The sun was shining brightly as Seth went to his car to go to school. But he stopped halfway and pulled Alex into a kiss and everytime he tried to step away, he would kiss her again.

"You know, we covered for Alex for obvious reasons, but if I have to call the school about you Seth, I'll make sure to mention that you're not there because you are here making out with our daughter," Alice said, crossing her arms at the sight. Alex stood there, taking in Seth's scent, which seemed stronger today and his heartbeat, which seemed louder today.

"Bye Alex," Seth said, once again kissing his girlfriend.

"Getting my phone, Seth," she said, sounding a little annoyed.

Alex watched Seth leave, listening to his car travelling down the road. Alice took Alex into a quick hug.

"It's only until three," she said, walking Alex into the house. Alex sighed, that seemed like forever to her. This was the first day since she moved in with the Cullens' that she couldn't go to school with Seth.

Luckily however, the Cullens' had a reputation of taking of sunny days to go camping and hiking, so she already knew that's what they were assuming. She wondered how many of the humans had tried to pull that one off on their own parents and probably failed. But, there wasn't a choice, they had to miss or they'd expose themselves. But Alex failed to see how a connection would be made from sparkling in the sun to vampire.

In the kitchen, Rosalie was sitting at the counter, reading Car and Driver Magazine, while Emmett and Jasper played video games. Alex's senses seemed to be on overdrive today and she sat down at the table and picked at her breakfast. It tasted fine, but Alex noticed she wasn't really getting much out of the food she was eating. It was more like she just enjoyed the feeling of the food and not like she actually needed it.

"Oh Seth! Don't go! Let's just make-out in the garage!" Emmett suddenly mocked, making fake kissy faces at Alex. Rosalie walked over and smacked his head which seemed louder than usual for Alex. It was almost becoming overwhelming for her. She looked at her parents and watched as they stared at each other with longing faces. She could tell they wanted to be alone. She looked at the two of them and smiled.

That combined with all of the loud noises and strong smells, she just wanted to be outside.

"Can I go for a walk down to the lake? I just want to stretch my legs," she asked, looking from Jasper to Alice.

"Yeah, sure," Alice said, her face clearly displaying that she couldn't wait to be alone with her husband. Rosalie and Emmett rolled their eyes. Alex bit back laughter. Rosalie and Emmett were far worse than Alice and Jasper. The only ones who came close were apparently Edward and Bella.

"Have fun," Jasper called.

As Alex went outside, she was overwhelmed by the smells of nature and everything around her. Everything had been crisp, and clear lately, it's just recently, it had become overwhelming and overbearing. It had become too much. Alex had no idea what had changed, but it was getting progressively worse, like she didn't have the energy to tolerate it.

She made her way down to the lake where she spotted a person fishing in the lake. Alex ignored him and went to a part of the lake where she wouldn't be seen by this man in her sparkling glory. She laid down in the grass, watching him fish, watching the water and watching the clouds roll in the sky. It was interesting to watch. Suddenly, the man caught something, he reeled in the line and took the fish off. It wasn't big, so he let it go.

He began to put some new bait on the line, when he suddenly let out a curse as the line broke skin.

Suddenly a new smell hit Alex. It was the most power thing Alex had ever encountered. It was like in the classroom when her classmate had gotten a papercut, only worse. Because this time it wasn't tingles down her throat, her throat was on FIRE...

Alice and Jasper were enjoying each others company, now just cuddled against each other. They hadn't spent this kind of time together in a while and they'd missed each other.

"I can't believe how much has changed recently," Alice gushed. "I didn't know I wanted a child but Alex has just brought it all together."

Jasper smiled at his wife. "I know, I feel like she was the missing piece to a puzzle, that we never knew was missing."

Jasper took Alice into his arms and sniffed her hair. It hadn't changed since they'd first met. He couldn't help wonder if Alex was going to continue aging or freeze like Nessie was going to.

"It's just nice to feel like a family and I feel like in a way, she has helped to solidify my past and help me to connect a few of those missing pieces," Alice whispered into her husbands chest.

For a minute, Alice and Jasper just held each other in a moment of pure bliss. Suddenly, Alice's eyes clouded over and it was clear she was seeing something.

Suddenly, Jasper was hit with panic, guilt, fear, terror and so many emotions all at once. Alice looked almost too scared to breath at what she'd seen.

"It's not the Volturi is it?" Jasper asked, but it was like she hadn't heard him.

"How could I have not seen this coming? How could I have missed THIS?" she cried, throwing her shirt on inside out and backwards, knocking Jasper out of the bed in the process. There was desperation in Alice's eyes that Jasper had never seen before. It was like she couldn't move fast enough. Her eyes looked almost devastated with guilt, terror and fear.

"Alice, what's wrong?" Jasper asking his mind flooded now with his and Alice's cold bitter panic. It felt like acid on his tongue and he almost felt sick to his stomach with fear and dread. Alice was a complete disaster. Her expression was complete and total horror and fear.

Alice grabbed a pair of pants, his pants.

"Come on Jasper, get dressed, get dressed NOW!" she screamed, throwing on her shoes on the wrong feet as she began cursing out her ability.

"Is someone going to slip up?" Jasper guesses, zooming around the room getting dressed. He looked at Alice and tried to guess how bad it was going to be, more importantly, how quickly would they have to get out of town?

Alice nodded running out the bedroom door with Jasper following behind but he was struggling to keep up. He watched as she stared at her car keys for a fraction of a second before cursing and stating it wouldn't be fast enough, they weren't going to make it. Alice pulled out her phone and went to dial a number but crushed the phone in frustration when there wasn't an answer.

"Who?" he asked, throwing on a shirt. Emmett and Rosalie were in their room, Carlisle was... it wasn't Carlisle, Esme was in the kitchen, that left Edward, Bella or Nessie. His mind shot to Bella, as she was the newest vampire in the family.

Oh, poor Bella. But they were at their cottage, preoccupied. Nessie was on the rez, with the wolves. Whoever it was, it was going to be bad, because Alice was beyond frantic about it. She had Jasper's pants on, her shirt was inside out and backwards and her shoes were on the wrong feet and she couldn't care less as she drew out her phone and shot off a quick text to Carlisle. No doubt the code food's ready. They'd set up that code as it was a text anyone would send but they don't eat, so...

Alice looked frantically around the room and stared at him for one second before saying a word that was like a wrecking ball to his gut. A name he would have never guessed.

"It's Alex!"