Alice? Alice? How could it possibly be Alice? Why would she ever come back, she and all her family discarded me as though I was nothing to them months ago. They abandoned me, tore out my heart and left me to die from the pain. I should be furious with them all, I should never want to see them or speak to them ever again.

So then why did just the sound of her voice fill me with so much happiness and so much love?

'Bella? What's going on?' Alice called through the door which was still separating us.

'j-just a second Alice' I stuttered, struggling to form words with the sound of my racing heart echoing so loudly in my head. I moved to open the door but found, once again, Jacob blocking my way, I looked up to find his face inches from mine glaring down at me.

'move, Jake' I demanded, trying pointlessly to push his arm away from the door, he resisted my attempts easily and moved his face down closer to me, disgust now mixing with the anger on his face.

'do you mean to tell me, that after everything that you went through, after everything that they put you through you are still willing to have that blocksucker anywhere near you' he said

'Jake, you don't understand it, please just let me past and I'll try to explain,' I pleaded with him

'No, Bella, I can't, I can't be here with...her' not even trying to disguise the repulsion he felt by Alice

'Bella!' Alice's voice interrupted us 'Who are you with bella? Who is that?' She knocked on the door with more force than before, I knew it was only a matter of time before she broke it down entirely

I looked at Jake again, a look of sheer desperation on my face, begging him to understand, this wasn't just some 'bloodsucker', this was Alice. He didn't know her, he only knew what she had done and how much her and all of her family had hurt me. But maybe it wasn't her fault, maybe it was him, forcing all of his family to leave town just because he never loved me anymore, seemed just like..Edward.. always over-dramatic and extremely thorough. Yeap, that's Edward, extra-thorough at breaking my heart.

'Fine! If you want to be with your leech best friend then go ahead, I won't stop you, but don't you dare come crawling to me when she rips you apart again' Jacob shouted before storming through the back door, slamming it hard behind him, I chewed on my lip trying to decide whether to go after him.

My decision was made for me however as an almighty crash behind me indicated that Alice's worries had caused her to start destroying my house.

I turned to come face to face with my once best friend. Alice. She looked flawless as always with her pixie haircut highlighting her features to perfection and her designer clothes hugging her body in all the right ways, and just for a second, seeing her made me ache for my first love, for the boy who was my world, my angel, but then it all came flooding back to me; the hurt, the anger, the despair, and I remembered how that boy was no longer my world, that place in my heart was now taken by Jacob, the one who had stuck around to pick up the pieces.

'Who the hell was that Bella?' she demanded, her nostrils flaring and her nose wrinkling slightly in distaste.

I couldn't help myself, seeing her face again when I thought it was lost to me forever, I was overcome with emotions and found myself wrapped up in her icy-cold arms and sobbing on her shoulder.

'Alice, I can't believe this, I'm so happy to see you, I missed you so much' and another wave of sheer joy passed over me making speech impossible.

'C'mon Bella, talk to me' she said, patting my back

'that was Jake,' 'I said in between sobs'...he's a werewolf'

'well that explains the smell' she sniffed gingerley, automatically recoiling from me.

'Smell?' I asked, I sniffed my shoulder, all that I sensed was my strawberry shampoo and the slight woodsy smell that followed Jake around, nothing to cause the face of disgust that was on Alice's face currently

'yea, vampires are repulsed by werewolves and vice versa, but that doesn't explain what he's doing here Bella.'

'he's just...well, he's my boyfriend'

I heard Alice gasp as she took in the bombshell that I had just dropped on her.

'A lot's been happening in out absence hasn't it'

Several deep breaths later I found myself sitting on the couch in the living room, Alice sitting in the armchair across from me, watching to make sure no more waves of emotions were going to consume me.

'Explain' She commanded

'There's not much to say,' I told her ' after after all of you.. left.. I was real messed up and Jacob just kind of fixed me, we started as just best friends, but it's hard, you know, to not fall in love with someone who is that good for you;

'so..your in love with him then?' she asked

'well...yea' Why was this hard for me to say? Edward left me, he walked away to play with his 'distractions', he wanted me to move on and forget him, and that's what I did so why did Alice seem so betrayed?

A silence passed between us for a while, Alice seeming to be lost in her own thoughts, something occurred to me.

'Alice? Not that I'm not incredibly happy to see you, but why did you come back?' I asked

She looked uncomfortable, 'well, I was worried about you, I wasn't spying on you Bella I swear, but I just wanted to make sure you were safe and happy so I tried to look into your future but there was nothing, I tried so hard for days but your future had just disappeared, I needed to come check you were ok.'

'wait, my future disappeared?' I asked

'yea, I'm not sure why exactly, I thought that maybe...you know, something bad had happened, I was scared, Edward warned us never to come back bu-'

'He what?' I interrupted outraged

'He wanted you to have a clean break, to make sure that you never had to see us or get hurt by us every again, he wants you to move on in peace,' she explained 'guess that part worked out' she added in an undertone.

My mind was reeling, Edward told the people who were practically my second family never to come back and see me! How on earth did he think he had a right to do something like that! The anger within me flared in ways that I had never felt towards him before.

I was interrupted once again by the sound of a car door slamming in the driveway, this time the unmistakable sound of Charlie's footsteps could be heard coming steadily towards the house.

I looked towards Alice in panic.

'Look, Bella,' she explained 'Charlie can't see me, it will just make things too complicated, and plus I need to leave and go talk to the others, things are a lot more crazy here than we thought' I started to interrupt her, panicking at the thought of her leaving again so soon after getting her back. She held up a finger so that I let her continue 'I swear I'll be back soon, ok?' I nodded, she smiled and hugged me quickly before running at an impossible speed out of the house.

I heard Charlie clatter in, a shocked silenced ensued as he took in the ruined door,

'What the hell happened here, Bella?' he demanded

If only you knew Charlie, if only you knew.