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Maggie was sitting quietly, minding her own business, really she was! And maybe also listening to Liam and Siobhan discussing what their old friends the Cullens were doing, apparently taking a big shite on the Volturi and letting random humans in on the whole vampire secret thing. She’s pretty sure her pseudo-parents have no idea she’s there, and she would prefer to keep it that way, she really wasn’t supposed to know this. In fact, Maggie was supposed to be out hunting for her next meal, but it wasn’t her fault that they had started talking about this whole thing before she had left! And it really wasn’t her fault the gossip had been way too good to miss out on!
Suddenly the talking stopped and Maggie realized she had accidentally gasped a teensy bit when Liam had said about Edweirdo trying to kill himself and a human of all things saving his arse from the Volturi. She immediately cringed back from the door moments before it was basically ripped off its hinges by Siobhan opening it with way too much strength than needed. “Jus’ what do you think you’re doing lass?” Siobhan’s eyes were narrowed basically into slits and Maggie looked down shamefully.
“I was listening to your talkin’, but it was really gas and I’m a right gossip you know, couldn’t pass up an opportunity like tha’! Would you believe Edward, the right sap, could land anybody, but I guess it would be a human that he did. He couldn’t mani-”
“Maggie shuddup!” Liam called from the other room.
Maggie’s mouth immediately snapped closed and she looked up at her tall covenmate guiltily. “I’m not very sorry, but I shouldnta done it I know.”
Siobhan closed her eyes and breathed deeply before cracking an eye open to glare down at her sister/daughter thing she loved (most of the time), “Well you already know now, no point in hiding it. We were supposed to go for a visit soon but I don’t know if this’ll derail those plans now. ‘Spose I’ll hafta call.”
Sure enough as soon as Siobhan took out her phone the damned thing started buzzing and Alice Cullen’s name popped up onto the screen. Maggie’s eyes lit up and she tried to snatch the phone from Siobhan only to be thwarted when the bigger woman raised the phone up into the air and glared down at the girl. She walked back into the room Liam was in and closed the door right in Maggie’s face before answering. The old bat. “Siobhan! It’s so nice to hear from you again!” Alice Cullen’s high-pitched bubbly tone could be heard through the shoddy wooden door and Maggie once again settled in to listen, not having learnt anything from the previous time. LIke always.
“Dia duit, Liam’s here too by the way.”
“How ya?” Liam spoke up before shifting back in his seat and going on his phone.
“Hi Liam! To be honest we’re not doing really well at the moment. . .”
“Oh?” Siobhan asked, eyeing Maggie through a brand new crack in the door.
“Yeah, so basically long story short there’s this newborn army gathering to attack us sometime in the near future and we could really use some help if you would want to. I mean I know we’re not in very good standing with a lot of people right now but I will tell you it will be very beneficial to you all if you come down. You don’t even have to fight for us! Just. . .talk? Maybe? Just see us in person, if you would be so inclined. I mean you re-”
“Alright alright you don’t hafta be such a lickarse Alice we’ll come!” Maggie yelled through the door.
Alice squealed out a thank you and promptly hung up before Siobhan or Liam could say anything. Both adults turned towards their permanently seventeen year old, impulsive little shit, daughter/sister thing. “Maggie! Are you off your head?” Liam exclaimed, standing up out of his chair, “You’re gonna get us all killed you eejit!”
Maggie cringed away from both of them a bit and mumbled out a, “She was lying. I dunno, I wanted to know why.”
Siobhan pinched the bridge of her nose and ground out, “Which part?”
“The really needing our help. I dunno why she wants us there, but I wanna find out! It’ll be beneficial, apparently. Also we already said yea, so there’s that.”
Siobhan groaned and rubbed her face quickly, “No you said yes.”
Maggie grinned, eyes lighting up, “So we’re going! Unreal!”
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Bella Swan was having the worst couple of weeks of her life. Even worse than when Edward had left her alone in a forest in the middle of winter and she would have frozen to death were it not for Leah. God, what she would do to go back to that simpler time. First, just as she was getting over Edward and the Cullens abrupt entrance and exit from her life, and all of the trauma that came with that, Alice Fucking Cullen appeared in her home after she went cliff diving with Leah, who was trying to get her mind off of her fathers’ recent death, spouting out some bullshit about how she “can’t just kill yourself! What about Charlie?” and whatever other crap that came spewing out of her mouth. Honestly she was too tired to remember it all.
Then, just as she was getting done with her angry rant about how Alice’s entire family mistreated her and abused her trust, fucking Jacob came over and decided to tell Edward that Charlie was at “the” funeral. Fucking idiot! Why would Carlisle of all people randomly call to check on him? He doesn’t even know the dude that well! And of course Edward would assume it was her funeral! He’s an abusive little prick but she knew he loved her at one point at least. Then Alice came in and then Bella couldn’t just let the manipulative little shit kill himself over her, she would feel the guilt for the rest of her life! Finally, the whole Volterra thing. Now she was forced to become a vampire or die. Just great.
Now, of course, Edward wouldn’t leave her alone with his whining and groveling but Bella was really over his shit, and to be honest, she wasn’t even sure if she was ever into dudes in the first place. And on top of it all, Victoria, of all people, was building an entire army just to destroy her! One measly little scrap of a human surrounded by supernatural fucking creatures. Bella really loved the direction her life was going right now.
She was brought out of her inner ramblings by Jessica asking her a question, “Sorry what was that?” Bella asked, taking out an earbud and turning to her friend.
“Oh, I was asking whether you knew that Edward has been staring at you for the past eleven minutes or not?” She asked, her face neutral but her eyes ravenous for gossip.
“I know, I can feel his beady little eyes drilling into my skull.” Bella smirked when she heard Emmet snort loudly from the Cullen Table in the lunchroom of Forks High. “Also, were you counting?”
Jessica rolled her eyes, “Obviously. I was timing how long he could go without blinking. The dudes gotta have like, robot eyes or something.”
This time Bella snorted before she picked up one of her soggy school lunch fries and popped it into her mouth, “You know I think he does.” She said thoughtfully in between chews.
Jessica’s eyes grew wide and she immediately turned to Mike to relay the horrific news. Angela popped her head up from a book and glanced over at Edward, who was now staring at the mushed peas on his tray. “I think Jess really believed you.” She said quietly to Bella, who was scrolling amusedly on her phone.
“Oh the whole school will know by the end of the day. You should put it in the school paper, ‘Edward Cullen: Half Robot Half Man, or Just Really Creepy?’” Bella smiled as she texted Leah and Seth in their ‘Trauma Buddies’ group chat.
Angela smiled and went back to her book. The rest of the day passed quietly, well as quietly as it could with the Cullens’ sudden reappearance after 6 months out of town. When Bella got home she didn’t even make it two steps into her bedroom before her window was open and Edward was standing awkwardly in front of it. Bella sighed, “Edward, seriously, I have already told you to knock on the front door like a normal person.”
Edward grimaced and looked around, avoiding Bella’s piercing stare, “Sorry love,” Bella’s stare turned into a glare at this, “I just needed to see you.” Silence reigns for a few immeasurably long seconds, then, “I’ve missed you. We haven’t talked much since we came back”
Bella bristles at that, “We haven’t talked because we are not dating. We are exes Edward. I don’t talk to my exes. Nor do I like it much when they break into my home and watch me sleep. Or break in in general, actually.”
Edward cringes at that and looks down, “Sorry about that. I’ll use the front door next time.” He looks up with a hopeful smile on his boyishly angelic face. God Bella cannot believe she found him attractive before.
“Edward! I don’t want you to break in at all! That was like, the whole point of that!” Bella exclaimed, face starting to get red and arms flailing.
Edward’s eyes open wide and he stumbles into saying, “I didn’t mean that I was going to break in! I just meant that I would knock, and then you could let me in!”
“Oh my god! Edward! No! Just. . .please go home. I’ll head by later to discuss strategy with you guys, I just need to be alone right now.”
Edward looks over at Bella at nods, eyes drooping a little and with a small smile he disappeared through the window, curtains ruffling in the wind. Bella sighed and dropped onto her bed, staring up at her textured ceiling and imagined what would’ve happened had she just seen through his bullshit in the first place. She didn’t know if she would like that life or not, and she only had the one she had, so there was no use dwelling on it. With a huff she got up and trudged over to her desk to grind her way through her homework for the day.
She had to get ready to go see the family that had just callously abandoned her in a few hours, and she was behind in math.