Hello.

Don't forget to check out the prequals if you haven't already.

'CrazymeadowBella'

and

'That Could Come in Handy'

Also, 'Alice's shopping song' is up for review.

Review, for me, please?

I stormed through the halls, cloak swirling around me – for dramatic effect. I was furious. Edward was following closely behind me, staying far enough back so that he wouldn't piss me off more than he already had. Walls were shaking through my temper tantrum and I was close to having a Nico moment, losing the control I typically had. Renata saw me. And ran. Fast. She took off down some hall that leads, if I remember correctly, to an empty work-out room. Empty because no one would be in it, duh. It was one of those things that existed here for absolutely no reason. I stormed past Jane who ducked slightly and gave Edward a what-the-hell-did-you-do-now look. I was probably being even more immature than usual, a little too dramatic and extreme. I didn't care. I was pissed. So pissed that I wasn't watching were I was going and walked slam dunk into Marcus.

"What wrong now, daughter." He chuckled. With anyone else – that laughter would have made me even angrier, but with him… well I just couldn't.

"Edward's trying to tell me what to do!" I vented and he gave a worried look towards Edward.

"Oh, hell. Edward, why?" He rolled his eyes as he was talking, dropping all formalities for the moment. He really couldn't stand it when I was this mad – he especially got annoyed with whoever caused it.

"She wanted to blow up the clerk at the store!" He said, getting defensive.

"No, I wanted to blow up the entire store." I said through clenched teeth. "He seems to think he had a right to stop me, even though it was completely his fault!"

"Was not," He muttered under his breath.

"How exactly did he manage stop you, Isabella?" Marcus question – of course he would wonder that. Shit.

"…. He distracted me." I said, looking up at the ceiling. Marcus cast a questioning glare towards Edward.

"In public?" He lifted one eyebrow skeptically.

"Irrelevant, father. He shouldn't try to control me! I can't stand that!"

"Right, right. Well, what did he do to make you want to blow up the clerk, and the rest of the store?"

"The woman was having thoughts that Bella didn't approve of." Edward said as he rolled his eyes.

"So, little sister, you're mad because some woman thought your man was do-able, and he molested you right in front of her in order to stop you and set her thoughts straight?" Demetri summarized as he lazily strolled up, looking entirely too amused.

"Oh, it didn't stop her, it encouraged her. That's when he dragged me out of the store."

"Well," Demetri said, dropping any trace of humor and turning serious, "I hope you didn't go down without a fight – I taught you better than that." Marcus chuckled and shook his head – because Demetri picked all of the wrong things to be serious about.

"I fought plenty, Dem. I promise. Um… There's a stoplight about three blocks north that needs to be replaced by morning…Daddy, could you handle that?" Marcus nodded and I could see a bit of a smile as he walked off.

"You two love-birds need to cut your shit. Take your kids their bottles, and then I have a small surprise for you." Sluttyquasibrothersaywhat?

"Look, Demetri, if it's in your pants – I don't want it. Hey, what happened earlier with Nico and Jake?" I asked, slightly scared of the answer. He shifted his eyes away and then back towards me, a slight grin appearing on his face.

"Well, I had to explain to Jake what exactly Nico meant when she wanted to play war, and Jasper had to carefully remind Nico that bullet's could, and would, actually hurt Jake… regardless of the Power Rangers costume she had him in."

I sighed, "Did she have him in the pink one?" Dem nodded, I giggled. "He'll learn, one day." I cast an evil glance towards Edward, "They both will."

"Take it easy on him, hooker. It's not his fault he's a fine piece of manpire meat." I chuckled and shook my head.

"You know, D, Heidi is going to be awfully upset when you start admitting to your swing flying both ways." He rolled his eyes and placed a mock panic lock on his face.

"Our. Secret. Isabella!" We shook our heads together, mumbling something about everyone regretting Felix before we fell to the ground laughing. Edward's face was priceless. He looked confused, really confused.

"Chill out, Edwardo, they're just kidding." Nico said as she strolled up. "I'm the only idiot in this hallway who's made that mistake." She glanced at Dem, "So far." She smirked.

"Hey, now. My swing goes round and round in one direction, people."

Edward still had a semi shocked look on his face, "How do you do that?" He asked Demetri, who looked ridiculously confused.

"What?"

"Calm her down."

"Oh. That. It's because I'm the shiznit. And I'm not the one who pissed her off. She's not fragile, Edward. She thinks shit through a lot more than most people around here." He cast a side glance towards Nico, who rolled her eyes but nodded to agree. "So – yeah, she probably would've blown that shit up – but she would've covered her tracks. She never asked for updates on you guys, you know, so she has now idea how much you sulked like a woman all that time. So – yeah. Besides, whatever sluttyhumanclerk thought to make Bella this possessive was probably dirty… So I'd do it too. So would you. Don't think I've forgotten crazy-possessive-don't-look-at-your-sister-naked-Edward." Edward just nodded along to Dem's reprimands. "A piece of advice though, Eddie" Edward winced at the nickname, "N.e.v.e.r. tell her what to do. Ever. She is the most irritatingly stubborn woman I have ever met. She'll still do it, and you see what happens when you try to stop her." He chuckled.

Edward looked astonished at Demetri's blunt honesty. I spoke up, "In all honesty, this is how he does it. He calls me his sister, but I could just as easily be his brother. Everyone knows I could kick his ass blindfolded if I wanted to." Demetri sighed and looked up towards the ceiling, refusing to admit to what was so obviously the truth. "So he knows I'm not fragile, and he knows I'm not stupid. I pretty much do what I want, and that won't be changing anytime soon. Besides, he makes things funny. We could be in the middle of world war three and this man would take a bullet for me, unnecessarily, just for comic relief. He's just … Demetri like that. And you're Edward, and I love you for that, but you get jealous too… I just get more" I paused, searching for a word, "enthusiastic about my jealousy."

Edward looked at me with disbelief, "You're insane." I nodded and he chuckled before turning to Dem, "So you'd take a bullet for her, huh?"

"Actually, he did once. There was some sort of shootout at a club we went to and he hopped in front of a bullet 'for me'" I giggled, "then we had to come up with an elaborate plan to get out of there… Marcus had to send an 'ambulance' and we had to put ketchup on his shirt."

"And smell it the whole way back." Nico wrinkled her nose.

"I thought we'd never hear the end of that." Dem muttered before looking at Edward and I, "Kids. Bottles."

"Right." I remembered the plastic bag in Edward's hand and we took off together, towards our children, with Mommy in a much better mood.