Hey everyone! I wanted to update sooner but this past week has been crazy. My sister had her baby on December 8th. Her name is Ella Jayden and she is adorable! I was only two when my little sister was born, so I don't remember much about babies, but so far I have gathered that they are loud. Cute of course, but very loud. Ella sleeps in the same room as Molly right now, which happens to be right next to mine, so I haven't been getting much sleep the past few days. I finally got a chance to sit down and write though, and viola, chapter 19!
Week 28-May 4
Alice POV
I love my new hair and my lip. I feel like it suits how I'm feeling so much better than my brown hair did. Lauren said her mom was hella pissed, but somehow Lauren convinced her mom to not make her dye her hair back and take out the ring. Mom and dad weren't that mad either. I mean, yeah, they look away pretty much my whole life for four weeks, but in the end mom was apologizing to me.
So now at school people look at us differently. Not that I blame them, I mean I'm not exactly a role model catholic. A lot of the girls try to avoid me and Lauren, but I don't really care. I don't want to be friends with those girls anyway.
With no phone, computer or TV I don't really have anything to do besides lie on my bed and drink. When I look around my room I'm reminded of how much I've changed in the past month. If you saw my room you'd never guess that it was mine. It has light pink walls and clean white carpet. My bed is black and my duvet is a light pink. Pretty much everything in my room is pink or black, and even though it doesn't really suit me anymore, I still love it. (A/N-Pictures of all of the bedrooms is on my profile, check em out : ))
"Alice!" Mom called, "Lights out!"
I stuck the bottle of vodka back under my bed and climbed out of bed. I went into the bathroom and brushed my teeth and was just about to go back to bed when I heard Rosalie talking.
I opened the door to bedroom and stuck my head in. She was kneeled next to her bed. "What are you doing?" I asked.
"Praying." She said as if it should be obvious, which I suppose it was.
"Oh." I felt awkward standing there, like I had interrupted something very private.
"You should try praying too Alice. Maybe then God will help you find your way again." She turned her head upwards and her lips starting moving again. I frowned and then went back into my room. I don't need help finding my way. I know my way just fine.
***
The next morning at school Lauren found me right away at my locker. "Did you hear?" She asked. "About that party down at Alki Beach tomorrow night?"
"No. What is it?" I asked getting my math textbook.
"It's just like a big bonfire and stuff. A whole bunch of the high school kids are going. I heard my sister talking about it." Lauren's sister Abigail goes to the same high school as Emmett and Edward, except she's a sophomore.
"That sounds sweet." I shut my locker and we started towards the math wing.
"Yeah. Have Edward or Emmett mentioned it?"
"I'm not sure. I don't really talk to them much."
"We so have to go though." Lauren insisted. "We can go to the mall after school and get new bathing suits and skirts and then we can go to the beach from my house."
I nodded quickly, "That'll be awesome." I'd never been to a real party before. I mean sure Lauren and I drank all the time in my room, but I'd never actually been to a high school party before.
I had trouble paying attention for the rest of the day, I was so excited. After school mom took Lauren and me back to the house.
"We're gonna have to get our own booze." Lauren said. "I already checked my house and there's nothing I can bring."
"Me neither." I said, "Mom and dad are starting to get suspicious I think. I can only pin it on Emmett and Edward for so long."
We sat in silence for a few minutes, "Oh my God," I said slapping my forehead, "It's so obvious. We'll just a get a boot."
"A what?" Lauren looked confused.
"Omg duh. Bella said that's how she used to get drinks." I stood up and raced over to my closet. "Here. Put this on." I threw a short denim skirt and a baby blue low cut halter at her. I got dressed in almost the same thing except my shirt was red.
Lauren did what she was told. "Now please tell me what we are doing." She whined.
"We're gonna go to the liquor store and get someone to buy the drinks for us." I explained. We snuck down into my moms office and I grabbed a bunch of 20's from her purse. That's one great thing about coming from a family with money: there is always money around.
I stuffed the bills into my bra and led Lauren down to the kitchen. "We're going for ice cream." I called as we headed out the back door.
"Do you need money?" Mom asked.
"No, we're good." I shut the door behind me and Lauren and I ran down the street to the little strip mall near my house.
"Are you sure this'll work." Lauren bit her lip.
"Positive. Bella said that she always used to do this. And she never got caught."
"Okaay..." Lauren nodded, "So how do we do this?"
We stopped in front of the liquor store, "You just stand there and look pretty. I'll do the talking."
She nodded and I waited for the right person to come along. A whole bunch of people passed, but finally I found the perfect guy. He was in his early to mid twenties and very good looking. "Excuse me?" I stepped in front of him.
He looked me up and down and then looked over at Lauren. "Yeah?"
"If I gave you money would you mind getting my friend and I two bottles of raspberry smirnoff?" I smiled and bent over a little bit.
"Err.." He hesitated for a second.
I whipped out the twenties. "Here, I'll pay you..." I counted out five twenties. "A hundred dollars to get us two bottles."
He looked at me, then at the money, then at Lauren and back at the money. "Alright." He finally nodded. "Just wait here."
I handed him the bills and then smiled at Lauren. "See. Piece of cake." The guy came back and gave us our drinks which I tucked into the small backpack I had brought.
We went to get ice cream so my mom wouldn't be suspicious and then ran back to my house. I shoved the bottles into my school bag and Lauren and I started talking about what we wanted to wear tomorrow.
***
Once Lauren was gone and the kitchen was all clean from dinner, I went to find Edward. Him and Bella were lying together on his bed watching some old movie on his TV.
"Hi." I said sitting next to them."
"Hi Alice." Bella smiled back at me. "How are you?"
"I'm great. Edward, are you going to that party tomorrow night?"
"Uh, I think so. Why?"
"Just wondering." I stood back up.
"Alice!" He called, "Why did you want to know."
"I'm going too." I beamed, and before he could say anything to me I ran out of the room, slamming the door on my way out. If Edward was going that means that probably Emmett is going too, which means that all of their hot friends will be there too.
***
Once my parents were asleep I used Rosalie's cell phone (which I had stolen from her room) to call Lauren.
"So what's the plan for tomorrow?" I asked in a hushed whisper. If my parents caught me I would be so dead.
"I'm telling my mom that you and I are going to the mall and then to a movie and then for dinner and then we are going back to your house. You tell your parents the same thing, but just tell them we might not be home till late cause its a ten o'clock movie or something." She said.
"Alright. That sounds good. So are we going to the mall from school?"
"Yeah."
"Kay so I'll bring the drinks with me to school and just keep them in my locker."
"Sounds good." She confirmed. "I have to go now, but I'll see you in the morning."
"Night."
I hung up the phone and quietly put it back in Rosalie's room. I had trouble falling asleep, I was so excited for tomorrow.
***
In the morning I told my mom the plan and luckily she agreed. I packed the bottles into my backpack and my mom dropped us off at school. The feeling of knowing that I was doing something really wrong was so exciting. I rushed to my locker and put the bottles away. Since today was Friday I don't have any of my morning classes with Lauren. First I have history and then spanish and then psychology. I don't exactly like psychology, but I really love my teacher, Miss Reid. She's kind of crazy, but she's the only teacher who really seems to care about me, and I like that. I don't get a lot of attention at home, so when teachers actually seem to care about me, it means a lot.
About halfway through the class there was an announcement that said that everyone must stay in their classes until told otherwise. "What's going on?" Some one asked.
"It's a locker search." Miss Reid said.
"A what?" I leapt out of my chair.
"Three times a year the school does random locker searches looking for anything that isn't allowed."
"They can't do that!" I cried. Of all the days to do a locker search they just had to pick the day where I had two bottles of alcohol in my locker.
"Calm down." Miss Reid laughed, "As long as you don't have anything illegal in your locker it'll be just fine."
I sat back down in my desk and buried my head in my arms. Miss Reid kept teaching as if nothing was wrong, except that everything was wrong. Oh my God. I was going to go to jail. I was a criminal. I felt like I couldn't breath. I must be dreaming. Why was I so stupid? I'm only thirteen, I shouldn't be drinking.
The next twenty minutes dragged on for ever. Then, finally, another announcement came on.
"Thank you for your patience. Students are free to leave their classes when dismissed." Maybe they hadn't checked my locker, maybe it would be okay, maybe I'm not in trouble. I sighed in relief and smiled.
Just when I thought I was off the hook there was a knock on the door. I looked out the window and my smile disappeared. "Don't open it!" I begged. I could see the guidance councilor standing in the hall. Tears were falling down my cheeks and everyone was staring at me, but I didn't care. "Please!"
"Alice," Miss Reid turned to look at me, "What is going on?"
"I...I..." But it was too late. Miss Reid opened the door and Mrs. Graeme, the guidance councilor came in. I quickly wiped away the tears. I would not let them know that I was upset.
"Good morning Miss Reid." Mrs. Graeme smiled. I'd seen here a few times around school, and so far I really liked her. She looked a lot like the guidance councilor from Glee. Y'know, big eyes, always smiling. "Is Alice Cullen in this class?"
"Yes she is." Miss Reid turned and looked at me. I took a deep breath and gathered my stuff.
"Hi Alice." She smiled widely at me. Why she smiling? They had just found two bottles of vodka in my locker. This was not a time to be smiling.
"Hi." I said quietly. I walked slowly over to the door.
Miss Reid grabbed my arm. "Is everything okay, Alice?"
I shook my head slowly. "No. I had something illegal in my locker." She opened her mouth to say more but Mrs Graeme was already leading me away.
Mrs. Graeme led me out of the class and towards the main office. I wish she would just yell at me already. She was being too nice, and it was scaring me.
I kept my eyes glued to the floor until we got to the office. As I walked in all of the admin looked at me with disapproving glares. Mrs. Graeme led me into the principle's office where Mr Whitely (the principle) was waiting. On his desk was the two bottles of vodka.
"Do these look familiar?" He asked.
"Yes." I nodded. "They're mine."
Mr Whitely and Mrs Graeme looked at each other surprised that I hadn't denied it.
"Possession of alcohol under the age of 21 is against the law." Mr. Whitely told me.
"I know."
"We called your mother and she's on her way." He said. Boy was mom gonna be pissed. Part of me feels sort of bad because I know how stressed out she is already, but the other part of me says that this is her fault in the first place.
I nodded again and stared at my plaid skit. What was going to happen from here? And what about Lauren. Hey, yeah. "What about Lauren?" I asked, looking up.
"What about her?" Mr Whitely asked.
"She was with me when I bought them and she was going to drink them with me."
"They were in your locker Alice." Mrs Graeme said.
"So what, she's just gonna get away with it? Thats bull shit."
"Alice, I know it's unfair, but theres not much we can do."
I rolled my eyes and looked back down at my kilt. I bet mom and dad were going to send me away, just like they did to Rosalie. Except I wouldn't be going somewhere so lovey dovey. I wouldn't have nice caring chaperones like Rosalie did. I would be surrounded by juvenile delinquents. If I don't get arrested that is...
"Am I going to jail?" I finally asked.
"No, Alice, of course not." Mrs. Graeme assured me. "But there will be consequences." I liked the idea of being punished. If someone punishes you it means that they actually care enough about you to pay attention to what you are doing. Of course I don't want to get in a lot of trouble, but just enough to know that someone is paying attention to me is good. God knows mom and dad never care what I'm doing.
"What would lead you to do something like this?" Mr Whitely asked.
I looked at him right in the eyes. "You would do the exact same thing if you lived in my family. You have no clue what I go through on a daily basis. Sometimes I just need a break. I just need to escape. Surely you guys must understand that feeling."
They looked at me intensely. "Alice," Mrs Graeme finally said, but I cut her off.
"Let's just have some quiet. The second my mom gets here the yelling will begin, and to be honest it probably won't stop until I move out. So if I could have like, a minute or two of quiet I would really appreciate it." I sighed loudly and shut my eyes.
After what felt like eternity there was knock on the door. And so it begins...
Esme Cullen
I don't get a lot of time off. I don't get a lot of peace and quiet. And when I do have some down time I like to spend it on my self. Today was one of the days where I had nothing to do so I was just settling down to watch a movie when I got a phone call from Alice's school.
"Hello?" I said picking up the phone.
"Mrs Cullen? This is Grant Whitely from Saint Mary's, I'm calling about your daughter Alice." Oh god, what had Alice done now?
"Yes?"
"During our triannual locker searches we found two bottles of alcohol in your daughters locker."
"Are you sure it was Alice's?" Of course it was Alice. How many seventh grade catholic school girls would be hiding booze in their lockers?
"Unfortunately, yes. We need you to come down to the school right away."
"Of course. I'll be there as soon as I can." I hung up the phone and put on my shoes. As I drove to the school I was fuming. How stupid could that girl be?
I pulled into the parking lot and stomped off to the office. "I'm Esme Cullen. Alice's mother." I told the secretary. She looked at me, her face full of pity and pointed to one of the office doors. I knocked on it and when I walked in I saw Alice sitting there in her little kilt with her disgusting hair and horrible lip ring. Across from her was the principle, and another lady.
"Hi there Mrs Cullen, I'm Mrs Graeme, the schools guidance councilor. Please take a seat." She pointed to the empty seat next to Alice.
"Mom," Alice whispered, "I'm sor--"
"Alice, just be quiet." I snapped. I have had enough of her new attitude. Either she goes back to the old Alice or she is out of the house.
"Mrs Cullen, what happened today was very serious, and can not be taken lightly."
I nodded. "I completely agree."
"We have decided not to notify the police, but we ask that Alice does not return to the school."
I nodded slowly. "Uh, what do you recommend I, or...what should we do?"
"Mrs Cullen, Alice is a great kid, she's just made some bad choices." Mrs Graeme said. "She's at a very tough age and she just needs a little guidance. I don't know a lot about your family or your family situation, but if you could spend a little one on one time with Alice I think it would help."
"Alright. What about school?"
"Well there is always the local middle school, but I think that Alice would only do worse there. There are treatment centers if you are interested in that option, or I can give you a list of public day schools that specialize in troubled teens if you would prefer that option."
I looked at Alice. I remember when she was just a little kid. She had the biggest happiest smile and was always laughing. I never imagined that we would be sitting here. Even with her blue hair and lip ring she is still just a little kid. She's barley 4"7, and when she smiles I can't help but smile too. She has the most vibrant personality and she was never supposed to wind up like this. With Rosalie and Bella what happened wasn't my fault, but letting Alice get this bad was. I knew something was up, but I never had the energy to deal with it. I let her fall through the cracks, and know we will all pay the price.
"Alright, thank you very much. Alice you have until Wednesday to have your locker cleaned out. The school will mail you any documents you will need." Mr Whitely said.
"Good luck Alice. I hope things turn out well for you."
We stood up and walked out of the office. "I'm so sorry mom." Tears were falling down her cheeks. "I never meant for things to get like this."
I didn't know weather to yell at her to apologize to her, so I just wrapped my arm around her shoulder and didn't say anything.
Bella POV
After school I went to the movies with a bunch of my friends and when I came home I heard crying and yelling coming from the living room.
I found everyone sitting in the TV room on the boys side upstairs. "Whats going on?" I asked shutting the door behind me. I sat down next to Edward.
Jasper was the one who spoke up. "Alice was kicked out of school?"
"Oh my God!" I gasped. "What did she do?"
"They did a random locker search today." Rosalie said, "And she had two bottles of vodka in her locker. They pretty much kicked her out on the spot."
"So whats going to happen to her?" I kept thinking back to the Alice that was here when I first joined the family. That Alice would never have gotten kicked out of school. In fact, that Alice never would have even thought about drinking.
"We don't know." Emmett said. "They're debating weather to send her to some private school here or to send her to a treatment center."
"They can't send Alice away!" I argued. "Thats what they always do. When that stuff happened to Rosalie they sent her away, when Alice gets in trouble, they send her away. They can't keep running away from their problems!"
"Thats what dad is saying." Emmett said. "He says that sending Alice away would send us the wrong message, that when you have money you don't have to face your problems."
"It might be the best thing for her though." Rosalie said quietly. "It helped me a lot."
I leaned on Edward's shoulder. "I hate this." I whispered. "I miss the old Alice."
"Me too." Everyone agreed.
We sat there in silence until there was a knock on the door. Alice walked in, she had been crying, that was obvious, but the look on her face was totally blank now.
"They mad their decision." She finally said.
"And..." We all said.
"And..."
CLIFFHANGER! If you guys all review I will post the new chapter tomorrow morning, otherwise you will just have to wait until next weekend to see what happens to Alice! SO REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love Alice ; )
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