Grounded for 3 weeks. And I’ve only been home five minutes. Mum and dad gave me literally no chance to speak and just shouted questions. I mean, how am I supposed to answer question one if they are already shouting question two at me? They practically shoved me in the front room and shouted ‘grounded’ at me. Rolling my eyes I shouted back.
“How long o mighty parents?” I said with my amazing witty charm.
“Would have been a fortnight, but thanks to that comment it’s 3 weeks.” Mum shouted. Joshua snorts from the other side of the room and I flash him my middle finger.
“Do you want a month?” My dad booms. I groan and throw my hands over my face.
“Where were you?” Mum questions loudly as if I’m stupid.
“And why didn’t you tell us?” Dad adds.
“Yes, why and how did you get there?” Mum adds on after dad. Oh for crying out loud!
“Think about it logically. You keep asking me questions and I don’t know which one to answer.” Slow and careful like I’m talking to a two year old I point out my defence.
“Don’t get smart with us Adrianna. Where have you been?” Mum snaps.
“Have a nice time at the ball?” I ask timidly trying to distract them.
“We didn’t go. We got delayed looking for my ticket ‘coz we couldn’t bloody find it and then dad broke down your door to find you were missing-” Mum starts.
“MY DOOR?” I yelp. As fast as I possible I run to my room to find my door hanging on my one hinge.
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I watch with a glare as dad locks my window and slips the key in his pocket.
“If you ever dare to run off like that again I’ll lock your door...” dad mutters darkly. Rolling my eyes I stalk over to the door and hold it open. I wait for him to turn round but he doesn’t. He just mutters and stares out the window. Oh my days. Coughing quietly I wait for him to take the hint. Nope. Still not taking the hint. I cough a little more. Then I start the choking fit. Nope. Still not noticed.
“Dad! Move will you?” I say exasperated.
“Excuse me?” He says dangerously.
“I need to get changed and go to bed and yeah. Privacy please?” I snap. Dad gives a warning look but walks out and I slam the shut behind him.
I explained to mum about going to the ball (minus the Edward part) and confessed to taking her invitation. I’m grounded for a month and my window will probably be locked for the rest of eternity. Understandably mum is angry ‘coz I took her invite and dad is just generally annoyed. Oh and mum’s annoyed ‘coz I wore her dress that she was saving for when I was older. Blah blah. Get over it? And I did find the dress I bought last year and I can tell you it would have looked stupid. It’s just a plain black dress with sleeves and it’s not even short. I would have looked like a little kid.
So now just sat in my room doing bugger all I’m wondering what I’m going to do. With a loud groan I just pick up my phone and dial Keira.
“ Hey! How’s the running away going?” She says sarcastically.
“Back home. I came back.” I say flatly.
“Pfft. What did you do? Get bored of sitting on a park bench!” She says with a snort.
“No! Man, some confidence wouldn’t go a miss here?” Protesting I glance at the clock, 11:30.
“Look I haven’t got long Adrianna-” Keira starts. I was about to start with that!
“No, me neither. But one last thing yeah? I went to the vamp ball.” I add proudly.
“Yeah. Okay.” Keira says with disbelief.
“No, seriously, I did. I’m grounded for a month.” I explain.
It was quite difficult getting off the phone to her after that. I explained how I got there and that I got in and stuff but I couldn’t quite tell her about Edward. It just feels like no one should know that yet. To put her off the scent of Edward I told her there were some other fit vamp types down there and that got her talking. She wants to know all about it so I promised I’d tell all at school tomorrow. Mum told me not to tell anyone as it’s ‘shameful’ but if I tell Keira not to tell anyone then that’s okay right? I’m not going to tell anyone about Edward. I’m not sure what happened myself. He’s just constantly on my mind and I have literally thought of nothing else. When dad was shouting and somehow slipped the word ‘duh’ into conversation I instantly thought of the way Edward said it when he was being playfully sarcastic. I miss that.
