Chapter 9

Renesmee

I don't know how to feel about sharing my room with a stranger. I guess I must like her, if she becomes my best friend. Because Alice is rarely wrong. I showed Alexandra my room and she put her duffel bag on my couch.

"You should change," I told her, "you need anything?"

"I don't really have many clothes," was her reply.

"No problem, Alice will probably take you shopping soon, it's her passion."

Alexandra smiled at me.

"Here, I have extra shirts and stuff, what do you want?" I asked as I walked over to my closet.

"Um… just a t-shirt is fine thanks."

"Here." I tossed her a Seattle Mariners t-shirt.

"Thanks." She pulled off her shirt to reveal a black sports-bra underneath. I gasped at what I saw, my mind reeling. "OH MY GOD," was my only thought.

In a flash, everyone in the house was in my room, Alexandra turned and saw everyone staring at her.

"Umm… privacy?" she asked, "or did I do something wrong?"

"Sorry," Dad said. "I heard Nessie's thoughts and well, I….."

Alexandra turned to me. "And what did I do that threaten you? Take off my shirt? Trust me, I'm straight."

"No," I quickly said, "It's just, your back…"

She turned around. Covering her back, arms, pretty much everywhere on her body were scars like Jasper's. But that wasn't what made me freak out. On the back of her shoulder and on her lower-right back were gashes. But not just gashes—it looked like someone took chunks of skin off her back. When she saw me staring, along with everybody else, she looked downright murderous.

"I've been in a couple fights," she said as she pulled her shirt over her head and covered the scars.

"A few?" Emmet asked, "Dude! You look worse than Jasper. Did the Wolfman take bites out of your back?"

"Just shut up Emmett and leave me alone," Alexandra said and stormed into the bathroom.

"She was involved in wars between the Romains and others. She was captured and tortured for information about the Romains. But in the end she escaped and killed those that had captured her," Alec abruptly said. Everyone looked at him; they seemed to forget he was there. He looked around at the gaping faces staring at him. "Jane saw the marks and asked. Then she told me as soon as she found out what happened. Lexi doesn't like to talk about bad things that have happened to her. She doesn't like sympathy. That's one thing that hasn't changed since we were human." He looked at us again, then sharply turned around and went to his room.

"We should give her some privacy and not be here when she gets back," Carlisle said. Everyone murmured yes and left. I sat on my bed and waited for Alexandra to return. She soon came in.

"I'm sorry—" I began.

"Forget it," she cut me off, "I slightly over reacted, sorry. I don't really like talking about my past, as I heard Alec tell you guys."

I blushed. She smirked.

"You really can blush," Alexandra commented.

"Yea," I replied, "I can blush. I can eat human food if I feel like it, I can do some human things. It's easier to blend in that way."

"Cool."

From downstairs we heard Emmett yelling at Jasper for messing up his racing on the Wii. Alexandra looked startled for a second, then laughed, and I looked at her curiously. She shrugged and said "I've never and a brother, and it's been so long since I've had a family. I'm not used to hearing things like that."

I nodded and motioned for her to come downstairs with me. We got Alec and went to the rec room. Emmett had just beaten Jasper at Mario Cart.

"Whoo-hoo!" he cried. "Any new challengers? Alec? Lexi? Nessie? Come on! We have four remotes."

"Be careful Emmett, one of them is gonna whoop your butt!" Alice said smirking from her place by the computer.

"No one will beat me," Emmett boasted. "I'm awesome!"

"You are such a child Emmett!" Rosalie called from the garage where she was tending to her favorite car.

"I'm in!" I said, grabbing a remote and sitting down next to Emmett.

Alec and Alexandra also took a remote each and sat down.

"Um….I don't know exactly how this game works," Alexandra said. Emmett taught her and Alec and went over the rules. Soon we were having a great time, laughing as Alec beat Emmett for the third time in a row. The Volturi guard looked very happy, not at all the way I faintly remembered him from a few years ago. I was already beginning to think of these two as friends, not a dangerous Volturi guard and his psycho friend.