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We sat down at a table with two other girls, the blonde guy Bella was staring at and blushing, and the thirsty Asian. I believed the girls were Angela Weber and Jessica somethingsomething. I hadn't paid attention to her name, it was annoying me the way she kept glaring at my sister everytime she touched Mike's arm.

"Oh. My. God. Don't look now, but the Cullen's are staring at you, Irma." Jessica put her hand on my arm tell me this as a whispering volume. I glared first at her hand and then just at her face.

"Irene." I corrected snappily, still glaring at her. She didn't seem to hear me though.

"Ugh, you two are so lucky. You're like shiny new toys of Forks. Even the Cullen's are noticing you two!" Jessica slapped my arm at this point and while I know it was playful I glared even harder at her if it were possible. She of course never noticed it. Lunch continued on and on and I started to realize the Cullens wouldn't stop staring. I was considering initiating a staring contest by staring back at them but decided against it in lieu of lunch. I leaned closer to my twin and whispered in her ear.

"You know for people who get stared at 24-7, you'd think they'd be less likely to do it." I grumbled to Bella. She grinned at my complaints and looked back over at Mike across the table as he told a story. What about? I have no idea and I don't care. I could feel their eyes in the back of head and it was starting to bother me.

The school day ended and I met Bella in the parking lot. She was talking to the same blonde guy from lunch, Mike Newton I think? They were laughing and she was grinning as he leaned closer to her so I decided to walk a little bit slower. Okay I may have walked as slowly as possible and stopped to tie my shoe a few times.

"You know that boot doesn't have any laces on it, right?" A soft voice sounded beside me and if it hadn't been so sweet sounding, I'd have jumped. I looked up to meet Alice's eyes again and sighed.

"Look, Alice right?" I said this sounding a little grumpy and her frown deepened. I was going to let her down easy, I didn't feel like dealing with this girl fluttering all over me for the rest of the year. She nodded slowly, starting to grimace.

"I know that you may have some fe-" I was about to give her the whole its not you, its me speech when she put her finger over my lips. She looked sad but seemed to have accepted it for the most part.

"I already know what you're going to say, and I don't want to hear it." She said this sounding a little emotional, like she was about to cry. I paled at the though, guilt creeping up on me. I just really really didn't want to hurt her and I didn't want to see her cry. Either of those things felt like a horrifying and scarring thing to do for some reason, like I'd killed a puppy in front of a child. She began to shake after that and I began to panic, I had to fix whatever error I just made.

"No, Alice. Please don't cry. We can go d-" I got cut off for the second time today, this time by a guy friend I'd made named Tyler.

"Hey! Irene, me and a couple of guys are going to go hang at the mall. You should join us. Bring Bella too!" He said this grinning as he threw his arm around my shoulders and Alice looked up, looking teary. I frowned at the face she made when her eyes zeroed in on the arm tossed around my shoulders. Teary Alice turned into an angry Alice, quickly. It was a little terrifying and honestly, I think she scared Tyler big time more so than me.

"Get your arm off of her." Her voice had seemingly gone a few octaves deeper and we both froze, staring at her as she stared at Tyler's arm. She looked ready to tare it off and burn it and I felt Tyler slowly inch away, trying to pull me back as he went. She had nearly glared holes into my shoulder when the honey blonde came up behind her, putting his hand on her shoulder. He looked a little frazzled and I felt like it too. I was so confused over Alice. Every time I saw her, I started to like her more and more, but I'd known her for literally a day. Wanting a girl who you weren't totally sure was into you, was a bit difficult to gauge. Especially when she also creeped you out in the slightest.

"Hello, Alice hasn't introduced such a lovely lady to me. Jasper Whitlock, at your service, mam."The blonde had a southern twang to his words and I felt calm come over me slowly. That was odd. I wasn't sure if that was me, I began to try and refuse it, blocking it out. He got a funny look on his face, it was frowning but not quite there.

"Irene." I said this uneasily, I didn't feel like these two were safe for me or Tyler especially. He gave me a forced smile and I felt like he'd stopped breathing. Alice went still again, getting the far away look, and began to smile with the anger gone. I felt my eyes widen as she smiled at me, she was so backwards and forwards then side and up and and down, it was the emotional roller coaster from hell with her.

"Irene! Why don't you and Bella come out shopping with me? My treat!" She said this clasping her hands together and I hesitated to accept the gracious offer. There was something off with her and I realized the family had a surplus of funds from the Hummer's, Porsche's, and Volvo's that the rest of them had but I still felt like they had a predatory quality to them. It was their teeth that set me off, all white and perfect and very much pointy looking. I couldn't figure out why I'd be so off put by them though, they were just pale and eccentric kids.

"Alright, but Bella may not come." I said this frowning slightly, I didn't want Bella there in case I had to leave the two of them alone. The protective instincts were coming out but they were in conflict with the fact I found Alice absolutely enchanting. She was small and bouncy and I kept getting the urge to have her touch me or to touch her when I stared into her eyes. (Which had been happening quite often in the SINGLE day I've known her.)

"What might Bella not come too?" Bella's voice came from the side of my, I looked over at her to see her looking between the three of us curiously. She obviously didn't have the same off putting feeling about the Cullens, that I had. Tyler may have though. Alice kept going between ignoring him and glaring at the offending arm that was still hanging off my shoulder.

"A shopping trip, Bells." I said this gruffly, giving her the warning to not go with. She narrowed her eyes at me and I could tell she was about to go off on a rebellion strike again, this time from curiosity.

"I'd love to go! When and where, Alice?" She said this cheerfully and I noticed her stutter had stopped, she was looking smugly at me and I glared at her. I heard the crack-pixie clap her hands together in excitement and I wanted to groan out loud again.

"How about tomorrow! Its a Saturday anyways." She was smiling kindly at Bella, and I could swear she winked at me at some point when Bella looked down at me to think.

"Please, Ira?" Bella had decidedly finished thinking about it and I wasn't sure what her angle was simply because she hated shopping. She was hanging off my arm, Tyler had gone entirely quiet and I swear I could feel him drooling on my shoulder. I sighed and nodded slowly. I'd just have to keep an eye on Bella a lot more.

"Perfect, its decided then. I'll come around to your house to pick you up around 9 and we'll make a day of it!" She hugged me quickly and I didn't freeze up this time, in fact I wrapped an arm around her and patted her on the back.

She almost seemed to purr when she let go and patted Bella on the shoulder. She skipped off to get into the Hummer, Jasper nodded at us and followed her. I looked over and saw the blonde girl was glaring at me from a distance and I raised a brow at her expression as she got into the car.

"Tyler?" I said as I shook my shoulder, trying to get his attention when I heard him snore softly. I turned my head to the side and saw he was sound asleep, drooling onto my shoulder.

"Awe come on, Tyler. TYLER!" I shook my shoulders even more now and I'm sure I had the most attractive look of disgust on my face. He muttered and pulled me closer, how was he standing and sleeping?

"Bella, go get someone to get him off of my shoulder and wake his ass up." I said this grimly and she sauntered off, grinning at my misfortune. As the Hummer rolled out I heard Alice's tinkling laughter out the window.

"Sorry, Irene. I have no idea what happened, we were just standing there and I just got so sleepy." Tyler was apologizing on the phone for the third or fourth time since we got home. I sighed and waited for him to take a breath.

"Tyler. Seriously. Its okay." I grounded this out, trying to work on cooking food for Bella and Charlie and listen to Tyler ramble on at the same time.

"But really, I don't know how it happened! I know that's a really shitty impression on the first day and you seem so cool an-" Tyler continued to ramble, I was chopping up red and yellow peppers and sliced my finger in the process. I yelped at the cut and made a disgusted face with the blood.

"Irene? Are you okay?" Now he was worried about me, great. Here we go, he'll blame himself for the finger cutting.

"I'm fine Tyler, I just cut my finger. I'll call you back, okay?" I said this patiently as I put down the knife and went to the sink. I wasn't calling him back, but he didn't need to know that.

"Alright! I hope it wasn't because I was talking too much or something, because you know I do that som-" Tyler just kept on going, didn't he? God damn that kid could talk.

"Bye, Tyler." I grounded this out and clicked the end call button before he could continue from where I cut him off. I was a grumpy munchkin for some reason and I wasn't sure why. It felt like I was missing something or I'd done something horrible and I couldn't stop thinking about what it may be. I almost wanted to growl from pure frustration with myself and the situation as I wrapped a bandage around my middle finger.

"Hey Irene. Wheres Bells?" Charlie shuffled himself in the door and hung up his belt and gun. I was making a plate for Bella, whenever she got home, and wrapping it in aluminum foil.

"Shes with Jacob." I replied. He nodded and sat down at the table after grabbing a beer from the fridge. We were quiet for a bit as I covered the plate for her.

"Whats for dinner?" I could hear him taking swigs of beer, vaguely I wondered about just how much he really drank and dismissed it.

"Black bean enchilada." I popped the plate in the oven and wrote a note for her as I spoke. He got up and grabbed his plate and sat back down as I grabbed mine. The table went quiet again as we chewed.

"This is good." I looked up at him and saw he had a pinched look on his face, he was trying to compliment me and start a conversation with a daughter he'd not spoken to in years. I decided to throw him a bone.

"Yeah. Found the recipe on the internet, how was work?" I asked this quietly, the sound of forks on plates became more apparent than before and I began to miss having Bella do the conversation for me.

"It was fine, I guess. No new murders in a town this small. Ran into Dr. Cullen though, hes a nice guy. Good family." He was talking by himself now, meaning I didn't have to say much. The Cullen bit caught my ear though.

"You think they're a good family? Nothing...weird with them at all?" I tried to phrase it in a way that wasn't bitchy but when I saw his face darken, I may have failed that aspect.

"They're good people, Irene. The people of this town would do well to remember how generous, kind, and welcoming that man and his family were. They adopted six children, six. Even Dr. Cullen is over qualified for our hospital, we're extremely luck to have him working here." He was grumpy and defensive. I guessed that the Cullens were talked about a lot in Forks and sighed.

It was time I was nicer to Alice and her family, maybe this would let Charlie and I get along better or something.

I was laying in bed, day dreaming about an Alice with fangs when I heard someone come in. They were soft footed, female, all thoughts of Alice disappeared. I sat up and went to the dark hallway, standing at the top of the stairs.

"Bella?" I said this softly, trying to not wake Charlie in case it was her.

"Yeah, its me." She called back just as softly and I came quickly down the stairs. We moved to the kitchen and she sat down as I turned on the lights and got her dinner warmed.

"How was Jacob's?" I asked her.

"He was same old Jacob, but he told me a few stories this time." She shrugged and responded in a soft voice. I tilted my head, trying to remember any Quileute stories.

"Care to share?" I asked grinning, she smiled back. She looked a little tired and windblown but she seemed like she had fun.

"Well there was one about the 'cold ones'..." She was off on her story ramble about the cold ones and the Quileute wolves. I began to get a little worried as she told me about the cold ones, as the name stated they were cold and hard as marble but drank the blood of the tribe members and had been attacked by the locals. The 'wolves' also apparently have a treaty with a family of animal blood-drinkers. I shook it off, trying to remember what Charlie had said earlier and smiled at Bella when she stopped the stories and had started eating.

"Well that sounds like it was fun." I said grinning and stood up, a little dizzy now.

"I'm going to go to bed, remember to lock the door and put your dish in the sink." I said this and turned to go up the stairs again.

"By the way, Ira..." Bella started again and I stopped to look back at her. Her brow had furrowed and I waited for the words to come to her.

"I know you didn't want me to go with you guys because you're all protective and all but I want to get to know them. Maybe they're really nice people, you know?" Bella started to ramble a bit but I waited and she finished with that, looking up to me for a response somewhere along the lines of 'its okay.' I nodded slowly, accepting her answer and went upstairs to go lay down for a bit.

SOMEWHAT OF A LEMON

(I'VE MOVED THE RATING UP AND THIS WON'T HAVE A REAL EFFECT ON THE PLOT SO PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SKIP, LOVES.)

This time I fell asleep and dreamed of Alice and I, but we were in my bed and for some reason it was larger. She was wearing a purple dress, waiting for me on the bed. I glided over and saw myself in the mirror as I passed by, I was pale.

Pale as Alice and my eyes were black. I looked down at my hands as one of hers slid under my shirt, my nails had grown longer, and they were painted a deep red colour.

I could feel her hand grip the left side of my chest and she pulled my head towards her, demanding my attention. I was more than willing to give it to her. She pulled back from me and I realized why when she pinched my nipple and I yelped, she gave me a smirk when I tried to pull her back down to me but she resisted. I growled and she growled back, making my own growl sound a bit like a kitten.

We weren't in my room anymore, we were in a forest with a cottage next to us. I decided to flip over and felt the grass beneath my fingers as she slid a finger into me. It was a surprise and I jumped a little when I felt her breath on my thigh. I looked down to see her eyes had gone red and she snarled as she bit into my leg, tearing it off. I screamed.

LEMON OVER

"IRA! Wake up!" I felt someone shaking me and rolled away, falling off my bed. I looked around, searching for her and felt my thigh. It was still in tact and there weren't any bite marks on it so I took it as a crazy wet dream gone horribly wrong.

"Ira?" I looked up to see a tired looking Charlie and a scared Bella. It was at this point I gained normality and stood up, smoothing out my clothes.

"Sorry. Nightmare. Something was eating me, I'm fine!" I said this shakily and held up a thumbs up to her.

"Well I'm going back to bed then, Irene." Charlie shook his head, walking back out. I didn't know what time it was but I guessed it wasn't very late. That was mostly the truth, she didn't need to know I was also having sexy time turned bad with a girl I told her to stay away from.

"Are you sure you're okay?" Bella frowned, I took in a big breath and smiled at her.

"I'm all good, Bells. Go back to sleep." Her frown deepened but she nodded anyways, slowly turning and leaving my room. I turned off the lamplight and squeezed my eyes closed, I had to get that girl out of my head, and fast.