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'No Ordinary Cinderella' – A Twilight Fanfic

By No Ordinary Cinderella

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Chapter Five

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Alice's POV

River Valley, a most boring town with undulating hills and a vast forest, most of its rivers now were either dried-up or in an unobtainable place such as the cliffs or deep into the forest. It was quite lucky really, that we could see such beautiful sights. Too bad that there is absolutely nothing else going on for this small valley, most of the people are vain and self-obsessed and most are offspring of those who have lived here, from generation to generation, somewhere along the line, they must have been inbred or something, because they all look and act the same. And now what did we have to do? Go to high school! Normally, I would be quite happy to spend my time in such a useless place and make fun of everyone's outfits in my head, but in this dreary town they didn't even have a decent shopping mall! I know! Isn't that so bad?! And do not get me started on their outfits and trends. Florescent yellow skinny jeans with suede boots and a big black baggy shirt? There was only one word for it: EWWW!

Apart from the bad fashion sense, we had also accumulated a new member in our coven, our new brother Ryan. Rosalie and I found him one day I the forest, just lying there motionless, rocking his knees back and forth over a dead carcass, repeating, "I am not a monster, I am not a monster, I am not a monster." We took him home, and ever since we explained he was a vampire, and all that major palaver, he has been our little brother. It's funny because his older in human years than Edward and apart from the hair colour, they both look like brothers and Edward is older than him in vampire years by roughly 100 years. Ryan is eighteen and so is Bella, although Bella looks like seventeen but she still gets in a huff if you mention her human age, being one year older than Edward was her reason. I rolled my eyes every time.

Ryan and Edward were kind of like opposites as well, Ryan was easy-going whilst Edward was easily tempered, Ryan was wonderful with a pencil, pen, or any other stationary, and Edward was a beautiful pianist. Ryan's features were softer than Edward's though. But somehow, Ryan managed to still look older than him. Ryan also respected Edward as if he were the older brother.

Our family was very happy, until that one day, it all changed, when we went to River Valley High School. It was like Bella and Edward all over again.

Ryan's POV

I loved my family, I really did, but sometimes, I felt as if something was missing. For example, every few days the family usually went off in couples, and I found myself sitting there, all alone as they did various 'activities' or went out somewhere special.

For the past week, I have been feeling lonely, but I managed to hide my feelings well from the rest of family, Jasper especially. Would I ever be with someone? Would someone ever love me?

I quickly put those thoughts aside as my all brothers came in. They were talking about something, that I am not sure, but they looked pretty excited. I just left them to it as I ran to my room and started to draw.

A few minutes later, Alice poked her head through with a smile pronounced on her lips. "What are you smiling about?"

"Oh…nothing." Her smile turned into a grin.

"You can tell me Alice, I won't tell anyone."

"Erm…nope."

"Did you See something?"

"Hmmm…maybe." Her and her teasing voice.

I rolled my eyes and focused on my painting of Bella and Edward. I had done one of each of the couples and this was the only one I had left.

A few minutes later Alice plopped beside me. "You're no fun to tease."

I smiled at her, "I know."

"So you're not going to bug me for my vision."

"Nope."

"C'mon, you know you want to. It's about you."

"Still no."

"It's about you and finding your pow-ers…" Her voice sang to me.

"Let me think… I still don't want to know."

"You really are no fun to tease."

"Yeah, I get that a lot." From you.

"Well, do you want me to tell you?"

"Nope."

"Fine. I'm just going to tease Edward; he's more fun being teased than you."

"I know. Hey Alice?"

She stopped dancing out of the room a minute. I told her my plan. I quickly painted a picture of Edward and she got to work with it. She ran downstairs with me in tow and then hung his 'picture' above his beloved piano. I chuckled and Alice gave me a stern look.

Me and Alice ran into my room.

Five minutes…

Four minutes…

Three minutes…

Two minutes…

One minute…

5…

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1…

"ALICE! RYAN!" Edward's voice bellowed up to us. That was all it took for me and Alice to double over in laughter.

Alice's POV

Ha, that was just hilarious! Ryan and I were kind of like sidekicks in pranks, and our enemy, Emmett. We were having this kind of battle at the moment of who could do the best pranks. Ryan won. Emmett and I tied.

"You do know that we have to go to school now, right?" I said, giggling.

He hated school, for the same way Edward used to hate school. He hated all the girls falling, well throwing themselves, literally at him.

"Now, stop groaning and get in the Volvo, we have to go to school!"

Whilst we travelled to school, with me sitting on Jasper's lap as we didn't have enough room for the six of us. I had another vision…

A chocolate brown-haired girl with beautiful but miserable eyes was shaking her head, tears spilling out of her eyes as she retreated back, only to find that she was pinned up against the wall.

I saw a shadow, and as the shadow became nearer, I saw the man she was obviously afraid of. He stumbled forward, and he beat her, mercilessly until she was just a cowering body that was knocked unconscious when the beer bottle slammed into her bleeding, sensitive scalp.

I came back into reality with Jazz nearly going hysterical at me, "Alice, Alice ALICE! Alice, are you okay? Alice, talk to me? Why were you screaming? Alice?!"

I blinked a few times, "I was screaming?"

"Yes, you kept saying, 'Not again, not again, please not again.' Over and over, I was getting worried. What did you see?"

"I saw a girl. She looked like Bella, except her face is not heart-shaped and she has the same colour hair and eye shape but not the eye colour Bella used to have." I was quiet for a few moments before I whispered. "She was getting beaten, and she didn't even say a word with every fist he hurt her with."

"Did the girl say anything?"

"No. That's the problem, she didn't scream or whimper or shout, no nothing. She just watched him beat her, she looked scared but she didn't even try to fight back, as if she knew it was going to happen anyway whether she did anything or not."

"Why was she in your vision?" Bella's voice asked.

"I don't know."

"Let me see." I touched my hand in her outstretched one. Bella had the power of memories, also recent memories so she could see my visions. Her power was getting stronger though, and she may get to use it without touching that person soon.

"Oh. She does look like me, the human me. Why do I feel the need to protect her?"

"I don't know, but I feel it too." Edward's voice replied.

"Same with me." I replied.

All the rest said the same, except Rosalie.

After a few minutes she spoke up. "Why do I feel that I have to save her when I don't even know her or have seen her?" Rosalie whispered.

We all turned round in shock. No one said anything else for the rest of our journey to high school. We had retrieved our schedules from the office yesterday, all of us had at least one of us in all our classes, so we weren't alone when we were mocked with girls or boys, Ryan especially seeing as he was single, Edward put him in all of his classes so that he would never be alone, he knows what happens after all except now he had Bella whilst Ryan had no one.

Suddenly, Jasper clutched his chest and bent over a bit. "Jazz, you okay?" He didn't respond, he just shook his head and his pale finger pointed out the window to someone.

I gasped in surprise. It was her. That brown-haired girl in my vision. The one who was frightened, the one that didn't say anything whilst she was hit over and over again.

"It's her." I whispered.

"What's her?" Ryan came up behind me and looked out the window.

"It's her." I repeated.

"Who is she Alice?" Jasper's pained voice said to me.

"The girl, from my vision."

"What is she feeling?" I turned to Jasper.

"Pain, nothing but pure unadulterated pain and solitude."

"Let me feel."

"No Alice."

"Let me feel." I repeated, my voice sterner.

"No."

"LET ME FEEL GODDAMIT!"

He shook his head.

"I won't and I can't."

"What do you mean you won't and you can't?"

"I won't because I don't want you to feel it and I can't because I can't give her pain in small doses, if I give it to someone, everyone else will feel it."

"Oh."

"Can't you do something?"

"No, I can't. My powers won't work on her."

"I can't read her mind." Edward's voice came.

"Like mine?" Bella asked.

"No, I can feel her mind is there, I just can't hear it. It's like she's blocked me out and I can't break that block."

"But how…?" Emmett's voice came.

"I don't know." He replied.

The bell chose that moment to ring. We went to our first classes, mine was with Bella, and we had calculus. Oh joy. But I couldn't help but wonder about that strange but beautiful girl.

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AN: I may continue on Ryan and Alice's POV but I wanted to stop here. Do you want Saffron's POV or Ryan & Alice's again?

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was it bad,

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or I'll be sad…