Author's note: Hello everyone. How are you all? Thank you all so much for your lovely reviews. You make me feel to keep going. I have a couple days off now. My country is have our national celebration called CARNIVAL. Look it up. Its an awesome time. I want to thank my friends ..the best friends anyone could possibly have, for helping me with the Calypso (Local Music) competition where I won "most humorous song". I am so happy. I could not have done it without Rachael, Jesse, Emma, Liesel, Kinisha, Krystella, Chelsea ( u are amazing artists) and Zoë. Thankyou all so much, I love u.

Now for an exciting announcement. Two amazing writers have risen to the challenge and begun writing an Alice POV to Soprano and Bass. I want To ask you all to read them both and please review. Its not easy to do a fanfic about a fanfic…(we should invent a word for that…fanficfic?" Anyway yes. The first is by Megumi. It is called "can I stay with you". It is AMAZING. I don't think I could have done it better myself. Please read it.

The second is by Turbowriter911. She captures the innocence of Alice really well. Please read it and help her to perfect it.

Right, so now for chapter 18 of Soprano and Bass. This one is a couple hundred words longer than the past few. (though that is partially due to my extensive Author's note) Anyway. I knew that you would like the last chapter. I hope you like this one too. Please Review.

Chapter 18

Secrets

When we returned home, the rest of the family were still out, Emmett was on the floor busy 'decorating' one of Rosalie's dresses and his brother was still a bit sour after the incessant baiting. Edward was settled on the couch reading a Portuguese textbook. Ever so often he would murmur phrases to himself – to get the pronunciation I assumed. Many of the things he said, I caught the meaning of; Portuguese was similar to Spanish in many ways.

"Why Portuguese?" I asked. He looked up from the book and shrugged his shoulders. "Might have use for it someday…maybe I will move to Brazil or something of the sort…anyway it's better than what that gorilla is doing." And he rolled his eyes dramatically.

"Hey, it's not my fault that I have something to do tonight," and his excitement simmered below the surface. "Rose saw this French dress-y thing in a magazine and wanted it, but it won't get here for a couple weeks and I don't think she can wait that long," and he chortled as he tore off a large section of the red fabric.

"Don't you mean you can't wait that long?" asked Edward mockingly

He didn't answer but smiled widely and then he looked at me. I was standing at the tall stained glass window. My mind was barely paying attention to their exchange. I was more focused on another issue at hand.

"Jasper, have you ever seen Alice angry?" Emmett asked randomly. That pulled me out of my reverie.

"I don't think she gets angry, she is always happy," I answered truthfully. The thought of Alice's pure happiness made me smile involuntarily.

"Yea, I'm not surprised. It would be funny though…to see her face when she's mad," he chuckled and I looked at him- a bit sharper than I meant to- he didn't mean any harm, I knew that.

"Edward," I began, "You see how Alice's visions work, no?"

I had his full attention now. He thought carefully before answering, "I see the visions that she gets, yes. But I do not know how they work."

I suspected that he already knew the direction of my thoughts but I continued anyway. "Do you think it is possible to do something without her knowing?" He frowned.

"I have been trying to figure out that myself. Her talent is so mysterious. She does not see everything. When she tries to see to future of a person, she will see the outcome of their situations provided that the relevant decisions have been made. She can also see preordained things, like the weather," he exhaled in a huff and continued. "I have seen sometimes, involuntary visions that just come to her without effort, why? I do not know. But I do know this, she does not see everything." He smiled wryly, "She is still young though, her power will intensify. I'm sure of it."

That was a big amount of information to process. It gave me hope, though. Maybe I could surprise her.

"When her mind is occupied, she has less of a chance of those effortless visions and, so long as she does not try to see someone's future, she should remain in the dark," Edward added.

I was sure that he knew my intentions now; this had been weighing on my mind all evening.

Emmett was watching our exchange curiously. He was in too much of a good mood to get annoyed. So maybe my plan would work. Maybe I had a chance.

"No," Edward interrupted my silent self-motivation, "She watches your future too closely. You are in her every thought." He paused for a moment and I felt a rush of tenderness for Alice followed by intense longing for her to be near me. But then again, I needed time to think about my plan.

Edward continued, "The only way I can see this possibly working, is if you are not the one making decisions…even then it might not work because, it is still a ridiculous idea; trying to surprise a psychic." He shook his head.

"What do you mean?" I asked. Emmett averted his attention from his masterpiece and was paying full attention to us now. He seemed determined to understand our one-way conversation. Edward turned to him, "Emmett, you are going to Mexico,"

"What?" we asked simultaneously.

"Well Jasper, instead of deciding to go to Mexico…decide to follow Emmett. Emmett is going to Mexico, you know that, but Alice does not. When she looks for your future, I think, it will be obscured since you are not acting on your own volition."

"But won't she see me going to Mexico?" asked Emmett. He took the question straight out of my head.

"I hope that she will not look for your future, Emmett, and I can try to keep her mind busy so she will not get any involuntary visions." Edward answered unsurely.

"This is very suspicious, I think she will know something is going on," I commented

"Well, it's your best chance I think, Jasper; we are all working by guess here." He retorted. I guess it was the best chance. I couldn't think of anything better. Edward was the best judge of what she would be able to see so I suppose I could give it a try.

"When?" I asked.

"You will have to be patient, Jasper. We have to wait for the right opportunity. Maybe Carlisle will take the girls out again or maybe I can convince her …I don't know. We'll think of something. But for now, you must resolve to follow Emmett. Just follow Emmett. It is good that we don't know when though, when there is no timeframe, her vision is abstruse."

Emmett was felt like a whistling kettle that was about to blow, "But why are we going to Mexico?"

Author's note: so what did you think? This one explores the workings of Alice's visions. Does it fit? Do you think that it makes sense ? Do you have a better way of explaining how her visions work? DO tell me please.

I'm having a little trouble finding things for them to spend their time doing. They can only play so much chess and read and play football. Any ideas?

Please Review and don't forget to read the APOV to this story. Its gr8.

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