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Alice knocked three times on Charlie's door, still figuring out her excuse for randomly turning up. I waited for a minute, then knocked again. No one answered.

She went around the back and let herself in. For a cop, Charlie isn't big on home security, thought Alice. She just had to see what it was like. What Bella was like. If it was really as bad as she had written in her letters.

It was. Everything was neat, too neat. It's like Esme had been cleaning like she does when she's nervous. Books were arranged perfectly on their shelves, even in alphabetical order. Bella hadn't done that before. There wasn't a crease in her bedspread, and not a flack of dust could be found.

Alice heard voices coming from outside. she only listened vaguely to their conversation. It was rude to spy... well, at least that was what Jazz said while looking all disapprovingly at her.

The girls voice caught her. It couldn't be... could it? It was impossible...

"It's Carlisle's car! It's the Cullens, I know it." A moment passed. "Hey, calm down Jake. It's okay, no danger, see? Relax."

Alice continued to listen as she walked slowly downstairs, a look of confusion on her face.

"There's a vampire in your house, and you want to go back?" asked the male voice. That must have been Jacob Black. Alice didn't know what Bella was talking about them getting along, she thought he seemed a dick.

"Of course. It's not a trick, it's Carlisle, take me back."

"No."

"Jake, it's okay-"

"No, take yourself back Bella." Alice's breath caught in her throat. How could this have happened? She couldn't be wrong. "Treaty or no treaty, that's my enemy in there. I have to tell Sam right away, we can't be caught on their territory."

"Jake, it's not a war!"

The door of the truck slammed shut. "Bye Bella." The boy's parting words were cold. "I really hope you don't die."

The truck stood idle for a moment, then the passenger slid over and drove into the driveway of Charlie's house. Alice stood in the doorway of the kitchen, waiting, watching.

The front door inched open slowly, and the girl's arm felt around on the wall for the light switch. Alice hadn't noticed how late it was. Once the girl found the light...

"Alice! Oh, Alice!" Bella practically threw herself into her best friends arms. Tears streamed from her eyes and into Alice's blouse.

Alice's head was spinning. She had seen Bella jump, that she was very sure if. She remembered it with perfect clarity, the thrashing of the water, the scream, the vision fading to black.

Bella's sweet sent filled Alice's nose, and her natural instinct flared. She was hungry... No! She moved her breathing to a minimum.

"I'm … sorry," Bella said eventually, between sobs. "I'm just … so happy … to se you!"

"It's okay Bella, everything's okay."

"Yes," she agreed.

"And speaking of which," Alice said. "Would you like to explain to me how you're alive?"

Bella pulled back and they walked into the living room. "You saw me fall."

"No,"Alice corrected, sitting on the couch. "I saw you jump."

Bella sat for a while, looking as though she was thinking of a rational explanation. Alice shook her head.

"I told him this would happen, but he didn't believe me." She stood up and started to pace. " 'Bella promised' he said. 'Don't be looking for her future either, we've done enough damage.' Just because I don't look doesn't mean I don't see!" Alice turned to Bella. "I wasn't keeping tabs on you Bella, I swear. It's just I'm very attuned to you … when I saw you jump, I just got on a plane. I knew I would be too late, but I couldn't do nothing. And then I get here thinking I could help, and you drive up!

"I saw you jump, the waves were huge, there's no way a human could survive it, especially at the hight you jumped. What the hell happened?! And how could you do that to Charlie? Did you stop to think what it would do to him? And-"

"Alice I wasn't committing suicide," Bella said, interrupting Alice's rant.

Alice looked at her sceptically. "Are you saying you didn't jump of a cliff?"

"No... but it was for recreational purposes only," Bella assured her. "I'd seen Jacob's friends doing it, and it seemed like fun... I was bored..." she looked up at Alice, realising she sounded crazy.

Alice sighed and sat back down, smiling. "It's official Bella, you are clinically insane." She laughed.

Bella gulped. "How... how long are you staying Alice?"

"I don't know..." Alice was a little worried what her family would think.

Her eye's widened and she hugged her vampire friend. "Please stay! I've missed you so much! Just for a little while?"

"Okay, okay! But I need to hunt," Alice pulled back, her thirst peaking. "Immediately."

Bella moved back. "Oops."

"It's okay, I'll be back in one hour." Alice kissed her friend lightly on the cheek (holding her breath of course), and took of into the forest. They could discuss the letters later.

***

As Alice headed back, she sensed there was someone with Bella. Okay, she heard them talking. She backed away into the forest to give them privacy.

You'd think after seeing your best friends 'death', any other vision would pale in comparison. Not this one.

"It's not real... it's not real... it's not real." On the floor of a mucky South American apartment, sat a man rocking back and forth, his arms around his knees, his eyes crazed. "It's not real... it's not real..." But there was a way to check.

He scrambled into the other room where he'd left his phone after Rosalie... he shuddered in pain. He dialled the number he'd sworn he would forget.

"Swan residence." Not Charlie, not Charlie, where's Charlie?

Edward changed his voice to resemble his fathers. He didn't want the person who answered to know him.

He swallowed. "May- may I speak to Charlie?"

The person's voice hardened. "He's not here." Not here, not here, why not here?

"Where is he?"

"He's at the funeral."

Edward hung up faster than the phone could handle it. It crumbled to dust inside his fist. Again, he collapsed to the ground and cried.

It was real.

She was gone, she was gone... and he'd do exactly what he'd planned to do before.

Alice came out of her vision and ran back to Bella's house as fast as her legs would carry her.

"Bella."

Bella turned around and saw the pain in her friends eyes. "Alice, Alice what's wrong."

"It's Edward... he thinks you're dead."