"Bella!"
I knew I was going to die, why else would I be hallucinating. I saw my life flash before my eyes, or mostly just a picture of Alice walking towards me. She was just as beautiful and tiny as I remembered and I realized how much I missed her and wished she was really here.
"Bella! Hey, get up!"
I wasn't exactly sure what this memory was from, I was trying to place it when I saw Alice reach out towards me and I could almost feel her cool skin. I wanted to jump at her and wrap my arms around her but I knew it wouldn't do any good, I'd only prove how mentally unstable I was by jumping at the air. I started to cry, the sobs heaving my body a little.
"Snap out of it!" Alice gave me a slight slap on the cheek, not enough to hurt but I did squeal a little realizing that she wasn't a dream at all, she was really here. This time I did jump at her, even though she was quite a bit smaller than me she didn't flinch at my weight. None of this made sense though; Alice was back, but Jacob was a werewolf, and I was sure they were just about to kill me.
"You boys should be ashamed of yourselves, phasing in front of her, and for what reason! Did she pose some sort of threat?!" I only assumed she was talking to the wolves, it hadn't crossed my mind that if Jacob had turned into a wolf that the others were really people too. I heard the same paper ripping sound and turned to see one of them walking towards us; I averted my eyes when I saw that he was naked.
"You're not supposed to be here! You've crossed the line; we felt a threat and decided to deal with it accordingly."
"I find that hard to believe, Sam, since I wasn't even in the area until I heard Bella screaming. Has the dog food gotten to your brains?" I held back a giggle; this certainly wasn't the time to be laughing.
"Then I don't understand, we distinctly picked up your stench over by Jacob's house. Actually, we were surprised that this girl was human, we expected to see Jacob entertaining a leech by how strong the scent was. You're either lying, or there's someone else." The atmosphere was instantly tense at Sam's words, I didn't understand the smell thing, but I did get that it meant another vampire had been close by.
"That would've been me." Carlisle walked through the edge of some thick brush off to our right. I was suddenly self conscious in front of Alice; I assumed she knew about my relationship with Carlisle, if it weren't for some vision she probably had then my erratic heart definitely gave us away now.
"I knew Bella had been planning a trip out here, Charlie has been trying to get her out here for days which seemed a little odd to me since he'd never had an interest in her being here before. I understand we broke the treaty, Sam, but you can't blame me for being worried; your pack has grown since the last time we spoke and a few are pretty young. I didn't want her to get hurt." Carlisle had made his way to Alice and I; I caught her eyeing us, probably confirming her suspicions.
"Carlisle, we've held this treaty for many years and I have no intention of breaking it, at the moment. But please be advised that the next time you come onto our side without prior notice, I can't promise you that it will end as peacefully as it will today." Sam extended his hand to shake Carlisle's, then turned walking back towards La Push, changing into a wolf mid-step. Carlisle scooped me up into his arms and ran back to his house, setting me down the second we reached the porch.
"Are you ok? Are you hurt?" His hands were grasping my shoulders a little and almost shaking me with each word.
"No I'm fine, but we left my truck."
"Alice is getting it, Bella, why didn't you tell me you were going to La Push?" This time he did shake me a little.
"I didn't really have a chance; I walked in and walked back out. But I can assure you I most likely will not be going back; what is going on?" Carlisle and I went inside and waited for Alice, I had so many questions that needed answers but he settled with just telling me about the werewolves first. As long as the vampires existed, the werewolves would too, they were mortal enemies but since the Cullen's were 'vegetarians' Sam, the pack leader, and Carlisle had made a treaty that they could all live together in peace if they stayed on their own sides of the line and the Cullen's never bit a human.
"Ok, so why is Alice here?" We sat on the couch, holding hands.
"You know Alice. She saw us together and decided to come back; I'm unsure if she's angry with us or if she was just sick of not being home that brought her here. I do know that Jasper is still in Houston trying to find old acquaintances, I spoke with him yesterday, so maybe she was just bored or lonely."
"Or maybe, I wanted to know what the hell you two were thinking?" Alice stomped through the doorway; I hadn't even heard my truck.
"Yes or that too." Carlisle said absentmindedly as he brushed some hair out of my face and tucked it behind my ear.
"Well?"
"Alice, you must already know, why are you even asking? I assume you already know what consequences we may possibly face, too." He still hadn't looked her yet, he just stared into my eyes. Alice didn't respond, I wasn't sure if that was good or bad but I was certain that Carlisle was right; Alice did know what would come of this and fortunately for me, I didn't care.
"Fine, I won't tell you; and I'm not going to say I'm okay with this either." She made a little 'humph' noise and crossed her arms in front of her. "I only came back because…I missed you guys and I hate being secretive and hiding out, so I won't tell your secrets if you don't tell mine and let me stay."
"Why would we tell you to go? I'm glad your back." I climbed off the couch and walked over to Alice pulling her into a hug which she seemed reluctant to return.
"Don't be like that Alice…"
"Fine, I'm sorry, it's just…weird! I'm so used to things being different and used to how the future always looked." She kind of whined into my hair. I assured her that everything was ok and after one more cautious look, she switched gears and went back to her old self going on and on about shopping and how hard it was to find any good stores when she was in the south with Jasper. I just couldn't figure out why Charlie had wanted me to go to La Push so bad; had he known what was there?
"Hey, Carlisle, why do you think Charlie wanted me to go to La Push?" I had interrupted Alice and felt her stare in the side of my head; I'm pretty sure this was more important that how much space she thought Payless Shoes wasted when they could've just put in a Coach store.
"That I'm not sure about; my only guess could be that Charlie has been noticing Jacob coming home late or not at all and it probably seems like he's getting trouble so he thought Jacob needed a friend. And maybe since he needs someone, and he probably thinks you need someone, that in another alternate universe the two of you could've been friends and then maybe more." He pulled me into his lap; Alice huffed at this and turned her head away.
"Well, I don't know why he thinks I'd want to be friends with Jacob, he scares me!"
"Because, Jacob is the natural path your life would've taken had…..well, had you and Carlisle not….." Alice trailed off after that, careful not to acknowledge what Carlisle and I had.
"Wait, huh? Jacob and I….together?!"
"Yes! When we all left, I used to see your future with Jacob all the time; it wasn't until he became a werewolf that it stopped and that's only because I can't see werewolves. I assume that the future would've been the same." I couldn't help but imagine Jacob and I surrounded by wolf children.
"Whatever you say Alice, anyways, I need to get going, if I stay any longer I'm going to have to come up with some story as to why I spent so much time there and then he WILL think Jacob and I have a future." I stood up and stretched catching Carlisle's eyes trace over my body.
"Uh…oh, I'll be over later, Bella." He stood up and walked me to the door. "I need to have a talk with Alice." He kissed me, possibly deeper than he should've in front of Alice, and stood on the porch until I drove away.
So this was hard to write now that I feel inferior to the world of writing, thanks to Stephenie Meyer and Breaking Dawn. Heh heh, like how I tied in some stuff from the actual books (Jacob and Bella)? Hope you guys enjoy, reviews puh-lease! :)