Chapter 37: Adventure

Nessie's POV

Apparently I was every bit as sleep deprived as Alec thought. Because, although I had slept on the plane the entire way, I still fell asleep the second I closed my eyes. When I opened my eyes a few hours later it was darker outside. After rubbing the sleep from my eyes I looked around and noticed that Alec was gone.

In a panic I quickly looked around and saw that he had left a note behind. It said:

I have gone hunting. I should be back soon. Probably before you wake up.

I shuddered at the word 'hunting' and tried not to think about what it meant. As much as I wished it was animals that he was hunting I knew it was humans. Hopefully he would at least have mercy on them and it would all be over quickly.

Then I heard another noise and remembered that I was not alone. Lucy was still with me. She looked so small and frail. Poor girl. I couldn't even imagine what she was feeling. She probably didn't even fully understand what was going on. She was only three years old after all. All she knew is that her parents were dead. Dead because the Volturi killed them and took her. At least she was now safe from their clutches.

My stomach grumbled. Suddenly I couldn't rememer the last time I had eaten anything. I decided to do some hunting of my own. I picked up the room service menu on the table. I ordered a pizza with all the meat toppings. Even though she didn't say anything Lucy was the first to grab a slice of pizza when it came.

I grabbed the TV remote off of the table and searched for something decent to watch before finally setting on one of my favorite movies. Jurassic World. I started remembering when my mom, my brothers and I would watch movies together. It was always a special occasion because it meant that mom wasn't working. There were days when she wasn't scheduled to work at either Walmart or McDonald's. Those days were exceedingly rare but super special.

There wasn't anything I wouldn't do to get back home to my family. I missed home. I missed all the carefree days my brothers and I would spend together. Days where I could just go down to the beach and surf without a care in the world. Days where my biggest problems were the bullies at my school. I wondered what those bullies thought of me now.

What will my life be like from now on? I wondered. Living my life on the run with Alec didn't seem like a good long turn solution. Especially with Lucy. It wasn't fair to the little girl to keep dragging her around with us everywhere we went. So what was the best solution? No matter how hard I tried I couldn't think of a good solution.

Crying suddenly broke me out of my thoughts. Lucy was crying. The small, quiet girl had so far been taking everything well. But perhaps not as well as I thought. I didn't even think. I just reacted when I got up and went to go hug her. She grabbed onto me tight.

"What's wrong?" I asked her.

"I miss my mommy and daddy. I want to go home," she cried.

"I know how you feel," I cried. "I miss my family too,"

"I don't have a family anymore," she sobbed. My heart was breaking into a million little pieces.

"Don't you have grandparents? Aunts? Uncles?"

"No," she snivelled. "Just mommy and daddy,"

I couldn't hold back my tears. Unlike me her whole family was dead. Killed by vampires in front of her. I didn't even want to imagine the kind of pain and trauama that would cause such a young girl. If we lived through this all I would find a way to help her.

A thought suddenly hit me and it hit me hard. I remembered a conversation I had with aunt Rosalie. She had said that she wanted kids more than anything. I wondered if she and Emmett would want to adopt Lucy? Nobody deserved a child more than them and nobody deserved parents more than her.

Oh who was I kidding? Vampires adopting a human child? It was a ridiculous idea. Unless Rosalie and Emmett would want me to use my gift to transform them back into humans. I shook my head. That idea was even more ridiculous than the idea of vampires adopting a human child. No vampire would ever willingly give up their vampire life to become human.

"It's going to be okay," I tried to sound reassuring and I hoped that it would be true in the end.

"No it won't," she said. "My mommy and daddy are gone,"

Before I could respond I heard someone just outside the door. My heart actually stopped beating. The tension left my body once I realized that it was just Alec. He looked surprised to see us awake.

"Oh you two are awake," he said. "I'm sorry. I was hoping that I would be back before you noticed I was gone,"

"Yeah and we were hungry. I hope you don't mind that I ordered room service,"

"That's perfectly fine Nessie," he said as he walked right past me.

"So, um, how was the...hunt?" Poor innocent humans.

"I did something extremely out of character for me,"

"What?" I asked. Now I was very confused.

"I decided to try hunting animals instead,"

"You what?!" I nearly shouted in shock.

He took a deep breath. "As I said before you're inspiring me to do things that I have never dreamed of doing before. Animals don't taste as good as humans but I'm willing to try this lifestyle,"

I smiled. "I knew deep down in that frozen heart of yours that you are a good person,"

"I'm far from good Nessie,"

"Oh Alec. You're a much better person then you think you are. You just haven't really gotten a chance to show that side of you,"

"Nessie I lied to you," he seemingly blurted out. "I told you a horrible lie and now I don't understand what's going. For the last few days I have been feeling a strong emotion that I do not understand. It's something that I have never felt before. What I do understand is that I can't keep lying to you anymore,"

"Lying to me about what?" I asked. Not at all understanding what he was blabbering on about.

"That day when we came for you I was instructed to lie to you if that was what I had to do to convince you to come with us willingly. I have lied millions of times in my life before without giving another thought. But now I don't know what's wrong with me but I can't keep lying to you anymore. Nessie your grandparents are not dead. Carlisle and Esme are still alive as far as I know. It was a cruel lie I told you so you'd come willingly. I'm sorry,"

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