This chapter is dedicated to RainGoddess2040 for making me laugh.

The drive back from Port Angeles was silent and awkward.

Uneasiness hung in the air like a bride's wedding veil, and there was only one reason why. Bella was upset.

As the males in the household, we knew nothing about menstruation and cramps and the fatal PMSing, except what one was required to learn in grade school. And any normal male would contribute Bella's behavior to that.

But we weren't normal.

And Bella always made sure we knew when it was her time of month.

She'd lock herself in the bathroom for hours. Then when one inquired if she was okay, she'd scream and say we should leave her alone.

It was a ritual of sorts for us, so Charlie and I got used to this procedure.

So for today, we could assume that wasn't it.

Besides I could take a wild guess and figure out what was wrong. Bella was angry at Charlie.

And that was a phenomenon in itself.

Why?

Because Bella never got angry at Charlie. But two distinct reasons made her blow up today.

Charlie was hit on. By a guy none the less.

And the fact that she wasn't informed that we'd be in the same year group. And with two years until graduation, she'd actually have to endure someone finding we were related.

It was only a matter of time.

And Bella didn't believe in any quoted sayings.

We'd been going into a bookstore and Charlie was looking at our book lists. He handed one to each of us.

"So Jake, you take the first half of the booklist. Bella you take the second half, just pick up two of what ever book you find."

"Why?" Bella inquired.

"Huh?" Charlie had said.

"Why would we need to pick up two of each book? And why am I getting only half of my booklist? Are you really gonna get the rest? I'm not following here dad."

"Well you see...about that..." he trailed off, flushing from the attention and embarrassment."

Bella grabbed at my list, "Let me see that."

I let go of it without any resistance.

She glanced over it once and looked just about ready to scream.

"We're in the same year." She gritted out. It wasn't a question, just a plain angry statement.

"Now Bella..." Charlie tried.

She glared at him mid way his sentence, and then stalked off to the back of the bookstore, leaving my copy of the booklist to flutter unceremoniously to the ground.

I glanced at Charlie, "You never said we were going to be in the same year group." There was no trace of malice in my voice. Bella was just over reacting.

"I'm sorry; I should have told you guys. I never knew Bella would blow up like this."

"Bella always blows up; it's not even that big a deal." I comforted him, "Bella's just constantly going on and on, besides it's Saturday and she has nothing to do and basically nowhere to go."

He chuckled at that and hit my shoulder. We went to find my books.

About the hitting on Charlie incident, the guy wasn't exactly hitting on him percer; but while we were on our way to the food court, Bella a good three feet away because she didn't want her first impression on people to be that she tagged around with her father, a guy seemingly young but yet aged, donned in a three-piece business suit and such with obvious biceps and a face like an angel wasn't looking were he was going because he was on his phone, mistakenly bumped into Charlie.

He glanced down at him, since he was a good inch taller, did a double take and told whoever he was talking to he'd call them back.

He had grabbed Charlie's right hand and promptly kissed it, then told Charlie he was cute.

I wasn't sure if it was the lack of sexual contact in any way for so many years or the fact that it was a man holding his hand, but Charlie turned red all the way from his neck line up to his ears.

The man's light blue eyes had trailed down, and he simply remarked on how far that blush could go, when Bella leaped like a rabid panther, snarling and hissing.

"Charlie isn't a fag you asshole, get away from him, you're disgusting!" she waved a Biology book at him menacingly.

I considered Bella's choice of words and wondered if that was why she hated me; just because I was conceived by two men.

The blue eyed man wasn't fazed; he blinked unemotionally at Bella, and then looked back at Charlie.

"Charlie, huh? My name's Dmitri." He kissed Charlie's hand again, "And what's your last name might I ask?"

Charlie freed his hand and blushed even more. "It's Swan, and I think we should be going." He glanced at a fuming Bella.

"Oh I'll take you anywhere you want."

"That's okay." Charlie countered.

"If you say so. I'll be seeing you soon Charles." The business man kissed Charlie softly on the cheek.

I could feel my eyebrows rising.

He leant back and looked at Charlie for a second, then nodded to me, and spared a short glance at Bella.

One couldn't miss the smirk on his face as he walked away.

So now here we were, an angry Bella in the back seat, a quiet Charlie and myself seated up front. We didn't dare even touch the radio. It would probably explode if we gave her a reason to glare at it.

"So Bella," Charlie tried, glancing at the rearview, "Did you get everything you wanted?"

"Mmm." She mumbled.

Charlie's eyes flickered nervously between the road and the rearview.

"Uh, so do you like Port Angeles? It's not too far if you have the right car."

She just watched him squirm.

"Um, a friend of mine, Uley, he's gonna bring his old truck up for us to take a look. You'll need to get to school..."

"A truck dad...really?" she rolled her eyes, and then mumbled, "Whoopdee doo."

Charlie fell silent. It wasn't his fault he couldn't buy a sports car to Bella's liking, or her new favorite, motorcycles. She'd seen a girl on one back were I lived and had immediately taken to them.

She thought they'd make her look sexy.

That's a laugh.

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