Hi gang, I got another update ready, time for Alice and Bella to spend a few days together. Reader beware, this chapter is going to put you through the wringer.
Chapter 6
Monday morning Bella woke up and took a quick shower in her camper, made a list of things she'd need to pick up for the bathroom extension and then went to her closet. She had suddenly become more self-conscious about the clothing she wore. Her entire closet consisted of clothes she had picked up in thrift stores and were mainly work orientated clothes, she wanted to look as good as possible for Alice. Time was running out so she eventually settled on a pair of cargo pants, well pants that had a cargo pants look to them anyway and a grey long sleeve baseball shirt that she rarely wore. It was a very basic outfit but she didn't have that much to work with in the wardrobe department. She blow dried her hair and let it hang loose instead of putting it in a pony tail or throwing a worn out cap on it. Since she didn't have any time to spare she grabbed her old leather biker jacket on the way out and quickly hopped in her truck and drove towards the school, stopping for a large coffee and a couple of bagels along the way. When she got to school she saw Alice was already there, she parked her truck in the usual spot and Alice had already come over holding two cups.
"Oh you already have coffee." Alice said sadly when she noticed Bella held a cup when she got out of her truck.
"And you think that I'll say no to more coffee? It's bad enough they don't serve any in this joint already." Bella said to Alice causing the Pixie to get back into her more usual cheerful mood
"Any plans for after school?" Alice asked.
"Well, I do have to get started on the addition to the cabin. So I'll be getting supplies for that after school. And well I'll probably have to hit up a thrift store too pretty soon, I've discovered I need some more non work clothes, this was honestly the best I could do." Bella said self consciously.
"How about I'll help you tonight and then we can go shopping tomorrow after school?" Alice suggested.
"I know you offered earlier but you don't need to help me if you don't want to, it's dirty work. I've never been shopping with somebody before to be honest." Bella said as they got to the rest of the Cullen family.
"Shopping with Alice on your first time of not shopping alone, bless your heart darling." Jasper said earning him a hiss from Alice and a glare from Edythe.
"Just go easy on her Alice." Rosalie of all people said to defuse the situation.
Bella watched and wondered, she recalled that Alice absolutely loved shopping. "How bad could it be?" she wondered.
"Let's make sure they don't get you in trouble by making you late for class." Alice said while trying to pull Bella towards the school. "How are you even able to just stand there when I pull at you?" Alice asked after Bella started moving out of her own volition.
"I have good balance. It's key in martial arts. You also try to pull me as opposed to lifting me up." Bella replied as they walked into school.
Bella made her way to her first class where the two of them separated. The morning didn't pass quickly at all, she missed Alice and kept getting bombarded with questions from members of the group she had befriended, the sole exception being the good natured Angela. She had hoped to see Alice waiting for her in front of the cafeteria, as she entered she saw the Pixie sitting at her families table. Though she wanted to, she felt awkward and uncomfortable at the idea of walking up to the Cullen table and ended up sitting with her group of friends, she strategically sat down next to Angela, to use her as a shield against getting bombarded with questions. After she glanced over her shoulder to take a look at Alice, Jessica managed to ask a question.
"So are you making friends with the Cullens all of a sudden? They usually don't care about anyone here." Jessica asked, her voice loaded with jealousy.
"I have a school project with Alice and perhaps if you wouldn't treat them like outsiders or lepers they'd be more open." Bella replied trying to keep her cool.
Angela seeing Bella was getting frustrated quickly struck up a conversation with Jessica. Which helped but there was one thing Angela hadn't counted on, one Lauren Mallory.
"So why are you sitting over here anyway, why don't you go sit with your friends the Cullens? You look at that Alice like you want to get in her pants anyway." She said harshly.
The frustration that had built up during the day was reaching a boiling point. Bella wanted to cut the schools bitch head off, she had been sent over the edge enough that her claws were creeping forward, making ridges on her hands.
"Hey Bella, want to stop by the library to see if they have that book for our project?" Alice, who had suddenly appeared and calmed Bella down with her touch asked.
"Yeah, we still have some time." Bella replied after she swallowed her rage and retracted her claws enough to be able to bend her wrists again. She quickly grabbed her lunch tray, went to dump it and followed Alice out of the cafeteria. "Thanks Alice, you saved my ass there." Bella said as she followed Alice.
"I saw it wouldn't end well if I didn't intervene, I'm sorry you had to deal with it all day, if I had know how bad it would have really been I wouldn't have approached you this morning." Alice said.
"It's ok, I shouldn't have let myself get this frustrated to begin with. I'm sure it will pass, they are jealous aren't they? They are just jealous and I nearly started killing because of something that stupid" Bella said with sadness.
"It started last week but they never got you alone in a class since then. You're right, it will pass. Lauren especially is like a goldfish, as soon as she'll have lapped her bowl she will have forgotten about it and will move on to the latest thing to be a bitch about." Alice said while carefully touching Bella again. "Do you want to go home or do you want us to run interference for you since we'll be in your remaining classes?" she asked
"I think I'll be fine, besides my next class is with Edythe anyway and then of course history with you." Bella said and gave Alice a small smile.
"If you want we can see if some of us can get into your morning classes? " Alice asked
Seeing that they had arrived at the Biology lab Bella turned to face Alice.
"I'll be fine, it time I learn again how to handle being around people anyway." Bella said before walking into the classroom, when she was halfway through the doorway she looked over her shoulder to Alice. "Thanks Ali." Bella said with a smirk.
Bella went to sit at her lab table, class wouldn't start yet but she would appreciate the ten minutes of silence and Mr. Banner said he didn't mind that she arrived a little earlier, he was going over homework anyway. The silence allowed her to calm down even further. Eventually students started trickling in and soon Edythe sat down next to her. The greeted each other simply with a nod. When Angela arrived she stopped at Bella's lab table.
"Sorry for those two, are you ok?" Angela asked.
"I'm better now, thanks. Just needed a little alone time. I know you did the best you could trying to intervene." Bella replied.
"If there's anything you need just let me know, ok?" Angela said before she went to sit at her own table.
Biology went by quickly, though they weren't close, Edythe did keep others at bay and Mr. Banner had given the class a pretty tough assignment, well tough for everybody except Edythe and Bella. They were done before everyone else and started a very low whisper conversation. Edythe was worried about her family and the treaty.
"Are you really sure they'll leave us alone?" Edythe whispered.
"Billy Black seemed to make a pretty serious one eighty when I described how it felt the first time I saw Alice and Jake seemed to be feeling really bad about what happened." Bella whispered back
"The shifters are very emotion led, especially anger. I'm still surprised they chose to honor the treaty that we made so long ago, well mostly honored it anyway." Edythe whispered
"What do you mean mostly honored?" Bella whispered.
"Aside from coming on our land intending harm without us having broken the treaty, they basically told you what we are. The Quileutes have a good memory with their legends apparently. What did it feel like when you saw Alice for the first time anyway?" Edythe whispered ending with a very curious tone.
"Well we can talk about that over a game of chess, Alice said I should play against you after I wiped the floor with her." Bella whispered back.
"Bella with my gift I – oh, that is a brilliant idea, finally able to play against an actual person, instead of against a chess computer or online." Edythe whispered enthusiastically.
"I should warn you, I never lose." Bella whispered with a smirk on her face.
Soon after biology was over and Bella hurried to history, quickly sitting down in her usual spot, she had made it before Alice. Impatiently she waited for the girl that was full of pixie energy. It didn't take long before Alice walked in the classroom, as she walked towards Bella her eyes briefly glazed over. Bella had wanted to intervene by quickly getting up to walk Alice to their desk but the Pixie had quickly recovered and sat down next to Bella.
"Ali you OK?" Bella whispered.
"Just a vision. Are you OK?" Alice whispered back.
"Always am when you are around Ali." Bella whispered as Mr. Smith started the class.
There was little time for a conversation since Mr. Smith had a very interactive way of teaching history, though being close to Alice allowed Bella to fully calm down and even relax. They constantly snuck little looks at each other. It felt like the class was over too soon for both of them, after a quick see you later, Bella hurried over to the locker room. As she walked in Jess was waiting for her.
"Bella I just wanted to apologize, I hope we can still be friends." Jess said sheepishly.
"I don't know, I'll need some time. It wasn't cool Jess." Bella replied coldly and proceeded to go get changed.
During gym coach Clapp has them play volleyball, Lauren Mallory was scowling at Bella the entire time, getting on her nerves again. After the last team rotation of the day Lauren played in the team opposing Bella's. When Bella saw an irresistible opportunity during an attack she jumped up and hit the ball hard. Lauren, unwillingly blocked the ball with her face. It was only when the blood coming from her nose became visible that Bella realized she had just caused a kid to bleed in a class where there was a vampire present. As she looked around she quickly found Rosalie on the other side of the gym, with a frown on her face and shaking her head disapprovingly. Coach Clapp came running over From the side of the gym he was on to check on Lauren who was covering her nose and screaming from pain, he quickly dismissed most of the class since gym was almost over anyway and escorted Lauren to the schools nurse. Though she technically hadn't done anything wrong he did 'volunteer' Bella to be in the group responsible for putting the equipment away.
"What the hell were you thinking?" Rosalie hissed as they were rolling up a net.
"I wasn't, I forgot ok. The bitch had been getting on my nerves all day and I just saw a great opportunity." Bella explained.
"Think before you act, not all of us have great control." Rosalie said.
Together with some others they quickly had the equipment put away and the gym cleaned up of blood. As they got in the locker room, Jess was already hurrying out, probably intending to go check up on Lauren. Bella took a nice and hot shower, the scalding hot water helped to sear away the stress of the day and took away some of the mental pain. By the time Bella got out the locker room was all but abandoned. She got changed into her regular clothes and left. Coach Clapp was waiting for her.
"Swan, whatever is going on with you and Mallory leave it out of my gym next time." He stated loudly.
"Coach I didn't me-" Bella started.
"Swan you know what you did and why, you're not in trouble but don't BS me." Coach Clapp stated before he walked away towards the gym.
Bella made her way out of the school, as often after gym due to her long shower the parking lot was already empty, even Edythe's Volvo was already gone. She walked to her truck, threw her back pack in and got out her phone. As she started texting Alice to ask where they'd meet up she got jumped. A hard cold body landed on her back and 2 small cold hands covered her eyes.
"Guess who?" Alice asked.
It took Bella a moment to calm down her instincts, only capable to do so because of the pixies comforting touch and smell. The Pixie sensing it had sent her mate on edge climbed down off of Bella and looked sheepishly.
"Alice, don't do that again please." Bella said once calmed down.
"I'm sorry, I didn't think it would be difficult for you." Alice said apologetically.
"It's ok Ali, it seems not thinking is something we have in common today as I'm sure you heard." Bella said turning her head down in shame.
Alice initiated a hug, something Bella instantly returned by wrapping her arms around Alice, feeling comfort coming from her it made the shame go away.
"Don't be ashamed it's ok, take it day by day, I'm proud of you for not doing worse. Besides if there's one person in this school that deserves to be taken down a notch it's Lauren Mallory, I'm sure having a broken nose will do that." Alice said once Bella was a little bit more comfortable.
"Ah shit, I didn't mean to break her nose. I just wanted to hurt her a little." Bella sighed.
"It's ok.' Alice insisted.
They eventually got into the truck and left the empty parking lot. Bella drove straight to get construction supplies an hour later the heavily loaded truck was on it's way to Bella's cabin with the two of them chatting away. Once at the cabin they unloaded everything and got started on the foundation blocks. Between the two of them and their strength it was surprisingly easy work and by dinnertime all the blocks were in place, sunk to the right depth and Bella was already looking to start some framing while Alice filled the holes and packed the earth down. As Bella got wood she saw a Mercedes driving up her long driveway.
"Ali, did you invite anyone?" Bella asked, her claws itching to come out, immediately fearing danger from the unknown car.
The Pixie immediately came over to Bella and touched her arm to comfort her.
"It's OK it's Esme, she's bringing you dinner, I only just got the vision she's been indecisive about it all day."
The vampire matriarch soon joined them after she parked, under Alice's comforting touch Bella had already calmed down.
"I hope you don't mind that I brought you some food, I didn't want to run the risk of Alice forgetting that you do need to eat. I made you peperoni pizza stuffed potatoes, a side salad and for desert chocolate chip cookies." Esme said as she handed over several containers of food.
"Hey I got her take out yesterday!" Alice defended herself.
Bella's rumbling stomach quickly settled things, she went into her cabin and sat down for dinner, joined by Alice while Esme went to inspect the work they had already done. Since Esme had brought the food while it was still hot Bella started to immediately dig in before it would get cold.
"Oh, did you want one?" Bella asked Alice feeling guilty about the way she digged into the container.
"Don't be silly, she brought it for you and you know I don't need to eat." Alice said as she put a kettle on the stove.
'Even dirty and disheveled she's still the cutest girl I've ever seen.' Bella thought as Alice poured the hot water in a couple of mugs, bringing a grin to her face.
Esme joining them in the small cabin at that time caused the Pixie to look up to see Bella staring at her with a grin on her face. "What?" Alice asked softly but curiously.
"You look like a mess." Bella replied causing the pixie to immediately start pouting, Alice's pout was of the variety that made it hard to resist giving her what she wanted or to not make things right. "I meant it in a good way." Bella tried to recover.
"You said I look like a mess." Alice said while continuing to pout.
"You do, but you still look very cute." Bella admitted, causing the Pixie to smile again, instantly back to her usual self.
Alice quickly sat down next to Bella having but the mugs down on the table. Esme cleared her throat.
"It looks pretty good girls, Alice don't forget to leave on time so that Bella can get enough sleep." Esme said
"I'm planning to work throughout the night to be honest." Bella admitted.
"You should get your sleep, you'll be tired all day tomorrow and we were going to go shopping." Alice said starting to pout when she feared the shopping wouldn't take place.
"Don't worry Ali. I really do have great stamina, though I usually sleep every night it's more out of habit than necessity." Bella said.
Though the two vampires weren't entirely convinced they didn't make a issue out of it. Soon they got back to work and Esme left with her empty containers. By now Bella had started framing the floor supports. They kept working throughout the night, getting more and more done every hour.
"Bella are you sure you don't want to get some sleep?" Alice asked around three AM.
After rolling her eyes Bella hung her framing hammer from her toolbelt and walked over to the worried Pixie. "Don't worry little one, like I said I have great stamina, if you play your cards right you may discover just how great it is soon." Bella said while stroking the worried Pixies cheek and looking at her seductively.
Alice wanted to close the distance to kiss Bella, but Bella held her off.
"Miss Cullen, we haven't even been on a date yet. Could you please hold off on trying to steal my virtue. You're going to have to put in some effort before you get me to go to bed with you." Bella said sarcastically to tease the Pixie even more.
Alice's eyes had already considerably darkened and turned fully black when Bella gave her a quick kiss on the forehead. "There, that should tie you over." Promptly she went back to work leaving the lust filled Pixie frustrated.
"You're such a tease!" Alice yelled causing Bella to laugh.
'I'm just afraid of screwing this up.' Bella thought. And gave Alice a wink before hammering down the sheet of plywood she just put in place.
Eventually Alice too started helping out again, being good at construction wasn't something you'd associate with her, but apparently the Cullen's built their houses themselves so they got pretty experienced over the years. By five thirty in the morning they had the wall frames up and the roof frame done and everything sheeted with plywood where needed.
"We should call it for today. Gotta get ready for school and all that." Bella said looking satisfied at their progress.
"We definitely need a shower, I have a pretty big one and Esme would love cook you breakfast." Alice suggested.
"Wouldn't be the worst idea, let me just grab some clean clothes."
"I have some clothes in your size, I may have already done a little shopping for you." Alice said a little sheepishly.
Bella shrugged and agreed to it, once they put the tools away she grabbed her backpack in which she threw fresh underwear on top of her school stuff, sneakers and a baseball cap. The two of them got in her truck and made their way over to Alice's house. As soon as the two dirty girls went inside, Esme made her way over, looking them over.
"Both of you go get a shower and change into clean clothes. Bella do you want me to make you some breakfast in the mean time?" Esme asked Bella.
"I'd love breakfast, can I bother you for coffee too?" Bella asked somewhat sheepishly.
"You're never a bother sweetheart, though if you'd have gotten some sleep you wouldn't need coffee." Esme said slightly chiding Bella for having worked throughout the night.
'Sigh, why don't they believe me, they know I'm no ordinary human. Well at least they care.' Bella thought. "Oh no, I don't need it because I'm tired, I'm just addicted to the stuff. How can a person get throughout the day without the comfort of a cup of coffee?" Bella replied causing Alice to roll her eyes.
Not wanting to get an entire discussion going, Bella quickly suggested they'd go shower. Alice led them to a room beyond hers, it was smaller than Alice's bedroom, but still a fairly large bedroom. It left Bella somewhat confused so she turned to Alice.
"Guest bedroom, I figured if you'd see me naked it would endanger your virtue." Alice said teasingly causing Bella to grin at her. "I'll bring you your clothes, you'll find a towel in the bathroom."
"Well played Miss Cullen." Bella said and tried to give the Pixie a kiss, but found she had already blurred away. "Well played indeed." She said while laughing her way to the bathroom. The bathroom was huge, if she had had the time she would have loved to soak for an hour in the large tub. She took a quick shower, the filth washing off of her. After drying off, she wrapped herself in the towel she had found and wrapped her hair in a still dry towel. Heading into the bedroom again to grab her fresh underwear she discovered Alice had indeed already dropped off the clothes. She took them with her into the bathroom and got dressed and then blow dried her hair. The pants had her confused at first for several reason, they were skinny jeans but with rips at the knees and they fit like they were made for her. She eventually recalled seeing the more fashionable kids at school wearing damaged jeans and ended chalking up the pants being in her size due to Alice being Alice. The top was a expensive feeling basic white v necked top, a lot more feminine than the t-shirt's she normally wore. Once she was done drying her hair she got her stuff and left the bathroom, Alice waiting for her with a basket.
"For your dirty clothes, I'm not gonna risk you making your outfit dirty by carrying your dirty ones." Alice said as she brushed away some imaginary dirt from one of Bella's short sleeves."
She threw her dirty clothes in the basket. "I'll have Esme's basket back tomorrow at the latest."
"Don't be silly, she'll have your clothes washed by tonight. Don't argue, breakfast and coffee is ready." Alice said as she skipped out of the room with Bella's dirty clothes. "Oh and Bella, tuck the front of your top in." Alice said as Bella got back into the hallway.
She quickly tucked in the front of her top and went back downstairs, standing in the living room where soon Esme came to retrieve her. She quickly was seated at the kitchen island and got served pancakes, bacon and eggs along with a large cup of coffee.
"Mmmm. Oh, Esme you should open a breakfast place. I'd be your most loyal customer." Bella said between bites after taking a large gulp of coffee.
Esme smiled and thanked Bella for the compliment, during breakfast the house started getting busier as the vampire teenagers started getting ready for their day of school, Carlisle came into the kitchen to kiss Esme goodbye as he headed off to the hospital, he handed Bella a doctors note saying she had pulled a muscle to excuse her from gym, something Alice had arranged due to her wanting to get an early start on shopping. Alice arrived back into the kitchen with Bella's jacket and sneakers, which were a lot whiter than they had been, the jacket was cleaner too.
"Come on you guys, you don't have to clean or wash my stuff." Bella sighed as she downed the rest of her coffee.
"I couldn't let you wear that outfit with your dirty sneakers and it was nothing." Alice said.
"I have to do laundry anyway, so it's not bother." Esme added.
Not having learned from previous experiences Bella still tried to argue about it but as usual there was little point to it. After putting her sneakers and jacket on Alice looked pleased with the result. She thanked Esme again for breakfast and doing her laundry and walked out of the kitchen to see the rest of Cullen family about to leave as well, the four of them looked Bella over and Alice was beaming that she had gotten to dress Bella to a better standard.
"We should go or we'll be late." Bella said not feeling like having to pass muster.
"I figured we'd take my car, that way we can leave straight after school." Alice said as she led Bella to the Cullens large garage.
"What's wrong with my truck?" Bella asked feeling slightly insulted.
"Nothing but my car is a lot faster and I'd like to get to Seattle fairly early." Alice said somewhat sheepishly, not having wanted to offend Bella.
They got into Alice's Porsche earning a glare from Edythe, something Alice explained away that Edythe didn't like them flaunting their wealth in front of the people of Forks. They soon arrived to school, naturally they had gotten a lot of attention with the two of them arriving in the brightly colored Porsche. The school day went by quickly the highlights being lunch with Alice and history with Alice. The gossip was kept to a minimum, it mainly was about Bella's new outfit. After her last class before gym Bella went over to the office to hand over the doctors note, making up some quick excuse as to how she pulled the muscle. Mrs Cope quickly excused her from the school altogether since gym was her last class. She was quickly in the Porsche with Alice, the little Pixie speeding towards Seattle.
"I have to say I was expecting you to be falling asleep during classes." Alice said.
"Told you I have great stamina." Bella replied.
"Bella, what is holding you back?" Alice asked.
Bella grabbed Alice's hand and interlocked their fingers. "I feel great when you are around, I already told you that I've had sex in the past, but I have never been in a relationship, I'm afraid of screwing this up Ali, I know it's stupid but it's why I want to take it slow, get to know each other."
"Maybe stop being such a tease in the meantime?" Alice joked.
"Gotta make sure you stay interested. Look this whole mate thing I'm still trying to wrap my mind around it all, I know we don't have much of a choice, but you know, I don't know."
"It's ok, we'll go as fast as you feel comfortable going." Alice said.
They stayed silent the rest of the way, with the way Alice drove they were soon in Seattle. Alice dragged her to several shops, making Bella try on a bunch of clothes every time, but all of them were beyond what Bella felt comfortable spending on clothes. Though Alice didn't try on any clothes or shoes herself, the amount of bags they had to carry continued to grow every time they left a shop, they ended up going to a store that sold underwear, it was starting to make Bella uncomfortable, so after spending a small amount of time there, Bella increasingly becoming more stoic and tense, Alice decided it was time to return the bags to the Porsche and get something to eat. Bella had expected they would simply get something to eat in the food court but Alice had other plans so they got back on the road. They ended up at a trendy gourmet burger joint. It wasn't cheap of course but Bella could easily pay for the two of them and she'd be a liar if she said she wasn't really hungry. They quickly placed their order once they got seated in the back, Alice ordered a cheeseburger but Bella went all out and ordered a cheeseburger, a blue cheese burger and a bacon and egg burger, with fries and soda's for the two of them.
"I'm sorry I wasn't a very good shopping partner, it's just so expensive, but at least you got plenty of things. I'll pay for dinner to make up for it." Bella said once the waitress left with the order.
Bella swore she could see the Pixie faintly blush and she looked like she got caught with her hand in the cookie jar.
"So vampires can blush?" Bella asked.
"You can see that?"
"Obviously, now wanna tell me what's going on?" Bella insisted.
"Well I didn't buy anything for myself. It's all the stuff you liked but thought was too expensive." Alice said sheepishly.
"Ali, what the fuck? Why would you do that? I can't afford all of that." Bella started before she started doing mental math on how much she owed the Pixie.
"Bella, I bought them for you, they are a gift. I just loved how you looked in them, you don't owe me anything. All I ask is that you wear them." Alice said as soon as she saw an opening.
Before Bella could reply the waitress arrived with their food and sodas. While eating her burgers she was mumbling things the entire time, it had only resulted in Alice putting on her most effective pout.
"Uh fine, that pout is so unfair." She eventually gave in causing the pout to immediately turn into a cheshire grin.
Though she wasn't happy with the situation she had given up the fight, silently vowing to find ways of paying back Alice anyway. As their dinner came to an end the tension had started to dissipate, Alice wisely didn't protest when Bella paid the bill. They soon were back on the road towards Forks, eventually Bella had started to accept that she couldn't change the Pixie having spent money, a lot of money on her. Her left hand wandered over to Alice's right and they quickly interlocked their fingers again, the pixie smiling because it told her it would be fine. Though Alice tried to insist Bella didn't sleep on the way back either, feeling confident she had enough reserve left. Around eight thirty they got back to the Cullen mansion. Alice had expected Bella would want to take off immediately, so she was surprised when Bella walked them inside the house after she parked in the car.
"You're not going home?" Alice asked, with some worry on her face.
"Oh I can't Ali, I got a score to settle with Cullen." Bella said followed by a yawn.
"Bella you're tired, you need to get some sleep. And with which Cullen do you have a score to settle anyway?" Alice asked once they got in the living room.
"Edythe obviously, I still need to get back at her for bossing me around, I think wiping the floor with her in chess in front of everybody will do, for now anyway." Bella said.
"It would hardly be fair to play someone that looks like a zombie." Edythe replied once she and Jasper had joined them in the living room.
"Ali, she has insulted me, now I must defend my honor." Bella said adding plenty of drama. "Cullen let's play. Unless of course you're afraid to lose. Miss chess master." Bella gleamed at Edythe pushing the bronzen haired girl's buttons.
Esme stepped into the living room at that point, giving them both a stern look and told them to play nice and reminded Bella she should go to bed soon.
Edythe had quickly set up the chess game. Alice insisted on it just being one game and said she was going to quickly go transfer the bags to Bella's truck. Bella took her seat and allowed Edythe to play with white allowing the vampire to open the game. Soon she was joined by Alice again. While they played Jasper looked on with an amused look on his face, every time Edythe looked over to him she looked even more annoyed. After looking to him after yet another move she looked over to him again.
"What Jazz? You're thinking about so many random things that I can't read your mind." Edythe hissed at her mate causing him to laugh.
"Oh darling, I can't think about the game as it may help you but how can you not realize that Bella is toying with you? She could have already finished the game 5 times but deliberately didn't." Jazz said after he was able to stop laughing.
Since it was Bella's turn to move she decided to put Edythe out of her misery, and moved her rook putting Edythe in checkmate. Causing the bronzen haired girl's eyes to turn black.
"Well it's been nice playing with you, perhaps next time I can do it without a chess set." Bella said to the hissing vampire. "Ali, we should get moving before things get messy, Esme would not be happy with me. Goodnight Jazz." Bella said as she got up grabbed Alice's hand and started walking towards the front door. The smile on her face getting bigger and bigger. Alice insisted on driving Bella home. It didn't take them long to get back to the cabin, between the two of them they quickly had all of Bella's new clothes unpacked. As Bella started getting ready for bed, having changed in a pair of old sweats and a t-shirt, Alice was shuffling her feet on the porch unsure of what to do when Bella opened the door again.
"So what are your plans tonight?" Bella asked after a yawn.
"I don't really know." Alice said.
"Ali, you can stay the night if you want, I know you'd rather stay than go home. My place is your place." Bella said after pulling the pixie into a hug.
"I'll run over to grab some stuff to keep me occupied, watching you sleep would be a little too creepy." Alice said once she was released from the adamantium cage that was wrapped around her.
"I may be asleep by the time you get back." Bella said after another yawn.
"That's okay, you really need it, but I won't question your stamina again. Goodnight Bella." Alice said
Bella gave Alice a kiss on the forehead and went to bed as Alice was blurring towards her house. She fell asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow, when Alice entered the cabin 5 minutes later it didn't wake her up. Alice got settled on the love seat with her book and a sketchpad. Minutes soon turned into hours. Several hours after midnight she noticed her mate was getting restless in her sleep, at first Alice didn't realize what it was since she rarely was around sleeping humans but eventually figured out that she was having a nightmare. When Bella's claws came out and started cutting up the sheets, mattress and even herself, Alice decided she had to wake Bella up.
Sleep had only briefly provided relief to Bella, she eventually had another nightmare again. In her nightmare the program had captured Alice and were torturing her. She tried getting to Alice but kept getting captured and chained, every time she managed to break free, Alice had been moved further away and was getting tortured again. But Bella started getting better at evading getting captured. Just when she managed to almost reach Alice she was captured, chained and forced to watch Alice being burned alive before she herself was thrown into a bottomless pit.
Bella shot upright, all she saw was red. Somebody was trying to grab her. Instinctively she defended herself, her already extended claws cut the person that tried to grab her to pieces. The person was hard, very hard to cut through but she managed, eventually the head came off no matter how strongly that person had resisted. As Bella started breathing deeply in and out she started calming down and eventually realized what she had done. She had killed Alice, the beautiful vampire that made her heart beat quicker and skip a step occasionally was cut into pieces. Her beautiful golden eyes glazed over and motionless. Tears started flowing over Bella's cheeks as panic set in and she frantically started trying to put Alice back together, like a child would when it broke its beloved toy. Realizing that there was no point to it Bella left Alice's pieces laying on the half destroyed bed and left the cabin. She got in her truck and fled from the cabin. Not realizing that the pieces of Alice were starting to fuse together again.
Remember, vampires are hard to kill. Going to get started on the next chapter soon.
