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"What did she say to you?" Bella asked remembering Alice rolling her eyes at Rosalie quite a few times during the course of the evening．
"Nothing much," Alice hedged, stroking Bella's hip lightly．
Bella simply stared at her．
"Just stupid stuff," Alice tried again, but Bella still wasn't biting. "Oh, she knew what was going on in the car, and was making cracks about me taking you for a test drive," Alice sighed. "I threatened her with the Jimmy Ｈoffa treatment and she settled down.”
"Oh god," Bella moaned, her eyes closing momentarily before she looked up at Alice again. Alice had rolled her eyes, but she hadn't seemed too perturbed by what Rosalie was saying to her that night. Almost as if she was used to … "Do you talk about our sex life with her?" Bella nearly shouted．
"No," Alice responded immediately, lifting her hand to catch Bella's wrist before Bella could slap her again. "Not really. I mean she just … she likes to try and guess stuff. I swear that my poker face is unreadable, but somehow she seems to know when she guesses right.”
"Oh god," Bella moaned again, not even wanting to contemplate what Rosalie knew about her sexual habits．
"Don't worry, Bella," Alice said soothing, raining kisses over Bella's cheeks. "We all know way too much information about each other," she continued. "Vampire senses in a house, even one that big, occasionally means that there's a lack of privacy," she continued. "Sometimes we can't help but hear or smell things. Trust me; no one thinks less of you because you have a sex drive.”
"But Esme," Bella moaned, cringing at the thought of Esme knowing about … that．
"She has sex too," Alice said, smiling a little, her smile growing as Bella blushed. "You wouldn't believe the things I've heard from their bedroom," she continued, laughing as Bella clamped her hands over her ears and began to chant 'la la la la la, I can't hear you, la la la la'. "Nothing we do would shock her. Or make her think less of you.”
"But still," Bella protested. "I mean, really," she complained, making a face at her lover. She really, really didn't want to think about what Esme and Carlisle got up to with each other, and even if it really wouldn't shock her, Bella didn't particularly want Esme or anyone else in the house imagining what she and Alice did together．
"I'm just saying we've all been there," Alice said, cupping Bella's cheek in her hand. "All of them knowing too much information about you, just … well, it just kind of makes you one of the family," she continued smiling encouragingly at Bella, trying to get her to relax again．
Bella sighed, Alice's voice and soothing motions calming her. "Thank god Edward and Jasper weren't there. Or Emmett … I feel like he would have said something," she continued frowning again．
Alice laughed, her eyes dancing with amusement. "Yeah, he probably would have," she agreed. "And," she continued more seriously, "I never would have gotten you that worked up if Edward or Jazz were around.”
Bella nodded but didn't say anything to further that line of thought. She didn't want to talk about Edward or Jasper. She didn't even want to think about either of them. This was her time alone with Alice and her and Alice was all she wanted to focus on. They'd have enough opportunity to worry about the boys when they returned to Forks．
Stifling a yawn, Bella wrapped her arms around Alice's body, tugging her against her body until she was able to roll Alice over and snuggle up against her side. She could still feel excitement thrumming through her body, but exhaustion was quickly over taking it. Alice had given her a weeks worth of orgasms in a matter of hours, and she was dead tired．
"Bed time?" Alice asked, and Bella could detect a note of sadness in her voice．
"Regretting dating a human?" Bella asked playfully, her breath warming Alice's neck．
"No," Alice responded with a surprising amount of seriousness. "Never," she added kissing the top of Bella's head．
"You'll be here when I wake up?" Bella asked sleepily, her arms unconsciously tightening around Alice．
"I promise," Alice said softly．
Every once in while, when she was tired and her defenses were down, Bella would ask her that. Ｈer disappearance months ago still weighed heavily on Bella's mind. She had tried to reassure Bella that she wasn't going anywhere, but she knew that no matter how many times she said that she wouldn't leave like that again, that only time would completely restore Bella's trust in her．
"Good," Bella mumbled, and Alice could hear her heart slowing and her breathing evening out and knew that it would only be another minute or so before Bella was asleep．
"I love you," Alice said softly, kissing Bella temple．
"'uv you too," Bella murmured and Alice smiled, holding Bella securely as she drifted to sleep．
To be continued…
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新章節19
Title: The Edge (Part 19 – Fire and Ice）
Author: JanineFandom: TwilightPairing: Alice/BellaRating: PGDisclaimer: All characters are owned by Stephanie Meyer. I'm just borrowing them．
Summary: Things are going well with Alice, but other things are happening around her that are making Bella uneasy．
A Week LaterBella felt a now familiar prickling at the edge of her consciousness, and looked up from the sudoku puzzle in front of her．
She felt her heart rate begin to pick up．
Taking a deep breath, Bella turned her head to the side and slowly began to scan the store, her eyes then moving to look at what was visible of the street through the windows. She couldn't see anything out of the ordinary, yet she couldn't shake the feeling that …
"What's up?" Mike asked, walking towards her from the back room．
Bella closed her eyes, releasing the breath she had been holding and turned to look at him, forcing a blank expression onto her face as she did．
For days she hadn't been able to shake the feeling that she was being watched. A cold, creeping sensation seemed to constantly be tickling her spine, but whenever she looked around nobody was ever there．
Ｈowever, despite never having actually seen someone watching her, the feeling that she was being watched never quite went away．
She might have thought that she was just being paranoid, that the multiple near death experiences she had had over the past year were finally catching up with her, leaving her constantly expecting danger everywhere she went. But, Alice and Edward had both been tense for the past week, which left her feeling uneasy and suspicious. They told her it was nothing; that they were 'fine', that everything was 'fine', but it didn't feel 'fine', and the fact that they were both reading from the same script only intensified Bella's feelings that something was going on．
Ｈowever, they were immovable on the subject, presenting a united front for the first time since Italy, which left Bella in the dark … and uneasy．
But, these were not fears that she could burden Mike with, so she focused her attention on Mike, and sighed, "Nothing," before looking back down at the sudoku puzzle in front of her, poking the page a couple of times with her pen before wearily pushing it away from her．
"Right," Mike drawled in a way that let her know he didn't believe that she had just been idly daydreaming. "Which of your 'boyfriends' are you looking out for?" he asked, smirking．
Bella clamped down on the urge to sigh．
Ever since Alice had returned to Forks and had decided that it was occasionally fun to walk around school holding hands with her, Mike had decided that it would be hilarious to refer to Alice as 'her boyfriend', and whenever Alice would pick her up from work he would ask, where they were going on their date, or something equally witty．
Bella usually rolled her eyes, but Alice seemed to find it all terribly amusing and whenever he said something like that, Alice would loop her arm through Bella's and kiss her on the cheek before saying 'candle lit dinner on the beach', 'romantic stroll through the woods', or her favorite, 'a quiet evening at the Ｈave-a-Nap Inn' or something equally 'comical' in response．
Alice and Mike would then laugh, while Bella sighed deeply, Mike would wink at them and tell them 'Don't anything I wouldn't do', and then mercifully they would be off．
"Alice," Bella responded, not even bothering to give him the stink-eye. Ｈe knew that she didn't find him as hilarious as Alice did, but whenever she clearly showed her displeasure it only encouraged him to tease her more．
"Oh, sweet," Mike responded, running his hand through his hair．
Bella turned her head away and smirked at that. For all that he liked to tease the two of them about being 'special friends' it never stopped him from trying to flirt with Alice when she came into the store．
