Chapter 5
Promises and Sisters
I could hear her calling to me from a distance, "Bella! Bella can you hear me, Bella please open your eyes please!"
"Alice?"
I heard her sigh in relief, "Bella you scared me to death!" My eyes focused on her face and I mumbled "Some psychic you are Tinkerbell!" Alice giggled a beautiful sound I had desperately missed, "Why have you been calling me Tinkerbell?" I started to sit up and seeing what I wanted Alice helped me get upright, "Well, when you were gone I missed you so much that every time I so much as thought your name I felt like my chest was ripping open. I had always thought of you as my own personal cracked out fashion fairy nightmare so I started calling you Tinkerbell, do you mind?" Alice laughed and again I relished the sound committing it to memory, "Well, ok," she said "cracked out fashion fairy Tinkerbell it is!" she laughed again and I laughed with her.
"Alice" my laughter stopped and the pain began to resurface, "Yes Bella?" "Can you promise me you wont leave me again, I mean promise me that no matter what you will always be in my life?" Alice took my face in her hands and looked sternly at me, "You listen to me Isabella Marie, I really want things to work out with you and my brother, but I know I can't control what happens between the two of you but I can tell you this, I love you more than I ever thought it was possible to love anyone other than my vampire family. I will never leave you again, you are stuck with me!" she smiled and removed her hands and said, "I will remind you of this promise you forced from me when we are shopping because your closet needs an intervention desperately!" I groaned knowing that I would take the trade off no matter how miserable it made me; Alice was back so my new second home would be the mall!
"So, what time are you coming over?" "ALICE!!!!" Alice arched one eyebrow and gave me her "DON'T MESS WITH ME" look, "You already made the decision Bella, I've seen it so what time will you be coming over?" I felt my lip quiver and I bit down hard trying to gain some control, "You tell me Alice, what time will I be there?" She smiled gently at me, "Charlie is already dressed he will be heading downstairs in 5 minutes to fish, be at my front door 30 minutes later!" "Alice!" I exclaimed glancing at the clock, it is 4:30 in the morning!" "Don't worry she laughed everyone at the house will be up!" I bit down hard on my lip again and Alice tapped it with her finger, "You can't avoid him forever Bella, he is part of you, you are part of him but I do promise you that whatever happens or does not happen it will be at your pace, I promise you that!" I blinked back the tears that I vowed to never shed for Edward Cullen ever again and clutched Alice in the tightest embrace I could manage, "Thank you Tinkerbell"
"So does everyone else have new nicknames too?" I shook my head, "Just Emmett," "Oh! I can't wait to hear this one please don't keep me in suspense!" Despite the anxiety I was feeling a giggle erupted "It's Pooh!" Her eyes widened and she erupted in quiet laughter trying not to let Charlie hear her, "Like the bear?" I nodded my eyes watering from attempting to stifle my laughter. "Oh that is to good Bella, Thank you for that!" She hugged me quickly and moved to my window, "Charlie's gone Bella, 30 minutes!" I sighed and nodded and than she was gone, again I could feel the hollow space in my heart that she left behind and wrapped my arms around my torso in a weak attempt to hold what was left of myself together and than smiled as I decided to focus on my intervention bound closet in an attempt to choose something Alice would not be to disappointed with.