Chapter 3: A Shopping Trip and A Shock

"Jasper! Jaaassspperrr!" I called as I entered the house. He appeared in front of me and I beamed at him. "Look at all the cool stuff I bought!"

He took the bags that I held out to him and looked inside. "Alice you're not even two months pregnant, I think you went a little over board with the maternity clothes."

I scowled at him. "I'm going to need these for months!"

"Would it be totally scandalous to wear the same outfit twice?" Jasper asked.

"Yes." I said, sticking my tongue out. Jasper smiled and took the rest of my bags, carrying them up the stairs for me even though I needed no assistance in lifting the bags that were - to me, anyway - practically weightless.

I followed him up the stairs and into our bedroom, where he dumped the bags on the bed. He surveyed the mass of shiny bags and then turned to me. "I don't even want to think about what's going to happen when you go shopping for baby furniture."

I think my face actually lit up. "I hadn't even thought of that! How could I have overlooked something like that, Jasper? It must be the pregnancy hormones."

"I don't think you're far enough along for pregnancy hormones-" Jasper began, but I wasn't listening. I was lost in a dreamworld of nurseries and push chairs and cribs.

"I won't be able to decorate it's room until I find out if it's a boy or a girl." I said, "If it's a girl, I think we'll go white and baby pink, and if it's a boy we'll go white and navy blue. That way, we can get started now and do all the white stuff, and then just add either colour when we find out the sex."

"Ohh, if it's a girl we can paint princess castles and fairy worlds on the walls...and if it's a boy we can do pirate ships and jungles!" I carried on, "Oh Jazz, there's so much to do!"

"And we've got over 7 months to do it!" Jasper reminded me. "You'll probably change your mind about the room forty times before we actually get around to painting it."

"Will not!" I said, then I had an idea, "Wait, instead of that; why don't have the whole room underwater themed? With mermaids and fish and coral and stuff!" Jasper smirked and I realised that I'd just changed my mind about the room even though I'd said I wouldn't. I stuck out my tongue. "I'm still drafting ideas! Of course, I should probably wait until the closets built-"

"Built?" Jasper echoed, "We're building a closet?"

"Well the baby has to have a walk in closet!" I said.

"The baby won't be able to walk!" Jasper told me.

"I know that!" I said, "But I can carry the baby, and I will be walking!"

"So, really, it's you who had to have a walk in closet." Jasper teased.

"I'm not going to dignify that with a response." I said, turning on my heel and going back downstairs.

"Hey, where are you going, Darlin'?" Jasper asked, walking along side me.

"The rest of the bags are in the car." I said. Jasper's eyes widened ever so slightly. "What? You thought that was everything? Please! I thought you knew me better than that Jasper!"

When we got to the car we saw Emmett just coming up the drive. I bounded over to him. "Hey Em!"

"Hey." Emmett said.

"How's Rosalie?" I asked. We hadn't heard from her since she stormed out two days ago after I told her I was pregnant. Emmett had come back to grab some stuff and tell us that Rosalie wanted to stay at their house in the woods for a while. He hadn't told us any more than that, and it was killing me that I couldn't go and talk to Rosalie, but I was under strict orders from every member of my family that I wasn't allowed to talk to her until she was ready. I knew they had a point, but I hated waiting! It didn't help that because of my gift becoming weaker due to the pregnancy, I couldn't even see when she'd come home or talk to me again!

"She's...fine." Emmett said. It was the same thing he'd told us yesterday and the day before that when he'd 'popped in' to grab some clothes or jewellery that Rosalie had forgotten to ask him to fetch the previous day.

"She hates me, doesn't she?" I asked, blinking back waterless tears.

"No!" Emmett said, "She doesn't hate you Alice - of course she doesn't! She's just upset, that's all. I think she needs some alone time, but she's not mad at you Alice and she certainly doesn't hate you! You're her sister."

"Tell her to come home soon." I told him.

"Will do." He said, and he disappeared into the house. We grabbed the rest of the shopping from the car and passed Emmett on our way into the house and his way out.

"See ya later, Em." I called after him as he left in the direction of his and Rosalie's house.

After dropping of the rest of the shopping bags in our bedroom, we left them to be sorted out later and went downstairs to watch a movie. For the first time in almost a century, I didn't know the entire plot of the movie before we'd even picked it. I did get some glimpses of the ending, though, which sorta spoiled it.

The film ended but Jasper and I stayed on the couch, cuddled up together. After a while I yawned and Jasper shot me a look. "Alice? You're tired?"

"Hu...I guess so." I said, trying to remember the last time I'd felt tired. "Dana did say I'd have to sleep more as the pregnancy went on."

"Do you want to go to bed?" Jasper asked. I shook my head, already feeling sleep pulling at the corners of my consciousness. Wow. Falling asleep was a weird feeling. I couldn't remember sleeping from my human life, and suddenly panic spiked through me. I was about to go to sleep...and I didn't even know how to go to sleep! How would I wake myself up again? How would I- "Darlin', calm down, what's wrong?"

Jasper's soothing voice washing over me banished all my worries. Humans slept every day! I'd slept for the whole 19 years of my human existence, and so had Jasper and Carlisle and Bella and everyone else! I snuggled deeper into Jasper, feeling safe and warm tucked into his side, with a smile on my lips. "Nothing's wrong."

Jasper tightened his arms around me slightly so that he pulled me closer. I tried to keep my eyes open to say something more, but a century of missed sleep was finally catching up with me and I was falling into unconsciousness faster than my brain could fight against. Soon, I was asleep.

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Jasper still had his arms around me when I woke up. He was quietly saying something to whoever else was in the room, obviously trying not to wake me up. How sweet! I let my eyelids flutter open and I turned my head up so I could look at Jasper. He beamed down at me.

"Good mornin'." He said. I smiled lazily. If falling asleep had been weird, waking up was just as weird. I felt like I should go straight back to sleep...or at least just lie here with my eyes closed until I felt like getting up. Actually, lying here in Jasper's arms did sound pretty great!

Jasper leaned down and kissed me softly on the lips before smiling at me again, "You, Miss Cullen, are the cutest thing ever when you sleep!"

I let a lazy smile fall over my face, still too comfortable from my sleep to really make an effort. This just made Jasper grin further. I turned to see who he'd been talking to and discovered Bella standing in the doorway. She grinned at me, "Good sleep?"

"That's the first time I can ever remember sleeping." I said pulling away from Jasper slightly so I could talk to Bella, but staying close enough to him that I still felt the warm tingling feeling that I always got when I was this close to Jasper.

"You slept right through the night." Jasper told me. My eyes widened. It had been early evening when I'd gone to sleep - was he really telling me I'd slept until morning? It seemed like such a waste of time! Think of all the shopping I could have done in that time!

I blinked the last remnants of sleep from my eyes and stretched out my legs. Jasper rose to his feet as I did and followed me as I walked into the kitchen. Renesmee was sat at the table with Carlisle, learning something about US leaders of history. Carlisle smiled at me as I walked in. "How are you feeling, Alice?"

"Weird." I told him, "Sleeping is a weird experience."

Carlisle chuckled, "It was a bit of a shock to come home to find you sleeping on the couch."

I smiled. "I think there's going to be a lot of shocks during this pregnancy."

If only I'd known then just how accurate my words were.

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