A/N: Sorry this is a bit late.. crazy day! It makes me chuckle how so many of you have questions about Alice! Hopefully they will be answered... eventually!

Love to Carmen and Dawn for pre-reading and Sally for beta magic. I tinker so all mistakes are mine.

ENJOY!

28

BPOV

Alice is looking at me, expecting an answer to her question. I shrug and look skyward to buy me some time. How in the hell am I supposed to answer that? I go with the truth as much as I could.

"A few weeks? Right around when he started at Jasper's shop." Alice nods her head and takes a swig of a beer I never saw.

Silence fell, and I was desperate to fill it, if only to make sure we stopped talking about Edward and me and our relationship. My eyes roamed around looking for anything to talk about, when I landed on her arms, inspiration struck.

"Love your tats. I've always wanted to get one, just never knew what of."

Alice's face split into a beaming smile, the ring in her lip gleamed in the firelight. "I designed them all. A few I even inked myself."

"Really?" My eyes squinted in the low light to figure out which one she did herself. "Are you a tattoo artist?"

Her head bobbed enthusiastically. "Yeah, I work in a shop off 35W and 98th in Bloomington. If you ever want one, let me know; I'd love to ink you."

The rest of the night, we spent talking about her ink and the strange requests she's inked on others. I was happy that I managed to get her off the topic of Edward and me, but I was left with a nagging suspicion there was more she wanted to say.

A/N: Short chapter... and to make up for a late post.. there will be a extra one this weekend.. just not sure when!

Until then... leave me your love, it always makes me smile!

WVG