That's not true! I... [His voice trails off. She doesn't usually call herself his mother. He's not used to situations where he gets parented either. Eliot still remembers the Durants and France, even like this, which makes him hardly eager for a "vampire family."

He growls lightly with growing annoyance.]

I never asked for your help. You're always telling me I'm wrong and looking down on me. But I'm not. I know what I'm doing and it's not changing!

[Nowwww to quickly hang up, run home, and lock every door in the house.]