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Alice's POV

Unsurprisingly my flight from Phoenix was delayed but even in the searing heat, I waited, because I was that excited that I was going to see Bella.

Three weeks had felt like an entire life time, for me anyway, even Jasper my inattentive boyfriend had noticed the change in me, the change in my overly enthusiastic attitude, since I had lost my all time best friend.

I had known Bella since kindergarten, we had grown up together despite the differences in our lifestyle and despite our mothers dislike for one another, we had watched each other grow into teenage girls and had shared all sorts of typical best friend moments, I had seen her at her happiest, smiling all the time, confident and popular and also at her lowest, when to me she remained the same, but to everyone else she shut down, went inside herself, hid from the outside. It had been hard for Bella for the past year I had known her, after what had happened, it was unexplainable, and me and my family had done everything it had taken to help her, to help her keep her life here in Phoenix as normal as possible, but we knew we were losing a hopeless battle ever since her father, Charlie, had found out what happened, he wanted her to live with him, it was only right, he felt awful after he found out what Renne had done to her daughter. But it still pained me to have to let Bella go, but it was for the best, I hoped.

"Flight 456 boarding now"

Finally

Hurriedly I grabbed my bags and made my way through the busy crowd to my terminal.

It felt like I had been travelling just a mere few minutes when I walked out of the airport to see her standing, in the constant drizzle, it was Bella.

Her hair was flowing down her back and she wore a dark blue v-neck jumper with skinny jeans and pumps, just the same as always, as she saw me, her eyes lit up and we both ran to each other.

"Oh my God Bella!" I screamed as her hugged.

"I missed you so much Alice, you can't even imagine" she smiled, as she picked up my bags and lead me to her car. Immediately I noticed the difference, she wasn't hunched over, she was smiling, probably just in reaction to me but she seemed healthy.

"I thought you said your car had died Bells?" why were we talking about this? we had so much to catch up on.

"Yep, apparently miracles happen" she smiled and stepped into her car. Suddenly I caught a chill and shivered.

"Bella, its fucking freezing, how do you stand it?" I complained.

"Alice language! Ha, I told you to wrap up warm" she joked.

"This is warm!" I pointed down to my outfit.

"No Alice, wearing a cardigan over your shorts and vest top, is not wrapping up warm dear" she smiled.

BPOV

I couldn't believe it she was actually here, in my car driving to Forks, Alice joking and laughing my car, just the same old times, my best friend more like a sister, and with her here I immediately felt myself. I could joke and I could laugh with someone I felt totally comfortable with.

"Seriously Bells, what have you done to your hair?" She immediately had started grilling me on my usual appearance. I just laughed, promising her to have as much playing with Bella's hair time as she wanted.

I started off our long conversation, we talked about her now steady boyfriend Jasper, and how he never acted as he should, she told me everything that was happening at home, and how she didn't realise that she would have hardly any friends after I had gone. She told me gossip about people who I had forgotten about, and how that parties were ten times better than they used to be now she had Jasper. She gabbled on about her family and how they missed me as much as she did. She even giggled as she told me how she lost her virtue towards Jasper, I had to endure the details of everything about her and Jasper, after a while our conversation was solely about Jasper.

I chuckled as did she when I pointed this out, but that led to questions about me.

How was I doing? How was I coping? Would I ever get to come home?

Followed by me telling her about my lonely life here in Forks, I told her about my new group of friends, Mike, Jess and Angela. I told her that Ange helped me around school a lot and that she was sweet and kind. I told her everything about forks, the small school, the small shop the large amount of rain at which she just groaned; I told her everything, everything except Edward. I don't know why I didn't tell her, probably because she would jump to the correct conclusion then I would die of embarrassment as she would ask me thousands more of questions.

I explained to her that my Dad was away and that he would be back Sunday, and that she was welcome to stay as long as she wanted.

When we arrived at my house it was lunch time, I made us sandwiches, afterwards she immediately started to wash and sort my hair, cutting it into layers and shaping it around my pale face.

I turned and looked in the mirror, of course I still looked plain, which my boring brown eyes and thin lips but at least my hair looked half decent, Alice was great.

And I had missed her so much.

"So then Bella, What are our plans for this Friday night?" she joked.

"Well... do you mind if we go watch the football game? I promised someone I would go." I confessed.

"Oh you know I hate those things Bella!" she whined

"Oh and I don't?" I raised an eyebrow

"You never used to, can you remember when you became a Cheerleader? I didn't talk to you until you quit the squad!" she giggled.

"Alice I said I would go."

"Who did you promise? Let's just leave it; I'm sure they won't mind." She tugged on my arm

"No, I told Jess I was going, I have to try and make friends Ali" I lied.

"Oh, ok, ok fine. But I have to get changed otherwise I'll freeze."

After an afternoon of catching up and getting ready to freeze, Alice was finally ready to go, and we set off on the small journey to Forks High School.

"Christ, it's small Bella!" Alice exclaimed as we pulled into the student lot.

"So is everything in Forks" I laughed.

"Hmm, I doubt that" she joked pointing at one of the football players warming up on the pitch.

"Alice!" I squealed in disgust and we both burst into fits of laughter.

"Hey, Bella, Over here!" I heard Jessica call; I saw her hand wave us over.

"Hi, I didn't know you were coming to this tonight" she said as we neared, Alice shot me a suspicious look but I silenced her with my eyes

"Yeh I just love these things" I added sarcastically.

"Jess, Mike, meet Alice, she's the best person you will ever meet" I introduced he to my new Forks crowd.

I watched as Alice hug both of my new friends and chuckled at their reaction towards her, Alice had gone all out compared to the Forks usual dress code, she'd had insisted it was casual but I had disagreed.

She wore very tight very black skinny jeans, and a low cut Black Death metal vest top, her pixie like spiky hair was heading in all different directions, she had a studded necklace on and a matching bracelet. She must've been freezing. I was layered up with cardigan and scarves and was only just warm enough.

It was safe to say that tonight Alice looked unusually, dark and evil. It made me laugh, as she described her new gothic based look to me at the time, I giggled as she said it was her aim to scare everyone at Forks high school, and the idea of Alice being scary was downright hilarious.

I turned to look at the field where both teams were preparing for the game to begin, Edwards face was scanning the crowd and then as his eyes met mine, he smiled as I held up a hand. Alice coughed loudly and looked seriously annoyed.

EPOV

She was there; she had come to watch me play, even though she hated events like these, surely that means she must care, even if it was just in a friendly way, as she had made perfectly clear.

Over the past two weeks, I had grown closer to Bella than I thought possible, a lot closer than she had grown to me, I had told her more than I had ever told anyone in my life, more than my parents, meet family and my friends. I trusted her, trusted her with almost everything.

And I had defiantly fallen for Bella Swan. The only problem was that I was ninety percent certain that she didn't feel the same way, of course there were moments when I couldn't be sure, moments when I stared into her deep brown eyes to try and access her thoughts of read her expression through a deep red blush, at those moments I was convinced that she must feel the same way, but then she'd look down in embarrassment and change the subject to school or future or something irrelevant.

But now she was here, watching me about to play, watching me in my element and she had waved, my heart had skipped a beat.

Edward, Christ sake, stop thinking like a woman, you're a Cullen, get a grip!

And with that thought the game began, and I prayed harder than ever before, that we would win. So I could have a hope of impressing Bella.

BPOV

We were winning, but Alice and I were bored, really bored, although I enjoyed watching Edward enjoy himself, Alice however didn't, she complained and after I had given her no explanation I allowed her to continue to moan and groan about the weather and how bored she was and how she wanted to go back to mine and watch a film with chocolate.

After what felt like a life time the game was over and we had won. As Alice and I were walking towards my car, I heard a familiar screech behind me.

"Bella Swan" I recognised Tanya's voice on instinct now. Slowly I turned to see a red faced group of Cheerleaders, minus Rose glaring right past me, no wait, glaring at me.

"Bella, you bitch you have some answers you need to give to me"

"Who the hell do you think you are calling a bitch?" Alice piped up.

No shit, not now.

"Her, you little freak" she pointed at me.

"What did you just call me, you cow" Alice scoffed "You'll have to do better than that, I could beat you pretty little face to a pulp any day. What's your problem?"

"She" another stab in my direction "tried to steal my boyfriend" she screamed

"What she hell Tanya! How did you come to that conclusion?" I squeaked. As Alice laughed at Tanya and her petty expression of annoyance.

"Ha, Bella steals someone's boyfriend, now that funny!" Alice creased over.

"Don't play dumb, Bella" Tanya sneered my name "Edward told me he thought he liked you!"

"No, he told you he liked someone else not me" I corrected her.

"You calling me a liar Swan?" she stepped closer to me.

"Tanya, I' m leaving now, I suggest you talk about this with Edward, not me, he has made it perfectly clear he has no interest, so no problem there, now piss off" I stated calmly. Yet again my anger had got the better of my shy exterior, I didn't want these people to see the real me, I'd prefer them to think of me as a shy, geeky Bella.

And with another screech she turned and ran in the other direction.

"Bella, I think you need to explain something to me, now!" Alice urged.

"In a minute Alice" I said, stepping into my car.

"And you told me Forks was boring" she scoffed.

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