Chapter 11

Margaret

I am so angry that Alice didn't tell me that she, Jasper, and the rest of her dumbass gang have fucking powers, and then has the audacity to be mad at me! I mean I'm her best friend and she didn't tell me that she had powers! I knew her longer than Rosalie and Bella! I should have guessed it though I mean she is always acting weird and running off with her new gang!

Earlier today I was trying to tell her about this concert that I got tickets to go to; Paramore. We absolutely love that band! I thought she was going to scream and bounce up and down, excitedly. It is me and Alice's favorite band and when I told her about the tickets it was like she was in a trance. I mean we were riding to school and she was staring into space and then whispered "Jasper no." It was so weird, and then when we got to school she ditched me for those two bitches Bella and Rosalie. After school we were supposed to hang out together and then she just left. She just left me all alone. She acts weird all of the time, so I decided to follow her to find out why she was always leaving me.

When I followed her she led me to someone's house. She looked around before going into the house. She looked around as if to make sure no one was following her. Why would she be paranoid about people following her?

I went up to the house and turned the door knob before walking in. It looked like a normal house, but it wasn't Alice's house. I heard a noise and followed where the sound came from. I saw Alice in front of the fire place on this machine punching in a code. I carefully watched the pattern as she typed in the code, then the fire place opened up into this elevator.

Alice went inside the elevator and pressed a button, and then the elevator doors closed. After the fireplace closed, I went up to it looking for the machine, the computer and keyboard that Alice was typing on came out of the wall.

"Please type in the password." the computer directed.

I typed the password in just as Alice did and the fireplace opened up into an elevator just like earlier.

"Welcome Alice." the computer greeted, as I stepped inside.

When I walked into the elevator I saw only one button. Down. I pressed the button to see where it will lead. The elevator doors closed and I felt the elevator move. It moved very slowly and Ke$ha music was playing. The song was 'We Are Who We Are.' I sang along to the song, "Hot and dangerous, if you're one of us, then roll with us, cause we make the hipsters fall in love, and we've got our hot-pants on and up, and yes of course we does, we running this town just like a club, and no, you don't wanna mess with us…"

I was jammin' in the elevator when the doors opened and that same computer voice said "Welcome to the training area." Why would Alice be going to a training area? What is she even training for? None of this is making sense!

I walked out of the elevator and walked towards the entrance. I heard people talking and yelling nonsense. I walked down a long hallway until I found a big door. I stood behind the door and listened in.

"Carlisle, we have to start taking action against the Shadow Minion now that we know who he is possessing!" Billy shouted, before Jane cut him off.

"No." Jane remarked, shaking her head in disbelief, "That's my son you're talking about!"

"No its not!" Billy said sternly, "The Shadow Minion is who I am talking about, not Jasper!"

"Billy that is my brother…" I heard Rosalie say.

"He is also apart of our team, and we need him to help fight the Shadow Man" Alice added.

All of a sudden the yelling, screaming, and arguing that came from behind the door, miraculously stopped.

I walked through the door and saw Alice, Edward, Emmett, Bella, and all of their parents frozen. Rosalie stared at me in complete shock. She walked towards me as I backed up.

"What? What did you do?" I bellowed, backing into the wall.

She smiled at me and then rolled her eyes before unfreezing Alice.

"It's true!" Alice exclaimed, before noticing me in the room, "Margaret, what are you doing here?"

"I should be asking you the same question." I remarked, as she began to walk towards me.

I backed away from her again. I didn't want her anywhere near me.

"Want me to freeze her?" Rosalie asked, raising her hands, as I turned to face her in fright.

"No!" I exclaimed, quickly turning to face Alice.

"That's unnecessary." Alice whispered, reaching out for my arm.

I snatched my arm away, but she managed to still grab it. I looked down at Alice's hand wrapped around my arm. I followed her arm until it got to her body. Her arm was longer than a normal arm.

"What the heck is wrong with you?" I screamed, as Rosalie started to laugh, "This isn't funny!"

Rose shook her head up and down as she continued to laugh. She looked around and realized that everyone was still frozen. She raised her hands and jerked them, causing everyone to unfreeze.

"What? What is wrong with you people?" I screamed, feeling light-headed.

"Emmett catch her!" a woman shouted, before I fainted.

I felt like I was to, but I didn't want them to know that. I kept my eyes closed, pretending to still be out.

"Take her home Alice." Cynthia ordered, before feeling my body lift up.

I blacked out again at the thought of what these people were. It's like I don't even know Alice. Something is wrong with her! Something is wrong with all of them!

Soon, I awoke in Alice's house, on her living room sofa.

"Lay down." she whispered, walking towards me, holding a glass of tea, "This should make you feel better."

She handed me the tea and took a seat next to me. I sipped the honey flavored tea; it warmed my body and then I remembered what happened at Billy's house. All these questions, flooded into my head, but I decided to just ask one question that was really important to me.

"What the hell was all of that?" I asked, setting the glass down.

"What was what?" Alice replied, answering my question with a question.

"You know what I'm talking about Alice! The whole thing with everyone being frozen and your super stretchy arm!" I exclaimed, standing up immediately after she grabbed my hand.

"What are you talking about Margaret? You must have really bumped your head hard." Alice said, approaching me, cautiously.

"Alice you're lying!" I bellowed, shaking my head.

"What? No I'm not" Alice said acting oblivious, "I have no clue what you're talking about. Maybe you should lay down."

"Alice I'm your best friend, you think I don't know when you're lying!" I yelled, running my hand down my face.

Alice was silent. I waited for her to say something…anything. I needed her to tell me the truth. I deserve that much. Her remaining quiet, let me know she wasn't planning on saying anything.

"Look Alice… I'm leaving…" I sighed, turning to walk towards the door.

While I was walking out, I noticed Alice's parents' expensive vase from China on the shelf. I thought that maybe, just maybe, if I knock it down, it will trigger her to use her powers. I figured it was worth a shot. I knocked it down, and right before it hit the ground, Alice turned around and caught it with her (as I call it) super stretchy arms.

"I knew it!" I hollered, jumping up and down.

"Why'd you do that?" she screamed, quickly placing it back where it belonged.

"I'm sorry. I just wanted to know the truth. Why didn't you tell me?"

"I didn't want you to stop being my friend." Alice sighed, approaching me, once again.
"I know when you're lying. You know me, tell me the truth." I asserted, crossing my arms.
"That is the truth, but I also didn't want you in any danger." she admitted, grabbing my hand.

"I'll always be your friend. I don't care about you having powers. It's kind of cool!" I exclaimed, pulling her arm, to see if it would extend, "How does your power actually work?" I paused, after realizing her arm wasn't extending, "Can you super shrink, or grow super big and shit, or just like maybe-"

"Margaret calm down!" Alice interrupted, completely frustrated,

"I need you to go home and…and, just forget about today, okay. I just need you to forget about all of this and don't talk to me about any of this and just try to avoid me!" Alice bellowed, as her eyes watered.

"What? Alice why? We're best friends…" I told her, approaching her this time, as she backed away.

"Margaret its too dangerous for you to know anything, but now that you do, we can't talk anymore…" she trailed off, walking towards her front door.

"I'm sorry." I whispered, watching her as she opened the front door.