A/N: Thanks for the reviews guys! I hope you know you make my day! Sorry I've not been on, busy week. I am no longer a highschool student! I've finally graduated! WOOHOO! So naturally I've been busy running around outside, partying and swimming and whatnot.
So to answer a few questions some people have brought up to me. Now someone mentioned the timeline thing regarding Alice. How Lewis Carroll's book is older than her or something like that. Yes, it is but Alice had said and I quote "I read it all the time when I was old enough"...get it? lol you need to read. Everything I write has purpose. Just pay attention a little. I have that habit of skimming through a book or a fanfic, missing all the important things a writer puts in there, I've realized I shouldn't do that because they write those things for a reason.
SO! Read and enjoy and tell me what ya think!
"Alice, it's only for a little while!"
"I don't want you to go!"
"Alice, I have to go to school!"
"No, you do not! You just want to leave me!" Alice cried out, being completely melodramatic as she rolled over on the bed and curled into herself, her back facing me as I stood at the foot of the bed. I ran a hand through my hair, rolling my eyes. I knew she was just joking around but her words did pull at my heart strings. I really didn't want to leave her. Like I'd said, she was just one of those people.
"Don't be a brat; of course I don't want to leave you…" I mumbled, knowing that giving in like that would just make her day. I was right; she sat up quickly on the bed, turning her head to face me. Her hair was an absolute mess as she grinned wildly at me. Is it a crime for someone to be this cute?
I'd fuckin' arrest her…handcuffs….Alice…that sounds like a wonderful combination to me.
If I were, ya know, like that.
Which I'm not.
Maybe.
"Weally? Do you weally mean that?" She asked me using a baby voice, placing her forefinger on her chin and posing, her eyes wide with innocence as she looked up at me.
"Yes, really really."
"Aye, Shrek!" Alice responded, imitating Mike Meyers. I raised a brow at her.
"How the hell do YOU know that movie, miss Henry David-Thoreau?" I asked her and she frowned at me, pouting.
"Hey! I'm not that outdoorsy!" She retorted and I scoffed at her.
"Well, how do you know it then?"
"I'm not telling!" She grinned at me like the cat that ate the canary and I stomped my foot on the ground. She was such a little brat! That's going to drive me nuts now! She elegantly got up off the bed and made her way to me, standing so that one slight movement and she'd be pressed against me. She looked up into my eyes, a smirk on her face and I glared at her resolutely.
"You're really not going to tell me, huh?" I whispered, seeing no need to talk all that loud with her right in my fucking face.
"Nope. Have fun at school, sweetie." She leant up and placed a quick kiss on my cheek, completely catching me off guard. As I was doing an impression of a fish, she breezed past me and ambled off into the hallway. Holy shit, she just kissed me! Well not a real kiss but it was enough to make me blush and feel like I was on fire! "You're going to be late if you keep standing there like that."
"You're going to get punched if you keep being a butt like that," I retorted and I heard her tinkling laughter from the hallway; God, she made my heart melt.
Okay, so maybe I was like that.
"I'd like to see you try, my friend."
"Look, Charlie's going to be home at 6 tonight and I'll be home from school by like 3, okay? So just…stay here and try not to get into any trouble."
"Trouble? Me? No, never." I could hear her rummaging through something and a fitful of giggles bounced around the house. Apparently she thought herself very funny.
"Where are you?"
"I'm in the bathroom, silly Human! Don't worry about it and go to school!"
I rolled my eyes once more as I made my way downstairs and out the door. I walked up to my truck and opened the door. Before stepping inside, I turned around to look at my house, where Alice was currently in…by herself. I shook my head and hopped in the truck.
"Today's gunna be a long day…"
Okay, so now I really wish I hadn't left Alice.
School's so fucking boring. I mean, it's always been boring but not like this. Not this bad. Not since my life has been turned upside down by a vampire. All of these exciting things had been happening to me and I was still expected to go to school? What the fuck, mate? I sighed as I propped my head in my hand, looking out the window at the dull grey day outside. As the teacher rambled on about King Lear, I wondered what Alice was doing. She was so mischievous; she could've gotten into anything by now.
"Miss Swan, would you like to point anything out about King Lear and his monologue?"
Fuck you.
"Um…" I sit up straight and glance down at the book before me, biting my lip, "Well, there are three motifs's being repeated here. The sanity vs. insanity motif, dark vs. light, and I believe the young vs. old motif?"
"Very good, now would someone like to point out the meaning of having King Lear run around naked through a field…?"
Oh ramble on, why don't you? I resumed my position and glanced up at the clock; 8:45 in the morning. God, it's only been an hour. Today was going to drag on forever at this rate. I guess all I could do now was looked forward to lunch.
Lunch always makes the day go by faster.
"Bella…Bella, the Cullen's have been staring at you."
"Yeah, I can fuckin' see that Jessica! It's creeping me out." I played with the apple on my tray, looking up every now and again to see if that weirdo family was still staring at me and oh! Lo and behold, yes, they in fact still are. All my friends sat still, trying to act normal but the truth of the matter was, everyone could feel it. I huffed, trying to be nonchalant as I looked them over. Something about them…
The bell rang signifying the end of lunch and everyone scattered out of there as quick as possible. I simply saw no hurry in getting to my next period so I ambled on over to the garbage can and tossed out all the uneaten food. Just as I was about to turn around, a cold hand was placed on my shoulder.
"Not hungry?" A cool, sultry voice spoke behind me and I turned around only to be met with the entire Cullen family, surrounding me in a semi-circle. Right before me stood Rosalie front and center, her grip on my shoulder tightening as I let out a gasp of surprise.
"N-no, not really…" I stammered out and they all smirked at me. I squirmed a bit under their gazes, feeling very unsafe right now.
"Neither are we, but if you don't cooperate with us then we will be and that's bad news for you." Rosalie stated her tone cold and stern. I swallowed hard, my eyes looking into every single one of their's, something in the back of my head was trying to tell me something but right now I was too scared to listen.
"Do you know why that could be bad for you?" Edward asked me, a vile smirk on his face and it pissed me off, the proud girl inside of me waking up.
"No, why don't you tell me?" I snapped back, trying my best to sound intimating but it failed as they all erupted into cruel laughter. Rosalie was the first to calm down, her smile vanishing as she resumed her glare at me.
"Are you retarded?" She asked me casually and I made a face at her.
"What? No, I-"
And then it hit me; the golden eyes, the pale skin, how cold they were.
They looked just like Alice.
Alice was a vampire.
THEY were vampires.
A whole fucking family of vampires had me cornered in an empty lunchroom. Can you feel the irony! Because I fucking can! My face turned into a look of horror as I stumbled back against the garbage. Oh shit. Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit!
"So you understand now? God, humans are so slow."
"Rosalie, don't be so mean to her. Can't you see she's scared?" Her brother, Jasper said and then he looked at me, smiling. I was about to run off in sheer terror but then a wave of calm overcame me and the desire completely vanished. What the fuck just happened? It was like yesterday when Alice was going to attack me, that weird feeling of 'everything is alright' had overtaken me and she could've sucked all the blood she wanted from me right then and there and I wouldn't have given a damn.
"Look, we're not going to eat you or anything. As I'm sure you've figured out, our eyes are golden just the like the one vampire's are." Edward said evenly and I was let out another gasp. Fuckin' I don't know what he means by the whole eye color thing but I do know what he meant by that.
"How do you know about her?" I asked, the calm feeling starting to go away as I thought of Alice.
"How do we not know about her?" Rosalie replied, making me sound dumb, "Listen up, human, that girl, that vampire you've been harboring in your house? Is trouble so why don't you let us take her off your hands, okay? Let us deal with her because you have no idea how."
"No!" I shouted back before even thinking. They all looked at me in surprise and I myself was surprised but I ran with it, "I can handle her just fine! You can't have her!"
"You just made…a big mistake." Rosalie snarled at me, her eyes darkening and I knew that look by now. I was about to be dinner. As I was about to shut my eyes, all at once, the Cullen's sniffed the air, snapping to attention and looking to their left out the window. What the fuck? It was like watching a family of meerkats discover a predator. Emmett, the larger one, let out a bellowing growl just as the window crashed open.
What happened next happened in a matter of seconds.
"Alice!" I cried out, as she leapt through the broken window, rolling to her feet before standing straight up. God, she looked frightening but powerful. Her stance just oozed intimidation, as she glared at the Cullen's. Her feet were together as she stood slightly sideways, her chin tilted up and her hands held at her sides almost like a Ballerina.
"Mary Alice…" Jasper began and in the blink of an eye, Alice was no longer there and I was no longer on the ground. I felt myself being carried, bridal style and all I could see was a blur of motion so I shut my eyes and clung tight to whatever was holding me. I was so scared right now, I'm pretty sure I started crying.
"Shhh, it's okay. I've got you." I heard a lovely voice tell me and I opened my eyes to find Alice looking down at me with so much tender and care in her eyes that I started crying even more. I realized then that we'd stopped moving and that we were now currently in a secluded part of the woods. She's the one who carried me out of there and who was now holding onto me as though I were her child.
"Alice!" I sobbed out, pressing my face into her neck and snuggling desperately against her. She simply held me against her chest as she sat down onto the ground, keeping me in her lap. This must look odd as I am larger then her but right now I could care less. All I know is Alice rescued me.
"Awe, Bella, please don't cry! You're safe now; I won't let those mean old vampires hurt you." She whispered, stroking my hair and soothing me greatly. I don't think there is a better place to be then in Alice Brandon's arms. I giggled at her words, pulling away to look up into her eyes.
"You're a mean old vampire." I pointed out and she wrinkled her nose at me, sticking out her tongue as a response and I simply laughed more. After I'd settled, we gazed into each other's eyes, a comfortable silence enveloping us both. She smiled lovingly at me as she started to purr against me, she was so amazing. She cocked her head to the side, inspecting me.
"So…are you okay? They didn't hurt you at all, did they?" She asked me, leaning forward a bit to sniff at me. I giggled at her behavior, almost falling out of her lap.
"No, they didn't even get a chance to lay a finger on me, not with my knight in shining armor." I commented, leaning back a bit as she continued to lean forward, still sniffing me.
"Are you sure they didn't touch you? You smell different." She stated, and this time I did fall back as she pressed her face against my shoulder, inhaling deeply. I was now sitting on the grass, my hands and arms keeping me up as Alice kneeled between my legs, leaning forward against me. Oh god, my mind went all fuzzy and my heart rate picked up, I hope she didn't notice that.
"Uh…um, Rosalie…the blonde one, touched my shoulder…" I stammered out, biting my lip as I felt Alice run her nose up against my neck then back down to my shoulder. Her purring grew louder and she began to nuzzle me.
"I don't like it. You shouldn't smell like her." She mumbled, pressing into me so much so that I actually fell back onto the ground. Alice followed suit, her body now lying atop mine, her small waist between my legs and her hands kneading at my shirt as she gripped my sides. My chest vibrated as she purred against me and I swear to god that my face was as red as a tomato.
"H-how should I smell then?" I asked, trying not to sound like an idiot but of course that failed. She nuzzled her head against my neck once more and I could feel her lips grazing at the skin.
"Like you, you always smell so good." She purred and the feel of her breath against my neck caused me to shiver. I bit my lip to stop myself from making any sort of inappropriate noise and I wondered why it felt so right to have her against me like this, why I wasn't afraid, why she was doing this to me.
"Well, I'm sorry that the mean old vampire touched me." I whispered and she made a small 'hmph' noise. She rubbed her head underneath my chin before sitting up slightly to look down at me, a determined look on her face and her golden eyes only a little bit darker.
"That stupid family, I won't let them touch you ever again. I won't let them have you." She stated and I don't know if it was the look she was giving me, the words she'd said, or the way her body was deliciously pressed against me but my brain short-circuited and what I meant to say next was 'Actually, they want to have you' but instead I blurted out-
"You can have me."
Smooth.
I looked probably as surprised as Alice did at that moment. She looked down at me with wide eyes, more than likely thinking to herself 'Did she really just say that?' I swallowed hard and let the blush spreading across my face do all the talking. After a few moments of awkward silence, Alice's eyes lidded and a small smile found its way onto her face.
"Well, that's good because I want you." And that was all she said before I felt her lips pressed against mine.
I couldn't help but let out a moan because god, I think this is what I've wanted all along from the moment I saw her. If possible, her purring intensified as her hands tangled themselves in my hair, scratching lightly at my scalp as she moved her body against mine. It felt amazing, her lips moving gently against mine was so perfect; it sent amazing sensations all throughout my body. All of my senses were completely enveloped in Alice. I could smell her wonderful scent, taste her perfect lips, feel her body against mine, hear her purring and moaning as I opened my mouth to deepen the kiss, see the stars she was causing behind my closed lids. Finally she pulled away to allow me air, her head hovering less then an inch above mine, her lips still so agonizingly close to mine.
"I saw that…before it happened…and I don't think that vision prepared me for how good it was going to be…" She admitted, pressing her forehead against my own. I looked deeply into her eyes and they were a swirling vortex of light gold and pitch black yet I wasn't afraid. I trusted her. She would never ever hurt me, even from the start I think I knew that.
"So I'm a good kisser?" I asked, joking slightly but in all seriousness I was a bit worried. Everything Alice did was done with a certain level of poise and grace. So of course she kissed like a goddess. Me on the other hand, everything I did was carried out with a textbook example of clumsiness and awkwardness.
"You're very good." She replied sweetly, rubbing her nose against mine and I laughed at her antics.
"You're very enchanting."
"No, you are. Really, you are. You've handled everything so well and you've been putting up with me and giving me a place to stay and taking care of me. I could never ever thank you enough and I can't believe how wonderful you are." Alice looked down at me sadly, almost as though she were ashamed of herself. I lifted up my hand, placing it on the back of her neck, sliding it up into her soft, black locks, massaging her scalp. She immediately shut her eyes, her chest rumbling against mine, and she sighed contentedly.
"Thank you but I can't help it with you…" Was all I could say because really, what else was there to say? I continued to massage her scalp and I could feel her body practically melting against my own.
"God, you have no idea what you do to me, Bella." Alice purred out, her voice low and husky.
"That's the second time you've said that to me," I pointed out, my hand running through her hair while the other found it's way up her backside, simply feeling her body; the curve of her spine, the feel of the taut muscles beneath my shirt that she was still wearing, "Why don't you help me out here and give me an idea of what I do to you?"
"Oh, I don't think you're ready to hear that just yet," She opened her eyes, the black starting to win out over the gold. Finally she sat up, backing away from me on all fours, "I have to-"
"Go, its fine. I'll just sit here…alone in the woods…all by myself…" I teased, sitting up as well and putting on a sad face. I looked up to see Alice frowning at me and I almost broke my façade.
"Bellaaaaa!" Alice whined and I broke out into laughter.
"It's fine, really! I was just kidding! Go off and maul a squirrel or something, I'll be here." I waved her away and she rolled her eyes at me, standing up slightly as she prepared herself to take off.
"Only you would have the guts to pick on a vampire." She stated and just like that, she was gone.
I missed her terribly.
"So where've you been all day?"
"Where've YOU been all day?" I asked Charlie and made a face at me.
"I'VE been at work, what about you?" He asked again, his eyes not leaving the T.V screen as I made my way into the house.
"I've been hanging out with my friends." I replied nonchalantly, making my way towards the stairs.
"You need to have friends in order to be able to do that."
"You're so funny that sometimes I feel like I'm living with a comedian." I started up the stairs, counting the seconds. I'd told Alice that it'd take me exactly three minutes to get from the front door to my room where I would meet her to open the window and let her in. Maybe one day I could properly have her walk in to my house but that requires me introducing her to Charlie which I can just imagine how that would go…
'Oh hi, Dad, I would like you to meet Alice. She's 109 years old and she's a vampire and she likes me and I like her.'
And knowing my dad all he would get out of it is the fact that we like each other and he would say 'you like my daughter! If you get her pregnant I swear to God!'
So, no, that wasn't happening anytime soon.
"I know, right? It's like living with Brian Regan or something. You going to bed?"
"Yeah, I am. Night, dad, see you in the morning." I quickly made my way up the stairs and trotted into my room, a little bit over excited at the thought of seeing Alice again. I shut my door, locking it, and rushing over to the window. I looked outside and frowned. That's odd, I told her to be here in exactly three minutes. Where could she have-
"BOO!"
"WHAT THE-" I nearly screamed bloody murder but a cold, dainty hand covered my mouth and a body pressed against my back. I damn near wet myself.
"Silly human, you're going to make Charlie come up here with all that noise!" A wind-chime voice floated into my ear and instantly I relaxed. Her hand slid from my mouth to rest delicately against my neck, her fingers drumming against it gently.
"You scared the crap out of me!" I accused her, trying to sound mad.
"Spoken like a true lady."
"Oh shut up, you." I pulled away from her and made my way to my bed, hopping onto it and sprawling out on the mattress.
"Make me!" She challenged, hopping onto the bed with me and crawling over me on all fours. She looked down at me and I bopped her on the head.
"I'm too tired for that. I've had an eventful day, thank you very much!" As if to prove my point, I yawned suddenly and Alice made a cooing sound.
"Awe, humans are so cute when they're tired." She admitted, settling herself down so that she was lying atop me, her little body always fit so well with mine.
"Are we now?"
"Yes, you are. I wish I could sleep…" Alice mumbled and she let out a small sigh. I wrapped my arms around her and she snuggled her head underneath my chin.
"Do you miss being human?" I asked her softly, not wanting to make her feel sad or anything like that.
"I don't really remember being human but all of the things you guys get to do, does make me envy it. Being a vampire…is a horrible thing and there's really only one thing that can make it bearable…"
"What's that?"
"Finding someone who takes the pain away…" Alice let out another sigh, her small hands coming up to rest near my collarbone, fisting my shirt as she began kneading again.
"Alice…do I-?"
"You make everything alright, Bella. Now get some sleep, you have school tomorrow." Alice commanded gently and I laughed a little, closing my eyes and holding her close to me.
Oh Alice…
Oh school…
Wait a minute, I had school tomorrow! Oh shit, the Cullen's would be there!
"Alice! Wait! What about-" I tried to sit up but the pixie like girl atop me would have none of it as she kept me down.
"Don't worry about it, Bells. I'm going with you!" She said simply and I laid back down on the bed, relaxing and closing my eyes as Alice snuggled me, purring loudly.
Oh, well that's a relief. Alice was just going to go to school with me.
"Wait, what?"
A/N: Isn't Alice just the cutest thing ever? Also, I drew a picture per request by Author for the fanfic you may have heard of 'Equilibrium' I adore that story and the writer and I feel as though you should check out the story and the drawing! It will be up on the same website as mine, a little later on today.
