Here's the next chapter guys! Thanks for all the reviews. Love you all! Sorry if I don't respond to everyone's reviews :/
Reptarjr : You'll find out if you stick with it :P All the answers will come in due time
Crazy Heart 101: Haha, The Alice POV probably won't be for another few chapters. I have it planned in my head and I think it's going to be great.
Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight
Right when the game of Risk finished, the doorbell rang and the pizza and soda they had ordered arrived. Emmett and Jasper, being the boys they were, rushed off to get it having been complaining about how hungry they were. Naturally, Jasper had won the game with his strategy. It helped that he had a military background. Of course, Bella believed that this game was based a lot on luck anyways. There's no way rolling dice could be skill. It had seemed that she had a little soft spot for Alice because she hardly ever tried to invade her territory even though sometimes it would make sense that she did. People saw this and would poke fun at her cause just the faintest of blushed to show on her and Alice's face. They knew there was nothing to it but they all just wanted someone to make fun of.
As the guys went to do that, it was left to the girls to decide what they should do next. "We should watch a movie," Rosalie said. "I love watching a movie while eating." She looked to the ground as if ashamed. "Guilty pleasure." Alice's tinkling laugh rang through the room.
"Let's do that then." She looked over at Rosalie almost sternly. "And there's nothing wrong with liking to do that." Alice glided over to the cabinet that had all their DVD's. The cabinet had glass doors which she pulled open. Bella couldn't help but watch Alice as she moved around, looking at the movies, sometimes tiptoeing because she was so short. Bella smiled to herself at the sight of Alice being so cute without her even trying. "I got it!" Alice exclaimed. She pulled out a DVD and came back to where Bella and Rosalie were. She held the movie out and Bella took it, careful to not make any physical contact.
She was already affected by her and didn't want to make things worse for herself. All things considered, she thought she was doing pretty well at getting to know Alice. Bella glanced at the movie. "Cabin in the Woods…?" She said. Flipping to the back of the DVD, she saw that it was a horror/comedy. "No way," Bella said. "There's not a way I'm watching a scary movie. I hate scary movies…" She trailed off.
"What?" Emmett's voice said. He was walking back with Jasper and all the food. "You scared?" He taunted.
Bella turned a shade of red. "Of course not," she replied defensively knowing everyone would see through her lie. "I'm just not in the mood." Alice looked a little crestfallen and Bella couldn't help but feel bad for her. She seemed really excited to see the movie but Bella just couldn't really stand the gore and horror in general.
"I guess we can watch something else…" Alice trailed off, dejected.
"It's okay," Jasper said. "Bella, you can just cuddle and hide behind Alice if you're scared."
At this, both of them turned red and mumbled incoherent objections causing everyone else to laugh. "He was just kidding guys," Rosalie said, laughing. She reached over and plucked the movie from Bella's hand and went to put it in. The rest of them took the seats they were in so Alice was next to Bella again. Bella shifted uncomfortably; painfully aware at how close Alice seemed to be. Alice was quiet and seemed to be deep in thought and also seemed indifferent about who she was sitting with. Bella was confused. She really couldn't figure out this girl.
Before they got settled, Jasper stood and told Alice that he wanted to talk to her. Willingly Alice followed him to the kitchen and Bella narrowed her eyes at Jasper, suspicious. She was thinking that Jasper was going to talk about her. With a shrug, she figured there was nothing she could do about it so grabbed a plate, two slices of pizza, and a can of coke while the trailers started. Looking around, she found a couch pillow by her feet that she picked up. She was not about to hide behind anyone when she got scared, she'd just use the pillow.
This didn't go unnoticed by Emmett though and he raised an eyebrow at her. "What? Didn't want to use Alice?"
"Shut up," Bella almost growled.
Emmett laughed. "Never thought I'd see the day the infamous Bella Swan is scared of something. You just don't seem like that kind of person with all the rumors about you." In an embarrassed huff, Bella didn't respond and opted to just watch the trailers while she heard Rosalie giggle under her breathe.
Right when the movie was about to start, Jasper and Alice came back in and she took a seat next to Bella. Reaching over, she also grabbed herself some food. "I love this movie!" She said, clearly excited.
Bella shook her head. "I feel like you just chose this to mess with me."
"What if I did?" Alice said, looking over and giving Bella a wink. Unprepared for it, Bella blushed and looked away, cursing herself inwardly for her reaction. Seemed like the week apart had done nothing to fix the way she reacted and felt about Alice. Shrugging it off, she decided it wouldn't matter. She was merely doing Jasper a favor. Bella didn't want to admit to herself that she also wanted to be around Alice and was just too scared to before and vented it out in a way that had pushed her even farther away.
Bella groaned when she saw the first character's head get thrown on the floor in front of all the others by the zombie looking thing. She looked away to the side and hugged her pillow feeling pathetic. Alice laughed and Bella looked over, seeing her intent on the movie. For some reason she was finding this funny and Bella couldn't figure out why. Giving up on the movie completely, she sat for the rest of the time staring at the corner of the TV as if she was watching. Bella wouldn't be surprised if she didn't get much sleep tonight.
When the movie was finally over, Bella sighed in relief. The group broke out in chatter about how hilarious and fake the whole movie seemed while Bella just sat quietly. She didn't really agree with what all they were saying because she thought it was not funny at all. The images that she had seen was gruesome and she kept seeing them in her head.
Alice glanced at her phone and saw that it was late. "Oh! It's that time already! I should be going home guys." She said as she looked around for her stuff.
Rosalie smiled. "Okay, I'm sure Bella wouldn't mind going back with you. The rest of us are spending the night here." She turned to Bella. "Would you mind, Bella?" She asked with a wink at Bella that Alice couldn't see.
Bella blushed a little and her heartbeat sped up. She would get to spend the whole walk back with just Alice. The nervousness of that thought got to her but she couldn't deny it's what she wanted. "Uh... s... sure," Bella replied. "I guess so."
Alice merely rolled her eyes at Rosalie. "Of course you're spending the night. When do you not spend the night?"
Rosalie chuckled. "You're right." She leaned down and gave Emmett a heated kiss. "I just can't stay away from this bad boy here."
Alice pretended to gag. "That's my cue to leave. You coming, Bella?" She tossed over her shoulder casually as she walked to the door. There was a bit of scrambling and Alice turned to see Bella coming towards her.
"Yea. Right behind you." She jerked her head back to Emmett, Rosalie, Jasper, and Edward, "I wouldn't want to be here when things get down."
"Me neither," Alice agreed.
Together they chimed goodbye to the group behind them and stepped out into the cold brisk air. Pulling her jacket closer to her, Bella led the way down the steps and towards their dorm rooms. It was quiet for a while with Alice walking slightly behind her and Bella began to fidget and get uncomfortable. "So," Bella started, unable to bear it any longer. "How have you been?" She asked, feeling like that was a lame question.
"Wh... what?" Alice started, as if surprised Bella was talking to her. "It's been alright. Not the best week for me but there's not much I can do about it I guess."
"What was so bad about it?" Bella asked without thinking.
"You should know…" Alice said so softly that Bella almost didn't hear. In a louder voice, she said, "Just school… you know? The usual stuff. I just have a lot of stuff to do." Bella glanced back to see Alice looking at the ground. Bella had a suspicion that the reason she didn't have a good week was because of her. However, she wasn't quite ready to broach that subject yet so she didn't respond. After a short silence, Alice broke it. "So how was yours?"
Bella shrugged as she slowed down so that they were now walking side by side. "It was alright. Not my best."
Alice laughed an almost bitter laugh. "Sounded like you had quite a bit of fun." Bella blushed and thanked the gods that it was dark. She definitely didn't want to talk about this. Alice didn't know that she was the reason for what Bella did the past week but she wasn't about to tell her that.
Bella decided she'd try to play it off cool. "Well, honey," she drawled. "Five is below average for me if you know what I mean." She looked over to see Alice looking back in almost disbelief. Bella winked. "On a normal week I'd get more."
Alice sputtered, looking for something to say. "You changed more than I had thought…" She finally said. Bella didn't know if this was a good thing or not but hoped that it was. They came to the entrance of her dorm.
"Does this change make you like me then?" Bella couldn't help but ask. It came out with a bunch of weird emotions wrapped inside. There was hope and curiosity but she had tried to disguise it with her player voice. Alice looked over slightly confused. She had heard the tangle of emotions in that question.
"Hmmm… I wonder," Alice replied cryptically. She turned around. "I'm going to go to my studio real quick actually; I wanted to work on something. I'll see you around, yea?" She asked.
"Wh…what?" Bella said, unprepared for the sudden change of topic. "Ye… yea, you will." Bella waved. "We should hang out." She found herself saying.
"Text me," Alice called out without turning around. She lifted her hand in a brisk wave and trotted off in the direction of her studio, leaving Bella to wonder what had just happened.
Shaking her head, Bella made her way inside. She couldn't help but think that Alice was being a little bipolar today with the crying at first, then the apathy the next, and then the flirting. It seemed like she was just switching back and forth with what she wanted and it was confusing Bella. With a frustrated sigh, she pushed open the door to her room and came face to face with a Sarah.
It looked like she had also just gotten back from somewhere. Bella didn't think it was dinner or that was a really long dinner. "Hey," She greeted. "Did you just get back?"
Sarah looked sheepish. "Yea," She mumbled. "There was just so much to talk about, you know?"
"Uh, sure," Bella replied, not really understanding. She had never really had a conversation with anyone that lasted that long. Of course, she did that with Edward all the time but that was different.
"Anyways," Sarah said as if she wanted to change the subject. "How was hanging at Emmett's?"
Bella let out a laugh. "It was great…. Until we started watching a scary movie…"
Sarah looked over surprised. "You don't like scary movies?"
"Actually, I'm terrified of them," Bella admitted.
"You watched it anyways?"
"Well… Alice just looked too sad when I said I didn't want to watch it."
Sarah looked over with a suspicious yet triumphant smile. It was weirding Bella out. "Right… so you watched it cause you didn't want her to be upset?"
"Yea, well, she was upset earlier today for some random reason and I'd rather not add to her misery if you know what I mean." Bella declared defensively.
Sarah shook her head. "You know Bella? Considering you're a player and everything, sometimes you can be really dense."
Bella looked at Sarah confused. "What do you mean?"
"Nothing," Sarah replied with a smile. "So would you like to have lunch with me tomorrow?" She asked, changing the subject. Bella groaned in frustration. She wished Sarah would just tell her what she was talking about.
Sarah laughed at her groan as she changed into her pjs. "I guess so. Is it just the two of us?"
"Yea, Alice texted me and said she has too much work right now or something. I don't know. I thought I'd ask you since Alice wasn't going to be there cause you only seem to say you're busy if Alice is going to be there." She paused for a bit. "Except for just now you agreed before knowing if she was going or not. Why's that?"
"Oh, um," Bella scratched the back of her head self-consciously. "Just trying to become friends with her again I guess." She let out of sigh. "I don't know what's going on."
Sarah looked over concerned. "Would you like to talk about it?" She asked.
"No… I think this is something I need to work out on my own with Alice to be honest."
"Alright then… If you want to talk though. I'd prolly know more than you think."
Bella shook her head. "I don't doubt you." She said. "I just want to see if I can figure this out on my own."
"Whatever you say then." With that, the two of them fell silent for the rest of the night, each absorbed in their own thoughts. Bella was trying to figure out Alice and drifted to sleep thinking of her.
So what do you guys think? Sarah seems to know something Bella doesn't. Is Alice still wary of Bella? The next few chapters will have lots of Alice and Bella :P