Chapter Seven
"Hey, is it just me, or is Alice hiding something?" Rosalie and I asked Emmett. We decided that the best way to make Alice confess was to get other people involved with trying to make her tell us.
"Just you" Emmett said without hesitation.
"Don't you think that Alice is hiding something?" Rosalie pressed. "She's being all distant. Haven't you realised?"
"Yeah, but she's always distant when she's seeing the future, and she keeps trying to see more of what she has been seeing."
"She's not being herself" I argued. "She's not just being distant, she's being vague. Alice is never vague unless she's hiding something." And even Emmett couldn't argue with that.
"Listen Emmett, will you help us find out what Alice is hiding?" I asked.
"Please?" added Rosalie, putting her arms around him.
"Yeah alright" agreed Emmett, but he sounded sceptical. "If she's hiding something, I'll help you find out what it is. I want to know."
"Course you do" said Rosalie, beaming.
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"Alice-" I began, but she stopped me.
"Alright, alright, I'm not telling you something I know!" she said. I grinned.
"So..." I said.
"I'm still not telling you anything" Alice insisted. "Give up now."
"Why not?" I asked. "Does anyone else know?"
"No" insisted Alice. "Please give it up Bella. I might tell you one day. And I promise I'll tell you first if I need to."
"You need to now" I said.
"I meant if what I know started endangering our lives" said Alice.
"Alice" I moaned. "Will you tell Jasper is he asked you?"
"No, he'd tell everyone" said Alice, but she looked wistful, liked she wanted to tell Jasper.
"Alice-"
"If you want to know more about it, ask Tanya and Kate about their history" said Alice bleakly.
"What?" I said. "What about their history?"
"It's connected to them" Alice said. "Their mother. You know how she made an immortal child, right?" I nodded. Nothing Alice was saying was making any sense. "Well, Tanya and Kate had two brothers as well, but they didn't want to be vegetarians" Alice continued. "So they left. Tanya and Kate didn't like their brothers much, but Irina was best friends with one of them. He stayed in touch with them after he left." She said this as if it meant something significant.
"Yeah, and so, their brothers have something to do with this?" I asked.
"Yeah" said Alice. "But that's all I'm telling you. You're completely confused, and that's good."
"Alice..." I began. "You are telling me the truth aren't you? I mean, this does have something to do with your secret right?"
"Bella, seriously, this has something to do with what I'm not telling you" Alice insisted. I was trying to figure out what it meant. Alice had seen someone plotting to take revenge on us about James. She wasn't telling us something about this. What had a gaping hole in it that was unanswered? What could Alice know that she wasn't sharing? What questions had we asked that Alice had said nothing about?
Who?
Why?
When?
Who...who...who!?!
"Alice" I said slowly, watching her face carefully. "Do you know who it is?" Alice nodded.
"Give up now, I'm not telling you who it is" she said flatly.
"Come on Alice, I'm begging you" I pleaded. "I'll never let you rest until you tell me!" But she wouldn't.
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"So she definitely said she knew who it was" Rosalie asked for the one millionth time.
"If you ask me that once again, I'm going to scream" I said. "Yes!"
"Tell me the story again" said Rosalie. I sighed.
"It was just that Tanya and Kate had two brothers and that Irina was close to one. And they didn't want to be vegetarians so they left. Not really significant."
"It must be" said Rosalie. "Why else would she tell you that story? What kind of voice did she tell you it in?"
"She was saying it like it meant something I should realise" I said. "But I have no idea what it could mean. Do you?" Rosalie shook her head.
"You guys are slow" said Alice happily, walking through the door cheerfully.
"Alice! Tell us what you mean!" insisted Rosalie, but we both knew it was no good.
"Not a chance" sang Alice. "I like watching you guess."
"Either go away or tell us what you were talking about" Rosalie snapped.
"See you" Alice said happily, skipping away. I turned to Rosalie.
"Do you have a feeling that Alice knows something else now?"
