Disclaimer: None of these characters belong to me – they belong to Stephenie Meyer – except Anastasia and Scorpius

Epov

"Edward which do you think looks better the black or the blue?" Emmett said holding up some ties. He was going on a date with Rosalie, they were married but still dated all the time as if they were really the age they looked.

I sat there in silence. Emmett had been deliberately asking me questions a billion to the dozen ever since he discovered I was mute. It was one of his most successful ways of tormenting me now I couldn't speak. I didn't understand how mute people coped.

"With any luck this date will go well...and after..." Emmett trailed off grinning at himself in the mirror letting his mind run wild

I made a silent choking noise of disgust and Emmett laughed.

"If you have something to say Edward feel free" he smiled

Sick sick vampire, god almighty. I held up one of my readily made signs which Emmett laughed at then stormed out of the room getting away from his thoughts. I found Alice in the next room she looked over to me.

"You only have to wait till tomorrow" she said sympathetically

I knew she would say this and my answer was that I didn't want to wait any longer. I had a page ready. I had written numbers on the pages I had readily written and flicked to that one.

Alice frowned at the page

"Err Edward you do know what that page says don't you?" she asked giving me a look

I turned the booklet towards me and saw the words 'I am a jackass'

I jumped in surprise and heard Emmett laughing from the other room. Earlier he had stolen my booklet earlier so I had had to go round writing on pieces of paper, it had taken me a while to find it and by the looks of it I'd found one Emmett had made himself.

I threw the book to the ground and turned to charge at Emmett but Alice caught hold of my arm.

"Look Edward don't he's not worth it" she said giving me a pleading look

I honestly didn't care, he had made this whole situation ten times more frustrating than it would have been.

"Look" she said "I expect what you wanted to say on that paper was that you don't want to wait till tomorrow. Yes?"

I nodded

"Well how about we just go over to their house and ask?" she said

I shook my head remembering the past experience. Something creepy happened there, something I never wanted to happen again.

"At least tell me why?" she said

I gave her a look. I couldn't tell her anything even if I wanted to, I didn't have a pen or paper. I think Emmett had hidden all pens, either that or I'd just never noticed how few we had, which in a house this size was just ridiculous.

"Sorry" she said realising this

I just shrugged in a way that told her it was okay.

"But" she said "I think we should go and see Bella's sister" she said

I shook my head

"Not the others just me and you. Maybe they'll fix it...however you think they did this to you" she said and I could tell she still didn't believe that the sisters had anything to do it. I couldn't blame her, hell if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes I wouldn't believe it myself.

I shook my head again

"Fine, I'll go without you" she said primly and walked past me

I moved at vampire speed towards the door and barred her way holding out both hands one on each side of the doorframe. I shook my head firmly, finally, putting without words that she was not going to see those sisters.

She looked up at me eyes narrowed and folded her arms. She looked like some kind of angry pixie with her short dark hair sticking up in all directions.

"Edward move" she said

I mouthed out the words 'No way'. She couldn't fight me, and she usually couldn't outrun me but somehow she always seemed to be able to find a way round me. It didn't make much sense but her bizarre ways always prevailed, how Jasper put up with it twenty-four seven I'll never know.

Low and behold five minutes later we were walking to the car. Her striding forward triumphantly me dragging my feet. We obviously didn't take the Volvo which would need some serious work before I revealed it to the public.

We were driving along Alice at the wheel and then we stopped suddenly. I was jerked forward grabbing the dashboard Alice was having a vision. I tapped into her mind and saw a similar image to what happened last time I approached the Swan house except now Alice was with me.

Alice turned to me and frowned.

"What? What's that?" she said looking thoroughly confused

I shrugged "Your guess is as good as mine" I mouthed

She frowned going over the vision again. I just sighed and stared forward at the road ahead.

"Maybe we could go looking for them" Alice suggested

"Where?" I said incredulously. This made no sound but she seemed to get the gist of it.

"Well think about it where else would they go. What have they been thinking about recently?" she said

I gave her a look

"Oh yeah you can't read their thoughts" she said to herself "Damn"

I thought about all the thoughts I'd gathered at school and wondered.

"Oh well I suppose we'll just have to leave it till tomorrow" Alice said sounding disappointed.

A light bulb lit above my head as an idea sprang to mind. Jessica and Angela were going on this shopping trip they had kept babbling about to Bella – I had tapped into their thoughts since I couldn't get into hers in attempt to work out this frustrating secret which was more trouble than it was worth – I'd bet anything she was going on the trip too. Where was it, Port Angeles...yeah. I grabbed my pen and started scribbling hurriedly in my notebook as Alice reached over to turn the small car light off above me.

Her eyebrows rose when I shoved the paper in her face.

"Port Angeles" she said to herself "You sure?"

I shook my head.

"Port Angeles it is" she said with a smile and we started to drive back to the house. Some may wonder why we were going back the way we came but if you knew Alice like I do you knew there was no way she was going to somewhere like Port Angeles with no money to buy clothes.