Twilight through Alice's Eyes Chapter 21
A/N: Hey guys. Thanks for the reviews. So here, as a promised (although it's a few days late), is the next chapter of this story. Have fun reading. Sorry, I felt I needed to add a little humor to this chapter. Trust me you'll know when its there. If you want to find out why I chose the item in question for a certain fun loving vampire to fall into, ask me in a review and I'll tell you. I may put the reasoning in the authors note at the beginning of the next chapter.
Disclaimer: Still don't own Twilight.
Chapter 21
APOV
Jasper and I got back home safely. Jasper looked relieved that he wasn't around so many conflicting emotions anymore. I was still worried about Edward and what he would do when it was just him and Bella, but I trusted him. I still found relief that he didn't kill those men.
All night while I waited for Edward to come back I was scanning the future for anything involving Edward and/or Bella. I found one of the two of them together but what I saw-well heard really-reminded me of the real reason I've been so anxious lately.
Edward and Bella were sitting in Edward's car driving down the road just talking. "Why don't you start at the beginning. . . You said you didn't com up with this on your own." Edward glanced over toward Bella. He was traveling rather slowly for Edward speed, around 80mph.
"No." there was a short silence before he dug deeper for more of what she thought.
"What got you started-a book? A movie?" It was obvious he was trying to just get her to bring up whatever it was she was going to stay.
"No-it was Saturday, at the beach." Bella glanced over at Edward to see a look that she mistook for puzzled. It was actually concern and thought. He knew what happened on the beach but didn't expect her to really get much from it.
"I ran into an old family friend-Jacob Black. His dad and Charlie have been friends since I was a baby." She stopped again to look at Edward's face. She took it for confused; there was definitely some confusion there, but it was for where this would go to if she was right about what she guessed.
"His dad is one of the Quileute elders." Edward froze because he knew he was caught. "We went for a walk and he was telling me some old legends-trying to scare me, I think. He told me one. . ." She just stopped, unsure of whether to go on her not. A part of her seemed to want to know the truth, but another part was just happy that she was alone with Edward and didn't want to ruin their moment alone.
"Go on."
"About vampires," Bella whispered. Edward's hands reflexively tightened on the steering wheel, knowing that he had been caught.
"Crap," I said reflexively out loud. Bella really did believe that kid. Now she knows our secret and I don't know what Edward's going to do anymore. Why do those stupid visions always have to end early? Jasper looked over at me.
"What's the matter, Alice?" He seemed to be interested in what was the matter.
"Nothing. Everything is fine." I didn't want Jasper-or anyone else in the house for that matter-to know what I was worried about.
"Alice, you're forgetting that I can feel your emotions. It isn't just 'nothing.' You are worried and there is a little bit of panic thrown in there too." I forgot how easily Jasper picks up these things. I still wasn't going to tell him what I saw. If he flew off the handle then the whole house would be flying of the handle.
"It's really nothing. I just need to go talk to Carlisle about something I forgot to do." I really do need to go talk to Carlisle so he knows what's going on so we can pack quickly if we need to.
"Alice, I'm guessing that the reason you need to talk to Carlisle isn't something to do with impending doom. There is no real reason to go and rush off like that. Sit and relax." Jasper sent calming waves through me so that I would stay with him. I knew I couldn't that this was way more important.
"I'll come relax in a minute. I just need to go to the bathroom first." I was looking for excuses so I could go to Carlisle without Jasper really finding out what was going on and freaking out.
"Alice. We're vampires. We don't need to go to the bathroom." Oops. I guess I got so used to using that excuse at school that it just slipped my mind that I was at home. Then I noticed how quiet it was. It was way too quiet for Emmett and Rosalie to be home.
"Jasper, Where are Emmett and Rosalie?" I tilted my head to the side as I said this kind of smiling because I may have found a way to distract Jasper.
"Alice, why are you smiling?" Jasper seemed very alarmed by my very sudden mood swing. "And Emmett and Rosalie went for a walk. Emmett said something about exploring the new construction site just out of town. Why did you want to know?"
"I'm smiling for no particular reason at all." I was stalling so that I could find something to send Jasper off doing so I could talk to Carlisle. I finally found what I was looking for in missions to send Jasper on.
"Emmett get down from there, your going to fall and break something," Rosalie shouted up to her husband who was now balancing on top of the newly build frame of a house.
"Relax Rose. I'm not going to fall." Emmett was kind of wobbling because the framework wasn't meant to hold a fully figured vampire and all of his movements.
"Oh, crap, I'm going to fall!" The frame work tilted over pretty far and before Emmett couldn't grab on to it without breaking it in half so he fell straight down into a conveniently placed port-o-potty.
Rosalie just stood looking at the port-o-potty with an 'I told you so' look on her face. She took a glance at her watch to see that it said 9:36. She stood waiting for Emmett to come out and face the fact that he was wrong.
After he didn't come out for a while, Rosalie walked up to the port-o-potty and went to open the door. It was locked so she had to maneuver the door just a little bit to open it. When she saw her husband, all traces of anger were gone and she couldn't contain her laughter; there was Emmett, only the top half of him sticking out of the toilet-seat-like-thing and him sitting there with the expression of his face of a little kid who was just caught doing something he wasn't supposed to.
Rosalie was rolling around on the ground laughing at the stupidity of her husband. "Um, Rose, I could use a little help here." That didn't help Rosalie's uncontrollable laughter because Emmett was stuck, and he knew if he burst out of the port-o-potty like he normally would have done, there would be all of the poop from the port-o-potty flying everywhere-including on Rosalie-and the next day police would be investigating the area for a bomb. He could just picture the police dispatch now: 'We have an investigation for a possible bomb blowing up a port-o-potty at Willow Construction.'
Rosalie just kept laughing at the sight that was in front of her. "Emmett, I'm not going to help you with this. It's your fault in the first place," she said in between breaths. It was very clear that Emmett needed help to get out of the port-o-potty.
As soon as I snapped out of my vision I burst into laughter, making Jasper worry about my well being even more than before. I regained a little composure, just enough to tell Jasper what his mission was going to be.
"Jasper, I believe Emmett is going to need your help." There was still a huge smile on my face. I couldn't believe Emmett actually did that.
"Why? What did Emmett do now?" He had a look of pure and genuine curiosity on his face.
"I think I'm going to let you find out when you get there. And by the way take a cell phone and a saw, you may need both but you will definitely need the saw." He gave me another look of confusion before leaving to go to the aid of Emmett.
I then had a chance to go and talk to Carlisle but for some reason I couldn't remember why I wanted to talk to Carlisle. The whole Emmett incident completely made me forget about what I was really doing at the time. I scanned my brain for thoughts from before the last vision and finally remembered that Bella told Edward about her theory of vampires.
A/N: Sorry to end it here, but I'm tired of writing and keeping you guys waiting. I hoped you enjoyed the humor. I couldn't resist. Have fun reading, review please, and ask any questions that you feel like asking. Later, Ellie ;)