Chapter Seven
"Hey Leah, what are you doing down here?" Emmett entered the living room.
"I'm waiting for Alice and Rosalie to be done." I sighed, tapping my foot against the coffee table.
"Make-over?" Jasper asked.
I nodded.
"Is she still going to be able to play football?" Emmett asked worriedly.
I smiled.
"I'm sure nothing will stop her from that." I laughed.
"Okay, here she comes!" Alice danced downstairs.
"No she doesn't." Alex's voice came from upstairs.
I laughed.
"Oh come on Alex, you look beautiful!" Alice sang up.
"That's exactly why I'm not coming down!" She yelled back.
"One moment." Alice smiled.
She darted up the stairs.
"Fine." I heard Alex say.
And then Alice came downstairs, holding a football, leading a girl I had never seen before.
"Here she is!" Alice pointed to the stranger.
"Holy crap, you look good Alex. Good thing you can still play football in that." Emmett smiled.
"Wow, you look great!" I exclaimed.
Alex was standing awkwardly between Alice and Rosalie.
Her hair was freshly washed, exposing that it was a dark chocolate brown instead of the black I had originally thought, and it was pulled back into a braid with her bangs still hanging down, but stylized away from her eyes. Pulling back her hair revealed that she had an eyebrow and cartilage piercing, which looked great on her. She had washed her face, exposing beautifully pale skin, decorated with some light black eyeliner and blue eye shadow. She was wearing light jeans and a tightly made blue and white football jersey, obviously styled for girls. She was also wearing grey high-tops, like mine.
"I like you in colors." I decided.
Without warning, Alex nabbed the football right from Alice's hands.
"Let's go!" She grabbed Emmett, and Jasper followed them back out to the front yard.
"I want to play too!" I yelled after them, and ran to the yard, followed by everyone else.
And boy, she was good, her passes were perfect, she caught the ball at any speed that we threw it, and ended up getting past burly Emmett and quick Jasper more than a few times.
By the time that it was getting dark, Alex wasn't even breaking a sweat.
But the wolves were hungry.
"Let's go and eat!" Jacob yelled.
Everyone agreed, including Alex, but she looked a little reluctant.
"You guys got any yogurt, or maybe a bagel?" She asked, looking through the fridge.
"What is it with you and breakfast food?" Emmett asked.
"Yogurt and bagels are not breakfast foods." She argued.
"Yeah they are." Edward commented.
"And we all know how correct you always are." She rolled her eyes.
I smiled.
"What, just because of one thing I did you're going to hate me forever?" Edward complained.
"Pretty much." She growled, and turned around from him.
"Come on, you can't just do that." Bella sighed.
"Watch me Bellie." She smirked.
"Okay, I'm going to break this up now." Emmett attempted, but it was already started.
"Oh, you haven't made mistakes before?" Bella growled, standing up.
"Not as many as you have." Alex challenged.
"Want to bet?" Edward asked, standing up to meet Alex's challenge.
"Bet what, that both of you are pathetically clingy? Sure, I would love to!" She argued sarcastically.
"And this is why you'll be alone forever." Edward whispered under his breath.
But it was loud enough for Alex to hear.
In less than a second, she was on top of him, and punched him hard in the nose, a crack coming from the area. She proceeded to kick him in the stomach, causing him to double over, and then kicked him again in the leg.
Bella lunged at her, knocking her to the ground, but suddenly, she was knocked back, leaving a dent in the wall.
Alex quickly got up, and lunged at Bella, but Edward was up by then. He blocked her, and she bit him in the arm, causing him to recoil, and then hit him once more in the face. But when she did this, he came up from behind her and hit her hard in the ribs. She recovered and knocked him back down, kicking Bella to the side.
And all of this happened in less than a second.
I lunged and grabbed Alex, Emmett and Jasper holding back the vampires.
"You idiot Edward, what were you thinking?" I yelled at him, shaking badly, I had to keep myself in control, Alex was right here.
"She started it!" He yelled back as best as he could, his nose at a crooked angle and still bent over.
"She did, it wasn't our fault." Bella whined back.
"Sure Sugar Queen, it's all my fault isn't it." Alex growled.
"What's going on?" Carlisle came downstairs with a worried looking Esme.
"Alex got into a fight with Edward and Bella." Rosalie summarized, glaring at Edward.
"Come on Alex; let's make sure you're alright." He smiled, holding out his hand.
"I can take of myself." She said, and then limped up to her room, leaving us all stunned.
"Well, let's take a look at you Edward, Bella, do you need anything?" She shook her head.
"Edward got the worst of it; I don't know what's wrong with her." She cried innocently.
"Bella, I know I made my peace with you, but if you or Edward ever do that again, I will rip both of your heads off and burn the pieces of your body. Understand?" I smiled sweetly.
Her eyes widened, acknowledging that I was very serious.
"I'm going to check on Alex." I said, and grabbed Alice to come with me.
"Alex?" I knocked gently on her door.
"Go away." Her voice came from inside.
"Come on, we're on your side, Edward was being a jackass." I pleaded.
No sound came from inside.
I looked at Alice, and she nodded.
We kicked down the door.
Alex was curled into the corner of her room. When we entered she looked up sharply.
"I told you to go away." She growled.
"We were just worried about you." Alice said gently.
"I can take care of myself." She curled even further into the corner.
There was no way she could be uninjured from the fight, she was fighting against a vampire, two vampires for that matter. Even though she had managed to hit Sam pretty well without injury, but against two vamps?
"Please, just let us make sure you're alright." I begged.
She looked into my eyes, studying me.
"I'm fine." She stood up.
"See, fine." She said, walking over to us.
"Let's go downstairs, I'm still hungry." She smiled.
I looked at Alice, but Alex was already heading down.
As she got to the last stair, she stumbled a little bit.
"Sorry, guess I'm a little shaken, you know, tired muscles." She laughed lightly.
"Hey Alex, you doing alright, you gave Edward quite the beating!" Emmett clapped her lightly on the back.
"Oh good, he's hurting then?" She smiled.
"Oh yeah, and man is he whining." He laughed heartily.
She walked over to the fridge.
"So how are those two?" Alice asked.
"Edward is beat, man that girl is strong. He has a broken nose, four broken ribs, sprained ankle, and a good sized bite on his arm. Bella has a dent in her head and a broken rib. It's actually pretty funny, two vamps just got beat up by a little human girl." Emmett relayed.
I smiled, and so did Alice.
"Serves them right, I guess, Edward should know how to act. At least Alex isn't injured." Alice said.
Suddenly there was the splintering of glass from behind us.
"I'm so sorry, I don't know what happened, sorry, and I'll pick that up." Alex began to kneel down.
"Alex, are you alright?" Emmett asked worriedly.
"Huh, oh yeah, don't worry, just a little shaky." She said.
"I'm going to go and lay down upstairs." She breathed, and started to go up the stairs.
"Alex, wait let me help you." I started to go to Alex.
"I'm fine okay, just please leave me alone. I don't need any pity." She growled.
We heard her door slam.
"We should probably go and check on her." Alice said.
We started to walk up the stairs, when we heard a crash and a thump come from her room.
We darted to the room, and opened the door to see Alex passed out on the floor, blood seeping from her side.
"Emmett, get Carlisle, quickly!" I yelled.
