Jade yawned deeply. Stupid freaking Dragon Age Inquisition, making her stay up for hours on end. She'd finally managed to drag herself to bed around four in the morning, and she was out of coffee. The result was that she was currently operating off of about three hours of sleep. She was not looking forward to the lecture she was sure to get from Alice about sleep habits. Jade was so out of it, and so busy dreading her oncoming confrontation with her best, and only, friend that she didn't notice the Jeep Grand Cherokee spinning towards her until the driver hit the horn. Even then it didn't fully register until Alice was between her and the car. Jade blinked as the smaller girl slammed into her and the car seemed to scrape off Alice's back, not budging Alice an inch. Alice peered up at her intently. "Are you okay?" She asked. Jade nodded.

"Yeah, I'm fine. What about you? That thing hit you." Alice raised an eyebrow.

"No it didn't. It missed me by like a foot." She said, sounding confused. "Jeez, just how sleep deprived are you Jade?" Jade scowled.

"What makes you think I'm sleep depri…"Her sentence was cut off by a deep yawn. Alice gave her a deadpan look.

"Well, there's that for one thing." The short girl said dryly. "Plus there's the fact that you didn't notice that there was a car sliding on the ice towards you, and, well…never mind."

"What?" Jade asked, frowning as she realized that Alice wasn't looking her in the eye.

"Seriously, forget about it."

"Alice…" Jade growled warningly.

"It's really cold, and you're not wearing a bra." Alice said with a sigh. Jade's eyes widened and she quickly pulled her jacket shut.

"You…" She growled. "You were just going to let me walk around like that!"

"I, uh…" Alice looked away, rubbing the back of her head. "We should get to class." With that she turned around and walked off, leaving Jade glaring after her. That is, until the taller girl noticed the huge tear in the back of Alice's shirt. The Jeep had definitely hit her, but Alice hadn't seemed to notice. She certainly didn't seem hurt. From what Jade could see, her skin was still flawless. Something was wrong here.

Six hours later

"I can't believe you let me walk around with the back of my shirt shredded like that." Alice pouted. They were in Jade's apartment, Alice sitting on a stool on one side of the counter, and Jade standing on the other side. Jade rolled her eyes and took a sip of her cup of coffee.

"I can't believe you didn't notice. It's like twenty degrees out there." Alice shrugged.

"The cold never bothered me anyway." She said with a smile. Jade stared at her for a long moment.

"I'm going to dump this cup of coffee on you. And I just want you to know that it's because that joke is over used, and not because I don't like Frozen." She made to do just that when Alice moved surprisingly quickly. Suddenly the shorter girl was standing next to her, one hand around her wrist.

"Now Jade, you wouldn't want to waste coffee, would you?" She asked with a sweet smile. Jade gave her a calculating look, then made a split decision and smacked Alice on the back, right where the tear had been. Alice didn't even flinch, though she did look at Jade in confusion.

"What was that for?"

"That was where you got hit by a Jeep Grand Cherokee this morning." Jade said frankly. "Odd how it didn't seem to hurt you." Alice blinked. She was starting to regret her decision to not look into the future where Jade was concerned.

"Just because it tore my shirt…" She started to say.

"Your tight, could probably only be pulled half an inch off of your back shirt?" Jade retorted. Alice blinked again. Why couldn't Jade be stupid? Or at least shy and not liking confrontation? "Look, everyone has secrets. I get that, I do. But I don't like being lied to, and I really don't like it when people I care about hide things from me." Alice sighed.

"I…I don't know what to say." She admitted. "This isn't exactly easy."

"Try going one word at a time." Jade said flatly. Alice took a deep breath and looked around, trying not to meet Jade's eyes.

"Is there anything else that's…different about me that you've noticed?" She asked slowly.

"You mean the fact that you rarely if ever eat anything, or the way your eyes are amber most of the time, or the fact that you're usually not at school when…it's…sunny." Jade closed her eyes and pinched the bridge of her nose. "Oh hell."

"What?" Alice asked warily.

"No eating…avoiding the sun…strange eye color…pale as crap…oddly strong…" Jade groaned again and rested her head on the island. "I'm an idiot."

"Why…"

"Say it."

"Jade…" Jade looked up and glared at Alice.

"Say it." She growled. Alice sighed.

"I…I'm a vampire."

Author's Notes

Sorry for how long this took. ADD sucks.

Yes, I know, that was similar to a scene from Twilight proper, but as someone who went to high school in northern Utah, you'd be amazed at how often cars spin out of control in the parking lot in the winter. It's kind of terrifying really.

And yes, Jade figured this out rather quickly but, well, Jade is intelligent and into horror. Frankly the Cullens aren't subtle. At all. So…yeah.

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