Author's Note: I do not own Twilight. Twilight and all the characters are the creation of Stephenie Meyer. No copyright infringement is intended.

Yes, if you have noticed, I changed my pen name. I kinda wanted to MIX things up a bit.

I am so, so, sorry that I haven't updated in almost a month! I've just been extremely busy lately... I had my show last week, and it went AMAZINGLY, but now I miss everyone... Although, I may be starting a new show soon. Teehee!

Anyway, since school will be out before I know it, finals will be showing their ugly heads. I will try to update as soon as possible, but I cannot make any promises. As of right now, there are two more chapters (including this one), and then the epilogue... Sigh.

Their Girl?

Chapter 21

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August 16th, 2011

Parker and I headed back inside, only to be met by Alice and Rosalie.

"If you don't mind, Parker, can Rosalie and I spend some time with Alex? We need to talk to her," Alice said sweetly.

"Of course," he replied. I gave him a quick kiss on the cheek before I followed Alice and Rose up to my bedroom. They sat down on my bed and gestured for me to do the same. When I was sitting, they both wrapped their arms around me for a group hug. A few happy tears ended up moving down my face.

"I really missed you guys," I whispered.

"Oh, darling, we missed you, too. So much," Rosalie murmured, smoothing down my hair.

"Esme said something to me about you," I said, looking at her. "I just wanted to know if it was true-"

"If you were going to ask if you truly changed my life, the answer is yes," she said with a smile.

"And you're so much more to me than just a shopping buddy," Alice giggled.

"So, I have a feeling you guys heard everything Esme said to me?" I asked.

"Pretty much," they said in unison.

"Rose... I really changed your life?" I asked her after a moment of quiet.

"Yes, you did," she said with a smile. "I've always wanted a younger sister, and then you came along."

"But isn't Bella technically a younger sister to you?" I questioned.

"Physically, she looks the same age as Rosalie," Alice said. "Bella would actually end up being my older sister, based on the age she was turned at. We pretend she is my older sister."

"And besides, she's a sister-in-law. We love her a lot, but you get to be my little sister. We can tell people you are. It's not something we have to hide."

"Sadly, I'm only your sister by an adoption certificate," I sighed.

"Hey, it's more than Rose and I have!" Alice laughed. "According to other certificates, we were supposed to be dead years ago!"

I giggled. "Yeah, I guess you're right."

We all laughed together. It felt good to laugh, now that everything was back to normal. We, as normal as living with nine vampires and a hybrid could be.

"You know, you're not so little anymore," Rosalie sighed. "You're sixteen... already, and you look so much older, too."

I frowned, then took the diamond stud out of my nose. "I don't even remember why I did this..."

"No, you don't have to do that," Alice said. "It honestly looks good. Just because you have the nose piercing, it doesn't mean you're any different-"

"I am different, Alice," I sighed, tossing the stud onto the bed. "I may have my memory back, but I'll never be the same. My past will always be there to haunt me."

"And you'll overcome it because you are strong," Rosalie said. "You've been through so much in so little time, yet here you are. You are so brave, Alex, and I'm sure you can take whatever else may occur."

"You... You mean that?" I asked.

"Of course she does," Alice said. "And I agree wholeheartedly."

I smiled. "You guys are the best."

"Oh believe us, we know," Rosalie laughed.

Alice's face lit up suddenly. "Oh my gosh, Alex! It just dawned on me... I can't believe you are going to be a junior!"

"You're going to be one, too," I said.

"Ugh, I've been a junior way too many times to count," she said. "Oh my god, I can take you dress shopping for homecoming so you can go with Parker... EEP! Prom, too! You can go to prom now!"

"Oh my, your first prom!" Rosalie cheered.

"We'll make you look so beautiful!" Alice squealed.

"Wait, Alice," I muttered. "Isn't prom in May?"

"Yes," she said. "And?"

"That's a long time from now," I said. "I really don't want to think that far ahead, especially because that means, from that point it's only a little over a year until..."

I trailed off. I didn't have to say anything for them to know I was referring to my transformation.

"Y-you're right," Alice stammered. "Sorry."

"Let's... Let's just enjoy the time we have now," Rosalie said, a hint of sadness in her voice. She was the one who was most upset about me turning into a vampire. I remember how upset she sounded on the phone that November day, when I told her that I'd be turned into a vampire three weeks from my eighteenth birthday.

"So, on a completely different topic... Alex, what classes will you sign up for?" Alice asked me. "You're required to take English, Math, Social Studies, and Science, but you have room for three electives."

"I want to continue with photography, but I need two language credits and a tech credit... Oh shoot! I missed school for a year and a half... Will I have to take summer school next summer? Repeat classes? Oh no, what if I don't have room in my schedule to-"

"Alex, calm down," Rosalie said. "it's not like you didn't go to school for a year and a half. You went to school in Maryland. They can transfer your credits."

"So I would have-"

"One language credit in Spanish, two English, Math, Social Studies, and Math credits, the one Tech credit," Alice interrupted. I wondered how she knew that, but then I figured she probably saw me telling her that in the future.

"Oh," I said. "Well, okay."

"Feel better?" Alice asked.

"Yeah, I guess so..." I murmured.

"What's wrong?" Rosalie inquired.

"I've been thinking... I haven't been in this town for a year and half. Won't the kids in school be wondering where I've been and that I'm back?"

"That's already been taken care of," Alice said with a wave of her hand.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"Well, you were right that people would be suspicious as to why you left all of the sudden in the beginning of the school year, even if they didn't ask us directly..." Rosalie said.

"What do you mean by that?" I asked.

"Edward read a lot of thoughts about you," Alice said.

"Really?"

"Well, yeah, because after all, you are the 'sister of those really attractive kids' and everything," Rosalie said with a roll of her eyes. "Lots of boys were having lusty thoughts, and when Parker found out, he got so angry..."

"Macey was wondering about you a lot, too," Alice sighed.

Macey Arnold, my best friend at Astoria High. She was in my math class, and was the only other person besides my family members that talked to me... well, in a nice way. We laughed, joked, ate together at lunch, and even experienced a car accident together. While my injuries were more severe, she and her mother only got a couple of scratches and bruises. We were good friends, and then I just disappeared suddenly after Thanksgiving Break. I can't imagine how she would feel...

"She kept constantly asking about you," Rosalie said. "She really wanted to know what happened to you and why she couldn't communicate with you, but we just told her the cover story."

"What was the cover story?" I asked.

"You had a mental breakdown over the Thanksgiving vacation, so you went to a special, prestigious boarding school in England to recover. You went far away to 'keep away from the pressures of life in Astoria' and things of that nature," Rosalie told me.

I sighed. "Great. Now people are going to think I'm some sort of psychopath. The pink hair streak and the nose piercing won't help."

"People won't think you're crazy," Alice murmured, putting her hand on my arm.

"Even if they don't, they'll still look at me funny," I said.

"People stare at us all the time," Rosalie muttered.

"They stare at you guys because you are extremely beautiful, not because they heard you went to an insane asylum," I mumbled.

"That's enough!" Alice shouted.

I looked at her. "I'm s-sorry. I'm being overly dramatic."

She lowered her eyes. "Alex, you don't know much about my past, do you?"

"No," I said.

She sighed. "Well, I don't know much about it either."

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"I can't remember most it," she mumbled. "All I really know is that I was born with the power to see the future and was committed to an asylum for the insane."

"That's terrible!" I said.

"I became a 'vegetarian' vampire on my own, mostly," Alice told me. "The first thing I can remember is having a vision about meeting Jasper and joining the family. I only drank animals, because that is how I saw my life in the future."

"Did you meet Jasper before everyone else?" I asked.

She smiled. "I met him in a diner in Philadelphia, and had told him that he had kept me waiting. Of course, he apologized and tipped his hat like the southern gentleman he is. We made our way through the country and found everybody."

"That's sweet," I said. "Rosalie, how did you meet Emmett?"

"I was hunting in a forest outside of Gatlinburg, Tennessee in 1935, two years after my transformation, when I found the then human Emmett being mauled by a bear," Rosalie told me. "Now, the bear would be no match for him. But anyway, as he was close to death, I brought him back to Carlisle and he changed him, because I knew I wouldn't be able to do it myself."

"So, both of you found your men?" I asked with a giggle.

"You bet," Rosalie said with a wink.

"It must be refreshing, Alex, to have your man come and find you," Alice snickered.

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Next chapter, time speeds up a little bit to the first day of school...