Chapter 7: Family Relationships

Abigail's POV

I was really worried about my sister. Her reluctance to talk to me about whatever was bothering had me worried. I didn't want Edward to be the reason that I lost my sister. We have been so close to each other for so many years. It would hurt me so much to lose her for something like this.

"Archie what do I do?" I asked him. "I don't want to lose Bella"

"Well there is not much that you can do" he said. "All you can do is try to stay close to her. But it's up to her if she wants to push you away or not"

"Can't you do something to stop us from breaking apart?" I asked, sounding hopeful.

"Sadly kid. No. There are just somethings that I cannot interfere in. Familial relationships is one of those things. All that I can do is give you advice"

I didn't want to think about this anymore so I went back upstairs to my room. I laid down on my bed and started reading a book. My dog/guardian angel was content just to lay next to me on my bed. I massaged his back and scratched him behind the ears; things that I know he particularly enjoyed.

He fell asleep with his head in my lap. Honestly he really could be a huge pain in the ass sometimes, but I loved him. I couldn't exactly admit it to him, not directly anyway, but I did need him. He was like a second father to me. I didn't even count my dad from my first life as a father because he was just never there.

I ever so gently pushed him off of me and began to do my math homework that I had been assigned for the day. I got stuck on a particularly hard word problem. I was about to break my pencil in half from the frustration when a voice entered my head.

"The answer is 46" Archie told me.

"What? How did you get that?" I asked him. He then went on to explain to me exactly how he got the correct answer. Another thing about my guardian angel, well he is basically like my personal tutor. I may be a genius thanks to my schooling experience in my other life, but there were a lot of things that I either didn't go over, or completely forgot since I hadn't done it in years.

I remember that there was a particularly hard science final that I had a few years back. I was so afraid that I was going to fail that I tried to talking Archie into giving me the answers as I was doing the test. Needless to say that my angel was not exactly, um, happy that I was trying to talk him into helping me cheat. He went as far as to temporarily sever our psychic connection so that I had no choice but to do the test fairly. I ended up getting a C on that final.

A few minutes later I heard someone knocking on the door.

"Who is it?" I asked.

"Your sister" Bella responded.

I noticed that she still looked somewhat upset when I opened the door.

"What is it Bella?" I asked.

"I just want to let you know that Dinner is ready. Ch-dad and I are just waiting for you" she said.

"Okay, I'll be down there in a minute" I said.

Archie and I went down to the kitchen where both dad and Bella were waiting. I served Archie his food before sitting down to eat myself. Bella cooked lasagna for dinner. For dessert we would have the cookies that I baked.

Archie suddenly stood up and ran up the stairs.

"I wonder what is wrong with him" Dad said.

"I have absolutely no idea" I said.

"Yeah, he was kind of jumpy. Like he heard something. It's not like him to just take off like that" Bella said.

"Um Abby" Archie said, getting my attention. "I don't mean to alarm you or anything but Edward is standing here in your room"

So what do you think? Sorry it's taken so long to update it. Also, I'm sorry it's really short. I promise that the next chapter will be longer.