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A/N: I'm so sorry for the long wait guy I'll been really busy with finally and trying to enjoy what's left of my summer vacation. Actually I'm still not done enjoying my vacation I'm headed to Havasu so I don't know if I'll update next but we'll see. Before we get started I wanted to thank everyone that has ever review or added me to their alert and their favorites you guy are awesome ILU! now on with the show
Song for this chapter: Poker Face by Lady Gaga
Chapter 8: A Day with the Family
Saturday morning came and as much as I love hanging out with Alice and my new friend Rosalie I wasn't really looking forward to go out tonight. Clubbing wasn't really my thing but somehow I roped into it. The thing I do for friends. Not only was I being forced into going to the club but I had to play Bella Barbie with Alice, she just loved dressing me up and doing my hair and makeup. But thank God I had all day to prepare for when Alice came to my house and dress me up like a whore. But I'll worry about that later right now I have to get up and see what mischievous my family has gotten themselves in.
When I finally fully wake up I head down stairs to pure silence, I wonder where my family is I see on the clock above my stove and saw that it 9:30 in the morning. My parent don't usually sleep in this late they're early riser, like really early my dad is used to waking up at 4 am and my mom wakes up at that time too to make sure my dad eat breakfast. I walk to the island in the middle of my kitchen and see that my mom had left me a note saying that her and my dad had gone to the grocery store to buy food because apparently the food I had in my fridge were why too fatting for my dad. Whatever. My mom is always trying to put my dad on a diet; I don't see why my dad looks to be in good shape although I could be mistaken. I don't know how my dad handle all those diet because that crap tastes like shit. Since my parents were at the grocery store I wonder where my brother was.
Going back upstairs to see if my brother was still in the guestroom I hear all of my dogs in my parent's room, I wonder how they ended up there. I go and let them out there's a good chance that they may have peed in the room if my parent's didn't let them out. When I open the doors the dogs run right pass me like a bat out of Hell (I guess they really needed to go pee). I continue my walk to the guestroom and saw that the door was closed, I open it and I see my brother still asleep. I see a perfect chance to fuck with him and not have my parent tell me anything. I think for a second on what I could do to my brother there are so many options but lucky for me I know the perfect thing. As quietly as I can I walk back to my bedroom and go into my closet and I find what I was looking for. I walk back into the guestroom just as quietly as I left. My brother is still sleeping (thank God), and I walk ever so slowly to stand right next to him, I don't stand too close for fear of when I sound my air horn that my brother will permanently go deaf. That is not the outcome I want out of this prank. I stand a good 15 feet away from him and as soon as I think I got a good distance from him I press the bottom down and out comes the loudest annoying sound I have ever heard. It was kind of like a honking sound but way more annoying, I trying to cover my ear but it useless.
I don't hold the button for long because as soon as I pressed it and the sound came out my brother jumped up from the bed covering his ears and looked around to see what was going on. When he saw me I was too busy laughing to really pay any attention to that he was trying to get off the bed to get to me. "YOU!" he yells as he gets tangled in the bed sheet and falls to the floor, remind me of when I did that something earlier in the week. I don't give him time to catch me before I run out of the room down the stair and I try to think of a place where I can hide. I hide in the garage between my Range Rover and my red Chevy truck that I still kept from when I was in high school. I can hear Jasper running all over the house in search for me. "Come on Bella, come out and fight me like a man. When I find you I going to kick your ass." I giggle.
"Come out you're only making it worse on yourself" I pretty sure Jasper is really mad at me but I'm having too much fun to care at the moment. Pay back is a bitch, Jasper had it coming he did the same thing to me when I was in high school and I was having a sleepover at my parent's house with all my friends who never wanted to step foot in my house after the stunt Jasper pulled. It might be a few years overdue but I can't complain right now. I kept hearing Jasper yelling me and it kept getting funnier and funnier, but after a while I couldn't hear his voice anymore and I knew he was also hiding away so that when I step foot out of my hiding spot he would get me. Well it's not going to work big brother. After about 20 minutes of this weird cat and mouse game I hear my parents coming through the front and calling for me and my brother, I still do not move from my spot just because my parents are here does not mean that my brother won't try to get me back.
"Both of you better come out of your hiding spot right now before I kick both of your asses" my dad yells. This isn't the first time Jasper and I have done this but it is the first time my dad yells at us.
I don't get out of my hiding spot at first at least not until my dad yell for us that I know that he means serious business there is no doubt in my mind that me being 29 years old my dad is not opposed to the idea of kicking my ass. So I finally come out of hiding and go into the living room to find my whole family waiting there just for me. My dad and Jasper looked pissed while I am amused that I actually got my brother back for all the shit he has done.
"What have you two been doing," my dad is staring right at me.
"Bella thought she was funny and scared the shit out of me with an air horn in my face," I giggle sometimes my brother can be a big baby.
"What in God's name would poses you to do that Bella," I feel like a 10 year old getting in trouble it seem like any minute now my dad will put me in time out.
"Well to tell you the truth I just did it to fuck with Jasper," which was the truth I don't lie to my dad, he wouldn't appreciate it.
"At least you were honest," my dad says sarcastically. "You two have got to stop this, I'm sick of you both trying to one up the other now this has got to stop got it." My dad can be really scary at times; it's the cop in my dad that comes out, but most of the times my dad is one of the calmest and relaxed people I know well expect for Jasper.
"Yes we got it," Jasper and I say at the same time. I hear my mom giggling behind me, because no matter how old we are my dad can still manage to make us feel like we're little kids.
"Good now that that all cleared up let's eat breakfast so we can go," my dad says while walking towards the kitchen it doesn't pass me that he said we were going somewhere but where in the hell are they taking us this is not the first time my parent and Jasper have but to LA. They have seen and done almost everything that LA has to offer.
"Wait, where are we going?" I wonder where they could even want to go, but I hope that I get back on time for Alice's make-up torture tonight.
"Oh well your father and I thought that we could spend the whole day together since we don't do that very often," my mom tells us. My mom get really excited when we all hang out together since I don't live in Forks anymore it's hard to get us all together; when they come to visit every couple of months sometimes Jasper doesn't come with them because he's working or his girlfriend won't let him come down to see me, and the few time I am able to go up to visit them I spend most of my time catching up on my cases. So it's not every day that my mom can get us all together, I guess I can suck it up for one day and make my mom happy.
"Oookay but where are we going?" my parent have this weird way of dodging the question they think that if they give a good enough answer that we will stop asking the question but that only spark my curiosity more.
"Um we are going to the Aquarium of the Pacific," oh man that's awesome! I love that place some much, I haven't been though in years. But I see on the clock that it's already 10 in the morning and if we don't leave we won't find any parking, fuck we should really be leave now.
"Okay so you're telling me that you want me to drive you all to Long Beach do you know how far Long Beach is from here?" Even through I'm sure my parent probably don't know where Long Beach is I want to mess with them a little and pretend that I'm indifferent to it.
"Actually no we figured it was close by," my mom says. Just like I thought she doesn't know.
"Just what I thought well mom since its 10 right now and it can about an hour to get all the way to Long Beach so I suggest we all get dress now and get breakfast at McDonald's or something because there really won't be much time to really sit down and eat. So let's go people!" I got so excited that I ran as fast I could leaving my family in the living room.
It only took me only 20 minutes to get ready in some Levi's jean and some random shirt I found in my dresser. Unfortunately I took my family much longer than and I will be lucky if I get to see any of the exhibits at all. When my parent finally rushed down stairs my mom was yelling at Jasper to hurry up and my dad was looking through his pockets for something.
"Oh come on guys we are never going to make it at this rate," now I'm at the point where I'm kind of annoyed my mom makes this big plans for today and I only have a limited amount of time to spend it will them before I go out with the girls. I don't know how I'll have enough energy to do it all. Maybe I should take 5 hour energy thingy to keep myself awake while I'm at the club. That's actually a good idea.
"Has anybody seen my wallet?" my dad asks all of us. Like I would know where he put it I wasn't the one who went to the store with them.
"Honey I think you left it in the car why don't we all go out and wait in the car while you look for it" my mom always knows where my dad leaves his shit it like her super power to find my dad's crap, too bad when it comes to her shit she can't find anything she is constantly losing thing and wondering where she put it I guess that's my mom's kryptonite.
"Alright let's go," I grab one of my less expensive purses and my key to the Range Rover and I head to the garage to wait with my mom and brother. It only my dad about 20 seconds to find his wallet in their car and to tell my mom that she was right again, like there was any doubt. Before I hit the freeway I stop at a nearby McDonald's and get everyone a sausage McMuffin the easiest thing to eat without needing a fork and knife.
My dad of course gives me a lecture about driving while eating and that I shouldn't be doing that, but I reminded him that I'm a good driving and nothing will happen I had an amazing teacher (which was him) that taught me well. We talk about random in the car there is never a silent moment with the Swan family. My parents ask me about work and if I have gotten any closer to giving them grandkids, to which my brother laughs at. I don't see why he's laughing he's 3 years older and doesn't have any kids either. But I guess it because my parents have given up hope that my brother will procreate. I tell my mom that I am no closer to have those grandkids she wants then I was 9 years ago. My dad most asks about work trying to stir clear from any talk about my love life. I tell him it going good that I love my job and I was thinking about opening my own practice. This seem to have really gotten his attention now, my dad has been telling me that I am too independent to be working for someone like Aro Volturi but I always tell my dad that I'm a little young to be working for myself I needed to work on my clientele and hope that they follow me.
I always admired my dad for going into law enforcement I think that's one of the reason why I become a lawyer so that I can help put the bad guys away kind of like how my dad does it. But that didn't turn out that way, what was meant to put the bad guys away turned into defended the bad guy from their gold digging wives the world works in mysterious ways and I worked with the card I was dealt with. My first year of being a divorce lawyer was hell because I was only given client that didn't give a shit if their wife and kids ate that month; but I sucked it up and did that best that I could to win every case, which I did, that in the years following that I was able to pick and choose the case that I could take. There were a few assholes in the bunch but that was just to throw off the bosses to think I was biased to only the people that really needed my help.
Defending assholes like the ones I have had in the past is one of the things I would like to change if I had my own practice but I know that that is something that is impossible especially in a city like LA. Where the rich assholes are born or sometimes just raised. A lot of rich entrepreneurs like to do business here in LA because all the celebrities that will endorse their business. These rich entrepreneurs usually marry a playboy type that is 20 years younger than them and think that they would never cheat and try to steal their money, but when they do that's where I come in. As much as I hate it I am good at making sure their silicone wives don't take more than half. But in the end it work out for me when I win those case because I then get referred to other people and at the same time I build my clientele.
Working for a law firm like Volturi and Brothers you don't really have much a choose in who you want to represent, most of the client we take or what we are known for is handling Donald Trump types but a lot of them only thing about the money. That is one of the thing I really don't like about Volturi and Brothers because if you don't have the money there is no way in hell you can get a lawyer here to represent you, and that's one of the thing that I wouldn't want at my law firm I want to be able to help everyone I can while mostly the innocent but that's wishful thinking.
My dad and I continue to talk about my future plan as far as my own practice he think that I can really do; my mom also put in her 2 cent and tell me that she's proud no matter what I do, my brother on the other hand says that I'm a little young to be having my own practice which he is right I'm only 29 years old most of the lawyers around me are like in their mid-30s. But I have a lot of drive in me to want to do this I tell my brother that I give myself at least 2 more years at Volturi & Brothers before I reconsider open my practice.
After my parent peep talk and them telling me that they are proud of me, also commenting on what I should do with my life, we now turn to Jasper. My brother when he was growing up he had big dreams for his life but things just got in the way. Jasper had his heart set on being a lawyer but he was to be a criminal defense lawyer. Things ended up not going as planned mostly because of a girl he had dated in high school. So when my brother couldn't go to law school he decided to go to the police academy to be a cop just like our dad. He would have really loved working with dad if he had gotten the chance but his then girlfriend didn't want to live in Forks anymore. So they up and left one day and never looking back he was in the police academy in Arizona, but because Jasper wasn't making as much money as she was hoping he'd make she forced him to go back to school to become a lawyer. As far as I know they moved to Seattle a few years ago in hope the Jasper would want to start law school, I don't think it happened.
This was like a therapy session in my car everybody getting everything out in the open, I'm waiting for my parent to contribute into the session and it seems that I am correct I know by the look on my dad's face that this trip was more than just a visit my family came here to tell me something. Serious that couldn't of pick a better place or time to tell me what really going on why do we have to do it in my car.
"Your mother and I have something to tell you, actually Jasper has something to say too," I knew they were going to do this in the car.
"I kind of figure you were headed that way I mean why else would we be talking about our future if you and mom didn't have anything to contribute to the conversation." I can read my dad's face like an open book I knew the minute we started having an in depth conversation about what next in our lives, my parents would also have plan for the future.
"It's kind of big news and we didn't know when to really tell you Bella."
"Okay will you just tell me already you are starting to freak me out now." The more my dad delays tell me the more I beginning to worry.
"Oh don't be so dramatic it's nothing bad, I got a job offer," wow not what I expected them to say.
"That's great dad I'm proud, but wait you were police chief in Forks what's higher than that".
"I'll get to that but Jasper also got a job offer".
"Okay you guy are killing me with the suspense just tell me already geez," the fact that they keep dancing around what they have to say is really annoying me and if they don't tell me soon I'm just going to go off on them.
"Okay, okay what your father wants to tell you is that he was offered the position of Deputy Chief of police it may be a position lower than what your dad has but he will get a pay increase; and your brother was offered a position as an associate here." That wasn't what I expected. I was so surprised by what they had told me I slammed my foot on the brakes stopping the car and throwing me forward against the steer wheel.
"WHAT THE HELL IS THE MATTER WITH BELLA YOU COULD HAVE CAUSED AN ACCIDENT," my dad yells at me. Holy shit I forgot that I was on the freeway, all the car behind me start to pass me and yell as they do so I flip them the bird.
"I'm so sorry dad it's just that was not what I expected you to say I mean that took me completely by surprise, so you're all moving to California"
"Even better," my mom pauses what even better than moving to California. Oh no, oh no, oh noooooooooo. "We're moving in with you; well it's only temporary till we all find somewhere to live what do you think." NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Why oh why do they have to come live with me now don't get me wrong I love my family to death but I like living by myself , I like not having to deal with roommate and other people in my house. It's especially nice not having to deal with people in the morning when I'm getting ready for work. The rest of the way to the aquarium I keep telling myself it's only temporary it's only temporary. God give my patience.
A/N: I hoped you enjoyed this chapter. Has anybody ever tried to scare their siblings with an air horn? I tried but my sister caught me before I got a chance to push the button so it didn't work out.
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