CHAPTER 11
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"Bella!" Alice called as we walked by her bedroom. She came out into the hallway to meet us.
"Hey Alice." I said calmly, it was silent after that and we just stood there facing each other.
I didn't really find it awkward, but it seemed almost as if Alice was trying to tell me something.
Her eyes were hard and they focused on me, and they quickly flickered to Edward standing beside me and then back to my face.
"Um…Edward I was wondering if I could talk to Alice… alone?" I asked looking up at him. He looked down at me and softly touched my cheek with his fingers.
"Okay." He breathed; a second later he was gone. I looked back at Alice who was leading me into her bedroom towards her bed.
"Alice I need to talk to you." I said sternly as I sat down on the bed and she sat beside me.
"I need to talk to you too." She said, just as boldly.
"Okay well I have to talk first." I said, and continued. "…I was wondering if you have seen anything happening in the future recently." I tried to ask as inconspicuous as possible.
She gave me a disbelieved look.
"I was just about to tell you!" She gasped.
"Well you see Bella, the other day I had a vision, but I couldn't understand it. It was like something I have never had before. It was as if I was seeing something…too far into the future. Like it was 100 years from now. I tried to talk to Carlisle but he couldn't tell me anything about it. But the reason I was coming to ask you…was because you were a part of it."
I hesitated for a moment. Was it possible that Alice of the past could have seen what had happened to me only a few hours ago?
"What did you see Alice?" I asked through unmoving lips.
I watched as her eyes became unfocused, as if she were recalling a past memory.
"You were angry, and standing in front of some…girl. And Edward was just…lying near your feet…and you were screaming, and I was crying, and I couldn't here what you were saying, and then you fell to your knees and…" Alice closed her eyes.
She didn't open them until a moment later.
"What's happening?" She whispered.
I was contemplating whether or not I should tell her the whole story or not.
"Okay Alice. I will tell you only if you promise me you will hide this from Edward and everyone else. Can you do that?"
She nodded her head.
"Okay…well you see, I…am from the…future." I said hesitantly, it almost sounded crazier as I said it.
"In the future something happened to me to send me back here. I thought that I might have been sent back to fix something that had gone wrong."
I looked at Alice who didn't look as stunned as I thought she would have.
"Tell me the whole story." She said, and I sighed.
"Okay well 68 years ago…well actually around this time, me and Edward were planned to get married except he left me, telling me he wanted me to be human blah blah blah… and so then I went into the woods and was changed into a vampire.
Edward met another girl named Emily who had the power of manipulation, so she manipulated Edward into marrying her and so I returned to Forks 68 year later and met up with the Cullen family again, and went to Emily and Edwards wedding except I was captured by the Volturi, and Edward tried to save me.
But then Emily showed up and we found out she was…evil all along and she did something to Edward that made him unconscious, I found out she was the same person who changed me in the woods all those years ago, I got mad and tried to kill her except I ended up like Edward and now I am here."
Now Alice looked stunned.
"Whoa."
"Mhmm." I agreed. We were silent for a minute as we digested my long story, finally Alice broke the silence,
"So if you were sent here…where is Edward?"
It took me a minute to think, the truth was I had no idea where Edward could be.
"I don't know what to do." I moaned and put my head in my hands.
Alice patted my back.
"Well maybe you could… make sure…Edward doesn't leave you?" She asked questionably.
I looked up at her.
"When is the wedding?" I asked.
"One week." She said. "I have your dress all ready." She smiled.
I laughed.
"Hopefully I get to wear it this time around."
She gave me a sad grin,
I tried to smile for her before getting up from the bed.
"I'll do my best." I said to her, before turning around and walking back out the bedroom door.
Edward was downstairs sitting on the couch watching Emmett play a video game. He looked up as I entered the room and gave me his famous smile.
It felt like my heart was dying all over again, just to know that in the future he would be lying at my feet, seconds away from death.
I cringed away from the thought and went to sit beside him. He looked at me quizzically when I sat with a space between us, so he moved as close as he could to my side and wrapped his arms around my protectively and hugged me into his chest. It felt like I was safe, for once in 68 years I was safe.
We sat together and watched Emmett play his games, sometimes muttering curses to the TV or hitting his hand against the floor which made the whole house shake. Edward chuckled occasionally.
I couldn't deny the fact that I was happy that I returned to this part of my old life, for this had been the happiest, but I still couldn't believe it. I sat there contemplating everything.
It scared me to think that truthfully I had no idea where the future Edward could be. Was he in some kind of parallel universe too? Or was he still just lying there unconscious…drifting closer to complete blackness….
I closed my eyes.
I truly wanted to scream as loud as I could. I didn't know what to do. I had no idea what was going to happen.
"What's wrong Bella?" My eyes flashed open to Edward concerned face, he was watching me with cautious eyes.
And once again as I looked at his perfectly-messy beautiful hair, his deep topaz orbs and that smile, oh that smile, I felt another rip in my chest.
I felt my eyes began to sting, and my vision was blurred out from the tears that now flooded them.
Edward, who was completely shocked, grabbed my face between his two cold hands.
And for the first time in 68 years,
I cried.
"I love you."
I was sobbing now, and it only took a fraction of a second for him to pull my face into his chest, and bury his face in my hair. He held me as I shook.
I felt as his lips touched my hair, and he whispered just as gently,
"I love you too."
And it might have felt like that world was falling apart, because I knew that maybe just maybe, it all wouldn't work out. That this was just some kind of prize to be won, if we all wouldn't live in the end.
Edward rocked me back and forth as I shook with sobs into his arms, and even with his vampire hearing I still don't believe he heard me whispering the same hopeful words over and over again.
'Please don't leave me.'
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