Full Summary: For the last two weeks of the school year, Forks High School students will have to take care of a real child to learn what's it is like to be a parent while still in school. This includes the Cullens and Bella. Everything seems to be going fine; who knew vampires could be such good parents? Bella and Edward decide to take their parenting to the next level, and once the two weeks are up, they decide to actually adopt their child, Max. But while the adoption is finalizing, the Volturi show up and say that Vampires cannot have a life with a mortal. So Edward must decide, should he change Bella, or give up Max?

M'kay so here's my new story!! I've been working on this for a while, but haven't uploaded it because this would never happen in real life and...yeah. Max is from the book 'Hanging on to Max' It's really short, but I love that book!! So read, review, and enjoy.

Disclaimer: I own nothing but Matt and Emily.


CHAPTER ONE

"BELLA, LOVE, wake up," Edward's soft voice floated through my deep sleep and woke me up

"Do I have to?" I groaned. I was having a great sleep and definitely did not want to be bothered by the burden of school. He laughed,

"Yes, you must. Remember, today is the day we go to pick up our children." All of the Biology classes were going to an orphanage in Seattle to 'adopt' a child for two weeks. We had to take care of the kids like they were our own and we had to be 'married' to our lab partners in class. Thankfully, if you had the same sex partner, you could switch with someone else. Even more thankfully, Edward was my lab partner. Alice had Jasper as her lab partner in her class and the same with Emmett and Rosalie.

"Oh yeah," I said, getting out of my warm bed. I walked over to my closet and picked out a simple jeans-and-tank top outfit. I had just started taking off my pajama top before I realized that Edward was still in the room. I turned back to face him, still in my bra and shorts.

"Are you going to stay?" I asked. His eyes were scanning over me, obviously hungry.

"Yes, I am. That is, if you don't mind me staying?" He said.

"It's fine." I replied. Before I could get my tank-top on, I felt two strong, cold arms wrap around my waist. Edward leaned in close behind me and kissed my neck gently. My heart rate went through the roof, and I was getting dizzy from not being able to breathe.

"You know, you look so much better without a shirt on," He whispered. He continued to kiss my neck. I, slowly, turned around in his arms and kissed his lips. He gratefully returned the kiss, doing it back with full force. I was getting more light-headed by the second, and Edward broke off the kiss.

"Maybe you should finish getting dressed." I nodded and continued to put on my clothes.

"So, what do you think we're going to get?" I asked Edward as we drove to school. He was going past all posted speed limits, as normal.

"I want a boy, but whatever we get, I'm sure it will be perfect. Like you." He said. I blushed.

"I wouldn't mind a boy, but I really want a girl." We pulled into the Forks High parking lot a minute later, with Alice waving us down. She was bouncing up and down, very close to exploding right there.

"Someone had extra sugar this morning…" I whispered to Edward. He laughed gently and guided me out of the car.

"Are you guys excited? I am! I already know what everyone is going to get! You guys are getting a…" Edward had his hands over her mouth before she could blurt out the secret.

"Shut up Alice! We want it to be a surprise." He said. She squirmed out of his arms and pouted.

"Fine, just spoil my fun. Come on, we're going to be late." She led us over to a row of three busses, all waiting to take us to the orphanage. Mr. Banner was trying to get students situated on the bus, but with no suck luck. It was complete chaos. Alice pulled us onto the first bus and all the way in the back where Jasper was saving a few seats for us.

"Hey Bella, Edward," He greeted us. After about twenty minutes of talking and kids filling up the seats on the bus, Mr. Banner came on the intercom of the busses.

"Students, please sit with your partner for this assignment. It will make us more organized when we get to Seattle." A few kids groaned and switched seats.

"Thank you. Now when we get there, please be respectful to both the staff and the children. They are scared to be going home with some stranger, so do not frighten them any more than they already are. That means you, Emmett Cullen." Emmett was one of Mr. Banner's favorite students (and I mean that in the most sarcastically way possible). Emmett was always playing jokes on the teacher in his classes and Biology happened to be one of Emmett's favorite classes to joke around in. A couple kids laughed at the joke, including myself.

The bus took off after Mr. Banner said some things about us not having classes for the rest of the day. We sat in silence for a while, before Alice broke it.

"So you're sure you don't want to know what you are going to get?" She said.

"Yes, Alice, we want to be surprised. Just because you know what you're going to get doesn't mean the rest of the world does," Edward said. I laughed. She really wanted to tell us what it was, and I wanted to know. "Well, I want to know. How about Alice whispers it in my ear, and since you can't read my mind, you wont know?" I asked Edward.

"Fine, just tell her to be really quiet about it so that I won't hear." Alice squealed and bent in close to my ear, whispering the secret sex of my child into my ear. I smiled, it was exactly what I wanted it to be; either one. We chatted for the rest of the trip over little things like when the Cullens were going hunting.

"We were thinking about going this weekend. That is, if we can find someone to baby-sit." Edward explained. I laughed.

"Don't look at me." I immediately said. Edward grinned. We arrived at a large building about ten minutes later. It was very high-tech as far as the security system went. A woman ushered us inside and we all sat at different tables in, what seemed to be, a cafeteria. The woman got up onto a small stage that was set up in front of the tables and gave us a speech on how to take care of the kids. I zoned out and started thinking about how different the next two weeks would be with three little kids running around the Cullen mansion. Charlie had agreed that I could stay at the Cullen's for the project. It had taken a two-hour talk with Esme, Carlisle, Edward, and I to convince him that nothing would happen, but he finally agreed. I was pulled out of my thoughts by everyone standing up. Edward offered me his hand and I used it to stand up.

"Are you ready?" He asked. I nodded.

"No, the question is: are you ready?" I knew that he was nervous about having a child around. He had never delt with kids before.

"Yes I'm fine. Let's go!" He smiled my favorite crooked smile and we walked over to where Mr. Banner was assigning kids to 'parents'.

"Mr. Cullen and Ms. Swan? Congratulations, you have a boy named Max in room 208. Here is your pass," He handed us a laminated card that said VISITOR: FORKS HIGH SCHOOL in bold, red letters. Edward grinned and walked us to room 208 on the second floor of the building. I knocked on the door of the room and a child attendant opened the door, a baby balanced on her hip.

"Oh, hi, you must be the students, right?" She asked. We nodded and she handed the baby to me. "Well, here is Max. He is ten months old. Here, come inside and we can talk." Edward led the way into the room that was decorated like a traditional boy's nursery. The walls were blue and the furniture was a matching green color. The attendant was gathering diapers, bottles, and other baby items into a large bag. "His parents were teenagers who had had unprotected sex and couldn't keep him. His favorite color is yellow and he absolutely loves Cheerios. Max can't really talk yet, but he likes to baby-talk. You know, that babbling thing babies do? And he can't walk either. Well, I think that's all you will need to know for now. Here is his bag," She handed the bag to Edward, "and his car seat. Sorry, but if you need anything else, you will have to buy it." She handed a car seat to Edward and ushered us out of the room.

"So is that it? Do we just go now?" Edward asked.

"That's it. You have to sign him out with your teacher and then you can leave. Good luck and if you have any questions call the office. The number is in the diaper bag." The attended turned and walked away, leaving us with a baby, a bag, and lots of questions. I looked down at Max and he grinned at me.

"Wow-wow" He said. I smiled and saw Edward smiling next to me. Max was little for a ten-month-old and he had emerald green eyes like Edward's once were.

"Come on. Let's go find everyone else," Edward led us through the crowd of students and their kids. We passed Mike Newton and Angela with their kid. It was a girl who had just learned to walk, as she was trying to walk out of the room. When we finally found Alice and Jasper, Alice was bouncing again.

"Edward, Bella, meet our little girl, Emily. Isn't she cute? I can't wait until we get home so I can dress her up. Oh, this is going to be the best project ever!" She squealed. Jasper was beside her holding a baby that looked so tiny she could have been a newborn, though I knew they wouldn't let us 'adopt' newborns. They really did not want anything to happen to these kids.

"Alice, how old is she?" I asked.

"Five months."

"Hey guys!" Emmett yelled through the crowd. He was leading Rosalie away from a group of students gushing over their babies. Emmett had a young boy in his arms and Rosalie was carrying all of the stuff.

"Hey, you got a boy too! His name's Matt and he's one and a half years old." Emmett said it so proud that you would've thought that it was his greatest accomplishment ever.

"Cool. This is Max. He's ten months old." Edward said. Jasper introduced Emily and we all headed back to the bus. We were the first ones on so everyone had room to stretch out. Max started playing with the buttons on the front of my shirt and was sticking them in his mouth.

"Hey, you! Those are mine," I said in a sort-of baby talk voice. Max laughed and grabbed my nose. "Oh, now it's on," I laughed and gently tweaked his nose. Max laughed again and clapped his hand together. I could feel Edward's eyes on us, but I didn't look towards him. Edward reached over and tickled Max just below his chin. Max squealed and reached his arms out to Edward. He looked to me for support, but he had to learn sometime soon that this kid would want him as much as it would want me for the next two weeks.

I handed Max to Edward and he looked at Edward with big eyes, almost like he was surprised that I would hand him to this stranger. Then Edward smiled (my favorite crooked smile, I might add) and Max conked out right on Edward's chest. He looked freaked out and started to panic about every possible thing that could have gone wrong.

"Relax, Edward. He just fell asleep. You didn't do anything wrong." The rest of the kids were starting to fill up the bus, some with babies and some with small toddlers. I glanced over my shoulder to see Rosalie playing peek-a-boo with Matt and Alice arguing with Jasper about whether Alice could re-dress Emily or not. I looked ahead and saw Lauren holding a baby as far away from her as the seats would allow.

"My new top!" She cried as the baby spit up on her. Mike was snickering across from her and Kelsey was trying to clean the baby puke off Lauren's shirt.

"Finally, she gets what she deserves." Edward mumbled, leaning close to my ear so no one else could hear. Emmett laughed out loud at Edward's joke and Lauren glared at him. She was thinking that he was laughing at her. Before she could protest, Mr. Banner came back on the intercom.

"Attention students: When we get back to the school, you are free to go home. Classes have been canceled for the rest of today and tomorrow. Please, when taking your 'children' home, obey all posted speed limits and safety precautions. We don't want to have to pay for any hospital bills. Thank you," He stopped talking and the bus started the engine. Several babies started crying from the loud noise, including Emily, but Max remained asleep.

"WE'RE HOME!" Alice called through the Cullen house. Esme appeared before us in an instant, obviously wanting to gush over the kids.

"Let me see my grandchildren," She said. She went to Emily first, saying how cute she was. Then she did the same with Matt. But, she looked shocked to see Max.

She gasped, "Edward, he looks just like you did before you got changed." Edward wasn't at all bothered by this.

He laughed, "Except he has less hair." Everyone laughed, and we all decided to get settled upstairs with our new 'kids'. I sat down on the bed in Edward's room, silently remembering to thank Alice for getting it. Edward put Max on the floor and he started crawling out the door.

"Whoa, buddy. Where do you think y7ou're going?" Edward picked Max back up and put him on the bed beside me. Max grabbed onto my shirt, then my shoulder, trying to stand himself up. I quickly pulled him back onto the bed, not wanting him to fall and get hurt.

"Jeez, you really do like to move, don't you?" I asked Max. As if to answer me, he gave me a toothy grin and bounced up and down on the bed. He reminded me of a smaller, boy-version of Alice. Edward laughed, reading my thoughts.

"I guess he does bounce like her."

"Yeah," I said, lost in thought. Everything was silent for a minute, then Max burst out crying. The silence before the storm, I guess. I checked his diaper and it was dry. That ment he was hungry.

"Watch him," I said to Edward while I ran down the stairs to grab a bottle out of the bag the attendant gave us. I tripped twice and heard Emmett laughing, hearing me stumble. A few of the bottles were already made, and for that I was eternally grateful. When I got back to the room, Max had stopped crying and Edward was rocking him back and forth, singing a soft lullaby. I didn't recognize the tune, but I knew that he was going to have to play it on the piano later.

"How did you do that?" I asked, giving the bottle to Edward. He gave me a 'what-am-I-supposed-to-do-with-this?' look so I attempted to explain bottle-feeding babies to him.

"Okay, hold him in the crook of your arm and support his head." Edward did it perfectly, like everything else. "Now hold the bottle so that it's almost upright." We sat in silence for a while, listening to the sucking sounds Max was making. Edward was grinning full-force like he had gotten the greatest present ever. Max's eyelids began to droop and he eventually fell asleep. Edward removed the bottle from his mouth and set it on the table next to the bed. Silently, Edward stood up, Max still in his arms, and placed him on the bed.

"Do you want to take a shower and eat while he is still asleep?" Edward asked, his voice barley above a whisper. I nodded.

"You don't mind watching Max?" Edward shook his head.

"I think I can handle him. Besides, what's the worst that could happen?" Edward said, smiling at me. I could see that he was nervous to take care of Max, alone, but he was also determined.

Amazingly, nothing bad happened to my baby while I was in the shower. Rosalie and Emmett on the other hand… After I had gotten dressed, I went downstairs with Max to see if he wanted to play with Matt while I made something to eat for myself. When I reached the bottom step, I laughed so hard that I almost dropped Max. Matt was running around the house diaper-less with Emmett chasing after him. Matt thought it was a game, so he would hide from Emmett whenever he got into another room. Eventually Rose caught Matt and changed him, but she yelled at Emmett for letting him run around the house half-naked.

I walked past them into the kitchen where it was even more of a mess. Alice was trying to scoop formula into a bottle while juggling a screaming Emily at the same time. I quickly set Max down on the floor and grabbed Emily from Alice so she could finish making the bottle.

"Thanks. I didn't know babies could cry so much. I mean, one minute she's hungry, then she is tired, then she just wants to be held. It's driving me insane!" I handed Emily back to Alice. Alice held Emily perfectly for feeding. I guess they're all perfect at that.

"Good luck with her then. I'm so glad we got Max; he almost never cries. Oh god, I think I just jinxed it." I said, hearing Max cry from the floor. I looked down and he was standing up on two legs, holding his arms out to me. I smiled and picked him up. It wouldn't be long before he would be walking on his own.

"Do you know where the guys are?" Rose said, coming into the kitchen with Matt on her back. Rose was enjoying this project. She always wanted kids and having one for two weeks was the next best thing.

"No. I haven't see Edward in a while." I said. I pulled out a pot from the cabinet and handed a wooden spoon to Max so he could beat on the pan.

"Jasper was upstairs. Who knows what he is doing. Although he should be down here helping his wife feed their child." Alice emphasized the last sentence so Jasper would hear. Rose laughed.

"I already tried everything from death threats to sex treatments to get Emmett down and nothing worked. And you know how much of a baby Emmett is! No offense," She looked at the three kids, who were now all banging on the pot. "What could they all possibly be doing?"

"I don't know, but whatever it is, it can't be good." I said.


So did you like it?? If I get...hmm... five reviews, I'll post chapter two. I already have it done! Btw: If anyone is willing to beta-read this for me, I would greatly apprechiate (i think i spelled that wrong) it!!

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