A/N: Alice is distraught when the Cullens leave Bella in New Moon.
I gazed through the water-splashed windowpane, foggy from swirling mists outside. Droplets swam down the glass. They left only wet streaks behind as evidence they had been there. The clear window felt abnormally cold even to me, but perhaps that was simply because I had numbed myself from the inside out.
Flickers of a girl with dark brown hair, curled up in a ball, crying a name over and over again, drove its way into my mind. I wanted to block these visions out—Edward had told me not to look for her. I would obey my brother's wishes. Yet Bella's tears sparked my own dry ones.
A flash of blond behind me caused my eyes to move from the miserable view of drowned plants to a tall vampire adorned with violent, crescent moon scars. "Jasper," I whispered, letting his sweet scent that brought comfort with it soothe me.
He wrapped me in his strong arms, kissing my hair. "It'll be okay, Alice. We'll go back to her."