ℙ𝕖𝕟 𝕒𝕟𝕕 ℙ𝕒𝕡𝕖𝕣 || Twilight

VII

Riley was boredly sat next to her cousin as Athena was collecting random herbs, Athena had banned Riley from bringing any sort of book with her so she had to sit there and watch.

Her sister, Bella, had gone off to the La Push beach with a few friends which had ultimately led to Athena and Riley to refuse to tag along with them.

Leaving them to Athena's garden, where she was collecting herbs from random plants, per her boredoms request.

Something about it just seemed to calm her nerves.

"You know, in the olden days they would've thought you were a witch from collecting all these herbs, especially because if you don't cook or wash these properly, they can inflict quite a lot of damage" Riley spoke from her 'grounding' step as she held a light blue umbrella over her head to help with the rain.

Her foot were covered with thick layered socks and ladybug themed welly's, her blue raincoat was twice the size of her but it seemed to fit the strange theme she had going on.

Athena was walking around with just leggings and t-shirt, claiming to have loved the rain, even proving it as she did a small twirl when they first exited the house.

"Don't you feel weird that we both live near a dark forest that were forbidden to go in to because of all the dangerous animals, I mean logically why would they even place houses next to it?" Riley questioned as her fist held onto the umbrella tighter, she wasn't exactly built for the cold even if she did find it pretty.

"Just think about all the cute or fascinating things that are in there, instead of all the rare dangerous ones" Athena shrugged it off as she ripped the roots off of an unlabelled herb, "that should be the..."

Riley tuned her out and instead focused on the tapping on top of her umbrella, she closed her eyes and listened to the soft patterns.

"The damn garlic hasn't done yet, I'd give it another two weeks.."

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Riley was disrupted whilst reading as her dark oak door was forced wide open, bouncing off the wall as her elder sister walked in with an unknown expression on her face.

"The book about those myths...where did you get it?" Bella questioned, her eyes glancing to the blue book that sat on a desk close to a dream catcher that Riley made with Jacob when they were little.

"The library, but I found a store that sells it" Riley offered, just praying that Bella wouldn't Ask to see hers, Riley had stuck in a bunch of sticky notes where she either corrected the book or she wrote down her theories and thoughts on it, she had noted down how the book was sometimes different from the original stories that Sarah had told her.

"Great, can you give me a name? Or like, an address?" Bella asked as she wafted her hands around awkwardly, her curiosity cooling down to reveal her true nature again.

"Sure, I actually have it written down on a piece of paper.." Riley explained as she jumped up from her seat by the window and grabbed a pink slip of paper that rested on her desk, she handed it over to her sister who smiled.

"Thanks Riley, and can you not tell anyone that I asked you about this?" Bella's request had confused Riley but she nodded nonetheless, not knowing the consequence of what would happen if she refused. "Thank you"

And with that, Bella went off to do her vampire research while Riley buried the thoughts that had come across her mind.