A/N I know I still SUCK!!!I really do. I am unworthy of you Who's Your Dolly? fans. But here it is the much anticipated chapter!
BPOV
"Does this look right to you Alice?" Edward asked. We'd finally arrived to what we believed to be Happiness Road, but seeing as there was a lack of signage we weren't sure. And of course Edward still thought Alice could tell us, though my bet was she was as lost as we were.
"Um...yeah this looks right." Alice responded a second late but Edward didn't seem to notice. I wanted to just scream at her to tell him but of course I would turn into a big pile of dust and lose the man I love as well as the chance of ever being human again.
I retained a sigh as I thought of the encounter between Edward and I in the Music Room. I still haven't recovered from my shock. The thought that someone could fall in love with me for me, well I was pretty sure it was me, because obviously he didn't love me for my looks. That is unless he has some kind of glass fetish but I was pretty sure it was the me thing.
The song he'd played was so beautiful I just about cried and I just really couldn't get over the loving me thing or over his immediate elation when I told him I returned the feeling. It was all just too surreal. A fairytale that would be complete when we found Aviv and "the Princess" i.e. me, was turned back into a human.
I was broken from my thoughts as Alice let out a gasp. Edward turned to stare at her weirdly.
"Alice?Alice? What's going on? Your mind is...blank."
APOV
"My, my, you children sure do move fast. Even without your visions dear you all are quite close to me." I could see Aviv in my mind but she looked different, younger, childish somehow. "Yes dear you are correct. I am actually in the process of getting younger. I got tired of being middle age you see? But anyway you're getting me distracted. I came to give you a new clue. A slightly simpler one to understand. I can't keep sending my servants to help you with your clues everytime can I?" So Aviv sent those people to mention Happiness Road! No wonder everything seemed to be so coincidental.
"Yes sweetheart. You seem not to understand. I want Isabella to become human again. I really do. She has changed I can feel it, but the true test shall come when you find me. Oh and before I forget, tell her she can move in front of you now. I don't see a problem seeing as you already know the secret right? Don't you just love the name Sharon! And trees!" I mentally backtracked, wondering about the abrupt subject change.
"Well I must be going. I'm due for a swim in a couple minutes. Good-bye!" I could see her departing.
I called out to her mentally, "Wait!You didn't give me the clue!"
"Oh but I did." And then she was gone and I felt myself returning to the real world.
I opened my eyes to see Edward looking down at me anxiously, but I paid him no mind, instead focusing on Bella.
"She said you can move." She stayed still as stone. "I'm serious Bella she told me, 'Tell her she can move in front of you now. I don't see a problem seeing as you already know the secret'." I was met again with silence and an empty look. Edward decided to intercede then.
"Alice are you sure?This isn't something we want to joke about. This could be Bella's life."
I sighed exasperated. "Bella don't you trust me?"
It started out small. Bella moved her index finger slightly and then waited for what she thought was the inevitable turning into dust. When nothing happened she moved her whole hand, her eyes shining in wonderment. She then turned her head to look at me and smiled brightly.
"Oh Alice!" She cried out. "I can't believe it!"
"Neither can I." Bella and I looked at Edward. I had a scowl on my face. I was upset he would have so little faith in me to think I would risk Bella's life. He wasn't the only person that loved Bella, albeit not in the same way.
"Edward isn't this great?" Bella cried happily. "I'm one step closer to being human again."
Edward's expression matched Bella's. He was just happy to see her happy. Their eyes met and they couldn't seem to break away. I didn't mind but their love for each other reminded me of my Jasper and I had to break it up.
"I'm sorry to interrupt but Aviv gave me a clue, but there's a problem."
Edward broke the eye contact first and turned to me. "Great what's the clue?"
"Well there's the problem. I'm not sure."
Edward was incredulous."You're not sure? Well what did she say?"
I relayed our whole meeting in my mind to Edward. Bella,reveling in her new found freedom, was still jumping around in front of me.
"I think that the trees and the name Sharon should mean something. I have a feeling Aviv isn't usually that random." Bella said smiling, happy to be able to give her input while I was there.
" What do trees and Sharon have in common?" Edward mused.
"Let's see, maybe a girl named Sharon lives in trees, or maybe it's a type of tree. A Sharon tree?" I suggested, just throwing out ideas as they came to me.
"Alice those are both kind of unlikely, but we'll keep those in consideration. I was thinking of the trees. When you're in a city where's the one place you can count on there being trees?"
When neither Bella or I said anything Edward sighed as if our obtuseness was personal to him and that we were letting him down.
"A park or a forest! Seriously I expect more from you both."
Bella and I exchanged a look and simultaneously rolled our eyes.
"So what are you thinking? That Sharon is the name of a park or forest or something?And that Aviv is there?" Bella asked unbelieving. "It can't be that simple."
"Actually," I interceded. "It can. Remember Aviv told me she couldn't keep sending her servants to help us with the clues and that she had to start giving us easier ones? I just don't believe she would make them this easy."
"And why not Alice? You said she told you she wanted Bella to be a human again. Why wouldn't she make our last clue easier?" Edward reasoned.
"I guess you're right." I admitted.
"Okay now that that's settled all we have to do is find the Sharon park or forest. Alice check and see if it's on the map."
I checked and saw it instantly. "Sharon National Park. It's only a couple miles from here."
BPOV
I wanted to jump up and down just because I could in front of Alice now. And also because this was it. Sharon National Park was where my fate would be decided. I just knew. I tried to pinpoint my emotions but there were so many. I was excited, relieved, frightened, and most of all I was nervous, but not for the reason I should be.
I was nervous because what if when I turn human again Edward loses interest in me. I knew myself well and knew the love I felt for him was no transient thing. I was in this for the long haul, but there was no way for me to tell if Edward felt the same.
My thoughts were interrupted by Alice.
"Bella do you think when you return to human size that your clothes will grow with you, or should we maybe get you some clothes?"
I smiled. Leave it to Alice to think about clothes at a time like this. "No Alice I think my clothes will grow with me seeing as they shrunk with me when I was changed."
She just nodded thoughtfully. "I still think we should stop when we get to that market place. It's only 2 minutes away. Better safe then sorry right?" I just nodded knowing there would be nothing I could do when it came to Alice and shopping. Edward must have felt otherwise though.
"Alice, Bella doesn't need clothes and in order for her to wear those clothes she has to be human, so I figure maybe the most important thing is getting her to Aviv as fast as possible."
Alice sighed, "Fine."
"We aren't very far." Edward announced. "I can smell the trees. Sorry to let you down Alice but I smell Oak, Maple, and Sycamore but no Sharon tree." He snickered, and I put a hand over my mouth to cover my laughter.
"I was just throwing out ideas." She said icily.
"Sure, sure."
I let them squabble and began to think about what life would be like as a human again. I wondered if I would even recognize myself. I was so used to the porcelain me that I saw when I happened to pass a mirror. I wonder if Alice and Edward will let me stay with them. Will I be able to go to school? I never did finish and I always wanted to go to college. What if... I was interrupted by Edward.
"We're here"
And as I looked around I saw the sign reading Sharon National Park. I could almost feel that this was the right place and that Aviv would be here. And the rest of my human life would start here.
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