I hated the fact that my whole family were spies. My parents were spies when they met, but my mother was taking a break while my father was on a mission. They met in London and had hit off pretty well. Renée always said that they never met before because they were both from different headquarters. She was from the London headquarters while Charlie was from the New York headquarters. If you hadn't realized, my parents' names are Charlie & Renée. They dated for months then got married. A year later, they had me. The next year, Alice was born.

I was the quiet and uptight one among the two of us. Alice was like a radiating ball of electricity. She was the ultimate definition of eccentric and bubbly. Even though she inherited Renée's ginger-red hair, she was closer to my father. I looked more like Charlie and I was closer to Renée, but I hadn't seen any of them in years. I was sent off to recruit school at 9 years of age and graduated from there at 12. Alice, on the other hand, entered recruit school a little later than me. She entered when she was 12 and now, at the age of 15, she was graduating.

The graduation at the SIGO recruit school was just like how I remembered mine— graduates in amber yellow graduation caps and gowns were seated at the left side of the chairs arranged while families were seated on the right. There was a ten-minute speech by Aunt Siobhan about how proud she was of the recruits and couldn't wait to see them in whatever places they were enlisted in. I knew for a fact that Alice was going to be a field agent like me.

Rosalie & I were here to watch the graduation together with Rosalie's boyfriend, Emmett McCarty. He was a field agent like me too and we all met back in recruit school. Everyone in recruit school was trained for every position they may hold in the organization. Rose was good enough to be a field agent, but she decided against it and stayed behind her technology, but followed me wherever I had to go to. Emmett was pretty much destined to be a field agent too. We shared the same grandparents which made us distant relatives. It was unusual for anyone in my family to not be in this sector of the organization.

Rosalie nudged me as Siobhan was giving her speech. "I don't see your sister anywhere." She whispered, looking at the sea of amber yellow.

"We'll see her when she comes on stage." I told her.

As recruits came up on stage to receive their diplomas, Alice's name was called out. There in Alice's position was a girl who had short black hair like a pixie and a wide smile. It took me a while to realize that Alice had dyed and cut her ginger hair.

She saw me and waved excitedly as she received her diploma. Siobhan whispered a few words into her ear and Alice nodded, her glimmering eyes still on me. After the whole graduation ceremony ended, we all quickly went to find Alice.

"I swear to god, I am going to kill her for doing that to her hair." I growled, standing up from my seat.

Rosalie rolled her eyes. "It suits her! Why are you so pissed?"

"Because it doesn't look like her!" I hissed.

"You'll get used to it, Bellsy." Emmett had his arm around me and pulled me closer to him. I groaned and crossed my arms. "I really hope this sister of yours isn't like you. You're really no fun."

I glared at him. "What do you mean I'm no fun? I can be fun!"

"She's fun, alright. Little Miss Sunshine here haves fun by drinking and sleeping with guys." Rosalie smirked. "You wanna know who's her latest lay?"

"Rose," I warned.

"Who?" Emmett prompted.

"Edward Cullen. The younger one." Rosalie ignored my warning and smiled innocently.

Emmett widened his eyes. "You mean that mafia dude? Whoa, when?"

"Three days ago, when we were on a mission. She slept with him just to get that manifest about when their arms packages are coming in. We had to get that since he doesn't have it electronically. If he did, we could have just hacked into his computer." She explained. "Miss Swan is planning something on them soon."

"You already put him on the spreadsheet?" Emmett asked her.

"What spreadsheet?" I asked menacingly.

Rosalie seemed unfazed about my threatening tone. "Nothing. Just a spreadsheet."

"Rosalie, I swear—"

"Bella!" Alice shouted, earning glances at us. She ran and grabbed me into a hug. I was too shocked to hug her back. "Oh my god, I missed you!"

"What were you thinking when you did your hair?" I scolded.

She pouted. "Oh come on, it suits me."

"Well, I don't like it." I told her.

She rolled her eyes. "It isn't for you to judge."

"Ooh, I'm liking this one," Emmett commented, then introduced himself. "Emmett McCarty. Bella's friend."

Alice grinned up at him. Compared to him, she looked like a small ant. She was a little taller than when I saw her four years ago, but nonetheless, she was still short at 4'10". Emmett was a staggering 6'5".

"Hello Emmett. I'm Alice, Bella's sister. The younger, the bubblier and the better." She smugly smiled.

I snorted. "Yeah, sure."

"I'm Rosalie Hale," Rosalie introduced herself. "Bella's best friend."

"So how long have you guys known her?" Alice asked.

"First year of recruit school. Everyone was scared of her since she's a Swan. I befriended her first, then Emmett came along at our second year." Rosalie smiled wistfully. "I miss those times."

"Yeah, then they began to follow me wherever I went. When I went to Yale, they came along too." I glared at them. "I still remember coming back to my dorm to them making out on my couch."

Emmett grinned, putting an arm around Rosalie. "And that was when Bella knew we were dating."

"Hmm. Interesting." Alice raised her eyebrows.

"Did Mom & Dad say they were coming?" I asked Alice.

She shook her head. "Nope. You know how they are; settling the divorce papers, work, that sort of stuff."

I froze. "What divorce papers?"

Alice looked sheepish. "They never did tell you about it, did they? Whoops. Shouldn't have said anything. I really should get going and see my teachers—"

"Mary Alice Swan, you are not going anywhere." I hissed.

Emmett & Rosalie looked at each other uneasily. "That's our cue to go isn't it?" Rosalie asked. When neither of us replied, they left us.

"Talk." I said.

"Mom & Dad had a big fight about things and they didn't love each other that much anymore so they decided to agree on a divorce and now they're signing the papers and all and other stuff." Alice spluttered out, never meeting my eyes.

I took in a deep breath. "How about custody?" I asked calmly.

"Dad's taking me. Mom's taking you." She said. "Why hadn't they contacted you about it?"

I closed my eyes. "I don't know. I'll call them when you get settled into the headquarters, okay?" I sighed. I spread my arms and she nodded, hugging me back.

"I missed you." She whispered.

"I missed you too." I replied.

We all then went out for some ice cream. Emmett & Rosalie shared a banana split while I had my own one and Alice had her strawberry sundae. Rosalie fed him the first bite and Emmett made a noise that obviously meant that it was awesome.

"Man, this is nice." He cheekily grinned, then looked at Rose. "Is my banana as nice as this?"

I sputtered out my ice cream in shock and stared at Emmett. "What did you just...?"

Rosalie glared at him. "I swear, Emmett, no sex for this whole month. Make any comments about our sex life in front of anyone and I will chop up your dick in your sleep."

He pouted. "Oh come on."

She shook her head. "No sex. Any form of it is not even allowed."

Alice giggled and I forgot that she was with us. I glared at Emmett. "Oh my god! You just made an innuendo in front of my baby sister!" I hissed.

"Took you long enough to realize," Emmett muttered and he earned a smack on his head by Rosalie. He rubbed the sore spot Rose had hit him and kept quiet again.

"How old are you guys?" Alice asked them.

"Emmett's eighteen. I'm sixteen like Bella." Rosalie smiled.

"Oh." Alice checked her watch and frowned. "It's time for the students to go back and move out of school officially. Did you guys come in a car?"

"Rose & Em came in Rosalie's convertible, but you can put your stuff in my car." I offered.

She smiled. "Great! Let's finish up first."

We finished up with our ice cream before walking back to the school. Alice gathered her things from her dorm room. All together, she had about ten medium-sized boxes that came along with her. My mouth hung open as I stared.

"Do you really expect me to put all of that inside my car?" I asked incredulously.

"Well, you said that Rosalie came here in her own car. We can put some in yours and others in hers." She said, as if that was a relatively simple answer.

I groaned and carried a box of hers to my silver Audi A7. I opened the trunk and placed it down. My car could fit six medium boxes inside, and so we had the other boxes in Rosalie's convertible. I slid in to my car and revved up the engine, feeling it purr beneath me. Alice sat beside me and I started driving to headquarters.

She sighed. "I really need to call Mom & Dad now. They told me to."

"Never mind. I'll do it." I told her and called my mother through the car Bluetooth that was connected to my cell. She immediately picked up.

"Bella?" She said.

"Hey Mom. Alice is here with me. What did you need to call her about?" I asked.

"I just wanted to give her our graduation present for her." She replied.

"Really?" Alice squealed beside me. "What is it?"

"Oh honey, how are you?" Renée asked when she heard Alice's voice.

"I'm fine Mom. What's the present? And where's Dad?" Alice asked.

"Your father is right here with me. Alice, you will receive a set of keys once you arrive at headquarters. They're keys to your new penthouse."

Alice widened her eyes. "What?" She screamed.

I winced. "Please don't do that in my car."

Alice grinned wildly as she jumped up and down in her seat. "Oh my god! Mom, thank you so much! Tell Daddy I love him and thank you!"

"You're welcome, sweetie. Bella, are you there?" My mom asked.

"Yeah, I'm here." I replied. "I heard about the divorce."

The atmosphere quickly changed and Alice's smile was gone. Renée sighed. "I'm sorry, honey."

"When were you going to tell me?" I asked solemnly.

"Your father & I were going to tell you soon, but—"

"But what?" I snapped. "Alice had to hear about it first and I didn't. Instead, I had to hear about it from her and not from either of you guys. Mom, I haven't seen you both ever since I got enrolled into recruit school. Have you realized that the only form of communication we've had is through our cellphones and the Internet? I haven't seen either of you for almost eight years. I really do thank you both for everything you've given me, really, but this just needs to stop."

"Bella, we're so sorry. I know that we haven't had any physical contact, so how about a family dinner? I'll book a reservation at our usual table at Crystal on Friday, like we always did together. What do you say?" She asked softly.

"Fine. Alice?" I looked at her.

She nodded. "I'll be looking forward to it."

"Alright. I love you both." She said.

"I love you Mom." I replied and hung up on her. I tightened my grip on the steering wheel and took deep breaths, trying to calm myself down.

"Sorry about that." I cleared my throat. "We're here."

I pulled in at my parking spot and got out. Alice followed me and when we arrived at the main counter of SIGO headquarters, Maggie Brown handed me a file. "Good afternoon, Agent Swan."

"Afternoon, Maggie. What's this?" I asked.

She pursed her lips, shrugging. "All that I knew is that it's a mission related to a mafia."

I froze, then groaned. "You're kidding. Please tell me it's not the mafia here in New York ran by Edward—"

"Nope. It's not the New York mafia, trust me. Why, anything juicy happened?" She smirked, her eyes meeting mine as she chewed on her gum.

"No. Nothing happened." I quickly snapped.

"Hmm." She didn't believe me. "This one is about the New Hampshire mafia. The leader is Aro Volturi. That guy has some drugs coming in tomorrow. You know the drill."

"Why does Aunt Siobhan keep giving me cases on gangsters?" I groaned.

"Wow. What bad experience did you have? This is your second case on gangsters." Maggie asked, leaning closer towards me behind the counter.

I rolled my eyes. "Whatever. Have the plane ready in forty minutes. Oh, and have my parents been here?"

"Yep." She said, pulling out something from the drawer beside her. She dangled a key with an address on it between her fingers. "Said it was for your younger sister."

Alice stepped up from behind me and smiled. "That's me."

"Oh. You look different than in your pictures." Maggie observed. "Anyways, here are your keys. You'll need to sign a couple of papers first then you can walk away with them."

She slid papers on the marble counter and a pen towards Alice and Alice scanned through the words on them before signing them. She then grabbed her keys and thanked Maggie.

"You're welcome. Now, about your names. There'll be two Agent Swans here, so how about this— Agent A. Swan & Agent I. Swan. How does that sound like to you guys?"

"Horrible." I replied. "Just call us by our first names, Mags. Please stop your bubble gum addiction."

"Yeah yeah, whatever." She laughed. "Welcome to the Swan Intelligence-Gathering Organization, Alice Swan. Oh, and good luck, Bella." She winked at me as her pink bubble she made out of her bubble gum popped.

And so we meet Alice! What do you think of her? Oh, and I'll just give you a little something to expect the next chapter— Edward. Yeah. Bella will be seeing Edward, but just under what circumstance?

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