AN: I thought this chapter was kind of funny, with the whole eating/Rosalie thing. Please review. Soon the chapters are going to get funny.
CHAPTER SIX - DINNER
"Hey." Jasper greeted Edward as he walked through the door. "Why are you back so soon?" He thought.
"Bella's mother came to visit from Phoenix, and she invited us to dinner."
Alice ran down the stairs, "We're going to dinner?" She spoke it out loud.
"What's going on?" Rosalie had just entered from the kitchen.
"Bella's mom invited us to dinner." Alice explained.
"We're going to eat?" Rosalie asked. She didn't have to pretend to eat and digest normal food often, but she hated when she did.
Emmett entered the room, "We're going hunting?"
"No!" Edward waved his hand for silence then explained for the last time, "Bella's mother invited us to go to dinner with her family tonight". Carlisle and Esme had just joined their little group and were listening intently.
"That sounds like a great idea!" Esme said, "Everyone get decent."
"But you know how I don't like eating!" Rosalie said. She always complained of feeling terrible after eating anything and having it sit in her stomach until it was time to choke it up.
"Rosalie, please eat, it won't kill you." Alice joined in. Rosalie glared at her, sighed then turned to go up stairs and agreed to the plan.
At least she would be able to dress up.
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Bella, Charlie, Renee and Phil entered the restaurant.
It didn't take long for Bella to spot the Cullens. They stood out from everyone else with their pale skin.
"Edward!" Bella called to the family. The Cullens approached the small group.
Esme came to Renee first and shook her hand. "Hello, I'm Esme, Edward's mother."
"Hello! It's so nice to meet you!" Renee hugged Esme and Bella nearly fainted on to the floor.
Bella prayed to god that Renee wouldn't hug Jasper. She trusted Jasper, but she didn't know how appetizing her mother's blood might smell.
A waiter, who looked about the age of twenty, showed them to their seat and gave them their menus, being extra polite to Rosalie.
Did this happen every time the Cullens were out in public?
Rosalie sat down in her seat, and pretended to be oblivious to the waiters microscopic but obvious come-ons.
They all ordered dinner and then came the small talk.
It was strange listening to the Cullen's false stories of camping trips, adoptions and family relations. Bella was so used to the stories of hunting, vampire bites and covens.
"So you and Rosalie are the same age?" asked Renee.
"Yes, we are twins." Jasper answered between bites of his pasta. Bella remembered when she had dared Edward to eat pizza and now she wondered even more on what happened to it.
Rosalie took little bites of her chicken, she looked at the little pieces in almost bewilderment. She hadn't actually eaten a full meal in almost seventy years.
Emmett lightly elbowed Rosalie under the table, reminding her that eating was a normal thing for humans like themselves.
Rosalie nudged back, a little bit harder saying, "I know. I'm trying!"
Eventually, there was only a little bit of food left on her plate. Rosalie felt absolutely disgusting, and excused herself to the bathroom.
She locked herself in a stall and tried to choke up the chicken. It was completely gross but she knew she would feel better once the human food was out of her body.
Rosalie heard the bathroom door open but couldn't stop the process, it was almost done.
Rosalie flushed the chicken down the toilet and exited the stall. She almost smacked the door into Bella's mother's face.
"Oh!" Renee's scent wasn't very familiar to Rosalie yet, so she was surprised to find her.
Renee was staring wide eyed at her, and Rosalie realized, "Oh she thinks I'm bulimic".
"Sorry." Rosalie said.
Instead of doing what she really wanted to do, which was flee from the bathroom, she went to the sink to wash her hands.
Rosalie returned to the table finding Emmett and Phil, Bella's stepfather, in a deep conversation about baseball.
Rosalie turned to her right to Alice and Jasper. Alice was sitting quietly and watching Edward. Edward glanced at Alice and then slightly nodded his head once.
They were having their own little conversation. "Edward." Rosalie thought, "Is something going on?"
Edward repeated the motion he had done before and Rosalie ended the conversation with, "Okay, never mind." She wanted him to know that he could stop listening to her thoughts know. Who knew what embarrassing thing she could think of within the next few minutes?
Renee returned to the table and shot a quick glance at Rosalie, she definitely thought she was bulimic.
Emmett laughed at a joke Phil had just said, it probably wasn't even funny, Emmett thought everything was funny, therefore the conversations was not worth joining.
Rosalie again thought of the scene in the bathroom. Edward turned his head to her and raised an eyebrow, a hidden smile apparent on his face. He had heard her thought.
"Shut up Edward. Get out of my thoughts!" She yelled at him through her mind. He turned away, and was listening to Renee talk.
Rosalie wished this dinner would end soon. She was not going to eat dessert.