(Alice's POV)

I had so much to do for this wedding! I needed to order Bella's dress, not to mention my dress (none of us could have anything off the rack). Plus I also needed to plan out the guest list, and everything else that needed to go into planning this wedding!

I sat Bella and Jasper down in the living room. "Ok, so I need a guest list," I explained.

Bella said, "I don't want a big wedding. Plus, we couldn't have anyone from school come."

"True. So, just the family?"

"Yes."

Jasper added, "And the Denali clan. I know they'd want to come."

I wrote this all down. "Ok, now where the hell are you gonna have the wedding?"

"We haven't decided yet," Bella answered.

"Well you better decide fast," I said, a little irritated. The stress was getting to me.

Jasper, noticing my change in emotions, said, "Alice calm down! We can't have the wedding until at least winter break anyways. If we're out of school for too long people would get suspicious."

That just made me panic more. "Winter break? That's weeks away!"

Bella reached over the couch and put a hand on my shoulder. "Calm down. We're not having the wedding until at least the spring. Is that better?"

I took a few calming, unneeded breaths and nodded. Bella smiled. "Now don't you have a date to get ready for?"

I jumped up. "That's today?"

Jasper looked amused. "Yeah. It's Friday."

I glared and stuck my tongue out at him before grabbing Bella's hand and dragging her to my room.

She sat on my bed while I tossed clothes out of my closet, trying to decide what to wear.

Bella suggested, "Why don't you wear that cute babydoll tee you have with those new skinny jeans you bought?"

I froze and then smiled. "You. Are. A. Lifesaver!" I told Bella. I heard her laugh from outside my closet.

I put on what she suggested, my pink and black hounds-tooth print babydoll tee and my new skinny jeans.

I came out of the closet and modeled it for Bella. She thought for a minute before getting up and walking into my closet. She came out with a shirt. She tossed it to me. "Doesn't look casual enough. Wear this instead."

I looked at the shirt. It was my favorite black Adeline Street ribbed tank top. I put it on before Bella tossed something else at me. It was another Adeline Street garment. A pink cardigan. Perfect!

I threw the cardigan on and stood in front of my mirror. I liked it.

Bella handed me the one thing to complete the outfit. Shoes. Specifically my old traditional beat up Chuck Taylors. Normally, I never let shoes get this beat up, but these were too awesome to throw out. Plus Chucks always looks better beat up and faded. I've had my collection of Converse since the late eighties.

I quickly laced up my shoes before fixing my hair and reapplying my makeup.

I turned to Bella. "How do I look?"

"Fantabulous!"

I laughed. Bella never said stuff like 'fantabulous'. That was my thing.

I was about to leave the room but Bella stopped me. "Alice. Be careful."

I nodded. "I will. I'll tell him I ate before he picked me up and I'll be extra careful to block out my visions unless we're in the theater."

She smiled and hugged me. "Good luck."

I hugged her back. "Thanks."

We heard the doorbell ring and we both ran to answer it, so at least one of us could get there before Emmett did (where he would say something really embarrassing).

I got to the door first and opened it. The rest of the family had come to see who it was, minus Edward. All he ever did nowadays was stay holed up in his room.

Max looked a little intimidated at the amount of people standing in the doorway, but he got over it quickly and smiled at me. "Hey Alice."

I smiled back and opened the door wider to let him in. "Hey Max."

He stepped inside and looked around. "Wow. This place looks even bigger when it's not packed with people."

I laughed and led him and everyone else to the living room. Esme, who was always the polite one, asked him, "Can I get you something to drink, Max?"

"Oh. Uh. No thank you." He looked so cute! His normally black and bleached hair was now black and red, and still spiky. And he was wearing a Rancid shirt with skinny jeans and Converse that were more beat up than mine. His look was completed with heavy eyeliner and a faded black hoodie with various band patches sewn on the back.

Everyone sat down in the living room: Rosalie and Emmett on the floor, Max and I on one couch, Esme and Carlisle on the other, and Bella and Jasper sitting next to me.

Carlisle, acting like my father, asked, "So, how late are you kids going to be out?"

"Not that late. Maybe nine," Max answered nervously. "Does Alice have a curfew."

Carlisle was about to say something but Esme cut him off. "No curfew. Just go out and have fun."

Max and I stood up and left before Emmett could say anything embarrassing. But I still heard him say, "Use protection!" A moment of silence and then, "Ow!" I figured either Rosalie had hit him, or Bella had thrown something at him.

I followed Max out the front door to his car. His eye caught my bright yellow 911 Turbo. Jasper and Bella bought it for me for Christmas last year. Max stopped in his tracks and pointed at the car. "Is that yours?"

"Yep. I got it for Christmas last year." I smiled.

"Damn. It's better than my crappy car." He looked over at his beat up Camaro.

I shrugged. "Well, at least you can say you have a 'Bitchin Camaro'."

He laughed. "You like The Dead Milkmen?"

"I love 'em!"

We continued to walk to his car. I had to keep telling myself that he was human, to stop myself from running.

He held the passenger door open for me and I got in the car.

I was used to going fast, but I didn't really mind the slow speed.

Max asked me, "Wanna talk? Or listen to music?"

"How 'bout both?"

He laughed. "That works too." He fiddled around with the sound system for a minute. The band he picked was The Sex Pistols. Then he lowered the volume enough so we could talk.

"So... what movie do you wanna see?"

I thought about it. "I dunno. That new romantic comedy looked good."

"Cool. We'll see that then."

We were silent for a few minutes before Max said shyly, "You look really nice, Alice."

If I could, I probably would have blushed. "Aww. Thanks Max."

We got to the mall in fifteen minutes. If I were driving, it would have taken five.

Before I could get out myself, Max was opening my door for me. I stepped out of the car and smiled at him. "Thanks."

"No problem."

We walked inside the mall and headed for the theater.

He paid for the tickets.

"Um. You wanna get popcorn or something?"

"Oh. No thanks. I already ate."

He didn't say anything else. We just walked to the theater where the movie was showing.

We found good seats in the back.

While we waited for the movie to start, Max asked me, "So, who's your favorite band?"

"Too many to list."

He laughed. "Seriously. There's not one band out there that completely changed your life?"

I shook my head.

"Well, for me it was The Sex Pistols."

"Cool. The Sex Pistols are good."

"Good? More like amazing!"

I laughed. "True." Then I added, "So, you're a punk fan?"

"Yep. And I've been into it my whole life. I had a mohawk up until I was four."

"I can just picture that."

We stopped talking as the movie started.

Halfway through it, Max grabbed my hand. But something was off. He wasn't as warm as a human should be. But I didn't think anything of it. It was cold in the theater anyways.

I smiled and focused on the movie.

After it was over and we were out of the theater, Max asked me, "So... wanna walk around aimlessly for a while? Or do you wanna go home?"

I knew I had a shopping addiction that I didn't want him to find out about so I said, "Maybe it would be better if you took me home."

"Shopping addiction, huh?"

"How did you-"

"Jasper told me."

I rolled my eyes. "I'm gonna kill him."

Max laughed.

We walked hand and hand to the parking lot and just as he had before, he held my door open for me. He was so sweet!

He held my hand the whole way back to the house too. But after he stopped the car in our driveway, he sighed and turned in his seat to look at me. "Alice, there's something I should tell you."

"What?"

"I know what you and your family are."

I panicked. "W-what are you talking about?"

"You're vampires."

"That's-"

He pressed his index finger against my lips, and I stopped talking.

"Just let me explain," he said. He turned his face away from me and a second later looked back. There was something different though. One of his baby blue eyes was now bright red. He'd been wearing colored contacts.

(A/N: I should totally cut this chapter off and leave you with a cliffie. But I'm not that mean)

I gasped. "You're..."

He nodded.

"And you drink..." I couldn't finish my sentence.

"I try not to. But I can't do anything about it. I don't want to be a murderer." The look on his face was heartbreaking. I wasn't the empath. But I could feel his pain and torment.

"Do you have a family?"

He shook his head. "I don't even have a house."

I got an idea. "You can stay with us! We're vegetarians."

He raised an eyebrow at me. I explained, "We only hunt animals. That's why our eyes are golden."

He nodded, finally understanding. I told him, "C'mon. Let's go talk to Carlisle." I got out of the car and ran up to the house, Max not far behind.

The rest of the family was waiting. Edward must have told them my thoughts. Wait. Edward was out of his room?

He was out of his room, and his eyes were black with fury. "You're letting a human blood drinker stay with us?" He hissed.

Carlisle stepped in between us. "Let's not fight about this. Come on, let's go into the living room to talk."

Max was scared and refused to let go of my hand. I didn't mind.

There was a subtle change in the emotional atmosphere as we all settled down in the living room. Jasper was using his gift.

Carlisle turned to Max. "How long ago were you changed?"

"Five years ago, in Northern California. It happened on a family trip to Yosemite. I got bitten while some vampire was hunting. I managed to get away somehow."

"So, the venom was left to spread?"

"Yeah. And I isolated myself from civilization for years until I gained enough self-control to be back in the human world again."

"How did you survive?"

Max looked down, suddenly ashamed. I squeezed his hand reassuringly. Finally, Max muttered, "Stray hikers."

"And you don't like drinking human blood?"

"I hate it."

Carlisle thought about it. "We'll let you stay with us. It shouldn't be too hard to keep the secret. You keep wearing your contacts and keep telling people your usual story and we'll have no problems."

Max let out a sigh of relief. "Thank you so much, Dr. Cullen."

Carlisle smiled, "Please. Call me Carlisle."

Esme stood up and moved to sit down next to Max. She gave him a hug and kissed his forehead. "Welcome to our family, Max. I don't believe I ever properly introduced myself. I'm Esme."

"Nice to meet you."

Max looked over at Edward, who said stiffly, "I'm Edward."

I thought, Don't be such a bitch, Edward!

He glared at me.

Esme ignored us and told Max, "I hope you like it here."

He said, "I'm sure I will. And thanks again." He smiled at me and gave my hand a squeeze.

I smiled back at him. "Anytime."

A/N: Most of you wanted a chapter about Alice and Max's date. So here it is. Send me nice reviews! And The Dead Milkmen reference was the whole "Bitchin' Camaro" thing, in case you didn't get that.

Disclaimer: I own nothing. Just Max. lol.