The next day, Angela and Bret seemed pretty happy about something, but I left them alone. Angela was still trying to understand everything Bret had told her.

Alice was pretty happy, and I was happy about that. She was going to meet Trent after school, he was still getting the house straightened out.

Well, until lunch that is.

We all sat down, I asked Alice about something, and I noticed Cynthia and the others weren't there. I didn't think much of it, they were probably sorting something out.

"Hey, you're meeting Trent later, right?"

She nodded, and I could tell she was excited. I grabbed her hand, and she smiled.

"I am. I-"

Her phone beeped and she checked it.

"No, I'm not. Apparently, something happened and she dumped him."

She showed me the message. She had caught him cheating with Maya!

"That's horrible."

"Yeah, she wants to see me later though."

I nodded, and Angela brought up the fact my birthday was coming up. I wanted to strangle Angela, but Alice's reaction stopped me. She got annoyed with me, and asked me why I never told her. I shrugged and tried to say that I didn't want to bring it up with everything that was going on. Angela assumed I meant the fight with Jessica and didn't question it, but Alice and Bret knew better. She seemed to understand, and didn't say anything else.

The rest of the day was pretty quiet, and I went home to do some homework. Angela was going somewhere with Bret. It was getting bright out, so I had an idea where Bret was taking her.

I did my homework, and decided to keep reading. I grabbed my book, thinking about everything. I'd been with Alice for about a month now, and I'd never been happier. My dad got home, and I made him something. When he was finished, I sat in the living room with him.

"Alice not coming over?"

"No, she had a few things to do. How's work?"

He shrugged, and told me everything was fine. We talked about a few things, and he brought up the fact my birthday. I blushed and told him not to worry about it.

"It's your 18th birthday, Bella."

"I don't care dad, you know I don't like fuss."

He shook his head, and didn't say anything else. I went upstairs, and found Alice sitting on my bed, with my book in her hands.

"You not spending time with Cynthia?"

She shook her head, and I sat next to her. I grabbed her hand, and she leaned against me.

"No, she wanted to spend some time by herself."

I nodded, and my dad called me. I groaned, and Alice laughed, kissing my cheek. I walked downstairs and my dad asked me to check the backdoor, apparently he'd heard something. I grumbled about him not doing that himself, and went to check. I opened the door and found a small cat. I picked her up, and called my dad. He walked in, and saw the cat. She had patches of black, white, and orange fur.

"I found her outside, she's freezing. No collar either."

I looked at my dad, and he knew I wanted to keep her. He nodded, and told that I could. Everyone around here had dogs, so we knew it wasn't a neighbours cat.

"Bring her to the vet tomorrow."

"I will. Now, I gotta go sort out a few things for her."

I was thinking about Alice listening to this, and didn't want to keep her waiting. So, I cleaned the kitten up, and walked upstairs, carrying her. I walked in, and she looked up at me.

"So, who's this?"

I put the cat down and Alice looked down at her.

"I found her outside. She's pretty cold and my dad said I could keep her."

I grabbed the blanket off the end of my bed, and wrapped her up in it. She curled up in it, shivering.

"She's cute."

I scratched the top of her head, and she seemed to relax a little.

"Yeah, she is. Sorry about that, though."

"Don't worry about it. I think she likes you. What are you gonna call her?"

I thought about that, and looked at the cat.

"Lexie?"

We spent a little while talking and Lexie started to relax a bit, the blanket helped and she wasn't shivering. I'd grabbed one of the big fluffy pillows from downstairs, and it had fallen on the floor. Lexie rubbed her head off Alice's arm, and jumped off the bed, and curled up on the pillow.

I looked at Alice, and moved a little closer to her. I lay back on the bed, and she lay next to me.

"She likes you."

"Yeah. You're not getting that pillow back though."

I looked down at her, and she had fallen asleep.

"I know."

Alice moved a little closer to me, and I cuddled in beside her. She wrapped her arms around me, and kissed me.

"Do you have to go home?"

"Not if you don't want me to."

I looked up at her, and she was watching me.

"Alice, you don't have to. If it's-"

"What did I say about talking like that?"

"I know, I just-"

"Bella."

She tried, and failed, to look annoyed. I couldn't helped it, I kissed her.

"I know, I just don't wanna make you uncomfortable .................. OK, I'm gonna shut up now."

Alice shook her head, and I lay my head on her shoulder.

Was that.................. Is she.................

"Alice, are you purring?"

She fidgeted a little, and looked away. I made her look at me, thinking about what I wanted to say.

"Yeah. It's ........................ It's going to happen a lot around you. I didn't want you to get the wrong idea before. It's ...................... I just love being around you, Bella."

"Alice, you don't ever have to worry about me getting the wrong idea. I love being around you. I actually find that comforting."

I lay back down, and fell asleep, comforted by it.

ANGELA'S POV

Bret said she had something to show me after school. My parents were out with my brothers, so they wouldn't know about me being out. We left our stuff in my room, and Bret led me out into the forest. It was starting to get a little bright out, which was really unusual for the time of year.

She took of her jacket, and I took it from her.

"I know you're curious about what happens in sunlight."

She stopped in a clearing, and I could see that there was light shining in the other end of the clearing. She walked over to the other end of the other end of the clearing and stepped into the sunlight.

I gasped, making her smile.

She was beautiful. Her skin ............... It was like diamonds.

Bret appeared in front of me, and waited for me to say something.

"Beautiful."

Bret pulled me into a hug, kissing my cheek. She leaned against a tree, looking at me.

"I knew you'd say that. Angela, focus."

I'd gotten a little ................ Distracted. I shook my head, and kissed her.

"Sorry. I can't help it. Is this OK?"

Bret nodded, and we started walking back to my house. My parents got home about 10 minutes after we did. Bret stayed in my room, when I went down to them. My brothers were exhausted and went straight to bed.

My parents asked me how school was and I told them I had some work to do and that I was going to bed soon.

I walked back up to my room, and found Bret.

"Don't you have to get home?"

"I can stay for as long as you want me.to."

I lay next to her, cuddling with her. I was pretty tired, and Bret seemed to realise that.

"Come here."

She moved a little closer to me, and I fell sleep pretty quickly.

Little did I know she stayed the whole night.