Surprise!!!

For the third time in ten minutes, Alice inhaled and exhaled a long sigh.

"What's the matter?" I asked her. We were going to Port Angles for the day to catch the new movie I wanted to see. I just figured it was the fact that I was driving and she wasn't that had set her off, but now, it seemed like more.

"I just feel bad taking you away from Edward today. I feel like he should be here instead of me." She replied.

"Why?" I questioned.

She pondered for a minute on weather she was going to tell me or not. "Today is June 20th, right?" she finally said.

"Yes." I replied and searched my head for possible events or holidays, none came.

"105 years ago today, Edward Anthony Mason Jr. was born." She replied.

It took me a minute to realize what she had said. I had never heard anyone use his old name before. "It's Edward's birthday!" I shouted. "Why didn't he tell me?"

"Vampires generally don't celebrate birthdays, not like you do." Said she. "It's a part of our past and we try not to remember what that was like."

"Then why would it matter to Edward if I were with you today."

"Just because we don't celebrate birthdays, doesn't change the fact of what the day is." She replied.

"Well then, I'll just have to get him a present while we're shopping." I concluded.

"What?" Alice asked alarmed. "You can't buy him a present."

"Why not?" I whined.

"Because, he has everything he could ever want and your not supposed to know."

"So I'll tell him that I found out in an old news paper. He'll never know as long as you don't tell him." I smiled ay her mischievously. She sighed again, though this time in annoyance, but didn't protest anymore.

After a little while in silence, Alice turned to me and asked, "So what are you going to get him?"

"I don't know." I replied. I had been trying to come up with something, but, like Alice had stated, he had everything. "I'll find something."

So, when we got to Port Angles, Operation Birthday Present began.

Our movie didn't start for another hour, so we had a little time to shop before hand.

"Why don't we try here?" I asked Alice, pointing to a CD store. I had been to it a couple times. It had a good selection of the newest music.

Alice just nodded and we went in. "Does he have this one?" I asked her, holding up the newest CD for Trashcan Inferno, our favorite rock band.

"Yep." She said, so I put it back and started looking for another. She also shot down the Random Ninjas and a new band; The Neon Gnomes.

"Grr." I shouted in frustration and stormed out of the store, Alice quietly following behind me.

"The movie's going to start in ten minutes." She said, as I started looking around for another store to go in. "We had better head for the theatre. I nodded and allowed her to lead me to it, all the while keeping an eye out for a shop to go in afterwards.

After the movie was over, I had forgotten all about Edward's gift.

"Where should we go for supper?" Alice asked as we were walking out of the movie. It was already 5:00! And then I remembered the gift.

"I'm not hungry." I said. "And I'm going to find a gift for Edward before I eat."

"Bella, I think-"

"No Alice, don't try to talk me out of it. I don't care if he doesn't want anything, I'm going to find him something!" I inhaled deeply, not realizing how much air it had taken to say all that.

"Bella, let me finish." She persisted sternly. "I-think-we-should-go-to-dinner-first-and-then-continue-looking. Do you understand?" She said this very lowly, never looking away from my eyes. I, however, looked at her like she had a huge mole on the tip of her nose. Then, I coked my head sideways and thought about what she had said.

"Oh!" I said, the truth hitting like a ton of bricks. She had had a vision! "Okay, where are we going?"

"Amulia's. It's a fancy restaurant on the other side of the town." She responded. I nodded and we went back to my car.

"Why don't you let me drive." She offered, just as I was about to get in.

"Alright." I said and got back out and went to the other side to get in.

"So what exactly are we going to here?" I asked, as she pushed the speed limit my truck would willingly go. I another couple seconds, it would start wining.

"You'll see when we get there." She responded and pushed the petal down even more. I cringed as my truck protested with a harsh cry from under the hubcap.