Bella sighs and looks under her bed, finally finding her flip flops hiding with the dust bunnies. She grabs them trying to remember how in the world they got there before shrugging and slipping them onto her feet. Izie was going to be there any second and Bella wasn’t ready yet. She jogs into the bathroom just as she hears the front door ring.

            “Bella, door!” Charlie yells from downstairs.

            “Just a minute,” she yells furiously brushing her teeth.

            “Hey, Bella!” Izie calls from downstairs.

Bella quickly rinses her mouth out and runs a brush through her hair before jogging out of the bathroom and down the stairs, “Hey, Izie,” she says smiling at the girl.

Elizabeth Howell was the newest member of the Cullens. She was here under the pretense of being Carlisle and Esme’s niece, but she had been turned after Carlisle had found her in Seattle almost dead and changed her.

            “Almost ready?”

            “I am ready,” Bella answers grabbing her jacket, as usual it was raining outside, but Izie didn’t seem the least disturbed by it, wearing a simple t-shirt and jeans.

            “What time will you be home?” Charlie asks before Bella had the door shut.

            “Well, we’re going out to a movie and dinner, so it might be late. Or I could just stay at the Cullens.”

            “If you want to,” Charlie answers turning back towards the television.

Izie smiles at Bella before basically skipping to her car sitting in the driveway.

            “So how come Edward let you pick me up?” Bella asks slipping into the passenger seat as Izie already has the car backing out of the driveway.

            “Because if I had any thoughts to bite you then he would know or Alice would have seen it. So, he trusts me,” she makes a face as she says this, “For the time being at least,” she mumbles under her breath.

            “Are you okay?” Bella asks looking over at the young vampire.

Izie nods and a smile brightens her face again. They, however, drive the rest of the way in silence, Izie apparently lost in her own thoughts as she studies the road.