I do not own Twilight, Stephenie Meyer does! But Maddie is my character, kays?

Will contain spanking of an eternal teenager. Don't like, don't read.

Maddie walked out of the big double doors of her school, and she was late. Of course she was, after just serving detention. Right behind her trailed a shy and fair-haired girl, Sarah, who she had been in detention with. The two girls walked over to the parking lot where they saw a shiny black Mercedes.

Great.

It wasn't that Maddie didn't want to see Carlisle, but she actually had hoped nobody would come to pick her up. A big family could be annoying, as well as being in school. So she could use some time to cool off before she arrived home.

"Uhm, see you tomorrow then," Sarah said quietly and started walking with bent head towards the road. She lived about twenty minutes from the school and since the busses had already left, she had to walk home.

"Wait! My Dad's picking me up, we can take you home if you'd like."

Sarah turned her head back to Maddie. "N-no, thanks. It's not far and I don't want to be a bother."

"Aw, come on. It's no big deal. And by the way, stop acting so scared all the time, it's annoying." Maddie moved light-footedly with Sarah in tow towards the car.

At that moment, Carlisle got out of his Mercedes and smiled at the girls. "Hello there!"

"Dad, can we take Sarah home? She has to walk otherwise."

"Why certainly! Please get inside, you two," he said, walked around the car and opened the right back door for Sarah to get in. Maddie opened the left door and sat down with a huff on the beige leather seats. After shutting the door behind Sarah, Carlisle got into the driver's seat and, after buckling up, started the car. "Where do you live, Sarah?"

"Uhm, it's Madison Street, Sir." Sarah still fidgeted with her safety belt, while Maddie was looking through a fashion magazine that she had found in her bag.

"All right." He pulled onto the wide, empty road and drove in the direction of Madison Street.

"May I ask what you did to deserve detention? I haven't seen you at school before at that time of the day," Carlisle said in a nonchalant tone.

Maddie rolled her eyes at that ... as if he had to show up every single day to pick her up from detention, gosh, she wasn't that bad.

"I was thirty minutes late for first period. My baby sister got sick, so I had to take my brother to kindergarten before school."

"I'm sorry to hear that. What illness has she got?"

"It's probably just a cold, Sir. Nothing serious."

"Still I hope she has a quick recovery. And why did you have to stay behind after school, Maddie?" Carlisle asked, using the rear view mirror to look at his daughter.

"Homework." was the short answer coming from the back row. She was still going through her magazine, not even bothering to look up.

"You didn't hand it in?"

"Nope."

"And why is that?"

"Because I cannot hand something in that I do not have." Maddie sounded like she was explaining something to a very stupid child. Why was he asking? Who cared why?

"Oh Madeline." He sighed.

In a monotone and very bored voice Maddie replied, "I'm sorry and it will never happen again, Sir, I promise.", all the while flipping through the pages.

Sarah looked a bit shocked at her classmates answer, and felt confused when she saw an amused expression on Carlisle's face. Shouldn't he be furious at his daughter's obvious mocking? But she didn't have time to think about it any longer, because the car was turning left into her street.

"It's the third house on the right, Sir."

Carlisle drove on and stopped in front of the little white house with the unkempt front garden.

"There you are, dear. I hope your sister gets better soon."

"Thank you, Sir. And thanks for driving me home. Bye!"

"Goodbye!" and "See you soon." were the answers while Sarah got out of the car and closed the door behind her carefully.

When she was at the door and her mother opened, she turned around again and waved. That was the signal for Carlisle to drive off. He always waited until the person he drove home was safely inside, just to be sure.

The next twenty minutes went by in silence, Maddie was listening to rock music on her mp3, because she wasn't in the mood for talking.

Driving into the garage, Maddie put the magazine into her bag and unbuckled her seat belt. She normally would never use one, but having a human in the car made it necessary, her father was insisting on it.

They walked up a flight of stairs in silence and into the spacious kitchen. Esme, who obviously had been cleaning, came towards them with a smile on her face and kissed Carlisle on the lips. Then she looked worriedly at Maddie and said, "What happened at school, sweetie?"

"Nothing, Mom." was Maddie's reply, all the while fumbling with her tie. School uniforms were definitely something she disliked.

"But you were serving detention, am I right? What happened?"

No reply.

"Our daughter did not do her homework," Carlisle answered.

"Again? Oh Madeline." Esme sighed.

Ugh, why did they always say that?

"Yeah, whatever. I'm home now," Maddie said in passing and walked towards the stairs.

Esme called after her. "Madeline, please come back here. We have not ended this conversation."

So Maddie turned back around, groaning. "Geez, what conversation? School's stupid, that's all. And now I would like to change and go to town."

"You are not going out tonight," her father stated matter-of-factly.

"Huh?" Okay, now it was on.

"Sweetheart, you know the rule. If you get kept back after school, you are not going out that night," Esme explained, even though Maddie was well aware of the rules her parents had set out for her. But Maddie was, like always, trying to argue her way out of it.

"But this is so not fair! It's like double-punishment!"

"You brought it on yourself and you know it. So there is no need to complain to us."

"What the hell Mom? It's your stupid rule!"

"That is no way to speak to your mother! Go to your room and calm down. Then you can come back downstairs and we -"

"I'm calm, I'm calm! See?" Maddie hastily said and gave a little smile. She wanted to go out so badly, therefore a strategy was needed.

"Ok, how about I go out tonight but stay home on Sunday?" She sounded hopeful.

"No." They had to stick to their decision. She was a wild child, with quite a temper and a knack for trouble. Being lenient in the past showed them that too much freedom only encouraged her to do whatever she wanted. And that could lead to deaths of humans because she wasn't in control of her blood lust or her exposing them all as vampires. Luckily it never got that far.

Now that situation was a tough one for the girl. Anger was boiling inside of her, but she had to remain calm, only a couple more minutes. "Fine, I'll stay home tomorrow," Maddie said in defeat.

"Good, you can do that, but you will still be grounded tonight," Carlisle replied.

And that did it.

"What the fuck is wrong with you? !"

"Madeline! I've had enough of this behaviour. You will spend this weekend at home. No computer, no TV. Am I understood?"

"My ass," whispered Maddie. Unfortunately it was not quiet enough and so Carlisle and Esme heard. Or maybe she wanted them to hear.

Either way, Carlisle's face hardened. "And no music," he added while he grabbed the girl by her upper arm and pulled her up the stairs towards her room, leaving a shocked Esme behind.

"I want you to stay in here and think about the way you just acted in the kitchen. Do. not. leave. this. room." And with that said, Carlisle left, closing the door on his way out.

TBC ...