Phase One – An Act

I was sitting in the lounge flipping over the few pages of Fashion Magazines that the house had. Mind you, these are the only magazines around the house, except for the Architecture Magazines that Esme, my mother-in-law, has around. Flipping through those magazines can give you a headache even though vampires can't get headaches. Architecture magazines were fun to read, only to the extend when you were completely bored.

"Bella !" Oh, I heard her loud and clear alright. The sweetest sound that I welcomed to my ears, and when her scent hit me I thought I was already up in Heaven. I love everything about her. Her scent, her voice, her slender and petite body, the way she walks, absolutely everything about her. I love how I always get to spend my time with her now that I am a part of the family, but there was one problem though, I can't call her my Alice.

"Alice, you know where I am." I answered in a normal volume knowing that she would hear me. Really she didn't need to call my name out so loudly, not when I was about to imagine that she'd be calling out my name while…..I quickly slapped myself, I didn't want to think about it when Alice might see it. Not that I have decided on doing that to her, but a decision was still a decision and she would see it nevertheless.

"Hello, m'dear Bella." Alice said in her sweetest tone as she bent down and placed a soft kiss upon my forehead. The kiss was quick but I could feel it lingering on my cold, hard marble skin. That was the downside to being a vampire; your skin wouldn't be warm.

"Hey, Alice." I tried to keep my tone steady, especially when that soft friendly kiss pretty much took my breath away. I wondered if she knew what effect she had on me. I wondered if I should tell her. No, I won't tell her, I don't want to make it all awkward for us.

"What ya up to?" Alice asked in that sweet tone of her, but added a little hint of curiosity in it. I smiled and turned to face as, our faces were merely a couple inches apart but she didn't seem to be pulling away from me. If I could blush at that moment then my cheeks would have been crimson by now.

"Just reading one of your magazines since there isn't any different one other than yours and Esme's." I answered with a light scowl but I was only teasing. Alice must have seen the playful spark in my eyes, because she giggled in that melodious tone of hers.

"You could buy your own you know, keep you from reading something that you don't want to." She was right, I could always buy the magazines that I'd want to read, but the problem was, what would I buy exactly? I shook my head before turning to look down at the Fashion magazine that I had put down on my lap.

"I could but I don't read magazines even when I was still a human." I felt a slight pain after saying it. I missed being a human, I admitted that. I missed having to go out into the sun, when there was a sunny day, and feel the warmth of the sunlight on my skin. I missed having to hug Charlie without hurting him. I missed being clumsy, that was the most embarrassing thing that I could have ever missed. As if she could read my mind and empathize on my pain, Alice wrapped her short petite arms around me and pulled me into her gentle embrace.

"Let's go out and do something fun, so you wouldn't be here reading something that you're going to experience later." I could feel her breath on my cold, porcelain face. And like I said before if I could blush I would have done it by now. My breath got caught in my throat for a second when I could smell her scent so close to me. The effect having her arms around me had already gotten me to melt, and I was glad that I wasn't standing up or I would have fall or something.

"You mean, let's go out and do some shopping?" I asked with a low whine in my tone. I didn't like shopping and all Alice could ever do was shop. Shopping was her favorite thing to do, next to talking then annoying other people. I couldn't blame her though, not when I love her so much that I practically didn't care if she'd drag me to the end of the world just to buy a pair of red Stiletto Heels. Actually, I'd be willing to let her drag me anywhere around the world to buy ridiculously expensive shoes or clothing. In truth, I only wanted to spend more time with her.

I pulled out of Alice's embrace and instantly regretted from doing so. I grabbed the magazine on my lap and tossed it on the coffee table before standing up. I turned around to face her and I swore I could feel my knees buckle beneath me at the sight of her. Her lips were pursed out in a very adorable pout. Her beautiful honey golden eyes were wide and they looked like they were about to shed tears. Her lips however trembled, completing the most adorable puppy dog look that I have ever seen. She knew how much I disliked shopping, she knew how much I didn't want to go and be her doll – although I would love to be her dressing up doll – but she wanted to go, and the evident in her facial expression right now was enough to show how much she really wanted to go.

"Come on Bella, we have absolutely nothing to do while the boys are out hunting." Right, I almost forgot about that. Carlisle, Emmett, Jasper and Edward had gone 'hiking' ever since two days ago. That left her with Alice, Rosalie, Esme and her daughter Renesmee. However, Renesmee was always with Jake so I didn't really need to worry about her, that much anyway. Rosalie only starting to like me because I had a child, and she was making it look like Renesmee was her own child but I didn't care, at least she did care for me while I was carrying Renesmee and that was all good to me. Normally it would be Rosalie sitting here reading magazines, while I go off and call Charlie. The situation had been reversed without my knowledge, but Rosalie wasn't making a call, she was having fun with Esme, going shopping and all the likes. Alice was now with me, alone, and she wanted to go shopping.

"We can do something else instead of shopping you know.." I tried my hardest not to give into that adorable look on Alice's face. Alice wasn't going to give up, this I knew; having to spend so much time with her – day and night- pretty much got me to know her from inside out. All she needed to do now was to wait for her cuteness to sink in, and for me to drown into it.

Five seconds later.

"Okay Alice, you win again." I said with a sigh as I tried to make it sound like I really couldn't be bother with the whole shopping trip, but I have my reason to look forward to it. One, I really can't resist the most adorable puppy dog face I've ever seen in my life. Two, this is Alice that I'm talking about, and I love her so much that it pains me to be acting like everything is fine, when it's not. Three, I want to spend as much time with her as I can, until the boys come home.

Alice grinned and at that moment I could feel my frozen heart did a big leap. Why was it that only Alice could do it, and not Edward? Like seriously, Edward is my husband after all and he couldn't even make my frozen heart try to make a beating sound? Maybe I can do that to him since I know how much he loves me, but it looks like I have fallen quite hard for Alice now. I wonder when I started to develop my feelings for Alice. I began to ponder around the question and let Alice pull towards her Porsche. I climbed inside without a second thought as Alice joined me at the driver side. The drive to wherever Alice was taking me was peaceful since Alice was humming softly. Now I got the time to find the answer to my earlier question. When have I fallen for Alice Cullen?