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Chapter 3 Alice

I stood in my bedroom staring at my reflection in the mirror, Alice was on her way to the house and I wanted to at least look normal when I met her. I decided to go with some hip hugging jeans, a grey t-shirt and a blue hoodie, it was cold out today and I didn't want to freeze. My hair was left in loose curls and hung below my shoulders, as always but I really couldn't be bothered messing with it.

"Bells Alice is here." Charlie called up to me and I was instantly more nervous than I was five minutes ago.

"Okay dad I'll be just a sec." I replied before taking a deep breath and exhaling slowly.

"I can do this" I whispered to myself as I made my way down the stairs, careful not to lose my footing on the way down, that really wouldn't be the best first impression.

When I reached the kitchen I saw my dad chatting to a pixie like girl who I assumed to be Alice. She was well dressed and had perfect skin, pale white. Her hair was dark, short and styled so it spiked out in all the right places and her eyes were the most amazing shade of brown, no not brown, they were almost golden. She was pretty damn spectacular not plain in any way, unlike me.

"Hey you must be Bella, I'm Alice and it's really nice to meet you." Alice said holding her hand out to me. I shook it politely and flashed a nervous smile in her direction.

"Hey." I replied shyly and I released her ice cold hand from mine, I figured it was because she had just come in from outside. Here in Forks you can be outside for just a second and you're freezing.

"So Bella what do you want to do today, this is going to be so much fun we haven't had anyone new in town for so long and my dad has told me a lot about you. Well just what Charlie has told him but you know." Alice chirped and I was beginning to feel like she would just carry on speaking regardless and there was nothing I could do about it.

"I'm not really familiar with the area so you can pick where we go." I suggested warmly and Alice seemed pleased by this as a huge smile beamed across her pixie features.

"Ooo I have so many places I can show you!" Alice said enthusiastically as she headed toward the front door and began to bounce up and down like an impatient child yet the way she moved was so graceful.

"Bye dad, I won't be back too late." I said as I headed to join Alice at the door.

"Back by 8 Bells then we can make dinner, you got your first day at school tomorrow remember." Charlie said in a fatherly tone. How could I forget that my first day of school was tomorrow.

"Yeah sure dad," I replied and then followed Alice out the front door into the cold Forks weather. On the up side it wasn't actually raining but it was freezing and the huge layer of clouds that filled the sky suggested that rain wasn't far away.

Once we were outside I followed Alice to her car and almost dropped to the floor when I saw it, no one in Forks drove any form of decent vehicle and here she was with one of the most amazing cars I have ever seen. I mean I don't know anything about cars so the make and model are a mystery to me but I do know a good car when I see one.

"Wow Alice how did you afford this?" I asked stupidly, of course she didn't buy it herself but I didn't really know what else to say.

"Oh Carlisle has a lot of savings, we all have a car." Alice chirped back politely in her melodic voice.

"All?" I asked as we climbed into the vehicle, well I climbed and Alice seemed to just appear in the driving seat but still.

"Oh silly me I forgot you were new by all I meant my sibling, well adopted sibling. There is Jasper, Rosalie, Emmett and Edward." Alice said simply.

I thought she was done explaining so I broke eye contact as she started to drive along but apparently I was wrong and Alice's melodic voice filled the car once more.

"They all go to Forks high, Edward and I will be in your year and might share classes with you at some point but Rosalie, Emmett and Jasper are all a year older than us." She continued as I sat without speaking.

"Jasper and I are a couple, as are Rosalie and Emmett, Edward is the only one without a partner but I'm sure he will find someone soon." Alice continued and I swear she looked at me as she finished her sentence. The again I was a little paranoid so probably not.

"You don't say much do you?" She said , interrupting my thoughts.

"Sorry I guess I'm just a little shy... Where are we going?" I asked trying to show an interest, I didn't want her to hate me it would make getting to school completely awkward and she did seem nice.

"Oh Port Angeles, it's really the only place near enough to Forks where there is something to do, we can look round some of the shops and then get you something to eat of course." Alice replied politely seemingly undeterred by my lack of speech.

"Okay." I said with a slightly forced smile, shopping had never been a favourite hobby of mine but Alice seemed like she would enjoy it so I wasn't about to complain.

The journey continued mostly in silence with Alice asking the odd question now and then, I did feel bad that I didn't have much to say to her but I wasn't the most forthcoming of people and since the accident cars made me a little nervous. I just laid back and closed my eyes and before long we had arrived in Port Angeles.

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"Bella.... Bella we're here." Alice chirped and I felt her shake me lightly. It occurred to me that I must have fallen asleep somewhere between Forks and here although I don't know how, it's not like it took that long to get here.

"You must have been tired, I hope you don't fall asleep on the way to school, class will be a nightmare!" Alice joked.

"I'll be fine, I just went to bed late last night. Where to first?" I asked trying to sound as enthusiastic as I could.

"Ooo the boutique over there then there is this cute bookstore that I have a feeling you'll love.... I mean I know I don't know you well but Charlie told Carlisle you like to read." She said so quickly that I almost couldn't understand what she was saying.

How had Charlie know I loved to read, he hadn't spend more than 2 weeks a year with me since I was 7. I guessed he must have seen my stockpile of books when we were moving my things... When we went into Renee's house...

Alice practically dragged me into the clothing store and started bustling around frantically muttering to herself. She threw a few items in my direction and guided me to the changing rooms to which I let out a loud grown.

"Sorry Alice it's just I'm not much of a shopper and I don't have that much money with me an-" She cut me off before I could finish my rant.

"Bella just try the items on please, they aren't that expensive and you don't have to buy any of them but you might like some of them and I really think they will look good on you." She chirped. Seriously I had met the girl like 2 hours ago and she was already picking out my outfits, she was either super confident or completely barking mad but for some reason I couldn't say no.

"Okay fine but I'm not buying anything." I said simply as I waling into the cubicle and closed the curtain behind me.

"Sure Bella." She replied and I swear there was a hint of smugness in her voice, did she know something I didn't? I shook my head of that thought as I tried on the items that Alice had taken the liberty to pick out..

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Here I was sat in Alice's car with two bags of shopping, 2 bags and I said I wouldn't buy anything. It turns out that I quite liked the blue blouse and Black skinny jeans that Alice had picked out for me and when I saw that they were affordable I decided to purchase them. It seemed that she knew my taste in clothes better than I did. I also bought two books at the book store and I will be returning there at some point, it was brilliant. We were supposed to go and eat but I really need to be getting home before Charlie sends out a search party.

"Alice do you mind if we skip the food, I need to get home before Charlie has an aneurism. I know he said be back by 8 but we left at 11 and it's now 6, he was probably expecting me back before now." I said kindly.

She sat with furrowed brows and seemed to be pondering something before she turned to look at me and soften her features. "Sure thing Bella but you must eat when you get home you haven't had anything all day." She said as she buckled up her seat belt and gestured for me to do the same, as if I was going to forget.

"Alice you haven't had anything to eat either, are you sure you're not hungry, if you are we can stop and get something It's just Charlie." I said, why was she concerned about my eating habits anyway, was I painfully thin?

"Oh Bella I'm fine, not hungry at all, in fact I had a huge breakfast before we left this morning I don't think I'll be able to eat anything else until later tonight." She replied with a smile.

We drove back to Forks in the dark, car headlights zooming passed us each one making me a little nervous but once we were back on the Forks roads traffic seemed to ease up and I felt less tense. I hated that Forks was so dark but at least the rain had held off for our trip.

Alice parked outside the driveway and insisted she walk me to my door. "Bye Alice." I said as I opened the door.

"Bye Bella, see you tomorrow." She replied. I was just about to go inside when she started to speak again.

"It's going to be so much fun and you can meet the rest of the gang tomorrow, don't worry I'm sure they are going to love you." She finished and then waved bye one last time as she headed off to her car and drove home.

I entered the house and locked the door behind me before going to find Charlie, I knew he would be sitting on the couch watching baseball so the living room was my first stop.

"Hey Bells did you have a good time with Alice?" He asked never taking his eyes of the t.v. screen.

"Yeah it was nice... Alice is nice." I replied and was interrupted by a rumble from my stomach.

"There's pizza in the oven if you're hungry." Charlie said as he heard my stomach growl.

"Thanks dad." I replied. I headed back through to the kitchen and placed the pizza in the microwave when Charlie called to me again.

"I'm glad you had a good time, Alice is a nice girl."

"Yeah she is." I called back as I waited for my pizza, I couldn't wait to eat thins and then go up to my room, I really needed an early night, especially if I was going to start school tomorrow. I just hoped that the nightmares wouldn't be too bad this evening.

"Dad I'm gonna take this upstairs and turn in, I'm really tired tonight." I said to Charlie.

"Okay Bells, sleep well." He called back but we both knew that I probably wouldn't. I headed up the stairs to my room and closed the door behind me ready for whatever tomorrow would bring.

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