Chapter 7: The crazy visions

And me? I was relieved, mostly; I didn't lose myself to the beast and managed to semi-relax in the presence of the human whose blood smelled better than anything I smelt before and return her smile. I was rightfully proud of my achievements.

Alice's POV

After a fun exchange of jokes and a surprisingly normal conversation with Bella and my family all of us 'kids' emptied the house leaving her with my parents. There was no pretending what followed wasn't a coven leader trying to make the best outcome for his family with a potential threat. Us leaving would provide a chance of a more relaxed conversation without straying to other topics.

So that left me with time to sort my thoughts after I told everyone I'll take some time away from my two vampires that wouldn't let my thoughts or emotions the privacy I currently desired. Leaving all four of them I ran the other way from the house, one I hopped would lead me far enough from everyone so I could focus on what I was suppressing this whole time.

It didn't take long for me to get quite far into the forest almost reaching the Canadian border. I deemed it far enough and found myself a rocky hill on which I settled to sort through everything. It was a subconscious thing that I wanted to be on high grounds, it was a hunter thing, giving me a good view of my surrounding which meant easier spotting of prey or potential danger.

I checked for the later and when I found nothing (and no one) around I let my emotions and thoughts out of the 'shield' I learned to maintain, by concentrating on other thoughts and emotions, with my two snoopy vampires when I wanted to keep something to myself. I normally revealed it to the whole family when I was ready anyway, but sometimes I just needed time to process… and this was one of those occasions.

A few months ago I started getting visions of a new girl in town, Bella, getting closer to our family through Edward. It took some time to piece everything together, but I managed to figure they'd be mates with all the attraction between them. When I came to that conclusion I let my family know about it and watched as Edward got a hopeful gleam in his eyes only for Jasper stopping his following mood drop when he figured he'd have to change her eventually, or as he said, condemn her to being a soulless monster. He doesn't seem to realise he's including all of his family when he is speaking about himself like that.

Then approximately a month ago after the contact with the two was established and my brother saved her from that truck ordeal, those visions disappeared. Instead I got those striking green eyes to look upon every day and ponder. Today I was finally able to place them. And guess who they belonged to…

When I got a vision of Edward going to pick Bella up to take her for school, I got really excited because of all the visions I had about her being my friend in the past months and I wanted to finally meet her. I just had this warm feeling bubbling inside me that got me hyper and demanding to be taken with him. The feeling was only building up as we got closer and closer.

Then I saw her peak at the car from her window and I got giddy almost bursting with excitement. As she took her sweet time to come down I thought I'd soon lose my patience and race in her house to meet her but just then we heard her moving towards the door and Edward got out of his car.

"Mornin'," She said with a smile. "What made you come all the way here at this hour?"

"Well, since we're friends now I thought I'd give you a ride to school." My brother answered even if our plans changed just before we left as father requested to meet her as soon as possible to clear up the whole her knowing what we were situation.

"There isn't much I can say to argue with you on this, is it?" I heard her state and then my brother confirming her conclusion. "Stubborn." she mumbled and then "But gentleman, nevertheless." When he opened the door for her. It was true; he was well raised and never abandoned his ways from his human life. As she sat in the car I was quite disappointed she didn't notice me being too focused on him like she was suspecting him of something. It was for a good reason but that was beside the point.

Edward noticed my thoughts and smiled at me reassuringly if not mischievously from the rear-view mirror. I tried to focus on any premonitions I could get of what would happen next but for some reason I couldn't see anything. I was sort of like when the wolves of the reserve were involved, but different. It was hard to explain, I knew there was something there it was just blackened out so I couldn't see it.

Just then Bella decided to break the silence accusing Edward of being up to something. I'd say she was very perceptive for a human but then again, she never noticed me sitting behind her.

"Bella, have you met my sister?" Edward asked her innocently.

"Which one?" I asked suspiciously and I wondered where this was going.

"Oh, you know… the pretty one."

'Really, Edward?' I thought to him.

"Well that surely narrows it down." She huffed confirming my point. "They're both vampires, remember. That happens to come with naturally unnatural beauty." She crossed her arms and pouted. It was adorable.

"Alright then." He said barely containing his chuckling. "How would you describe them?" there was a moment of silence where she just stared at him.

'Edward, what are you up to? Stop torturing her like this…' I began thinking to him again when I was interrupted by her outburst.

"Wait, you're seriously asking me that?" She asked disbelieving. "I don't know, start with their names, maybe. And surely you noticed some differences in them, they're your sisters!" I was barely containing myself at how she was falling for his obvious trap, though I still had no idea what it was all about. I liked how she seemed outraged that he wouldn't know his own sisters enough to describe them.

"Well then how would you do it?" He asked playing it stupid and she fell for it when she finally got over her outraged shock and answering him like she was talking to a child who just couldn't understand a thing.

"Aright then… um… Rosalie is the tall blond… siren," I was surprised how she managed to describe my sister wit that mythical creature; it was most appropriate. "And Alice is the black haired pixie." I was surprised with her finish. I wasn't sure what to think, but the way she said it it sounded like a real compliment so I decided it was finally time to make myself known.

"Aw, thank you! That's so sweet." She yelped and jumped in her seat making me and my brother laugh at her. It was just so exciting hearing her heartbeat quicken. I should do this more often…

"Are you trying to give me a heart attack?" She asked indignantly. "How long have you been back there, anyway?"

"The whole time, actually." I admitted still chuckling at her as her racing heart began to calm down.

"I knew you were up to something." She accused Edward.

"I still got you though." He replied not bothered a bit by what she said. And I still wasn't sure what was the whole point in that exchange but it got me noticed by her so I wasn't about to complain.

"You can't say you were really imaginative either, big brother." I said out loud thinking of many smoother ways he could have gotten to notice me (if that was actually his goal). My words seamed to make her look back at me again and I felt like this would be the best time to formally introduce myself so I extended my hand to her and said:

"Hello, Bella. I heard so much about you." She took my hand without hesitation and smiled at me while meeting my eyes with her forest green. They were those eyes! The ones stuck in my head for all this time and they belonged to Bella!

I didn't understand why my visions changed so much only to show me the same thing; Bella being a part of our family. And why they became so vague… it was just her eyes I saw, but before I had many visions of moments with my family. It was all so confusing. Something must've changed but I had no idea what.

Of course at that time I quickly buried my thoughts behind my 'shield' and focused on the present which was much less confusing and it was really fun talking to her. I didn't doubt we'd get along, there was just that connection that clicked into place.

Then she noticed we weren't actually driving to school and I felt her warm hand slip away from mine and felt the sudden loss.

"Um… Edward?" She started carefully.

"Hm?" He turned to her. He was playing it innocent again.

"Where are we going?" Her voice got higher than before and I noted her quickened heartbeat which did strange things to my hunter; it wasn't bloodlust exactly, I felt or the need to chase her like a pray, but a strong urge to keep that heart beating faster so I could listen to its hypnotising rhythm and smell her fresh scent as her blood pumped through her veins.

"Alice, where are we going?" She demanded after Edward refused to answer her and I indulged my urges.

"Well…" I started with a wide smile letting my hunter shine through. "You'll just have to wait and see." I fixed her with my gaze sending him towards her so I could drink on that feeling it got me. I more felt than saw her body react to it and she returned my smile those eyes never leaving mine as I drew them deeper into mine. All my senses were bathed with her excitement and a bit of fear pumping her adrenaline and I felt like I was losing myself in the best drug I could possibly find.

"Damn Bella, you smell so good right now." I purred while leaning forward to my drug. Then I realised just what I was doing and I flinched back, getting my hunter under control regretting it a bit as the intoxicating feeling was slowly seeping away. "Sorry." I apologised to her; this must've really scared her. "Wasn't ready for that one." I was embarrassed I lost control like that.

"No, no it's fine. I understand. I'm the one smelling too good to resist here." She quickly protested and I knew what she was trying to do so I forced my body to relax again and both, Edward and me, muttered:

"You have no idea." Except while Edward was grinding his teeth trying to control his thirst, I was sighting wistfully. I felt like I just got hooked up on a powerful and lethal drug, but found myself not wanting to get rid of the addiction.

It was stupid I was arguing with myself; I shouldn't be acting like this, I had more control than that… at least I should've had… This was a mess; there was just so many different things I felt at the moment I spent the rest of the day trying to sort through it but in the end I didn't really get anywhere so I headed back home, catching myself a deer on the way and carefully removing all thoughts and emotions that were plaguing me before I came closer to our home. My reaction to Bella still left as a mystery as well as the vision of her forest green eyes. Little did I know I'll get more of them now…


Alright, so I thought this would start as a shorter Alice's POV again and then continue as Bella and Carlisle talking, but I started retelling the drive to the Cullen manor from Alice's perspective and it got long enough to be a special Alice chappie :D