"You must be joking. Oh, Alice, you're utterly hilarious," Bella deadpans as she looks at the box clutched loosely in the pixie's deceptively delicate looking hands. Hands she has seen rip apart phonebook after phonebook just because she was bored and asked - as hard as she finds it to say no to Alice, it seems as though the vampire finds it just as difficult the other way.
With all the grace of an olympic ballerina - there's no time to wonder if that's actually a thing, Alice plants a hand on her hip and points at Bella with the box. "This is a sleepover, Bella! Humans play games during sleepovers."
"For someone trying to blend in, you sure put a barrier between yourself and humanity," Bella grumbles as she takes the box and starts reading the back of it. Stupid game. Stupid beautiful, kind, vexatious vampire. "I mean in the way you speak, we could use a little more barrier between us, physically."
Too busy reading, she doesn't notice the mischievous glint in Alice's golden eyes, nor the way she slides right up beside Bella. "You puzzle me," she says almost gently.
Which doesn't entirely matter, Bella still stumbles sideways while throwing the box into the air in her surprise. "Jesusfuck!" Her arms wobble, backpack caught around her ankle, and grabs roughly at the nearest thing she can reach.
"Oh dear!" Alice says far too casually as she takes Bella's searching hands and allows herself to be dragged down atop the human. When she lifts her head, the ends of her black hair tickle Bella's face, and she has her smirk caught by a fang. "Clumsy human."
"How very dare you," Bella wheezes as she catches her breath. Her fingers dig into Alice's lower back and she watches the molten gold of those eyes fade to a burnt honey. "You did that on purpose."
"You could punch me through a wall but I pulled you down?"
"You caught me off guard."
"You know I have trouble seeing you," she counters. "Am I really such a burden to lay beneath?"
Bella squeezes her eyes shut just before she gets the full frontal force of The Pout. Her heart takes off like a goddamn hummingbird and when she cracks an eye open, Alice looks utterly pleased. "If you know what you do to me, why do you keep doing it?"
"I like it," Alice says, as if the answer were obvious.
The human stares harder at her, brows pinching together in frustration. "I doubt Jasper does."
"I think he's starting to understand." There's a quiet moment between them, where guilt tries to claw its way into Alice's eyes. Ultimately, it's burned away by the ever growing hope. "Has Edward explained mates to you yet?" At Bella's confused face, Alice sighs heavily and finally sits up. She gets to her feet, easily pulling Bella upright. "You win this time. I suppose we should have a few conversations before we get to... the games."
With her heart in her throat, Bella watches Alice pick up the box for Twister and place it back on the bookshelf she got it from.
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