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Betas:Wynnebat and Beautiful nightmarex

Summary (made by Ele05gs):You know what they say, if you want something, go and get it. If you don't ask, the answer will always be no. Alice was gathering the courage to talk to the boy she liked, but when she finally decided to act on it, he disappeared. So where is he now? And how far will she go to find him?

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Alice pulled her hoodie tighter around her small frame. The rain was pouring down in sheets, the icy wind was biting at her face, and she had missed the bus. Again. On purpose.

"This had better be worth it," she mumbled to herself. Her warm breath formed in the cold temperature. An old lady with a thick, pink coat looked strangely at her, probably wondering why the odd little girl next to her was talking to herself.

Alice quickly turned around. The last thing she needed right now was for someone to think she was crazy, which technically, she was, because she was doing this for a boy. A boy she didn't even know. A boy she'd never even spoken to.

While the rain kept coming down, soaking her new sneakers, Alice's thoughts drifted off.

She didn't even know his name, but he looked like one of those surfer types that came right out of her sports magazines. In her head, she'd named him Jason, just because he looked like a Jason. He had these gorgeous honey blond curls, dark eyes, and when he smiled he had the cutest dimples and…Alice felt her stomach twirling; she felt giddy knowing she might get a chance to see him again.

A few weeks ago, Alice had offered to give her two best friends, Bella and Rosalie, a ride to school. But when she tried to start the car, the engine just kept turning over. She hadn't had the time for her friends to come pick her up, so after sending a quick apology to them, she ran to the bus stop.

Best decision ever!

Alice, much to her friends' dismay, had continued taking the bus for an entire month after that day, just so she could catch a glimpse of the boy. Every time she laid eyes on him, she felt her throat tighten, like her breathing was being cut off. Normally, she was the loudest of her group of friends, but when she got near him, she completely panicked and went silent.

Her friends had laughed at that. "Just talk to him already," Bella told her, encouragingly. "You never know what'll happen."

But Alice hadn't had the guts yet to talk to her mystery boy, and now it was too late. Three days…three days since the last time she had seen him. Suddenly as he had come into her life, he vanished.

After some failed attempts at trying to find him, some of which had included searching all the hallways in school, waiting at the bus stop for several hours after school had ended and getting purposely put into detention hoping that he would be there, too, Alice had now resorted to missing the first bus to school on purpose, in the hopes that he caught the later bus. Maybe Jason didn't like getting up early anymore, maybe he was sick, maybe he didn't like how crowded the first bus would get. Maybe…

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"Did you see him?" Rosalie whispered from the back row in class. Alice was over half an hour late. She'd entered the classroom completely soaked and dripping wet. Before she could even answer, Mr. Varner towered above her with an angry scowl on his face.

"Too lazy to get out of bed this morning?" he snapped at her. "Glad you could join us after all." He didn't look glad at all; he looked like he'd swallowed four lemons and a bottle of salt.

"I'm sorry. It won't happen again," Alice said sincerely. She'd never been late to his class before, so she didn't understand why he was giving her such a hard time.

"Yeah, that's what they all say, lazy teenagers," he mumbled. "Detention after school."

"But, it's Friday, you can't―"

"Don't tell me what I can or cannot do, young lady." He looked furious now. "Take your place. I don't want to hear another word."

Astonished, Alice nodded, and sat down at her desk. As if her day couldn't get any worse. Detention for being late. She found it a bit much, but you could pretty much expect anything from Mr. Varner. Alice couldn't even remember the last time she'd heard him make a joke, or even smile. She didn't even know if Mr. Varner knewhow to smile.

Alice sighed loudly and tried to wrench out her wet hoodie.

"I'm sorry," Bella said softly from beside her. "Plan D didn't work, but we've always got plan E, right?"

"Which is?"

"Just wait…he has to come around someday. He can't just disappear of the face of the earth. He'll be back sooner or later." Bella carefully placed her notebook in the middle so that Alice could copy the exercises that she'd missed while waiting for the boy. With another loud sigh, she took her pen and started copying down the notes, dreading the day ahead of her.

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"You can go home now. Enjoy your weekend." Mrs. Goff, Alice's Spanish teacher, smiled kindly at her and at all the other students who were lucky enough to get detention on a Friday afternoon. Normally, detention wasn't over for another half hour, but nobody complained and many of them rushed to get out of the room. Mrs. Goff probably wanted to go home herself.

Alice gathered her things and walked toward the entrance of the school. If she was quick, she could have a drink with her friends at their usual café. But as soon as Alice stepped outside of the school building, the rain started to pour out of the sky so heavily she couldn't even see the cars parked in the parking lot.

"You've got to be kidding me!" she growled angrily, stomping her foot and biting back a stream of curse words. Her hoodie wasn't much protection for this weather, and it hadn't even dried yet from the rain this morning. Nevertheless, Alice tried to stuff her spiky hair under the hood and kept her backpack close to her chest. Tried, being the key word, because with a loud bang and a splash that soaked her shoes, again, her backpack fell into a nearby puddle.

"Oh, come on!" Alice lost her patience, and her calm. Her new shoes were ruined, her books were wet and she looked like a freaking drowned chicken.

"Great, just great," she grumbled, yanking her backpack up. All of this had started this morning when she had purposely missed the bus. She never should have done that. It hadn't been worth it anyway.

Alice didn't plan on meeting her friends now, looking like this. She was upset, and she had no interest in listening to their great weekend plans, while she was going to sulk in her bedroom all by herself and listen to some crappy love songs.

"Going home, soaked and tired." Alice sent the text to both Bella and Rosalie. One of them was bound to read it soon.

When she finally made it home, her mother wasn't there yet. Probably still at work, Alice thought. So she went upstairs and got everything ready to take a long hot bath. That ought to relax her. Suddenly, the doorbell rang, a screeching sound blasting through the silence.

Bella and Rosalie were grinning madly when Alice opened the door.

"You didn't think you'd be sulking alone on a Friday evening, right?" Bella said happily as she walked past Alice toward the kitchen before she could even mutter a single word.

"We've got popcorn, some very corny movies, and Ben & Jerry's." Rosalie held up a bag, and Alice smiled gratefully.

"What happened to your backpack?" Rose asked suddenly.

"Oh, I dropped it in a puddle," Alice said meekly, looking at the drenched thing in the hallway.

"You should take your books out and let them dry," Rose commented, while walking toward the soaked bag.

"Sure Mom, go ahead," Alice replied with a smile on her face. Rose stuck her tongue out.

"Kids these days." She sighed dramatically, playing along. Rosalie went to the kitchen, took the books out, one by one, and put them on the stove.

"What's this?" she asked curiously, holding up a white envelope.

"Where did you get that?" Alice asked, surprised. Rose pointed at the front pocket.

"I never put something in there, the zipper doesn't work properly," Alice replied while quickly snatching the envelope out of her friend's hands.

The three girls gathered around the kitchen table, one even more curious than the other.

"Okay, well, that doesn't matter now!" Bella said. "Open it!"

Alice opened the wet envelope, careful not to break it, and definitely not quick enough for Rose's liking, but eventually it worked and she got the letter out. The words were a bit run out due to the rain, but they were readable.

"To the girl with the gorgeous blue eyes and the pretty smile," Alice read out loud, earning squeals from her friends. "From next week on, I'll be going by bike instead of the bus. I won't be able to see you anymore and for that I'm sorry, because you were pretty much the highlight of every morning, of every day actually. I woke up, smiling, because I knew I'd see you again. I can't even begin to explain what you did to me. Every time I caught you staring at me, then quickly looking away, pretending you weren't doing the exact same thing as I was…I felt something there, and I hope you did too. Since I won't be seeing you again, I'm taking my chance now. If you want to meet me, here's my number. I'll be waiting.

PS: My name is Jasper."