A/N: Ok this is my first ever twilight fic so please be gentle with me. It's twilight only with Bella falling for the charms of Alice rather than Edward and is told from Alice's POV. I hope you enjoy it.

Title is a line from the Florence and the machine song Howl which makes me think of Bella/Alice (though it is more wolfy than vampy lol)

Also in case you haven't figured it out yet this is going to be a Bella/Alice femme slash. If you don't like it - don't read!

Of course I don't own Twilight or any of the characters from the series I just like to use them for my own enjoyment and hopefully for yours too. Please review and let me know if I should continue. =]

I saw her coming. I saw her standing in the crowded hallway at Forks High School looking lost. Expressive, chocolate brown eyes set in soft, ivory skin. Waves of brown hair cascading over her face as she studies a map to tell her where to go. I saw her taking the empty seat next to me in biology. I saw us talking and then...nothing. That was all I could see. And a name; a name as beautiful as she, Bella Swan.

I saw her coming. But I didn't see how she would change my entire world and make me question everything I thought I knew.

Bella Swan. She would change my immortal life.

If I didn't know better I would swear it was a dream. I do know better though, you can't dream if you never sleep. I could still see her eyes though, those intense brown eyes, staring back at me every time I closed my own. I looked at the clock to my left. It was half past 6 in the morning. It would soon be time to go to school. I would soon come face to face with the girl in my vision. I had some time to kill so I closed my eyes and sketched Bella's face. It seemed I was quite unable to think of anything else this morning.

After a while I ventured downstairs. I could hear music playing in Edward's room as I passed, soft and melodic but definitely new age. Esme was sitting in the kitchen when I came down. We don't eat but the kitchen gets the most light in the mornings, its large windows over look the forest and on clear days you can see right down to the river. It's a nice place to sit.

"Good morning." I chimed, skipping in and shuffling around the kitchen, unable to stay still.

"Good morning Alice." She smiled back at me warmly. I think I feel closer to Esme than any of her other adoptive "children" do. Probably because they have some memory of a mother figure from their human life whereas I remember nothing. Esme is the only mother I've ever known; Carlisle the only father and Edward, Rosalie, Jasper and Emmet are my brothers and sister. I pattered around the kitchen restlessly, waiting for the others. I'm anxious to get to school today. Like a good mother Esme noticed my unusual behaviour.

"Everything alright?" She asked curiously.

"Everything's fine." I replied breathlessly. She looked at me and I knew she doesn't believe me.

"Alice, what's going on?" She asks, looking me in the eye. I can't lie to her now or she'll know.

"I had a vision." I shrugged, leaning on the back of the chair beside her. Closing my eyes I found myself gazing into chocolate pools again and I couldn't help but smile. When I open them again Esme was smirking and waiting for me to continue. So I told her about the girl in my vision. Bella. I love saying her name. She listened and nodded along as I explained the strange feeling I had experienced during my vision; an overwhelming desire, an attraction to the brunette that was deeper than physical that felt like what soul I have left was being pulled towards her.

"Just be careful Ali." She said, her voice laden with concern. She knows what's at stake if the yearning I felt in my vision turns to thirst and I'm unable to control myself. There's always a danger when we associate with humans, one slip and everything Carlisle and Esme have built here would be over. That's why we tend to stick together at school instead of socialising.

"I know." I replied sombrely, looking deep into her eyes so she would know I was being sincere. Soundlessly Jasper appeared in the doorway and greeted us. He smiled at us then eyed me strangely. I knew he was reading my excited anticipation and I hoped I wouldn't have to explain it. At least not yet. Thankfully I was saved from any comment by the rest of my "family" coming down the stairs. After a quick goodbye to Esme we head for school.

I had to be very careful and watch my thoughts the whole time we're in the car. If Edward knew what I was thinking he would undoubtedly ask who Bella was and why I couldn't stop thinking about her. I didn't feel like having that conversation just yet. When we arrived at school people stared as usual. It's not their fault; we're designed to make them stare. After so many years we've gotten used to it. Some of us, namely Rosalie and Emmet, have grown to enjoy it. Closing my eyes I could see that she was here already. Bella was somewhere on the school grounds but the vision didn't last long enough for me to distinguish where. I sighed softly and took Jasper's arm to lead him to class. He didn't mention anything about my excitement to go to school because he was too busy concentrating on not eating our classmates. As the newest member of our clan he still found it a little difficult to be around humans so much without wanting to feed. Monday mornings were always the worst for him because it was fresh. By lunch time on Wednesday he would be a little more desensitised to it. I did keep my eyes open though just in case I would catch a glimpse of the brunette with the ivory skin.

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It was lunchtime before I saw Bella. I walked into the cafeteria with Jasper, skipping more than usual due to my excited state. Esme believes I must have been a dancer in my human life because of the way I move now. I didn't notice until I had taken my seat with the rest of my family that the chocolate brown eyes I'd been distracted by all day were staring in my direction. The others either didn't notice her looking or just didn't care because they ignored her. I couldn't. I looked up and caught her eye causing her to blush pink and turn away. I giggled slightly earning myself some strange looks from the others. I couldn't resist finding out what she thought of me so I nudged Edward.

"What's she thinking about?" I asked, trying to sound amused rather than curious. He gave me a strange look then focused on her. He stared for a minute then frowned. She looked up and saw his dark eyes boring into her and blushed again, though she looked slightly more confused and angrier this time. Probably because of the way my so called brother was glowering at her. Edward stiffened to my left.

"What's wrong?" I asked, wondering what she could possibly be thinking to make him react that way.

"I can't read her." He said sounding defeated and confused.

"What?" I was shocked too. Just like my gift of premonition Edward had been gifted with telepathy. It worked on humans and vampire's alike so there should be no reason why he couldn't hear her thoughts.

"I can hear everyone else at the table just fine but when I try to read her...nothing." He sounded pissed.

"That's...curious." I glanced over at her table again but she wasn't looking this time.

"Very." He said in a near growl. "I could tell from the others that she was asking who you were, if that answers your question." He added almost pointedly. Perhaps I hadn't been as vigilant with my thoughts as I should have been. I spent the rest of lunch distractedly staring at her table, studying her. Taking in the way she moved, listening to the inflection in her voice when she spoke and trying to ignore the jealous rage that took hold of my body when Mike Newton shamelessly flirted with her for a solid half hour. She didn't seem interested though which pleased me.

-

I was sitting in my usual desk in Biology when she walked through the door. The air from the fan behind the teacher's desk hit her as he signed her registration sheet and all of a sudden her scent hit me like a tidal wave. It was floral but not sickly sweet, more earthy and it made my insides twist with an intense craving that I'd never felt before. My eyes must have been black with thirst; I could feel every cell in my undead body yearning for her. I gripped the edge of the desk and tried to regain my focus. Ordinarily I didn't have a problem with the scent of humans, I barely even noticed it most of the time but her scent, Bella's scent, was like nothing I'd ever experienced. When I opened my eyes again she was walking towards me to fill the only empty seat in the class, the one next to me. I could hear her breath hitch as she sat down but I didn't dare break my concentrated efforts to keep calm to wonder about what that might mean.

"Hello." I greeted her as cheerfully as I could manage. From the strangely confused look on her face when she met my eye I was certain they were black as onyx. It was amazing the effect this girl was having on me and I hardly knew her.

"Hi." She smiled. Her voice was low and slightly husky; it was delightful music to my ears. It was too much. I had to hold my breath again to fight off the overwhelming temptation to jump her right there in the middle of class and drink the blood from her neck the way a hummingbird drinks nectar from an orchid.

I barely spoke two words to her for the rest of the class. She must think I am incredibly rude and possibly conceited to have behaved in such a way but I couldn't appease the war raging inside me between my human half, that wanted to befriend her and the animalistic monster that wanted nothing more than to drain her of every drop of that delicious blood that I could sense pumping through her veins. When the bell rang I bolted for the door. I skipped my last class of the day, I needed to go home and think. In my vision I saw us being friends, so there must be a way for me to overcome this bloodlust that overtakes me when I'm around her. I would just have to avoid her until I figured it out. The thought pained me more than I thought it would.

I spent the rest of the day alone, holed up in my bedroom. Esme and Carlisle expressed their concerns and urged me to talk about it but I refused.

-

I skipped school the next day too. After the others had left I ventured down stairs prepared to talk to Esme about what was going on. I told her about Biology and the effect Bella's scent had had over me. Her delicious, addictive scent. I tried in vain to describe it adequately but most likely failed. I asked had she ever experienced of heard of anything like this happening before. She told me that she could detect subtle differences and found some more pleasing than others but she had never heard of anything like this happening before.

"What do you think it is?" I asked imploringly. If I could figure out what it was that made me react like this then I stood a better chance of learning to control myself or prevent it.

"I don't know." She shrugged. I could tell she wished she knew the answer.

"And you know Edward can't read her thoughts."

"Yes, he mentioned last night." Esme said, sounding slightly amused. I can imagine he was quite irate about it. "I'm afraid we can't explain that either." She shook her head.

"What should I do?" I asked; seeking advice only a mother could give. She smiled sadly at me and shrugged.

"You're the only one who can answer that Alice."

"Well in that case I'm screwed." I pouted. "Thanks Esme." I smiled wistfully. I had no answers, but talking about it had helped at least a little bit. I returned to my room before everyone else returned. I still wasn't in the mood for talking. I thought more about Bella, about her scent, about the vision, about how Edward couldn't read her thoughts. I didn't know what any of it meant. I took out my acrylics and a blank canvas and tried painting to distract myself. I allowed the colours to absorb me and drown out my thoughts. I painted without thinking, dragging my brush across the stark white background. I used mostly blues, navy and black like the night and in contrast stark white, ivory like her skin. A battle was being fought in my brain I was completely torn. Torn between the intense desire to have this girl, to be with her and the desire to keep her safe by keeping her away from the monster I hid behind my beautiful face.

I was certain of one thing though I couldn't be around her until I had figured out what I was going to do. Those were the longest five days of my life.