After a little while of looking at Alice staring at the book whilst almost being able to listen to the clogs whirring in her mind, Edward waved his hand in front of her face. When there was no response I tried too. There was still no response but instead Alice sat down on the sofa and started flicking through the book.

"Alice, you gonna tell us what's going on?" Edward asked… No reply. We looked at each other and shrugged.

"Looks like we're going to get nothing out of your sister. Shall we just leave her?"

"Okay, I can take you on that tour" his eyes started to show some enthusiasm by the end of the sentence rather than just worry. We left the room fairly quickly, with a glance back at Alice that was now almost painfully focused on a sheet of paper on which she was sketching something.

We walked along next to the hedge that separated the boarding school from the school fields and about three quarters of the way down we saw a person climb out of a gap that was barely there. A few strands of brown hair fell out from her hood but her face was hardly visible. We walked past the purple clad figure and then watched as she hurried out of sight. We had only gone a couple of paces past the gap but I pulled on Edwards arm to get him to turn around anyway.

"Can we see where she went?"

"Sure, I don't think I've ever actually explored this way" We ducked through the hole and I straightened up, waiting for Edward to squeeze through.

"So what ways have you explored?"

"Well, I've been through the woods, which is incidentally how I found the clearing for the bonfire and I've been dragged in the direction of town several hundred times by my shopaholic sister so I know most of the streets around there too"

"Wow, so you've covered west and north but not south or east"

"Yep, but I have time still"

"And now you have a partner in crime"

"You like exploring then?"

"Sure do, and now I'm going to stick to you like glue" I said in a sing song voice. He looked at me with a confused expression and I just smiled again. "As long as you don't mind" I added as an afterthought, suddenly conscious that I was probably creeping him out a little.

"No, its fine. I'd like someone to explore with" I smiled at him and looked at where we were, Edward had suddenly stopped walking. I looked at him confused and he just held a finger to his lips. I stood there like an idiot for a couple of seconds before he said "Do you hear water?"

I then listened, finally understanding what I was meant to be doing. I could hear the far off shouts of a rugby game, scuffling of leaves where people were walking on the other side of the hedge and the twittering of birds. Then I finally heard a little splashing noise and then a gushing sound that was unmistakably a river. After eventually recognizing the noise I nodded at him. He smiled a little, presumably because it had taken so long.

"Do you want to head towards it?"

"Sure, let's see what we can find" I replied and skipped down the field.

"Bella?"

"Yes?"

"How on earth do you have so much energy?"

"I dunno, did I have caffeine this morning"

"I think so"

"That would explain it then" I said as I started to spin in small circles, jumping slightly with each step and matching Edwards pace easily. He just shook his head in amusement then ducked through a gap in a row of trees which we had just come to next to a large old oak tree. It was much darker under the shade of the trees but Edward didn't take any notice of it. He walked forwards for a bit and then left a little and eventually it started to get a little lighter, like we were about to come to a clearing. Then his phone rang to the tune of "We're following the leader" from Peter pan. I giggled and he flipped the phone open.

"Hi Alice" I couldn't hear what she was saying but eventually there was an "Okay, sure, we'll be right there" With that he turned around and motioned for me to follow. "Alice thinks she's found something out and wants to tell us about it right now. Apparently later just isn't good enough" He stated and I giggled again. Hmm, I think maybe I should stay away from caffeine.

"Okay, let's go. We can't keep the pixie queen waiting"

"Pixie queen?" I just shrugged at him, "It's what she reminds me of"

"Fair enough" With that we started back towards the building, playfully bantering and I managed to fall over which led to Edward laughing then offering me his hand and I just pulled him down too.

"That wasn't very nice"
"No, no it wasn't'" I smiled at him and stood back up. Neither of us was muddy as the ground was relatively dry but Edward had a couple of twigs and leaves stuck in his hair. I decided not to tell him about them but laugh about them to myself instead.

We reached the door of my room and just as I went to put my key in, it swung open and we were met by a very energetic girl who hurried us in to the room
"Hurry up, what took you so long? Edward, you're covered in leaves. Bella, hurry up. Both of you come and sit down, Jasper and Rosalie are in the living room already. Emmett isn't actually allowed come up to the dorms so he's on speaker phone. Hurry up!" This information came at us at about twenty words a second and was nearly impossible to hear what she was saying but I got the general gist that we should go and sit down. The second we were seated Alice started talking.

"Right, now that everyone is here I have something to say. I went walking this morning and I found a fountain, it reminded me of something in Edward's book so I rushed back. Things started to link and then following hints in the book I found this book in a crevice in our room and figured everything out. Now we've been give the responsibility to…"

Ha, i'm going to stop there as i'm feeling rather evil right now

I'm upset to say that i don't own twilight, however much i want to

More up soon!

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