暮光同人aliceXbella英文版分节 35

"Low blow," he said hissed, his tone as cold as his eyes．

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Alice looked away, and sighed．

"Will you do it?" she asked her tone contrite．

"Yes," Edward responded breathing out through his nose, "For Bella.”

Bella spotted Alice and Edward talking near a thicket of trees by the side of the parking lot, the sight stopping her dead in her tracks．

She stared at them in disbelief. She hadn't seen Edward and Alice talking like that since they had left Forks all those months ago．

Since returning to town they barely spoke to each other. They barely even acknowledged each others existence. Alice had told Bella that they had spoken, and that they had reached an impasse, and she supposed it was true. Edward no longer spent all of his time glaring at Alice like he was seconds away from ripping her head off, and the last time she had mentioned Alice's name, he hadn't growled or dropped his head into his hands, so she supposed things were better．

But, that being said, Alice had still gotten a car so that they weren't forced to spend time together driving to school in the morning, and Bella had thought that they were a long ways off from conversing civilly which each other．

That being the case, if they were talking it meant that something miraculous or something unfortunate was happening, and based on her track record in Forks she was betting on something unfortunate．

Quickly, Bella began to head in their direction, anxiety tumbling through her, hoping desperately that she wasn't witnessing the calm before the storm．

Alice tensed, and then her head turned to the side. Edward was surprised by her reaction for a second, but then Bella's scent hit him as well, and he turned watching her approach, frowning at the thought that Alice had detected Bella before he had．

Alice shivered, and her golden eyes fluttered closed. When she opened them again they were black, and Edward was once again taken back．

"I know that it probably means nothing to you right now, but thank you," Alice said, taking the opportunity to hold his eyes while it was available to her．

She knew that he would look away from her any moment. Ｈe never seemed to be able to look at her for more than three seconds or so, but she hoped that the genuineness of her statement had been conveyed．

"Really, I owe you," she added, unable to help herself from glancing over at Bella longingly．

"Sure," Edward murmured, Alice's look at Bella riling him up again．

Alice sighed knowing that their moment of civility was over．

"Right," she said, turning to look towards the trees. "See ya.”

And with that she disappeared into the woods．

She would come back for her car later．

Bella approached Edward, her eyes locked on the spot where Alice had disappeared into the trees, her heart thumping painfully in her chest．

"What's going on?" Bella asked, turning her attention to Edward, trying to calm down her heart. She knew that he would hear it pounding in her chest, and didn't want to answer a series of questions about what was bothering her. "Where'd Alice go?" she asked．

Alice was supposed to be driving her to work, and then picking her up afterwards. It was their 'date night' as it were, and she had been looking forward to being alone with Alice –especially since Alice had been a little tense on their night together a few days before．

She hadn't been able to figure out why Alice had been so high strung, and since then she had seen very little of her lover. It was true that on their off days she usually only saw Alice at school during lunch, but the day before she hadn't even seen her then．

Presently, she and Jasper were quite tentative with each other, neither sure how they were supposed to act around the other exactly given their relationships with Alice, but she had been so worried that she had asked him where she was. Jasper had looked genuinely bewildered and shrugged, saying that he had thought she would be in the lunch room as usual．

At Jasper's response, Bella had begun to be plagued by the feeling that Alice was trying to avoid her, and the fact that Alice had just disappeared into the woods without so much as saying 'hello' to her when they were finally supposed to be able to spend some time alone together, only made Bella more certain that she was being avoided．

That was a terrible enough feeling in and of itself, but what made it worse was that she had absolutely no idea why．

"Something came up that she needed to take care of," Edward said smoothly, his voice as calm and serene as ever. "I can take you to work now, if you'd like.”

"Something came up?" Bella questioned as Edward placed his hand at the small of her back and began to lead her towards the Volvo. "What something?" she asked, her eyes narrowing as she was pushed along．

Edward shrugged. Ｈis face was tranquil as ever．

"She didn't say," he responded lightly. "We haven't been talking much," he continued grimacing．

Bella was confused by the look for a second, and then she realized that it was an attempt at a smile, that he had been trying to make a joke．

"She just wanted to ask if I could drive you to work," Edward continued a moment later．

"Is she picking me up?" Bella asked, his lacksidasical attitude towards the matter beginning to bother her．

Alice wouldn't have just broken their plans to pick up her dry cleaning or something trivial like that. If she had asked Edward to drive her, it meant that her 'something' must have been fairly important, fairly serious. And if it was serious, Edward surely would have known what it was．

Ｈe wasn't ignorant to what was going on with Alice, she was sure of it. Ｈe was just choosing not to tell her. Like usual．

"I couldn't say," Edward replied, opening the door chivalrously for Bella, ignoring or completely unaware of the glare she shot him before she slipped inside．

"Couldn't or won't?" Bella asked as Edward slipped into the driver's seat．

"Ｈonestly Bella," Edward sighed as he started up the car. "There's no reason to be upset with me, I'm not the one who broke your plans," he continued backing out of the parking space carefully. "Really, I couldn't tell you what Alice is up to at the moment," he went on as they headed onto the main road．

Bella stared at his impossibly beautiful – and at the moment impossibly irritating face – and sighed. She knew that he knew more than he was telling her, but she wasn't going to waste her time asking him about it any more, because she knew how that would end, too. She would ask, and ask, and ask until her voice was raw, and he would never budge．

She could ask him about it until she was blue in the face, and when she finally collapsed of exhaustion he would still be sitting there, silent looking beautiful and serene．

Bella twisted away from him and turned to look out the window in a passive-aggressive snit．

She'd just ask Alice about it when she came to pick her up from work if she came to pick her up from work．

The Swan Residence – Later That NightBella nearly laughed at the look of surprise and disappointment on Charlie's face when he came into the hallway to find her and Edward coming in the door. Ｈer amusement wasn't malicious however; on the contrary, she actually felt a great sense of camaraderie with her father over it. She suspected that she must have been wearing a very similar expression fifteen minutes earlier when she had exited Newton's to find Edward waiting outside instead of Alice．

"Edward. What a pleasant surprise," Charlie greeted, not even attempting to sound like he meant it, and for once Bella didn't moan "Dad," in an annoyed tone of voice and glare at him．

Frankly, she understood where he was coming from．

Ｈe missed seeing Alice too．

"Ｈello Charlie," Edward said, a slight smile touching his lips, as his eyes drifted towards the TV where a Crest commercial was playing. "Ｈas the game started?" he asked politely．

"First Inning," Charlie replied before glancing over at Bella who shrugged helplessly. There was nothing she could do about it. "Mariners are up next.”

Edward 'hmm'd' and then silence descended upon the room．