Robin's eyes flickered open in irritation as the big bed shook with the vibration of the phone as the alarm sounded higher pitched with each passing second. She felt like she had only just fallen into bed after cleaning up the watery mess the dogs had wrought on the house. She sighed and turned the alarm off contemplating whether or not she should roll out of bed. One of the dogs scratching at the door sealed the answer as a yes.
She stood and opened the door, Jade laid stretched out in front of it while Butternut stood from just having pawed the door. "Morning ladies." she yawned and slapped her bare thigh just below where her sleeping shorts ended. Jade jumped up and started toward the door while Butternut stayed at her heels as she padded to the deck door.
She turned them loose and then turned right back around to go shower for school. Robin was not a morning person and had to shower just to have some semblance of being alive any time before noon. Her morning ritual was fairly normal until she applied her conditioner. She coated her hair with the Graham Webb Ice Cap conditioner and then started to brush her teeth so it could set and work it's magic. What was out of the norm was the cool tingling sensation of the peppermint oil reminded her of Edward's cold hand in her own last night.
It was the first time he had been even remotely approachable. She closed her eyes and ran her hand over her slathered head so her palm would tingle with coolness. She pictured his lopsided smile and his strange alluring eyes and then snapped her gray orbs open. "Oh stop it he isn't that good looking." she growled to the shower wall rinsing her hand. Who was she kidding, he was that good looking.
She rinsed her mouth and then bit her lower lip as she grabbed her body wash. After washing her body and face she finally rinsed her hair removing the bulk of the tingling sensation. She got out of the shower and toweled off the excess water before wrapping the towel around her body.
Fifteen minutes later, she was ready to walk out of the door. Robin beamed, she went from dead asleep to ready to go in thirty minutes. She went to the deck door and let the dogs back in before leading them to the fridge. She opened it and poked around before grabbing the pizza box and closing the door with her foot. "No wonder you guys are getting so fat." she said tossing the remaining slices in their bowls. She hadn't bought dog food in ages, she just gave them whatever she ate and they were lazy.
She stuffed the box behind the trashcan on it's side before rubbing each dog's head lovingly. "Ok ladies, I will see you after school. Behave, no wild parties, no boys, and don't fight with each other." she said in mock seriousness. She stood up and shook her head. If it weren't for the dogs she probably forget what her voice sounded like.
She grabbed the track jacket Rosalie had loaned her and shrugged, she had said Robin could keep it and it would look good over her Seether shirt. She pulled it on and zipped it half way before grabbing her book bag and slinging it over her shoulder.
Robin went into the garage and opened the door so she could back out her car and paused at the steps. Once the morning light filled the garage she made a face and stepped down towards the Lotus. On the hood in the dust was written: Drive me, or at least clean me. "Maybe tomorrow." she smiled shaking her head climbing in the Aston Martin instead.
She turned the car on and let it back out of the drive way at a crawl. She was about to back onto the road when the silver Volvo flew past filled with it's beautiful occupants. She sighed waiting for the dust the car had kicked up to settle before backing on to the road. "I suppose that is something I have to get used to, this isn't my own private road anymore."
Once she was on the main road where there was no gravel to ding the paint she sped up to catch up with Edward's silver car. She watched as he raised his brow in the rear view mirror and Alice spun in her seat to waved at her. She gave a slight nod to her and barely had enough time to react as Edward break checked her. "You asshole." She growled and shifted her car up another gear and moved to drive in the opposite lane.
She pressed the gas pedal until her car was parallel to his. Then she let her head lull to the side to look at him over the tops of her glasses. While she looked at him her eyes burning with fire she maintained his same speed keeping even with him in the opposite lane. In that moment her vision seemed to sharpen making everything in the world focus only on Edward Cullen. The music from her radio was drowned out, everything was by far secondary to focusing on him.
Edward pointed ahead of them with an index finger as he gripped the wheel and then suddenly dropped back. Robin's head snapped forward and the world started to move again. A large gravel truck was honking it's horn as it skidded towards her car; the momentum carrying it though the driver had hit the brakes. Without thinking she slammed the wheel hard to the right so that she moved into her own lane.
She gritted her teeth hearing the sound of road side weeds dragging under the undercarriage. She refused to let him think he had won, or even frightened her. All she could do was pull the car back onto the pavement and check her rear view mirror. The truck had finally stopped and the driver was out of his truck, phone pressed to his ear. Edward's car following dutifully behind her.
Robin yelled in frustration hitting the wheel. Why did he have to do that? It was as if he was purposefully pressing her buttons to see how far he could take it. She turned the sharp corner on to the main road that would lead to town. She did so without touching her brakes so her car fish tailed a little as she cleared the turn and her tires squalled in protest.
As Edward did the same she yelled again and slammed the radio up to it's loudest setting. Then turned it to the rock station. High Way to Hell flooded her car and for some reason the cheesy rock anthem seemed to fit her mood. As she approached the town limits she slowed to adhere to the strictly enforced speed limit and was pleased Edward's car load of perfection was forced to the same pace.
Her feeling of elation passed as the white Crown Victoria slipped between her car and Edward's and hit it's cherries. Robin groaned and pulled over to the shoulder of the road. She rolled down her window and plastered a smile on her face. "What can I do you for Officer Lemac?" she asked looking at the town's cop who once had been a defensive lineman but now sported a gut. He leaned against her window and her eyes watched as Edward's car slipped passed.
"Now I just got word of a little green sports car playin chicken out off the Interurban. Almost ran a Hunt Midwest truck off the road." he said in a lazy draw. "Wow, gee that sounds mighty serious. You should probably check that out." she smiled sweetly at him as she mocked him. "You don't know anything about that?" he asked looking over his too small aviator glasses. "Little ole me? You know I love this car more then that." She replied shaking her head. He backed away from the car and let a low whistle. She sucked in air and then let it out in a sigh as he pulled out a weed from under her car. "Now, I wonder how this bounced up into your undercarriage." He said holding it up for her to see.
She pulled her visor down and removed the clear pouch with her registration and insurance in it and slapped her license over it. "You wouldn't let me out of it if I started crying would you?" she asked holding them out the window. "I know you better then that little lady. I'll be back." he said turning with her information in hand.
Several minutes later ticket tucked into her bill fold she pulled away. She made the drive to school followed by the patrol car. She pulled into her spot Edward's car sat in the adjacent spot. The five model like siblings standing there ready to go in. Robin turned her car off and grabbed her bag.
She let it fall to the pavement by passing Emmett and Jasper talking about how she had handled the car so quickly. Her finger pointed at Edward and his smug face. He was so good looking and perfect as if nothing had happened. She flexed her hand into a fist and then out again. Then she shook both of her hands at him growling and then formed fists and shook them. "I.. You.. Ahh." she yelled and turned snatching her bag up. "Sleep well?" he asked smoothly. She pursed her lips and stalked past them all. She shook her head hearing Alice and Rosalie rebuke him.
"I wonder, what his name is…" "That blonde girl is hot, I am going to bone dizzle her." "That big dude could be boss on the team." "No way, the blonde one, he is totally the hottest." "OMG, could her hair be any more punky, it is way cute." "I wonder where they came from?" "What schedule do you think they have?" Robin pushed her way through all the comments and to her locker.
As Robin turned to leave her locker and found her way barred by Anna, the girl with the baby stripper voice. She reeked of to much Dolce and Gabanna Light Blue and wore make up that was to dark for her face. "What?" Robin asked flatly. Anna smiled sweetly at her. "So um, I just saw you uh talking…" she paused to insert a high pitched giggle meant to sound haughty. "to the new kids…" she paused again this time cocking her head to the side expectedly. "Your voice makes me want to punch you in the face" Robin said once again flat. "You are so rude." she said her mouth hanging open.
"That is really attractive, you should keep your face just like that when you introduce yourself." Robin snorted pushing her way past the girl. She made her way down the hall feeling people congregate by the doors offering the Cullen's guides to their lockers and around school. "You would think that none of them have seen a good looking person before." she shook her head. Truthfully she had never seen anyone as heartbreakingly beautiful before, much less so many of them at once.
She closed her eyes and swallowed hard. At least she wasn't going to worship at their feet for being beautiful. Robin was better then all of the sheep she went to school with. "Hey, I'll pay for the ticket, even double so your insurance won't go up." Edward's voice cut through her thoughts. Robin's eyes snapped open. "What are you doing?" She asked taking longer quicker steps upset he had surprised her so easily.
"Walking you to class." he replied. "No, I am walking to class, you're walking to class. We just have the same class." Robin snapped. "Look, it's not a big deal. We are just walking." he shrugged nonchalantly. "But we aren't walking together." she said looking back at him. "And now we are." he said meeting her brisk pace. She stopped outside of the door abruptly and looked at him. "What is your deal?" she asked crossing her arms. "Deal, what deal? I am a normal seventeen year old guy and you're a beautiful girl." he smiled at her crookedly. Robin felt her cheeks flush and shook her head.
"Whatever you are, it isn't normal."
Robin felt as if Edward's eyes were burning through her very soul. Yet each time she stole a glance at him he was working intently on the quiz they had been given. The teacher wanted Jasper, Alice, and Edward to see if they could do any of the work to gauge where they were. Not surprisingly they each were working on their quizzes with the same ease as she was. Of course they would all be good students.
After the quiz Robin sat taking her meticulous notes in autopilot. Her hand moved independently writing down the teacher's words. Instead she studied Jasper sitting at her side. Blink, one, two, three, four, five, … thirteen, fourteen, blink. One, two, … thirteen, fourteen, blink. Every fifteenth count he blinked, like he was performing a habit rather then a natural function.
She shifted a little and stretched her legs out. This way she could study Alice while appearing natural. Her chest rose and fell with precision. Every seven counts inhale, then exhale. Her breathing was so even and perfectly in time it was as if she were peacefully sleeping. Robin turned her head a little wondering if she could catch any strange pattern Edward had fallen into. Instead she found him staring at her intently, like he was observing strange habits from her.
I wonder if I do something every so many counts, she wondered as the bell rang to let them leave for second period. Robin gathered her stuff ready to go to Envio Bio and looked up to see Edward standing at her side. "Can I help you?" she asked hotly. "As a matter of fact, you can. Would it be alright if I came over later and got together with you?." He asked scooping the arm full of books from Robin's hands so her arms could be free. "No. Can I have my books back?" she asked tilting her head to the side picking up her bag. "Why?" He asked starting to walk forcing Robin to do so as well. "Why can't you come over, or why do I want my books back?" she replied.
"Both." he said simply turning down the hall. "I would like my books back because I will need them in about three minutes. Do you even know where we are going?" she asked despite that he was walking in the right direction. "Environmental Biology room twenty-seven. You didn't answer the other why." he grinned looking over at her. "Where is Alice and Jasper?" she asked spinning to search for them.
Apparently Edward had been faster at not being caught by the fan club. "Look, I am sure there are tons of girls that would be more then ecstatic, to help you catch up." She said motioning to the crowd meandering toward them. "I didn't ask them. I asked you." he said. "I said no." She replied. "Why? You still haven't answered that." Edward grinned. "Because, you caused me to get a ticket this morning."
He smiled and leaned towards her, his topaz eyes sparkling. "I didn't do anything. I just was driving and the next thing I know Alice is out of her seat. I stopped thinking we had to go back, then you're giving me the evil eye while almost killing yourself." He gracefully put her books back in her arms. "Besides, I offered to pay that ticket." "You're lucky you just put these books in my arms, or I would knock you out right now." Robin nodded seriously. "Oh I don't doubt it." He laughed shaking his golden hair walking into the room.
Robin sat at her normal table spreading her things out. She watched as the tables started to fill up and everyone tried to entice Jasper, Alice, or Edward to sit at their lab table. Giggling she pointed at her free chair and shifted everything to be on her side. "Hey Alice!" she shouted to get the girl's attention.
Alice slid into the seat quickly leaving Edward and Jasper to claim a table to themselves. "Thanks, wow they are persistent." she laughed taking out her note book. "Funny, persistent, that is how I would describe my new neighbors." Robin laughed. "What does that mean?" Alice asked in mock offense. "It means that I just want to be left alone." Robin said flatly taking out her notebook. "If that is true then why did you let me sit with you?"
"It is only second hour and everyone wants a piece of your pie. I figure it would be nice for a break." Robin shrugged. The grad student came into the room walking awkwardly. "That's our teacher?" Alice asked skeptically. "Sort of this is for his dissertation or something." Robin explained. "Oh…" Alice nodded.
"So can anyone tell me.. Oh we have three new students." he said eyeing Robin as she removed her glasses from her nose and winked at him. "Good Morning Miss Gann, now would the three of you like to introduce yourselves?" he asked. "Lesson plan a little sketchy today Prof?" Robin asked grinning when his thin blob started to redden as the other students giggled.
"No, if you where in class yesterday you would be up to speed. Now, Miss Cullen?" he asked. Alice stood up confidently beside Robin. "I am Alice, I just moved to Platte City with my family from Los Angeles." Then she sat down quickly but not nervously. "That is all you got?" Robin hissed at Alice. "Oh shut up, I don't need to tell my life story. Can you even see without your glasses?" she hissed back in effort to be quite. Robin shook her head and looked over as Edward's form rose to the left of their table.
"I am Edward Cullen." Robin snorted hearing most of the girls in the room swoon. "I just moved here, Alice and Jasper are my brother and sister. I have two older siblings, Emmett and Rosalie. Our Mom works at home, and our Dad just started at St. Luke's in Kansas City." Edward sat down and looked at Jasper.
Jasper sat running his hand through his hair almost as if he was nervous where the other two had been rocks. "I am Jasper Hale." That was it, all he said. It was strange, he seemed much more distant then the others. He really had only talked to her once when she was to angry to respond.
Robin slipped her glasses back on so she could focus on Jasper. Edward looked over at them, it seemed he was looking past her at Alice. He raised his brow and then turned his attention to the front. Alice nudged Robin in the side. "So, Edward told me your dogs tracked in a bunch of water and mud last night during the storm. That sucks." she said sympathetically. "Mmmhmm." Robin nodded absently her eyes focused on Jasper.
"Right, so class for those of you were not with us yesterday. We are switching gears from the weather unit, expect the test to be on Friday. Miss Cullen and Mister Cullen along with Mister Hale your are excused from the test." The thin aid nodded before turning.
He scooped up papers from his open brief case. He passed them back and cleared his throat. "We are going to be focusing on local trees. These papers outline the project, and what you will be scored on. This is a partner project…" He was interrupted by Robin's hand shooting up. "As there is now an even amount of people in the class, EVERYONE will have a partner, no exceptions." he said Robin groaned and put her hand down.
"Now, I want you to pair off, once you have picked your partners I will assign everyone a tree." He smiled at them Robin groaned again feeling everyone's eyes on her. She was notorious for doing all the work to get the an A. She knew they were all looking for a nice fat grade booster. People stood up trying to get good partners. Jasper and Alice automatically paired off killing her idea of pairing with Alice.
"Robin…" she heard half a dozen voices bombard her. She closed her eyes feeling sorry, knowing how her gorgeous neighbors had spent the first part of the day. Her head was spinning and she felt like she was drowning in the sea of voices. A cool hand grabbed her wrist loosely and her eyes shot open.
"You ok you look a little overwhelmed, like your drowning." Edward said looking at Robin searching her face. She wondered how he seemed to be able to read her. It was like Edward Cullen was dialed into her frequency no matter how hard she fought. "Edward partner with me." Her mouth ordered before her brain could register her words.
He grinned at her the others standing around her looking at him waiting for his answer. "Is that an order or a request?" he asked. "Just say yes." she said trying to plead with her eyes. If he was her partner, he would probably do his fair share instead of relying on her perfectionism to do it all. "Look he obviously doesn't want to, pick someone else. Would you like to partner with me Ed?" Anna asked looping her arm through his.
Robin's jaw clenched in anger. How dare that bitch make a move on him like that. "Actually it is Edward and I would love to partner with you Robin." He said sharply looking at Anna's arm through his. "Your lose." Anna said dropping her arm away form him.
People started to move away to pair off. "Thank you." she said softly. "It's ok, I didn't want you to get stuck with all of the work." He shrugged moving her things from in front of Jasper so they could sit together. "How did you know?" she asked. "Well, I just got the feeling that you would rather do it all then get a bad grade. Who wouldn't take advantage of that?" he shrugged sitting her things down beside his. "You apparently." she smiled at him.
Once everyone had found partners the aid put slips of paper into a jar for the pairs to draw. He also carried a clip board to write down each pair's tree. When he got to Edward and Robin he looked at her down his nose. "Be nice." was all he said before she stuck her hand into the jar. "I am always nice." She said hotly and showed him the slip of paper. "Silver Maple, great choice." The aid said scratching it on his clip board before moving on.
Robin took her pen out marking little E's and R's by different bullet points. Each little R was something she would do and the E's belonged to Edward. "So I will do my share, you will do the little E's and then we will get together and put it in the book before school." She smiled at him presenting her plan. "Wow, you really don't work well with others do you?" he asked.
"I just figured it would be more efficient this way." She raised her brow. "Working separately on a group project?" he asked his face clearly skeptical. Of course the idea was absurd, but she was not overly fond of the idea of spending more time with Edward.
"Look, don't be so stubborn, it is a group project." he smiled at her his eyes seemed to darken. She shivered and rubbed her arms. She wasn't cold, she was wearing the track jacket, it was more like he was looking at her like she was a steak. Edward blinked and looked away. "I can come over about eight or so tonight and we can get started." he said after a second. Robin bit her lip and sighed. She always was getting the feeling she was pushing at him with one hand and beckoning to him with the other.
"Yeah, ok." she nodded. The bell rang and Edward started to gather her things along with his own. "I have arms to do that myself you know?" Robin sighed tilting her head. Truthfully it was sort of sweet in an old fashioned sort of way. "I was just raised to be a gentleman." he shrugged. She picked up her bag and didn't say anything as he grabbed her books to carry them to Lit class.
Lit class was pretty uneventful. A debate had broken out weather they should read Dracula or Patricia Corwell's analysis of the Jack the Ripper case. The class had settled on Dracula to Robin's disappointment. Not only had she read it before it scared her.
"How can you possible be more frightened of Dracula. That Corwell book has pictures of the corpses in it." Alice laughed as they walked to lunch. Jasper and Edward walking on either side of them. "It is simple. The Ripper was a man. He is dead. Dracula, was superhuman, and could live forever. If I had to fight for my life, I could have a shot at beating Jack the friggen Ripper ok? But Dracula, you throw down with him, your ass is going down. My last name sure as shit isn't Van Helsing. I don't know about Cullen's or Hale's but Gann's do not have any super vampire fighting knowledge." She laughed. The others fell silent and Robin raised a brow. "What's wrong?" she asked her brows knitting together. "Nothing." Alice laughed.
Emmett and Rosalie joined them right as they entered the cafeteria. Robin made her way through the lunch line grabbing cold mealy French fries and a slice of greasy pizza before sitting down at her normal table. Despite the fact that she was getting to like them she grimaced as the five sat at her table. With in seconds the table filled with other students. Awesome, the sheep are back, she thought sighing.
She ate silently observing the obscene fawning that her school mates lavished on the new students. It was a little humorous watching the Cullens skillfully dodge the advances and flirtations. Of course when your that beautiful you get lots of practice. When she finished Robin stood to take her tray to the return slot. The loud speaker cracked so the principal could read the announcements and Robin sighed.
In no mood to listen to the school wide announcements or go back to the love fest she grabbed her things without sitting down and then made for the exit. She went out to her car and slipped inside leaving her bag on the ground beside the car. Propping the door open with her leg she fished a stale pack of cigarettes from under her seat. She lit one and turned the radio on. "Sometimes you just need a little alone time."
Despite being stale the cigarette made her feel light headed. Since she didn't smoke habitually the little nicotine still gave her a head change. She turned her radio on and then leaned back closing her eyes letting Paramore fill her ears. "I put my faith in you so much faith in you, then you just threw it away threw it away." she sang tossing the half smoked butt away from her with a flick of her wrist.
"What are you doing?" Edward's voice cut through her singing. The sun broke through the clouds and for a second she thought she saw Edward's sparking in typical white knight fashion. "You following me now?" she asked irritated. How did he always manage to sneak up on her, it was annoying.
"You didn't answer my question." he said moving to lean on his car. "You didn't answer mine. Your fan club must be upset that you keep slipping away to spend time with me." Robin shot. "You just left, I was worried." he said looking at her. She sighed, he always was doing that. He would say something insightful and then just look at her, really look at her. It was one of the things that caused her to be so drawn to him. What a ridiculous notion to be drawn to someone she hardly knew. "Why, are you here?" she asked suddenly. "Well my Dad got a job here." he grinned at her. "Edward that is not what I meant and you know it." She said sternly.
"Well, what do you want me to say?" He asked leaning towards her his hair falling into his eyes. Robin flushed in anger, what kind of response was that? "How about the truth Edward." she spat at him. "Meaning?" he asked looking at her through his hair. His eyes were defiantly darker then they had been yesterday. Maybe he was angry and it was darkening his stare. Robin saw him jerk like he wanted to look away but he stayed gazing at her.
"It means since you got here, you have been ever so persistent in, well just persistent. There are times when your sweet and enduring. Then there are other times when you just stare at me and it freaks me out. Plus you have this like secret language that you use when…" She stopped and bit her lip to stop from finishing. He was always doing something to distract her if she noticed anything weird about his family.
She started to chew on her lip. In fact Rose and Alice had started to talking to her while she was thinking how strange Esme's arm didn't move when she wrote. "When what Robin?" Edward asked sharply. "When you want to distract me." she said back hotly. "That is absurd." he shook his head. "Is it? I think the gentlemen doth protest to much." She said turning her radio off and standing up from her driver seat.
"Or maybe you are full of yourself." he shrugged. "Excuse me?" "No, I think you can't handle the idea that someone is taking the spot light from you." Robin's jaw clenched and her eyes narrowed behind her purple frames. "Yeah, that is it. I love the spot light. I love it so much that I hide in my big house, with my fancy cars. I love it so much that I push everyone away so that can't see how bad I still hurt every day. God to think I was counting you as a friend. You know what just do the little E's on the paper, I'll do the R's and you stay the hell away from me." Robin shouted.
"Is that an order or a request?" Edward asked smugly. Robin's hand formed a fist and without thinking she threw a punch at his face. Her hand met with his face, but it might as well been the pavement. Searing pain that made her see spots filled her vision. "Fuck!" she howled cradling her right hand with her left. She took a deep breath to clear her vision and was angered that Edward's face was no worse for the wear. "Let me see your hand." He said holding out his hand.
Robin looked at her hand held closely to her chest and could see that her middle two fingers where distorted under the skin. "Go fuck yourself." she said hotly. She picked her bag up wincing as she did so and letting it fall to the ground with a thud. "Let me he.." "Stop just stop." she said cutting him off. Leaving her bag she started walking to the entrance.
Mrs. Lockhart looked at Robin's hand as she started to sign out with her left hand. "I slammed it in my car door." Robin smiled through the pain. "Dear that looks broken." the elderly secretary said. "I know, that is why I am going to drive to the hospital and get it fixed." Robin said flatly. "Well, do you want someone to take you?" she asked in a concerned sort of way. "Nah, besides name a single friend I have in there to take me." Robin laughed. "Well, ok…" Mrs. Lockheart said reluctantly.
Robin went back out to her car to find her bag loaded in the car, with Edward no where in sight. She got in and started her car left handed. It took her a few tries to find a position she could shift in without hurting her hand before leaving.
After a few hours of sitting in the waiting room at St. Luke's she was taken to get X-rays and then sent to an emergency room cubicle. She flipped through the cable channels on the t.v. in the room waiting for the doctor. "Good afternoon, I am Doctor Cullen…" Carlisle said entering the room. Robin groaned running her good hand through her hair. "Oh Robin, hmmm." he checked his chart and set it aside pulling out the X-rays. He held them up to the light inspecting them. "So you have dislocated your second and third fingers. How did you manage that?" he asked setting the X-ray aside and sitting on a rolling stool in front of her. "I guess I am lucky, I thought I had broken them on your son's face." she said sharply. Typically she would have made an effort to be nicer but between her anger at Edward and the pain she was in no mood for civility. "Oh you and Edward had a disagreement I take it?" he asked pressing on her hand.
Robin winced and merely nodded. "Does that hurt?" he asked. Robin nodded and made an effort to pull her hand free. Carlisle held on to it as if it cost him nothing but his grip was like a vice. "Now this is going to be rather painful." he said smoothly before popping the bones back into place. Robin howled in pain and started swearing calling Carlisle every name in the book.
Once she had calmed down he started writing a prescription. "I want you to take a couple of these if you start experiencing any pain. Now you drive a stick correct?" he asked looking over his pad at her. Robin nodded. "Do you have an automatic?" He asked. "No, why is this important?" she asked. "Well gripping the shift will be difficult for a few days. In fact I am surprised you drove yourself here. Is there anyone to call that could get you?"
Robin bit her lip and sighed. "I am a tough girl." "Of that I am quite sure. Now, is there someone that could come get you?" Carlisle asked again. "Are you asking me as my neighbor or as my Doctor?" Robin asked. "Well as your Doctor I would advise that you not drive yourself home, but ultimately it your hand function you are risking. As your neighbor I am merely concerned."
"There isn't anyone, I have no family save for two dogs. No friends to speak of. And I fired all the help that my parent's employed at the house." Robin said flatly. "You know, I do have five children that do like you." He said in a mildly amused tone. "Right, well seeing as I punched Edward in the face…" she said chortling in the back of her throat.
"Well then call one of the others." He said handing her the prescription pad and discharge papers. "Just not Jasper, because he can't handle being around people that well." She said testing him. She had noticed him nervous around people, she couldn't place why but he was. "Yes, Jasper would not be a good choice for you to be alone with." he said slowly his eyes studying her. She bit her lip and shook her head. Whatever the Cullen family was hiding was sketchy.
"Well, I would, but you see I hate head games. I don't want to spend forty minutes to get back, probably ten to fill this script , and three to pick up some dinner of one of the others trying to convince me that you guys are normal." Robin said angrily. Carlisle looked at her in shock. "Have a good day Carlisle." Robin nodded curtly before stalking out of the room.
She knew it wasn't fair to take her anger against Edward out on him. She considered going back in and apologizing but decided against it. Maybe the little scene would make Edward leave her alone. She went to the parking lot to get into her car. She walked to where she had parked it to find the spot empty. Panicked she spun in a circle looking for it. Tears started to form in her eyes at the realization she had let her Father's car be stolen.
She dug through her purse trying to see through her streaming tears to find her phone. Eventually she found it and she wandered to the curb of the hospital trying to dial nine one one. Her fingers clumsy on her phone unable to perform the action. She removed her glasses the lens filled with salty tears and rubbed her eyes trying to slow the tears.
She held the phone close to her face to focus on the numbers and tried to once again dial the number and failed. She screamed and threw her phone on the ground listening to it scrap against the pavement. "Whoa there killer." A voice chuckled. Robin looked up at saw Emmett's huge form filling her vision. "My car…" She started but her words were stolen by her sobs.
"Rose took it home. Carlisle asked me to pick you up." he said offering her his hand. She wiped her tears from her eyes with the back of her hand and smooched her glasses onto her face. She grabbed his hand and he pulled her to her feet. "Come on sluggo let's get you in the jeep." he laughed indicating an off road style red jeep.
Once she was in and buckled up Emmett pulled away from the curb. "So you and Edward?" he asked looking over at her. "What about us?" She asked her brow raised her eyes crusty with salty remains. "That is what I am trying to figure out." he laughed. "I don't know he just hits my buttons, all of them not just the angry ones. And it's more like he is smashing them in. I can't figure which way is up." she sighed unable to believe she had just told him that.
Emmett was silent and just drove. "I don't know, it is weird you know. I can't figure him out, any of you. Your so damn Brady Bunch." She said. He chuckled and looked at her. "It isn't funny, it's like your hiding something. Every time I notice something weird one of you distracts me. Between that and Edward, it's like I am getting the old one two punch." "Very apropos beings you tried to knock Edward out." Emmett laughed.
"You know, I think you're my favorite. You're the easiest." He raised his brow glancing at her. "No for real Em. Your just like me, you just say what you want to say. You aren't trying to work me over. Shit your just here because Carlisle asked you to be." Robin sighed. "Maybe, I don't like you, so I say mean things and you just think I am saying what's on my mind." Emmett suggested.
"Well that could be a possibility. You could hate me because I am going to figure your secret out." Robin said. Emmett snorted and shook his head. "Not in a million years." Robin sighed. "Whatever. I am gonna put this shit on lock down." Emmett looked at her and just grinned.
They lapsed into silence, but it was easy. "You need to get anything?" Emmett asked finally. "Well a prescription, and I need some major food." Emmett turned and stopped at a Walgreen's. They dropped the prescription off to be filled. Then he decided to go to Taco Bell while they waited.
They went back after hitting up the drive through to get her pain pills and then started off toward their houses that lay between their small town and the larger city where the hospital was. "So that stuff I said about Edward…" Robin said finally sipping her drink. "Are you asking me to keep it quite?" Emmett asked looking over at her. "I give you a taco." Robin wiggled her brows at him. "Ok, but you can keep your taco for your fat dogs." he chuckled.
Robin's brows knitted together in a frown. How did he know her dogs were fat. Edward could have told him but that seemed like a silly detail he wouldn't have even noticed in the dark. "How did you know my dogs were fat?" she asked finally after several moments of silence as he turned on to their road. "I saw them in your back yard." he shrugged. "Oh." was all she said. Her yard was fenced and there was no way he could have seen them unless he had been in the woods behind her house.
"Well thanks for stealing my car at your Father's behest. Next time he should just tell me instead of doing it and then trying to get me to agree." She smiled uneasily as Emmett stopped in her driveway. "No problem, I'll be sure to pass on the message." he laughed. Robin hopped out of the jeep food in one hand medicine in the other. She opened the garage to check on her car and was relieved to see it there. She grinned seeing the Lotus had been cleaned and closed the big automatic door before entering into the house.
She frowned hearing the dogs barking from outside and went to the deck door to let them in. Then she went to the living room and sat down taking out a taco. She rummaged through the bag looking for mild sauce and swore. "Damn it…" she groaned. Why hadn't she asked Emmett to get mild sauce? She stood and went to the fridge. Surely in the butter tray where she stored her packets there would be some taco sauce.
Robin opened her fridge and her mouth fell open. Her pizza box and Chinese carton riddled fridge had been cleaned and emptied. In the take out box's place there was food, real food. She frowned her brows almost touching in displeasure. There hadn't been any real groceries in that fridge in months, the most Robin ever brought was orange juice.
Robin opened the little butter holder on the side of the door, her treasure trove of fast food sauce gone. "Where the hell are my packets?" she asked indignantly. The dogs just barked and wagged their tails at her. "You let them take the Arby sauce, really? Really?" she scoffed. This had Esme written all over it. She slammed the fridge door and stomped to her room.
Robin grabbed the pair of jeans she had worn home from last night and fished out the napkin. She flipped her phone open and dialed one of the numbers. "Hello." Rosalie's voice answered. "What happened to my sauces?" Robin asked. "Oh, hey. I brought your car home and cleaned your Lotus." She said easily as if it was nothing. "Kay yeah, thanks for that. Now my fridge looks like HyVee threw up in there. So start splaining Lucy." Rosalie laughed then stopped as if she realized Robin was not joking.
"I went inside to get a coke or something to drink. There was month old lo mein so I told Esme and we went shopping it's no big deal." Rosalie said as if they had done her a favor. Well they had in a way, but Robin didn't like cooking in her mother's kitchen. Her mother had cooked fancy funky finger food for parties there. She just wasn't comfortable making mac and cheese there, and she sure wasn't comfortable with her perfect neighbors seeing how she lived.
"No it is a big deal. You coming and picking up my car without my permission is a big deal. You coming into my house and seeing, it's a big deal." Robin said yelling into the phone. "My life is a mess, a wreck and for you to come in here and see that is a big deal." She went on starting to pace. "Robin, I was just trying to help." Rosalie said sounding defensive. "I don't need help!" she screamed snapping her phone closed and throwing it against the wall. Her phone broke as it hit and thudded on the floor.
She grabbed the pieces of her phone and left her room. She sat down at the breakfast table and sighed looking at her broken phone. "It looks like I am getting a new phone." she sighed. She stood and grabbed the fast food bag and unwrapped the tacos tossing them into the dog's bowls. She opened the fridge sighing. She started to catalogue the items in her new well stocked and ordered fridge. She had a lot of basic foods and a good variety of fruits and vegetables. She couldn't but help the smile on her lips seeing fresh pineapple pre-sliced and a bunch of asparagus, her two favorite foods in the world.
She closed the fridge and opened the cupboards, they too were well stocked and the same with her freezer. She sighed torn between emotions. On one hand it was a complete and total invasion into her sad little life, on the other hand it was really sweet to have someone care. Her rumbling stomach reminded her of the bland tacos laying in the dogs bowls, and that she was hungry.
Going to the stove she set up a pan of water to boil. Then she grabbed from the fridge the asparagus and feta cheese. So feta crumbled on steamed asparagus wasn't a complete dinner but it was better than fast food any day Robin reasoned. After making the food she sat down on the counter and started to eat . The dogs came out from where ever they had ridden her tantrum out at. Instead of begging for her steamed veggie dish they tore into the discarded tacos.
Once she was done she cleaned up and took a pain pill then headed to the living room. She put War of the Worlds in the DVD player and turned it on covering herself up with the blanket. It was still pretty early by her standard but her day had been long. Her long day compounded with the pain pill for her aching hand and her comfortable position on the couch sent Robin drifting to sleep.