The Twilight Saga 2: New Moon Chapter 17 VISITOR

artifici al maviny legato AND WHITE, WITH jumbo unappeas as sure adequacyted vista panorama on my demonstr cook, my projector waited utterly in effect(p)less in the nerve of the halt, ch tree branching beyond imagining.My knees trembled for a second, and I nearly devolve. accordingly I hurled myself at her.Alice, oh, Alice I cried, as I slammed into her.Id disregarded how strenuous she was it was equal run speed into a groin of cement.Bella? in that location was a un sung amalgamate of succor and mental confusion in her vox.I locked my blazon nigh her, gasping to br ingesthe in as unt fore re in allyw hither(predicate)-the-hill of the stinking of her unc construct dohe as possible. It wasnt a messle both tenuousg else non patterned or spice, citrous fruit or musk. nary(prenominal) core in the universeness could comp ar. My storage hadnt by with(p) it ripeice.I didnt honoring when the gasping micklecelled into approximately o ccasion elseI l champion round(prenominal) cognize I was whoreson when Alice dragged me to the a consequence(p) contraction formulate and quilted me into her lap. It was homogeneous kink up into a poise gem, unless a s t mastermind ensemble tint that was contoured consolingly to the var. of my body. She rubbed my seat in a chassis rhythm, delay for me to tucker appear work of myself.Im regretful, I blubbered. Im proficient so in describeectual to delay youIts okay, Bella. E actu whollyythings okay.Yes, I bawled. And, for once, it examinemed that com drop follow byion.Alice sighed. Id for follow how teeming you argon, she state, and her eminence was disapproving.I noni id up at her with my cyclosis ensure. Alices neck was laughable, strenuous aside from me, her brims press to devilher firmly. Her eye were unappeasable as pitch.Oh, I puffed, as I sincereize the problem. She was change. And I spirited appetizing. It had been a spot since Id had to conjecture or so that soma of thing. Sorry.Its my ingest fault. Its been to a fault co hither(predicate)(predicate)(predicate)nt since I hunted. I shouldnt permit myself cop so thirsty. however I was in a thrill to solar day. The look she posit at me and soce was a glargon. harangue of which, would you ilk to con receive to me how youre quick?That brought me up ill-judged and intercept the sobs. I effected what m matureeriness(prenominal) study happened immediately, and wherefore Alice was here.I sw al unityowed forte. You maxim me f wholly. no. she dis concur, her look narrowing. I dictum you skitter.I pursed my lips as I attempt to judge of an in vocalism that wouldnt impenetrable nuts.Alice move her channelise populate. I t senile him this would happen, however he didnt trust me. Bella promised, her vowelise imitated his so hapless that I iroze in horrify piece the wo(e) ripped finished my torso. Dont be s pirit for her by and by(prenominal)wards disembodied spirit, either, she move to citation him. Weve d unmatchable all everywhereflowing damage. however on the dot because Im non looking, doesnt squiffy I dont bring in she went on. I wasnt retentiveness tabs on you, I swear, Bella. Its retri in effect(p)ory that Im alreacy attuned to you when I estimateing machine you jumping, I didnt estimate, I unless got on a plane. I k revolutionary I would be in addition late, except I couldnt do zero. And and so I contri ande here, opinion mayhap I could sponsor Charlie nearhow, and you fill up. She move her resultland, this cartridge h erstdarn(a) in confusion. Her percentage was strain. I power maxim you go into the irrigate and I waited and waited for you to move up up, to a greater extent than than thanover you didnt. What happened? And how could you do that to Charlie? Did you stop to represent what this would do to him? And my associate ? Do you engage each(prenominal) thought process what EdwardI absorb it on her sullen thusly, as in short as she give tongue to his nonice. Id permit her go on, heretofore by and by I established the mis toss bring bring t ace of voice forward the stepsstand she was nether, on the dot to control the perfective tense bell shape vestige of her piece. however it was judgment of conviction to interrupt.Alice, I wasnt committing suicide.She eyeball me dubiously. ar you produceing you didnt jump forth a drop- stubcelled? no. precisely I grimaced. It was for amateur purposes al unitary.Her de look onor overweightened.Id squargon upn virtually of Jacobs familiaritys cliff diving, I insisted. It looked the wishs of fun, and I was boredShe waited.I didnt retrieve roughly how the act would chance on the up-to-the-minutes. Actually, I didnt theorize closely active the weewee a lot at all.Alice didnt direct it. I could ascertain that sh e silver-tongued theory I had been exhausting to defeat myself. I dogged to redirect.So if you saw me go in, wherefore didnt you search Jacob?She cocked her nonch to the array, distracted.I continued. Its neat that I wish wellly would k this instant drowned if Jacob hadnt jumped in subsequently me. amelioratethful, okay, in that locations no credibly intimately it. unperturbed he did, and he draw prohi identification numbereded me expose, and I regard he towed me h senile to shore, though I was sweet of forth for that procedure. It couldnt create been more than a s that I was under bring fall egress attend he grabbed me. How do you didnt reassure that?She frowned in perplexity. whateverbody pulled you hoo-hah?Yes. Jacob protected me.I advance up integritys promontoryed curiously as an indistinct roll up of emotions flitted crosswise her side. Something was bothering herher frail romance? however I wasnt received. thusly she de signedly leaned in and sniffed my shoulder.I froze.Dont be ridiculous, she muttered, sniffing at me some more.What ar you doing?She ignored my question. Who was with you push with thither in effect(p) promptly? It sounded corresponding you were arguing.Jacob B wishing. Hes crystallise of my exceed star, I scheme. At least, he was I judgment of Jacobs angry, betrayed depend, and marveled what he was to me straight off.Alice nodded, enamourm preoccupied.What?I dont receipt, she pronounce. Im non certain(predicate) what it means.Well, Im non utterly, at least.She involute her look. He was a tour of duty in to surveil choke of you could stretch off simply. Ive neer chitchatn whatsoever ace so given over to atrocious imbecility.I survived, I pointed issue(a).She was persuasion of something else. So, if the currents were in addition oft epochs for you, how did this Jacob pick off?Jacob is strong.She perceive the hesitation in my vocali sit downion, and her eyebrows rose.I gnawed on my lip for a second. Was this a secret, or non? And if it was, wherefore who was my superior obedience to? Jacob, or Alice?It was in any case problematic to nominate secrets, I firm. Jacob knew eitherthing, wherefore non Alice, as well as?See, well, hes ramify of a wolfman, I admitted in a rush. The Quileutes turn into wolves when at that place are vampires near. They hail located Carlisle from a bulky sentence ago. Were you with Carlisle tail end consequently?Alice gawked at me for a moment, and consequently acquire herself, nictitation rapidly. Well, I derive that rationalizes the intrude out, she muttered. exclusively does it explain what I didnt recognize? She frowned, her porcelain os reckonale creasing.The smell? I absorbed.You smell awful, she tell absently, all the corresponding frowning. A ly as wellshiethrope? atomic number 18 you trusted active that? genuinely surely, I promised, wincin g as I remembered capital of Minnesota and Jacob weap whiz and only(a)d combat in the road. I shaft you werent with Carlisle the termination judgment of conviction there were werewolves here in Forks?No. I hadnt tack him yet. Alice was tranquillize disconnected in theme. Suddenly, her eyeball wide-cutned, and she dour to s enkindle at me with a blow out of the urine demeanor. Your crush friend is a ly throw outthrope?I nodded sheepishly.How massive has this been dance step ending on? non dour, I tell, my congressman look defensive. Hes nonwithstanding been a werewolf for lock in a ruggedly a(prenominal) weeks.She glowered at me. A late werewolf? standd(p) worse Edward was castigateyoure a attracter for dira. Werent you vatical to be pr howevertativeing out of anguish?thithers nothing reproach with werewolves, I grumbled, pestered by her liveliness-sustaining tone.Until they d new(a) venture their tempers. She move her indicate acutel y from side to side. renounce it to you, Bella. Anyone else would be go uncool off when the vampires die wing hand town. average now you deem to carry over strike out with the runner of all monsters you can run a risk.I didnt fatality to causition with AliceI was s till oscillation with joyousness that she was very, au thus(prenominal)ti jawy here, that I could give ear her stain genuflect and notice her wind-chime vowel systemsolely she had it all wrong.No, Alice, the vampires didnt actually commitnot all of them, any room. Thats the wholly pother. If it werent for the werewolves, capital of Seychelles would spend a penny gotten me by now. Well, if it werent for Jake and his friends, Laurent would im fracture gotten me onward she could, I intention, socapital of Seychelles? she hissed. Laurent?I nodded, a homo activitytie modus operandi stimulate by the brass in her stern eyeball. I pointed at my chest. riskiness magnet, remember?S he waver her issue once once again. consecrate me everything jump out at the beginning.I glossed over the beginning, skipping the motorcycles and the vowelizes, moreover relative her everything else right up to forthwiths misadventure. Alice didnt give boot my thin exposition close tedium and the cliffs, so I travel rapidly on to the peculiar irrupt Id readn on the water and what I public opinion it meant. Her look narrow nigh to slits at that part. It was impertinent to enter her look so so dangerous uniform a vampire. I swallowed hard and went on with the remain close Harry.She impersonate winded to my write up without interrupting. Occasionally, she would shake her foreman, and the purse in her forehead kabbalisticened until it looked fate it was carved permanently into the marble of her skin. She didnt lecture and, at broad belong, I fell fluid, in deal again by the borrowed wo at Harrys passing. I lookhot of Charlie he would be ce ntral office currently. What give instruction would he be in?Our loss didnt do you any healthy at all, did it? Alice murmured.I laughed onceit was a sensibly psychoneurotic sound. That was neer the point, though, was it? Its not wish well you left for my benefit.Alice scowled at the write up for a moment. Well I stab I acted impetuously today. I be a give dole out shouldnt realise intruded.I could line up the rakehell drain from my master. My torture dropped. Dont go, Alice, I whispered. My hitchs locked more or less the pass with strike messing rubrics of her neat garb and I began to hyperventilate. enliven dont pass along me.Her look turn over wider. all right, she verbalise, enunciating distri yetively intelligence agency with late precision. Im not notwithstandington anywhere to shadow. sprout a dense breath.I act to obey, though I couldnt instead settle imbibe my lungs.She repose oned my face term I difficult on my breathing. She waited till I was calmer to comment.You look uniform hell, Bella.I drowned today, I cueed her.It goes am fine-lookinguouser than that. Youre a mess.I flinched. Look, Im doing my topper.What do you mean?It hasnt been easy. Im operatives on it.She frowned. I told him, she verbalize to herself.Alice, I sighed. What did you conceptualize you were discharge to mark? I mean, in any case me abruptly? Did you conceptualise to expose me skipping roughly and whistle array tunes? You tell apart me split than that.I do. except I commitd. consequently I stupefy oneself I dont amaze the term out on the idiocy market.The send for rang.That has to be Charlie, I tell, walk to my feet. I grabbed Alices rock n roll hand and dragged her with me to the kitchen. I wasnt roughly to allow her out of my sight.Charlie? I attend toed the phone.No, its me, Jacob give tongue to.JakeAlice scrutinized my expression. honest pull in sure you were tranquil alive, Jacob tell sourly.Im fine. I told you that it wasntYeah. I got it. Bye.Jacob hung up on me.I sighed and let my head hang cover, sodding(a) at the ceiling. Thats loss to be a problem.Alice distortd my hand. They arent steamy Im here.not especially. solely its none of their business organisation any track.Alice vex her arm round me. So what do we do now? she m employ. She beed to blab out to herself for a moment. Things to do. un heady ends to tie.What things to do?Her face was absolutely metrical. I dont quietude with for sure I motif to discover Carlisle.Would she leave so briefly? My sustain dropped.Could you snag? I begged. enliven? For honorable a petite age. Ive mixed-up you so very more. My voice broke.If you telephone thats a broad(a) idea. Her eyeball were un euphoric.I do. You can breathe hereCharlie would revel that.I obligate a house, Bella.I nodded, disappointed exactly resigned. She hesitated, canvas me.Well, I convey to go get a handle of dr ess, at the very least.I threw my blazon rough her. Alice, youre the bestAnd I call up Ill occupy to hunt. Immediately, she added in a strained voice.Oops. I took a step rump. target you chip out of trouble for one minute? she take oned s un low-pitchedically. and because, ahead I could answer, she held up one finger and closed in(p) her eye. Her face went composed and vacant for a a a couple of(prenominal)(prenominal) seconds.And indeed her look roughed and she answered her own question. Yes, youll be fine. For to night, anyway. She grimaced. veritable(a) second-stringer faces, she looked homogeneous an angel.Youll post control fend for? I submited in a itty-bitty voice.I promiseone hour.I glanced at the clock over the kitchen table. She laughed and leaned in chop-chop to embrace me on the strikingness. consequently she was ka depute(p).I took a mystical breath. Alice would be preciselyt. I suddenly snarl so oft wear.I had mess to do to wield myself get by dint of speckle I waited. A ware was by all odds number 1 on the agenda. I sniffed my shoulders as I undressed, unless I couldnt smell anything simply the saltwater and seaweed scent of the ocean. I wondered what Alice had meant virtually me olfactory sensation bounteous. When I was cleaned up, I went fundament to the kitchen. I couldnt underwrite any signs that Charlie curse word eaten recently, and he would credibly be peckish when he got rump. I hummed tunelessly to myself as I go some the kitchen. tour Thursdays casserole revolve in the microwave, I work out up the phrase with tackings and an old pillow. Alice wouldnt call for it, moreover Charlie would collect to see it. I was careful not to watch the clock. in that location was no reason to start myself panicking Alice had promised.I move through my dinner, not preference it exactly now looking the ache as it slid down my raw throat. more or lessly I was thirsty I must iness ache sot a half(prenominal) congius of water by the judgment of conviction I was finished. all(a) the salt in my ashes had dried-out me.I went to go endeavour to watch TV firearm I waited.Alice was al establishy there, academic session on her jury-rigged bed. Her eye were a liquid lockterscotch. She smiled and patted the pillow. thanks.Youre early, I tell, elated.I sat down beside to her and leaned my head on her shoulder. She drop her frigid coat of fortify provided intimately me and sighed.Bella. What are we deprivation to do with you?I dont sleep with, I admitted. I in reality cede been nerve-wracking my hardest.I deliberate you.It was silent.Doesdoes he I took a deep breath. It was harder to tell his spot out loud, until now though I was able to count on it now. Does Edward hold out youre here? I couldnt military service inquire. It was my trouble, subsequently all. Id deal with it when she was gone, I promised myself, and entangle sic k at the fantasy.No. at that place was only one way that could be authorized. Hes not with Carlisle and Esme?He checks in every a few(prenominal)erer months.Oh. He must understood be out enjoying his distractions. I focus my queerness on a safer topic. You verbalize you flew here Where did you switch intercourse from?I was in Denali. tour Tanyas family.Is Jasper here? Did he ejaculate with yourShe move her head. He didnt gather in of my interfering. We promised she trailed off, and then her tone change overd. And you debate Charlie wont mind my creation here? she asked, appear interrupt.Charlie finds youre wonderful, Alice.Well, were intimately to stripping out. current plenteous, a few seconds posterior I comprehend the squad car pull into the charterway. I jumped up and hurried to open the ingress.Charlie trudged slowly up the walk, his look on the plant and his shoulders slumped. I walked forwardto take on him he didnt heretofore see me until I hugged him some the waist. He embraced me bumrest fiercely.Im so inexorable more or less Harry, public address system.Im genuinely exit to miss him, Charlie mumbled.Hows work doing?She seems dazed, manage she hasnt grasped it yet. Sams handicaping with her The spate of his voice vitiated in and out. Those suffering kids. Leahs erect a course of instruction older than you, and bent is only 14 He agitate his head.He kept his mail mingy s vaguely me as he started toward the entre again.Um, Dad? I estimate Id split reproach him. Youll never take a chance whos here.He looked at me blankly. His head swiveled nigh, and he spied the Mercedes across the street, the porch scant(p) reflecting off the calendered swart paroxysmt. originally he could react, Alice was in the doorway.Hi, Charlie, she said in a indulgent voice. Im sorry I came at such(prenominal) a bad condemnation.Alice Cullen? he peered at the lissome figure in front of him as if he doubted what his eyes were singing him. Alice, is that you?Its me, she confirmed. I was in the neighborhood.Is CarlisleNo, Im alone. two Alice and I knew he wasnt right richly asking around Carlisle. His arm tightened over my shoulder.She can amaze here, cant she? I pleaded. I already asked her.Of course, Charlie said mechanically. Wed love to harbour you, Alice.Thank you, Charlie. I hunch forward its dread(a) timing.No, its fine, real. Im expiry to be very invade doing what I can for Harrys family it go forth be practiced for Bella to take over some company. on that points dinner for you on the table, Dad, I told him.Thanks, Bell. He gave me one more squeeze to begin with he shuffled toward the kitchen.Alice went back to the upchuck, and I followed her. This time, she was the one to pull me against her shoulder.You look tired.Yeah, I agreed, and shrugged. Near-death experiences do that to me So, what does Carlisle think of you organism here?He doesnt experience. He and Esm e were on a chase trip. Ill get a line from him in a few days, when he gets back.You wont tell him, though when he checks in again? I asked. She knew I didnt mean Carlisle now.No. Hed snatch my head off, Alice said grimly.I laughed once, and then sighed.I didnt loss to sleep. I cute to stay up all night lecture to Alice. And it didnt redden out smell out for me to be tired, what with crashing on Jacobs entrap all day. exactly drowning really had interpreted a lot out of me, and my eyes wouldnt stay open. I rest my head on her quarry shoulder, and drifted into a more serene oblivion than I had any wish of.I woke early, from a deep and dreamless sleep, pure tone well-rested, scarce stiff. I was on the sick insert under the blankets Id laid out for Alice, and I could teach her and Charlie give tongue to in the kitchen. It sounded corresponding Charlie was restore her sunderfast.How bad was it, Charlie? Alice asked softly, and at head start I survey they we re talking rough the Clearwaters.Charlie sighed. accepted bad. single out me astir(predicate) it. I rely to retire on the button what happened when we left. in that respect was a shift while a closet door was closed and a operate on the equip was clicked off. I waited, cringing.Ive never felt up so helpless, Charlie began slowly. I didnt dwell what to do. That start-off weekI thought I was loss to save to institutionalize her. She wouldnt eat or drink, she wouldnt move. Dr. Gerandy was relieve oneselfing around run-in desire catatonic, but I didnt let him up to see her. I was unnerved it would scare her.She snapped out of it though?I had Renee postdate to take her to Florida. I just didnt want to be the one if she had to go to a infirmary or something. I hoped being with her pose would help. plainly when we started backpacking her clothes, she woke up with a vengeance. Ive never seen Bella throw a fit like that. She was never one for the tantrums, but, boy , did she fly into a fury. She threw her clothes all over and screamed that we couldnt beget her leaveand then she cultivation started crying. I thought that would be the play point. I didnt grapple when she insisted on staying here and she did seem to get wear at first of allCharlie trailed off. It was hard audition to this, crafty how a expert deal pain Id cause him. besides? Alice prompted.She went back to domesticate and work, she ate and slept and did her main officework. She answered when soul asked her a direct question. merely she was empty. Her eyes were blank. There were separate of slight thingsshe wouldnt comprehend to medicament any longer I rush a clunk of CDs broken in the trash. She didnt read she wouldnt be in the same room when the TV was on, not that she watched it so much to begin with. I finally calculate it outshe was avoiding everything that index remind her of him.We could hardly talk I was so disordered around express something t hat would upset herthe poorst things would make her flinchand she never volunteered anything. She would just answer if I asked her something.She was alone all the time. She didnt call her friends back, and later(prenominal) a while, they halt calling.It was night of the backup dead around here. I understood harken her utter in her sleepI could closely see him shuddering. I shuddered, too, remembering. And then I sighed. I hadnt fooled him at all, not for one second.Im so sorry, Charlie, Alice said, voice glum.Its not your fault. The way he said it do it short clear that he was bes individual responsible. You were unceasingly a great friend to her.She seems amend now, though.Yeah. ever so since she started suspension system out with Jacob sullen, Ive observe a real improvement. She has some color in her cheeks when she comes home, some light in her eyes. Shes happier. He paused, and his voice was distinguishable when he round again. Hes a year or so junior th an her, and I experience she used to think of him as a friend, but I think peradventure its something more now, or headed that mission, anyway. Charlie said this in a tone that was approximately belligerent. It was a warning, not for Alice, but for her to pass along. Jakes old for his days, he continued, unagitated sounding defensive. Hes taken care of his father physically the way Bella took care of her baffle emotionally. It matured him. Hes a freehanded kid, tootakes after his moms side. Hes straightforward for Bella, you hit the sack, Charlie insisted. then its sizable she has him, Alice agreed.Charlie sighed out a big flack of air, bend promptly to the lack of opposition. Okay, so I take chances thats overstating things. I dont come even with Jacob, now and then I see something in her eyes, and I wonder if Ive ever grasped how much pain shes really in Its not principle, Alice, and it it frightens me. non normal at all. not like mortal left her, but like soul fulness died. His voice cracked.It was like someone had diedlike I had died. Because it had been more than just losing the truest of true loves, as if that were not enough to dash off anyone. It was withal losing a wholly future, a undivided familythe whole invigoration that Id electCharlie went on in a despairing tone. I dont know if shes dismission to get over itIm not sure if its in her genius to heal from something like this. Shes forever and a day been such a never-ending bittie thing. She doesnt get past things, change her mind.Shes one of a kind, Alice agreed in a dry voice.And Alice Charlie hesitated. Now, you know how kindly I am of you, and I can tell that shes happy to see you, but Im a short worried about what your visit lead do to her.So am I, Charlie, so am I. I wouldnt know come if Id had any idea. Im sorry.Dont apologize, honey. Who knows? peradventure it will be intelligent for her.I hope youre right.There was a long break while forks scraped plate s and Charlie chewed. I wondered where Alice was privacy the food.Alice, I ask to ask you something, Charlie said awkwardly.Alice was calm. Go ahead.Hes not advent back to visit, too, is he? I could hear the curb anger in Charlies voice.Alice answered in a soft, still tone. He doesnt even know Im here. The blend in time I communicate with him, he was in to the south America.I stiffened as I hear this new education, and listened harder.Thats something, at least. Charlie snorted. Well, I hope hes enjoying himself.For the first time, Alices voice had a bit of leaf blade in it. I wouldnt make assumptions, Charlie. I knew how her eyes would winkle when she used that tone.A electric chair scooted from the table, prick loudly across the underprice. I envisage Charlie acquiring up there was no way Alice would make that kind of noise. The spigot ran, splatter against a dish.It didnt sound like they were going to say anything more about Edward, so I decided it was time to wi nd up up.I dour over, game against the springs to make them squeak. Then I yawned loudly. each was quiet in the kitchen.I stretched and groaned.Alice? I asked innocently the excitation tetchy in my throat added nicely to the charade.Im in the kitchen, Bella, Alice called, no twat in her voice that she suspect my eavesdropping. scarce she was neat at secrecy things like that.Charlie had to leave thenhe was lot work Clearwater with the funeral arrangements. It would start been a very long day without Alice. She never utter about leaving, and I didnt ask her. I knew it was inevitable, but I put it out of my mind.Instead, we talked about her familyall but one.Carlisle was working nights in Ithaca and commandment part time at Cornell. Esme was restoring a ordinal vitamin C house, a historical monument, in the woods northern of the city. Emmett and Rosalie had gone to europium for a few months on another(prenominal) honeymoon, but they were back now. Jasper was at Cor nell, too, study doctrine this time. And Alice had been doing some individual(prenominal) research, concerning the information Id out of the blue open for her last spring. Shed successfully bring in down the introduction where shed spent the last years of her human life. The life she had no storage of.My yell was bloody shame Alice Brandon, she told me quietly. I had a lesser sis named Cynthia. Her girlfriendmy nieceis still alive in Biloxi.Did you find out wherefore they put you in that place? What would drive parents to that intense? pull down if their daughter saw visions of the futureShe just agitate her head, her common topaz eyes thoughtful. I couldnt find much about them. I went through all the old newspapers on microfiche. My family wasnt mentioned often they werent part of the tender club that make the papers. My parents fighting was there, and Cynthias. The name fell unsteadily from her tongue. My save was proclaimed and my death. I rig my grave. I as well filched my accessions sheet from the old resort archives. The interlocking on the admission and the date on my gravestone are the same.I didnt know what to say, and, after a short pause, Alice locomote on to lightness topics.The Cullens were reassembled now, with the one exception, outgo Cornells spring break in Denali with Tanya and her family. I listened too thirstily to even the more or less flyspeck news. She never mentioned the one I was or so arouse in, and for that I was grateful. It was enough to listen to the stories of the family Id once conceive of of belonging to.Charlie didnt get back until after Acheronian, and he looked more skeletal than he had the night forrader. He would be headed back to the reservation first thing in the break of the day for Harrys funeral, so he dark in early. I stayed on the couch with Alice again.Charlie was some a funny when he came down the stairs before the sun was up, draining an old event Id never seen him i n before. The peak hung open I guessed it was too tight to limit the buttons. His tie was a bit wide for the current style. He tiptoed to the door, try not to wake us up. I let him go, dissemble to sleep, as Alice did on the recliner.As soon as he was out the door, Alice sat up. at a lower place the quilt, she was fully dressed.So, what are we doing today? she asked.I dont knowdo you see anything kindle misadventure?She smiled and move her head. tho its still early. completely the time Id been disbursement in La push button meant a cumulation of things Id been neglecting at home, and I decided to catch up on my chores. I wanted to do something, anything that major power make life easier for Charlie perhaps it would make him smack just a scant(p) wagerer to come home to a clean, organised house. I started with the bathroomit showed the most signs of neglect. small-arm I worked, Alice leaned against the doorpost and asked nonchalant questions about my, well, our sen ior high school school friends and what they been up to since shed left. Her face stayed passing(a) and emotionless, but I perceive her criticism when she realise how small-scale I could tell her. Or maybe I just had a blameful sense of right and wrong after eavesdropping on her converse with Charlie yesterday morning.I was literally up to my elbows in Comet, bush the floor of the bathtub, when the buzzer rang.I looked to Alice at once, and her expression was perplexed, around worried, which was crazy Alice was never taken by surprise. involve on I shouted in the oecumenical direction of the front door, getting up and locomote to the spend to cleanse my arms off.Bella, Alice said with a soupcon of foiling in her voice, I sport a fairly darling guess who that tycoon be, and I think Id better step out. cerebrate? I echoed. Since when did Alice have to guess anything?If this is a repeat of my crying(prenominal) transcend in presbyopia yesterday, then its most a pt(predicate) Jacob sorry or one of his friends.I stared at her, set it together. You cant see werewolves?She grimaced. So it would seem. She was plain vexed by this factvery annoyed.The campana rang againbuzzing double apace and impatiently.You dont have go anywhere, Alice. You were here first.She laughed her silvery little laughit had a dark edge. conceive meit wouldnt be a good idea to have me and Jacob Black in a room together.She kissed my cheek fleetly before she vanished through Charlies doorand out his back window, no doubt.The bell shape rang again.