Chapter 3.
Alice's Pov.
The front door opened, and that scent hit me, her scent, Bella.
"Alice." She said, a look of shock on her face, her mouth forming the shape of a little o.
Standing in front of me, She's alive, Bella is alive, but my vision, this...this doesn't make sense, I have never known my vision's to be wrong when Bella is involved, not once, a little slow perhaps, she hasn't got the most decisive of minds at times but wrong, not at all- Does it matter? Here she is alive, breathing, waiting for me to say something no doubt, her warm chocolate eyes staring intently, scanning my figure, she seems lost, and she looks well she looks dreadful, but wonderful all at the same time, because she isn't dead and I couldn't be more relieved.
Suddenly she throws herself at me, hitting me with what I can only assume is all the force her body can muster, that must of hurt, wrapping her arms around my shoulders, her heated cheek brushing the side of my face, that warmth I had missed it....I feel my eyes fade to black, the change in my body evident, but I had fed when I arrived, that's odd, it must be the smell, I guess I had forgotten how she smelt, it must be that, but she had not had such an effect on me prior to this, I...she's alive, it's not important, her breathing unsteady and erratic.
"Alice, oh Alice! It's really you!
I saw Carlisle's car, and I couldn't believe it, but I let myself believe it, I needed to, your back, well I didn't know it would be just you, but I couldn't be happier, and oh Alice-"
"Oh dear, Bella I had forgotten how excitable you could get"
"Sorry, I'm just so so happy to see you Alice" she said, wrapping her arms around me more tightly, my face met her neck dead on; I could feel her shaking, a sob escaping her throat.
It can't be her smell, having this effect, because I don't recognise it, what is that smell, why didn't I smell it earlier, it's all over her, its repugnant.
"Bella, believe me, I myself am not able to make you even understand fully how happy I am to see you, but, and please do not take offense, but you smell terrible."
Releasing me, slightly from her arms, her face perturbed, "um I do?"
"Yes, quite strongly, I couldn't smell it when you entered, but it's very noticeable when I am this close to your skin" I replied.
"Oh, I uh, I could go shower, I mean if it's that bad, if its "terrible" she proclaimed.
"Yes that would be, no, first of all, most important of all, how are you not dead?"
"You thought that I was dead?!" she exclaimed.
"Well yes, I saw it in a vision, well you weren't dead but you had thrown yourself off of a cliff, so naturally i assumed that you were, and I, well Edward had told me not to look for you, but well I ignored him, I had to check on you quite regularly in fact, in spite of how much I missed you, and how much it pained me to watch you and be nowhere near you and then I saw you jump, and I couldn't just ignore it so I came as soon as I could and well-"
"Alice, I get it, you saw me jump, and you call me excitable, geez" she rolled her eyes in mid sentence.
"I wasn't trying to kill myself, which is obviously what you had thought...She wasn't, thank god, but if not, then what on earth was she thinking?, I had been hanging out with Jacob which obviously you must of seen, because you were watching me, Jacob...who? and I saw some of his friends cliff diving and I thought it looked like something that I'd like to try, so I did and well I'm here right now hugging you so you know I didn't die, and oh by the way sorry I haven't let go of you, and please please please do not go Alice, I'm begging you!"
"Okay, I'm not going to go, I couldn't leave you, not now. I knew when I came that I was too late because in the vision I never saw you surface, but I wanted to help in any way possible with the...arrangements, but now I'm here and your alive, well do you really think I would leave you? I will stay if only for a short while, a short while? No longer, I need to be here longer, I think, yes I do, definitely, or for as long as you want me here, okay Bells I'm not going to go anywhere" I said, drawing a breath after the very long sentence, even if I don't need to.
Looking up at her, dry trails streaked across her face heart shaped face, where she had been sobbing, and flashing a slight smile, she simply nodded in reply, staring at me intently, removing her arms,
" I'm going to go and take a shower, because if you're not leaving, then I want to be close to you, without you being disgusted" she said, a small smile forming on her lips, and with that, she turned running up the stairs, leaving me standing in the same spot I had found her.