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I gazed out the passenger window as Emmett turned down the winding lane to the Cullen's house. I had decided to wear the yellow sundress Rose had gotten me. I even twirled in front of my mirror a few times before leaving. No reason to mess up my prefect streak of everything coming true.

It made Jasper feel more real to me as well; knowing that what I saw was fact and not fiction. Sometimes it was so easy to believe that he was just another pointless daydream. My freaky flashes at least gave me assurance that he was real and hopefully out there somewhere.

Our sudden stop jolted me back into awareness. I glared at Emmett. "You brake too hard."

He laughed. "Normally I'm the smoothest driver around but I thought I should bring you back down to earth."

I clambered out of his jeep, slamming the door a little harder than necessary. All of a sudden something came to me. "Emmett! What happened to my car!?"

I had gotten my lime green VW bug for my sixteenth birthday and it was my pride and joy. My baby. All of the fuss over me and my head made me forget that it had been a victim too.

Emmett gave me a nervous glance. "Well Alice… the accident you were in was pretty bad."

I stared in shock at the pitiful twisted remains of my beautiful car propped up in the Cullen's garage.

As soon as I came back to myself, tears flooded my eyes. "Oh God! It's awful! It's ruined! How can I ever drive it again Emmett!? HOW!?"

Before Emmett could respond to my random and scary outburst, I took off towards the Cullen's garage, completely ignoring the house. After a moments pause I could hear Emmett chasing after me.

Even though his legs were longer I had had a head start and managed to get there before him. I yanked the door open dramatically and stepped inside. I stared in shock at the remains of my beautiful car. It looked even worse in person. My poor baby.

Rosalie heard my dramatic entrance and wheeled herself out from under my car. "Hey Alice! You're looking good in that sundress! I'm glad I bought-" She took in my expression. "Is something wrong?"

Emmett opened the door at the same time that I wailed. "My car! My carrrrr!" I skipped forward and threw my arms around it. "Can you save it Rose?"

Emmett muttered, "Drama queen" under his breath. I felt his strong hand on my shoulder. "Rose has been working on it ever since the cops decided they didn't need it for evidence anymore. I actually came by so I could help her." Rosalie pulled herself upright and came to stand beside Emmett.

"I was going to try and fix it for you for when you woke up but… well you know." I released my car and eyed it morosely. "The body is a complete wreck so it turned into more of a salvaging mission. I've been trying to find usable parts instead."

I nodded sadly. "Thanks for trying Rose." I patted the hood gently. I hadn't even had it for a year yet and already it was totaled. Just my luck. "I think I'll leave you two to it then." My voice shot up in pitch as I held back tears.

Rosalie looked concerned. "Are you going to be okay?"

I held up my hands. "I'm fine. I'm just going to go inside." They both nodded and I whirled quickly out the door.

As I walked along the path to the house I worked on my self-control. I am fine. I am fine. Sure my car got wrecked and I lost three months of my life that I can never get back but I'm fine. I'm too small to drive Emmett's jeep and my parents both need their cars so I'm going to have to rely on rides everywhere but I'm fine. I'm having freaky flashes of the future so my brain's probably screwed up but I'm fine. I keep seeing this beautiful blonde boy suffering and I want to help him but I can't because I have no idea where he lives but that's fine. It's perfectly fine that he's going to have to keep on suffering alone. Everything is just fine.

By this time I had made it to the Cullen's house and up their glamorous front staircase. I could hear music playing from somewhere upstairs and I made my way towards the sound, repeating my mental chant the whole way.

Of course the music would be coming from Edward's room. I raised my fist and tapped lightly on his door. The music halted and I heard him scramble to his feet. Moments later the door was open. "Alice?.... What's wrong?"

I threw myself at him. "I'm- not- fineeeeeeee!" I sobbed noisily against his chest while he stood there shocked. After a moment he composed himself and wrapped his arms around me as he pulled me into his room.

"I can see that." He kicked the door shut with his foot. "Want to tell me what's wrong?"

I blubbered loudly in response. "Okay, just take a minute to calm down. It's alright." He grabbed a remote and pressed play on his stereo, drowning out my sobs to the rest of the house. A few minutes passed while he waited quietly for me to calm down. When he was sure I wasn't going to have another breakdown he released me and sat down on the bed, patting the space next to him. I shakily sat down, rubbing at my eyes.

"Are you okay now?" He looked concerned and I briefly wondered at how awful I must look.

"I th-think so." I sniffled and he handed me a Kleenex from the box on the floor.

"Now what happened to make you so sad?"

"I s-saw my car." I cringed at the memory of its poor, twisted, broken body.

He made a sympathetic noise with his tongue. "I'm sorry that it can't be fixed Alice. I know how much you loved that car. Rose tried her best; you should've seen how frustrated she was when she realized it couldn't be saved."

I nodded. "It's not j-just the c-car."

"No?" His sympathetic voice made me feel like a small child.

I gestured with my hands as I tried to explain. "Seeing the car made me realize… everything. It almost felt like maybe the crash was a dream and then I saw my car and… and there's three months of my life I wasted in a coma and- and I'll never get them backkkkkk."

He pulled me against his chest as a new wave of tears came. "Shhhhhh. Shhhhhhhh. It's okay Ali. Everything will be just fine. I promise."

I sniffled loudly in response.

He held me at arms length and looked at me very seriously. "Everything's going to be even better now. And you didn't miss much anyways, since you were on honour roll they passed you without having to take exams. You're lucky when you think about it, you didn't have to write anything and everyone else did. And now that you don't have a car you can go car shopping for a new one." He smiled as my expression lit up.

"Shopping?"

He laughed. "Yes shopping. You can find another great car. You could even buy the same car if you wanted, but it might be more fun to look for a new one."

I smiled a little. "Thanks Edward."

He smiled back. "It's no problem."

I gasped as I looked at my reflection in Edward's bathroom mirror. "Edward! Why didn't you tell me I looked so awful!"

I was on my feet the second the image faded from my view. Edward gave me a confused look which quickly turned to worry as I sprinted to his bathroom. "Are you feeling sick?"

I gasped at my reflection in Edward's bathroom mirror. My eyes were swollen and puffy from crying and I had tear tracks stained onto my cheeks. "Edward! Why didn't you tell me I looked so awful!"

I heard him chuckling as he followed me into the bathroom. I gave him a dark look upon entry. "I didn't think it was such a big deal Alice."

"Of course it's a big deal!" I gestured at my reflection. "I look disgusting!" I splashed my face a few times with cold water. "That's a little bit better." I glanced around the room. "Where'd I put my purse?"

Edward vanished into his room. "It's not in here."

I was rummaging around under the passenger seat of Emmett's jeep. I emerged victorious with my purse clutched in my hands.

"It's in the car Edward!" I heard his music pause as I came back into his room.

"I'll come with you."

"If you really want to, it'll only take ten seconds." I skipped down the stairs and out into the yard. Emmett's jeep was the only car in the driveway so it was a short walk. I attempted to hoist myself up into his monster of a jeep gracefully without flashing Edward who I could hear chuckling at my attempts. It seemed like that plan wasn't going to work. "Edward, look away for a second."

"May I ask why?" He was smiling one of those smug smiles he saved for moments where I was making a fool out of myself.

"Because I'm not going to be getting into this jeep gracefully and I don't want to flash you."

He laughed but turned away anyways. "How'd you get in there earlier then?"

I hoisted myself in with a grunt. "Emmett helped me up." I crawled up onto the passenger seat and bent down to look under it.

"I could've helped you up if you asked."

"Mehh. I'm already in, I'll ask next time." I caught sight of my purse and yanked it out by the strap. "Aha! Found it!" I leapt gracefully onto the ground and shoved the door shut. "You can turn around now."

He turned. "Where to now then?"

I shrugged. "We can do whatever you were doing before. I'll need a mirror," I held up the purse. "But that'll only take ten seconds."

He nodded and started towards the house. "I was just listening to a new CD. If that's not too boring you can sit around with me."

"That's fine." I broke into a jog to try and catch up with him. "Ugh, why do you walk so fast?!"

He glanced over his shoulder at me. "Maybe you should grow some legs Shortie."

I picked up my walking speed. "For your information I like my legs."

He rolled his eyes. "Whatever." He opened the door and let me pass first into the room.

"I'll just be a second." I stood in front of his mirror once more and reapplied the makeup that I had washed off. I heard the music start up in his room again. "Sorry about your shirt!"

"It's no big deal Alice. I have a million. Esme never wants us to be wanting for anything. I'm pretty sure tears wash out anyways."

I put the finishing touches on my lipstick and checked my reflection out. "Much better."

"What do you think you're doing Jasper?"

Jasper was standing in a grimy alley with a small, pretty Mexican girl. He was leaning away from her and the stern expression on her face.

"I said I'm leaving Maria. I can't do this anymore."

"So you think you can up and leave, just like that? It's not so easy Jasper. This is your family, you need us. How else will you belong when you don't have the family's protection?" She gestured aggressively as she spoke.

"I can't watch people dying in front of me anymore Maria. It's not right." His hands quivered at his sides.

"Pftt." She gestured as if dying people were a common occurrence. "They choose their path when they join us. They don't matter much anyways. There's always more."

His meek expression turned to one of rage. "They. Don't. Matter!? They're dying for you and your twisted idea of a 'family!' I'm not doing this anymore! I won't help you ruin peoples' lives, or end them! I have my own family, I don't need yours anymore… Goodbye Maria." He turned and stalked out of the alley without a backwards glance.

She stood stunned for a moment as she watched him. When he was almost out of the alley she yelled to his retreating form. "You'll come back! You need us Jasper! You need me! You won't last on your own!"

He flinched but continued walking.

I gasped as I came back to myself. My reflection watched me with a perfect 'o'of shock on her face. Had Jasper been responsible for killing people at one time? Or had he only seen it happen in front of him? What was this 'family' Maria was talking about?

"Alice… you've been in there a long time. Did you poke an eye out with your eye shadow brush?"

My hand reached up to slowly touch my face. My head was still spinning as it tried to absorb all the new information I had just learned.

There was a soft knock on the door. "Alice, I'm coming in okay?" The door opened slowly and Edward peeked his head in. "Alice!" He walked over and shook my shoulder gently.

"I need to talk to Carlisle. Now."

A/N: Well there you have it! Another chapter done! I want to thank everyone who has reviewed so far. Especially the-tanned-bella, a truly creative writer and an awesome friend! Check out her story Shadows of the Heart. I know you'll love it! Reviews make me happy so please do if you have the time. Chapter title is There There by Radiohead. Listen if you want, like I said before they're a really awesome band.