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Ever since Edward Cullen took off from our lunch table, I hadn't seen him since. That was three days ago. It was now Thursday.

Alice would not stop talking about it.

"That was so rude! If he hadn't fell off the side of the planet somewhere, I'd give him a piece of my mind!"

Alice was downright annoyed. Bella had known her since they were in pre-school together, and for such a small thing, she could pack a punch. She even took out Emmett once when he spilled ketchup on her favorite pair of jeans.

"Just let it go. He probably forgot something he needed for a later class." I didn't know why I was trying to defend the stranger from the wrath of Alice, but I felt like I had too.

"Hmph! Well, bye, Bella." Alice waved to me, leaving me at Mr. Banner's classroom. "See ya," I called after her, entering the classroom. Sitting next to my desk at my table was Edward Cullen himself. I could feel the blood rushing to my face as I took my seat.

I decided to probe into his mind. Just to see what was his problem the other day.

I wonder what I should wear for my date tom--

I can't believe my mom made me babysit on --

I could hear the thoughts of my classmates around me. I tried to focus on the being next to me. Forcing myself in.

Nothing.

I tried again.

Still nothing.

I sneaked a glance, trying to figure out why I couldn't get into his head. No one else had ever been an issue to me.

He was staring at me.

I felt my face heat up again, and his eyes narrowed slightly. I diverted my eyes quickly, breaking our staring match. Mr. Banner still hadn't came inside yet to start the lesson.

"I don't believe I introduced myself properly the other day. I'm Edward Cullen."

My head snapped towards him.

"Bella Swan."

He smiled a little, but it was forced. "Does your friend Alice take it upon herself to be downright annoying?"

My eyes narrowed into slits. "She was trying to be nice, unlike some others."

"Are you always like this?"

Like what? I wondered. "Are you always a pompous asshole?"

His eyes darkened, his smile turned almost...dangerous. Much to my awful luck, Mr. Banner took the opportunity to come stand beside our table. I hadn't even noticed him entering the classroom. I was silently fuming over the gorgeous, annoying jerk.

"There a problem Ms. Swan?" Mr. Banner raised an eyebrow at her. Clearly, he had heard her question moments before.

"No, sir."

"Very good, then. Detention, you and Mr. Cullen. I expect both of you to be here tomorrow afternoon."

Detention on a Friday afternoon. Just my luck.

Out of the corner of my eye, Edward glared at me.

I shrunk in my seat, defeated.

***

"He talked to you?" Alice asked for the seventh time.

I sighed, running a hair through my wet hair. "Yes."

"Really?"

"Again, yes." I failed to mention we argued, mainly over her. And that I earned myself a detention

"Oh!"

I took a few steps before I noticed Alice had fallen behind. I turned to her. Her eyes were glazed over, which often happened when she was either daydreaming or having a vision. Since standing in the middle of the parking lot daydreaming while it was raining seemed unlikely, it might have been the latter.

"Alice? Alice?" I shook her arms.

No response.

Putting my arm around her waist, I tried to half drag her to the car so we wouldn't get pneumonia later for stupidly standing out there. Rose came out of the Science building and jogged over to assist me. Rose was several inches taller than me, and between the both of us carting off little Alice was awkward for the limbs. By the time we got Alice into the backseat and situated ourselves in the front, all three of us were soaked through.

"Oh! Ow!"

Alice finally came back, managing to fall entirely off the backseat and into the floor board.

I turned halfway into my seat as Rose gunned the engine and peeled out of the Forks parking lot.

"Your future went missing, Bella."

Scrunching my nose, I looked back at Alice. Her eyebrows were pulled together, and the look into her Cerulean eyes displayed several different emotions at once. Confusion, panic, and finally fear.

Rose answered for me. "What the hell, Alice. How can her future go missing? Wouldn't she have to be dead for that to happen."

"Or dying," I concluded.

"I don't know. We were walking to the car, and it just hit me like a ton of bricks. It's just black, and I knew it was yours. It's only ever happened before when my grandma was in the hospital in that coma. And she died two days later. Her future went black, same as yours."

I didn't realize we made it into Rosalie's driveway until I realized Alice was shaking me. "Bella!"

Rose was leaning over the drivers seat, flashing her key chain flashlight in my eyes. Probably something she learned watching too much of Grey's Anatomy. I winced.

Alice slapped me.

"Ow, dammit!" I rubbed my palm over my reddened left cheek.

"Sorry, Bella," Alice grinned a little, sheepish. "You like went into shock or something. Didn't even blink or anything. You sure you're alright?"

"I'm fine," my voice felt hoarse, as if I had been screaming.

"Let's get her inside before we all catch a cold." Rose suggested, already beginning to climb out of the car. Alice and I followed her in, teeth chattering.

"You two stay here. Mom will have a bitch fit if the floor gets all wet. I'll get us some towels and dry clothes."

Alice turned back to me as Rose climbed the stairs two at a time. She must have heard my erratic breathing. "You'll be alright, Bella. It's probably some defect or something. Nothing's going to happen to you. Me and Rose will take care of you." She hugged me then, and I clung to her. Alice tried to pull back a few seconds later but I refused to let go.

"I know you will."

Rose came back a few minutes later and tossed us towels. I dried off and changed into a two big Seattle Seahawk's sweatshirt that had to have been Emmett's at one point. The t-shirt alone fell down almost to my knees. I tugged on a pair of Rosalie's too-short shorts. I didn't have the figure Rose did, so the shorts fell loosely on my hips.

Alice was so short, she even drowned in a pair of Rose's old pajamas. She had to wear a belt around the pj pants just to keep them from falling to her ankles. I snorted, earning a glare from her.

The three of us huddled on Rosalie's bed with enough snacks to last us a week gathered around us.

Rose asked the question that kept flitting through my mind. "Do you think your vision might be wrong, somehow?"

Alice seemed to ponder that for a minute. "It could be. I saw Lauren Mallory having a baby during freshman year. That was two years ago and she hasn't had one yet. I saw Jasper and I getting married. That won't happen for a long time. Maybe I was seeing Bella's future years and years from now. After we've gotten old and died. There's no rule against it. I suppose that could happen."

"Yeah, that's got to be it." Rose smiled, happy with the supposed resolution to the problem of my non-existent future.

"Yeah," I agreed, not thoroughly convinced. Not convinced at all.

I felt like I was missing a simple clue to a complicated equation.