Stephenie Meyers Owns Twilight. I thank you for all who wrote reviews. Hopefully this answers a lot of your questions you had on the story. Quick question, Do any of you guys (the readers) maybe interested in a Leah story? I have been debating on going to the other side just to "let the wolf out" and see how that would go. I would also like to say that this chapter is dedicated to my friend Epiphany. She committed suicide and I just want to say I miss my friend and If anyone out there ever needs help please call the hotline. I will even be here if you need an ear to talk to. So this is to you Epiphany.
"I have been lying to you since the moment I set foot in Forks." From the beginning I wanted to save Alice. I never did though. Either fear or force stopped me. It is about time I atone for my actions and finally set Alice free. "I should have done this a long time ago. It cost more to keep it from you than it did to spill it. We will see how it ends tonight." I left Alice in the room to ponder on that.
Bpov:
I had the one moment that I have been dreaming of for years. Yet without hesitation I threw it all away. What a sick masochist I am. I have done my fair share of whining and complaining to just have life go my way for once. Life has been kinder to me than it has to most of the race on this planet.
The building that I knew as a kid came into my path looking dark and empty. Surely James kept the front door unlocked for his guest of honor. The front room is dead. I look at the big desk in such a small room. There was another door that went to the lockers and one that went straight into the dancing room. I reach inside my jacket letting my finger grasp against the item I am determined to leave behind. The lights are dim as the mirrors scream for your attention. James was over dramatic.
"You never did smell more scrumptious as her. Still it was a waste what he did to her. I doubt he even had time to admire her taste."
"The whole point was to make sure that you would never have a chance."
"Don't be jealous I would have been happy to have you for dessert. Please inform me how did you go poof in mid air back then?"
"Even time won't tell." I smiled at my bad pun but James seemed to appreciate the dramatic effect between us.
"Your heart beats, the skin is flush with pink, and you smell like a blood bag. Clearly you are not a vampire. That leaves us with one question. What are you?"
"I must be smarter than you. I have accomplished it without having to technically kill myself."
This angered him as I had hoped. Without his wasting much of his strength he slams my back into one of the columns. His pale hand grips around my throat. "Let me tell you, the one thing no one likes is a smartass." I lift my own hand in between us. James doesn't bother to look due to the fact that he knows I am not strong enough to push him off. My hand locks around the pocket watch necklace as the vibration of power radiates through my bones.
A crash of the door shakes the room. "Bella!" It is Edward who stops dead in his tracks. "You may be faster than the others but you're…" James never finished his sentence thank God. My thumb hits the button on top of the watch clicking open the front. Tick tock of the clock erupts in my ears leaving nothing but a blank image to Edward's eyes.
Apov:
I rush into the commercial dancing studio. The men of my family followed suit. Looking around the room of reflections I find Edward sitting in the middle of the floor. The bottom of my lip quivered after the amount of stress I had put on it. Closing my eyes I try to throw my mind into the waving roller coaster of time to search for the answer I was dying for. Is Bella dead? "I can't sense her. What happen?"
Edward hand digs into the base of his hair. "James had her in his hands and then suddenly they were just gone. I don't know how to explain it. She left a note saying in one year be right here with a fire built."
My other brother speaks up now, "Right here, in a year? That doesn't make sense." We all turn and look at Carlisle.
He looks bewildered like the rest of us. "In theory she time traveled." The group looked at me as if I was the crazy one. "That is what she confessed to me before she ran out of the hotel room."
"Here, she left this for you. I found it with the other note." Edward hands it to me. I hold on to it afraid to read it now in front of everyone here. Deciding to leave that job for when we return back to Forks. "I guess we come back here in a year with some gasoline."
Months have gone by and yet I still myself from opening the letter. I fear if it is short and bitter sweet or long and sorrowful.
Dear Alice,
I do not have much time to write to you. I never know how fast you or the others will catch on to this. I know you must be confused by my confession before leaving you. I know the time will rip you apart but only for a year. That does not compare to the hole that time has torn in me since 1920. Time has kept us at bay for too long but I promise like before I will find my way back to you. This time I will hide nothing from you. I will lay it all out on the table and I may only hope you will forgive me. I have never lied when I said I Love You Mary Alice Brandon-Cullen. Until the day we are together again.
Love, Isabella.
I could only piece a few things together. Bella was from the past. My own past. Was she indeed the one she said I had love when I was still a mere mortal?
Bpov:
They say life flies by you in a blink of an eye. As slow as it takes to build up even before death your brain gives you seven crucial dawdling seconds to have life flash before your eyes. That is three-tenths of a second before your life changes. The speed of the velocity is so scary that once in motion it can and will crash into you. The question is, are you strong enough to find your footing? As Robert Frost once said, "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."
300 milliseconds and that is how long this year has felt to me. A blink of an eye the wooden floors swarm around us. I can see pieces of glass in a whirlwind forming wall length mirrors. The light is bright here in this room. Warmth floods my skin with such sensation. Once the spinning slowed down in motion to a stand still I could see clearly. Here we are again in the dancing studio.
James is lost in confusion. He does not understand what has happen in that second when he wrapped his hands around my throat that really a whole year has gone by. This is my moment. Behind him I know he is feeling the warmth of hell fire lick up his back. With a simple extend I summon all of my energy to execute a Spartan move. Kicking James squarely in his chest caught him off guard even more. The flailing vampire reaches our trying to grasp me to stop him from falling. Out of reach he falls into the fire behind him. The flames etch up his skin faster than thin old paper would.
With James out of the view now the rest of the vampires in the room come into view. Edward, Carlisle, Emmett, and Alice were here.
Carlisle steps forward avoiding the fire, "Truly utterly amazing. I have never thought far enough that time travel was possible. Can you propel yourself back in time? Thus that would invoke the butterfly effect. In theory if you ever could go back, the world, as we know it today would be banished from the timeline."
"Carlisle calm down. I can only skip ahead in time not go back. Don't worry the creator of the device thought about the butterfly effect."
"Kick ass Bella! That is so sweet," Emmett raced around the fire to clasp his bear paw on my back. "Ok let's get out of here so we can finish hiding what really went on here."
Being back in Forks has set up an odd mixture of new feelings. The family looks like statues in a museum in the front room. Carlisle looked enthused nodding to tell me to go ahead and speak.
Taking a seat on the couch ill at ease by the stillness in the air, I lock my fingers together unable to look Alice in the eyes. "My truth indeed is riddled with holes. Much like Swiss cheese, but it was only due to the fact I didn't know how to deal with the situation of interfering with your lives. Alice use to be known as Mary Alice Brandon. We grew up together and swiftly became friends. Good friends, great ones even. Young love undeniably had such a strong hold on us. I was born Isabella Whitmore. No were related to Bella's mother or father. To speed it up some I came into contact with the trinket of my necklace. Little did I know what power it had the capability of. Alice always could see the future. It had plagued her to the point she went insane. Everyday I visit her watching behind a dirty glass unable to touch her. She had already forgotten her life by then. Your doctor was very fond of you. He was forced to turn you because he couldn't bare the thought of losing you to James. I was supposed to be turned as well but time traveling got in the way of that bit. I traveled for years looking for you!" Finally I grew enough courage to look her in the eyes.
"I covered land and ocean by every inch I could conquer. Seventeen years ago I came across these woods. Nowhere could I find you so I went to the hospital. There in the ward stood a young Charlie watching his daughter die. Yes I can jump into the future but I can also jump into a young body on the verge of dying. Skin jumping if you want to give it a name. My soul took over the dying child's body. It grew strong and thrived. Allowing the parents to hang on to some small hopes that their daughter was still alive even though it was not theirs anymore. In turn you all know I lived in Arizona before coming back here. I wanted to continue my search for you."
"Fantastic! What had happen to Bella's soul?" Carlisle seemed to be the only one truly into this conversation spiel.
"I'm not sure about that. I can feel her. She is still with me but she has no control over me. I control everything I just choose to please her by going by the name Bella. Also to confuse this whole melting pot even more so, I do dare say Bella is strongly attracted to Edward. It explains why Edward must have felt so strong in the beginning."
"Is the time travel why I can not read your mind?" Edward looks slightly in pain.
"No I think Bella Swan use to be special like you, Alice, and Jasper. I must have absorbed the power when I took over. By the way where is Jasper?" I look around the room.
"He is exploring Alaska's wildlife. What happens to Bella's soul?" Crossing his arms alters Edward's stone presence.
"Like I said I don't know what happens. I assume they leave me when they are ready. Like when a soul is left behind after death. Either they become a ghost, spirit or they move on to the after life. I have skin jumped before Bella. That soul is no longer with me. In fact it felt like weight lifted off my shoulders. She must have had her defining moment and took her door to the after life. I like to believe she went to where she was going the night she was supposed to die as a baby."
"Are you telling me that you have trapped the soul of my once was potential mate?" Edward is in my face baring his pearly white teeth.
"She has never been trapped. She can go when ever she pleases."
"You don't think do you?" Emmett places his hands on his brother to keep him at bay.
"If you want to call me feeling sad to see a young Charlie and Renee crying over their dead baby as not thinking, then yes I didn't think. I took action to make it a little less sad for them that day. In the end if she were your mate you would have destroyed their reality as well. The day Bella does not go out in the sun, just too sparkly right?"
Edward growls at me allowing his anger to overflow. He tries to pull himself away from Emmett's bear grasp. I try to move out of the way as fast as I can. Knocking over the chair I had acquired backwards as I jump back. Emmett removes his brother from the house.
"Do you look like her?" Rosalie is looking down when she ask this.
"No. This is how I have looked for ninety-two years. I like to thinks Bella would have been a beautiful girl. I can only wish that not only you, Alice but your family as well can forgive me for lying to you all."
"What do you want us to call you? Isabella, or Bella?"
"Bella will do just fine."
Silence was stagnant in the air. "What do we tell Charlie? Since I have been gone for a year."
"We will try to figure something out. It is late and I am sure you must exhausted. You will sleep here until we can fit together a story." Carlisle leads me to a emptied bedroom. God knows they have enough rooms to spare in this giant house.
There is a bathroom connected inside the room. I decided a shower would feel amazing. I was alone in the room and knew Alice would be keeping her distance from me. I was hurting from the pain I have caused her. Slipping off my top I left it where I dropped it on the floor. The rest of the clothes followed suit in the same manner.
The bathroom tiles underneath my bare feet were cold. I shivered from another equivalent memory of my dear Alice. I took a towel out and placed it on a rack near the entrance of the shower. Turning the shower on I allowed it time to heat up. I love hot showers where the water left my skin slightly red. The time in the shower was always grand. It was the best place to do any thinking at.
Stepping into the water warmth flooded me. The shower was already prepped for me with soaps and shampoos of my choosing. I wetted my hair down before grabbing the soap. It was made out of goat milk with poppy seeds in them to scrub the dead skin away. It smelled amazing like almond biscotti.
I started up the normal routine. Lathering up the soap it roam across my skin. On the edge of the bathtub I put my foot up against the tub. Bending over I rubbed the bar of soap against my leg. Slowly I let it lather the bubbles full across my skin before traveling the bar of soap upwards to my calf. I do this with my other leg as well.
Still bent over my second leg I felt a disturbance in my presence. A pale feminine hand reaches past my leg to wrap her hand around mine that was holding the bar of soap. She takes the soap from me. Also she wraps her free hand around my flat stomach. She runs the soap up my leg as she pulls me to stand straight up. Kisses on my back shoulder set such a soothing sensation. Her kisses are cool in the hot water but set another heat erupting elsewhere down inside of me. I turn my head slightly and see Alice's golden eyes. I can almost hear her purring as she continues kissing my back. Alice pushes the soap over my stomach inching every second closer to my breasts. Just the thought of her touching me there even if it is with soap hardens my nipples. She washes them in a circular pattern making them white and clean.
She hugs on to me tighter as I can feel her own perfect breasts pressing into my back. Alice drops the bar of soap and continues on with her own hands instead. Both of them tickle against my skin as they lightly trace a path on me. Her hands having enough of 'beating around the bush' she grabs my breasts. She has a nice handful of them before she rubs my nipples between her index and thumb slowly. She pinches them and slowly pulls tautly on them while her kisses blazes a path across my neck.
Her lips find mine as we share a kiss that has been way too long overdue. The water splashes down our face as we ignore it too eager with our lips. One of her hands travel downward again. Her hand finds me easy. I can hear her growl as her fingers touches my clit. I gasp in shock and I could feel a smile spread on her lips. Fiercely she speeds up as a hunger grows inside of her. This causes my ass to bump into Alice's core rubbing against her own pussy. I can tell she likes it by the way her nails digs into my skin. Her fingers rubs against my clit a couple more times before sliding down father feeling how wet my slit is.
I am too caught up in the act I start to moan. Alice's fingers toys with my lust. She slips in slowly only allowing a little in at a time. She pulls out too soon making me whimper from the lost. Her fingers capture my clit once again. I tilt my head back as water drops from my bottom lip as it stays open after I whisper "Oh, yes."
Alice grips my hair tight and pulls it back making my neck strain outward. Her eyes are black with hunger but the love and lust has drain from them. "How ignorant you must be to think I would forgive you when all you did was lie to me. You don't deserve me." While she was speaking she watches my jugular pump on my neck. She bites into my neck with such force she shreds my skin. The blood is dripping down in between us turning our skin pink. I scream as loud as I could muster. No one comes charging through the door. No one comes to save me.
I jump up and look around the room. I am on the bed in the dark room. My hair is wet from the shower still. I clutch at my neck and can not find a wound.
"Did you have a bad dream?"
It was Alice. I am confused that she is in the room watching me sleep. I try to shake the nightmare off. "I feel incredibly better now."
Alice joins me on the bed allowing me to lay my head down on her lap. "What was my family like?"
Questions ok I can deal with these. "You had a mother, a father, and a little sister. Your mother watched you and your sister while your father was working."
"Was she beautiful?"
"Incredibly. You look a lot like her."
"What about my sister?"
"Cynthia. She was so little when you joined the supernatural world. Your father kept her at bay and the family all together forgot about you. She grew up had a daughter of her own. So the family line lives on."
"They forgot about me?"
"Your family had a dark secret. You had visions and scared everyone but me. One day you saw it happen before it did but even then it was still too late. Your father hired someone to kill your mother. Thus you knowing the secret he had to hide you. The visions already had you in a hysterical fit. He played off on it saying you were insane. They did terrible things to you. I'm sorry I couldn't stop it. I visit every day just to see that the terrible things they did to you did the worst of them all. They made you forgot everything."
"It's ok really. I don't remember any of the pain so I'm fine with it. What happen after that?"
"Your father remarried. Basically that was it for them. Life went on."
"Then I became a vampire."
"Yes and the circle is complete."
"I feel bad."
"What for?"
"I went on without ever looking for you. You were looking for me and I was too busy."
I sit up bringing my face to hers. "You didn't know. It was not your fault."
"I still feel bad. The pain we both cause each other without meaning to."
"Even if things would have turned out differently. If I would have became a vampire you still wouldn't have known who I was. Things happen for a reason. Our meeting was drawn out so that when we were able to be together again at last we won't take it for granted."
"All is fair in love and war right? It was never easy for Romeo and Juliet."
"As long as we don't try to kill each other."
"Romeo and Juliet are over rated." Alice pulls on my tank top forcing me closer to her. Her golden eyes go from mine to looking to my lips. The room fell silent as we slowly merged together. I see her mouth parting only by a slight ready to make the move. Not wanting to wait any longer I pushed forward colliding our lips together. This was better than the dream from before.
I crawled into Alice's lap letting my hand massage the back of her neck. My tongue darted out to lick Alice's bottom lip. This stirred a reaction in her making her grip onto me even more. I move my fingers towards her face. I start to rub her ears while planting kisses down her neck.
Shifting underneath me we readjusted ourselves to lying down on the bed. Alice's hands ran up under my shirt scrapping her nails against my skin. I start to lift her shirt towards her head as I gently kiss her stomach. I feel her hands tighten around my own shirt as she starts to pull it off. Alice stops though as If she is torn between the decisions.
I pull slightly back. "What's wrong?"
"What if I say you have me? What will you do then?"
"I will never leave your side again. I can't bare the thought of losing you in time again."
"Don't you usually leave town by now. You are supposed to look older than you are. I know the drill we do it too."
"Yes that is what I would have done. I have a huge gap in my story. Charlie is a cop and Renee hasn't seen me for a year. He will know something is up. Even If I could stay for a couple more years I will not age as long as I have the necklace. Sooner or later I will have to leave Forks. It might be better If Bella never returns."
"And what? Have her go on the missing persons list like what happen to the other lives you have skin jumped? Yes Charlie is a cop; he will never give up looking for his daughter. Everyone is going to get hurt in this position."
"I didn't know what to do Alice! I wasn't going to let James touch you. I would kill myself knowing I let James get away and he did unspeakable things to you."
"Bella calm down. I am not saying it was not a good plan. It worked brilliantly. You can not just leave again."
"Wouldn't you leave with me?"
"This is my family now. My human one may have forgotten me but this one won't. I can't just leave."
A thought struck me reminding me how stupid I could be. "What about Jasper? Do you still have feelings for him?"
"Jasper was something to compare to as my first love. We both know we are better off apart."
"Only Jasper wasn't your first love. I was." I get up off the bed and head out the door.
"Bella!" Alice chases after me. "I'm sorry that I do not remember. I don't know how many times I have to say this."
I head to the back door that is close to the kitchen. The family is up and watching us. I forgot vampires do not need to sleep.
"Bella, he is not here. You are. Doesn't that mean anything?"
I slammed the door on my way out hoping this would give Alice the hint to not follow. "Having your first fight already? What a cute couple."
I turn to look at Edward. He was standing outside probably trying to be as far away from me as possible. We were standing out underneath the dark blue sky where to new eyes it would look black but old eyes we knew that dawn was near. As modern as I can be I said, "Up yours Edward."
I left before I had to see him sneer at me. I walked over to some mossy trees. Placing my hand on one I look out at the dark woods. I felt jealous. This was not an emotion I had to feel too often. I almost didn't know how to handle it. Trending deeper into the woods I came to a boulder to take a rest on.
An hour or more must have went by as I watch the dark blue fade into a lighter shade. I didn't hear her approaching. I was knocked down towards the ground. In a swirling motion I ended up landing on top of my intruder. The intruder locks her legs around me forcing me to stay lying on top.
"I think we will be very good friends, great ones indeed, Bella."
I am hit so hard with memories that I am winded. I see Alice in the eerie glow of early morning light. I can see the girl she use to be, the girl she had to overcome, and the woman she would be. She was going to be brilliant. I knew she wanted to talk but I couldn't resist her any longer.
I lean into her pushing our bodies together making the perfect hint of friction. My hand rakes itself on the back of her thigh that is locked around my waist. We kiss so strong that my lips are bruised in seconds. Her cold breath soothes them while igniting a fire deep down inside the both of us. No one came for us. We stayed in the woods indulging each other.