Quotation

I wondered what my parents would say now, and whether there was any advice they could have given us. We'd parted badly before I ran off with Lucas at the beginning of the summer; at the moment, I missed them so much it hurt. What would they think of everything that had happened in the past couple of days? I glanced at Lucas--the pale cool stillness of his flesh, the way that death had brightened his eyes and carved out his cheekbones--and thought beakly,Well, they always wanted me to end up with a nice vampire boy.