The next day, Lexi woke up early at around 5 AM. She went to the kitchen to make herself breakfast when she noticed the glow from the computer screen in the other room. Curiously, she walked in and saw Ashlee reading something.
"Did you sleep at all last night?" Lexi asked, yawning.
Ashlee jolted at the wound of Lexi's voice. "Uh, no just about two hours. I couldn't sleep, wondering what was with this Hockley guy mom keeps talking about."
"So you got up and spent the entire night on the computer? Gosh, you are a nosy person." Lexi took the other chair and sat next to Ashlee. "What are you reading about?"
"Well I was chatting with Gabi, but she was going to Connecticut for break, while I was doing that I looked up Hockley and just randomly clicked this link. The rest is history…literally! Apparently the heir was engaged to Rose."
"When was this?"
"1911"
Ashlee looked at Lexi. "Uh, this guy was our grandfather, Lex."
Lexi gave Ashlee a confused look. "What? No way!"
"Yeah, Calvert."
"Well, what was his first name again?"
"Caledon." Ashlee's eyes never left the computer screen.
"Oh, so this guy went by Caledon Calvert for the rest of his days? Jeesh, how long could that have lasted before she knew?" Lexi smirked.
"She never did, so we need to keep figuring out this mystery, Sherlock!" Ashlee exclaimed.
"That's Nancy Drew to you." Lexi corrected as Ashlee rolled her eyes.
"So, from what Rose is telling us, she had no idea that Calvert was actually Cal? Oh, that sounds so messed up." Lexi rubbed her eyes tiredly, noticing that she was still in her oversized pajama shirt and running shorts she wore to sleep last night.
"Well, I think she should have taken the hint, Calvert, Calvert, hello?" Ashlee waved her arms in the air, proving her point and taking Lexi's mind off of what she was wearing. As for Ashlee, she was still dressed in a Hello Kitty tank top and yellow pajama bottoms. Her hair was also neatly in a ponytail, unlike Lexi who had not bothered to do damage control with her hair yet.
Lexi shuffled off to her room. "Where are you going?" Ashlee called after her. Quickly she returned with a Ouiji board "Oh hell no." Ashlee moaned. "Just relax." Lexi assured her as she spelled something out on the board and Ashlee grabbed her pen and notebook. "What are you asking?"
"When Cal died, that she will without a doubt know."
There was no answer. Lexi spelled out the question again, thinking she didn't understand.
T H E C R A S H O F 2 9
"That makes no sense." Ashlee mumbled.
"The crash of '29…..the crash of 29….1929…crash…OH!" Lexi exclaimed "THE CRASH OF 1929! The stock market crash! Remember we learned about it in histor-oh nevermind that was another lesson you napped through…"
"Now what?" Ashlee asked as she wrote down the letters spelling out the message, trying to ignore that last comment.
R O S E D A W S O N. N E V E R M I N D H O C K L E Y
"Holy crap, why didn't we ever think of that! I feel so blonde right now, come on Ash!"
"But, you are red, not blonde." Ashlee pointed out.
"Ughh!" Lexi pulled her cousin up. "Forget it, it was a stupid comment, let's go look up Rose again!" They ran to the computer room and brought up the internet, typed in ROSE DAWSON in the search engine and randomly clicked a link, bringing up a whole list of articles dating back to the mid-twenties and thirties. The links looked as if they had been already clicked from Ashlee's computer.
"Oh, I forgot I was here last night." Ashlee was about to click the BACK button on the browser.
"Hang on, click on that one that's unclicked." Lexi pointed to an article with the name ' Jan-1923- March 1924' Ashlee clicked it and it brought up even more articles. Once again, Ashlee randomly clicked one, and this one had a tile of 'Actress Rose Dawson gives birth to baby girl.' It went on to tell about Isabella, Lexi and Ashlee's great aunt.
"Well, that was kinda stupid, she died a few years ago remember?"
"Yeah, yeah, let's find another article." Ashlee was having a ball learning all about Rose.
"Don't you think we should try and find Jack? Come on Ash, this will always be here." Lexi suggested, having no idea where to even begin. Ashlee bookmarked the page and went to the yellow pages. Lexi knew that was a really stupid move. "Awn come on Ash, you cannot be serious! How common of a name is Jack Dawson?"
"Pretty common, especially after Titanic you know." Ashlee answered as she exed out of the internet.
"So, now what? Lexi sat, wondering. She had no idea where to go from here.
