'What… what the fuck.' He thought in pure shock, his hands trembling at his sides even after the warnings had disappeared from his sight.
'I…can't tell anyone about the system? I… why? Is the system trying to protect me? Or is it something else? I'm… confused. It's not like… the Idea of telling Alice was anything more than a spur of the moment thing… but to be banned completely from even doing it in the first place. That… that makes me feel like a damn slave more than anything.' Alan thought to himself as he shook his head, feeling a headache slowly coming before he took a deep breath, slowly calming his nerves down as his hands slowly stopped shaking and he regained his composure and released the breath out once more slowly.
"Alright… let's just go." Alan muttered as he turned and kept walking down the hallways of the school.
Finally, he arrived before the cafeteria and opened the double doors and headed inside, the doors closing behind him, as soon as he entered the large hall, almost every single eye in the room was directed towards him.
The changes from the previous him, were frankly massive, he could overhear some people even asking others who he was, he was almost fully unrecognisable from before, still, it wasn't to the point that no one realised it was Alan Walker as they quickly informed the rest of the students of his real identity.
Lifting his head higher, he looked around the room and he found her, Alice Cullen, already seated at the same table that he had sat with her a few days earlier.
'I can't… really ignore her can I? That would just make this mess an even bigger one, better to just deal with it now rather than later.' Alan thought as he sighed and walked towards the cafeteria desk at the far back of the hall, the one closest to the Cullen table.
Arriving to stand before it, He looked down at Alice who hadn't even bothered to get up from her seated position, though she was looking directly at him with those fully black eyes, her lips slightly curled up into a smile as she looked at Alan and her hands were clearly fisted and held on the table before her.
"Hey Alice… how have you been?" Alan asked softly as he slowly sat down on the chair opposite her on the desk.
Alice didn't reply for a moment, as her eyes following his movement from when he was standing to when he was done sitting down, her pupils precise and slow, capturing every single detail of his movement and his new look.
"You've changed. Quite a lot." Alice said softly, her usual giddiness nowhere to be heard in her tone of voice, and nowhere to be seen on her expression. The usual cheery girl wasn't before him, this was something else, something completely different from what he had been used to from his interactions with her that he had previously.
"I… did, got some creams and all that, been sleeping better as well." Alan muttered softly, his eyes looking away from her, it almost felt impossibly to look at her whilst lying his arse off about his changes.
For a moment, Alice remained silent, before she opened her mouth once more and shook her head at the same time, it looked like she wanted to say something but held it back, only closing her mouth a few seconds later and releasing a soft sigh.
"You don't have to lie to me Alan, I thought we were friends? It's fine if you don't want to tell me, you don't have to share, I was just worried, you missed school for quite a bit and then those other guys stopped coming to school as well. A girl can worry about her friend can't she?" Alice said softly after a few moments as she leaned slightly closer towards him.
"You're right… I just, I had something to do. I can't tell you… what it was about Alice, I wish I could, but I cannot… but its over now. I'm back for real." Alan replied softly as he lowered his head. Now that the instinctual fear had lowered even further ever since becoming a quarter elf hybrid, he was slowly thinking of Alice in a better light, and this conversation only proved it further.
'She's… been really nice hasn't she? If I wasn't so scared… and just looked at her intentions and what she did, her actions… she's been nothing but nice to me.' Alan thought to himself, his previous interactions with the pixie like girl appearing in his mind and he thought back on them and it was true, Alice hadn't threatened or done anything against him, not even once. And the Cullens themselves hadn't actually done anything either, they had been in Forks for a while now, but they had been completely peaceful, there hadn't been any deaths or dissapearings.
Sure, he knew that if they did do something, they would likely hide it, but Alan knew that if they did kill someone, that person would at least disappear or maybe they'd make a story about him going off somewhere else and leaving town, but ever since the Cullens had shown up, the only disappearance had been John, Adrian and Jeannie… and Alan knew for a fact that it hadn't been the Cullens, he was part of the incident himself in the first place after all.
'That… I just… I really should stop treating people differently just by how I perceive them at first. No… that's also wrong, some people… really are dangerous, and this doesn't mean that Alice herself isn't, I should still trust my instincts, but I also shouldn't just act terrified or treat every other fact besides the fear as something that doesn't matter. At that point, I'd be just like an animal that reacts and is controlled by its own fear.' Alan thought as the slow realisation went through his mind before he lifted his head up to look back into her eyes.
The darkness that had been enveloping Alice's eyes was slowly fading away and being replaced by the beautiful amber that almost appeared like she had gold in her eyes if the light hit it in a particular way.
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Here's the first chapter of the day.