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  ice?”
  she did when i called her her head was sl
  side to side, and i saw her face. her eyes were blahoughts
  flew to my mother. was i already too late?
  i hurried to her side, reaatically to toud.
  ”alice!” jasper's voice whipped, and then he was right behind her, his
  hands g over hers, looseheir grip oable.
  across the room, the d shut with a low click.
  ”what is it?” he demanded.
  she turned her face away from me, into his chest. ”bella,” she said.
  ”i'm right here,” i replied.
  her head twisted around, her eyes loiheir expression still
  strangely bla o she hadn't beeo me,
  she'd been anser's question.
  ”what did you see?” i said — and there was ion in my flat,
  ung voice.
  jasper looked at me sharply. i kept my expression vad waited. his
  eyes were fused as they flickered swiftly between alice's fad
  mihe chaos… for i could guess what alice had seen now.
  i felt a tranquil atmosphere settle around me. i weled it, using it to
  keep my emotions dised, urol.
  alice, too, recovered herself.
  ”nothing, really,” she answered finally, her voice remarkably d
  g. ”just the same room as before.”
  she finally looked at me, her expression smooth and withdrawn. ”did you
  wa?”
  ”no, i'll eat at the airport.” i was very calm, too. i went to the
  bathroom to shower. almost as if i were b jasper's strara
  sense, i could feel alice's wild — though well-cealed — desperation to
  have me out of the room, to be aloh jasper. so she could tell him
  that they were doihing wrong, that they were going to fail…
  i got ready methodig ole task. i left my
  hair d around me, y face. the peaceful mood jasper
  created worked its way through me ahink clearly. helped me
  plan. i dug through my bag until i found my sooied
  it into my pocket.
  i was anxious to get to the airplad whe by seven. i
  sat aloime in the back of the dark car. alied against the
  door, her face toer but, behind her suing glances
  iion every few seds.
  ”alice?” i asked ily.
  she was wary. ”yes?”
  ”how does it work? the things that you see?” i stared out the side
  window, and my voided bored. ”edward said it washat
  thi was harder than i would have thought to say his name.
  that must have beeed jasper, why a fresh wave of serenity
  filled the car.
  ”yes, things ge…” she murmured — hopefully, i thought. ”some things
  are more than others… like the eople are harder. i only
  see the course they're ohey're ohey ge their
  minds — make a new deatter how small — the whole future
  shifts.”
  i fully. ”so you 't see james iil he
  dee here.”
  ”yes,” she agreed, wary again.
  and she hadn't seehe mirror room with james until i'd made the
  de there. i tried not to think about what else she
  might have seen. i didn't aniake jasper more suspicious.
  they would be watg me twice as carefully now, anyway, after alice's
  vision. this was going to be impossible.
  we got to the airport. luck was with me, or maybe it was just good odds.
  edward's plane was landing in terminal four, the largest terminal, where
  most flights la wasn't surprising that his was. but it was
  the termihe biggest, the most g. and there was a
  door ohat might be the only ce.
  we parked oh floor of the huge garage. i led the way, for once
  more knowledgeable abs thaook the
  elevator dowhree, where the passengers unloaded. alid
  jasper spent a long time lookiing flights board. i could
  hear them disg th