"I… I see, maybe you just touched a random stray or something. Who knows… you have to be careful though. Forks really… should get rid of those dogs from the streets." Alice said with a tight smile on her face as she looked at Alan, her eyes having almost fully darkened before they slowly started to regain their amber colouring once more as her smily turned from tight and looking utterly forced to anyone that was watching to something much more real.
"So, I was thinking, you already told me that you couldn't come by last week since you were going out with your friends, you wanna go out together tonight? I know this good pizza place in port angeles and we could take my car. Have some fun y'know?" Alice said as she walked closer until the point where she was practically chest to chest with Alan.
Looking down at the shorter woman, Alan felt confusion slowly spread in his mind for a brief moment before he remembered what she was talking about. Alice had indeed invited him last week, before all of the stuff had occurred, before he had encountered all of the shit that had gone on to scar his possibly for life.
'Right… I totally forgot about that, It slipped my mind entirely, that did happen… before I went with those guys to check out the weed, or atleast I think it was around that time. Not quite exactly sure with the timing… that part, and that day isn't really something that I want to even remember… damn it.' Alan thought to himself, almost feeling the need to sigh right then and there however he held himself back, he couldn't just sigh at this moment, to others who couldn't read his thoughts, it would be like he was sighing in exasperation that she had even asked him to go out.
'Still… I want as much time to train as possible, especially with whatever that thing that was watching me was… but on the other hand, fostering an even better relationship with the Cullens will only do me good. I guess I can… it would just be a few hours and then I can head back into the dungeon when I return.' Alan thought quickly inside his mind as he put the value of training for a few more hours against the value of his current relationship and future relationship with the cullens against eachother and weighed them.
Lifting his hand to rub the base of his neck, a motion that he had started doing a lot more often these days without even noticing, he gave a slow nod towards her.
"Alright, when do you want to meet up? And what time." Alan asked, his voice soft and slightly tinged with a tone of curiosity as he looked down at the pixie-like woman before him that was looking at him as if he had just given her the world simply by agreeing to what was most certainly a date in her eyes even if Alan himself didn't particularly think so.
"Hell yeah! Finally! Do you know how many times you've dodged me. Getting you to go anywhere is like basically impossible y'know? I barely got you to sit with me in the cafeteria. I'm winning, slowly but surely!" Alice said with that giddy excited tone of hers as she raised a fist up towards the air, in what Alan thought was… a frankly cute expression and pose if one didn't consider the fact that this small and quite frankly tiny woman could likely snap his body in half or straight up take his head and spine off with a simple arm movement.
'Still… when you just look at her like this, she really is just an excited teenager sometimes. But… I wonder what her actual age is… and isn't it kinda creepy if she's like… hundreds of years old and still acting like this? Food for later thought.' Alan thought to himself before he shook his head outwardly, his lips slightly lifting upwards, it was almost impossible not to smile when watching how Alice acted sometimes, atleast now that he didn't have that almost everpresent instinctual fear sense that she had been giving him when he was entirely human.
"So? Time and place? Or are you just going to keep celebrating, almost makes me want to turn around and not show up y'know?" Alan said, his voice teasing as he looked into her eyes.
In an isntant, Alice's eyes widened comically as she released a clearly exaggerated gasp towards him.
"No way, you wouldn't dare. With how you act sometimes, I'm starting to think you might be gay or something. Not that I would judge, just sayin." Alice said in turn, her voice carrying an equally if not higher teasing voice than his had just been.
Alan felt his eyebrow twitch in slight annoyance before he released a soft chuckle.
"No, I'm straight, so give me the answer already." He replied, slightly serious before turning his gaze to look past her towards the rest of the cullens, directly at Jasper.
"Or am I?" Alan said teasingly.
"Ah you, stop looking over there. Anyways, I'll come pick you up at your place, like two hours after classes end. Is that okay?" Alice asked as she practically started grabbing his shirt to forcefully turn him around so he faced her.
"Fine, that work's just fine for me. I'll see you then. I gotta head inside now, get my books and get ready for class." Alan replied as he gave a nod as he lifted his arm and patted her shoulder for a moment before taking his hand away.
"Alright, It's a promise, don't you dare take your word back Alan. Don't want you disappearing on me again for days got it?" Alice said as she raised her hand, making it into a fist and shaking it infront of his face.
"Alright, Alright. Calm down." Alan said back, raising his hands up in surrender before turning to walk towards the front of the school, lifting one arm in a wave without even looking back.
"See you later then."
"Sure… see you later Alan." Alice replied as she waved back even though he wasn't looking, her voice having grown softer as he watched his figure get smaller and smaller as he walked away.
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