AN: I do not own Twilight. Any character, places, events, etc. belong to Stephenie Meyer.
Chapter 3
Seeing my father glare at Joshua wasn't very reassuring. He never glared at anyone. I opened the car door and sat in the front seat next to him.
"Hello, Dad." I leaned over to kiss him on the forehead and then I buckled my seat belt, smiling the whole time.
"Hello, Elizabeth."
His voice had an angry tone to it. What did I do wrong? What did
Joshua do wrong?
"How was your trip? Did you make any good
catches?" I looked at his eyes, noticing that they had their golden
topaz color. My father looked as young as he always had, never aging.
But inside, he was aging. If he wasn't a vampire, he'd have gray
hair and a back brace, probably. I shuddered at the thought.
"It was lovely." As we drove home, I noticed he was respecting the speed limits. We weren't driving at a ridiculous speed. Was this my mother in a costume or something?
"Elizabeth," he said, "About that boy you were hanging out with…"
"Yes? What about him?"
"I think its best you stay away from him."
I frowned.
"Why? We only met today. I don't see any problems with him." I turned to look out the window. I had never really gotten a good look at this road before…
"He…he's not really…just stay away from him, okay?"
"No thank you. I have no reasons to stay away from him. If I decide I want to stay away from him, I will. But right now, I'd like to get to know him better."
My father opened his mouth to say something else to me, but he didn't. Instead, I heard him mutter something under his breath about 'having to talk to Bella about this'.
When we got home, I entered our large house and was greeted by Esme.
"Elizabeth! How was school?" She gave me a hug and I returned it.
"It was okay. There was new boy at school that I befriended." I then waved to my Uncle Jasper who was sitting in front of the TV watching a show about parents who dislike their child's current boy/girlfriend and pick dates for them to get away from that person. He waved back, silent. Jasper wasn't a very talkative person.
"Oh…well that's lovely, dear."
"When is Carlisle coming home?" Everyone frowned upon me calling them my aunts or uncles or grandparents. I insisted upon calling my parents 'mom' and 'dad'.
"Who knows, dear. He'll be home soon probably."
"Okay, well I'm going to go do my homework…" I sped up the stairs and shut the door behind me. Why was everyone acting so weird about Joshua? It was ridiculous through my eyes.
By the time Carlisle got home, I had finished all of my homework and began reading my book for Language Arts. When I went downstairs to greet him, my mother, Alice, Rosalie and Emmett had returned from their hunting trip, their eyes crystal pools of topaz.
"Hello Carlisle and…everyone else. How was your trip?"
Everyone turned their heads to stare at me. Alice was the first to speak.
"It was great, Elizabeth." Then they all looked away from me and began to speak in soft, fast tones. I hated when they did that around me. I decided I was hungry so I walked between them all, which caused them to be quiet and stare at me again.
"Elizabeth, why don't you go upstairs and read a book?" Both my father and mother said this at the same time, even though they didn't mean to.
"I'm hungry. Let me get some food. Then you can all whisper about me again." I grabbed a microwavable pizza and stuffed it in the microwave. I grabbed a back of Baked Doritos and a bottle of water. When my pizza was done, I put it on a plate and headed upstairs. They all watched me with careful eyes.
"Proceed." I said. They did just that and I shut the door behind me in my room and turned on the TV. There was a show about the top songs of the 90's on, so I watched that from my bed, happily eating my pizza and chips.
After watching the show for about and hour, I had to go to the bathroom. I left my room and did what I had to do. On the way back to my room, I heard my mother and father discussing something in their room. I decided to stand by their door to hear what I could.
"…unacceptable. Alice lost vision of her, which is how I knew. Bella, this isn't good."
"Edward, is it
really that bad? I understand where you all come from. I side with
you too…but we can't just keep her away from him."
"We
have to. I won't have my daughter running around with Jacob Black's
son!"
Oh my. That's why I recognized the name 'Black'.
Jacob Black was my mother's friend. He helped her out a lot when she was depressed but then he became a werewolf and things changed. Werewolves and vampires were mortal enemies. When my parents announced their marriage, Jacob ran away to, well…no one knew.
"Edward, the werewolves have caused no trouble with us since Jacob left. Now he's back…but I don't see what the big problem is-"
"Bella, please. If Elizabeth is running around with the dog's son, who knows what could happen if they…you know…" My father couldn't bring himself to say anything about me dating someone.
"You don't know that's going to happen. Besides, he isn't a werewolf."
"How do you know? Why did Alice lose vision of her, then?"
I didn't want to hear anymore. For one, Alice had foreseen this would happen today, which is why she had me dress simply. Another, she was spying on me while they were out hunting.
Back in my room, I shut my door and picked up my book, continuing to read. I couldn't concentrate on the book, so I closed it and put it in my backpack.
I got under my covers and I turned the light off in my room. I probably wouldn't sleep for a while, if I would sleep at all. This day just needed to end. I wonder if Joshua was getting as much bull as I was, if he was getting any at all.
(Well, I felt inspired to do another chapter today. Hehe. Thanks for the reviews, guys! I think the next chapter might be Joshua having to tell Jacob about this…who knows!)
