A couple of minutes later, there was a knock on the door. I started walking down the stairs with Alice on my heels. Emmett opened the door….
"Mom?"
My Big Mister Perfect
Wicked Witch
"Hello, children," she said with a cold voice. With shiny brown hair, big brown eyes, and a business suit, she looked more like a rich tycoon than a mother.
This time, I asked, "Mom? What are you doing here?"
I was greeted with narrowed eyes, which quickly turned to Alice behind me, then Emmett at my side.
Emmett tried this time, "To what do we owe this pleasure?" His question was sarcastic. "We haven't seen you since-when was it last, mother?" I could see his fists clenched. I opened one, and slipped my small hand in his.
"Were you even going to tell me? Were you?" she seethed.
I knew immediately what was happening. She was here about Carly. I lowered my head and sighed.
"What are you talking about?" Emmett asked.
She shook her head in disgust. "You clearly underestimate me. You think I don't care, and that I don't watch over you." Now she looked sad. "I do. It may not seem so, but I do love you. I want to know about your lives."
"Well maybe you should call once and a while, mom," I said confidently. "Emails, maybe. I know you spend a lot of time on the computer. Seeing you more than twice a year would be nice, too." Sighing, I continued, "I'm not an adult, yet. I'm only sixteen."
Everyone in the room was shocked. Wee ickle Bella, sticking up for herself?
"I know. I know, Bella. You obviously needed some adult supervision if you went out and got yourself pregnant. What were you thinking?"
I winced. So she didn't know, then. "I was raped, mother."
"You expect me to believe that shit? I'm gone for a few months, and you start whoring around?"
Emmett nearly exploded, "You have no right to talk to her like that! You'd been gone for more than a year, and she's telling you the truth. Bella's a responsible girl, she'd never sleep around!"
As Emmett finished yelling, there was cough outside the still open door.
"Bella?"
It was Edward. He was here for our date.
"Who's this, you little skank? Another one of your conquests?"
Tears started to pool in my eyes as I turned around and ran upstairs. Alice followed quickly.
"Don't let her ruin your night, Bella! She doesn't know anything if she thinks those things about you! You're such a good person." She was so sweet, trying to make me feel better.
"I know Alice. It just hurts, coming from my own mother."
She nodded, then giggled. "I can't believe that you left the boys to fend for themselves with the Wicked Witch of the… Mothers!"
This was not a short chapter. I promise. You're just seeing things. It's a trick of the eyes.
My muse appeared for a day, lets see how long it lasts…