Chapter 4

A/N: Sorry for taking so long to update. I left my notebook full of plot plans for each chapter at my father's house and won't be going there till next week so… I really didn't know what to write for this but decided that it won't be so hard. So enter Alice Cullen….

Edward POV:

I stood outside of LAX, waiting for my personal assistant Felix to come out with my sister. I wore a hoodie and Ray Ban sunglasses on my eyes so that no one would recognise me, I just wanted to get her and head back to my apartment where she would be staying while she's here.

Alice walked out of the air port with Felix following after her, carrying her bags. She ran over to me and threw her tiny arms around my neck. "I missed you so much!" she whispered in my ear. "I'm so glad to see you."

"The feeling's mutual Tinkerbell", I replied with a smile.

The ride back to my apartment was a quiet one. Alice didn't say a word, which worried me. My little sister loved to talk about anything and everything.

I took her bags inside and told Felix that he had the rest of the day off as I planned to spend it at home. He reminded me that I had to call Emmett and left.

I showed Alice my apartment and helped her settle in the guest room. She said that she had to take a shower so I left, leaving her to herself.

I ventured into the living room and plopped down on my bean bag, grabbed the remote and flicked through the channels on my wide screen television. I stopped at Entertainment Daily News and sighed with exasperation when I saw that today's 'Celeb Gossip Corner' was centered on me and Bella. The show's host: Mike Newton and his co-host: Jessica Stanley were talking about my speculated romance with my co-star. I increased the volume and listened to what they were saying.

"So Mike", said Jessica with a wide smile, displaying her pearly white teeth. "Bella Swan and Edward Cullen, huh?"

"What about 'em?" asked Mike.

"They've been spending a lot of time together lately", replied Jessica.

"Yeah, they were pictured together at Jane Volturi's birthday party, on a lunch date at Marcus's dinner and a few weeks before that I heard that they were visiting Cullen's parents in Alaska."

I snorted. Mike was right about the first two but I've never taken Bella to visit my parents!

I heard the clearing of someone's throat and turned to look behind to see my sister watching me with observant eyes. "So Eddie, when were you going to tell me about your new girlfriend? You are dating Bella Swan, right? Or have the paparazzi spun up a fake story about you?" she demanded.

I sighed. This was the kind of Alice I was used to. "For your first question, I was planning to tell you soon. For the second one, yes, I'm dating Bella and for the third one, the paparazzi are only wrong about me taking Bella to meet Mom and Dad."

"Oh", her face broke out into a grin. "This is sooo cool! You're dating a real person this time! I won't have to deal with vultures like Tanya anymore and just imagine how ecstatic Mom'll be!"

"Yeah… yeah… whatever", I shrugged her off. "So sit down Tink and tell your big brother all about school."

She slid onto the sofa and fidgeted with a bracelet on her hand. She looked worried and tired. "Promise me you won't get angry about something?" she asked nervously.

Hmm, I wonder where she's going with this. "I promise."

"Peter and I broke up!" burst out Alice.

I'm sure I looked genuinely shocked. "What? Why?"

Peter had been Alice's boyfriend since freshman year in high school and they'd gone to Dartmouth together last year. They weren't living together but they were a serious couple and everyone was sure that he was going to propose to her really soon. I wasn't happy about my lil' sis having a boyfriend but Peter was a good guy, so I dealt with it.

She grimaced. "My long-time boyfriend, whom I loved very much wanted to take our relationship to the next level and I wasn't ready for that kind of intimacy… so I…"

"You broke up with him?" I asked hopefully, praying to all the kind spirits that my sister hadn't gotten under her boyfriend's pressurizing and slept with him.

"No. I talked to him and he said that he understood what I was saying. He said that we would wait as long as I wanted to. But one day after his football game, he asked me to meet him at a nearby bar and I did. His team had won and he said that he wanted to celebrate; he was already drunk by the time I got there and when I told him that I was heading back to my dorm, he said that he would walk me there. Outside my room, he pushed me against the wall, saying that his idea of a perfect celebration was taking his girlfriend's virginity…"

I stood up and began pacing around the room. "That son of a bitch!" I swore. "How dare that fucking idiot do that? I'll rip his face off for treating you like that. I'm going home this summer anyway and when I see him, I'll… I'll kill with him! What happened?"

Alice bit her lip. "Umm, you remember that you left your baseball bat while you were visiting me?" she asked.

"Yes. What does it have to do with anything?"

"Well, it was lying against the door and I kind of hit him in the balls with it. Then I called campus security and had him escorted out of my room."

The next hour was spent in complete silence. Neither Alice nor I spoke another word. I was proud at how Alice had acted in her situation; the little pixie knew how to take care of her and I was glad that I'd left my bat but at the same time I wanted to cause physical harm to her ex-boyfriend.

"So Edward", Alice interrupted my line of thoughts. "When will you introduce me to Bella?"

I sighed. "How 'bout tomorrow?"

A/N: So what did you think of this chapter? I originally didn't intend for Alice to have a dramatic experience but I felt the need to include it in this story. You'll find out reasons for it later.

Alice will meet Bella in the next chapter and it'll be in Bella POV.

Review please!