Disclaimer: I own nothing when it comes to Twilight or the songs I make reference to. I know… I'm sad too!

A/N: This chapter takes place about one month after the previous chapter (sometime in late September). Don't freak, you didn't miss anything that you wanted to see.

APOV (Alice, is BACK!)

"Two centimeters higher on the left."

Jasper was hanging one of the newest art pieces that Esme had purchased when she and Carlisle went to Berlin this summer. She had gotten it for Rosalie's room, but I convinced her to give it over to me.

He adjusted the frame in a second and came to stand by me to see his handiwork. "Looks good, what do ya think?"

"I love it, thank you." I kissed his cheek and then lingered wrapping my arms around him. We stood for a few minutes before I felt him stiffen.

"Edward?"

"Edward." Damnit. "Alice…" I struggled to control my emotions for Jasper, but Edward was wearing on my last nerve. Every time he came in the house Jasper would feel his despair, guilt, or loneliness and then I would end up with the same emotions. Whether he meant to or not, he was taking my husband away from me.

"I'm really, really getting tired of this." It was an understatement; I was surprised, I hadn't assaulted him yet.

"Alice, he can't control his emotions anymore. It's not just the guilt over Bella; it's the guilt of what he's doing to everyone else, including you."

I breathed deeply, while I glared at Jasper. He wanted me to apologize. I didn't want to apologize. I wanted to continue to yell at him. He was being brainless, and now it didn't even matter. Twenty years had gone and passed; it was too late for my vision to come true now.

"Alice, I know you love Bella, but you also love Edward. I know you want to defend her and punish him for her, but that's not what she would want… and you know that."

"I do not know that." I was trying to push away the calm, forgiving waves he was sending me. "Don't do that!"

"I'm sorry. But you know that Bella would want you to forgive your brother and help him be okay. It's been twenty years; she has to have moved on by now. Let him off the hook." He smiled at me and squeezed my shoulders. "I think it will help. Please, for me?"

I glared at him for several minutes and thought about what he was asking. "You're lucky I love you." I didn't attempt to smile but I knew he felt my acceptance to his plea.

"I know, I'm lucky."

***

I walked out of mine and Jasper's room and walked downstairs to Edward's. Edward was on the first floor while the rest of us were on the second; it worked out for the best the past few years like this. We decided to continue the pattern in Englewood for the next few years as well.

I knocked on his door. "Alice."

What, no 'come on in Alice' or 'glad to see you, please come in and talk with me?' I knew he heard my thoughts and mentally apologized. That's what I came to do after all.

"Can I talk to you, Edward?"

"Why?" We hadn't talked in a while, basically because every time he moped, I purposefully brought up Bella. I was making Rosalie look like the saint of sisterly love.

About you. And me. And me being a bit of a bitch.

He turned from the window, for the first time looking in my direction. He lifted an eyebrow but he eyes were still unfocused.

Fine, about me being a huge bitch, happy?

"Not at all. Go ahead." Short, few word sentences. I was really getting stick of that, too.

"I'm sorry. I'm not saying that I take back anything I ever said or did, but I am sorry that I held out for so long. And I'm sorry you didn't find her." I'm really sorry about that.

He looked at me but said nothing.

"You're my brother and I'm sorry your suffering but, and I don't mean this to be insensitive, but you looked for her for fourteen years and you never found anything. She… she had to have moved on by now." That's what you wanted, right? I wasn't trying to be cruel. I felt bad that she probably had a life away from him. A life, probably with a husband and kids. But that was what he wanted for her.

"I made a mistake." He looked back to the window and I felt my emotions stray to anger.

Good God Edward. I swear.

I felt a wave of calm from Jasper; he was in the living room waiting for me. "I'm sorry; I really am but Edward…"

"I know Alice; I have to live with it. Just like I have to live with the fact that I killed people. I have to live with both of those regrets for eternity; among many others"

He was feeling even sorrier for himself now. Super job, Alice. Fantastic.

"Edward, what can I do?" I was sincere; I really didn't want him to suffer. He deserved to move on as she must have.

"You can't see her anymore, Alice."

"I get glimpses but its weird… she looks the same." I showed him my latest glimpse of Bella. She was sitting in a room with a shabby couch reading a biology book. She looked bored, practically to tears. It was blurry and short, barely worth mentioning.

"That's old; Bella wouldn't look like that anymore."

"I know, but I don't see the past." I don't understand it either, Edward. I just see what I see.

"She looked beautiful, even more than I remember…"

"Edward." I may hate it, but you did what you thought was best, and… it was.

"You don't believe that."

"No, I don't. Sorry."

"It's okay, I don't believe it either. I don't know why I did."

"I do, you wanted her to have a normal, human life."

"That was dense."

"Yup." Sorry… My sympatric side had been dormant for a long time.

I stood there staring out the same window Edward was for a few minutes when Edward finally spoke.

"I'm sorry Alice."

"What?" I was confused; I was the one who was apologizing and I wasn't even doing a good job.

"I'm sorry I took her away from you, too; from everyone."

Thank you, Edward. It didn't change anything but I appreciated it none the less.

"We need you back, Edward."

"I'll try Alice, just give me the night. I'll really try tomorrow."

"Okay." What else could I say? I couldn't demand he start being the old Edward this very minute. He smirked for a tenth of a second at my comment and then looked back out the window.

"Tell Jasper: I'm sorry and thanks." He knew what made me come to talk to him, but I didn't need Jasper to tell me he didn't care. He wanted to repair what he did, he just didn't know how do to without her, without making it right with her first.

I walked out of Edward's room, shutting the door, and walked over to Jasper sitting on the white couch. Maybe we should change our preferences next time; I'm a little tired of white. I sat next to Jasper and put my legs across his lap as I leaned back against the oversized arm of the couch.

"Thank you, Alice."

"Did it actually do any good?" I couldn't imagine it helping in the least. I had snapped at him. I hadn't taken back anything I said. And I pretty much made him apologize to me.

"It helped. He still feels all the emotions for Bella, but not for you. Turns out that was a good chunk of it." Jasper smiled as he rubbed up and down my shins.

"I love you, Alice."

"I love you, too" We sat there for the next few hours while Jasper asked me questions about what I could see about the first day of school. Mainly we talked about our classes and how the students acted towards us. He was nervous every time we started out new, but he wouldn't have any problems with his control here.

***

"Are we ready?" Rosalie called from the front door. She was dressed in tight jeans and a black silk top. I had laid out everyone's clothes for the first day. I couldn't help it; we needed to make good impressions, especially since we were starting after the beginning of the semester.

We decided at the last minute to start the school routine, again. We hadn't done it since Richfort and after Edward left to search for Bella, we merely finished up high school and then just waited. We waited for him to either bring her back with him or for him to tell us to return to Forks; but he never found her. He searched for fourteen years and after that, we merely settled in the most uninhabited places for him.

Most of us traveled as couples. Always having at least two people there to keep him company; not that he wanted it. We just didn't want him running off to the Volturi or something like that.

"I think so, babe." Emmett looked around seeing everyone but Edward. "Well, almost…" It was weird to see Emmett down, but without Edward to tease or banter with, he was losing some of his edge. Rosalie wasn't taking that part very well.

Edward, please. I just wanted him to try.

Edward walked out of his room. He was dressed in what I picked out. He had a few notebooks clutched to his chest and pencils stuck into a side pocket in his dark wash jeans. His hair was unruly, which wasn't unusual since he didn't care much for appearance anymore; although it looked the same when he actually used to tame it. He had his car keys hanging from his index finger and swung them every few seconds.

Everyone was gaping at him; trying to lock their jaws so they wouldn't hit the floor.

"Ready?" He wasn't happy, or even Edward-happy, but he was putting in the effort.

Thanks, Edward.

He nodded his head and walked past us all to get into his new silver Volvo C30. It was a slightly different model than the one he had in Forks. Carlisle and Esme got it before we moved; hoping Edward would get out more.

He got into the driver's seat and put the key into the ignition. He looked at the steering wheel for a few minutes before looking back at all of us; still trying to regain control of our mouths.

"Oh, for the love of… just get in the damn car, before I go back inside." We all ran at vampire speed to the car. We were driving down our driveway within the next ten seconds.

***

We had a lot of overlapping classes this time around, especially Rosalie and Emmett. Every single class they had was together; from auto-shop to independent study at the end of the day. We all had gym together during 3rd period. Jasper and I had four classes together in total.

After 4th period, we all went to lunch and sat at the farthest table away; just like always. We all had our props in front of us and made a show the first day of actually eating some. Humans tended to lose interest after a few days of staring at us.

"Guys… I don't mean to be paranoid, but is it just me, or… is no one actually paying attention to us?" Emmett's tone was concerned as he held Rosalie's hand.

I looked around discretely, and too quick for anyone to actually notice. They did seem kind of… otherwise involved.

"I think you're right, Em." I told him, it was a bit creepy.

"There's a first." Jasper muttered under his breath, but Emmett was too concerned to care.

"Edward, what do you hear?" I asked him, although he seemed content to just stare at his pepperoni, 'poison' pizza.

"They aren't thinking of us. One girl, off in the corner, noted we were beautiful. She suspects were relatives."

"Well, yeah. We enrolled as a family." Emmett stated the obvious.

The bell rang and everyone went off in their own direction. Jasper walked me to biology on the way to study hall.

Two feet from the door, I froze. Jasper walked in front of me and pretended to hug me while hiding me during my vision.

I saw Edward. He was talking to a girl. Brown hair, long brown hair. They were outside the school. The girl turned to walk away from Edward and I saw her face.

"Oh my god. It's Bella."

Jasper released his grip and looked at me. "What?"

"It's Bella!" I jumped into his arms, hugging him for dear life. She's back.

A/N: Please don't kill me! I'm begging you. I know I promised Cullens but I never promised a Bella/Cullen or Renesmee/Cullen reunion in this chapter. Please, have mercy; I did deliver what I promised.

However, I do promise an interaction in the next chapter. Someone meets someone. Please no hate reviews. I promise to deliver.

With that said, sorry it's shorter, I just couldn't keep going or we would have stopped at an even worse part. Yeah, it's possible. LOL! Thank you to all of you who reviewed. I reached 300 reviews today which is why you get an early update.

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