Author's Note: I know I know! You all hate me for not updating in forever. But thanks to the Serenity soundtrack I was able to break free of my writers block :D. And thank you guys, for all the reviews encouraging and scolding me for not updating. They pushed me to write faster. This was originally going to be the wallet chapter, but I ended up cutting it half because it would've been really long and I wouldn't have been finished with it yet. Anyway, thanks to everyone again and now I'll shut up now and start.
Disclaimer: sob I just found out a horrible fact that will surely kill me! I don't own Twilight or New Moon! Yes, I know. Dramatic.
Chapter 5
"Interrogations"
I walked up the staircase to my bedroom very quickly and as quietly as I could. The car ride home was a very unpleasant one. Both Christiana and Henry seemed to forget about my memory loss, because they both wouldn't stop asking me questions about who Edward was and how I knew him. But what annoyed me the most was that I couldn't answer even one of their many questions.
They were both still asking me questions when we got to the junior high school, Christiana had decided to drive slowly so she could get more questions in. Simon, thankfully, was just enjoying the look of pure excitement and curiosity showing on his wife's face, so he didn't ask any questions. To my extreme relief, though, when we did get to the school, the attention was pulled away from me.
Peter walked out of the school, looking very pleased about something. When he had climbed into the car between Simon and Henry, he told us triumphantly that he had almost attacked a human girl, but had somehow been able to control himself. He also said that he had persuaded the principle to raise him up a grade.
"Oh, and there was another vampire there too." He tacked on after he had finished telling us about being able to become a freshman, I could clearly hear the smugness his voice was swimming in, and I bet Henry and Simon could hear it too, Christiana didn't seem to hear any of the emotion because after he finished, she exploded.
"You feel like you can just add that to the end of your little speech, Peter, and not give us any information about them?"
"Fine! Her name's Jacqueline Rosamunde Cullen, she's in eighth grade, has a British accent, and drinks from animals. That enough information?" He asked in a slightly annoyed voice. That spotlight then went from Peter back to me. I gave Christiana a look that was an obvious 'You bring this up again and, I swear, I will throw something at you.' Everybody in my family knew that look well. Whenever anything began to circle around my forgotten human life that look came, and if it was ever ignored, that I stood true to my word and the person who wouldn't stop talking became the receiving end of some type of furniture.
The rest if the car ride home was silent. When we got home I immediately started for the stairs, rather than linger in the family room with my family. And now here I was, trying my best to clock out my family's voices as they tried telling Peter about the whole lunch mishap. I was thankful when I felt the calm, quiet serenity of my bedroom when I walked through the door.
"Now," I thought aloud, "Where did I put that box?"
I searched through my room, behind my couch, in a small compartment in my bathroom, until I finally found it at the very top of some shelves in my walk in closet. I quickly pulled the box down and opened it. I had insisted on keeping everything that I had been carrying when I was bitten. My clothes, my watch, my shoes, and my wallet. I told my family that I wanted reminders of my human life, evil if I couldn't remember it.
I finally found my wallet on the bottom of the box, it was really scruffy and slightly ripped in a few places, but it was still in one piece. I opened it and flipped through the pockets. Nothing out of the ordinary was in it. The ID of me when I was human, something I had already memorized, and some dollar bills that I still hadn't taken out after fifty years still were in there. Nothing else was there though. I wondered again why Edward wanted it.
I spent the entire night in my room, very much not wanting any of the company my family would provide. I wondered idly what the next day would bring and if there was something secret about the wallet that now laid on the couch next to me. A few hours later, I reluctantly got up from my couch and walked into my huge bathroom to shower and get dressed.
After a few minutes of going through my closet, I stepped out in a pair of dark blue jeans and a long sleeved burgundy shirt with a wide rectangular neck. I put a thin chain around my neck and left my hair to fall down my back. All in all, I looked pretty good. After a second check in the mirror, I made sure the wallet was safely tucked into one of my backpack's pockets and went downstairs to join my family.
I told them all that I was going to drive myself to school today and they reluctantly agreed. I could see that Christiana had yet to finish her interrogation and was eager to start again, because my absence that night had forced her to wait until morning. Henry offered to go with me, but I declined, telling him I wanted to be alone and think. I sighed as I walked outside to our garage, Henry and I seemed to be falling apart very easily, our relationship was never as close as Simon and Christiana's was. And what about Christiana? Even if I avoided her all day today, she would still find sometime to bombard me with questions.
I pushed those thoughts to the back of my mind as I stepped into my new dark shimmering red BMW, one of the few things I liked to take pride in. I loved my car, what was the problem with that? After about two minutes of driving around 150mph, I was at the school, and thanks to my reckless driving and leaving about ten minutes before my family who always like to be a half an hour early to school, I got there before anyone else was there, except for two other cars. A silver Porsche and a bright red Mercedes to be specific. The family was just getting out of the cars, and guess who it was?
Edward and his five brothers and sisters, of course.
Or, at least, that what I assumed. I spotted Edward climbing out of the driver's seat of the silver Porsche and the small girl from my English class climb out of the passenger seat next to him. Two other people walked out of the Porsche, one was a tall blonde boy and the other was a middle height girl with long black hair. The two that were seated in the Mercedes had climbed out by then also. The male was very muscular with dark curly hair and the female was gorgeous, even more than a normal vampire, with long golden hair.
The spiky-haired girl saw me then, her face filled with excitement and happiness as she screamed, "Bella!!!"
The entire family's heads snapped in my direction, surprised. The girl with the long black hair also has some curiosity in her expression. They all ran up to me, their smiles getting wider when they saw me up close.
Author's Note: Ok, I know that wasn't as long as some other chapters I've done, but I splitted the wallet chapter up unevenly so it would sound a bit better. I was also actually going to put this up later after I finished up with the sixth chapter, but I got another review telling me to hurry up so I just did it now instead. But don't worry!!! I know as a fact that I will have the next chapter up a lot quicker than this one was. Thanks again for the support! Review and you get 50 Goldfish!
Laine ;D
