reminds me a little bit of Tinkerbelle." She stated cheerfully.

"Tinkerbelle, you mean like the fairy in Peter Pan?" I asked her and couldn't suppress a light chuckle in my voice.

She nodded her head in agreement. "Yeah exactly, Alice is just so tiny and delicate. When she walks it looks more as if she's dancing. I never ever met a girl like her before. I didn't even know there were girls like that." She stated.

My lips twisted into a smile as I imagined Alice dancing around with some pixie-wings on her back. God, I loved her so much, that I feared my heart was going to burst into flames.

"You and Alice are pretty close, aren't you?" She asked me and dipped the last of her fries into the rosy mixture of ketchup and mayonnaise on her plate.

"Yes we are…very close. Alice is just everything to me and I am to her as well." Then I sighed deeply and closed my eyes for a moment. I hesitated, because I knew that I was about to cross a line. Then I swallowed hard and continued.

"I love her."

Melanie raised one eyebrow in confusion. "You mean like a sister?" She asked me irritated and I shook my head.

"Well I'm an only child, but I'm pretty sure that it's not alright to have feelings like that for your sister."

"Oh, I see." She stumbled out nervously and almost spilled the remaining content of her bottle on the floor.

"I hope it is okay that I told you about it." I whispered with a slightly shaking voice.

She cleared her throat before she answered me. "Of course it's okay. I'm your friend, you can tell me everything. I'm just a little bit, well surprised somehow."

"Surprised?"

"Yeah of course I'm surprised. Alice is so girly and you don't look very butch yourself. I'd never thought that you swung that way." She tried to explain hesitantly.

"To be honest I didn't know that there was more between us until a few days ago. It's difficult to explain…it just feels right to me."

She nodded her head before she leaned over to whisper into my ear.

"Do you kiss her?"

I giggled and felt my cheeks blushing from the memory of her rose-petal lips on mine.

"Of course, I do."

"And does it feel different than kissing a guy?" She wondered while she twisted her blond curls into a knot at the back of her head.

"It's pretty much the same…just softer somehow. I guess that when you kiss someone you love it always feels good." I assumed.

She nodded her head.

"Wait, didn't Alice just break up with that long-term boyfriend, Jackson or what was his name?"

I nodded my head and sighed. "Jasper - yeah, she did. I think it is pretty hard for him. They have been together forever."

"Hmm, I guess it is. It's always hard when someone breaks up with you. But she left him for you that means, she really must like you a great deal." She assured me and stood up from the plastic stool to put away her empty tray.

"Bella, you don't have to answer that, I'm just curious. Do you and Alice…well have sex with each other?"

My mouth fell open and it took me several moments to remember how to close it again. My cheeks were burning from embarrassment as I quickly shook my head.

"Forget it, Bella. I shouldn't have asked that." She whispered apologetically, while we walked towards our lockers.

"Crap," I stumbled out as soon as I recognized the gold-eyed figure that was leaning against the wall opposite of my locker at the end of the corridor.

Melanie put her hand on my shoulder. "What's wrong, Bella?"

I sighed deeply and thought about the best way to keep her out of trouble.

"That's him." I whispered into her ear, already knowing that he would hear every single word of our conversation. "That's Jasper."

She took a quick look at him from top to toe and her pupils dilated a little while she did it.

"That's Jasper? But he's…," she seemed to search for the right word. "…hot somehow. Just look at those curls, they are gorgeous." Then she giggled sheepishly.

"Why are you laughing?"

"Because now I'm sure that Alice indeed is a lesbian. Only a lesbian would leave someone like that for you."

"Melanie, maybe it would be better if you would go now. I'm pretty sure this is going to be ugly."

She squeezed my hand and shook her head. "No, I'm staying with you. You don't think he's going to hit you or something like that? I don't want to break his arm."

"Break his arm?" I stumbled out and thought about how much she would hurt own hand in an attempt to break a limb of his hard marble body.

"Bella, I may look like a weak, little doll, but I know how to defend myself…and others. I've got a black belt in Karate since I was twelve."

"That won't help." I whispered, and then I took the last few remaining steps towards him.

"Hello Bella." He greeted me nervously and his light golden eyes sparkled feisty.

"Hi Jasper, what are you doing here?" I asked him and cursed myself for the stupid trembling in my voice.

His eyes narrowed for a moment and every single hair on my body stood up in fear.

"I'm here to warn you, Bella." His voice was very calm, but the words were cold as ice.

"Don't you dare to hit her...," Melanie hissed out between greeted teeth.

Jasper chuckled and raised one eyebrow. "And you are?" He asked her and smirked.

"Melanie Meade, I'm Bella's friend."

"Hi Miss Meade, could you please give me and your friend here some privacy?" His lips twisted into the weak attempt of a smile, which made her blush slightly.

"I'm not sure…." she stated while she continued playing with the frames of her glasses.

"You can be sure that I won't hit her. I've never hit a woman in my entire life, and I'm not planning to start with it now." He assured her and I wondered why he just didn't sent an emotional wave of relaxation towards her.

"Fine, I'll leave. But don't be too hard on her. She and Alice can't help how they feel. I guess sometimes emotions just come over you and you can't do anything against it."

He chuckled and that sound coming out of Jaspers throat sounded almost surreal to me.

"You want to tell me something about emotions?" He asked her and sounded almost amused.

"Yeah of course, I know that guys have trouble with expressing feelings. Well never mind. I'll give the two of you some privacy now. Bye Jasper, it was nice meeting you."

He waved his hand at her as she turned around. "Good bye, Miss Meade. I hope we'll meet again. You seem like an interesting dialog partner."

A few awkward moments of silence followed before he spoke up again.

"I'm here to warn you, Bella. My brother called me last night and he sounded completely hysterical."

"Edward called you? Why?" I asked him nervously.

"Because he's angry, and he needed a buffer for all the pent-up anger inside of him."

"He has no right to be angry at all. He left me. Why should he care that I moved on with somebody else?"

"Bella he didn't leave you because he didn't love you anymore. He left to protect you, you and your immortal soul. Now he's furious at Alice, because she didn't keep her promise to him to stay the hell away from you. And he's pissed at me…,"he explained.

"Pissed at you?" I stumbled out in confusion. "Why should he be pissed at you? You didn't do anything wrong?"

He nodded his head and smirked. "That's exactly his problem. I didn't do anything. That's why he's pissed. He said that I should have simply calmed down the two of you. What use is there in my talent, if I can't even control the emotions of my own wife?" His voice sounded tortured now, hurt.

"Jasper, I'm really sorry. " I croaked out and my voice was barely a whisper now.

He nodded his head.

"Yeah I know. I can feel what you are feeling right now, all of it. I know that the two of you never had a choice."

I nodded my head silently.

"Anyway I just wanted to warn you, that Edward is probably going to show up here in the near future and Alice should prepare for that."

"Why didn't you speak to Alice herself?" I asked him while I stuffed some books into the corner of my locker.

"Because I know how stubborn she is. You'll find out about that soon enough, I promise." He explained.

"Hmm, alright…thanks for the warning."

He placed a tiny visiting card in my hands.

"That's the place where I'm staying with Emmett. He bought that stupid house for Rosalie and it turned out to be a dump. And now Esme is coming over to see if it's worth the restoration."

"Esme is coming here?" I asked him and he nodded his head.

"Yeah she is. Well she's worried about us, I guess. You know what kind of a mother hen she is." He tried to explain.

"Good bye Bella, and don't hesitate to call if you and Alice can't handle my brother." He assured me before he turned around to leave.

"Jasper," I croaked out and he stopped instantly.

"Yes?"

"I don't understand why you are helping us?"

His eyes narrowed for a moment but then they relaxed again.

"I know what you are feeling. How can I judge you for that? The way you feel about Alice, that's exactly how I feel about her. But the way she feels about you - she never felt that way about me, never."

"Jasper I'm pretty sure she loved you. I mean, why would she have stayed with you, if she didn't love you?"

He shook his head and smirked again.

"Oh Bella, there's really a lot that you still have to learn. I didn't say she didn't love me. Jeez, I know that she did. It's just that she didn't love me the way I loved her. There are different kinds of love, if you haven't noticed it by now." He explained with a pained expression on his face, before he vanished behind a frosted glass door.

xxxxx

"Alice please, stop that." I giggled halfheartedly while she continued kissing my neck with her cool lips.

"You know that I have to study for my finals I won't pass them if you keep distracting me like this."

She chuckled and it sounded more like a crystal bell than a human laughter.

"You won't. Bella I've already told you, that you are going to do great."

I turned around and cupped her beautiful face between my warm hands. Then I pulled her closer towards me until I covered her lips with mine.

She moaned against my mouth as my tongue caressed the snowy skin on her bottom lip. A shiver went through my body as she nudged the tip of her tongue against mine. Her hands moved down my back and vanished underneath my shirt.

Her fingertips stroked over the warm skin of my back so softly that she was barely touching me. Despite the coldness of her hands, her caress made me feel warm inside of me.

Alice started kissing down my neck again and the ends of her ebony curls tickled my face. Her delicious scent of vanilla and lilac floated my nose like a precious perfume.

"Alice, I can't concentrate when you kiss me like this."

She planted another quick kiss upon my lips and sat down on my lap.

"Oh Bella, come on. We are already wasting about eight hours every night, because you need to sleep."

I giggled and wrapped my arms around her delicate waist. "I'm sorry about wasting so much of our precious time Alice. I promise that I'm not going to sleep ever again, once you are going to change me into a vampire."

I kissed her again and her fingers twisted into the messy curls of my long hair.

"Bella, I love you. " She whispered softly into my ear.

My heart skipped a beat and I felt fresh tears starting to burn in my eyes.

She loves me. She loves me. She loves me.

"Alice, I…I," my voice broke like an old record and then I felt her cool lips kissing away a few of the traitorous tears, that had escaped my eyes.

"Why are you crying?" She asked me worriedly and her bell-like voice was trembling slightly.

"Because I'm so happy," I stumbled out hesitantly and rested my head against her shoulder.

"You are crying because you are happy?" Her amber eyes looked a little confused.

"Humans are strange." She stated and I nodded my head.

"Yeah, I guess we are; but vampires are stranger" I told her and planted a kiss upon her hair.

"We'll talk about it when you've been changed, Bella. I'm pretty sure you are going to be a very strange vampire."

"Can I ask you something? You said that you have seen me as a vampire. How did I look like?" I asked her curiously while I tried to keep my voice calm.

"Well, a little paler than you look now and very pretty of course. Your gorgeous chocolate eyes were ruby red." She explained cheerfully.

"They were red?" I mumbled nervously. "Why were they red? Did you see me hunting on humans? I don't want to do that. I want to be like you and the rest of the Olympic coven." I assured her.

She put my hand in hers and squeezed it comfortingly.

"You don't have to worry about it Bella." Then she sighed deeply and started drawing fine lines on the pearly, white scar on my wrist.

"I'm more worried about the pain during your transformation. This here...," She planted a soft kiss on my wrist and her cool mouth tickled my skin in a pleasant way.

"…was nothing compared to the torture of an entire transformation. I'm not looking forward to watch you suffer."

I put her hand on my cheek and the coldness of her marble skin felt pleasant against my overheated face.

"I'll be fine." I assured her and she nodded her head silently.

"What about the eyes?" I asked her worriedly and she smiled encouragingly.

"That's normal – for a new born. After a year or so the color will get lighter and lighter, until they finally look like mine."

"It's going to take an entire year?" I couldn't suppress the hint of panic in my voice; an entire year with those crimson freak eyes, just great.

"Bella a year isn't that long. You can wear contacts if you go out in public but…," she hesitated a moment before she continued. "…you won't be able to go near humans during the very first months."

I nodded my head and swallowed hard. That part was probably going to be tough.

"I'm going to help you. We are all going to help you deal with it. Emmett is already dying to do some arm-wrestling with you."

"Wait…I'm going to be as strong as Emmett?"

She chuckled cheerfully. "Stronger…but only for a short period of time Bella; it's going to be a good lessons for my brother though. Emmett is like a little child that can't lose a game."

I kissed her mouth again and felt her shiver against my body when I brushed my tongue over her upper lip.

She opened her lips a little and I nudged against the tip of her tongue before I started exploring the deliciously sweetness of her cool mouth. God, she tasted so incredibly good.

Her hands wrapped around my waist and disappeared underneath my shirt again. The touch of her dainty fingers on my skin sent shivers down my spine.

"Alice," I whispered against her mouth and cupped her face between my hands.

"I love you…more than words can say."

Her amber eyes had darkened a few shades when I looked at her again. I suddenly remembered my conversation with Melanie in the school cafeteria.

"Can I ask you something?" I began hesitantly and she nodded her head.

"Of course you can. Why are asking. You know, that I will always tell you the truth."

I cleared my throat and my cheeks blushed when I stumbled out the words. "Well it's because Melanie asked me something today. Something that made me think…well about some things."

"What did she ask you?" She asked me nervously and I knew that she hated it that she was completely blind when it came to her great-niece.

"She asked if we are having sex." I mumbled and tried to avoid eye contact with her.

"Seriously - and what did you say?" Her voice sounded amused.

"No…of course. What else?" Then I sighed deeply. "But I told her that we are together and she was really cool about the whole situation."

Alice nodded her head. "Yeah I knew she would react like that."

"How…can you see her future now?"

"No I still can't see her, but I've been around long enough now to develop a good knowledge of human nature." She explained cheerfully.

"I see. Well, I was asking myself if…" Jeez, why was this so hard? She had to think that I was a stupid, nervous teenager. Well technically that was exactly what I was, but still.

"You want to know if we could have sex." She stated and put a finger underneath my chin to make me look up to her.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked that." I murmured. "I know that it's impossible."

She shook her head and planted a soft kiss on my trembling lips.

"Firstly my darling, you don't have to be sorry for asking me something, never. And secondly, why do you think it's impossible? We've never tried it, did we? My cousins from Denali have sex with humans all the time. And guess what…they all survived. And from what the girls told me…they really like it a lot."

She giggled and I wrapped my arms around her hips again to pull her on top of me.

My head touched the soft pillows of the gigantic hotel bed when I leaned back.

"We could start practicing right now, if you want to." She whispered into my ear and started licking down the sensitive skin of my neck. Her fingers moved underneath my shirt and started circling her fingers over my stomach. I closed my eyes and enjoyed her gentle caresses.

Then everything happened very fast, too fast for my weak human reflexes. One moment Alice's lips were on my neck and a second later she was crashed against the full length mirror at the wall of the hotel room. The glass busted into dozens of tiny pieces of crystal.

"Bella, Bella are you alright?" Edward asked me worriedly and the sound of his voice sent a sudden wave of pain through the healed edges of my heart.

"Edward," I croaked out. "What are you doing here?"

"I came here to save you…from her!" He hissed out and grabbed his hand around her tiny throat.

I stood up from the bed and started pulling on his dark blue shirt, but he didn't even seem to realize it at all.

"Edward, let me go, please. I don't want to hurt you." Alice snarled at him while her now black eyes narrowed into tiny slits.

He released his grab around her throat and took a few steps back, while I put my arm around Alice and started rubbing her back.

Then I took the time to look at Edward for the first time, to really look at him. He looked bad. There were dark bruises under his eyes and his clothes looked as if he hadn't changed them in weeks. But the thing that shocked me the most was the tortured expression on his face, full of anguish.

He took a few deep unnecessary breaths through his mouth to calm himself down again, until he felt able to speak again.

"How could you do that to me, Alice?" He asked her tormented.

"Do what to you? I didn't do anything to you, Edward."

"You know exactly what I'm talking about. For heaven's sake, you are my sister. How can you jab a knife into my back like that?" His voice was shaking now."

"Edward please, just leave – now. Alice hasn't done anything wrong at all. You are the one who left me –remember?" I told him and put her hand in mine to squeeze it gently.

"Bella you don't understand it. I only left to protect you. Jeez, leaving you was the hardest in over a hundred years, but I did it. Bella can't you see that I'm just trying to save your soul."

"Oh Edward you still believe in all this crap about heaven and hell?" Alice asked him and I recognized that her face looked tensed somehow. As if she was desperately trying to concentrate on something.

"Do you honestly believe that Carlisle has no soul? Or Esme?" She continued and sounded almost annoyed this time.

"That's not the right time to have this conversation again, Alice." He hissed at her, but then his face froze into a frown.

I looked at Alice and she looked panicked somehow. Was she scared of him? He wouldn't really hurt her, would he?

"You," he yelled at her and pushed her against the wall again. "You're the most selfish person I've ever met!"

"Selfish?" I asked him and stepped between him and her. "How can you call her selfish?"

"Bella, step away now. You don't know anything about the disgusting, repulsive thoughts she's having about you. This is so wrong, it makes me sick." He stumbled out.

"Stop snooping around in her head, Edward. It's not her fault that you don't like the things she's thinking about. If you want to know the truth – I was the one who asked her if we could…"

"I don't want to hear it, Bella. Please, no. It's worse enough to hear her perverted thoughts."

"Edward please, just go before you do anything you are going to regret." I told him, while the tears started pouring down my face again. God, why did I always have to cry, when I was angry? It was humiliating.

"I'm only leaving if she leaves too - forever!" He insisted and grabbed his hand around her arm.

"No," I croaked out. "Don't. Alice please stay."

"Bella try to be sensible. I'm just trying to protect your soul. She has already lost hers, but there is still hope…"

"You don't know a thing about her soul." I whispered, while my trembling fingers pulled out the cell from my pocket.

It seemed to be ringing endlessly and when finally someone picked up, I nearly sobbed into the phone.

"Emmett," I croaked out exhausted. "I need you to come here right now."

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