When Alex woke up the next morning she felt disoriented, remembering what had happened the night before. She got up and walked downstairs and got some painkillers from the medicine cabinet. She always thought they should have kept it in the bathroom but their father liked it down the stairs in case of an emergency. She rolled her eyes at that as she took two pills from the bottle and swallowed them down with some orange juice. As she put the bottle back in the cabinet her father walked into the kitchen, "What's got you up so early?" Charlie checked his watch, "It's five past seven in the morning, you've never seen this time."

Alex chuckled, "I have so! Plus, I had a headache. You want some coffee?" She asked as she filled the kettle with water and switched it on.

"Sure, might as well. I'm gonna go get dressed, shout me when it's made." He said before disappearing. Alex nodded and picked up two clean cups from the sink.

"Can I have one?" Bella asked her sister.

Alex turned her head and nodded but then looked at her arm, "Have you told dad about that?" Bella looked at her own arm and ran upstairs to get a cardigan then jumped back down to the kitchen.

"Take that as a no." Alex mumbled.

"Yeah, I don't think he'd believe that you fell and hit your head if I turned up with this." She said, poking her arm up.

After the coffee was made Alex called her father down and she made some pancakes as well to give them some energy for school and work. "So, Alex, what are you going to do whilst we're not here?"

Alex shrugged, "Clean up, do the laundry, maybe go shopping..." She smiled as she ate.

Charlie nodded before taking some money from his wallet and handed it to her, "For shopping."

"Thanks, dad." She smiled and they ate in silence, just bringing up a small conversation when it suited before Charlie had to go, "Bye, dad. Be safe." Alex called to him as he got into the police cruiser.

He just smiled and nodded, "Always am." He chuckled before driving off. Alex returned to the kitchen and cleaned the dishes they had used moments ago before walking upstairs and into Bella's room,

"ALEX!" Bella quickly covered herself with her towel.

Alex gasped and put her hands over her eyes. She had walked in on Bella when she had just been out the shower. "Right sorry!"

"Don't you knock?"

"Hey, we're both girls anyway, and we're sisters. It's not like I haven't seen your naked body before." Alex commented as she had her back turned to Bella and stared at the wall.

"That was when I was young though, this is different!" Bella had quickly dried herself and got dressed. "What do you want that is so urgent that you had to just burst through my door?"

Alex turned and smiled, "Well, I wanted to talk to my baby sister before she goes to school." She casually shrugged.

"You want to know about the Cullen's?" Bella asked as she slipped her shoes on.

Alex nodded, "Yes. Okay, so do they like, have special powers and stuff?"

"They're not superheroes, Ally. They're vampires, but yes, in a sense they do."

"What?" The older sibling asked, now taking a seat next to Bella on her bed.

"Well Edward can read minds,"

"What?" Alex took a hold of her head, "Oh my God! He better not read mine!"

"He can't help it. Anyway, Alice can see the future and Jasper can feel people's emotions and control them."

"Wow. That must be hard. Imagine someone feeling so depressed and you could actually feel that?"

Bella looked at her sister before looking at the ground, "We all know what that feels like.."

Alex stared at her sister before pushing her softly, "Not that. That's... That's over."

"Yeah," Bella looked up, "but I still remember how we used to feel when you were like that."

"Oh, come on. Stop it, get up and go to school." Alex sighed, not wanting to live in the past. "Don't want to let the mind-reader thinking your ditching him, now do we?"

Bella shot up at that, "Right." She grabbed her bag and her truck keys, "Bye."

Alex followed her out and waved, "Bye. Have a good day at school." She smiled as her sister drove away from the house. Alex then walked back in and looked around before sighing. "Laundry, first thing." She mumbled to the quiet house as she walked to the kitchen and sorted out all their dirty clothes before putting the first load in the washing machine.