Sorry guys! I so wanted to update sooner since the chapter was already finished, but I'm busy with school and me and my boyfriend broke up and ... you get the idea.

Plus I had to change some parts ... Carlisle was being so mean! Gosh, what's wrong with him? I mean, he is OOC in my stories, but that was a bit much. Anyways, enjoy the second chapter!

Just as Maddie thought the talk was practically over and she more or less survived Carlisle's office, Esme shouted down the stairs. "Madeline, what happened here?"

Shouted down the stairs, as in: She was upstairs.

And what was upstairs? Edward's room, bathroom and of course - Maddie's room.

Dammit.

Carlisle looked questioningly at his daughter, but she just shrugged her shoulders and got up from the chair. Well, Maddie had either left the bathroom in the worst state ever, or her mother found the shredded books in her room.

Probably the latter.

Oh no.

Maddie made her way upstairs, followed by, surprise surprise!, her father. So it would be two against one again.

They walked into Maddie's room and saw Esme looking at the ground. Carlisle was confused, because he did not see anything unusual in here. But since the bed was blocking his vision, he walked around it and came to a stop next to Esme. There, between the bed and Maddie's balcony door, were about a thousand pieces of paper that had not been visible from the other side of the room.

Carlisle kneeled down to read some of the words written on the shreds, then said, "Madeline? Explain what this is all about, please."

At least she had several options now: run, lie or confess.

She chose the second best ... or the second worst: She was prepared to lie her ass off.

"What do you mean?" she asked in a neutral tone of voice.

"Come over here and look at that," Esme ordered. Maddie walked over to her parents and looked at the ground. Yep, there was no way anyone could have overseen this, she would have to be more careful hiding things in the future. She was so sure she had stuffed everything under her bed, but with so many open windows in this house - you never know.

"What happened?" her father demanded.

Now panic built up in Maddie. They wanted an answer and she just didn't know what to say without getting in trouble.

Silence.

More panic.

For your information, panic and Maddie wasn't a very good combination, because almost always clever and not so clever ideas suddenly shot into her head. The thing was: she could not make out which was what.

Could she use her ability on two persons at the same time? ... now that thought made her curious.

Luckily she was standing in between Carlisle and Esme, so it was ridiculously easy to grab both their hands at the same time and quickly say, "Edward ripped my books on purpose. But you two came to clean it up, so get on with it."

They stared right ahead, unblinking. Wow, maybe she should have concentrated a little more - they looked like zombies! But eventually they knelt down and slowly started picking up the white and black shreds of paper.

Relief washed over her, but unfortunately it did not last long. Edward's door was forcefully opened and music could be heard now. Maddie's older brother stormed into her room, looking furious. He took in the sight before him then yelled, "What is wrong with you? ! Make it right, now!"

As if they did not hear anything, Carlisle and Esme went on cleaning up. God, they were slow! That would take at least an hour!

"Uhm, Edward, let us wait -," she started to say, but he interrupted her before she could finish her nonsense.

"- so they can go on cleaning up your mess for you? Make it stop, right now!"

He was beyond angry. And now Maddie wondered who else was home ...

"Rosalie and Emmett are in their room and will be coming up soon, so I suggest you set things right before then! ... And don't even think about it!" he added, when he read her thoughts.

Okay ... no meddling with Edward's brain today, fine.

(Not that she could ever do it to him, he would always know beforehand by reading her thoughts, it sucked.)

He pushed her towards their parents in order to make her act faster. She gave him her best puppy dog eyes, but he just turned her towards their parents again.

Decisively defeated, she reluctantly touched Esme's hand and ordered, "Stop." Then she did the same to her father.

Maddie looked back up at Edward. "There, they stopped," she said nonchalantly and made to walk past him and out of her room, but he held her back.

"They. are. not. MOVING!"

"Oh. What do you want them to do?" She smirked slightly and just prayed he would be on her side, but it did not look good for little Maddie today.

"Give them their memories back! Take back what you said to them!" he demanded angrily.

"Edward, please! They will kill me if they find out!" And by that she did not mean her damaged books, heck, that seemed trivial now, she meant selfishly using her gift on her parents of all people.

All of a sudden Rose appeared in the doorway, clueless about what was happening in this room but determined to defend her younger sister. "Why are you yelling at her, Edward? If you are frustrated, don't -"

"Look," he just said and Rose went further into the room.

Her parents were kneeling on the floor, unmoving - now that took her off-guard. She looked back at Edward, who had his arms crossed over his chest and was glaring at Maddie, who stood by the side and was currently busy chewing on her lip.

"If you run, I will catch you and make you pay," Edward threatened, obviously answering Maddie's thoughts, who then looked pleadingly up at Rose.

"Did you do that, Madeline?" Rosalie inquired while giving her a scrutinising look.

"Uhm ...," Maddie muttered. Why was Rose angry with her? She was supposed to always be on her side!

"Not this time, Madeline. Now make it right," Edward ordered.

"Do it yourself, you fucking ...," Maddie started to say, but suddenly Rosalie slapped her across the face before she could finish the sentence.

That had never happened before. The fact that her favourite sister ever just hit her shocked Maddie beyond belief. How dare she?

"Ow! Rose, what -" "Do as Edward told you or I'll give you some more!"

Maddie, who was nursing her cheek with her left hand, took a step backwards. Rose and Edward were on the same side? Then hell must have frozen over.

Withdrawing her hand from her cheeck, she exclaimed, "Fine, but I don't know how!"

Rose was dumbfounded. "I beg your pardon?" she asked and blinked her owlishly.

"You guys never let me try it out, so I don't know how! I have never taken it back before!" It was the truth, Maddie did not have much experience when it came to her ability.

"This will be the first time then, get on with it," Rose told her sister sternly.

"I can't!" The little girl whined.

"So you suggest we leave them like that for all eternity, yes? !" Rose was even angrier than Edward was.

"No ... but, you know, I did a sloppy job. It'll wear off in a couple of days and everything will be back to normal," Maddie casually informed her siblings with a wave of her hand, trying to hide her nervousness that way.

"Are you mocking us?" Her brother took a threatening step towards her, but Rose held him back.

She turned to Maddie and ordered in her strictest voice, "You will make every effort now to get them back to normal. Do not make me tell you again."

Now she was defeated. And scared. Either her siblings kill her or her parents will, what a fun day.

She thought for a moment what she could do and say, all the while shooting nervous glances at Rose and Edward.

Eventually she kneeled down in front of Esme, took her hand and looked her straight in the eye.

"Mom, you never came to clean this up. You just spotted it when you walked into this room. Then you called for me, and Dad and I walked in here. Just remember."

Esme blinked. Then she blinked again ... and again. So she came around.

Maddie let go of her hand, and Esme immediately stood up.

She was shocked when she saw her husband being immobile and when she opened her mouth to say something, Maddie remarked with confidence, "No worries Mom, I'll fix that."

Then she knelt in front of her father. If it worked once, it'll work again ... well, theoretically.

Esme stood next to Rose, who put an arm around her and watched. That is why Maddie chose to help her mother first: Esme stood there and waited. Carlisle on the other hand would have flipped at the sight of his petrified mate. He was controlled almost all the time, but that would have been a real furnace.

Grabbing her father's hand and looking him straight in the eye, she said, "Dad, you never came to clean this up. Mom called and you walked upstairs with me to see what was going on. Remember."

The moment Carlisle 'woke up', Maddie stood up and took a step back. She was relieved it turned out so well, otherwise Rose would have eaten her alive.

Carlisle stood and looked at his wife, then at his hand which still held some of the pieces of teared paper, then at the floor, then at Edward.

His eyes narrowed. "Edward, why would you destroy your sister's books? I want an explanation, young man, and I'd better be good."

"No, I -" Edward said looking positively puzzled, then immediately stopped when he heard his little sister snicker.

Oops, did she forget to mention something? Haha.

Carlisle, feeling more than just a little confused, turned around to look at Maddie.

"He did not do it, Carlisle. Maddie convinced you and Esme into thinking so and even made you clean up this mess," Rosalie explained.

Maddie abruptly stopped laughing and looked at her sister thunderstruck. Why would she rat her out like that?

Esme and Carlisle fixed their youngest with a stern look in their eyes.

Uh-oh ...

"Rosalie hit me!" Ha, in your face.

Now the two gasped and turned to face Rosalie, who seemed to be nervous all of a sudden.

"Only because Maddie refused to take back what she did to you!" Edward came to Rosalie's rescue.

"Hey! You told me to make them stop, and so I did!" Maddie retorted.

"Yes, and they nearly stopped existing! Even a brick moves more than they did!" Whoa, what's wrong with Eddie? He'ss still angry, even though Esme and Carlisle were fine now!

"Enough!" It was Carlisle's turn to talk, and he was fed up. "Your bickering will get us nowhere! I want each one of you in your separate rooms. Now."

With that said, Rosalie and Edward marched out of Maddie's room. Maddie stayed, obviously. And so did Carlisle and Esme. Great ...

Plus, Edward even closed the door on his way out, how thoughtful of him.

"Esme, are you all right, my love? No side-effects?" Carlisle asked his wife and looked her over. But she just said, "I am fine, no need to worry."

Now it was time to focus on Maddie.

"Tell us what happened," Carlisle ordered, then crossed his arms over his chest.

"Uhm ... where shall I start?" Madeline was nervous, and scared.

"You and I were in my office, talking about the arrangements of the upcoming week. And, correct me if I'm wrong, I disciplined you for your repeated abysmal choice of words, am I right?"

"... yes." Thanks for reminding.

"What happened next?" he asked.

"Mom called and asked me what happened, so we went upstairs." Maddie did so not want to explain any more than that.

Her parents nodded their heads - so they shared the same memories.

"Go on," Carlisle prompted.

Now came the tough part.

"Uhm ... you two looked at the paper on the floor," Maddie said.

Silence.

"I cannot imagine it ended there. Go. on," Carlisle pressed.

"Well, you wanted to know how it happened, so I gave you an explanation and you went to pick it up," Maddie rushed through the last part of the sentence.

Carlisle pinched the bridge of his nose. He could not believe his daughter would still try to lie her way out of this!

"You left something out, something vital," he ground out.

"Sorry. I ... I touched you two, told you Edward ripped my books apart and that you came to clean it up."

There.

"Am I right to presume that you yourself destroyed them and then tried to pin the blame on your brother?"

"Uh-huh." was all Maddie got out.

"Words, please," her father prompted.

"Yes, sir." She looked down at her hands. There was nothing that could save her ass now, she realised.

But Carlisle had yet another question for his daughter. "What books are these?"

Oh no, it was getting worse and worse ...

"Uhm ..." Bright answer, Maddie!

"School books," Esme said and pointed at somethin, that looked like a piece of a book cover. It read 'Algeb ...'.

Carlisle head shot up again, and he narrowed his eyes at his daughter.

"You destroyed your school books?"

Don't look up, just don't look up, maybe he'll go away ...

"I don't believe this .. and to evade punishment you manipulate us, your parents, blame it on your brother and now you even have the cheek to not look at me when I am speaking to you!" he was very close to yelling, which did not happen often.

She looked up at him, mumbled an "I'm sorry" and would have cried if she could. Esme would have, too. She was appalled by her daughter's behavior and shocked that Carlisle let his anger show like this. She could not blame him for this reaction though; what Maddie had done was a lot to take in. As long as he did not lose control however, Esme would not interfere.

Carlisle realised that he had just scared his daughter with his outburst, so he said in a calm tone, "I apologise for yelling, that was not my intention. I need some time to calm down and you", grabbing Maddie by her upper arm and walking her to a corner, "will stay right here until I come back. Don't you dare think about running, or even moving an inch."

The moment he let go of her arm, she turned around and started to say "But ...," but was interrupted by her father who let out a low growl, turned her back towards the corner and gave her a mighty smack to her behind.

"I said: Stay here and do. not. move. Do you understand?"

No answer.

This angered Carlisle anew, and he gave her another smack, right where the last one landed, to prompt an answer.

"OW! Yes, I understand!" she whined while trying to rub the sting away.

"Esme, let us walk downstairs and talk it over," he said and left the room together with his wife.

Do you notice how everything is Edward's fault? Hahaha, just joking ;-)

Please let me know what you think, I even made the chapter longer for you! REVIEW!