Chapter 13

I looked at the time, by the time he gets out of the hospital and stops at the diner, I should have about 1 hour maybe 90 minutes at the most before my butt is doomed. While thinking that, I heard a car pull up and heard voices. Who in the world is that? Who would even know this house is here in the middle of the woods! I was a little scared. Then the doorbell rang. I looked through the peephole. It was Jessica and Angela. I opened the door, "Hey, what are you guys doing here?"

Jessica and Angela came in. Jessica said, "We came to see how you were. Did you get in much trouble with Dr. Party Wrecker?"

"Jess, come on, we shouldn't have been there. I told you that but you wouldn't listen," I reminded her.

"Well, did he ground you?" she asked.

"Not yet, he said we will discuss it tonight." I told her.

"Wait, Dr. Cullen's not here is he? Is he working?" Jessica asked nervously looking around.

"Yes, he's at the hospital. Did you get in trouble?" I asked her curiously.

"Yes, my mom said I have to formally apologize to Dr. Cullen and I am grounded from Port Angeles for 2 weeks. Dr. Cullen ruined everything." Jessica said angrily. "He should mind his own business."

"What about you Angela, did you get in trouble?"

"Yes, same thing, my mom and Jessica's mom talked. So we both got the same thing." Angela said.

We soon began talking about other things and laughing about school, etc. Jessica was sitting on the arm of the couch, I was in a chair in front of her and Angela was on the couch opposite of the one Jessica was sitting on. We lost track of the time and did not here Carlisle pull in the garage. As we were talking, the kitchen door to the garage flew open and Carlisle stepped. Jessica was startled and shocked to see him come in. Her eyes almost popped out of her head as she screamed "DR. CULLEN" and lost her balance and fell back onto the couch with her legs sticking straight up in the air.

Carlisle, coming in and closing the door without looking, heard his name shouted and said, "Yes? What?"

I busted out laughing and so did Angela. We couldn't help it. Jessica looked so funny. Carlisle put the food down on the table along with his satchel and came to the couch. "What happened?" he asked.

Jessica couldn't get off her back and was struggling to roll on her side to try to get up and looked like a bug trying to right itself. It would have been a hilarious picture if I had my camera. Angela and I were laughing so hard. Carlisle put his hand out to help her up and she scooted away from him, but he had her by the wrist and helped her up.

"Jessica, are you alright" Carlisle asked her. He helped her up so she was on her feet.

"Yes, I-I thought you were at the hospital" she said with a shaking voice.

"He was all day Jessica, but he is off now." I explained.

"I thought he worked nights," she added.

"No, usually days, that was a fluke last night." I told her. Jessica was nervous and looked so uncomfortable.

"What's the matter with you Jessica, are you okay?" Carlisle asked her.

"Yes, Dr. Cullen, you just surprised me." She told him.

Looking at Jessica with a puzzled look on his face, dad asked her, "Jessica, did you change your hair? Didn't you have dark brown hair?"

"Uh, yeah, I'm a blonde now, it was Bella's idea." She said happily.

Turning to me he said, "Bella, you told her to change her hair color?" Dad asked me. I just shrugged my shoulders. He kept staring at me like he didn't understand. Then he looked back at them. "I didn't know you two were going to be here or I would have brought you something to eat also."

"Thanks, but we're not staying. We just dropped by to see Bella for a few minutes." Angela said.

"Oh, I see" my father said knowingly. "Come to see if she was still in one piece, huh?" he kidded them. (Boy, you can't put anything past him.)

"Um, no" Angela said. "Dr. Cullen, I want to apologize for the fiasco last night. Bella tried to talk us out of going, but we wouldn't listen. I'm sorry you had to come and find us and bring us home, but thank you for doing it." Angela did a really good job with this.

"You're welcome Angela. I hope you learned your lesson. Don't make me come looking for you again." Dad admonished her.

"No sir." Angela said to him contritely.

"Uh, Dr. Cullen, my parents wanted me to apologize too for the nightclub thing." Jessica could barely get it out she was so nervous.

"Your parents wanted you to apologize, but what about you Jessica?" Dad asked her. (Boy, that guy catches everything. He should work for the FBI or CIA.)

"Uh, um, ah, yeah, me to, I mean, yes, I want to apologize too. Sorry Dr. Phil, I-I mean Carlisle, uh, no, no, I mean Dr. ah?" Jessica was stammering all over the place.

"Cullen" dad told her.

"Um, yeah, that's it. Uh, sorry, a little nervous here." Jessica said stumbling backward but Carlisle caught her before she fell back down on the couch.

I burst out laughing again. "Bella" dad admonished me. "Jessica, are you afraid I might actually punish you like your parents suggested to me when I brought you home last night? Let's see, I told them you smarted off to me and I felt like turning you over my knee and they said I should feel free to do that whenever you act up with me. Is that why you are so jumpy around me?" (Nothing like rubbing it in Dad! Geez!)

"Uh, yes sir, a little" Jessica replied.

"Well, Jessica, I guess you will need to behave when you are under my roof or in my care, because I will do just that, young lady. Keep that in mind the next time you try to pull some stunt like last night that includes Bella." He scolded her.

"Yes sir, I'm sorry Dr. Cullen." Jessica said.

"Well, that actually sounded sincere. I accept your apology, Jessica." Dad said smiling at her, but still giving her the "I mean business look."

"Uh, well we better be going. Talk to you later Bella, goodbye Dr. Cullen." Jessica said. "Bye" Angela told us.

We walked them to the door and Jessica practically bolted down the steps to the car. Dad and I both laughed.

"Bella, you better eat your garden burger, you probably have to heat it up." Dad told me. "Okay, dad, I'll get it."

"I am going upstairs to change. Oh, Bella, why did you tell Jessica to change her hair color?" He asked intrigued.

"Isn't it obvious? I didn't think she would actually do it. She should have been a blonde since birth, you know, she's got the dumb blonde gene thing going on. The fact that she actually changed her hair proves she should be a blon"…I stopped in mid-sentence as my amused vampire father; my amused, BLONDE vampire father was looking at me!

"OOhhh, dad, I didn't mean you, dad, really I…"

He crossed his arms over his chest and stood there looking at me shaking his head with a grin on his face as he turned to walk up the steps. "Don't fall off the stool, Bella, he warned. Or I might suggest you change your hair to blonde," He smiled and winked at me as he walked up to his room.

"So, since you smiled at me does this mean you're not going to, you know…" I asked. (What could it hurt)?

"Sorry, I'm still going to, you know…" he called back to me.

AARRGGGHHHH! Somebody wake me up from this nightmare!

TBC – Looks like Bella is still going to have to face the music!

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