A/N: Second chapter! Thank you for all the reviews, people, very appreciated.
Disclaimer: do not own Twilight, am not a vampire princess, do not dance to the Star Spangled Banner in my undies … lolz.
Alice grew more and more worried as the day passed. Her parents held strange, whispered conferences that hushed as she entered the room, and they looked at her differently. Like a freak instead of their eldest daughter.
Finally, tense with anticipation, they began the subject at dinner.
"Girls," her father said, after setting down his fork and belching, "there's something we need to talk about."
Mother looked at him, plainly trying to keep from bursting into tears, and then turned to stare mutely at the floor as he went on.
"Alice, your visions, they are not natural. You are not natural. We feel, your mother and I, that the best place for you would be the Saintly Ward Asylum. It is ideally suited to care for … people, like you."
Alice rose, her slender frame quivering with anger. "You think I'm a freak? That I'm mad? That I'm not fit to associate with your normal daughter and be a part of your normal family anymore?"
Her mother looked at the floor, refusing to meet her eyes. Sarah remained riveted to her seat, face white as a sheet. Her father rose menacingly out of his seat, face taking on the properties of a ripe tomato. "You will go to your room, young lady!" he thundered. "And in the morning, I will take you to the asylum myself!"
Alice ran back to her room as quickly as she could, not letting the sobs come until she had closed the door and flung herself on the bed. She cried for the loss of her home and her family and her sister, but mostly she cried for the fact that her parents were not who she had always thought they were. Her mother was weak, not standing up to her father and letting them keep her, and her father must not really love her after all.
The thought chilled her to the bone, making her tears dry up. If that was true, then there was nothing for her here. She would have to make a new life at the asylum, as best she could. Alice, worn from crying, fell into a deep and dreamless sleep.
Sorry for such a short chapter … I have to get off the computer and go paly at a stupid concert. Hope you like!
