Chapter 26

Renesmee

I had a fun time at the mall, but it was weird, as Alice wasn't too into the whole shopping thing today. Aunt Rose was making some snooty comment about certain people at the mall, but I wasn't paying attention.

"Aunt Alice," I said as we looked at dresses, "what's on your mind?"

"Well Nessie," Alice turned to look at me, "I'm trying to look ahead and find a good time to go home. I know that Carlisle is going to get some, if not all of the information he wants, and I curious, and so is Esme and the others about Alec and Lexi's past life. And I preferably want to talk about it when Alec isn't at the house."

"Why would Alec leave?"

"Judging by the fact I can no longer see him, I'm going to assume that he's with Seth."

"Probably went to go play video games against Paul or something."

"Yes," Alice mused, "and soon Alexandra will be home with Emmett and Jasper." She gazed into the distance. "OK, grab what you want and take it to the register. We need to get home pronto."

I looked at her, but simply shrugged my shoulders and took a dress off the rack, a short pink one. I could always bring it back later. Esme came up behind me when I was standing on line. Aunt Rosalie was with Esme, and she had a flashy red dress in her hand, with a very low neckline. The cashier was a young man, and he could not have been any happier with the crew he got to check out, literally and figuratively. He cheeks flushed, and Rose made sure to give him a huge wink when she walked out.

"Aunt Rose!" I said, highly amused, "that wasn't fair of you to do that to him."

"Renesmee," Rose replied, "you need to practice you're flirtation skills. Tell you what, one of these days you and I will go out and have some fun. Maybe we'll even bring Lexi as well, she really needs some male fun."

"Rosalie!" Esme said, sliding into the front seat, "she does not need to flirt, she is way too young."

"You're never too young," Rose said as she slid next to me.

I laughed, but suppressed my giggles as Alice drove out of the parking lot and sped home.

"Now listen," she said, "Rose, you especially. I need to find out all the information that I can about Lexi's life, and I'm sure it will be quite interesting."

"And probably horrible," Esme said from the front seat.

"That as well," Alice agreed, "and I want to make this quick because I don't know how long Alec will be away from the house for, and this will go a lot smoother without him."

"Why?"I asked.

"Because he's a loose cannon," Rose commented.

" Well, sort of, but mostly because he does not want to remember his past, and Lexi is willing to explain. I think that she wants to get it off of her chest, and tell someone. After all, she has kept it a secret for years," Alice responded without turning around.

I guess I understood her reasoning, so I simply nodded and looked out the window. We arrived at our house, and walked in, following Alice to Carlisle's office. We were pretty crammed, with Emmett taking up the most room.

"So Alexandra," Carlisle began, "I talked to Alec before, and I was hoping you could fill in some the gaps he left, though you were already one step ahead of me. I heard what you told Emmett and Jasper."

Lexi nodded, and I looked at Carlisle. He mouthed "later" to me. I nodded.

"Why does Alec not want to talk about his past? Why does not want gratitude from us?"

"Why are you asking me?"

Carlisle sighed, "Because I want to ask him, but he doesn't want to talk about anything. It was extremely hard to even get him to talk about his human life."

"Because it sucked."

"I got that from Alec."

"Well, he and Jane did get the crap beat out of them often. That could be one reason. Another could be that their own parents gave them up to die. A third possibly might be that everyone was scared shitless and hated them. They also had no friends because of that. Another reason…"

"OK, I understand why he doesn't like talking about his human life," Carlisle responded. "But why does he not want our thanks and gratitude? He did not want to take credit for saving Renesmee from the vampire."

Lexi shrugged. "Maybe because he spent so many years with the Volturi trying to kill you? I'm not really sure. I mean, I know him better than anyone, save Jane, but I don't know the answer to that one."

Carlisle nodded and looked at Esme.

"The reason," Esme began, "that we ask is because we want to help him. I want him to feel comfortable in our home, not concerned for his life and what could happen to him. We care for both him and you."

Lexi snickered and looked and Rose, who in turn glared back.

"I'm sure he appreciates it. Alec just keeps to himself. I'm sure everything fine with him." She tried to reassure everyone.

Carlisle nodded, deep in thought. Lexi got up and wandered over to the television, and put on ESPN. Everyone else dispersed, and I and went into the study to find out about Alec's past from Carlisle.