Chapter 13: Need To Know
CHARLIE SWAN
"Hey, Billy," I said. I helped him into shotgun and loaded his wheelchair into the back of the cruiser. "I hear Jake's back in town."
"Yep," he said. "Bella, too."
"She is?" I said, surprised. "Why didn't she call me?"
"They're having the first annual Monster Convention at the old Cullen place," Billy told me. "She'll bring Edward and Nessie by as soon as it's over."
"Monster Convention, eh? Well, that explains the giant dancing bug."
He followed my gaze in the direction of the Cullen house, where the fuzzy red winged colossus was still swaying to some inaudible beat.
"Yeah, all kinds of monsters are turning out," Billy told me. "The Cullens' extended family from Alaska, those bird kids that have been popping up in the news."
"Can I go?" I asked.
"No, no humans allowed," he said apologetically. "Security reasons, you know. I mean, some of the boys' girlfriends are well aware of the secret, so they came, but not even the human friends of the government-sponsored monsters are allowed in."
"Don't you know the secret?"
"Yeah, but I didn't want you to get lonely. You only have a vague idea of what they all are…"
"And I don't want any more," I said hastily. "Whatever the Cullens are, whatever they turned Bella into… knowing that my daughter isn't human anymore is enough for me, thank you very much. I don't need to know exactly what she is. You ever notice that she has no heartbeat?"
"Yeah, it's freaky," Billy said.
Sorry, this one came out just like the Nudge chapter… I get the idea for someone to narrate but don't know what to do with 'em. I hope they're sweet enough to make up for being short.