Chapter 44
Bella curled up on her bed after she finally made it home. She supposed she should have taken her weekend homework with her from school, after all, but she'd had no idea at the start of the slumber party that her weekend was going to go so wrong. She went to the parties with Lauren – or Jessica, when she hosted them – so she could pretend for a brief while that she was part of an in crowd, any in crowd. Unfortunately, the events of the night before had left her unable to deal.
There was a light tap on her bedroom door only half a second before Vasilii came in and sat on the edge of her bed. "What's up, Bells?"
She shook her head. "Nothing."
He scowled. "Nothing, my ass. You never come home from one of those slumber parties early – especially not an entire day early."
She looked down. "Lauren showed us a website last night."
"About what?"
She furiously shook her head.
"Come on, sissy. If you don't talk, I can't help." His voice was wheedling.
"Lauren found a website dedicated to bomb making. The whole website is about some sort of d-day for blowing up schools." She glanced up at him.
He pursed his lips briefly. "Sounds like a bunch of conspiracy bullshit. Haven't I taught you that there are websites for everything?"
"Everything?"
"Yeah, I can even find websites teaching you how to whittle a stake, because we all know vampires are real." He waggled his eyebrows up and down.
She couldn't help it, the absurdity of his words made her giggle.