In The Middle

There wasn't much to say that morning, especially not when Bella was eating her cereal. I didn't want to say anything, the sight of her eating was fascinating me. It didn't look like she was uncomfortable of me watching her eat, although I might have guessed that she had gotten used to it.

She finished her cereal, grabbed the bowl and went over to the sink to dump it in. She turned back to me, and was about to say something when the phone started ringing. She made a face, and of course, I was making a face too since I couldn't see who was behind the line. By not seeing, I meant I didn't foresee that the phone would ring.

Bella went to pick up the phone, and already I could hear the quiet angry voice of Jacob Black; the filthy mutt. I scoffed at his tone, and Bella turned to give me a stern look, in which I quickly turned away from her, pouting like a child that had been scolded by her mother.

"Yes, she's still here." Bella answered into the phone, her tone was annoyed then. I could hear every single thing that the mutt was saying to her, and it took that much of a control not to go over to her, snatch the phone, and hiss down at the speaker.

"For how long?" He asked, clearly annoyed by my presence around Bella no doubt.

"For as long as she'd like." Bella answered sharply, her eyes narrowing.

"At least be careful." His voice was soft now, and Bella sighed.

"Jake, Alice won't hurt me." She said matter-of-factly, before her eyes flickered to me and a smile was placed on her lips. I returned the smile.

"Yeah, yeah, what if she turned out to be her brother? What if she's going to leave you just like him?"

I growled towards the phone, and he must have heard the growl since he growled back, which caused Bella to pull the phone away from her ear quickly. She grunted, then pressed the phone back against her ear. Just one look at her, I could see that she was shaking. I quickly flitted towards her, taking her hand in my own and gave it a gentle squeeze. She relaxed, and turned to smile at me once again.

"Jake, she's different. If you can't accept that, I guess we have nothing to talk about." She half-shouted at the phone, and her body shook again. I felt bad for ruining her friendship with this mutt, but the mutt had no right in hurting her like that. At least it should really think about it speak.

"Just be careful." He said one last time before hanging up on her. How rude.

I turned my attention back to her, watching as she slowly placed the headset back on the holder, her eyes seemed distant and it worried me. "Bella?"

"Hmm?" Came her respond, and I sighed. She was thinking about something.

"What are you thinking about?" I asked. She sighed and pulled her hand out from my grasp, before turning to walk out of the kitchen.

"Well, I was…" She started but was interrupted by the phone. I groaned in annoyance and quickly grabbed for the phone. Of course, since I was giving Bella my complete attention, I didn't even see who was calling.

"Hello, Swan Residence." I said in my musical like voice. Then a voice that sounded familiar, so familiar that I frowned at it.

"Alice, is Charlie there?" Edward asked. Why in the world was he asking for Charlie?

"No, he's at the funeral. You don't normally ask for Charlie when…" I was cut off by the beeping. It was then that a vision hit me at full force, and I couldn't help but scream at the now deadline. "Edward! She's still alive! Don't you dare!"

It was no luck however, when he couldn't even hear me anymore. I cursed under my breath and turned to see a horrified look on Bella's face. Edward had called, and I didn't pass the phone to her. I had just committed a crime. Soon enough Bella lunged at me, grabbing my shirt in her hands and tugging at me like she was going to kill me.

"That was Edward? Why didn't you pass the phone to me? What is he doing? Alice!" She shrieked. Well, there was no time to be all angry. I quickly grabbed her hands, though trying as best as I could not to hurt her when I tried to tear her hands away from my shirt.

"Bella, he asked for Charlie, I was going to but he hung up on me. He's going to the Volturi, we have to hurry. And by hurry, I mean now!" I spoke too fast that I was afraid she didn't grasp any of my words. Fortunately, she did and she just nodded. She quickly wrote a note for Charlie while I exited the door to Carlisle's car. I was already in the car, revving up the engine while she ran towards me.

"Are we going to make it?" She asked as she sat herself down beside me, buckling herself. I sped off towards the airport, my hand quickly dialing my travel agent's number.

"Of course, if he can delay his decisions for a while." I quickly answered before pressing the phone against my ear. My agent quickly answered and I told him what I needed urgently. He quickly went to work when I hung up the phone, knowing that my tickets to Italy would be there when I arrive.

"Alice…is he…?"

I sighed and turned to meet her worried eyes. I tried to smile, but failed. She was soon to go back to Edward, but that didn't matter, we were both trying to save him from his idiocy. "He will be fine, Bella."

She sighed and nodded. I turned to face ahead, hoping that I wasn't too late to save my own idiot of a brother. He never did listen to anybody, let alone let them finish what they were about to say. And now he didn't even think about our family, what Esme would feel when he would turn to dust. His death would devastate our family, and it won't be the same anymore.

But not only that, I was stuck in the middle between Bella and Edward. What was I doing? Trying to get them back together? Well, it looked like it at this moment. I was relying on Bella to save Edward. So as soon as Bella would save him, everything would go back to normal between him and her. There was no me and her. There never was. Maybe the thought that it would happen had deluded my mind. That must be it, Bella was in love with Edward, and I was only her best friend.

A/N: Thank you for all of your reviews. =]

Edward is back in the picture, yay ! If you're an Edward x Bella girl, I'm sorry to disappoint but I'm going to kill him, muahahahaha -Cough- Actually, I'm not, just gonna crush him.

Once again I don't like this chapter, it's so much like the previous one, except Alice is being all negative. I guess I could have done worse, but I'm too tired to concentrate.