Bella was long gone by now, most likely already lazing around at home by herself, much like Alice was. She sat alone on her bed and replayed the vivid image of their morning together in her mind.
"Um, so yeah, I have to go now." Bella said nervously, twiddling her suddenly very interesting thumbs.
"Oh yeah, well I'll see you soon, text me." Alice replied in uncharacteristic timid voice.
The two continued to stand in front of each other tensely, occasionally looking awkwardly from the floor or the walls and then feebly into the daunting gaze of each others apprehensive eyes. Bella could feel the familiar warmth in her face neck becoming even more obvious and then became, if possible more aware of her cowardly demeanour. She was somewhat contented to notice moments later for once that Alice almost matched her emotions with beautiful light pink blush creeping into her porcelain cheeks.
"I will." Bella forced out, noticing her delayed response because of her wandering eyes. What? Alice had apparently changed clothes during the night and was now wearing tightly fitted purple satin shorts and an obvious choice against wearing a bra under her white cotton singlet. Did she not feel the cold? Not that Bella was wondering that when her eyes were glued on the virtuous appearance.
Alice's giggle made Bella aware of her staring, thankfully she was already dead of embarrassment from mentally impaling herself on a sharp rock at the bottom of the cliff she had imagined jumping off.
"Thanks for letting me stay here." Said Bella.
"Any time." Alice smiled charmingly.
"Well I'll see you soon?" Bella asked, running out of actual things to say.
"Certainly." Alice responded excitedly.
Bella was aware of how obvious it seemed that she didn't want to go. She had stayed an extra hour after Charlie's call so that she could take her time eating breakfast which Esme happily offered to cook. After that Bella tried to make small talk with the Cullen's, but the only ones who seemed to be in a civil mood were Alice and Emmett. Not that you could count Rosalie either way, she always had the same expression like she was oblivious to everything going on around her. Bella was also surprised to see Jasper looking so glum, he sat stiffly on the end of the couch and stared at the TV screen blankly. Alice had tried to kiss him but he didn't seem to be in the mood, Bella could see him glaring at her out of the corner of her eye, but chose to try and ignore it however much distress it caused her. From then on Alice felt uneasy, she hated knowing that Jasper knew things she didn't want him to know, what was worse is that she didn't know which bad things he knew.
She then made sure to keep her emotions neutral. However keeping her thoughts blank was a whole other challenge. She knew Edward had heard certain things, she knew from his facial expressions.
"Bella?" Alice called, raising her eyebrow at the spaced out human.
"Sorry.." She flushed. "I was just thinking." She drew her eyes to the floor.
Next thing she knew Alice was standing an inch away from her, and her cold hand cupped her chin so gently she wondered if it had actually happened. How could she have such a light touch with such a heavy, strong physique? Alice gently tilted Bella's chin up to meet her glimmering eyes.
"Don't feel uncomfortable around me." She said quietly but clearly, as to get her message through.
Bella's heart rate quickened, not because she felt uncomfortable, but because her body had a whole different idea for how to react to Alice touching her than her mind did. She hoped it would go unnoticed.
"Why do I make you so nervous?" Alice asked in genuine concern. Now boring her own eyes in Bella's wavering chocolate ones.
Her hand became unattached from Bella's face, but before it could fall to the side it was quickly captured by a warmer hand and brought to Bella's chest this time.
"Feel that?" Bella ironically asked the vampire. If only she knew how much she felt it, heard it and smelt it. It was harder to resist than anything else she'd ever come across.
"Yes." Alice replied breathlessly. Not a good idea Bella, might want to take that one back. Provoking a blood hungry vampire probably wasn't the best idea at the time.
"No one has ever done this to me before. So if I could control it, I would." Bella said with a sudden burst of confidence that even she couldn't depict where it had come from. It was something about Alice that made her feel so vulnerable yet so confident and fearless at the same time. It was like she couldn't control her mouth, what she felt just tended to slip out all of the time. The shock at herself for actually letting there be no filter from her brain to her mouth was unnerving. It was another weird thing that just seemed to happen between them, from orgasms, to bubbles of heaven, and now to ultimate idiocy.
Alice then felt a hilarious compulsion to say the same thing but bring Bella's hand into her crotch. Then seconds later mentally slapped herself for even considering the thought. However tempting it was. Honestly she had no idea where the thought had came from, but it intrigued her curious mind.
Then the moment was fucked with something hard and sandpapery. "I shouldn't have said that. I should go.." Bella mumbled through embarrassment and impatience.
"No, Bella, wait." Alice called, gently grabbing her wrist as she zoomed past her and attempted to make a getaway. God if only Alice knew what Bella felt every time they touched.
In that very moment Alice had snapped into a vision, and when it had finished she quickly let go of Bella's arm as if it were something disgusting.
"What the hell?" Bella asked in awe, rubbing her hand lightly. Alice looked completely infuriated, she was practically fuming and shooting daggers through Bella's face.
"What's wrong?" She asked again, this time feeling a bit more intimidated.
"Do you know how annoying it is when every time you have a vision you have this amazed reaction and then you never tell me what you saw?" But she just kept staring.
"Ugh, fuck this, I'm leaving. Thanks for having me. Bye." Then she was gone, slamming the door behind her, Alice stood rooted on the spot until a minute after she heard Bella's truck drive off.
So there she was, sitting on her bed in silence wondering if it were possible to be any more of a complete fucking fool.
"Alice?" A female voice called through the crack of the door, startling her train of thought.
"What?" She replied rudely, considering whether or not to listen to her sister for once.
"Can I come in?" She asked politely, using some of her charm to persuade her.
"Do what you want." Alice said immaturely.
In reply, Rosalie typically rolled her eyes and carefully made her way inside the dark bedroom and looked to the bed where sat a depressed looking little vampire.
"I wanted to...apologise for the other day with Bella. It was unintentional, I promise." Alice considered her.
"Hmm." She wondered. "Why is that any of my concern?" She was a stubborn one.
"We're not deaf Alice. We all heard last night and this morning." Rosalie smirked.
"Nothing happened. I don't know what you heard." Rosalie scoffed, looking the girl dead in the eye.
"Don't embarrass yourself Alice, we heard what she said this morning, what happened?" The blonde enquired.
"Why the sudden interest?" Alice asked, intent on avoiding conversation about her idiocy and confusing feelings for the human.
"Alice" The blonde said in a smooth, bewitching voice whilst seating herself gently on the side of Alice's bed. "I saw the death glares you were giving me after what happened." Alice clenched her jaw at the memory.
"Well what do you think you were doing? That's wrong, when it happened with me and her I didn't mea-" Shit.
"You what?" Rosalie exclaimed, more in amusement than outrage. "I knew something was going on."
"Nothing is going on Rose." Alice replied, attempting to sound sure of herself.
"You might be fooling yourself, but you're not fooling me, nor Edward or your boyfriend." Alice sighed, she would have to admit things to herself soon and just give up suppressing the feelings, but she wasn't as brave as she made out to be sometimes.
"It really had to be me who gave you the wake up call." Rosalie smiled weakly, but genuinely. Something Alice did appreciate in the moment.
"I just wanted to make sure you knew what you're doing, because the fact that she's a human doesn't sit well with some of us, especially me. But I care about you and if you really like this human and she gives you happiness then I'm sure we'll suffice." There was a moment of silence which Alice took to deeply think on Rosalie's words.
"Thank you." She said to the patient blonde. Rosalie felt a rare warmth inside of her as her sister leant over and wrapped her tiny arms around her lovingly. She admitted it was sweet compared to Emmett's huge bear hugs, and pretty smell was endearing as well. She hugged back lightly and took in the moment. Too soon the embrace had broken and she was returning to her own bedroom to leave Alice to her thoughts.
Bella had got home and immediately retreated to the discomfort of her own room, thanking God that Charlie hadn't tried to make conversation with her on her way in. Looking around her small, messy room she thought back to the perfection of Alice's gigantic, beautiful bedroom. It certainly did put hers to great shame.
She pushed the memory of their last encounter to the back of her mind where it would linger annoyingly for the rest of the day.
She had sat in her chair with her cell phone in her hand for a good 5 minutes before deciding against texting Alice. She was too stubborn to seem desperate or obsessed, but the thought of Alice was prevalent in her mind the whole day. Even when the thought of her was painful she still couldn't think of anything else.
She continued trying to make something of her day by watching a movie or something, but she was just completely distracted. Until a message buzzed on her phone almost giving her a heart attack. She anxiously went to open it, praying for it to be from Alice. But she was disappointed once again. It was Edward, how the hell did he even get her number?
Hey Bella, I was wondering if you wanted to come out for lunch today, I can pick you up and drive you if you'd like?
"Wonderful." She said sarcastically, tapping the reply button vigorously. She then decided to use her new found confidence to press down harder and force herself to reply.
Hey She wrote, and that was as far as she got before being at a loss for what to write next. She firstly had to decide if she even wanted to or not, she kind of did, but only to clear her feelings up for him, give it one last chance, she owed it to him. Um, sure. What time? She then typed in her address and sent it, continuing to wait apprehensively. She felt an uncomfortable nervousness and tense feeling about going out with him, and it wasn't the pleasant kind of nervous, it was the kind of knowing you have to do something you don't want to and just wanting to get it over with.
A minute later he replied. Great! I'll see you at 1:30. Bella looked at the time. 1:00pm, and she thought she was desperate.
The clothes she changed into weren't anything fancy, just her usual boring outfit with her hair down past her shoulders in a slightly knotty mess. Looking into the mirror when done she dubbed it her own personal style. If Edward didn't like it then he could suck it. She sniggered to herself, wondering where she got her ridiculous ideas from.
A car sounded into her driveway moments later, Bella looked at the time, 1:30pm exactly. Someone was punctual. She braced herself by quickly running her hands through her hair, managing to almost break her finger on a knot at the bottom.
Then there was a knock at the door. Shit! She hadn't told Charlie, he was going to freak when he saw a big, handsome man on his doorstep requesting his daughter. She grabbed her phone, shoved it in her jeans pocket and raced downstairs, jumping three stairs at a time in order to beat her dad to it. But she was too late.
Her stomach dropped when she caught glimpse of her dads questioning expression and Edward standing tall in the doorway wearing a navy button up blouse and black skinny jeans. She had to admit he did look very handsome.
"This boy says he's picking you up?" Charlie enquired, looking sternly from Edward to Bella.
"Yes." Was her short reply. She didn't have to answer to Charlie, she was eighteen.
He raised an inquisitive eyebrow at her sureness. "In the future it would help to tell me these things.." He said.
"I will, I just forgot this time, was kind of short notice." He nodded in understanding and let her be off with the eager looking male, much to his dismay.
"Be good." He warned to Bella, but Edward read his mind loud and clear, it was definitely a threat for him to take care of his daughter, which needn't even worry about. Edward knew how to be a perfect gentleman. He opened the car door for her which in Bella's mind it was more cliché than anything chivalrous.
"Thanks." She mumbled, clambering into the silver Volvo.
"You're welcome." He replied, suddenly sitting next to her less than two seconds after he was on the other side of the car.
"So, where would you like to go?" He asked politely. Ugh, Bella hated cheesy perfect gentlemen behaviour.
To your house to see your hotter sister. She thought spitefully. "Wherever." She replied.
Edward tried with all of his will to seem completely unaffected from what he'd heard. But his jealousy was too strong and he began to shake and grip the steering wheel to the point he was almost crushing it.
"Alice told you she could see the future?" He asked through clenched teeth.
"Oh...yeah, she did." Bella replied, surprised and anxious about the change of topic. She glanced to her right and noticed he was considerably tense.
"Well did she tell you she's not the only one with a gift?" He asked with the same amount of restraint in his voice.
Bella's stomach dropped again. "N-no.." She stuttered, trying to cut to whatever he was implying.
"So I'm guessing no one's told you that I can read minds?" Did she even have a stomach anymore? She was pretty sure she just shit it out. Her face was as pale as Edward's now.
Shit! Ah fuck..he can read my mind..SHUT UP! She felt the embarrassment and guilt enough to cover her face with her hands and face palm herself rather aggressively.
"Just thought it would be better for us if you knew." He said plainly.
"Edward I-I didn't mean.." She felt like a complete fuckwit. She had just said to herself that she'd rather spend time with his 'hotter' sister than to go out with him. She couldn't face him.
"It's not all bad. At least it's an easier way to know the truth. Harsh as it may be." Bella felt sick, she couldn't imagine what he'd be thinking of her. For a minute she'd wished she could read his thoughts, but she'd probably regret it.
"I didn't mean it.." She tried to explain herself. But she did mean it, she didn't want to mean it, but she did.
"You did, but thanks for the thought." He was starting to take it less personally, although it still hurt.
They then sat in the most awkward silence Bella had ever endured. She felt like the worlds biggest idiot. After her shame had worn off slightly, she chose to look out of the window. A familiar path could be seen, he was driving them to his house.
"Edward!" Bella yelled in shock, but he didn't budge. "What are we doing?" Still no answer. She had no other choice but to give up and wait and see.
The car came to a stop in front of the mansion and Bella was sure there was nothing good to come in the next few minutes. She followed him inside where it was eerily quiet. Silence echoed off the walls and gave it a deserted feel.
"Where is everyone?" Bella asked curiously.
"Here." He replied. Beginning to walk up the stairs, Bella followed him wearily.
He stopped suddenly outside of Alice's room, as if he had heard an odd noise. He smirked at what he could hear in their minds, this could only mean one thing.
"Alice." He called and then knocked.
"Go away!" She demanded desperately. Bella wondered what the hell was going on, and walked closer to the door so that she could hear what was going on inside.
"I've got someone here who you need to talk to."
"What?" Bella whispered. She was not expecting this.
Alice cursed herself multiple times as she struggled to re apply her clothes and checked her face and hair for any signs of imperfection. She didn't want to look all sexed up, it would already be embarrassing enough. Then rudely enough her door was flung open and in the doorway stood a smug Edward accompanied by a very gobsmacked human. Her jaw hit the ground as she watched both Alice and her boyfriend racing into their clothing which had been thrown carelessly around the room. They both looked guiltily at each other and finished making themselves look presentable, not that there was a point anymore.
Bella's eyes were now glued on the rock hard boner in Jasper's pants which completely reassured her of her internal assumptions. Looking up at Alice's face for some kind of answer all she saw was pure fury burning into Edward's face.
"You're unbelievable." She said in impatience and frustration. She wasn't an idiot, she knew he'd heard their thoughts yet he still came in. Bastard. He always had to try and ruin any happiness in her life. He was doing anything he could to get Bella to dislike her, but little did he know how literally impossible that was.
"YOU'RE UNBELIEVABLE!" Bella practically screamed at the taken aback pixie.
The room went dead silent, this was very unlike Bella. But she felt an uncontrollable fury burning inside of her, in the moment it consumed her every sane thought. The anger was like nothing she'd ever felt before, she had the unthinkable urge to beat Alice senseless. She was so pissed.
If it weren't for Jasper using his power to settle her she feared the situation would have ended horribly. But as she came to her senses again she felt a different anger, she was angry that she'd gotten angry in the first place. She didn't mean to, it was like someone else took over her body.
Her eyes widened and she felt an undeniable guilt after looking at Alice's sad pout. God, she was always so adorable. Bella couldn't stop herself from ogling at her in the most unusual time.
"Thanks Edward, you may leave now." Alice sneered. How dare he.
"All yours, sis." Oh he was pushing it. Thankfully he left before she could brutally attack him.
Bella didn't no where to go or what to do. Dare she say she'd had enough of the Cullen's and their antics to last a lifetime? Well she'd had enough of the Cullen's, but no amount of time with Alice was enough for her likings.
"I'll let you two ladies talk this one out." Jasper spoke in a southern drawl.
He left the two behind standing in yet another awkward silence.
"What was that?" Alice asked finally, referring to Bella's outburst.
"I-I don't know." Bella stammered, trying to figure out what would have caused such a reaction.
"Because it kind of seemed like you were.."
"I was..?"
"Jealous."
"Pff, of what?" That was a little bit insulting she admitted.
"Him." Alice said boldly. "Screwing this." She gestured to her body.
Bella's heart was in her throat now and Alice's change in direction of the conversation woke her brain up again and into overdrive. Suddenly she felt a wave of arousal buzz into her veins overbearingly and a desirable burn in a place she couldn't ignore. It was almost like the other day where they came together in class. She shuddered from the pure memory.
Stop being sexy! Her mind screamed to the sex haired, scruffy clothed looking vampire. Her body was a dream and her face was heaven, the stars flickered in her eyes and her personality wasn't bad either.
"I'm not saying it to toot my own horn Bella, I've seen things and I can also see you now, checking me out quite blatantly."
"Who says I'm jealous then?" Alice rolled her eyes. Bella was being so ignorant.
Alice had picked up that familiar smell of sex in the air venting from Bella's crotch. To be perfectly straightforward, the smell caused her own scent to escape into the mixture.
"Stop it." Alice whined, becoming short of breath in the familiar burst of hormones that they shared two days ago.
"I'm not doing anything.." Bella said, watching Alice look like she was going to squirm to death.
Alice was lost in desire by this point, her eyes shot open a deadly black and her thoughts were tarnished by dirty and violent images.
"I can't take this anymore." Alice whispered and bit down hard on her tongue then turned around to restrain the temptations.
"I've been waiting for you to say that." Bella replied in a husky tone.
Alice wasn't sure of how to react at first, but then she thought less about it and followed her instinct. Wherever that would lead her.