Authors Note: Thank you for the comments. I don't know how to respond to them, but I can leave a note here. Iam enjoying writing discipline fic so much. So sorry it took so long to get an update done, but I broke my hand really badly. Finally healing! I hope this chapter is acceptable. I'm working on two new projects at once! So I'll be updating a lot this week, hopefully.

Carlisle was still pulling me by the arm as we exited the school and entered the parking lot. I tried to ignore all the feelings of second hand embarrassment from everyone we passed. Being dragged from the school like a defiant toddler wasn't anyone's favorite way to start the day. He kept an almost painful grip on my upper arm until we got to the passenger side of the car where he opened the door and started to put me inside.

"I can get in the car myself." I said. Accidentally more aggressively than I intended to. I immediately tried to backtrack when the grip on my arm tightened. He spun me to face him. "I'm sorry. I meant to imply that you can trust me not to try and run."

That explanation seemed to suffice, but he still deposited me in the car and closed the door with decent force. He was in the driver's seat and roaring the engine to life in record time.

As we drove, the silence grew heavier and heavier. I twitched and squirmed in my seat, dying for conversation of some kind. But conversations with Carlisle in these kids of moments were never a good idea. He needed time to calm down and run through the things he wanted to say and, unfortunately, do before hand. I slapped my face into my hands which elicited a strange peripheral glance from the vampire driving the car. I sighed and decided to press my luck.

"Look" I started and quickly continued before he could cut me off or acuse me of being disrespectful. "I just want you to know that I feel like a fool. I don't know what came over me, and I can assure you I will be completely truthful and compliant during... when... we discuss things."

This was met with a chuckle which confused me deeply. And frightened me a little. But he just looked at me and said,

"You confuse me sometimes."

It was might turn to look wary.

"I confuse you?"

"You do." He continued with an odd grin on his face. "Emmet, Edward and Rose are easy to scold. They make bad choices, fight me until the bitter end, sometimes they wine and complain at every correction. I make up my mind and their behaviors only reinforce my parenting decisions." He let out a breathe, or was it a sigh. "Alice never gets in trouble. But if she does, it's so incredibly minimal that there's never even a correction warranted. But you... you act so rashly sometimes. You make such frustrating choices, and yet it's never for a selfish reason. You're never defiant or disrespectful. You only get into trouble when you're defending the family. In some ways, you're my most difficult child. And when you make such terrible choices and then respond so.." he paused and gestured as me. "Its just confusing."

I had no response. We rode in silence until we pulled into the driveway. Carlisle turned off the car, but made no move to get out. Instead he asked,

"What happened? From the beginning."

I quickly relayed all the events of the morning to him leaving no detail out. I made sure to stress the fact that Edward knew the principal was picking on us to get us in trouble. He hated us and wanted us to suffer for it.

"He thinks we are spoiled brats." I said angrily.

"I know. That's partially my fault. I do spoil you all." He paused here. We sat in silence again.

I grimaced at the words I was about to let escape, but I couldn't stop myself.

"Do I have to get the belt?"

Carlisle laughed a full belly laugh this time. As if the day couldn't get any more confusing... and embarrassing.

"Yea." He said as he stopped laughing long enough to get out of the car. I grimaced again and then let myself out of the car as well. To my surprise he was already taking his belt off and motioning for me to brace myself on a wall on the front of the house. I sighed and put myself in position.

"You're only getting six today." He said as he came up behind me. Six I can handle. He placed one hand at the top of my back. "Don't break the wall." I wanted to roll my eyes. I would never...

The first wack took me by surprise. Maybe I did need a reminder to not break the wall.

The belt fell again and I groaned. I always forgot how badly this hurt. Carlisle squeezed my shoulder reassuringly but lashed the third whack in nearly the same spot at the second. I hissed when the fourth landed. "Two more" I thought to myself.

"Two more" Carlisle said, repeating my thought and I wondered if I'd spoken out loud instead of in my head.

Two very hard swats landed in quick succession. If there had been anymore swats I most definitely would have cried out. I wondered briefly why I'd been let off so easily after having basically attached a human. I stood and turned to face Carlisle as he was looping the horrid belt back through the loops.

"You're suspended from school for the rest of the week. So you'll be expected to complete any assignments sent home."

"Yes Sir." I responded almost without thinking.

"And we'll unfortunately be repeating this lesson each morning as I leave for work."

"Yes Si..." I paused. "You mean? You're gonna..."

"Yes. I promised the principal you wouldn't sit comfortably until Monday."

He made his way to the front door and began to go inside.

I groaned. "Only six right?"

And for the third time that day, Carlisle laughed.