The zombie niece

Chapter 03

Liv's POV
I was driving home from my shift at the morgue, I felt better after talking to Robbie about Bella and was heading home to cook dinner.

I arrived first and started cooking dinner for Bella and Charlie plus my non-meaty dinner after putting my jars of non animal meat in my mini fridge in my room. Billy had called and said that he was dropping off Bella's homecoming gift and Harry's fish fry which I thanked him profusely for and hung up.

It was honestly nauseating to cook the meat, but I was slowly getting used to the smell of burning dead flesh......I know, I make it sound so appetizing.

I honestly miss human food though.....today I saw Robbie eating m&m's and I started crying. I miss my mom's roast beef and chili with red beans, I miss my dad's Chicago style steak, and I miss Uncle Charlie's mega loaded baked potato with extra green onions.

I miss being human and enjoying simple human pleasures....it was something that I always took for granted and now here I am.

A walking corpse that can't eat anything and taste it.

I sighed and shook off my depressing thoughts, just in time too. The front door opened and Charlie called out "Liv! We're home!" I wiped my hands and exited the kitchen to enter the entry way to see Charlie standing next to Bella who hadn't changed much since I last saw her when we were 16 and 14.

She still had the slim boxy formed body with a long oval face and sharp, snake like facial features and the same muddy brown eyes. Her hair had changed from a pin straight, shoulder length style to curly and mid-back length and strangely resembled dead, dried seaweed. I noticed that she'd grown a little taller from 5'3 to an even 5'5.

She must've gotten a better skincare routine because she no longer had pizza face, though she did have a lot of acne scarring.

And her fashion sense.....hadn't changed at all.

I forced a smile praying that by some miracle she'd changed "Bella, it's so nice to—-" I'm abruptly cut off by Bella sneering at me and saying "Why the fuck are you in my house? Don't you have your own house to live in when your parents died? Or were you written out of your parents will? Certainly wouldn't surprise me."

Charlie looked at her horrified and started to say "Bella-?!" Only to be cut off by me yanking her nappy hair to the side making her yelp and grab at my wrist and struggle to get away.

"Listen here, Isabella, that shit may work on the insecure high school girls back in Phoenix and you may be able to get away with being a heinous bitch there too, but Forks is different. You keep my parents out your fucking mouth, and you watch your fucking attitude with me because I will not tolerate it. What happened between my mom and you when you were 14, will look like child's play to what I have in store for you" I hissed into her ear in a deathly tone.

I then shoved her off of me and whipped out a bottle of hand sanitizer to wash my hands of her Bella germs. Bella panted and wildly looked at Charlie "She just put her hands on me! That's assault and she threatened me! Arrest her! Why are you just standing there?!" Charlie raised his hands and took a step back.

He looked at me with a raise brow and I shrugged before turning to Bella and saying "Disciplining a spoilt brat is not assault, and I don't make petty threats, I make promises. That was just your first and only warning, Isabella. Now take your bags upstairs and unpack. Dinner will be ready shortly" I then left the room.

I heard some arguing before Bella stormed upstairs and Charlie entered the kitchen "I'm so sorry about that Liv, are you okay?" I nodded "I'm fine, but I've been debating on what to do with my old house" Charlie nods "What do you wanna do? Are you...are you ready to move back in?" I shook my head "No, I don't think I'll ever be able to live there again. I was thinking about selling it.... And using the money to get my own in Seattle in between my work and college."

Charlie nods "It sounds like a solid plan. I'll help you empty the house, are you sure that you're ready to let it go?" I nodded "Yeah..." suddenly I hear a honking sound and look at Charlie questioningly "Renee demanded that get Bella a car, so I got her Billy's old truck" "Pfft-!" I snickered almost dropping my ladle fully into the soup "What? Renee only said to get her a car, she didn't specify if I had to spend money on said car. If Bella wants her own car then she should work for it like you and I did when we were teens, and like how you mother and brother did."

I sadly smiled down at the soup "I'll hold off on letting her drive it though, a little bit of punishment for her attitude and behavior" I chuckled and nodded before Charlie left to go talk to Billy.

I let the soup simmer as I went to go greet our guests. I ignored Jacob and Isabella's glares and instead hugged Billy who happily returned my embrace.