It was a quiet night at the Cullen household, which was an usual occurrence ever since the break up of Alice and Jasper no one quite seemed to know what to say around them. Although they had remained friends it was still awkward around each other. After sixty years of marriage they just fell out of love with each other.
Everybody felt it, Jasper maybe more than most, but they felt they couldn't show affection to their loved ones around the two broken lovers.
Alice was sitting in a chair nearest the window, the chair seemed to swallow her tiny form and make her more fragile than she seemed to have. She was thinking about her future. Not that she had told anybody (but she was sure Edward knew, he a sneaky habit of probing intentionally and he had been throwing her disapproving looks the last couple of days, if Edward knew, Bella knew but neither of them had said anything) she was planning on leaving the family. A couple of weeks ago she had a vision of another man, a vampire who was in his late teens, she guessed around 19 maybe. She had a vision she would meet him at a bar in London. She had already planned her trip and booked her first class ticket she was flying out tomorrow night. Alice looked around the room and tried to take it all in.
Edward and Bella were up in their room playing with Nessie who now looked around ten years old, Rosalie and Emmett were trying and failing to hold back their PDA, Jasper was in the library and Esme was sitting on the couch watching TV as she waited for Carlisle to finish work at the hospital.
Its not that she wasn't grateful, she loved these people and had been through so much with them, it was just that she had always been Alice Whitlock with them, she arrived with Jasper, Married Jasper, Loved Jasper. She wanted to be Mary Alice Brandon for a change. And she couldn't do that with them looking over her shoulder every five minutes.
She knew if she told them this, they would change. Try and be more accepting of her new nature, but honestly she didn't want them to change. She loved them the way there were. As selfish as it sounded. She was looking forward to her trip overseas and she didn't want them to talk her out of it.
Suddenly she went stiff as she received a vision.
A girl walked out into the cold winter night her coat was wrapped tightly around her as she hurried over to her car, throwing her bag into the back seat she jumped in the front and tried to turn the ignition.
The car gave a splutter of life before it died, cursing she tried once again only to have to car splutter once again, the girl in frustration hit her hand on the steering wheel.
"Damn piece of junk"
She muttered before she jumped out ran over to another man who was leaving the diner.
"Hey Scotty can you give me a jump"
She yelled to the blonde spiky haired man who was walking to his car.
He gave her goofy smile.
"Sure Noelly wait inside and I'll bring my car around"
He said before stomping across the snow to get to his car on the other side of the road, as the girl made her way to the diner, only to find it locked. Once again in frustration she hit her hand on the old building only to cut her finger on a stray bit of wood that was poking out from the door.
"That's just perfect"
She muttered before she began to wipe the blood onto her work pants.
"Don't do that, its such a waste"
A musical voice from behind said.
The girl turned around quickly and was faced with a vampire with pitch black hair and blood red eyes, the girl seemed scared but spoke with annoyance
"Look lady, Im not in the mood for crazy"
She said with a roll of her eyes.
"I'm in the mood for you though, you smell wonderful like, lilies delicate yet beautiful."
The woman spoke with malice as she walked closer to the girl who was backing away faster.
"Okay lady, that's actually kind of creepy"
The girl said and gave a huff as she backed herself into the wall of the diner.
Before she could speak the vampire had her by the throat, sniffing her neck and moaning in delight.
The vampire bit down quickly not even giving the girl time to scream as she began to suck the life out of her. In moments the girl was dropped to the ground lifeless and drained of blood.
When Alice came around she found she was surrounded by her family. After so many years of visions they still looked on in concern whenever she came out of one. It was slightly annoying and it was one of the many reasons she was planning on leaving the house. But having no time for her own problems Alice looked over to her family and spoke.
"It wasn't suppose to happen, the vampire was just suppose to pass through town but the girl cut her finger and she changed her course"
She said simply
"When"
Edward asked.
"Now, maybe two minutes if were lucky"
Alice yelled, with that Alice, Emmett, Rosalie and Jasper all ran into the night to try and stop an attack from occurring, Esme, Bella and Nessie stayed behind getting the house ready for when they returned.
I know this chapter is really short but I needed this so I could lead the Cullen's into rescuing Noelle from the diner and tie in with the rest of her story.