We ran home silently, this disgusting feeling rising in me. I didn't want to get home, i didn't want to step foot inside. I wanted to run back to Alice, to see her face was all i needed right now. Once we had put Renesmee down to sleep, he took me outside the cottage. He turned around to face me once we were both outside.
"Bella, i want you to tell me what is happening, and i want you to tell me now"
He sounded stern and serious, but there was no way i could keep up with that. I needed to lighten the mood.
"Now, now? Or later?" I smirked and leaned against the wall of the cottage.
"Now, now Bella! This isn't a joke! This is serious! You know something is going on with Alice and i need to know what!" He started to pace the same way Alice did "So just tell me what is wrong with her!"
What was wrong with.. Her? "What do you mean? Nothing is wrong with her!"
He laughed, a very short, pointed laugh "Even an idiot could see there is something wrong with her!"
"Are you calling me an idiot, Edward?"
His face dropped "Bella, this is serious, what is happening with her"
I bit my lip, i wanted to tell him, i really did! But i couldn't, it was impossible to do. "What do you mean though?"
He sighed "Her thoughts are always off, she was thinking about the stock market! She hardly ever does that, and she was thinking about them as if she had never thought about anything else in her life! Like she never knew anything else but the stock market!"
I laughed on the inside, our own concealed little joke "Stock market? Woah" You couldn't think of anything better Alice? Something a little more subtle?
He sighed again, waiting for more.
"Oh, well, she said upstairs yesterday that she was just feeling a little... Off" I shrugged
"Off?"
"Yeah... Like... She said that she might need a break, a holiday or something"
"Holiday?"
"Yeah... You know... To get back to her old self and everything?"
"Everything?"
"What's with the interrogation Edward? I'm just as worried as you are!" It wasn't a lie, i was worried... Just not about the same thing.
He smiled apologetically and went inside. I just sat outside until the sun came up, hoping no one would notice that Alice and I went shopping... and hunting... a little earlier than usual. The shopping centre didn't even open for another 4 hours, and hunting didn't even take half of that.
"Bella" Once again the voice stopped me in my tracks, literally.. I was frozen on one foot in the middle of the field. "Well, at least you didn't jump that time"
We both laughed. "So... Shopping now then?" We had both already hunted, and even though we still had another 3 and a half hours.... There was always other things you could do.
"I guess so" Alice smiled her perfect little smile as she took my hand and ran to garage.
We took Edward's Volvo -because he said he'd feel more at ease if we took his car- and drove off to a destination we didn't even know of.
"So, Edward asked about you today..." I thought I'd get that conversation over with, because i wanted today to be a really good day.
"Oh... Really? What did he say?" She look a little worried, but her slight smile told me that she just wanted to get it over with too.
"He wanted to know what was wrong with you"
"Oh... and you said?"
"Something about you wanting a holiday to get back to your old self... Or something..." I stumble slightly, what if i said the wrong thing? What if she had said something different? I lowered my head "I'm sorry for talking for you..."
Alice laughed, the sweet sound drowned my worries "Perfect, now i have an excuse to whisk you away to somewhere beautiful"
Everything inside me felt like it was glowing, i had the same feeling of wanting to run across the world. I want to pick up the car and throw it into space... I probably could if i tried hard enough...
"Bella?" She laughed, and grabbed my hand, entwining her flawless fingers with mine "Don't fall, okay?"
I looked at her, i could tell that i must have looked like i did yesterday. I smiled "I don't know how you do this to me..."
"Hm.. But when you find out, could you tell me? I'd like to know why anyone could make me feel this way either..." Her smile morphed into a different kind, it was the equivalent of say 'I love you', but in a smile. It was... Indescribable.
Once i got my words back... "Well, at least you don't fall down"
We both laughed "Yes, but you know something Bella... Once you've lived a fair few years, you come to develop fantastic acting skills"
I hadn't even noticed that we were out the front of a huge building, which i assumed was a shopping centre, surrounded my people.
They were all talking, eating or walking around. It made me a little upset, i kind of just wanted alone time.
"So here we are..." Alice gestured towards the building.
"That took three and a half hours?"
She laughed "Bella, that took four hours"
"But... We didn't even talk that much!"
"Yes, but i kind of stopped the car... I couldn't take my eyes of you, and well... Traffic laws don't care much about that"
"We stopped?"
Alice's laughter broke out in song, people outside were trying to look in the tinted car to see where the noise was coming from "Yes Bella, we stopped"
"Oh..." I looked outside "Hey! It's raining!"
And just when you thought she couldn't laugh any louder...
"BELLA!" Alice had her legs up to her chest, and her head was pushing against the window... At least i amused her "I can't believe how out of it you are!"
"Well.. Lets just go then" I got out of the car, a little embarrased... I didn't want to seem like an idiot to her.
She danced out of the car, meeting me and wrapping her arms around me. Alice brought her mouth up to my ear "I love you"