A/N: Thank you to all my reviewers/alerters/favers! I'm sorry if the POV did piss you off... but this chapter's in it too. Oh and forgive me if I never got back to you for your review, just know that it was much appreciated! Thank you everyone who likes this so far!
The Disclaimer STILL applies and SHALL apply until the end of this fic.
Accidentally in…
Chapter Two: Fault
You look over your shoulder at the girl on your bed. She was lying on her stomach gazing at you with a grin on her face, her legs swinging back and forth smoothly. You smile back as you stick the nine sheets of paper into the black stapler.
You press down hard on the metal object, to make sure a staple would be able to go through all the sheets, and immediately jerk back.
"Damn," you curse loudly, squeezing the tiny digit of your right hand as if it would make the pain stop. Your efforts are futile and you shake your hand in the air before grabbing your pinky with your left hand once more. "God," you breathe out, shutting your eyes at your stupidity.
"Bella," Alice says softly, and you would have jumped at the feel of her breath blowing into your ear if you weren't paying so much attention to your injury. "Let me see it," she turns you around and cradles your hand in hers. Immediately some of the pain goes due to the cool touch of her hands.
Then your nose crinkles in disgust at and you look to the cut and see a small dot of red. Suddenly your eyes dart to those of the vampire holding your hand. It takes a total of three seconds before you notice the older female's face begin to crack.
And for the first time you actually see a vampire's eyes turn to black. It was almost as though Alice was having a battle between herself to keep her sanity when the honey of her eyes slowly became engulfed by black—the pupil seeming to get larger and larger. You notice that Alice didn't blink; which is different because Edward blinks. You know this because you've seen him do it many times: golden blink darkness.
From life to death in the blink of an eye.
You're almost happy that Alice still hasn't blinked and you can make out the tiniest ring of wheat around her pupils, but then she takes a deep breath and closes her eyes.
And the speckles are gone.
Alice's eyebrows are furrowed and the hand holding yours is increasing its strength. You try not to wince as one drop, two, no, three drops of blood fall into the brunette's open palm. She lets out a low growl as she brings her open palm to her mouth. She licks her palm and her eyes droop as if they are about to close, but they do not. She sniffs the air then brings your injured finger to her waiting mouth.
Her eyes never once leave yours.
The hammering in your chest is so loud that you are sure the brunette can hear it. The blood is rushing through your veins and you think you see a ghost of a smirk on Alice's lips as her mouth closes around your finger.
Suddenly there's a loud crack and your vision gets hazy; spots of white cloud your eyes as you try to pinpoint exactly where you are. You're sure that you're no longer standing because you can feel the ground under the palm of your hand. In turning your head to the right you see the closed door of you room, and turning it to the left… a shaken vampire moaning in agony. Alice is curled into a ball and shuddering, gripping the window sill tightly with one hand as if it is an anchor keeping her from attacking Bella.
"Al…" you begin to say the other girl's name as you try and get up; but your head lolls to the side and you get dizzy. Bending your head back slightly, you can see a crack in the wall. It may be small but you silently thank God that Charlie isn't home, because a crack would mean that the noise resounded throughout the house; and you would rather not have Alice get in trouble over something that was your fault in the first place.
You squeeze your eyes shut and try and maneuver yourself to a standing position by pushing heavily against the wall. "Al-Alice," you mumble when you reach your full height. When you receive no answer you chance opening your eyes. What you see is more shocking to you than finding out the truth of Vampires, and how everything went against what you read from myths.
Alice, the ever graceful vampire, was now straddling your window sill. It is not the position she is in that shocks you, but more of how she is in it. She is gripping tightly onto the edge of your wall as she leans out of the window to take large gulps of air, her fingers are making molds of themselves in the wall and the heel of her shoe is creating a small crater. It is almost as if lost all her sense of balance and is holding onto the wall for dear life.
And it's scaring you.
"Alice…" you call out gently while you wobble your way to your bed. "Alice, I'm fine." You whisper the words at the shaken girl's back; even though all you want to do is run over to her and pull her inside so that you hold her close… so that you can comfort her.
But you know that being near her hurts, so you stay away.
"Alice, I'm okay. You didn't hurt me…"
She doesn't hear you; she only continues her ragged breathing.
You grab a pillow and chuck it at her, because tossing it would have no effect on the girl as she is now. She turns her head slightly but is still facing out the window. Her eyes are black, contrasting greatly with the late afternoon sky.
"B-Bella… Bel-la… I-I," she tries to speak between breaths but her words come out jumbled.
"I'm fine, but you need to go. Hunt. Hurry." She gazes at you with sorrow-filled orbs, and you fight back the tears when you point out the window. "Go."
She nods once and places her other leg out the window. Still gripping onto the wall tightly, she turns her head.
"Sorry…" Alice mutters, full of sincerity; before disappearing out of the window.
"I know you are," you say to the empty room, and lie back on your bed, closing your eyes as you suddenly feel very tired.
Even if it was my fault…
A/N: I really am sorry if you don't like the POV, because that'll pretty much ruin the story for you. Don't worry though, the POV will be changing next chapter... but there will still be 2nd POVs in this story. Also I'm sorry for this crap I'm writing... but I can't abandon it now, so please, bear with me? If you notice any mistakes (besides run-ons, unless you have an idea to fix them) please mention them to me.
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