Viv, Tia and Abby had gone to Waylon Forge's home to extend their condolences.

Viv spent her time offering condolences to Waylon's family while Abby walked around the backyard of Waylon's home with Tia as her sister sighs sadly.

"The poor family, they're really distraught."

"Well of course they are. They loved him" Abby replies, "it's not an easy thing for anyone to go through."

"We know, don't we?" Tia asks sadly with tears of sadness in her eyes.

"We do" Abby admits with tears in her own eyes, "the pain never goes away" she says, "you just get used to it" she says as Tia gives her sister a side hug at this.

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"What's Edward doing here?" Tia asks her sister when she spotted Edward's car parked in front of their house.

"He wanted to meet aunt Viv" Abby admits, "please, please be nice" she begs her aunt when Viv pulls into their driveway behind the truck.

"What are you talking about? I'm always nice" she said, undoing her seat belt.

Abby groaned at this and Tia laughed before they climbed out the car.

Edward climbs out of his car as Abby approached him.

"You ready to be grilled?" she asks him somewhat playfully, offering him an apologetic smile as she does.

"As ready as I'll ever be" he replies, taking her hand into his.

He was wearing gloves as an excuse for the chilly weather but Abby knows it's so her aunt won't notice just how cold his hands really are.

They turn to face Viv and make their way toward her and Tia as they all headed for the front door.

"Ms. Ericcson, my name is Edward Cullen" he says politely, extending a hand for her to shake as Viv shakes it, her expression closed off and standoffish.

"It's nice to formally meet you Edward" Viv says to him, "come on in and we can get something to drink" she said when Tia opened the door and headed inside as they all followed.

Edward ushered Abby into her house by keeping a polite hand on her back.

She shows him to one of the couches, hearing Tia complain about the cold before going to adjust the thermostat.

"So Edward" Viv starts, "tell me a bit about yourself."

"Uhm...well as you know my name is Edward Cullen and I'm 17 years old" he replies. "I'm a junior and I'm adopted."

"By Doctor and Mrs. Cullen" Viv says as he nods at this. "What are your intentions with my niece?" she asks him bluntly, making Abby glance nervously between her aunt and boyfriend.

And here she thought that Viv would be playing nice.

"They are nothing short of honourable" he says sincerely, "I care for Abby very much and I'm...I'm grateful that she chose me" he adds, smiling at Abby as she gave him a smile of her own before biting her lower lip nervously. "I promise you that my intent is not to hurt Abby" he promised, looking back to Viv.

"I appreciate you saying that" Viv says, "but I was 17 once too" she says, "so I hope that you're an improvement on the last boy Abby dated" she adds sternly.

"Aunt Viv" Abby admonishes softly.

"Ugh, Steven" Tia says with a scoff at the memory of her sister's ex.

Abby shoots her a look at this.

"I don't know what he did but I can assure you that I'll be a definite improvement" he says as Viv nods at this.

"Good" Viv adds, "because I have a shotgun and I'm not afraid to use it" she says, making Abby snort amusedly at this, "what? You don't think I will?" she asks her niece.

"No, I know you will" Abby says, "I'm just laughing because that's the third time someone has threatened Edward."

"The threats are coming from a good place so I understand them" he said, giving his girlfriend a smile at this.

"See? He gets it" Viv says to her niece.

"Great! Now that we're all friendly let's get something to drink" Tia announced, hoping out of her seat happily, "Come on, Abby, let's go get something to drink while Eddie boy and aunt Viv talk."

She followed her sister out the dining room,knowing that Viv was about to really grill him as soon as she left the room.

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"She likes you" Abby tells Edward when she walked him to his car.

"I'm glad" he adds, "she was actually quite intimidating" he admits, making Abby laugh at this.

"She may look like she's laid back but that all flies out the window when it comes to protecting us" she admits to him.

"They're looking out the window" Edward informs her, "your sister is wondering if I'll kiss you" he says as Abby blushed at this.

"Tia has always been much too nosy" she retorts when they stopped next to his car and she leaned against it while he stood before her, giving her a shy smile.

"Come meet my family tomorrow" he says to her. "Esme is dying to meet you and Alice is being a pain" he admitted. "I don't think that I can keep her away from you for much longer" he said, making her chuckle at this.

"Why is she so eager?"

"She has it in her head that the two of you will be the best of friends."

"Did she see it?"

"Yeah" Edward says with a nod. "And now she's pestering me to make it happen" he adds, which resulted in Abby laughing lightly at this. "You look beautiful when you smile" he compliments her

"You too" Abby replies, beaming up at him, "okay" she says with a nod, "I'll meet your family tomorrow" she adds, "but I'm worried that they might not like me."

"How can they not when you're as amazing as you are?" he asks, pushing some of her hair behind her ear as Abby looked into his eyes at this.

She doesn't think that she'll ever get over how mesmerizing he is.

"Your opinion is biased" she points out amusedly, "you're dating me."

"Even if I wasn't" he retorts, "my opinion would remain the same" he says.

"Yeah right" Abby muttered sarcastically.

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"Why didn't you kiss him?" Tia asks her sister with a whine after Edward has driven off and Abby closed the main door behind her.

"Tia, stop snooping" Abby says to her sister.

"Abby, come on, he wanted to kiss you" Tia adds, "he was practically leaning in!" she growls out in frustration.

"Tia, what your sister does with her boyfriend is none of your business" Viv says, even though Abby knows that both of them had been snooping.

"This is like those soap operas where we have to wait for 3 seasons for the main characters to kiss!" Tia grumbles out in frustration, making her way to her room.

"So...what did you think of Edward?" Abby asks her aunt, grabbing a seat on the armrest of the couch.

"He's a sweet boy" Viv admits, "he speaks so proper and concise" she adds, "no doubt due to the influence of his adoptive parents" she says. "And he's very cute" she says as Abby throws her head back and laughs at this, "but you didn't hear that last bit from me. I'm not looking to go to jail" she says with a teasing laugh of her own.

"My lips are sealed" Abby promises amusedly, doing the lip lock gesture and shooting her aunt a smile before heading off.

Ever since she and Edward spoke last night she's been wondering if the stories her grandmother told her rang with truth.

She wanted to do some more research on her family line so she headed to the basement to search for any books or clues that her grandmother had about whether or not their people had really been witches.

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15 minutes later Abby is joined in her basement by Edward and she playfully punches him for scaring her.

"One of these days you're seriously going to give me a heart attack" she whispers to him in a hiss, which he only he chucked at.

"I told you. Sometimes I forget my own speed" he whispers back.

"I think that you like doing it because you get to have one up over me" she points out.

"I plead the fifth" he says, holding his hands up in surrender at this, causing Abby to chuckle. "What are you looking for?"

"Books or anything that my grandmother kept that might give me more of a backstory about my ancestors" she admits.

"You want help?"

"Sure, you can use your super speed to search all these damn boxes!" she grumbled out, gesturing to all the boxes around them.

Edward snorts amusedly at this, searching through the boxes at a rapid pace, taking out books and journals before presenting 5 of them that he found.

"Show off" Abby says teasingly.

"It's not that impressive" he says, "anyone in my family can do it" he admits as she took one of the books from him and opened it and inside there was a table with a tree of the Ericsson family.

This is exactly what she had been looking for.

"Where have you been all my life?" she asks Edward.

He'd done in a few minutes what would have probably taken her hours.

"I knew that you were just using me for my speed" he teases.

"And the hair" Abby teases back, taking the rest of the books from him, "meet you upstairs" she says just before he disappeared in the flash of an eye while she headed to her room.

"What's with the dusty books?" Tia asks her sister curiously when they meet on the staircase.

"Just doing some research" Abby replies.

Tia nodded at this, walking off and pulling out her phone to text her friends, not even bothering to ask because she's sure it'll be something boring.

Abby makes her way into her room where Edward was waiting for her, looking at the pictures on her wall.

"Is this your mom?" he asks, gesturing to one of the pictures on her wall.

She made her way toward him to see which picture he meant.

"Yeah" she replied with a sad half-smile. "People always said that me and Tia looked like her" she reveals to him.

"They were right" Edward says, "you're all beautiful."

"You're so cheesy" Abby teases as she goes to place the books on her desk, though she does feel grateful for his attempt to make her feel better.

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"Look at this" Edward says to Abby, making his way toward her and showing her a section in one of the books, "this speaks of a woman named Louisa Ericsson" he reve9, translating the French for her, "it says that she was a powerful sorceress who lived in New Orleans in 1822."

"That's...really cool" Abby says to him, "what else does it say?"

"It says that she was ousted as a witch by a man named Augustus Dubois but no one knows what happened to him."

"And just like that it's gone from cool to scary" Abby muttered as Edward chuckles a bit at this. "Do you think that my ancestor killed him?"

"It's possible" Edward says, "but let's not jump the gun just yet."

Abby doesn't point out that he's standing really close to her until he realises it and takes a step back, clearing his own throat at this.

"You okay?" she asks him in concern.

"Y-Yeah" he says, "I just...I don't ever want to hurt you, Abby, so you have to tell me if I stand too close" he says, "it's a subconscious thing for me but it can have disastrous consequences" he says, sounding really worried about it.

"I get that" Abby says with a nod, "but how else can you learn to control your impulses than by testing yourself to see just how far you can really go without losing control" she points out to him.

"No" he says immediately, "I don't even want to..."

"Edward, do you always want to clench your fists when you catch a whiff of my scent or do you hope to one day have gotten a bit used to it?" she asks him, lowering the book in her hands to lift her some of her hair as he freezes in his steps at this.

"Abby" he grits out, "please" he begs her, fighting against himself not to hurt her, "put your hair down" he says, "please" he begs her as she does as asked. "I-I have to go" he says in a panicked tone, preparing to leave.

"Edward, wait–" she says but he's already gone, leaving her feeling really guilty about her actions.

It's simple for her to suggest for him to learn to control his bloodlust but she's not a vampire so she doesn't really know how difficult it is for him.

She sends him a message telling him how sorry and solemn she is about her insensitive actions and leaves him a voicemail asking him to forgive her.

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Abby didn't really have a good sleep, worried about how Edward reacted to her simply exposing her neck and feeling nervous about meeting his family today.

Rosalie has already shown her that she detests her guts and she's worried that the others might not like her either, especially after what she did yesterday.

"Hey, you okay?" Tia asks her sister at breakfast that morning, watching Abby play with her cereal, "you nervous about meeting Eddie's family?"

"Yeah" Abby replies, telling her sister a half-truth.

She can't exactly say that she's also feeling guilty about pushing Edward too far last night.

"Well don't be" Tia says as a way of comforting her sister, "they'll like you" she adds in reassurance, "and if they don't then that's their own freaking loss" she says, shooting her sister a smile which Abby returned with a grateful one of her own.

She takes a bite out of her cereal but it doesn't taste right so she just pushes it aside.

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"Abby, Eddie's here!" Tia shouted from downstairs.

Abby slipped into her sneakers and grabbed her phone, heading downstairs where she sees her sister talking happily with Edward.

"Hey, you ready?" he asks her, giving her that smile that warms her insides.

She was worried that he might be a little upset with her.

"Y-Yeah" Abby says with a nod, making her way toward him.

"Have fun, you two!" Tia says to them, closing the door behind them when they made their way to his Volvo, which was already pre-heated.

He's so thoughtful.

"Ed–"

"Don't apologize, love" he cuts her off, "it wasn't your fault" he says in understanding when he opened the door for her.

"But if I hadn't pushed you then maybe–" she says, twirling her fingers nervously.

"Abby" he starts, causing her to tilt her chin to face him. "I'm not upset and I don't blame you" he promises her, his eyes lighting up as he smiles at her, "so wipe that guiltily expression off your face" he says, repeating her own words back to her before she finally cracks a smile at this, climbing into the passenger side.

He closed the door for her, waved to Tia who was watching everything from the window and climbed into the car.

"What are you thinking?" he asks her when he started the engine before driving off. "Seatbelt" he says, making her rolls her eyes at him but put the seatbelt on nevertheless.

"I'm thinking about how long the butterflies fluttering about in my stomach will stop before finally giving me a break" she admits amusedly.

"Don't be nervous, love, they already love you" he reassures her.

Esme and Alice were beside themselves with happiness to finally be meeting Abby formally as they have been looking forward to it ever since Alice revealed that Abby and Edward had started dating.

"You have to say that because you're my boyfriend" Abby says, pulling on her woolen hat nervously. "I just...I want your family to like me and since Rosalie already–"

"Rosalie...is Rosalie so she doesn't count" he says as a way of reassuring her.

"She's still your family" Abby points out to him, "she may hate my guts but she's still your family so it matters to me that even though she doesn't like, she does at least respect that I'm in your life" she says as Edward takes her warm hand into his cool one. "Both hands on the wheel" Abby chastises him playfully, making him chuckle in response.

"I won't let us crash, love."

"You may be a vampire but I'm not indestructible" Abby retorts playfully.

"I wouldn't ever let anything hurt you" he says before kissing her hand. "Trust me and my driving."

"You just like driving fast because it's almost as fast as you can run" she teases, "note that I said almost because you run faster than the speed of light" she quips, "it's a wonder you didn't break my neck when you carried me in your arms" she commented, touching the back of her neck playfully.

"Like I said, I wouldn't let anything hurt you" he promised, turning to face her with a grin.

"Edward!"

"What?" he asks with a playful chuckle, happy to tease her while he turning a corner.

"Eyes on the road!" she says with a racing heart despite the nervous laughter spilling from her lips.

"Anything you say, Ms. Jones" he says as he went back to looking at the road.

"Goodness knows how many speeding tickets you have" Abby teases him with a light laugh.

"None" he says proudly.

"None?"

"Nope" he replied, "built in radio" he says, momentarily releasing her hand to tap his head.

"Cheater" Abby teases him.

"I might as well make use of the gifts I have, right?" he says in a playfully nonchalant manner.

A/N: I hope that you guys enjoyed this chapter✌️