Then maybe they should tell me instead of passive aggressively avoiding me! Or talking about my family like they aren't worthwhile or suggesting that their appearances change anything about who they are and what they mean to me!

[ No one had asked her to stay. Not with them or in general. Why wouldn't she want to go where the people she loved were? Where her room and her bed and all her memories of the past decade and then some were waiting for her? And why didn't he get that? ]

I know that not everyone that looks strange can be summoned. I'm not ignorant. [ That's what he thinks she is, doesn't he? Uncultured and uneducated. Stupid. ] While I appreciate that information, Edward Geraldine, I have no interest in talking to you further. If anything, I'm disappointed that the Edward that I actually like isn't here.

[ Mostly, she's stubborn. She should give in and let it go, but she's not going to make it easy for him. He got himself into this mess, he can get himself out. For as angry as she sounds, she looks more upset than anything. And either anger or hurt is still giving him what he needs. Even if she called him unimportant, that's untrue. She wouldn't react this way if he wasn't. ]