Isle Esme
We walked to the little house deep into the jungle. It was almost an exact replica of the one in Forks. Just smaller. Lucky for me, Esme ag reed to the huge walk-in closet suggestion. I unpacked some of my stuff.
"What do you want to do, Alice?" I really had no idea. I shrugged, and sat down on the edge of the bed. He came up and rubbed my shoulders. My death-or quoting Edward, "or whatever it is we do"-was beginning to seem inevitable. And I hadn't even had a vision about it-well, again-yet!
"Alice…" Apparently he couldn't find anything to say either. So we just sat there. Finally, I couldn't stand doing nothing anymore. I got up, and just walked out to the beach. I stood at the edge of the sand, and looked out to the ocean. Jasper came up from behind, and spun me around.
"Alice, right now you're being completely inevitable. I can't stand it! You are going to be okay. Stop thinking otherwise…" But I was already in the vision before he got halfway through the sentence.
I was back in the same meadow from the previous visions. I waited for Jasper to come out from behind me, but he didn't. Maria was walking out from the bush ahead of me.
"Ah, little Alice. Jasper isn't here anymore. He abandoned you. Hmm. Maybe he doesn't care? Huh. Well, I might as well go through with killing you now. Hmm. I really wanted to torture him by having to see you die. Well, I guess I can't be that greedy. One person's pain will have to do. I'll try and make this quick. But of course, you can't rush the burning…just a setback. Goodbye, Alice." The burning began faster this time. An earsplitting scream erupted from the forest. No, wait. That was mine. And Jasper never came through the trees.
The second I was conscious again, I sprinted away from him and back to the house. I ran in on the bed and pulled a pillow over my face. He was calling after me. A few seconds later he was in the room, shaking me to come out and talk to him. He finally pulled the pillow off.
"Alice! What in hell is wrong?" he said. Well, more like screamed. I just began sobbing in his arms. He let me for a few minutes, then made me explain the vision.
"Alice. I'm not planning on leaving any time soon. You'll be fine," he told me. The decision was already made, I thought. Good he wasn't Edward. I was tired, but I didn't want the view to get worse. I wasn't looking forward to dying yet again.
"Alice, you don't have to sleep if it'll get worse. But you're pretty tired." I just shrugged. I hadn't made my choice yet. It would be healthier to just sleep. That was the one upside. The vision might get worse. The one downside. I decided I'd live if it got worse. So I laid down on the bed, and closed my eyes. Jasper leaned back and stroked my hair.
It was the next day when I woke up. Woke up hyperventilating. I had the same vision from yesterday on the beach. But at least it didn't get worse. Jasper wasn't in the room, but he left a note next to me on the bed.
Alice,
I'm so sorry, you can scream at me when I get back, but I'm starving. I went back to the mainland to hunt, but I should be back around eleven. I'm sure Esme wouldn't appreciate it if I killed the cleaning crew. I'll be back as soon as possible. I love you beyond your knowledge.
~Jasper
I looked at the clock. It was only about nine-thirty. I laid back on the bed, and stared up at the ceiling. I don't know how long that went on. I heard something in the front, but it couldn't be Jasper. He'd already be in here, thanks to my "inevitable attitude". the cleaning crew wasn't due for another three days. This sent me into panic mode again. Which went into a total overload when Maria walked in.
"Why hello, Alice. Where's Jasper? Oh, wait. He finally came up with some reason to leave you, didn't he?"
"Yeah. He decided I wasn't good enough for him because he went on a hunting trip. The ultimate reason for vampires to breakup." The sarcasm came out better than I'd planned. She looked more determined, since Jazz'd be back soon.
"Goodbye, Alice." She'd said it so many times in visions. But this was a thousand times worse. She attacked, and I weakly dodged. The fight went on like that for a while, her hitting, me dodging. Until I was finally out of energy. Then she hit me, and the next thing I knew I was on the ground. She cornered me, and was about to burn me. Until Jasper showed up in the doorway.
"Alice!" I just smiled weakly. The next thing I knew, he was destroying Maria. After that, I blacked out.
"Alice! Come on, wake up! Alice!" Jasper was screaming. My eyes slowly fluttered open. The light streamed through the blinds. The white walls seemed grey in the shade.
"Jasper?" I muttered.
"Right here."