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Alice In Italy

It took me a lot longer than I expected to retrieve Alice's engagement gift. Who knew the shops would be so busy on a day like this? Fair enough Thanksgiving was coming up, but jeez, sometimes you forget just how big it is. I mean, not that I don't enjoy spending the day with the family, but all these sales make shops so hard to get into.

I'm sure Alice was going to love her gift. She would love it anyway, especially since Esme picked it. Alice was lucky to have a mum who actually had some style and knew the sort of things her daughter wanted, even if most of those things were way too expensive. For instance, that $50,000 car she got for her sixteenth birthday! I was happy when it had come to my sixteenth for them just to get me a little car, nothing too expensive just something that got me from one point to another without breaking down. Not Alice no, she had to have the best. I actually felt sorry for Jasper. Alice was way to materialistic. Though, she did have a heart of gold and could make you feel better by just being in her hyperactive presence, she still loved to buy things way to much. It was a good thing that they both had good paying jobs that would enable them to feed Alice's shopping craze.

I was only around five minutes late to meet Alice, I knew she would be at her favourite restaurant in Little Italy. It's the only one that's good enough to meet her standards. The doorbell clanged as I walked into the restaurant. Mrs Gilbert, the owner of it gave me a little wave and pointed me in the direction of Alice.

We usually came here around once a week if we could make it. Mrs Gilbert knew what we wanted so we wouldn't even have to order anything. It was good like that, not having to wait for a waiter or waitress to finish with another customer before coming to get our order. It saved a bit of time.

La Pizzeria was one of the busiest pizza restaurants in Little Italy; I was actually surprised Alice had managed to get us a table in such short notice. Normally all we had to do was phone Mrs Gilbert and she would get us a table if there were any cancellations or try to squeeze us in while she was waiting for another customer to show up, but she couldn't usually do anything in two hours.

Alice was sitting at the table, bouncing up and down and waving her hand at me, as if I hadn't already noticed her sitting there. It's not like I haven't lived with her all my life not to know what she looks like!

"Your late" she said, her wide eyes forming into a glare. I knew she would eventually forgive me for being late. She had way too much to tell me for her to remain angry at me.

That's the thing with Alice. even if she was angry at you, she couldn't give you the silent treatment. She couldn't shut up for that long. I guess you could say that without Alice in my life, things would certainly have been boring.

I was lucky that Esme and Carlisle had adopted people that I got on well with. Even though I don't see them as my adopted brother and sister, I see them more like real siblings, they couldn't have picked anyone better. Where one of us lacked in an area another one of us could do it. I was really bad at politics at school but Emmett was amazing at it and would help me on homework and stuff if I didn't know what I was doing. Where Emmett didn't know too much about English, Alice would help him and when Alice had no idea what to do in music, I would help her. We were, I suppose you could say, a perfect balance. We all had different talents. Each of us individually unique.

"Yes well it's really your fault for making me late", which was true. If I hadn't needed to pick up her engagement present I wouldn't have been late.

"How is it my fault Edward?" she demanded to know. It was great fun winding her up.

"Sorry, can't tell you. I'm not allowed to."

If there was one thing Alice hated, it was not knowing the gossip or not knowing what was happening. We had tried in the past to give Alice surprise birthday parties. Not once had she been surprised. Even at Christmas she would know what she was getting. The thing is, we had no idea how she knew. Esme and Carlisle always locked Alice's presents away in a cupboard and hid all the receipts in places that she wouldn't dare to look, like Carlisles underwear drawer but she still seemed to know. I seriously sometimes thought that she was a psychic.

"Fine" she huffed and I couldn't stop myself when I started laughing at her childish antics. "It's not funny. Stop laughing at me!"

It took me a good few minutes to calm myself down. Most of the customers were staring at us and glaring. Alice was sitting in her seat, perfectly still, arms crossed at her chest. Huffing and puffing.

"So what did you want to talk to me about?" I asked her, trying to get her out of her mood.

"Well I want you to be Jaspers best man!" she squealed bobbing up and down on her seat again. I really didn't know where she got the energy from. I wish I could act like I had just drunk ten energy drinks in the one go.

"Um Alice, shouldn't Jasper be picking out his best man? I mean it is his wedding as well."

"Oh, don't worry about him. He said I was allowed to ask you."

"Are you sure? You aren't just making it up again? Like that time you said we were all invited to a party at Jaspers when you were seventeen?"

I could remember it clearly. Alice had invited us all over to Rosalie and Jaspers house for a party because Mr and Mrs Hale were away to Boston for a business weekend. I only went because the others were going. Emmett wanted to see Rosalie anyways as he wasn't usually allowed in their house with her. He wouldn't tell me why exactly he wasn't allowed in the Hales house but I knew it had something to do with him being in Rosalie's room. I guess you could put two and two together to work out what happened there. I knew I was going to be like the fifth wheel the entire night but Alice had made me promise to come. So I went. Only three hours into the whole 'party', Mr and Mrs Hale came back. They hadn't been going to a business weekend in Boston, they were only going out for dinner to celebrate there twentieth wedding anniversary. We weren't allowed back to their house after that.

"Oh of course I'm not making it up and that was ages ago. Seriously why can't you just build a bridge and get over it. It was a MISTAKE. I just got the date wrong that's all. Plus Mr and Mrs Hale have forgiven me for it."

"Sure they have"

"They have! Stop mocking me Edward!"

"What you going to do if I don't?" I dared at her.

"I'll tell mum!"

Yep, that got me to shut up. Esme may be soft and sweet but she was scary when she was angry. Emmett and I always got in trouble from her when we annoyed Alice. She was the baby of the family after all. Even Carlisle would give us a row if we annoyed her and Carlisle was usually the calm, passive one. You would have thought Alice was some kind of angel!

She had this sort of smug satisfied grin on her face, because she knew she had one the battle. She always pulled the mum card when were mocking her. It's probably because it always seemed to work.

"Fine, I'll stop okay!"

"So" she said moving on, "What's this I've been hearing about my big brother being a hero?"

I knew there was another motif for her getting me to come here. I should have known it wasn't just to talk about wedding stuff.

"I'm not a hero. I just found this girl who was beat up in an alleyway and called an ambulance. Anyone would have done the same thing."

"No they wouldn't have Edward. You know that. Not for a homeless person no less. They would have just walked on by not wanting to waste there time or to go near the 'filth'. That makes you a hero."

"No it doesn't. It's my job to save people lives. I wouldn't have just let someone die on the street and you know that."

"We'll your still my hero!"

"Fine, whatever."

I really wanted to change the subject. I didn't want Alice to find out that I was sort of 'attached' to this girl. She would tell everyone.

"So… Carlisle was telling me you went to see her?" she said casually, even though I knew why she wanted to find it all out.

"Yes, I went to see how she was."

"And?" she asked.

"And what?" I replied, answering her question with another.

"We'll, how was she?"

"She was fine. We didn't really talk much."

"Edward you animal! I can't believe you got it on with a patient!"

Oh shit.

"I didn't get it on with a patient Alice. Jeez, does it look like I want to loose my internship? I only meant she didn't talk much. She was really quiet."

"Oh" she said gutted that there wasn't anymore to it. Alice had always hoped Edward would take an interest in someone. I mean after her wedding there was no one else's wedding to plan for except his.

"Are you going back to see her again?" she asked.

"Yeah, tomorrow actually."

"Can I come?" she said, "can I please?"

I sighed; she wouldn't give in if I said no.

"Here's your pizza, enjoy" said Mrs Gilbert as she laid down a spicy chicken one in front of me and pepperoni in front of Alice. I looked down at my pizza then back up to Alice.

She was still staring at me expectantly, waiting for my answer.

I sighed.

"Fine, you can come." I said and she squealed excitedly.

I didn't know if I was going to regret my decision or not.

Reviews :) Yet again if there are any mistakes let me know. I am not good at dialogue, I'm better with thoughts and feelings so sorry it's so crap. I just wanted to introduce more characters to the story!