I own nothing. This is what I've been doing when I'm bored since I can't cycle for another three months. The only good stories are ones for adults, so the rating's there for a reason – or will be in later chapters.

Alice lay in the wet grass, the falling rain substituting for the tears she couldn't cry. Frustration and confusion had swelled inside her to the point where she had fled the house earlier. The atmosphere had been unbearable. The looks, the unspoken questions.

For two years she had been struggling with her visions. They had uprooted her family, destroyed her marriage, and effectively wound her emotions into such a taunt string that she feared the slightest whim would snap and unravel her sanity.

But still they persisted. Still she persisted. With every passing day the visions came more frequently.

In the beginning they had been just snippets of scenes. A girl smiling at her. A hand lingering on her forearm.

They had been confusing, but not alarming. Alice had imagined that she would meet a human, become friendly with a girl in one of the various high schools they enrolled in. It had happened before. Meeting a human who would overcome their natural instinct to avoid them was rare, though not unheard of. It had excited her; so very rarely did she get the chance to interact with someone outside of her coven.

But as time passed the visions became longer, more detailed.

She was in a classroom. The lights were dimmed.

The girl was beside her, but not looking at her. She looked like a studious high school student – her attention focused on the teacher discussing the current topic on a PowerPoint slide.

Apparently the girl was a flawless actress.

Alice felt a hand on her thigh, fingertips gently stroking against her marble skin.

Of course she was wearing a skirt…

Electric currents followed wherever the fingers traced against her skin. Bolts of desire flared through her before settling in deliciously inappropriate places.

The girl seemed unfazed by her coldness, her fingers slowly drawing patterns higher and higher up Alice's thigh.

Alice's eyes rolled back, her breathing hitched. She bit her bottom lip between her teeth, the barest of growls rumbling through her chest.

And then the lights came back on.

The girl blushed and pulled her hand back.

The sexuality that the majority of the visions suddenly possessed was palpable. Afterwards Alice would be left wanting, frustrated. Jasper, unknowingly, only made it worse. He would catch on to her mood and naturally seek to roll with the emotions his wife was emitting.

Alice was left with little choice – she could either reject her husband or follow through with her body's vision-induced response. Neither option was satisfactory. When she rejected him Jasper was left confused and hurt, despite any excuse she gave him. And when she gave in…it was images of a young woman that she'd never met that flashed before her eyes.

Betrayal and frustration surrounded her mind like a tourniquet. Everyday it got tighter, cutting off all thoughts except for ones of the girl and of how horrible she was for thinking of her so much. Alice took her aggravation out on her hunts. Usually an immaculate hunter, she had begun to decimate her kills. Hunting was her therapy. When she hunted she could lose herself, forget everything but her thirst. Often she would return bathed in blood, smiling like she'd just been given a personally made Jean-Paul Gaultier dress.

No one ever made a comment on her change in hunting style.

In fact, no one ever said anything about the changes that had occurred to the usually cheerful and exuberant vampire.

Not even Edward.

He was her sanctuary. He had seen her thoughts and visions from the beginning. He had watched as they progressed from innocent images to hypersexual mini pornos. He never betrayed her trust; never spoke of the things he saw inside of her mind.

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In the end, Alice was the destroyer of her own world.

It had been a week without any visions. The respite was welcome, a relief from the daily torture that had been haunting her for the past year. Alice had begun to relax, to enjoy the everyday occurrences without anxiously awaiting the visions. She had begun to rejoin her family in regular activities.

Esme was building a shed in the back yard. She had taken up gardening when they first moved to Colorado and had amassed enough materials in the past year to need a larger place to store everything other than the garage.

Everyone was helping out. Emmett was cutting planks with Jasper; Carlisle and Edward were going over the blueprints, and her, Rosalie, and Esme were getting the paint supplies set up. They were all laughing and joking around with one another.

It was like things used to be before the visions.

Alice had no clue it was coming. One second she was reaching towards the paint roller and the next…

She was perched outside Bella's window. Alice sniffed, inhaling the scent that had been driving her crazy ever since she had first smelled it. 'This isn't creepy,' she told herself. 'I know where this is going, it's not horrible to spy on your future lover.'

She watched as Bella moved around her bedroom, grabbing things and shoving them into her school bag. Alice unabashedly let her eyes wander over Bella's form. Feelings of anticipation and want began to lick up her body – all consuming flames that were anything but unpleasant. How Bella never realized how tightly coiled Alice was around her was both cute and impossibly maddening.

Alice watched as Bella left her room, listening as she made her way down the stairs and paused at the front door. She heard Bella sigh before picking up her car keys and heading out to her car.

She jumped out of the tree, landing on the ground quietly. Bella was backing out of the driveway, pulling on to the road that would take her to the high school.

Hiding in the tree line, Alice shadowed her on the way to school. She raced ahead of Bella the last mile so she could make it seem like she'd already been at the school for some time before Bella arrived.

Edward and the others were already there. Alice silently ghosted over to the Volvo, blending into her family like she had been with them all morning. Rose was sitting on the hood of the car, Emmett tucked between her legs. For all intents and purposes they looked like the typical couple sneaking in a few kisses before the start of school. Rose's focus, however, was not solely on her husband. Her eyes narrowed at Alice. "Have fun watching your little pet last night?" she hissed, her words laced with venom.

Alice ignored her, her attention focused on the road that Bella's car was slowly driving down. Edward had gotten out of the car when Alice had arrived and now stood beside her. "You better make your move soon," Edward told her, his lips upturned in a sly grin. "Mike's getting anxious, he may beat you to the punch."

Alice rolled her eyes at him, her attention still focused on Bella. She had found a parking spot and turned her car off. Alice felt a thrill of satisfaction run through her when she noticed that Bella was scanning the parking lot. She turned towards Edward with a victorious smile, "I don't think it's Mike's car she's looking for."

It was Edward's turn to roll his eyes. "Alright lover girl, go get her," he told her, giving her a playful push in Bella's direction.

Quickly, but at a human pace, Alice made her way to Bella's car. She ducked behind the other cars in the lot so that Bella wouldn't see her. Other students awarded her some strange looks, but no one said anything to her. Bella had gotten out of her car by now and had opened her back door to get her bag out. Alice quietly moved behind her and waited. Bella straightened, slung her backpack over her shoulder, shut her door, turned around…and came face to face with Alice.

"Shit!" Bella yelped, jumping backwards against her car. Alice laughed as Bella's expression went from frightened shock to embarrassment. "Alice! You scared the hell out of me! Don't. Ever. Do. That. Again." Bella yelled at her, punctuating each sentence with a smack at Alice's arms.

Alice laughed harder, but held up her hands in surrender. "Okay, okay, I'm sorry! I'll never do it again," she promised, capturing Bella's hands in her own to stop the physical assault.

By this time Bella was laughing as well. Alice continued to hold Bella's wrists as she smiled at her – momentarily losing herself in Bella's eyes. Not that Bella seemed to mind; she appeared to be as enraptured with Alice as Alice was with her. They stood smiling at each other for a few heartbeats until the first warning bell rang out across the parking lot, snapping them out of their reverie.

"Come on," Alice told her, pulling her towards the buildings, "I'll walk you to class."

Bella smiled and allowed Alice to pull her up next to her. "I didn't think you were here today. I didn't see your Porsche anywhere when I pulled in." she told Alice.

Alice's smile got bigger. So she had been looking for her this morning. "I caught a ride with my siblings. I didn't really feel like fighting my way through the throng of male bodies that always congregate around the Porsche at the end of the day."

Bella chuckled, "Understandable. It's a hard knock life for hot girls with hot cars."

Alice laughed and nudged her with her shoulder. "Shut it, you."

They walked slowly to the school, both silent, but not uncomfortably so.

The hallways were nearly empty when they entered the school, but Bella made no move to quicken their pace.

As they slowly made their way in the direction of Bella's first class, Alice heard her companion begin to hum quietly.

"What song are you humming?" Alice asked.

Blood rushed to Bella's cheeks; she was embarrassed.

"Oh, it's nothing," she told Alice. "Just an old song I heard the other night. I don't even remember any of the words."

Alice smirked, but didn't push the topic.

They were only about twenty feet from Bella's class when Alice suddenly took Bella's hand in her own and slowly spun Bella around, deftly maneuvering Bella until her back was against Alice's chest.

"Alice! What are you…?"

Bella's words were lost as Alice's hands rested on her hips, swaying her back and forth with Alice's body. A shudder ran through Bella as Alice's lips feathered against her ear.

"Hold me, hold me, never let me go until you've told me, told me, what I want to know and then just hold me, hold me..," Alice sang softly in Bella's ear, elating when she heard Bella's heart rate increase ten fold.

Bella sighed, her head automatically turned towards the direction of Alice's; their lips inches apart.

And then the late bell rang.

The spell broke.

Bella blinked uncertainly, slowly coming back to herself.

Alice sighed. "We're late. Again."

Bella flushed, then smiled. "At least we'll be able to spend detention together," she told Alice. She leaned over and gave Alice a quick kiss on the cheek before hurrying towards her classroom. "I'll see you at lunch!" she called over her shoulder.

Alice watched her go, her chest tight. As she turned to go to her class, she sang the rest of the song's line under her breath.

"Make me tell you I'm in love with you…"

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When Alice came to she was on her hands and knees in the backyard.

The ache that swept through her was crippling. It was only a vision. A possibility of what might be.

"Bella…"

The mystery girl had a name.

More importantly, Alice was in love her.

Actively.

Present tense.

Alice loved Bella.

The pain was unbearable.

It wasn't the pain of knowing that her love for Jasper had been overshadowed and cast aside for someone new. Although that did hurt, this was worse than her own betrayal.

It wasn't even the pain of loving a human, or another woman for that matter.

What hurt was that Alice was desperately in love with someone she had never met.

She ached for Bella, longed to be with her.

She had no way to find her.

No idea when she would meet her.

Agony swept through her.

Alice threw her head back and wailed.

"BELLA!"

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Shortly after that vision Alice and Jasper had quietly ended their 60-year relationship. Jasper had decided to go visit Peter and Charlotte while Alice stayed with the family.

Carlisle and Esme had determined it was time for a change of scenery. Too many bad memories surrounded the Colorado house. Their theory was that a new start, a new town, would help put the past behind them.

And now here they all were. Forks, Washington.

Alice knew that this is where she would meet Bella. Still, she remained anxious. They'd already been here for a year. And since none of them looked young enough to pull off being freshman, Alice was getting ready to start her junior year.

'Patience is a virtue," Alice reminded herself. She forced her thoughts away from Bella and focused on the rain falling down around her. The seasons were changing. Everyday brought her closer.

It would happen. They would meet.

It was just a matter of time.