Love Bite

Chapter 1

I DO NOT OWN CHARACTERS OR TWILIGHT.

Bella was calmly doing homework in her bed when she heard a light tapping at her window. She cocked her head to the side and glanced over at it, a slight thrill going through her. She recognized the sound for the amount of times that she had heard it before. It could only mean one thing.

There was a vampire at her window.

Either Edward, her boyfriend, or his adoptive sister, Alice, was rapping their knuckles against her winter frosted window pane and the thought made her grin. Although, she couldn't help but frown slightly a moment later. She wasn't in the mood to deal with Edward after the fight they'd had that day, and plus, she looked forward to any moment she got to spend with the pixie-like girl who was quickly becoming her best friend. They didn't get to hang out much at school because they shared no classes and they didn't get to hang out much at the Cullen home because Edward monopolized most of her time when she was there, but still, somehow, the tiny vampire had wormed her way into Bella's heart and settled in to stay.

So filled with a curious mix of excitement and apprehension, she tossed her Algebra textbook off to the side, rolled out of her bed and jogged to her locked window, slightly confused when she didn't see the usual form of one of those vampires perched on the sill outside. Furrowing her brow, she unlatched the lock and pushed it up, shuddering at the blast of cold air that hit her a second later as she peered into the darkness of her backyard.

"Edward? Alice?" she called out uncertainly.

Maybe it had been a branch from the oak tree scaling the side of her house blowing in the wind? It wouldn't be the first time she'd gotten her hopes up over nothing because of that stupid tree.

"Boo."

Bella squealed like an honest to God little girl and careened backwards as a pale face popped up right in front of hers. She flailed back a few feet and then fell back on her butt with a thud and a grunt, scowling at the sound of bell like laughter that rang out a second later.

Little minx!

"Alice!" she barked, but a second later said vampire's hands locked onto her window sill and then Alice had launched herself into the room like an acrobat. She turned her body end over end in the air, a blur, and hit the floor in front of Bella with a graceful roll.

Bella gasped as bright golden eyes met hers, centimeters away, matched with a straight edge, playful grin bordering on a smirk.

"Hi," Alice beamed and promptly kissed her right cheek which the mortified brunette felt flare with a blush instantly as tingles raced from the spot where her lips touched.

She then stood, twirled on her toes and leaped into Bella's bed, settling in comfortably a moment later, making herself quite at home.

Well, nobody could say that Alice Cullen didn't know how to make an entrance.

"Y-you-You-" Bella spluttered, struggling to get to her feet, indignant and embarrassed and totally awed by her friend's audacity.

Any ire Bella felt, however, was extinguished instantaneously at the playful look of innocence, of feigned ignorance on Alice's face and the twinkle that gave away the pixie's game in her pretty amber eyes. She grinned back helplessly.

"You jerk," she deadpanned and Alice smiled that million watt smile, the one that crinkled her adorable nose up and made her positively glow as they both burst into laughter.

Alice really was something.

"I'm sorry, I just couldn't resist once the temptation hit me," the vampire admitted as Bella plopped down onto the bed next to her, trying and failing to give her the stink eye. It's hard to glare at someone so painfully cute, and how could anyone ever even try and be mad at Alice?