AN: I know… I could rival "Emmett the Awful" right now with my lack of updating and everything… I am almost fully recovered from my surgery. The pain stopped completely, but my eye is still a little red.

I am caught up on Bullet of Love now... I just posted a new story last night, Walking a Grey Path… It makes me question my sanity, but I am going to try that one… I would love to have some of you read my other stories. 8-)

Disclaimer: Don't own Twilight, sorry.


"I like the nickname, Alice," Emmett said with a sneer. He was enjoying himself very much, and I have to say that the laughter from everyone else was something I could get used to…

Or.

Well, I could enjoy it…

For now.


12. The Insane Plane

We were behind schedule. How this happened, when Alice was in charge, no less, was a mystery to me. I was, of course, sitting by Edward on the plane. Renesmee, I could hear, was so excited for this trip to start; Edward and I smiled at each other, thinking of our excited daughter.

Rosalie and Emmett were sitting together and Rose was just explaining to Emmett how immature and, well, awful, he was for keeping everyone waiting and putting us behind schedule. Emmett was trying to get Rose to see that he was only playing and that she needed to loosen up a bit. She didn't like that very much…

Alice and Jasper were in the set of seats beside Edward and me, and they were both looking frustrated. Alice was agitated because of our running late and as for Jasper…

Jacob was sitting beside Renesmee and Esme, and Carlisle was sitting with Esme, but there was a fluster because Carlisle was the pilot and Renesmee wanted to sit by Esme and Jake, but Esme wanted to sit with Carlisle and Renesmee… Jake just wanted to sit be Renesmee… So they weren't really sitting, they were just standing around trying to get a seating arrangement ordered. This was cause to only part one of Jasper's irritations.

Irritation number two came from Alice's irritation of being late.

The third irritation was Rosalie and Emmett's constant bickering.

The forth was due to the fact that none of the overly large werewolves could fit into seats comfortably. This meant that none of the wolves could sit together… Simply put, a vampire each would have to be seated with a werewolf. Not only this, but it was going to have to be done by sizes.

So the seating is as follows:

Bella- that's me- is to be seated with Leah… Yeah, that's right. I wonder how this will work out?

Edward is seated with Seth, which doesn't bother either of them. I believe that they were the only two, besides Esme and Carlisle, who were seated with someone that they could actually carry on a conversation with.

Renesmee is seated with Brady… She wonders who that is, exactly. They have never talked. All she knows is that he stinks, but I taught her manners so hopefully she won't tell him that.

Emmett is with Paul… Make of that what you will. They will be the life of the ride; what a joy.

Rosalie is to be seated with Jacob… Yes, quite interesting that it would work out that way. It could have something to do with who assigned the seating…

Alice is sitting with Collin, quiet Collin... Anyone find that interesting?

Embry, Quil, and Jared are all sharing the three-person seat in the back of the plane.

Jasper is sitting with Sam… Poor, Jasper… All these emotions plus the ones he will be having because Sam is going to be frustrated with his pack and Jacob will be upset that he can't sit by Renesmee… And all the other havoc that will ensue on this plane will most definitely put Jazz on the fritz.

Esme is sitting in the front with Carlisle. They are both laughing at the arrangement of seating… It is really funny, but I got Leah so… Maybe we can come closer together through this.

Alice organized this little assignment. I don't know what her intentions were, but it seemed that she got the quietest passenger…

"As you can see," she interrupted into a fit of giggles, "I want this ride to be as pleasant as possible. Please fasten your seatbelts like you are human and might actually die if we crash." She smiled evilly at this. We all just stared, and blinked… a few times.

"Now," she said with authority. We stayed still. "Put your seatbelts on or we are going to go back into that house and not go on the trip. How about that," she said like my mother used to say.

"Yes, mommy," Emmett boomed. This earned a round of laughs from many of our passengers.

Then, Alice did something that surprised all of us, even herself. She laughed. Alice laughed like she never laughed before. She hadn't intended to; it just kind of came out. "Alright… you… don't have to… wear the… belts," she got out between giggles. She was shaking the plane which amused Emmett to no end; it's usually him who shakes stable structures with his booming laugh.

"If everyone will calm down, I will get this plane in the air," Carlisle said. His even voice was heard by all of us; it wasn't like we were humans.

Carlisle got us into the air and everyone was quiet the first hour of the trip. Many of us were sulking about our seating partners (Rosalie and Jacob). Many of us had nothing to say (Renesmee and Brady). Many of us were just soaking up the silence like a sponge (Jasper and Sam).

Two of us were just waiting for the right moment… Can you guess who?

…Emmett and Paul, the two biggest troublemakers on the plane.

"Say, Paul-"

"What, Emmett?"

"What do you call a sleepwalking nun?"

"I don't know, Emmett."

"A Roman Catholic!"

"That's amusing… Say, Emmett?"

"What, Paul?"

"Why did the chicken cross the playground?"

"I don't know, Paul."

"He wanted to get to the other slide!"

It continued like this… Emmett would tell a joke and Paul would tell one… They were just waiting for someone to react. Jasper looked about ready to tear some things up and burn them… Just sayin'. This mindset wasn't much different than everyone else's which is probably why Jasper's was what it was.

Poor Jasper…

You could feel it in the atmosphere, the tenseness from hearing so many corny jokes; they had been telling them for over two hours now, one after the other… Patience was wearing thin, I could see, with everyone. As much as I love Emmett, he was really starting to get on my nerves.

"So, Paul, I heard this one joke… Edward, Jasper, Alice, and Rosalie all die in a car crash-"

I didn't miss that he used his closest siblings and his wife for this joke. This was bound to get ugly at the punch line.

"They are already dead, Emmett," Paul said with a chuckle under his voice. He knew what was coming.

"They die in a car crash and go to heaven-"

"You guys can go to heaven?"

"They are in this room with an angel… Ooooh, let's call him Angel. So, Angel is sitting in a chair and Rosalie looks around the room and sees all these clocks going different speeds. She asks Angel, 'What are all the clocks here for?'"

"What are the clocks there for?"

"Interruptions are rude, Pauly."

"Sorry, Emmy, please," he made a sweeping gesture with his hand, "Continue."

"Rosalie asks that and Angel says 'Each clock goes a speed to which a being's amount of sin has accumulated' or something like that… Anyways, each clock has how much sin a person has in their life. Angel says to find their clocks to see how much sin they had in their life."

"They are vampires, silly Emmett, of course they are sinners, you goose," Paul gushed.

"Alice finds hers and it is going pretty slow… Then, Jasper finds his and it's going a little faster… Edward finds his and it's speeding, but you can see the hands on it… Rosalie can't find her clock-"

"Why is that, Emmett?"

"Rosalie says to Angel, 'I can't find my clock, Angel'. Angel says to her, 'Oh, you've been such a bad girl, Rosalie; your clock is in the other room. We are using it as a fan!'"

Emmett and Paul busted out into laughter, but Rosalie stood up, fuming, "Just what are you implying with that, Emmett Cullen?"

"That I love you, Rosalie. What else?" Paul snickered at this. Emmett was getting into trouble.

Emmett and Rosalie continued to jab each other for about forty-five minutes, and then they started making out for an hour of the trip. Paul was thinking of ways to start another raucous among us. "Jasper!"

"What?"

"I am gonna kiss Alice! She is smokin'!"

"What?!"

Paul ran over to Jasper and started to try to tickle him! Paul was laughing and so was Emmett. Everyone, even Leah, laughed when Jasper fell on the plane's floor and started laughing and hitting the floor singing, "Apple Bottom Jeans, boots with the fur. The whole club was looking at-"

"ALICE," Paul finished. Jasper looked drunk; it was so hilarious. It was like a cycle. He felt the emotions from everyone so he projected it out and so on. Carlisle and Esme joined in, too.

I looked around the plane at my large family. The werewolves were my family, too. We had all grown just so close that I couldn't imagine life without any of them. I wondered if any of the wolves would feel that way about me, other than Jake. Would Leah miss me at all after I was gone? Sam? Paul?

It seemed, to me, that everything was changing. Just when everything was how I had always wanted it to be, I was going to come away from it all…

Alice had done this on purpose, I realized.

I looked up and she was laughing with the rest of the passengers. I loved the way she could light up a room, or plane, like that. She was the pixie, my sister… She had made this seating arrangement, knowing that I would see the mayhem and love it, that I would laugh and enjoy the perfect ending to my bumpy life.

It was her that told Edward that he and I would be together, before anyone had even realized that Edward was falling, even himself. It was Alice that had kissed me on the cheek the day that I met Esme and was formally introduced to this wonderful family. She welcomed me with open arms when Rosalie didn't. She was my sister first.

It was Alice… It was Alice.

It was Alice that catered my wedding… It was Alice that had seen my future so many times, that had saved me, had told others to save me. Alice made sure that I was living when she saw a vision of me dying, jumping to my death. Alice came with me to save Edward. Alice thought of a way to save Renesmee when I was sure that Edward and I would die at the hands of the Volturi.

No one has ever really thought about the role that Alice plays in my life. I don't even think that she knows how much her presence has meant to me, how much she has helped... All the times she saw what was coming for me, the times when she didn't when she tried so hard to see that it gave her a headache…

It was Alice Cullen…

It was my sister, pixie, overexcited bundle of hope…

If not for Alice, I never would have made it here, today. It was always Alice who was the master to my puppet show. She helped me find this life.

We were thinking the same thing, even as her eyes drifted to mine and her smile wavered a bit. She wouldn't have done anything differently, and now she was trying to save me again.

It was Alice.


AN: I thought about this. Has anyone ever really thought about how much of the story is Alice's? See how much she contributes to the story… Keeping things together? I needed to highlight that in this chapter. Alice is probably one of the most important characters because of her rope-like quality, tying everything together.

I hope you enjoyed. If you get a chance, check out Walking a Grey Path and Bullet of Love.

~Sylvia