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"Completely understandable. I'll explain if anyone asks."

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"I'm not going to, by the way. 'Cause Darren would make a face and get huffy with me if I did," says Savannah brightly.

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"That's clearly the best reason not to ask. Fraternal disapproval."

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"Hey, you haven't seen some of his faces. He's got a mean glare. That shit's what nightmares are made of."

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Darren snorts. "Language. We're in school."

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"Thanks, dad."

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"How uptight are you on the subject of swearing exactly?"

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"He mostly just likes to give me grief about it."

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"Okay."

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"Only after that spat with your ex-friend in the hallway. Before then I just politely ignored it," challenges Darren.

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"... Yeah, okay, some of the things I said there were pretty bad," laughs his sister. "But you love me anyway, right?"

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"No. Because it is definitely a thing that I can take back and not just automatic because you are my sister. You should be on your best behavior."

His words are dripping with sarcasm.
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Bella smiles faintly.

Eric Yorkie, oftentime consumer of Darren's notes, swings by the table. "Hey man, can I get English, last Wednesday?" he asks. "Overnight but I'll photocopy it and give it back in the morning. New girl! Hi! I'm Eric. You're Bella Swan, right?"

"Right," confirms Bella.
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"Sure," agrees Darren easily. While he's retrieving notes, he gets to operation head off annoying inquisitive people.

"Is there going to be another spill of - what exactly was that? Coffee? Tea? Don't to it again, please, copying it over was annoying, I could barely read half of it."
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"Coke, but it wasn't me, it was the cat," says Eric. "Sorry. It won't happen again. So Bella, what brings you to Forks?"

"Living with my dad," she says.

"Right, you're Chief Swan's kid!"

"Mmhm."
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Crap. So much for the gentle approach. He forgot how annoying Eric could be.

"Her mother," he says delicately, "recently passed away. That's why she moved here."
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"Oh, yikes," says Eric, genuine if intrusive sympathy all over his face. "That sucks."

"Does it really," says Bella. "That would explain a lot."

Eric looks confused.
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Notes are retrieved in record time.

"Here you are," says Darren, handing over the notes and trying to defuse the situation.
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"Thanks, Darren," says Eric. "I'm sorry about your mom, Bella."

"Thank you," says Bella mechanically.
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"You're welcome."

He makes a face at Eric that apologetically says, 'Sorry, maybe later there can be small-talk. Leave, please?'

Or that's what he's aiming for.
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Eric backs off, notes clutched in his hand.

Bella eats a bite of banana.
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"Right, so," says Savannah, glancing between all parties involved. "Want me to go - gossip and spread the news since you are a pretty wallflower, Darren?"

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He gives her a look. "Not a wallflower, but by all means. I'd appreciate it."

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"But you don't dispute the 'pretty' part. How big-headed of you," she says, trying to lighten the mood for Bella. "Should I tell her about the dresses?"

There are no dresses.
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"The nonexistent ones that you like to imagine me in where I pretend to be a pretty princess? By all means, your strange fantasies are your own."

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