Gabriel (Continued) (Book 2)

Part 2: Tonight

A-N- The dress is Nikola's prom dress :)

May 28th (Johanna's POV)

"Come on you two, let's go! We're already late," I yelled to the upstairs. I finished putting in my silver earrings and then tapped my foot impatiently. 

"No impatient foot tapping," Gabriel scolded as he walked in the room, "Save that for your daughter taking forever up there." 

"Yes, dear," I huffed and then held up the little post it note with the address Drew gave me. 

"This is?" Gabriel asked, memorizing the address. 

"The new location of the prom. Apparently a water pipe burst and flooded the gym so now they have prom at that church." 

Gabriel set down the note on the counter, "I'm so proud of our son. I know that he didn't want us at his prom yet he still alerted us to the changed plans. What a good boy he is." 

I kissed Gabriel because I loved him. 

"Why can't I just stay home?" Nikola huffed from the foot of the stairs. 

"Because." I responded. 

"Because I know that the moment we leave you'll have Crash come back. No, your punishment is to hang out with your mother and I at the prom," Gabriel clarified. I personally think she would have been fine at home. Crash has work- and he's apparently Rhoan. I mean, he has to know how wrong him dating his god-daughter would be, right? 

"Into the car, Nikola," I ushered her out of the house while grabbing my shawl and sitting in the front seat of Gabriel's BMW. We drove in an awkward silence to the church. When we pulled into the lot there was nobody there. The only car was Drew's porsche.  

"I guess everyone took a limo," Gabriel says absent-mindedly. 

I didn't say anything, but I was thinking that obviously couldn't be right. When I went to highschool, tailgating was popular and boys always wanted the chance to screw their girlfriends in the back of their cool new cars. We stepped out of the car and Gabriel and I ignored the light mumble that Nikola made. Then she slapped her hands on the roof of the car. 

"Didn't you hear me?" She screeches, "None of you told me how nice I look!" 

I thought she did- but she was right, I hadn't said anything. I don't know how these punishments are supposed to work! Gabriel grounds her when I thought we should have let her go, and then he ends up taking her? So was I supposed to have complimented her as if she weren't in trouble? 

"That's because you're in trouble," Gabriel says back. 

"But I didn't do anything!" Nikola cries. 

"Nikola, let's not do this," I whisper, "Not know." 

"Why not?" She yells back, "Don't you want the world to know the truth? We aren't the perfect family," tears stream down her cheeks, "You guys are clueless and I bore the brunt of it even after I had changed for the better! Why can't you guys see that you have been punishing me for getting out?"  

I round the car to stand in front of her while Gabriel tries to figure out what to say. I wipe away her tears and fix her makeup. 

"Baby, I'm sorry if we punished you wrongly. You told us what had happened so we did what we thought was right-" 

"But you couldn't see," she whispers, "I thought that parents were supposed to see things kids couldn't." 

No, only vampires were. I wasn't sure what she was talking about. What had Gabriel and I missed?