Sorry for taking forever to update. School and stuff sucks.
~Crystal
Racing on the thunder and rising with the heat
It's gonna take an angel to sweep me off my feet.
"So how did you know my name?" Bella suddenly asked curiously looking at Alice. Alice didn't know what to say as she looked into the humans sad eyes.
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As Alice stared into the eyes of a girl that had been mistreated for so long she couldn't bring herself to lie to her. "Well, I saw us two talking to each other. I saw your father hurting you... I wanted to help" Alice whispered leaning across the table closer to Bella. Bella just stared at Alice. "I see the future" Alice confessed with a small self-conscious smile on her face taking hold of Bella's hand with her own hands.
Bella responded with another question, "Why are you so cold?" The human looked genuinely interested. Alice though of no better way of telling the human about her being a vampire. "Well, I'm a vam-"
"Hey babe! Come back for more?" David sneered placing his hand on Bella's shoulder. He knew doing this would hurt her, scare her and that's precisely the reason he did. The happiness and relaxed feeling Bella was feeling was instantly gone. She once again tensed up and Alice saw her nervousness, her fear the vampire growled quietly to herself.
"Ya' know Josh is still in hospital, but he'll be, he'll be back soon." David stuttered, grinning ecstatically. Alice was just about to grab him, drag him to the window and chuck that man out the window but Bella must have been thinking the same thing. Her fear replaced by anger she grabbed David's hand, snapped the fingers back until she heard them crack. David yelled, his fist instantly going to hit Bella in the face but instead hit Alice in the stomach. Alice had instantaneously put herself between the pair so Bella wouldn't be hurt. Sure enough as soon as David's human fist hit Alice's rock-hard stomach more cracks were heard and he collapsed onto his knees. But Bella didn't stop at that, she grabbed a fistful of his hair and started smashing his face into the smooth marble floor of the cafeteria again, and again, and again. Bella enjoyed hearing the abuser wailing; in her eyes he deserved this. Alice thought this too but not here, not at school in front of people. Bella kept hurting him, the blows getting harder and harder. But the person she really wanted to hurt was herself. She caused her own father's death. That running through her mind her other hand grabbed his hair and now she was using twice the force slamming his face into the floor the blood splattering around the ground. The blood completely unappetising to the vampire, she would never want blood from someone like that.
"Bella, Bella!" Alice grabbed hold of Bella's, who had tears running down her face, shoulders trying to pull her off gently without hurting her but she was clinging on to David for dear life still smashing his face into the ground. It wasn't until a few teachers came and pried her fingers out of his hair... well tried to, when that didn't work they just grabbed her arms while I was grabbing her shoulders and ripped her hands from his hair, of course not without Bella having two fistfuls of his greasy brown hair in her hands, her hands held in a tight fist and her face had a glare even the vampire was afraid of.
Alice touched one of the teachers arm stopping her, "Ms Croft, allow me to take her to the office" Alice said in a voice the teacher couldn't say no to. Alice needed to have a quick talk to Bella. Ms Croft glanced at the other teachers and nodded letting go of Bella's arm. The other teachers looked warily at Bella before letting go. Alice put her arm around the panting human walking her out the doors of the cafeteria and once out of sight she stopped facing Bella.
"Bella..." Alice sighed, "I'm so, so sorry. This is my entire fault." The vampire had her head hung in shame. "You. Killed. Charlie." Bella forced out between pants. Alice looked up apologetically reaching out to Bella but the human pushed her away, Alice startled, but understanding took a step back. "Get. Away. From me." Bella hissed a venomous tone to her voice. "Bella..." Alice sighed. Bella had come to her senses, everything only now just setting in. Charlie was dead. She was standing in front of the girl that killed him, talking to her, loving her and she didn't want to. All she wanted was for her own family to love her and care for her, which her mum used to until she fell for Phil, totally and completely dependent on him, Bella's mum feared that he would leave her and she'd be alone, so she wouldn't ever go against him.
"Don't do this please" Alice begged, her voice indicating she was on the edge of breaking down. Bella just gave her the death glare and when Alice went to speak again Bella's arms shot forward grabbing Alice by her shirt and throwing her up against the wall as hard as she could. Although it didn't physically hurt, as soon as Bella grabbed the vampire it felt as if Bella was reaching into Alice's chest and ripping out her heart.
'You ruined my life' Bella wanted to say and scream at Alice, she needed someone to put the blame on to rid herself of this guilt she had but instead her lips crushed themselves onto the vampire's and her hands wandered down onto Alice's butt as Bella pressed her body against the shocked vampire who had yet to kiss back. Bella only blamed herself, using Alice for someone to blame, but Alice was the only one that was here for her now. No one else.
Alice's hands were frozen to her sides and as much as she wanted to, she didn't kiss back and Bella's kisses became more pleading trying to get Alice's to kiss back until she gave up and her hands let go of Alice's ass. Alice hadn't kissed back causing Bella to think her love was unrequited. "Just... just" Bella threw her hands up in the air unenthusiastically shaking her head a little. The feeling of rejection started washing through her. Alice was still stunned she would have never predicted this, Bella herself had no idea why she had done what she had just done. Bella 's emotions were raw, the anger out there for everyone to see, love, the strong emotion coming out with the anger. Love caused her to kiss Alice, love that in Bella's eyes was unreturned.
"Bella" Alice gasped unable to think of anymore words to say but Bella was already wiping away the tears from her face walking towards the office.
"Ahh Bella!" Jessica said in a sickly sweet tone of voice seeing Bella walk in the doors, "Miss Greene's waiting for you" Jessica had a small full-of-herself smile on her face. "So how was your first day back?" she asked knowing exactly what happened. "Jessica I'm not in the fucking mood for your little games" Bella whispered harshly not stopping for Jessica, just walking straight to the principal's office pushing her way in through the door holding herself together just enough not to cry.
"David isn't going to lay charges" The principal stated a note of kindness in her stern words. She looked up from her paperwork into the eyes of the student she was the teacher of two years ago. Once again seeing Bella covered in bruises but this time there was little hope left in her students eyes. "I know something's bothering you Bella, something's wrong." Miss Greene softly whispered the sternness completely gone from her voice. She got up from her desk and walked over to Bella. "I can't help you if you don't tell me what's wrong Dear" her voice was soothing but nothing could come close to Alice's voice.
Bella felt herself starting to sob, the thing that was almost killing her was about to be made public.
"Alice." Bella choked out struggling to get any sound out.
"Doesn't." Bella was finding it more and more harder to speak.
"Lo-love." Bella sniffed trying to hold back the tears.
"Me." Bella almost yelled to get the word out. She was trying without success to stop crying, her legs threatening to collapse beneath her. Alice heard everything with the help of her extra keen hearing. She did love Bella, that love growing more and more each passing second.
Miss Greene patted the broken down girls shoulder telling her everything was going to be alright. "Don't worry Bella; I'm sure she still loves you." Bella wasn't so sure about that.
The principal excused the distressed Bella to wait in the reception for her father.
Alice already knew what happened; her visions showed her that Bella got a week's suspension. Her dad, who couldn't pick the phone up of course, was called to pick her up. She was still out of Bella's sight but she could hear Bella. Even after two hours tears were still running down Bella's face.
Alice kept herself from walking into the office, she wanted to so much but she was afraid. Bella sat alone in the office feeling alone. Alice couldn't delay it anymore. The vampire walked into the office quietly not looking up at Bella. Bella wasn't looking up at Alice either, she didn't know that anyone came in. "Bella" Alice whispered in her caring voice. Bella didn't look up and Alice looked up at Jessica glaring at her frightening the receptionist. Jessica grabbed some paperwork and left the room so that Alice and Bella were now alone.
"I do love you Bella. I love you a lot" Alice whispered emphasising 'a lot' as she crouched down next to Bella. Bella noticed Alice and she wanted to ignore her but...
"Alice..." Bella hugged her tightly, more and more tears running down the confused humans face. "Bella, it's okay, but please believe I do truly love you" Alice said before sighing. "I'll be right back okay? I just have to have a word with Miss Greene." Bella heard what Alice said but refused to let go off Alice. "Bella, I'm going to help you, I'm going to make it all go away" Alice promised in a whispered Bella let her grip go a bit. "Bella... "Alice kissed the humans cheek quickly. "What will make you let go of me?"
Bella had an evil smirk on her face. "Kiss me again..." she needed Alice's lips back on her.
Alice sighed slightly amused, "Okay fine, but when I come back" Alice promised feeling Bella's grip loosen until the humans warm arms left Alice. "I'll be right back" Alice smiled walking towards Miss Greene's office taking one last look back at Bella before walking into the office.
"Oh, Alice. Is there something I may help you with?" Miss Greene who looked up at Alice asked. "Oh I just thought it would be better for Bella to go home but her father isn't answering the phone. Maybe you could go see if he's there" Alice suggested with a small smile on her face. "I think Bella would be much better off at home than in the office. One guy came in and started flirting with her." Alice lied convincingly. Watching her visions for the two hours she was outside she saw two possibilities, the one with Miss Greene finding the body without Bella being with her and seeing her own father dead again the better.
"Shouldn't Bella come with me?" Miss Greene looked suspicious.
"I don't think Bella is up to that, maybe if her father was here she would talk about what happened" Alice said casually even though she knew Bella had a huge grin on her face out the door waiting for the arranged kiss.
Miss Greene sighed a little "just let me get my stuff together. You may be excused" she looked back down at her notes and folders and Alice skipped out of the room, she was happy that she was one more step closer on the long road of fixing this mess Bella had gotten into.
Alice looked around, the office was empty except for Bella was grinning at the vampire "I guess it's time for your kiss!" Alice pointed at the human with a grin on her own face. Bella was really nervous at this moment, standing there facing Alice one of her feet kicking and digging at the floor, her fingers pulling and bending each other, her lip in between her teeth biting down, with a small smile on her face she nodded. "So how did you want me to kiss you?" Alice asked walking closer to Bella with an eyebrow raised. Bella shrugged biting down on her lip even harder. The wait was almost killing her.
"Lips?" Alice reached Bella.
Bella nodded eagerly. She couldn't keep still. " Darling, you don't have to be nervous" Alice whispered seeing how nervous Bella was. "ah-ah-uhmm not" Bella laughed nervously a little and Alice smiled even more placing both her hands on Bella's face slowly moving her lips closer to Bella's.
"You sure?" The vampire asked getting nervous herself.
"Yeah..." Bella whispered almost silently.
"Yeah?" Alice's lips moved even more closer, now less that a centimetre away from the humans.
"Oh god, yes" Bella almost moaned too nervous to just claim her lips onto Alice's. Alice moved her lips onto Bella's softly closing her eyes in pleasure. Alice started kissing harder, the girl's lips moving together.
Not too soon after Alice pulled away, "there you are" Alice smiled just before Miss Greene walked in. Bella quickly looked away from Miss Greene's eyes wiping her mouth with her arm self-consciously, her face was violently red. Miss Greene just smiled politely and walked out of the reception to leave the two girls alone.
"I didn't tell her-" Bella got out before Alice stopped her by pressing her fingers on the humans lips. "It's okay Bella, I know" Alice smiled, "Just hang in there, everything's going to be fine... and you don't have to be sorry" Alice placed a reassuring hand on Bella's shoulder.
"Where did Miss Greene go?" Bella asked curiously kicking at the ground once again. Alice looked away. She didn't want to tell Bella. "Hey look, Forks high sucks at sport" Alice pointed at the half-filled trophy case trying to distract Bella but failing.
"Alice" Bella said unimpressed. She hated not knowing what was happening. She hated being treated like a child, getting protected from the truth. "You went straight to my house after you got home okay?" Then it all sunk in, "She's... going to my house?" Bella questioned not wanting to believe it. She didn't want Charlie's mates at the police station questioning her. She didn't know if she was up to it.
"It's okay Bella, so far it's looking good." Alice put an arm around Bella's shoulder as the pair waited for the police to arrive. Alice knew when Miss Greene found the body; she heard the scream from miles away.
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"So is that your story?" The police officer asked Alice for the fifth time. Instead if dignifying the young man's question with an answer she just nodded. They had already interviewed Bella, and Alice heard every word. She just collaborated her story with Bella's so they fit together perfectly. Bella had done such a good job Alice was impressed.
"I've been in this room for hours telling you the same thing over and over. Could I please go comfort Bella, I am guessing she'd be pretty upset and she's all alone" Alice smiled sweetly at the policeman who was already smitten with her. "Yeah, I've got enough information. I mean the boss will kill me but for you..." He said trying to convince Alice he was a good guy. But Alice saw through the act, he only wanted a piece of her ass; she saw that he was already planning to 'accidently' touch the vampire's ass.
After Alice left the room she hugged Bella tightly, all she wanted was for the tears to stop running down Bella's face. She'd rather be the one crying now because seeing Bella like this hurt the vampire. "Are we allowed to go home now?" Alice asked one o the nearby police officers.
"You got a place to go?" one of them asked.
"I'll take her to my father's she has her stuff there. Oh and I'll give you my father's number, he's quite busy but you can talk to him over the phone if you need to call him in or anything" Alice said helpfully holding Bella's hand tightly. "Carlisle Cullen? No we got em' on our file" One of them grinned winking at Alice. The vampire quickly turned to hide the disgust on her face as the pair walked out of the police station and towards Alice's Porsche that had luckily not been damaged at all. The pair got in and Alice started driving off slowly feeling the policemen's stares on her.
As they were driving Bella broke the silence, "I feel horrible but I'm glad he's dead" she stated almost no emotion in her words. Alice looked at the human who had a slight smile on her face, the vampire's hand resting on Bella's thigh patted it a few times. "Bella, I know you have been through so much, I've seen it. Phil..." Alice said caringly, "I am so sorry for what's happened to you, if I could I'd do anything to reverse it I would but there's only the future to look forward to now, there's so much you can do, see, experience. Just hang in there" And for a split second the two girls eyes met each other, the love overwhelming the pair and Bella felt as if everything was going to be all right.
"Just wait a moment, I have to make sure everything's alright" Alice smiled jogging, but more like dancing it looked like, into her house. It was almost completely empty, only Esme and Carlisle were here. She walked up to them in the lounge. "Where are the others?" Esme had a apologetic look on her face but Alice saw there was a hint of sadness in her eyes, "They left, Edward couldn't control himself when he smelt Bella's scent and Rosalie, you know her dear, she was jealous." Esme smiled a little "It was good to see them though, they were happy." Esme hugged me tightly.
"Is she out there?" Esme asked. Even though Edward and Rosalie weren't here she was excited to meet the person Alice was so excited about. "Yeah, mum she is" I whispered trying to escape Carlisles gaze. "What did you do Alice?" The wise vampire asked he could see something was wrong. There was urgency in his voice. Alice looked straight at Esme. "Charlies dead" She stated, "I couldn't let him get away with hurting Bella anymore" Alice kept her eyes fixated on Esme. Her 'Mothers' loving face keeping her calm.
"How could you have done this?" Carlisle asked keeping his calm composure.
"He was going to get his friends to destroy the report you sent" Alice tried to be as calm as Carlisle but her voice was raised.
"I filed no such report Alice" He said. Alice was started to get frustrated at his calmness about this situation, "He was my friend, I thought you would be able to look after Bella without this happening." He was disappointed.
"What... there was no report?" Alice asked shocked. She saw Charlie asking Billy to... Billy had to search for the report... what if there was no report?
"I didn't think it was such a good idea for Bella to go back to her mum and Phil. Not even for a day. You're the one that knows what he did. You're the one that went to Phoenix the night you saw her and overheard Phil bragging to his friends about Bella." He stated.
"You... didn't..." Alice said slowly before looking up at him, "He was coming at Bella Carlisle! She had a knife and I came in. Bella stabbed him from behind... he was bleeding to death.. I cut his neck..." Alice thought about what she said. He was stabbed at the back of his neck. That is a rare way to commit suicide. But the police had let them go. "I made it look like suicide, it's okay." Alice had a grim expression on her face.
"Do not dare try to justify your actions, but I'll do everything I can to keep our family and Bella safe." Carlisle said with a sigh at the end. "So what's the story?"
"Bella came right over here after she got to her house for a sleepover." Alice smiled a little and as Carlisle was about to talk Alice got there first, "Bella's waiting, I'll get her!" She ran outside to Bella with a grin on her face. "Ready?" She asked, "Don't worry they don't bite" Alice giggled a little as she helped Bella from her car.
Esme and Carlisle had smiled on their faces as Bella entered the room arm-in-arm with Alice. "It's so nice to meet you Bella" Esme greeted walking over to Bella and hugging her tightly going 'motherly' on her while Carlisle stepped over and shook Bella's hand and took a step back. "Welcome to our home Bella" Carlisle smiled and Alice wrapped her arms around Bella's waist. Bella felt normal for once, welcome and loved.
"Rosalie and Edward were here but they had business to take care of, so it's just us" Carlisle smiled. "It's a shame to hear about your father but we will do our best to welcome you here" Carlisle was begging to grow on Bella. Bella had a smile on her face as she thanked the pair. "I'm going to show Bella around the house" Alice had a grin on her face before she added in a whisper only the vampires could hear, "she might need some food, oh... and she doesn't know we're vampires."
Taking Bella by the hand Alice led her around the house and lastly to Alice's room which Bella had gotten to know. "So what did you want to do?" Alice asked walking over to her DVD cabinet flipping through the DVD's. Bella wanted Alice. The human walked up behind Alice. "I want you" Alice froze trying to keep herself from leaning back onto Bella. "Hun, don't you think we should take this s-" Bella pressed her lips onto the back of Alice's bare neck causing the vampire to lose track of thought. Bella's warm lips sending chills down Alice's spine.
Alice regained herself, "Bella, I love you I do but-" Alice turned to face Bella, "let's take it slow I don't want to ruin anything" Alice had a smile on her face as she pressed her lips onto Bella's. Bella was the one to pull away with a frown on her face. "Bella, would you be my girlfriend?" Alice asked suddenly realising there was no talk about the pair being a couple. Bella instantly blushed looking down. "You would want me?" she asked with a smile on her face. "Bella I want you" Alice pulled the human closer. "So?" Alice asked.
"I'd be glad to be your girlfriend Alice" Bella buried her face in Alice's hair and being in Alice's arms she felt as if everything was going to be better. Bella didn't even feel Alice bring her over to the bed until Alice was standing up looking down at Bella. "Sleep time" Alice grinned slipping down next to Bella. "Don't worry, I won't leave your side" Alice promised reassuring Bella she felt safe in Alice's arms not to long she fell asleep. Bella hadn't felt this good for so long.
Blah... I'm sorry for the crappyness of this chapter. But review your thoughts please review suggestions for the next chapter, review questions about this chapter or the others. Reviews encourage me to write more (: and when I'm encouraged to write I normally update faster because I write faster and more.
~Crystal
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