BPOV

I woke up in an uncomfortable bed. I really hate hospitals. I glanced around the room, my eyes going from the clock, reading two am, to the IV in my arm. Ugh. I looked the other way as a roll of nasea hit me.

hmm...Now why does me, sitting in a hospital bed, almost throwing up from a needle, and being in that bed because of a vampire, seem so familiar to me. Oh yeah, last year, after James came.

Alice was sitting beside the bed in a turquoise pleather chair, pretending to be asleep.

Once again...after James, when I woke up in the hospital, there was a vampire next to me. And that vampire had sat in a similar chair. I cringed as the memory of my beautiful vampire came to me. No. He was not my vampire. He was just...just...a vampire who I happened to know.

Alice must of heard me stirring, because she lifted her head up from her lap and looked at me.

I practically jumped off the bed to try and hug her. I didn't feel dizzy or sick or anything, but still Alice gently pushed me back down on the bed.

"Oh Alice!" I sobbed, breaking into tears. I beckened for her to come closer and then I hugged her. I took in her wonderful smell and didn't let go until she used her iron grip to unhook my hands from around her neck.

"Well, Bella," she sighed, "I had fogotten how exuberant you are."

It then dawned on me what Alice must of seen.

"Alice, did you see me fall off the..." I started to say but she cut me off.

"No Bella! I saw you jump."

I looked sheepishly down at the sheets.

"How could you Bella? Did you think about Charlie? About my brother? Don't you realise what he's gone through to-"

This time I caught her off. "Alice, I wasn't trying to kill myself."

She raised a perfect eyebrow. "Oh, so you were...cliff diving I suppose?"

"Actually, yes. I saw Jake's friends doing it before and I wanted to try it...Hey! Where is Jacob, anyways?"

Now Alice was glaring at me. "Do you mean the werewolf?"

I was starting to wish that the floor would swallow me up. "Yes. But, he did save me after I jumped off the cliff."

Alice's glare was a bit softer. "He did? Well then how come I didn't see him in me...He's at your house with Charlie. Charlie is home getting some sleep because you've been out for three days and because Harry is gone."

My eyes started to fill up with tears. Poor Charlie. Then, some more reality settled in. "How did you know I was in the hospital, wouldn't you have had to run into Jacob? And if you did run into him, even so, why would he tell you that I was here. Because from what I understand, vampires and werewolves don't have a very close relationship." I was defenitly babbling.

Alice replied, "Well, you're right on one count. I did run into...Jacob...but he was with your father at the time so we were both able to keep our composure."

Alice paused fror a long moment, at least for her. "A werewolf? Really, Bella, what have you been getting yourself into? Are you trying to get yourself killed?"

"Alice! Jacob isn't that bad! And really," I was sarcastic now, lowering my voice, "It's not like I know any vampires or anything! And Jacob's only been a werewolf for a few weeks!"

"A young werewolf! Do you know what kind of control it would take him to not rip you to shreds if you got him angry! Leave it to you Bella, anyone else would be better off when the vampires leave town but you have to go find the first monsters you can."

"Oh, and no one else that I know needs control around me, or could be classified as a monster? Alice! And I'll have you know if it weren't for Jacob and the rest of the pack I'd be dead by now." Alice's mouth was starting to slowly open in shock.

"What do you mean Bella? Who's trying to kill you now?" She sounded unerved, but still calm.

"You mean you don't know? Well, first Laurent and then Victoria was-"

"What!" Alice was anything but calm now. Then she was muttering to herself. "Oh, I know you wouldn't be safe without us! I told him...but did he listen? I don't think so! He made us all leave when he's probablygoing to just..." She trailed off, talking so quiet that I didn't have a hope of hearing. She suddenly returned to an audible volume, seeming to remember more of what I had said. "Victoria's back?"

I pointed to myself, "Danger magnet, remember?"

Alice leaned back in the chair, trying to get comfortable. "Tell me everything."

I thought for a moment, and then I started to speak.