'Calm down… I'm getting too dangerous for this.' Alice thought as she abruptly stopped her train of thought, it was something she had recently realised, maybe because she unlike the other didn't remember her time when she had been human, her reactions to her mate were… a lot more violent and much much darker in nature.
'If I don't start saying no to myself, I could do something really really bad. I need to… keep myself in check more. No calling him, no trying to go and spy on him whilst he sleeps again, none of that.' Alice thought to herself as she shook her head, she knew that she was weird, she knew that she wasn't remotely close to human in any real sense of the word, however Alan was, and she needed to do her best to understand that, even if she didn't truly know how.
And so, Alice Cullen… decided that she would not be visiting or calling Alan tonight, much to the unfortunate luck of a certain Alan Walker who was currently covered in splashes of slime goo all over his body after another fight with a group of four green slimes inside his system's dungeon.
As all of these events were taking place, at a certain pizzeria inside Forks, two people had gotten together and were currently having dinner together for the first time in a long time.
"So Bells… how've you found school?" Charlie Swan, the current chief of the Forks police asked his daughter with his usual gruff and utterly awkward tone of voice, the man hadn't truly interacted with his only daughter and child in so long and found it hard to reconnect the small girl that he had raised with the current person she had become, and yet he was trying, he had been trying his best to do so. He had bought her a truck as a welcome back gift, had tried to talk with her and make sure she had everything she wanted.
However unfortunately for Charlie, his daughter was simply his own copy atleast in demeanour, Bella Swan who was sitting before him, taking a slice of pizza, was just as equally awkward in small talk as he was.
"I… uh, I guess I've been good, made a few friends, Jessica, Mike, Eric and uh Angela." Bella said softly, her voice small and almost barely there, the words coming out slowly and almost as if her throat was slightly clogged up.
"Oh, I know those kids, they're good kids, I'm glad. Especially Angela, she's a good one, studies a lot too, and the Mike kid, his parents run the local sports shop, he helps them quite a bit during the summer." Charlie said with slight surprise as atleast a part of the awkwardness was removed, he now had a topic to talk about with his daughter, he could do this.
"Ah yeah…" Bella replied as she took the pizza slice…. And then she ate it.
And so the conversation came to an instant stop once more, no matter how much one wanted to make a conversation, it was usually a two sided thing, one couldn't talk with someone who was clearly not interested, the conversation would simply come to a lull.
It was at that moment however that Bella's eyes lit up slightly as he turned to fully face her father.
"So uh Charlie, what's up with the uhm Cullens." Bella asked curiously whilst trying to seem like she was just asking randomly though she was failing quite spectacularly as anyone with a decent pair of eyes could see that she was clearly very much interested in knowing about them.
Thankfully, Charlie Swan seemed to not have a decent pair.
"The Cullens? Oh, doctor Carlisle Cullen's family? They're all a very nice bunch Bella, they've never made any problems and have actually helped around quite a lot, especially doctor Carlisle, a doctor of his level could have gone to work into any of the big cities and yet he chose to come to Forks for a quiet life and so that he could raise his children right. I hope you didn't believe the rumors going on around them, frankly, they're one of the nicest families in Forks." Charlie replied quickly, clearly having had to deal with a lot of baseless rumors about the Cullens before.
"Ah no, I didn't believe any of the rumors, just asked randomly. One of the uh kids, Edward Cullen was givin me weird looks a few days ago that's all." Bella said shyly as she looked away towards the window on her left, showing the darkened streets of Forks outside of the pizzeria place.
"Ah Edward, yeah he's always been a bit of an introvert, I'm sure he just wanted to talk to you or something Bells, he likely didn't have anything against you, did you ask him? It could have just been a misunderstanding." Charlie said softly, trying to reassure his daughter whilst believing in the good of others, especially the good of the people who constantly seemed to be misjudged in his eyes by others around Forks.
"Ah, not yet, but yeah… It was likely just a misjudgement on my part… I'll just ask him when I, uh, see him at school." Bella replied as she shook her head, slowly inwardly starting to question herself if what she had really seen had been nothing more than just a misunderstanding on her part and yet her mind, as always like a curious cat simply couldn't believe that, whatever had happened on that day in biology class had indeed been just that, it was simply… too weird.
'What person, asks to change their entire class just because of a misunderstanding? And then starts missing school for days right after… something… just doesn't add up here.' Bella thought to herself as she saw droplets of rain start falling from the sky, faster and faster until a complete downpour began.
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