A Twilight fanfiction (contest entry)

"I don't see why Edward is so obsessed with this Bella Swan." Rosalie said, flicking her long silver-blonde hair around my face. The way she said Bella's name, it was like it was a disease or something. "And she's not even that PRETTY." she continued.
I smirked, shutting the book I was reading. "Are you jealous or something, Rose?"
Rosalie gasped, and stalked out of the room, taking her little hand-held mirror with her. Rosalie is so vain. She won't go anywhere without her little mirror. I opened my book again, and returned to reading for a while. I was absorbed. The main character just died - Zult (the bad guy) bit him and drained his body of blood. As I turned the last page of my book with tears in my eyes, I heard the front door slam shut, and Edward came pounding up the stairs.
"Hey Alice, can I ask you a favour?" he said, his face full of anger and unhappiness. I nodded, putting my book down AGAIN, and gave him my undivided attention.
"Can you talk some sense into Rosalie? She just seems so against Bella and everything, and when Bella comes to meet us..." he paused, looking distressed. "I just... don't want her first impression of Rose to be a bad one, you know?"
I sighed. "Edward, look. I REALLY don't think Rose's going to warm up to her. I mean, I KNOW that she says she doesn't care about her, but Bella IS a human."
"Fine." Edward grimaced, nodding. "Thanks for your help Alice." he said, sarcastically, and then he stormed off down the stairs and back outside. I picked up my book again, and turned the last page, where Lirae and her sister were having a conversation about Arlon's death: 1

" 'I just... I feel so sad when Arlon died, I feel like I've lost him forever.' Lirae said, wiping her eyes.
'He IS gone, Li. You've just got to deal with it.' "2

My eyes watered. That was such a crappy ending to the book. Throwing the book down, I jumped up to see what Jasper and Emmett were up to. 'Lirae and Arlon' landed on the floor with a thud. I didn't even look back at it. 'When I'm alone, I'll burn it.' I decided. Jumping the stairs two at a time, I reached the door quickly, and I flung it open, my eyes searching for evidence of Jasper or Emmett. I was successful. Seeing Emmett lying on the swing chair, and ran over to him to discuss my problems.
"Hey Emmett." I said with a sigh. "Has Edward talked to you about Rose? Or Bella? I really don't want to be around when she comes here, although, I would like to meet her properly."
Emmett mmmd, nodding. "I know how you feel." He took his feet off the chair so I could sit down, and I sat down immediately. 3

"I saw something today. Bella chickened out and didn't come to meet Carlisle and Esme. Edward would be so disappointed with her. He thinks she'll come tonight. Oh, and there's supposed to be a thunderstorm soon, so we could have a game of Baseball if you like. I miss baseball. We NEVER play now, because of Bella." I looked over at Emmett, who hadn't made a remark since I had sat down. His eyes were closed, his mouth was slightly open and he was snoring. 4

"Emmett you dick! Vampires can't sleep! Am I boring you THAT much that you pretend to sleep? Honestly, you are so stupid sometimes." I stood up, and walked off. I heard Emmett chuckle behind me, and when I looked back at him, he had put his feet up again, and was twiddling his thumbs. 5

As I walked back inside to do nothing in particluar, I thought about what was going to happen with Rosalie and Bella. 'She seems nice.' I thought. 'Maybe Rose IS just jealous? Of a human? I don't think so... but it's just not like Rose to act this way, so she MUST be jealous.' I argued and argued with myself, gliding around in circles as I tried to decide what to do. 6

"Ok." I said aloud. "I'll go talk to Rose." So I ran off in search of Rosalie. 7