Previously on Among Angels:
"Bella?"
Alice POV (hahaha!)
Brooke scurried into the dressing room with the bikini reluctantly, and I began to wait patiently for her.
Then, something broke through my patience. I was having a vision.
Brooke looked up at the ceiling, tears pouring out of her eyes. "I wanna tell them. They deserve to know. But I can't, Maggie. I just won't interfere with their lives. Not again, not after he made it clear he didn't love me. I just..I want to. But..I'm afraid," Brooke confessed, looking over to her her friend. Maggie sighed, and sat down on the bed with Brooke, taking her hand and rubbing it soothingly.
"They are going to figure it out eventually, Bella. It's not something you can prevent." Maggie said softly, still holding her hand.
"But..he left me. And now he has a mate, so my chances were thrown out the window." Brooke murmered, still crying.
"Do you still love him?" Maggie asked.
Brooke didn't say anything, avoiding Maggie's eyes.
"Do you still love him?" Maggie repeated.
Brooke still ignored her.
"Bella?"
"Yes!" Brooke admitted and started to cry even harder. "Yes, okay? I, Bella Swan, am completely in love with Edward Cullen, and always will be!" She yelled, then gulped and burst into tears.
The scene dissolved, and the guest bedroom dissolved into the inside of Forever 21.
I admitted a tiny little gasp, looking at Rosalie, who was staring at me, worried.
The door in front of me creaked open, and the blonde half-angel herself stepped out, gazing at Alice confusedly.
"Alice?" She asked. I barely heard her, yet I looked at her anyways.
"Bella?" I said in disbelief and shattered hope.
Her eyes got wider. I counted how many times she blinked.
Once.
Twice.
Thrice.
"I.." Brooke started, then shut her mouth, opened it again, then shut it once more.
"Yes. It's me, Alice," she said miserably, looking at the floor.
In less than one second, I had flung myself at Bella and knocked her down to the floor in a hug. I began to sob, tears collecting in my eyes; tears that would never be shed.
"B-Bella! I knew it was you! H-how..what? How could you... We thought you were dead! I watched you d-die in my arms, Bella. We went to your funeral! H-how could you let us continue our misery while you were off being an angel? Why didn't you tell us? Why didn't you tell me? I thought I was your best friend; I thought we could tell eachother anything! Oh my god, we have been in such hell the past years without you! Edward barely ever talks anymore. Yesterday when he greeted you was the first time I saw him smile since we left! Poor Esme was in hysterics the first week; she refused to hunt. Losing two of her children at once cut her deep. Emmett doesn't even crack as much jokes! Even Jasper and I are more distance! We haven't had sex in three and a half years, Bella, because he is so guilty! The second year he went on a vacation for 5 months, without me! Do you know how much it hurt to see him walk away with guilt, knowing I wasn't even allowed to come with him, that's how much of a danger he considers himself? Actually, I don't even care about that stuff right now! You're here, Bella, you're back! We can finally get our family back together! We can kick Kasey's scrawny little ass onto the road; not that anybody cares what happens to her. Oh, this fixes everything! Just wait 'till-" I babbled on and on, talking so fast I was afraid Bella wouldn't catch most of it, but she cut me off before I could finish.
"Wait. Alice. I mean..I can't.." Bella murmered. "Can't what? Kick Kasey out? Trust me, one more hour with her and your ready to rip her head off," I assured her.
"No. I can easily do that. But..." She trailed off again, leaving me to remember my vision and her words in it.
"Oh," I said softly. There was silence between us. I broke it.
"Your wrong, you know," I whispered, loud enough for her to hear.
"What?"
"He still loves you. He never stopped loving you, Bella," I told her, staring into her new, blue eyes, so unlike the deep brown ones I had been craving.
"Now you're wrong. He doesn't love me. He told me so the day he left," She replied automatically, as if her mind had printed that statement deep into her brain.
"You are his life, Bella."
"No I'm not. Atleast, not anymore,"
"Why are you denying it?" I cried, throwing my hands up dramatically.
"I saw what happened through the vision. He was lying, Bella, he way lying right through his teeth when he said he didn't love you. He came where we were to our new home, didn't say a word to us, and went straight to his room. He sobbed through the whole first week, until he realized crying wouldn't undo his wrong, and resolved into blank silence. He has never been the same. Sure, he started dating Kasey, but that was only because Esme was hurting seeing him like that. Even when Kasey & him got together, you could tell he wasn't , yeah, maybe they kiss, but Jasper has told me the feelings of both of them. Kasey feels nothing but lust; not an ounce of love. Edward feels nothing but self-hatred and despair. And you still think he doesn't love you?" I said, pretty much shouting at her.
She had words as sharp as mine ready to fling at me.
"He left me, Alice. Edward was my first love, my only love, and my love for him was more than love. And to be told by him that he didn't love me anymore and would never come back did not do my heart justice. Of course, I'm sure he didn't care; he only cared in my imagination, when I was tearing through woods on motorcycles and doing many other dangerous things to hear his voice! Don't tell me he cared, Alice, because then you'd be lying too!" She snapped.
I don't know what came over me. One minute I was looking into her eyes, dumbfounded, and the next she was holding where I had just slapped her. I knew she could not feel the pain, since she was technically dead, but it was the shock that I had just struck my best friend that we were surprised about.
The third minute, Bella had flung herself at me and sobbed into my shoulder.
I immediately wrapped my arms around her in response.
"I missed you," I murmered.
"I missed you, too, Alice," She mumbled, words pressing against my shirt.
When we finally pulled apart, Bella eyed me.
"Please. Please, don't tell anyone."
I opened my mouth to object, but she cut me off.
"Or, atleast, let me wait, I'll tell them myselves," She said hesitantly, as though she was not sure she could live up to that.
I frowned.
"Well...okay. But what about Esme? She has been missing you like crazy," I pleaded.
Bella let out a long breath, a pained expression flashing for just a moment on her face. "Soon." She said quietly.
I nodded, looking over to Rosalie.
It was at that moment that Rosalie gently stepped forwards and pulled Bella into a hug.
"I'm so sorry, Bella. I know I wasn't too great to you before, but I never got the chance to say why I was so cold towards you,"
I tuned them out then, because I already knew why Rosalie had been so rude; she was jealous.
Instead, I tried hard to look in the future, trying to figure out who would figure out next, what would happen when Edward found out, etc.
I came up with nothing, though, so obviously Bella hadn't made up her mind yet.
Sighing, I listened back on the conversation, just catching on to the end where they both stopped talking and hugged eachother more.
"Will you stay?" I blurted out once they pulled apart.
Bella's eyes widened. "Me?" She asked, using her pointer finger to point at herself. I rolled my eyes. "No, I'm talking to Rosalie. Yes, you," I said.
She hesitated. "I don't know if that would be best..."
"Oh please, oh please, oh please, Bella! You just have to!"
Bella bit her lip. "I still sleep talk.." She said quietly.
I frowned. "I'm sure no one will care about dancing muffins or whatever your random mind comes up with."
Bella shook her head furiously, blonde hair whipping across her face. "I-I don't dream." She said softly, looking down.
I looked at her, puzzled. "Then why would you care about sleep talking?"
She whispered so quietly even I had to strain my ears to hear her say "I have nightmares. Terrible ones."
What?
"Nightmares?" I asked, confused. She looked up at me, slightly annoyed.
"Yes, Alice, nightmares. I have ever since you left. Every night, around 2 o clock, I wake up screaming. I'm sure I woke up screaming last night, but was too tired to remember. I can't put you guys in that situation."
I looked at her, guilty. "Oh. I'm sorry. Well..what if we sleep with you? Well, not sleep technically, but I'll stay in the same room. I'm sure when Rosalie and Emmett aren't busy, she'll join me too. Please, we missed you so much. Even when we didn't know it was you, our family felt whole again. Will you stay?"
Bella pursed her lips, deeply considering the pros and cons of if she stayed.
I held my breath as she answered.
"Well..okay. But I'm telling you, I'm a bit annoying at night," She said.
I didn't hear anything after she said 'okay', because after that I squealed, hugging her tightly.
We were getting our family back together.
So, this chapter wasn't as good as I had wanted it to be, but it was all I could do without making you wait 2 years. x)
Next chapter will most likely be fluff, but stay with me here.
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