APOV

We were getting off to a good start. As soon as that kid from the corner store stopped babbling about himself and got me the costumes, I sped back to the house. When I walked in I could barely stop myself from yelling out that I had gotten the costumes. I wanted to build up their anxiety. From the look Edward gave me, I guessed that he knew what I was up to and agreed completely. That gave me more confidence.

"Alice…" Jasper was looking at my handful with a questioning look on his face.

"Surprise!" Both Edward and I yelled and I dumped the bags onto the table. Shortly after, Jacob and three of his friends jumped in dressed as werewolves. That made me feel a little worse. This hadn't just been my idea after all. After Edward rudely stole my only pallet of face paint, I decided to get dressed in my costume.

"Alice- wow, that looks great! But um, don't you think you may be going a little too far with this?" Jasper walked into my closet where I was standing looking in the full-length mirror.

"Jasper, if you want to come, I can quickly run down to the store and get you a costume." I was confused. If it was him who put Halloween out on the table, why was he all of a sudden discouraging me? He shook his head, and chuckled,

"Alice, honey, I don't want to go with you. I meant that it might be… I don't know, dangerous." He placed his hands firmly on my shoulders, but I shook them off.

"I am a vampire, basically invincible. There is no law against trick-or-treating, and Jasper you don't know how much this means to me, to us. I never had a Halloween even as a human! And Edward always loved Halloween!" He couldn't be saying what I thought he was saying. Did he think that I was weak?

"I just think of everything bad that could happen when I think about you." What was he saying?

"Are you saying that I am disaster-prone Jasper Cullen?" now I was really mad. How could he say that? He slowly shook his head.

"Not at all. I am saying that I care about you so much that images of how you get hurt will pop up in my head. It's torture actually, but I can't help myself. Alice, your brave and smart and a hell of a fighter, but I guess it has got something to do with how my brain is wired." Now he looked ashamed, and I just could not bear to look at him like that.

"It's okay, I understand. I just am a little stressed out. I ran into that Jeremy kid by the way." I said wrinkling my nose. He and Jasper never got along too well. That was probably because Jeremy would never leave me alone.

"Really?" said Jasper in a sharp tone.

"Jasper-" I warned him.

"What? What is the matter with me not liking him? Do you like him? Because you are sticking up for him an aw-" I stopped him short by kissing him on the head and going downstairs to fill a bowl with candy because I saw trick-or-treaters coming in about five minutes. After dumping the bag into the biggest bowl I could find, all four of us headed out the door.

"Renesmee, do you have your bag that Aunt Alice got for you? Because you know that is where you are going to have to put the candy." Edward looked about as excited as his young daughter.

"Yes Daddy. Are you going to trick-or-treat too?" she looked up with her big brown eyes.

"Ummm..." He looked at Bella for help.

"Daddy is going to go to a few of the houses and maybe Alice too, but not me. I am going to watch." She took Edwards hand and Renesmee mine, and we walked to our first house.