I don’t think I knew where I was going anymore. I kept following Jasper wherever he went in the water but that’s it. Just following. I was consumed in my worries and thoughts it was like I wasn’t in my own body anymore. Like I was floating. My memories floated threw my mind. My happy memories. Now all of them filled with worry and fear. I wanted to do more. I really wanted to help. This was the only way I thought I could. I really hope they don’t think of us badly because of this especially not Bella o Edward. If they thought of us like that I don’t know what I would do. Half of me is still there with them. The other half is here with Jasper finding another like Renesemee. We are almost there now. Let me just check in. I don’t think it would hurt me much if I just checked in on them. They are still frozen. Frozen with fear. They told Jacob at least. He is just as scared as them. Now Edward is getting worried. He knows we’ve never taken so long. Like a flash everyone is gone. Looking for us. Bella is so worried! Edward is not as worried but Esme! She is freaking out! My Mother for all purposes is scared and worried about us! That was too much for me to handle. To think all those years a vampire with no family. Now finally when I have a Husband and a family growing with two new members and it all goes straight to hell. I hardly know Renesmee and my whole family might crash and burn without me! I don’t know what will happen to me if that happens to Our Family. I want to be with them. I want to learn più about Renesmee and I want to watch her grow. I just hope with the clues I gave Bella will be enough.

“Alice? Alice? Alice can te hear me? ALICE!” He startled me. I must have been so focused on my thoughts that I couldn’t hear him calling me for the past five minutes. “Sorry Jasper. I guess I was thinking about something else.” He looks worried. Can’t I worry enough for the both of us? I wish that I could pull myself together for Jasper’s sake. Hell, Bella put on a happy face every single morning when we left her. Even though it hurt her every morning for Charlie’s sake she got up, trying to act as nothing happened (Even though he saw right threw it) at least she tried. Can’t I do the same? Can’t I go on this Journey with a smile on my face but behind the smile scared out of my mind! Can’t I try? Can’t I try that everything is normal? That we’re just on vacation. Going to the south, like another Honeymoon? But, I’m not like that. I’m optimistic, enthusiastic, and happy. (Most of the time) Not today, not tomorrow, not yesterday, I’ve been nothing but depressed since we left, and I have a feeling its going to stay that way until we save our family. Ok. I need to focus, I need to be strong. “Alice? Alice? ALICE! ALICE!” “Oops. Sorry Jasper. Thinking again I guess.” “Alice, te were scaring me. Your emotions were going nuts. First te were calm, and then te were scared, then worried, then angry, then scared again. I swear it was almost like I was on a roller coaster. Are te okay?” “I was thinking about my memories, then I decided to check on them I wanted to know what they were doing. I thought I could handle it but they were Frozen like statues no one moved, breathed, but in our case not that unusual but still they didn’t do anything! Then Jacob came and they told him everything and he did the exact same thing! Then Edward started worrying because we weren’t back yet and he knew we don’t stay away from home that long and everyone was gone in a flash trying to find us and I saw Esme’s face. It was creased with worry and I couldn’t take it so I stopped watching. I’m sorry for not paying attention to you.” Now he just looks worried again. “Please stop worrying Jasper. You’re making me anxious. I don’t like seeing te like this.” “Sorry.” When did we get on land? I thought we were still in the water. Wow. I really must have been out of it. That explains why he was trying to get my attention. “Alice, I don’t want te to worry either. Besides I’m the one who has to feel your emotions. It hurts me when te hurt. Now what I was asking before I realized te weren’t listening was if te could try to see where Peter and carlotta, charlotte are.” I like Peter&Charlotte but not as much as Jasper but I always feel uncomfortable around them because Jasper isn’t MY Jasper when he is around them. He is someone else. He is back to that blood thirsty monster I saw when I first met him. He was back to being a…. I can’t even find the words for what he is when they are visiting. I might as well try though and when did it get dark? Well it looks like our Friends are in Galveston. “Well Jasper looks like they are making this easier to find them than I thought. They are in your meeting place Galveston, Texas. Jasper, why didn’t we just run to the south?” “Well for one thing te wanted to know the fastest way here and we swim faster than we run. Besides we’re in Mexico. We still have to run a little to Texas.”

Right. I’m really out of it today. I can’t seem to focus on anything long enough to make Jasper feel better. “ALICE!” “What? te don’t have to yell at me every time te start talking.” “What do te mean start talking? I have been talking to you. I can’t believe it! te couldn’t hear me again! Alice where do te go in that head of yours? Sometimes I wish I could read minds like Edward so I know what te are thinking.” Damn! I thought he stopped talking. I thought his last sentence was “We still have to run a little to Texas.” Why does he want to know what’s in my head? On any normal giorno the only thing that would be going on in my head would be what people are wearing. Things like “Rosalie looks better in Purple than in Blue.” o “Bella needs to let me pick out things for her to wear o Emmett better not steal my Porsche for a Test-Drive.” Now what is going on in my head is “How the hell am I suppose to find a half-breed if I can’t see them! o I wonder what they’re doing now.” I can’t even think about anything else right now except for Esme’s Face. Those big Eyes, her beautiful hair, and the line in her forehead that she gets when she worries. I Don’t GET IT! I don’t understand why he wants to see what’s in my head. It’s not that interesting to anyone besides me. “Sorry Jasper.” I wish I could put my thoughts on Lockdown. Just shut down everything that doesn’t have to do with what comes out Jasper’s mouth. “I was asking if te were ready to leave for Texas. So are te ready to go o do te want to stay in a hotel for a while, I’m sure we are ahead of your hectic schedule so te could maybe rest for awhile. We may not sleep but te look paler than usual.” I couldn’t tell if he was joking about the hotel thing o not but either way I didn’t like it.

I knew he felt my emotion swing from calm to full blown Crazy. “REST!!! You’re worrying about me because I look paler than usual?!?! Jasper we have been pale since the giorno we met, no make that the giorno we were changed!” Jasper, I’m fine it’s them who I’m worrying about!!! Let’s go! I don’t care if we’re ahead of schedule the più time we may have left over means we can get to them sooner! Now come on! I don’t want Peter&Charlotte to leave the state of Texas!” I didn’t care if he didn’t start running until after I did. I needed to find them and soon. If their was a small chance that I could find another half-breed like Renesmee than I don’t want to sit around. If I go to Africa and find one there, I would go. If there wasn’t one there then I wasted my time with it, but at least if Jasper was right and we had time left over then we didn’t waste time at all. I stopped. We were in Galveston. “Jasper? Do te smell their scent anywhere?” “No.” Just then a very gentle breeze flew da and there were the words I was hoping to hear. “Wait. Yes I think it’s them. Yes it’s them.” “Well which way? I’m not too familiar with their scent and I smell a lot più Vampiri#From Dracula to Buffy... and all creatures of the night in between. than I should be smelling.” It’s like the whole population of Texas is made up of vampires. It’s confusing! I don’t even see how he smells them with all these different scents here! “That way. To the West. Do te see if they are da some kind of sign o something? Anything that could help me to locate them?”

Yay. I get to go on a scavenger hunt. First on the lista is a big sign. I tried to adjust my emotions from angry to calm. I don’t know if it worked but I thought of the good things about finding Peter&Charlotte. On the superiore, in alto of my list, Renesmee. Let’s see. I see them at a map. Figures. Haven’t been here in so long that they forgot how to get somewhere. carlotta, charlotte keeps pointing at the Airport sign but Peter is pointing at the Train station Sign on the map. I think they are trying to get to somewhere out of state. They finally made a decision. They decided to take the Train. Perfect. Now which one? They didn’t decide yet. That is just great. There are only three train stations in Galveston! Can’t they pick one? Today it seems everyone is going in slow motion just to get on my nerves! I wish he would decide! It can’t be that hard to pick one. He could flip a coin o close his eyes and point to one. He picked the downtown Galveston Train Station. carlotta, charlotte told him they might want to hunt before they get on the train. Holy Crow. They decided to visit Jasper!!! Son of a crow! Jasper! Out of all the times to visit they picked now! I guess I didn’t see they’re decision earlier since I’m not that tuned in to them; I usually try to avoid them as much as possible. He is in trouble if he talked to them recently! If he could sleep he would be sleeping in the doghouse right now. “Jasper?” “What? Did te see something? What did te see? Where are they? Are they in…” I cut him off.

“Jasper, when did te last talk to Peter&Charlotte?” It took him a while to remember. Once again everyone is going in slow motion to get on my nerves. “I guess 2 weeks ago. They called my cell phone from a pay phone in New Mexico. Last time they visited I didn’t think it would hurt anyone if I gave them my Cell number. I like to keep in touch and it’s hard because they are always going everywhere and they don’t have a cell phone so I can’t call them….” I cut him off again. He started getting off track. “Jasper? Did they tell te anything about a little trip? That they were going somewhere o where they were going next?” He looked confused. Like he didn’t catch on to what I was saying. “Yeah they detto they might go to Washington sometime this month….Oh no. Not today. Alice no. Please tell me that is not where they are headed.” Thank goodness. Finally, he wasn’t slow for that one instant. “Yes Jasper, that is exactly where they’re headed. When they told te over the phone didn’t te catch on to what they meant?” My tone became softer. He didn’t realize when they told him they were headed to Washington that they wanted to visit him. That’s what I Amore about him. So nice yet so clueless. They are about to call his cell to tell him that they are about to visit. “Jasper, do te have your phone with you?” “No, I took it out of my pocket and threw it into the ocean while te were talking to Sam. Why, are they trying to call me?” He is such a smart person. Hard to believe someone so smart can sometimes be clueless. “Yes, Peter wanted to surprise te but carlotta, charlotte detto that wouldn’t be a very good idea. She knows te don’t like surprises. So they are trying to call. They got his voicemail. They know that never happens. They know he usually picks up his phone after the first o secondo ring. I guess it was a good idea for Carlisle to suggest that we should buy water proof phones. At least they think he Lost it o something. If they would have gotten no ring at all, they would have gotten suspicious.


Now they are debating whether o not they should come. carlotta, charlotte says no but knowing how stubborn Peter is he says yes. He detto one little surprise wouldn’t kill Jasper. So that was it. They are going to catch a train go to our house and TRY to visit. Big surprise there. “Jasper, what do te think we should do? Should we let them go and discover what happened for themselves o do we intervene?” He wondered about that for a moment and this time it didn’t get on my nerves. It could save us time o kill time. Either way I’m happy with his decision. I trust Jasper’s decision 110%. Besides I owe him from earlier because I wouldn’t let him find Maria as well so whatever makes him happier. “Well, I guess we ought to tell them for ourselves but it is your schedule we are trying to keep up with. So can we squeeze in a small meeting o is your schedule is too hectic? He smiled. That is my preferito smile. I couldn’t help but smile too. I haven’t seen a smile on his face since we left home. “I guess my schedule isn’t too filled. I think I can squeeze in a little meeting.” I smiled again and that made him smile too. “Well ma’am lead the way.” Once again someone so smart yet so clueless. “What do te mean lead the way? I don’t know how to get there.” He laughed. “Well te didn’t exactly tell me where they are either.” Oh. I guess when I got mad earlier and I forgot to tell him. “They are going to a train station in Downtown Galveston.” “I know where that is that is how me and Mar… I mean that is how we found Peter. I still remember where it is. Let’s go.” On the run again. Wait. “Jasper, before we start running off to meet them carlotta, charlotte knows we don’t like them hunting in Forks so she is making Peter hunt with her. I don’t want to catch them in the middle of a meal plus I don’t think te could handle seeing a human like that. I really don’t want te kicking yourself for giving over to your instincts and your eyes turning red. I know te don’t want to repeat what happened at Bella’s party last year. So….” I stopped something happened with Jasper’s appearance. I may not read emotions like him, but I can tell when something’s wrong with him.

Maybe His joking smile disappeared as quickly as it came. He looked like I just slapped him. I didn’t give him enough credit. It has been a long anno but I still don’t want him to take that chance. After all those years of him drinking Humans blood, Its just well, a hard habit to break. “Jasper, I didn’t mean it like that. It’s just that I’m not sure te could handle the smell of it ….” Now he cuts me off. “Alice I wasn’t the only one who had to run out the room when Edward threw Bella across the room and she started to BLEED! If I remember correctly te threw your hand over your mouth and nose and ran out the room! So before te start throwing me under the bus for doing something like that remember I wasn’t the only one who had to leave the room!” He looked furious. I’m sure he could have Lost it and started to go bezerk and smash everything in sight but he took a deep breath and detto “Let me know when they’re done with their meal.” And stormed off to sit on the nearest bench. He sat down and put his hands in his face. I knew when I detto those things that I hit him below the belt. I sat on the bench farthest from him.

Well, their goes my sanity. If he doesn’t forgive me then I might not make it. I don’t know how long we sat there. I checked on a few things at home. They talked to Sam. Even though I told Sam all those things he still thinks we abandoned our family in their time of need. At least Edward stuck up for us. Even my preferito sister didn’t stick up for me. Bella looked like she wanted to but then again she looked like she believed Sam. I checked on Peter&Charlotte. They’re done now. I walked to Jasper at a human pace. I was thinking about how to talk to him. He still had his head in his hands. I finally got there. “They’re done.” He looked up. I don’t know what he saw. I wasn’t sure what emotion I had on my face but it made him madder. “Are te sure te don’t want to put me on a chain leash before we go meet them?” I tried to digita my face in a playful mood and made my emotion brighten. “I would but te would probably break through it anyway.” I put on my biggest smile and waited for his reaction. That did it. He broke out laughing. I started laughing too. “I was being ridiculous wasn’t I?” “A little.” I didn’t have to make my smile stay as big as it could it stayed that way. “I’m sorry Alice. te know I can’t stand to be mad at my graceful little monster.” Now it was my turn to be shocked. “You don’t have to be sorry about anything! I’m sorry Jasper! I shouldn’t have detto the words that way! It came out wrong! I just wanted te to be a distance away because te might have done something that te didn’t want to.” “Its ok Alice te were only looking out for me. Thank you. Now let’s go before te say something nice and the big monster comes out again.” “I’ll follow te anywhere.” I held out my hand and he took it and we ran side da side into the night to find his friends, I mean our friends.

It didn’t take us long to find them. “Peter, Charlotte!” They turned and I couldn’t help laughing they looked like they saw a ghost. “Jasper? Jasper? What the hell are te doing here?” Peter turned to carlotta, charlotte and detto “And te detto he didn’t like surprises.” Then Jasper turned to me and detto “Keep carlotta, charlotte Company while I talk to Peter.” He kissed my forehead and they went off to talk about what happened. “Charlotte. It’s wonderful to see te again.” She still looked shocked. What was wrong with me? That is the secondo time someone looked at me funny. I looked at my shoes and followed my clothes to my shirt. Nothing looked out of place. I can’t look at my own face o my hair so if something was wrong then I would have to find a mirror. “Charlotte are te ok?” She snapped out of it. “Alice, we were supposed to visit te not the other way around.” “Oh. Well we had some troubles at home and we decided to come here. I don’t have time to get into details but I’m sure Peter will tell te later.” I hate that smell. It stilled lingered in the air. I wonder where they hid the…. Body. Oh well. I’m sure that is why Jasper took Peter the other way. “Well, it is a surprise. I was hoping to see the new addition to your family.” “Yes well as I detto their were some troubles so we came to find you.” Her face became a little furious. “Yes, well te didn’t have to find us to tell us about your issues. We could have still gone.” I get it she thinks I don’t like her and I don’t want her to visit Bella. I guess the distance I kept between us at all those visits made her think I didn’t like her. “Charlotte, I would have loved for te to visit us but as I detto we have troubles at home. te still get to go to our home if te wish but we will not be there.”

Her faced relaxed a little obviously Jasper isn’t the only one who can stay mad at me when I smile my innocent smile. But she doesn’t look thrilled that Jasper won’t be there. That o she has something else on her mind. “Why won’t te be there? Did they make te leave? Are they mad at Jasper because he almost attacked Bella at her Birthday party? He told us about that when we called him after it happened.” Well, apparently he can talk to his Friends about what happened that giorno but when I asked him if he wanted to talk about a few days after it happened he told me that it was none of my business. Alice, Calm, Calm, happy face, ok it’s not that big a deal. I’m calm. “No, that is not why we left that was a little over a anno fa if that would have happened we probably would have joined te sooner. Now once again Peter will tell te the details later.” That didn’t make her happy either. How easy it is to make her pissed. “Alice, don’t beat around the cespuglio, bush tell me straight out. Do te have a problem with us? Please tell me. If I’m doing anything to make te unhappy tell me. We tried to make te like us più da not hunting in a 2 state radius. Please Alice what is the problem? I know Jasper is your husband but he is my friend. I Amore him too.”

Again with the not liking her. Can’t other people take my smile and get over it? “Charlotte it has nothing to do with that but no I didn’t like te during precedente visits.” I looked down pretending to feel guilty about not liking her. “Well, why didn’t te like me? What did I ever do to you!? I’m sorry if I walked in on te and Jasper’s perfect life together, after all when we first talked to him after te “SAVED” him he was bragging about how good his life was, how different he felt, and how pleasant te were. It made me happy for him but not so happy about him meeting you! So as long as Jasper wants Peter and I to visit we will and there is nothing your pixie butt can do about it! te got that?! o should I say it to where your Pixie mind can understand it? I know how slow in the head Pixies are, but since you’re part Vampire te must be even slower!” That was it. I Lost it again.