Lilith Swan

The first month back home was pretty uneventful aside from Bella's constant grumbling about being grounded. But to his credit dad was uncharacteristically and astonishingly strict about her seeing Edward after returning from Italy. Though I wonder how he would react if he were to find out that Edward was breaking into his house every night. Watching his daughter sleep.

He was disconcertingly creepy.

Felix and dad got on like a house on fire after they first met and I had no ideas that Felix knew so much about football and fishing. However, I would make sense that he would have had a better understanding of the modern era due to being sent out on constant missions. We told dad that Felix was temporarily living on the outskirts of town while running some scholarly errands for Castle Volterra and he would be returning to Italy roughly the same time I would be set to depart. Demetri had sent over some of Felix clothes from Volterra and a copius amount of brown contact lenses for when we were around dad for long periods of time. But importantly for me I had managed to get approved by my university for me to do my final year online so that I could stay with my father, and after telling him that I was planning to move to Italy once I had my degree, he seemed pretty happy that I would be staying for a little while longer.

I was sat on what I have now claimed as 'my' chair by the window, trying to finish my assignment that was due next month. Maybe I was panicking but I always try and get my assignments does as quickly as possible. Felix was out hunting in Sequim, a small area not that much further than Port Angeles. Something about a treaty the Cullens had with the La Push boys that meant he couldn't hunt in Forks or the immediate surrounding area, which was probably for the best seeing as dad would have to be investigating any caught bodies. Though I highly doubt that Felix would be that sloppy with leaving behind evidence unlike the nomads. The front door slammed shut as Bella walked in and threw herself on the sofa next to Charlie.

"4 o'clock on the dot. That kid trying to brown nose me now or something?" He was just as scolding as ever.

"He has a name. And now he's too punctual for you?" Bella practically snapped. It's like she still didn't understand what she had done to him, or what she continues to do.

"Okay...You understand why you're being punished, right?" I don't think she does. Not really.

"I know, I put you through hell" Bella didn't sound particularly genuine, that and she was avoiding eye contact with dad now.

"Yes, you did. But I have other reasons for grounding you. Like uh I just want you to get some separation from him" Dad was trying to be nice about it now, he was much more gentle with his tone.

"Dad there's nothing you can say. Edward is in my life." She snapped forward on the sofa now making eye contact and getting typically defensive. She can't handle so much as hearing someone say that Edberto might not be with her forever. She has never been able to accept the thought however her reactions are becoming more extreme.

"Yeah I'm gathering that. How about this? I'll make you a deal. You're not grounded anymore, if you use your new found freedom to see some of your other friends too, like...like Jacob. He's going through a really tough time right now. His dad's really worried about him. I remember when that was you. You needed a friend, Jake was there." Dad was offput now, clearly showing his dislike of their relationship that they were so set on defending. Bella had been ignoring all her school friends for months now so I doubt that they would really want to talk to her after all this time. Unfortunatly for dad though Jacob didn't come without issues of his own, but I suppose he isn't allowed to know that, Billy would have told him otherwise.

"And anyway what about Felix?" She snarked at dad, her tone unconsciously causing anger to flair in my chest. She had a lot of audacity to insinuate anything about him after all Eddie boy's done.

"What about him?" He looked so clueless at her implication, taking another swing of beer. We made brief and confused eye contact before he turned to face my sister again.

"He's been allowed around a lot and Lilith doesn't really know him" She continued as is anything she was saying held any kind of weight.

"Well first off it's rude to talk like Lilith isn't right there, secondly she's 20 so she can make her own choices about her life and ultimately Felix seems like a good kid. And he hasn't left her alone in the woods all day so that scores pretty big in the bonus points." I snorted trying to cover my laughter at his last statement. As much as dad could be painfully awkward he also had his moments where he refused to mince his words.

Felix had returned not to long ago and we were wasting some time watching horrible slasher movies. The current atrocity we were watching was about zombie beavers. It was so stupid but that's what makes them so funny. Just as the movie was coming to an end I heard Bella attempting to start her truck and it sounded bad. I hopped up to look out the window and I could see Bella frustradendly slamming her stearing wheel.

"Does she always try and get herself into trouble or can she just not help it?" Came Felix playful tone as we watched Bella have a mini melt down in the driver seat.

"By this point I think she's cursed but that truck as been working perfectly fine up until now so it seems suspicious that it's broke outta nowhere" I voiced my concerns. We both made our way outside to see Edrick and Bella now sat in the truck.

"Hey Bella, pull the latch so I can open the bonnet" I called to her, I have my theories about what has happened and the pale penny haired boy sat in the passenger seat is the cause of most of them. Bella swiftly did as I asked and I made quick work of opening and securing the bonnet up. As I looked over it was very clear what was wrong with the old thing.

"Hey Edbert. Wanna give the spark plugs back or am I gonna have to go and get some more tomorrow" I was completely and utterly unimpressed at the boy. Talking to her about visiting Jacob is one thing but breaking her truck is another. There wasn't a single plug left in the engine bay. It wouldn't have been so obvious is he had actually attempted to put the wires back in place.

Edward Cullen is an absolute prick.

I smugly looked over at the forlorn expression on his face as he realised that there was no way that Bella wasn't going to go and see Jacob. He disappeared for but a second and returned with the missing spark plugs. I didn't take me long to grab a socket wrench and put them back in their rightful place.

"May I suggest not trying to visit someone in the dead of night? Go tomorrow" I left the conversation at that before heading back to bed, it was far too late to be dealing with their drama.

"You know I'm pretty sure that girl is only with him for the immortality" Felix commented once we were back in my room, he had a big playful grin spread on his face. He gently pulled my into his chest and wrapped his strong arms around me. I can't disagree with him, she hadn't stopped begging him to change her but they have currently set the date for after her graduation.

"If they are La Tua Cantante, what happens if one of them finds their mate?" I was genuinely curious about this as it could go south very quickly, especially if Edward found his mate before they changed her.

"Well put it simply, whatever fascination he has with her blood will instantly disappear. Instead his instincts won't allow him to abandon his mate. So let's hope that none of this happens while she's still human because if they don't turn her the Volturi will kill her." He was blunt in his reply but this is something I've come to know and appreciate about Felix.

He doesn't lie or blame or exaggerate. He simply says things as they are and doesn't care if people don't like what he has to say. Not that many people can physically do anything about it anyway. While most vampire's skills are more mystical or stereotypically superpower-like, Felix gift suits him well. He's faster and stronger than other vampires and noticeably so. It's understandable that Aro made him the executioner as most vampires can't contend with his physicality.

"Now you lily pad need to sleep because we have a long day tomorrow" He stated with a teasing tone.

"Oh do we now?" I played along. But I couldn't help but feel excited at the idea of spending the day doing something together with Felix. I could take a break from my laptop every now and then.

"Yes we do" And with that he placed a kiss on my forehead and let me escape his cool grasp, I climbed into bed and quietly went to sleep, imagining what tomorrow would hold.

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