Chapter 5: Red Alert

So I know I haven't updated in awhile, okay a long while and I really am so sorry it just took me a while to get back to writing this. I hope you enjoy this chapter :)

Disclaimer: As much as I wish I did I do not own the Twilight series.


He was pissed.

He didn't even have to say a word, his expression said it all. Gym had been brutal, extremely brutal. The fact that it was my most hated class combined with the fact that one of my best friends was furious with me was not very good. The only good thing I could come up with was that he hadn't really been able to speak to me seeing as we had been busy doing Basketball drills for the past hour or so.

I was changed and ready to head home, now the only thing missing was Aiden. I had made a speedy escape from the gym before he could say anything to me, hoping that the urge to beat me to a pulp could somewhat subside before he saw me again.

I quickly scanned the parking lot hoping something, anything, could get my mind off of the current situation. Students were piling out of the school, anxious to be free from their educational prison. My eyes swept through the crowds until they fell upon the shiny Volvo situated across the parking lot. The entire family was congregated in a circle, whispering among themselves. I continued to watch, hoping they were talking about the newest movie and not something else.

Like me.

My stomach dropped. Edward wouldn't say anything, would he?

Well of course he would. Wouldn't you if you saw some freaks eyes change colour in the matter of seconds. He probably thinks i'm demon possessed now, great.

My heart went into overdrive as my mind raced.

Breath. In out, in out, nothings wrong I'm sure they're just talking about something else.

They all glanced over at me, curiosity burning in each of their eyes.

And glancing over at you. No biggie.

Alice whispered something to the rest of them and then took a step in my direction.

And now walking over to you. Fuck who am I kidding?? What do I say? 'Oh that eye thing? It was nothing, I'm an aspiring magician you see. Just one of my tricks.' Ha ha ha very funny.

"I'd get in the car if I were you." Aiden whispered in my ear.

"Shit! Aiden next time could please not give me a heart attack." I said as I pulled open the door, practically jumping in. I glanced over at the Cullen's, each of them still staring in our direction. Alice had stopped walking and looked somewhat disappointed.

"You're lucky I got here when I did or else you would have had to come up with something and we all know that wouldn't have gone over well." Aiden said as he smirked.

"And what exactly is that supposed to mean?" I asked as my eyes narrowed, a playful smile on my face.

"Well lets just say Alice may not have believed the whole 'aspiring magician' act." he replied with a chuckle.

"You read my thoughts?" I asked, the smile fading immediately.

"Um...Yeah. But in my defence you look totally freaked out! I thought it might have been an emergency and I remembered the spell so.." he said quickly glancing over at me with an apologetic smile.

"Ugh, you better not do that again but all in all I'm pretty glad you did. I doubt I could have come up with a good enough excuse that Alice would have believed." I said.

"Doubt? I'm almost positive you wouldn't have been able to." He replied while laughing.

I just rolled my eyes as he continued to laugh. My mind drifted back to todays events, my pulse raced. I had no idea what this could cost not only me but everyone of us.

"You okay?" Aiden asked in a gentle voice. He knew me better than anyone and could tell something was bugging me.

"You think they'll be mad?" I whispered while still looking out the window. I couldn't look at him, I couldn't bear to see the disappointment written on his face. I heard him sigh but he didn't say anything, the silence was killing me.

"Of course they'll be mad but I doubt they'll be furious. After all this doesn't even begin to compare to what James did. It was an accident and I'm sure they'll understand that." He answered after a couple of minutes. The car started slowing down as our house came into view. Daves car wasn't parked outside the house so they most likely weren't home yet.

Good, that gives me sometime to come up with a game plan. Hopefully they'll understand. I thought as I trudged up the path towards the front door. I was thinking of what I would say, rehearsing it in my head when I felt Aiden's arms wrap around me.

"I'm telling you, theres no need to freak out, it'll be fine." He said, reassuring me.

I decided that now was a good time to start dinner, at least I could somewhat get my mind off of the days events. I had just put the roast in the oven when I heard them walk through the front door.

"HELLO EVERYONE!" James yelled out, it was his daily routine. We always tried to stop him from doing it, especially when we had company, but he always just shrugged his shoulders and said 'you can't stop tradition'.

I walked out into the living room where the boys were all seated around the television.

"Hey guys" I said as I strode over to the couch and plopped down next to James, I hoped they didn't notice how fidgety I was. I did notice though how Aiden's eyes flickered from the television screen to me for just a split second.

'Here we go' I thought mentally preparing myself for what was to come.

"So, uh, Dave theres kind of something Bella and I have to talk to you about..." Aiden said while still staring at the tv.

"Alright, what is it?" he answered while flipping through channels, finally stopping on some football game.

I sat nervously playing with a stray piece of string on my shirt, I finally looked up and saw that Aiden's gaze was set on me. I stared back wondering why he wasn't saying anything, it dawned on me that he wanted me to tell him.

Shit.

"Anybody going to tell me?" Dave asked looking back between me and Aiden.

"Promise not to get mad?" I asked biting my lip as I waited for him to respond.

"What happened?" he asked his expression becoming deadly serious.

"Well, you see I was in Biology and well I was kind of bored..." I trailed off not really knowing what to say next.

"Ugh, I'm not going to like this am I?" Dave asked while groaning and burying his face into his hands.

"It wasn't entirely her fault," Aiden said shrugging his shoulders "i got bored too so I kind of started a conversation with her while we were in Auto."

"What did you say-" he stopped mid way. "Ugh, please tell me you didn't do what I think you did."

"Hello?" James waved his hands in the air "someone want to tell me what the hell you guys are talking about?"

"Think about it, they had a conversation with each other, in Auto class." Dave said, his head still in his hands.

"So, whats wrong with-wait, Bella's not even in our auto class." James said looking confused then a look of recognition flashed across his face. "Oh, gotcha!" He seemed uninterested now that he knew what we were speaking about and went back to watching the game.

"So maybe it wasn't the brightest idea ever but I mean it was a total accident! I just wanted to know what time it was so I glanced at the clock totally forgetting that it was over his head. I swear I'll make it up to you, I'll do what-" I was trying my hardest to get Dave to forgive me, I knew how upset he must have been.

"Bella, calm down. What you did is nothing compared to this idiot over here." Dave said while point a finger towards James.

"Hey!" James said while still keeping his eyes trained on the television.

"So who saw?" Dave asked, he already knew what must have happened.

"Um..Edward Cullen?" I said making it sound more like a question than an answer. As soon as I finished my sentence both James and Dave stiffened in their seats. I glanced over at Aiden who had the same confused expression on his face.

"What?" I asked, confused at their stiff postures. Dave's eyes glanced towards James, their eyes caught for a split second as if silently speaking. They both relaxed but neither of them spoke let alone answered my question.

"Hello?' Aiden said while waving a hand in front of their faces. "One of you want to tell us whats going on?"

"Nothing really, it's just that..." James trailed off, his voice ending in a whisper.

"Well, when you and Bella came over at lunch there was just something about that Alice girl. I don't know what it was but as soon as she was near my body just tensed and it was like my mind went on red alert. There's something different about her, something dangerous." Dave said.

"Come on guys, did you see the size of her? We could poke her and she'd fall flat on her ass." Aiden said rolling his eyes.

"I'm serious Aiden, it wasn't just me who felt it." Dave said, he was serious.

"I felt it too," James said quietly "i mean not as strongly but there was just something in the back of my mind nagging at me, telling me to stay away. Didn't you guys feel it?"

"I didn't feel a thing, what about you?" I asked turning to Aiden.

"Nothing." He answered.

"Thats weird I mean why wouldn't we feel it?" I asked suddenly scared. Was there something wrong with me? With us? Were Aiden and I losing our powers?

"I really don't know. I guess we just assumed that you two had felt it and were just being nice by having lunch with her." James answered, finally turning off the television.

"I still don't understand why we didn't feel it." I said, my mind was going a mile a minute trying find reasonable answer.

"Dave, your birthday it's October 30th right?" We all turned towards Aiden who had been silent for a the past few minutes.

"Yeah" Dave answered the question but giving Aiden a strange look the entire time. "Why are you asking me it's not like you don't already know."

"I'm just making sure." He replied looking off into space once again. I took this moment to glance over at James and Dave, both wearing the same confused face i'm sure I had on as well.

"And your birthday James," Aiden suddenly turned towards James. "It's November 4th right?"

"Uh..Yeah" James answered as we continued to watch Aiden.

"Don't look at me like that. I'm just thinking – both your birthdays are in less than three weeks and only the two of you felt anything. Doesn't that seem kind of...weird to you?" Aiden said as he furrowed his brow and sitting down beside Dave.

"So what you're saying is that you think -" James said.

"That they're connected?" I finished for him as I glanced at the three of them.

"I really don't know," Aiden audibly sighed "I mean it's getting close to both of your birthdays. And it's not just another "oh look you're a year older" birthday, you two are ascending. Maybe you're gaining new powers that you only get right before you ascend?"

It was dead silent as the three of us thought quietly. Could that be true? If it was then was there really something dangerous about Alice? Everything that I had heard in the past 15 minutes seemed so far fetched, but then again my whole life was far fetched, I mean I was a witch.

"Aiden," We were all brought back to reality as Dave spoke up. "I think you're right. I remember a few years back my dad told me something about one of my great uncles acquiring new powers a few weeks before his eighteenth birthday . He told me that it's not necessarily common but it tends to happen every few generation or so."

"So you mean we get new powers? Sweet!" James jumped up pumping his fist in the air and doing what seemed to be a celebratory dance.

"So now that we know whats going on I have only one question left." Dave said as he stood up. "What's for dinner?"

"Just a roast, nothing too exciting" I said as I stood up and followed them to the kitchen.

"Yum roast." James said as he ran over to the cupboard to grab the plates.

We all sat down at the table and began eating while going over anything eventful that had happened that day. We chatted for a while about nothing in particular and threw the occasional piece of food at another when we didn't agree on something but the conversation somehow ended up on the Cullen's once again.

"So what are we going to do?" I asked as I sat back in my chair.

Dave sighed as he leaned forward. "I guess all we can do is try to just stay out of their way and if they ever ask about what happened just pretend it never did." He said shrugging his shoulders.

"Well since we've come up with a solution to our little problem I say we go and play some Rock Band!" James said as he jumped out of his chair.

"James! Come on we always play Rock Band, can't we play," I thought for a second before continuing. "Mario Kart!"

"Fine," James said as he frowned slightly. "but I'll still just beat you at that too."

"I play winner!" Aiden said as he ran after James towards the living room.

A few hours later we were making our way up the stairs towards our bedrooms. I brushed my teeth quickly trying to, unsuccessfully, dodge James and Aiden's towel fight.

"Goodnight!" I yelled to my three best friends before turning out the light and crawling into bed. I lay there quietly thinking over everything that had happened that day as questions flew threw my mind. Before I knew it my eyes were drooping as I fell into a peaceful sleep.

I awoke to a loud music once again emanating from the room next to mine. I rolled over groaning as the red numbers on my alarm clock taunted me.

6:30 AM

I was going to kill Aiden.

I grudgingly pulled my comforter off immediately missing the warmth it provided and pulled open my bedroom door. I knocked once before opening the door to see Aiden laying in his bed reading a book.

"Can I ask why the hell you're playing music at 6:30 in the morning?" I said as I placed my hands on my hips. "Thats a half an hour of sleep I'll never get back you know."

"Sorry," he sat up placing the book on his bedside table and turning his attention to me. "I just couldn't get back to sleep."

"It's alright," I said as I turned to leave. "I'm guessing we're all driving to school together?"

"Yeah, James and Dave said they'd rather gouge their eyes out with a spoon than spend another minute alone with Lauren and Jessica." He chuckled quietly as he stood up gather his clothes for the day.

"Really?" I laughed as I turned back. "Even James said that?"

"I guess even he has standards." He said while shrugging his shoulders.

Forty minutes later we were all piling into my car since even Dave's Cadillac seemed a bit too flashy compared to the other cars of Forks High. I opted out of driving seeing as my sense of direction was almost as bad as my clumsiness. I was sure to get us lost if I was to drive. We made it to school ten minutes before class which gave us plenty of time to make it to our lockers without being late. We were chatting about nothing in particular when all of a sudden I felt my body tense up and go on red alert. I noticed the others do the same as we each surveyed the hallway. I'm pretty sure we all noticed at the same time who exactly was standing just in front of our lockers.

"Hey guys!" Alice cheerfully skipped forward greeting us with that famous smile. As she came closer the feeling intensified but not by much.

"Hey Alice." I said as smiled kindly at her. "Whats up?"

"I was just wondering if maybe we could postpone our shopping trip and instead have you guys come over to our house." She said slightly bouncing up and down.

"Uh.." I looked over at the others who looked just as confused as to what to do. "Sure we'll come."

"Great! See you later!" Seconds later she was around the corned and out of sight.

"What the hell did we just get ourselves into." James said as he opened up his locker.

"I have no idea." Aiden answered as we all broke apart heading towards class.

As I walked down the hallway I couldn't help the questions which once again popped up in my head.

Could we trust this new power? And if we could was Alice and her family really a threat to us? And if they were how large of a threat were they?

I sighed as I pushed open the door to my first class, this was going to be a long day.

I'm pretty much going crazy seeing as it's exam time right now but if you were to review it would make me feel a lot better. ;)

-Dumblydor.