CHAPTER 5

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Alice Point of View

I never thought that with the arrival of Bella Cullen my life was going to change. I had it all; I was one of the most popular girls in school future homecoming queen, prom queen.

I used to date the most popular guys, everyone respected me; I had a lot of people following me but there is one thing I didn't have…Friends and that's when Bella enters the picture, yeah our first impression of each other wasn't the best but afterwards she showed me what a real friendship is and I never been more grateful that she got me out of that shallow life I had in school.

Now I'm consider one of the losers just because I hang out with Angela, Erick and Bella but I don't care; at least I have friends that are going to support me no matter what.

Another thing that Bella has shown me is love. I'm in love with Bella and I don't know when or how it happened but the fact is: that she is everything I look in a person, she is charming, well mannered she has a good sense of humor and she is gorgeous with her long brown hair and those golden eyes, that can convey every emotion she is feeling with one look. And those lips, so kissable I have to hold myself back a few times to just lean in and kiss her. The fact that she is a vampire is irrelevant to me, if it wasn't for her immortality I wouldn't have met her, because I don't think there is another person on this earth like Bella.

I just came back from the homecoming dance and I had such a wonderful time dancing with Bella, I just wished she could have kissed me goodnight. At least I know she liked my dress; she couldn't keep her eyes off of me, that's has to be a good sign right? The fact that she is a girl doesn't bother me; I never knew I could feel this way for another girl. Now I just have to figure out how to win her heart. I feel asleep with dreams of Bella.

The next morning I woke up with the sound of voices in the kitchen. I rolled out of bed, brush my teeth and went to investigate and what I found was a pleasant surprise, there, near the kitchen counter stood Jake.

"Jake! Oh my God…Look at you!" I nearly screamed while throwing my arms around him.

He responded by enveloping me in a hug "Hey there shorty, how's it going?" he asked me while ruffling my hair.

I swatted his hand away and gave him a pout. "Oh come on Alice, you know I cant resist the pout."

I sighed, "Fine, no more pout, but look at you when did you became so tall and strong?"

When I said this Jake flexed his muscles and gave me a big smile "Well it's called a growth spur now I can protect you from the bad guys."

I rolled my eyes at that comment and, couldn't help to think about Bella, the way she has protected me.

I must zoon out because Jake gave me a strange look. "Anyway I'm here to invite you to a bonfire tonight down the rez, would you like to come?"

"Of course, it's been a while I've been there, at what time do I need to be there?" I asked him

"Well the bonfire starts at 6, so you can come at 5:30." Jake said while eating some scrambled eggs my dad made.

"Well then I'm going back to my room to get ready for my day, I'll see you tonight Jake." I headed to my room and when I enter my phone starts to ring I picked it up and it was Bella.

"Hi Bella." I answered cheerfully

"Hi Alice how are you?"

"I'm fine thank you, do I what I owe the pleasure of your call?" I said giggling; she let out a musical laugh and answered me

"Well I was wondering if you want to come to my place today?" I let out a silent groan

".I cant Bella one of my friends from the reservation came over and invited me to a bonfire and I said yes."

"WHAT! YOU'RE GOING TO THE RESERVATION?" She screamed on the phone that was odd.

"What's with the screaming Bella? Calm down."

"I WILL NOT CALM DOWN, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO THE RESERVATION." "Excuse me? Who the hell do you think you're telling me what to do?" I was angry Bella has never done something like that to me.

"I'm sorry for my outburst, but you cant go there its very dangerous especially with those bipolar mongrels roaming in the woods." she finished with a hiss.

"Look Bella I'm not going alone my friend Jake will be there you don't have to worry." I explained it to her.

"Jake, who the hell is he?" Bella said with a hint of jealously in her voice and I smiled inwardly at that, if she is jealous then she must feels something.

"Jake is my friend, has been for a long time. He is the son of Billy Black my dad's best friend."

"He is a Black, the more reason for you not to go. Alice please don't go." she told me with a pleading tone.

"I'm sorry Bella, but I'm going." I told her with determination.

"Listen girl its dangerous for you to go there, what part of that you don't understand?" She said with a tone that I didn't like one bit.

"No, you listen I'm going to the reservation you like it or not, You're not my mother to tell me what to do and if you don't like it, then forget we are friends." She let out a low growl "FINE!" and she hung up.

I sat in my bed shocked at what has transpired with Bella. I cant believe she got worked up just because I was going to the reservation, and what did she meant with "bipolar mongrels?" is there something she is not telling me? Well, when I get back from the rez I will try to call her hopefully by that time she has calmed down.

The day passed slowly and I spent it cleaning my room and catching up in some homework. At 4:30 PM I went to my room to change and by 5 I was on my way to the reservation.

It took me 15 minutes to get there. I parked my car and Jake was already outside the car opening the door for me. He greeted me with a hug that lasted a little longer than I liked.

"Hey Alice, glad you could come let's go the bonfire will start in a few minutes." he told me while grabbing my hand and taking me where the bonfire was.

Billy Black and a few boys from the reservation were already there. Something I noticed is that all the boys had their hair cut short and they were only with shorts even though we were in mid September.

"The Quileute's have many legends and one of them is that we are descendants of the wolves and that they are our brothers so it's forbidden to kill them. Another legend is about The Cold Ones the blood drinkers but a lot of people refer to them as vampires." Billy explained to the group.

I was shocked they knew about Bella and her family but what does this has to do with them?

"Our land has been attacked before by The Cold Ones. At first we couldn't defend ourselves and we asked for help to our brothers the wolves. With the help of magic we managed to unit our essences and that enabled us to become were wolves so we could fight off our natural enemy the Cold Ones. There has been times when we don't need the protection of the werewolves, you see, the cold ones triggers our transformation." Billy was looking at each member of the circle while explaining the legend and his eyes landed on me, he gave me a glare that said "pay attention and stay away from them" he continued with the story.

"About a 100 years ago my grandfather encounter a few Cold Ones but they were different, they claimed that they didn't hunt humans only animals and they wanted to live peacefully. My grandfather made a truce with them; if they promised to stay off our land and not hunt humans we wouldn't kill them". I let out a short gasp at this information.

They could kill Bella and that's the reason she didn't want me to come. Jake told me that the meeting was over and that if I wanted to hang out with him for a while.

We went to sit on a bolder so we could have a little bit of privacy.

"Alice, the reason I wanted to talk to you is because…Well…. You see… Oh man screw this." just as he was finishing he lunged at me and kissed me. To say I was shocked was an understanment, he tried to push his tongue past my lips and I didn't let him, I tried to push him off of me but he was so strong and then I bit his lip hard.

"Ow, what the hell?" he asked by now I was furious how dare he kissed me like that.

"What is your fucking problem Jake? Why did you kiss me?" I asked with so much anger.

"Look Alice, the fact is that I'm in love with you and I want you to be my girl," he told me with a proud smile on his face.

Was this guy serious, I mean yes we have been friends since 4th grade but he never told me anything regarding his feelings.

I let out a long sigh "Look Jake first of all you shouldn't have kissed me and second of all I'm sorry but I can't return your feelings."

He interrupted me then "What do you mean you can't? You're single I'm single, we've been friends since kids, we make a good couple." he told me with a hopeful smile.

"I'm sorry but I can't, my heart belongs to someone else Jake." as soon as I finished that sentence he started shaking and screaming.

"WHO IS HE? I SWEAR I'M GOING TO FUCKING KILL HIM, TELL ME ALICE!" by now he was towering near me.

I suddenly felt a rush of adrenaline and screamed at him "First its not a he it's a she and her name is Bella and when she finds out that you kissed me she probably will kick your ass." I finished with a smug smile.

"YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH A CULLEN?" he screamed and suddenly I was pushed backwards and hurt myself in the process. ThenI heard clothes being shredded and instead of Jake there was a huge wolf looking at me like I was his dinner.

I screamed and took off running to my car. I managed to get there and drove off; I was going so fast and my hands were shaking, I couldn't believe everything that has happened in the last 2 hours. Nearly 5 minutes had passed when I saw 3 figures on the road and I recognized Bella immediately.

I slow down the car and Bella was opening the door for me and I clutched myself to her.

"I'm so sorry Bella, you were right please forgive me." I sobbed the words out "Shh Alice its ok, you didn't knew I'm here now." she was comforting me, whispering sweet nothing in my ear I felt so safe in her arms and I didn't want to let go.

A few minutes passed and I managed to calm down "Now Alice please tell me what happened? What's got you so frightened?" she asked me with concern in her voice and eyes and if it wasn't for the situation I would have swooned.

"Billy Black shared one of his legends to me, the one regarding the cold ones and the werewolves, he explained the truce you have with them." I told her while trying to calm down.

I took a long breath and continued "Then Jake told me if we could hang out and I said yes. Hhe then started to ramble and then he kissed me." I finished with a sheepish look.

"HE WHAT!" Bella screamed with rage and jealously? Filling her eyes, instantly becoming black I widened my eyes at the sight.

"How dare that fucking mongrel kiss you? I'm going to beat the crap out of him and then I'm going to cut off his tongue and feed it to the animals in the forest." Bella finished and then she asked me what else had happened.

"I asked him what his problem was and he told me he was in love with me and that we should be together." I could see this upsets Bella and quickly continue "But I told him that I was not in love with him and I wasn't interested in dating him." I wasn't going to tell her about my feelings, not yet at least.

Suddenly Bella stiffen and Emmett and Victoria let out menacing growls. I haven't noticed they were here.

I turned around and there stood Jake with 3 other boys.

"Just the animal I wanted to see." Bella said in a low menacing tone.

"How dare you touch Alice without her consent? Just because you have muscles doesn't mean you're a real man," she said and then Jake opened his mouth and I wished he didn't

"Shut up leech, at least I'm not a mass murderer. What did you do to her to make her fall in love with you? People like you don't deserve people like Alice, if you put her in some kind of spell release her now, so we can be together." He ended his tirade and I just wanted to be swallowed by the earth. Bella had a blank look on her face and she could only utter one word "Oh".