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Chapter 9

Mostly acceptance

Edward decided to drive me home after the dance in my car. He was driving his normal one hundred miles per hour speed and slowing down whenever he saw a cop around here, which wasn't often. Now, I sort of got used to his fast driving. We drove in silence but it was a comfortable silence. Now that I knew his secret, it was going to be smooth from now on. The only problem I had to deal with now... was Henry. He never accepted any of my friends back when I was young. Why do you think I went to stay with Chanel?

Edward drove into my driveway and stopped the car. He took my hand and kissed it softly with his cold lips. It felt good on my skin. He looked into my eyes and put on his face that crooked smile that I started to love even more. "I'll be here Monday morning." He whispered, letting go of my hand and the light of the moon shone through the windshield, illuminating his beautiful marble white skin. Oh my god! He's so perfect in every way.

"Alright. See you Monday." I replied as I got out of the car and went towards the house.

I couldn't help but look back at him as he got out and ran at an incredible speed that he was just a blur. Good thing no one was around to see that. He might have wanted to show me some of his vampire skills. I had to admit that I was impressed. I opened the door and shut it behind me in an instant. I stood there for I don't know how long but tonight might have been the best night of my entire life. I closed my eyes for an instant but someone cleared their throat and that brought me to open my eyes again. Henry was standing in the staircase, staring at me.

"Where have you been?" He asked, sounding angrier than when I left after supper.

"I told you I went to the school dance tonight. Don't you remember?" I asked, quite shocked. I remember telling him that I was going out. I don't know why he couldn't remember.

"Oh, right. Well, how'd it go?" Now, he was calming down. I could hear it in his voice.

"It was good. I met a new friend at the dance. He asked me to dance and I accepted." I said as I placed my coat on the hanger and went to the kitchen. I was getting a little hungry so I wanted a granola bar or something like that.

"Who's the friend?" Henry asked, apparently following my every move.

I had my hand raised to get the granola bar when the question hit me. I was expecting Henry to ask me that but later on. I stopped in my tracks and didn't say anything for a few seconds. Finally, I found my voice and replied carefully. "Um... Edward Cullen."

"You mean, Dr. Esme and Carlisle's son?"

"Yeah..."

"I don't know. The parents seem nice but I've never met the kids. Do they seem nice?"

"I... don't know. I've only met Emmett and Edward. Apparently, he has three other siblings." I replied, now facing my father sitting at the kitchen table.

"So, you have two new friends that you didn't tell me about... Well, that's different. You never were the one to have many friends." Henry replied but he wasn't looking at me anymore. Well, that was a rude comment from my own father. So what if I didn't have many friends back in Seattle. At least I tried to be nice and friendly to others. Now it was the contrary. Others were being nice and friendly to me.

"And your point is?" I couldn't help but raise my voice a little. What he just said was almost a hit right in the face.

"Well, it's just that your mother's going to be as surprised as I am when she hears about this." Henry said.

"Mom doesn't have to know. I'll tell her when I'm ready. And besides, I wrote her an email before I left tonight. But do you want me to have friends? Or should I just stay in my own little corner and just be alone for the rest of high school?" Ok, that was a little rude of me but I had to make a point. Henry never was the one to be on my case about who I hung out with or what I did in my spare time. He was usually working when I was at school.

"Don't you take that tone with me, young lady! I don't care who you hang around with! Just don't get into anything that you know I don't like! You can be friends with those Cullens if you want. I don't care. Just don't do anything stupid." Oh god... I can't believe he just said that. What kind of a father would say that to his own daughter?!

"Fine. I'm going to bed." I said as I went towards the entrance but Henry was still behind me. Why was he following me? He took my right arm right where the pain was and he stopped me in my tracks. I flinched at the pressure on my arm and it was seriously hurting. I turned to look at him and I think he could see the pain in my eyes.

"What's wrong?" He asked with a strong voice.

"You... you just have a strong grip, that's all." I knew I was a bad liar. He could tell something was up. He took my sleeve and rolled it up to show the gauze on my arm. He was shocked and looked at me with worried eyes. Since when did he start noticing these stuffs?

"When did this happen?" He asked me with his sturdy voice. He hardly used that tone, only when he was angrier than usual, and that didn't happen very often.

I was frightened to tell him. I didn't want him or Chanel to worry too much about anything that happened. It wouldn't be good for either of them. "Yesterday." I said, barely above a whisper so that I hoped he didn't hear me but unfortunately, he did.

"And you didn't tell me that you got injured YET AGAIN?! Don't you even think I have at least the right to know these kinds of things?!"

"I didn't want you to be worried! And you told me to never do something like that again, remember?! My shoulder got bruised because of it! Do you think I want to get you or Mom worried over me all the time? I figured that if I told you, you'd get even madder at me than last time!" Ok, that was going overboard. Now, I'd be getting it. He pushed his nails into the skin right above the gauze and started to tighten his grip on my arm. Man, now, I'd probably have a scratch from this.

"I'm your father for crying out loud! I'm supposed to know about these things! What do you think will happen if I hear from somebody else that you got into a coma or something even worse?! Next time, you tell me these kinds of things Juliette Shrike or you will be punished." Now, he was squeezing even harder and I could feel the blood flowing on my gauze. I could also feel that he was moving down my arm so that he could scratch me with his nails. Good thing I had a blouse over this or the blood would go on it. Why couldn't he just chill? I tried not to flinch at the movements but failed.

"Yes sir." I said as he took his hand off of my arm. Now, it was really hurting. I was heading for the stairs when Henry took me by the shoulder this time to stop me again. Good thing it wasn't the shoulder that was bruised.

"Oh, and one more thing. If you ever use that tone with me again, I'll make sure that you won't be able to speak for a while." Henry said as he tightened his grip on my shoulder like he did with my arm. It was starting to ache a little. Oh shoot... I totally forgot about Henry's past. He told me, when I was younger, that he was a kick boxer when he was in college and did some wrestling in high school. So that's why he has such a firm grip on things.

"Yes sir." I repeated, trying not to use any tone in my voice, just emotionless. I didn't want to be in anymore pain tonight. Already my arm; my shoulder; and to ad to the pain, my head started to throb because of all the commotion that happened. Just great...

"Good, now go put some ice on that arm and go to bed. It's getting late. Is Edward coming tomorrow or are you seeing him at school?" Henry asked me out of nowhere as I was halfway up the stairs.

"Um... He's coming to pick me up Monday morning for school. Um... is that alright?" I asked, turning my head slightly, just to see Henry out of the corner of my eye. He looked sort of worried.

"No, it's alright. You can go with your little friend Monday. I'll probably be gone to the station before you wake up anyways. I need to be there early." Henry said, turning his body to go towards the living room.

"I'm guessing you're not going to bed yet?"

"No. I just missed most of the basketball game because of this stupid conversation so I'm going to catch up the rest of it. You just go to bed." He waved me off and I didn't want to stay here any longer. Well, the good thing out of all of this is that he mostly accepted Edward and the Cullens but I didn't tell him yet about Sam or Gus or any of them. I walked up the rest of the stairs and stormed into my room. Man, what a night... First, I danced with the most wonderful guy in all of Olympia High School and second, well... Henry getting mad at me for getting hurt... again.

I decided to lie on my bed and put my face in my pillow. Unfortunately, I just fell on my bed so my head started to throb even more. That wasn't good. I don't know if some Tylenols or some kind of other medicine would help to soothe the pain. But... I didn't want to go back downstairs with Henry still there. And, I forgot the ice. Oh, this is just great! But at least this day would be over with soon. I got up slowly and went to the bathroom. I wanted to check on my arm and shoulder, to see how much damage Henry did to me.

I walked slowly to the bathroom and looked at my shoulder first. I lifted my right shoulder and saw that his nails had gone through my shirt and my shoulder started to blossom in a purplish color. Great... another bruise. Now, what about the arm? I put my shirt back on my shoulder to cover my wounds and rolled my blouse up to the length of my elbows. I saw that his nails did go to my skin and without any luck, there was a big scratch that was starting to glow red but the good thing was that there was no blood on my blouse. But I could feel something flowing on my gauze. There must have been blood on it now, although it wouldn't show until probably tomorrow.

I decided that I had better leave it like that for the night. I felt exhausted and needed to sleep. I got dressed into my pajama and went straight into bed. I looked at my window and saw that it was opened halfway but I was too tired to close it. Hopefully, my dreams wouldn't haunt me tonight. I was just happy that I got to know more about Edward. Tomorrow would be the start of a brand new day.

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