Expect The Unexpected

He talks!

Chapter 14 - He Talks!

I spent the next day cooking. Cooking was one of my passions from when I was human, I learned how to cook while helping the maid cook dinner. Father never knew about it, which made me love it all the more. Usually I eat the food I make or I give it away because I make so much of it.

"Bella?" Charlie called, walking through the small house. He wasn't really sure what I was doing today and didn't know if I was home or not.

"Hey Dad, welcome home."

"Thanks." He hung up his gun and belt and stepped out of his boots as I bustled about the kitchen. As far as I was aware, he never actually used his gun on the job. But from Bella's memories, he use to remove the bullets as soon as he walked in the door. I guess he thought that I was old enough now to not shoot myself by accident and not depressed enough to shoot myself on purpose. Not that it would kill me, unless you filled it with wooden bullets.

"What's for dinner?" he asked.

"Steak and potatoes." I answered. He looked relieved apparently he thought I was going to cook something disgusting.

He seemed to feel awkward standing in the kitchen doing nothing; he lumbered into the living room to watch TV while I worked. I rolled my eyes, just like the old day; Men doing nothing and women doing all the work.

I called him when dinner was ready, watching as he sniffed the air appreciatively as he walked in. "Smells good Bella."

"Thanks."

We ate in silence for a few minutes, enjoying the food. "So, how was school?" he asked as he was taking seconds.

"Good, I guess." It was Great! No one suspected a thing. I think I could get use to living here as long as the Cullens don't interfere. "Do you know the Cullen family?" I asked hesitantly.

"Dr. Cullen's family ? Sure. Dr. Cullen's a great man."

"The kids….they're different from everybody else." Charlie surprised me by getting angry.

"People in this town," he muttered. "Dr. Cullen is a brilliant surgeon who could possibly work in any hospital in the world, make ten times the salary he gets here." Charlie continued to get louder as he went on. "We're lucky to have him, lucky that his wife wants to live in a small town. He's an asset to the community, and all those kids are well behaved and polite. I had my doubts, when they first moved in, with all those adopted teenagers. I though we might have some problems with them. But they're all very mature, I haven't had one speak of trouble from any of them. That's more than I can say for the children of some folks who have lived in this town for generations. And they stick together the way a family should, camping trips every other weekend…Just because they're new comers, people have to talk."

If only he knew that they are vampires, that I am a vampire but we are not the same. They were like that vampire I met back in Italy, but they didn't have red eyes. If only he knew that they drank blood, were super fast and super strong.

"They seem nice enough to me."

Then there was silence as we finished eating. When we were dont he cleared the table and I did the dishes. As soon as he was done, the old man went back to the TV.  I finished washing dishes by hand, no dishwasher, and headed upstairs to 'work on my math homework' but really I was going to sneak out and go hunting.

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People greeted me in the parking lot Monday morning. I couldn't help but notice that the silver Volvo was there. In English we had a test on one of the books we were suppose to read. And when class got out it was snowing.