AN: Hey guys sorry its taking me so long the newest drama of my writing life my computer decided to deny me all access to my internet :/ so right now I'm at my dear uncle's who is letting me steal his internet and upload this chapter. Woot woot. However I don't know what this will mean for all my future chapters so please just bear with me. But I mean I'm the one forced to live life without facebook. O.o
Lizze's POV
"It's just that I've gone 17 years without him in my life, and I don't need him now!" I said angrily.
This wasn't how I had planned to spend my night. All I had in mind was going out with friends and continuing my make out session with Seth uninterrupted. Instead I'm now spending going between the emotions angry and sad while leaning my head against Jasper's shoulder crying my eyes out…yep definitely didn't plan this.
"Well honey you have to remember he had to miss 17 years of your life. I mean I can't even begin to imagine that and I'm only the neighbor." Jasper said patting my shoulder comfortingly.
"You haven't been the 'neighbor' since after the first month of knowing you." I said smiling at him.
I remembered all that Jasper had done, he came over all the time, went to every birthday party before and after to help set up and clean up, took care of me when I'm sick, who picks me up from school whenever I ask, who knows all my friends names' and all my favorite things, and so much more. If anyone deserves the father figure in my life it's Jasper.
"Well just remember he is your father and whether or not you like him you're going to have to give him a chance." Jasper said in his 'wisdom' voice he uses in his lectures.
"Why do I need him when I'll always have you?" I said hugging him.
"Oh so I'm the 'father'?" I nodded. "well then I don't feel bad for bringing this up, just who was that boy you were swapping spit with?" he said pulling back from our hug to look down at me.
"Did you mean 'father' as in you get to ask me about my love life? Cause I meant 'father' as in having you wrapped around my fingers father." I said hoping this would drop the subject.
"Oh no no no. too late you already said it and you can't take it back. So about this boy?"
Well there goes the whole dropping it thing.
"Oh…uh…it's…nothing. Nothing at all." I said uneasily.
"I saw you two you know, and that was not nothing." He said looking down at me with this knowing look.
"Look it was nothing ok!" I said getting my embarrassment and anger mixed together.
"Ok ok my bad!" Jasper said holding his hands up as if surrendering.
"I'm sorry but I can't explain something to you that not even I understand." I said.
"Ah the joys of young love, so how'd your mom take it?" he said looking at me.
"Well…she…uh…" I started trying to think of something to say.
"You did tell her about him right? Cause Forks is small and you can't hide this forever." He said looking knowingly at me.
"I know I know! It's just hard to tell her there might be someone in my life when ever since I was little it was 'stay away from boys! They don't really like you they only want one thing!' how am I supposed to tell that woman anything about the opposite sex?" I asked.
"…When she's almost asleep." He said.
"Exactly! There's no easy way to tell her without there being a freak out!" I said throwing my head down on one of my pillows.
"Well I'll tell you one thing, the longer you wait the harder it'll be and the madder she'll be." Jasper said patting my back.
I knew he was right but the thought of telling my mom about this right when my 'dear old dad' shows up doesn't sound too enjoyable. Maybe if I tell her next week… No. this weekend is the beach bonfire and I am not going to hide this from my mom any longer.
"Ok I'll go tell her now before I lose all my courage." I said getting up and walking out of my room.
I walked down the hallway to see my mom standing in the doorway looking at something down the street.
"Mom you ok?" I asked coming up behind her tapping her shoulder.
"What!" she said jumping as if she didn't hear me walking towards her or saying anything.
"I just wanted to tell you something, didn't mean to scare you." I said explaining myself. "I can come back later if you want me to?" I said hoping that after seeing my dad she'd be so emotional she wouldn't want to talk.
"No it's ok, I really need a good distraction right now." She said smiling at me.
Crap.
"Ok…well…the thing is…." I said, saying the last part really fast.
"…what was the last part?" she said.
Crap I have to say it again? It was hard enough the first time.
"…I am…kind of…seeing someone…" I said looking up to see her reaction.
"Oh. I see." She said looking at me and letting out a big sigh. "Ok tell me all about him." She said starting to smile.
"But mom I'm 16 year old why can't I have a boyf- wait what?" I said finally processing what she said.
"I want to her all about the guy in my daughter's life if she wanted to tell me that is." Mom said saying the last part kind of sadly.
"Are you kidding?" which is how I ended up spending the rest of the night talking about Seth and not freaking out about what trouble the Cullens would bring.
Next day:
"So you're telling me that not only you got to meet your long-lost father but you got to kiss Seth?" my best friend Anna said gripping my arm and cutting off my circulation, Saturday morning once I sat her down and told her everything.
"So from everything that I told you, the only thing you got from it was me kissing Seth?" I said in disbelief.
"Well I mean it sucks about the whole Cullens showing up in your life but I'm pretty sure even if you say you're ok with talking about it, you're really not." She said looking at me knowingly.
Some people call it creepy how well she knows me, hell I think it's creepy but right then at that moment I was very thankful for the telepathy my friend seemed to have with me.
"Again Anna you know me better than I know myself." I said leaning my head against her head; she was so short that her head was at a comfortable height to lean on.
"Hey just because I'm short doesn't mean that gives you the excuse to use my head as a pillow!" she said pulling out of the way. "Plus you still have to give me the details on your smooching with Seth!"
"It was…amazing! But we haven't talked since Jasper interrupted us and I'm afraid it meant nothing to him! I have no idea what to do!" I said falling onto the back of the couch with a sigh.
"Well I mean isn't this what almost all high school relationships go through? The stage were there was a move made and now you try to figure out if it's going to go any further or just burn out. You're just gonna have to play it by ear, but Lizze just incase you didn't know that phone of yours, it works both ways." She said, and she was right, which made me mad at her, just a little.
Next Day…
I just got the last thing I needed in my locker before going to my free period in the library when I closed my locker I noticed Seth standing there.
"Ahhh!" I gave out a small scream. "What the crap Seth!" I said looking up at him.
"Sorry I thought you knew I was there, otherwise I would have said something" he said smiling down at me making my heart skip a beat.
"Ok so…how you been?" I said not sure how to continue from here.
"Pretty good, got to kiss this amazing girl and I'm hoping she'll go out with me so I have the chance to kiss her again." He said his smile growing to were, I could see his dimples.
I stared at him a second not knowing what to say then decided to go with the first thing that popped into my head.
"Are you serious?"
He looked at me for a second a through back his head and started to laugh. I felt as if I said the dumbest thing as started to turn away to get myself away from the situation when he grabbed me around the waist with one hand and the other under my chin pulling my head up to look at him.
"I have never been more serious about anything else in my life then I am being right now." He said looking at me.
I opened my mouth about to answer when I heard my name being yelled.
"Lizze, Lizze! Lizze Swan!" I turned to see the voice was coming from Ms. Brandon. I saw her motioning for me to go over there, when I started to turn away she yelled louder and started coming towards us.
"Why does Ms. Brandon want to see you?" Seth asked looking at me.
"Because she noticed I was happy and had to destroy it?" I said guessing.
By then Ms. Brandon had reached us and looked at me hands on hips, foot tapping, and glare in place.
"Yes?" I said looking at her with a glare of my own.
"Did you not hear me yelling at you?" she asked her glare deepening.
"I did, but Seth was asking me something and I was trying to answer him." I said.
Looking back at him I was about to say yes when I felt a hand grab my arm and start pulling away.
"Hey!" I yelled.
"I don't think you're allowed to just grab a student Ms. Brandon." Seth said looking concerned.
"Well since I'm her aunt I think that it's ok Seth!" she yelled to him still pulling me towards what I now realized her classroom.
I don't she realized the look of shock everyone had (including me) by her little outburst. Everybody in this city knew that the only family she had was her mom, her grandpa (who had died last year), her grandma who lives in Florida and then her "uncle" Jasper. By Alice announcing she was Lizze's aunt it wouldn't be long before everyone put all the pieces together and then all the rumors would return.
By the time we got into her classroom I wanted to strangle her.
"What do you want?" I said finally letting my anger show. "Did you not notice me talking to him? He was asking me out!" I said getting angrier and angrier the more I thought about this whole thing. "Why can't you people leave me alone? I don't want any of you in my life, ever!" I said looking at her.
"I'm sorry you feel that way but I'm afraid that now that my family and I know about you we're not going to just leave and forget you exist." She said.
"What if I don't want you in my life?" I asked.
"Then you going to have to deal with it." she said.
Frustrated I started walking back and forth trying to keep my cool. I never wanted to know them or anything about them, I never wanted them to be in my life or know I existed. I had been just fine without them and now they come waltzing in expecting me to just automatically just love them. Well that will never happen.
"Please give us a chance Lizze?" she said with this sad look on her face.
I looked at her for a second, my hand on the door knob ready to leave.
"No." and I left.
For second I thought about going back and listen to what she had to say but as soon as I thought it I rejected it. I was never going to forgive them for what they did to my mother.
I walked out of the school and started for my house. About five minutes of walking I started to noticed the dark clouds forming over me and filling the sky. I knew I should've gone back or started looking for shelter, hell even an umbrella, but at that moment I was so upset I just kept putting one foot in front of the other towards my destination.
I'm not sure how much later it was but before I knew it the rain was pouring down and I was soaked within about 3 seconds. The only good thing about the rain was that I was able to cry without anyone noticing it that is if anyone was around. I kept walking ignoring the cars passing by, once or twice they would drive by a puddle and I'd have to avoid it.
I was walking towards the turn off from the main road to a smaller one that lead to my neighborhood when I noticed another car pulling up to the curb and slow down to my speed and roll down there window.
I think that fate hated me right now and was purposely screwing me over cause when I looked in the window Edward's worried face stared back at me
"Need a ride?" he asked.
(I'm so nice I decided to try not to give you all a cliffhanger in case it took me forever to update again so I will continue)
"I don't need anything from you." I said with as much hatred I could.
"Ok." He said.
Satisfied I continued walking looking straight ahead waiting for his car to speed away. Instead I was met with music playing softly in the background.
"Are you seriously playing the star wars theme song?" I said looking at him in disbelief.
"Yeah…it was on sale on itunes and…well…it's star wars!" he said poorly defending himself.
I laughed a little under my breath and looked forward again and thought to myself, huh we have something in common. I looked back over at him seeing him smile a little thinking the same thing, which caused anger to boil back inside me. I would never have anything in common with him. Pushing my shoulders back and standing straight I looked over at him.
"Why are you still here? Why don't you just leave?" I said looking at him while his smile was replaced with a confused look.
"Because I'm leaving my 17 year old daughter alone in the rain while she's walking home." He said, "and I'm not going to force you in here in case you're worried." He finished.
"I'm not your daughter." I muttered thinking he couldn't hear me.
"I'm sorry you feel that way Lizze but I would like the chance to get to know you." He said smiling at me sadly.
I was about to respond when I thought something that bothered me. "How did you know I was here?" I said looking at him genuinely curious.
"Alice called she said something about her announcing she was your aunt and you running out, I didn't catch that much." He said shrugging.
"So that bitch told you I just ran out huh?" said.
He flinched a little by the word I called her but I really didn't care at that point.
"Well she didn't really get a chance to explain since I was too busy yelling at her for upsetting you.
I stopped walking and looked at him through the car; he slammed the breaks down jerking him forward when he noticed I had stopped walking and looked at me.
He had yelled at her. For me. I thought to myself. I didn't think he would it surprised me and I didn't know what to think of it. If you had asked me I would've said he'd have taken her side before mine. After all she was his sister I'm just the child he found out about only last night.
"You…yelled at her?" I asked him in disbelief. Maybe I just heard him wrong; I thought.
"Look Lizze," he said putting his car in park, "I might have only just found out about you yesterday but you are my kid and no matter what I'm always gonna believe you over anyone else. Ok?" he said.
I looked at him for a second and thought of all the possibilities of accepting him as my dad, for all the good things I could think of about two bad things to go with them.
"Ok look here the deal," I said looking at him, "I'm willing to give you a chance. I don't know how things will turn out or if this will even work but I'm willing to try, for my mom's sake at least. But you have to let me go at my own speed and you have to get your family off my back ok? Cause yes biologically you are my dad but you have done absolutely nothing to deserve that title, ok?" I finished looking down at him.
"Ok that's all I want is a chance." He said smiling at me a little.
"Ok good." I said starting to walk again I noticed up ahead a break in the trees showing the entrance to the hidden path leading to my house.
"So, what's the first thing I should know about you?" he said looking at me.
I smiled at him sweetly. "I like walking alone." And I broke off into the trees leaving him there all alone, and walking/running fast enough that if he got out of his car he wouldn't be able to catch up to me.
I think we're off to a great start. I thought smiling to myself.
AN: ok guys I hoped you all liked it! Hopefully I'll have internet up and running before too long but just incase I'm gonna go ahead and apologize again, I'M SORRY! Anyway hoped you enjoyed it and go on and review :D we passed 50!