Decision

"It's going to be okay," I cooed. Jasper helped me walk into the cafeteria, his hand under my elbow, as we all walked in a tight clan. Rosalie and Emmett in the lead, me standing beside Edward. Rosalie, of course, didn't truly have her heart in this like the rest of this.

"Of course it is," he muttered. Why must he be so uncooperative? We're just trying to help; we really care about him.

"She's not here yet," I focused on Bella's future, which was a little bit difficult considering I don't actually know her, and my visions work better with people I'm more familiar with, "but the way she's going to come in…she won't be downwind if we sit in our regular spot."

"Of course we'll sit in our regular spot. Stop it, Alice. You're getting on my nerves. I'll be absolutely fine."

I blinked, not knowing what to say in response. Jasper helped me sit, and I turned to focus back on Edward.

"Hmm," I studied his face, instead of my visions, "I think you're right." I have to admit, that did surprise me just a little bit.

"Of course I am," he grumbled. I wish he would stop saying that, 'of course'. According to my visions, thankfully he would. He turned to look at Jasper, who grinned at him. I could tell he was thinking something less than encouraging, so I slapped his arm and shook my head. Why make this even harder?

I searched the room for Bella Swan, only knowing what she looked like from the visions I'd had in the car the day Edward left…I flinched. I didn't like to think about that. From then on, I refused to. I didn't see her, though many of the other girls look similar from behind. Long dark hair wasn't very uncommon in Forks.

Besides us, there is no real fashion here at all, to be honest. Why get a fancy expensive haircut when you have less than 400 peers to impress? Why buy an extravagant wardrobe, for that matter? I simply cannot look less then perfect; clothes wise that is anyways. I have a fashion sense, might as well use it.

"Anything new?" Jasper wondered aloud. I was curious too; I hadn't taken precaution before and checked to see if she would gossip about Edward to her new friends.

"Nothing," Edward replied, "She…must not have said anything."

We were all surprised. Any normal human being would have gone off and told somebody that a strange boy had glared at her, or possibly offended her, maybe even scared her. Especially since all the girls at Forks High School found Edward so attractive, I hardly think Bella is an exception.

"Maybe you're not as scary as you think you are," Emmett commenting, laughing at the attempt, "I bet I could have frightened her better then that."

Edward rolled his eyes. I couldn't help smiling. Brotherly bickering, Edward was officially back.

"Wonder why…?" Emmett added. He was referring to the fact that Edward apparently can't read Bella's mind. Edward had told us last night and nobody knows the reason why. She's so lucky. It would be nice to have some privacy in my own head once in a while.

"We've been over that," Edward answered, "I don't know."

"She's coming in," I quietly interjected. Edward didn't move. "Try to look human," I reminded him.

"Human, you say?" Emmett opened his hand, a snowball securely snuck into his fist. Due to his body temperature, the snowball had turned into an ice block. He looked at Jasper, but I knew better than that. I looked into the future and saw what he had planned. Emmett chucked the ice chunk at me in the blink of an eye; I nonchalantly flicked it

away from my face. I accidentally used a little too much force and sent the ice shooting across the cafeteria at an invisible speed, destroying the ice block and the brick it crashed into.

The tables of people near the incident turned to look at the damage. They searched the room to see who could have possibly thrown that, but stopped a few tables before us. Although Emmett would be the most likely perpetrator, being the giant that he is, nobody would dare look at us.

"Very human, Emmett," Rosalie sneeringly replied. "Why don't you punch through the wall while you're at it?"

"It would be more impressive it you did it, baby," he said in return.

Edward was grinning like an idiot, so I asked Jasper, "How's he feeling?"

"Nervous and tense," he answered, "As you'd expect."

"Good," I lied, "Otherwise it looks like he's having some sort of an attack."

I continued to study his face. He didn't notice, considering he was busy eavesdropping on Bella. After a while, he looked away and his face went from a stupid grin to intense pain. Emmett laughed, also taking notice of his new facial expression, while I frowned. What is it now?

Why sit here wondering when I could find out myself? I could be an eavesdropper if I wanted to and that's all I wanted at the moment. Edward composed his facial expression, but I knew he hadn't really forgotten about whatever it was he was worrying about.

I spotted Bella standing near the lunch line and listened intently on the conversation she was currently having with Jessica Stanley.

"Aren't you hungry?" Jessica asked her.

"Actually, I feel a little sick." She spoke quietly, but I could still hear her fairly well.

If she really were sick, then she would probably have to miss a few days of school and Edward could prepare longer for her return. I felt bad hoping for her to be ill, but she was a stranger, after all. Edward was my brother and he needed all the breaks he could get.

I watched as the two, or three as Mike was standing with them, make their way to their usual table, just as I'd said. I was interrupted with a vision, a small one but still a distraction.

I elbowed Edward. She's going to look, act human.

Edward had reverted back to his goofy grin, his teeth clenching behind it.

Emmett noticed the difference, "Ease up, Edward. Honestly. So you kill one human. That's hardly the end of the world."

I stiffened as well. Edward would not kill Bella on my watch. She was kind, smart and caring, certainly not one deserving of death.

"You would know," Edward retorted.

I almost gasped. I didn't like thinking about murdering innocent humans, even the not so innocent ones. I'd never killed a human and I never would.

Emmett just laughed, though. "You've got to learn to get over things. Like I do, " he advised, "Eternity is a long time to wallow in guilt."

Oh Emmett, why are you advising him to kill a sweet young girl? I had been concealing my own ball of ice. Now being the perfect opportunity to shut Emmett up, and get my revenge, I threw mine right at Emmett's unprepared face.

He was surprised for a second, then quickly grinned.

"You asked for it," he replied. I watched as he moved closer to me, leaning across the table, and wagged his wet icy hair at me. The ice was more water by this time, no longer kept frozen by my cold skin.

"Ew!" Rose remarked as we both leaned back in our chairs to avoid the shower of cold water.

I laughed, taking this opportunity to finish my plan of distracting everyone from poor Bella Swan. As they say, laughter is contagious, and soon my whole family was laughing with me. I continued to laugh, but held my tray up for protection as Bella looked over at us.

Edward turned back to concentrate on Bella.

"Jasper," I asked, no longer needing to continue the charade, "How's he feeling now?"
"Frustrated," he said quickly, "Just frustrated."

Well that's not good. I decided to listen to Bella's conversation again.

"Edward Cullen staring at you," Jessica quietly giggled into Bella's ear.

Bella didn't turn to see for herself. Instead, she asked, "He doesn't look angry, does he?"

I was hardly surprised. Of course she had noticed, she just hadn't blabbed about it. I knew I liked her.

"No," she replied, "Should he be?"

"I don't think he likes me," she said, putting her head on top of her arms that lay across the cafeteria table.

"The Cullens don't like anybody…Well they don't notice anybody enough to like them," Jessica told her, "But he's still staring at you."

"Stop looking at him," Bella ordered.

Jessica chuckled as she looked away from us, from Edward.

Bella didn't look at us the rest of lunch. I focused on her future. Even if she were actually sick, she would still be attending Biology regardless. I switched over to Edward's future, seeing that he would go as we said. From what I could tell, Edward would do fine. A huge weight was lifted from my shoulder, the other one ready to disappear after Biology actually finished.

Sooner than I expected, lunch was over. Edward stayed seated, so did we. I was eager to tell him my prediction, though they weren't set in stone.

"I…" How should I word this? More hesitantly then needed, I decided. "think it's okay. Your mind is set," that much I knew, "I think you'll make it through the hour." I hoped he would. I had enough confidence in him to be almost sure he would, but without my visions as backup.

"Why push it, Edward?" Jasper added, clearly disagreeing with my advice. "Go home. Take it slow."

I gave him a stern look and another slap on the arm. Why does he always have to tell Edward the wrong thing to do? Him and his stupid pride. Now he's not the only "weak" one, why not rub it in?

"What's the big deal?" Emmett commented. "Either he will or he won't kill her. Might as well get it over with, either way."

"I don't want to move yet," Rosalie protested. "I don't want to start over. We're almost out of high school, Emmett. Finally."

As Edward mulled it over, I focused on his future. "No, Rose," I said, "I think it really will be okay. It's…firming up. I'm ninety-three percent sure that nothing bad will happen if he goes to class."

I looked over at him, contemplating what he had decided that so drastically changed my vision and made it clearer.

"Go to class," he instructed, getting up and walking to class, without so much as a glance backwards. I know that I was rooting for him to face his problem, but I couldn't help worrying. What is that 7 percent came back to haunt me?

Authors Note !!!

Hey! Hope you enjoyed this chapter, it's pretty long in my opinion :D This chapter was really hard/easy/fun because it was mainly made from the dialogue from Midnight Sun (meaning I think it's the best chapter, hah) and I welcome you to compare them! :

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Also, the middle part was written when I was really tired...so if it's weird maybe, I'm sorry :D

also, again, plz excuse grammatical errors.

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Bc I NVR thought I'd even write this much of this story, for I have nvr finished a non-short story by myself! But thanx to all ur support and reviews, I've continued it.

I would have luved to rite through one of most famous scenes, the biology scene, that takes place after this, but I REALLY wanted 2 get this out 2 u guys! I've been working on it like crazy since...well yesterday actually =D but I did put a lot of work into it

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