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Yay! this one has been revised too.

It's longer too.

I shrank to the floor taking deep, unnecessary breaths once I was safe in my own house, yes my house, but not my home, 'home is where the heart is'. I couldn't believe it, Alice was back, which meant so was Jasper. Maybe, I could have handled just the two of them, convinced them not to tell the others, but Emmett was back too, which meant so was Rosalie no doubt. And why would they be back if the other three weren't, that wouldn't make sense.

So what's the point of my rambling? Well all of this meant that… that he was back too… and that, I could defiantly not handle.

Alice POV

We had decided it was time to move back to Forks for a while, like our family had once before, I remember once before, about 20 years ago, we were going to move to forks again, but poor Edward was so scared of being reminded of Bella, even if she was dead, he couldn't handle the guilt of it all, and honestly I didn't blame him, couldn't blame him.

Everything had finally been unpacked at the house, and I decided that I needed to hunt, so I thought I would just slip out and see what I could find in the surrounding forest, which was strange for me, because never in my life with my family, had I felt the need to hunt in the forest surrounding the house. Yet, something was pulling me towards the centre of the forest.

I caught the scent of a small deer and decided to go for it, I didn't need much to satisfy my thirst, one deer should just about do it. As I started to close in on the unsuspecting prey, I heard another person running towards me, I thought it was just Emmett being an idiot or something, trying to scare me, but he should know better. Well I would deal with him later, I pounced towards the small deer, then suddenly collided with something, or someone else, sending me flying back across the forest floor with a thunderous crash, I hit a tree and it shuddered from the impact, but did not fall.

Slightly confused as to what had hit me, I got up and looked around. There standing directly opposite of me was a girl, no, not a girl, a woman, a vampire, and she was staring back at me in recognition, did she know who I was? She looked mildly familiar, like I knew her once, but she had changed…

Changed… that must be it, she must have been changed by a vampire, I must have known her when she was a human, and now she was one of us. I looked at her closely and suddenly something in my mind clicked, a vision I had once had, but had been suppressing came into my mind… this beautiful, magnificent creature was… Bella, my Bella! The best friend who I shared everything, everything with, including my deepest, darkest secret.

It didn't really surprise me that I didn't recognise her straight off, I mean I had tried so much to forget her, even though it was impossible, I tried to suppress everything about her, because it hurt so damn much to think about her.

How could I not know that she was coming though? How could I have not seen this? I mean I always seen when one of our kind is near, and surely if I had such close ties to them once, I should have seen it, but maybe because I didn't want to be reminded of her, I forced myself not to see it… if that made sense.

Oh well, I could ponder all of this later, there is no point wasting time with such quizzical matters when my best friend was standing right there in front of me looking so damn beautiful. Truthfully, immortality looked amazing on her; it was almost like she was made to be like us. God I just couldn't believe that Bella was standing right in front of me looking so… angry…

Now that couldn't be right, why on earth would Bella be angry with me, I mean its not like I was the one that decided to leave her to be miserable, I at least put up a fight. I mean I knew she would be angry with all of us if we ever saw her again, but I thought she would at least be happy to see me, just at first even.

I watched her carefully, wondering what was going to happen next.

"May I enquire as to why you decided to interrupt my meal?"

Wow, she was really mad; it kinda hurt to think that she held such resentment towards me.

"I…" What could I say? That I was sorry? I was happy to see her? I missed her?

"You…?" Wow, she looked kinda scary when she was mad, like threatening, and dangerous and all that stuff, it just didn't seem to balance well with soft, fragile Bella. This is the same Bella that I spent numerous nights with doing makeovers, even if she wasn't always willing, it just didn't seem right.

Thanks to my little flashback, before I knew what I was doing I had run up to her, pulling her into a tight embrace. I held onto her as if my life depended on it, but she didn't hug me back, she just stood there with her arms by her side.

I stood back with a frown set firmly on my face. Didn't she realise that we were all sorry? didn't she know we were just trying to protect her?

Suddenly I heard Emmett calling to me from the house; I had forgotten that I hadn't told anyone where I was going. He was clearly following my scent to find me and probably drag me back to the house to play some god forsaken game that he would get over in 10 seconds flat.

I noticed her stiffen when she heard his voice, I wasn't sure what she was going to do, but I don't think it would be good.

"Don't you dare tell anyone!" She said, or was threatened the right word? She bared her teeth as a growl erupted from her chest. She then turned and sprinted off through the forest, not looking back once.

I stood there in the same place, not moving at all, frozen in shock, could vampires go into shock? I wasn't sure. Emmet had reached me and was waving a hand in front of my face, trying to get me to come back to him, but I couldn't, I was too far gone. I could see him saying something, but I couldn't hear anything except her last words repeating over and over in my head.

Don't you dare tell anyone!

I was slightly aware of Emmett picking me up and running back through the forest towards the house. Suddenly it hit me, I didn't want to know what would happen if Bella went through with her threat, so I quickly cleared my mind of anything to do with her and started to count in Arabic in my head, trying to keep Edward out.

Emmett reached the house and took me inside, laying me down on the couch. I sat up as Jasper and Rose started to crowd me.

"Guys I'm fine, I just… went slightly insane, something shocked me out in the forest, that's all."

I started to walk up the stairs and I could hear Jasper call out to me asking what could have shocked me this much, ha, if only he knew. I walked into my room, and decided to put on a CD trying to flush it all out. I sat on the floor, pulling my knees up to my chest, tucking my arms around them and resting my head on my knees.

Then he walked in, Edward walked into my room, sat down on the floor and put he head on my shoulder. God, I wish I could just tell him to leave, but I couldn't.

"What happened Alice? You know you can tell me anything?"

And I did, I could tell him anything, and no matter how hard I tried to keep it out of my mind, he always had a way of making me feel like I could trust him with anything, that no matter what, he would make everything better. So I let him in on the events from the afternoon, once I finished I kept repeating that last sentence over and over in my head.

I watched him carefully as he stood up, I was expecting him to lose it. To scream and cry and break things, but he didn't, he just held out his hand, offering to help me up. I took his hand, smiling at him as I stood up. He started to walk us out of the room, down the stairs, and then out of the house. Once we were outside he started to run north until we were finally far enough away from the house, so that no one could hear us.

He stopped and collapsed to the forest floor. I was shocked, so I kneeled down with him wrapping my arms around him and pulling him towards my chest in a comforting manner. I'm not sure how long we ended up staying like that, but eventually he snapped out of it, looking up to me with a great depression in his eyes.

"What have I done Alice?" he asked.

I knew better than to tell him it wasn't his fault, because honestly, it kind of was, he left her undefended, even after I told him she couldn't look after herself. And I was still mad at him for leaving her, I don't think I will ever fully forgive him for it. I know he thought he was doing the right thing, but was he really that crazy that he would leave her, miserable, alone, and unprotected?

We sat in silence for a very long time before he spoke again.

"What are we going to do?"

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