Disclaimer: These character are all owned by the amazing Stephanie Meyers
This original story was started by DazzlinSparkle05, she read TWCU and asked if I would be interested in helping her out. So this will now be a joint fic! Like always review it's true motivation.
BPOV
My mother once told me if you could have glimpses into your whole life everyone would make different choices and what was suppose to happen by chance would never be, everything would be planned and predictable. What she really meant was that she would of went to college and never met Charlie Swan, which also led to there being no me… Isabella Marie Swan.
I knew though what she meant of the last part of her musing she was glad there was a me. She loves me and would never change the fact that she met Charlie her freshman year of college having to drop out because of me. I kept her life unpredictable.
To be honest I wish I could have glimpses into my life so I could not change, but avoid the situation I now found myself in.
I glanced down at the invitation that was in my hand. The more I looked at it the more I grew irritated.
I knocked gently on the door of the only person that could help me try to figure my way through this situation.
Edward.
I heard the stumbles from the opposite side of the door until a familiar mess of bronze hair and emerald green eyes were peeking out at me.
"Bella?" his raspy voice questioned opening the door fully now.
"Hi," I smiled sheepishly taking notice he was only wearing flannel pajama pants. I woke him up of course he was sleeping that's what doctors were in need of. I. AM. SUCH. AN. IDIOT!
He grabbed my hand after closing the door, pulling me behind him down the hallway of his apartment. This wasn't my first time here per say, but this was my first time being here since I moved back to Forks last week.
We made our way into his room where he sat me on my side of the bed and he groggily pulled off my boots. I stared at him, I woke him up and here he is trying to make me comfortable.
When he was finished he climbed back into the bed and started pulling me down so I was cuddling close to him.
"Mom called me today, saying she received an invitation." He whispered sleepily in my ear.
"Really?" I tried nonchalantly.
"Yeah, I know you probably got one as well seeing as though it's your father's wedding." He stated giving me a knowing look.
"You need sleep." And I'm not ready to talk about this.
"Hmm…Avoider." He murmured against my neck.
"Take that back," I demanded, arching my neck so I could see his face.
"Bella, I know this is hard on you and if I were in the same situation…"
"You would never be in this situation because Carlisle and Esme have an amazing marriage and raised you all perfectly." I snapped.
"That might be true to an extent, but I have been through a divorce so I have an idea about delusional marriages." He said softly, stroking my hair.
"I'm sorry," I whispered looking at him. "I really am, but if I needed a shrink I would have went to Jasper."
"Alice wouldn't like you sharing a bed with him." He quipped with his signature crooked smile.
"I don't have to share one with you." I grumbled, trying to escape his hold on me.
"You are staying right where you are." He stated matter-of-factly hugging me closer to him.
"Why do you care?" I hissed in frustration still squirming.
"You are not asking me that question," he sighed kissing my head returning to the crook in my neck. "Let's go to sleep, I have the next three days off."
After a few minutes of silence, I knew he had fallen back to sleep. I could feel his breathing evening out on my neck. This is the way it has always been except for when he went through his teenage angst, college days, and his brief two-year marriage to Tanya.
Since the day I was born I have been attached to Edward Anthony Cullen.
My mother Renee's was in her freshman year of college at the University of Washington and met a small town rookie cop. Charlie met Renee when Billy Black my dad's best friend dragged him to Seattle to see a Mariner's game. They met at the bar after the game and two months later I decided to surprise mom with morning sickness. Throughout her pregnancy Renee would come to Forks to spend time with Charlie and he fell in love.
In her third trimester she ended up leaving school only to move in with him. During this time Renee met our next-door neighbors the Cullen's. Esme Cullen was only a few years older then mom, but was a veteran housewife and mother, Renee admired her more then anything. She was the mother of ten-year-old twins Alice and Emmett and six year old Edward. The Cullen children would be a very integral part of my life growing up.
September 13, 1987 I decided to grace everyone with my presence. Carlisle Esme's husband was the one to deliver me in one of Fork's rare monsoons. Okay it wasn't as much as a monsoon as it was a severe lightning storm. Thank God, the good doctor was home because all the roads were flooded and Charlie had no way of getting to us.
I grew up in a world of would of, could of, should of's. Since my parents never married there was no messy divorce only a somewhat messy custody battle over yours truly. I spent my childhood since the age of seven between Forks and Phoenix, but mostly in Forks.
Esme was my mother figure in Forks especially after certain concerns Charlie shared with her about my upbringing in Phoenix. Renee wasn't negligent she had her own way of raising me, meaning that the rules and structure Charlie had ingrained into my brain were thrown out the window when I walked off the plane to spend my summers with her.
My true home would always be with the Cullen's or more so with Edward.
Esme tells a romanticized version of the first time Edward met me or at least that is what Renee calls it.
EsmePOV or romanticized story
Alice had ballet and Emmett had football practice the only one I had home with me was my little Edward. He sat at his piano bench trying to play Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star when we heard a knock at the door.
"Renee?" I asked looking at the worn down girl in front of me. She was nineteen and I knew this all had to be overwhelming on her.
"Esme!" she cried out panicky, holding a small crying bundle.
"What's wrong?"
"She won't stop… she just won't and God only knows why." She said exasperated.
"Here let me see her," I said softly taking Isabella into my arms. "She seems to have colic."
"That's bad, right?" she asked biting her lip.
"Nothing life altering." I smiled, I really liked Renee and I knew she loved her baby.
"Will it ever stop?" she whimpered and continued. "The crying?"
She looked entirely lost and my heart went out to her.
"It looks like you could use a nap," I suggested. "Carlisle will be home in a bit with Alice and Emmett I can have him take a look at her."
"I don't want to bother you." She insisted.
"She will never be a bother." I smiled kissing the little girls forehead. Renee tried to protest again, but our conversation was cut short by a slam of piano keys.
"Edward?" she smiled.
"He's my perfectionist, he has been taking piano lesson for the past couple of weeks and is a bit frustrated." I sighed. "I swear that boy expects that he should automatically be able to play Beethoven."
"He is like a miniature adult." She giggled lightly.
"Mommy?" the little voice called from the doorway. Renee and I smiled looking at his messy hair and his glasses slid down his nose. He was the littlest and shyest out of my three kids. Alice and Emmett basically did all the talking for him.
"Edward, would you like to meet Bella?" I asked quietly noticing she finally stopped crying. He nodded slightly giving a wary glance to Renee and then me.
"She would really like to meet you, Edward." Renee encouraged.
I sat down on the sofa carefully shifting Bella so she was comfortable. Edward quietly climbed up to sit next to us.
"She is beautiful, mommy." He said in awe stroking her little hand gently as if he was afraid to break her.
"Would you like to hold her?" Renee asked from my side amusement clearly written on her face.
"What if I drop her?" He asked worriedly biting his lip. He was always a nervous boy.
"You won't, plus I know you'll be extra careful." Renee winked.
He nodded briefly and let us gently place her in his arms. Bella must have noticed the switch because she opened her eyes. Renee gave me a worried glance thinking she was going to start crying again, but what happened next surprised us.
The little angel looked up at Edward almost curiously as he stared right back at her with a huge grin on his face.
"Go take a nap we'll watch her for you." I whispered to Renee.
"You're sure?" she asked hesitantly.
"Go." I smiled nudging her with my elbow.
"Alright," she sighed, standing up she reached over and kissed her precious daughter on the nose. "Be good, Bella Boo."
After Renee left I placed Bella in her bouncy seat and turned on the TV. Thought Edward would get bored of his new little friend, there wasn't much she could do. I stopped reading when I heard him whispering to her.
"You will get to meet Alice, Emmett, and daddy soon. They are all very nice. Alice likes to go shopping with mommy and Emmett plays a lot of sports because he's so big and strong, sometimes daddy plays with him. I don't like playing with them though," He paused for a second. Edward wasn't much for socializing, his teachers at school had called me and Carlisle with concerns. I knew he was extremely shy, but witnessing this, him confiding in this little girl it was adorable. "I like to read and play my piano, I will play for you sometime."
"Es?" Carlisle called from the foyer with my troublemakers in tow.
"In the living room." I called back. He stopped in the doorway giving me a curious look glancing at Edward and Bella.
"Daddy, meet Bella!" Edward bounced excitingly.
Carlisle chuckled, appeasing him he sat on the floor with them.
"She is a little angel." He cooed smoothing her fine baby hair across her forehead.
"She's my angel, daddy." Edward smiled a crooked smile that matched his fathers. That would be trouble when he was older.
"Is that so?" Carlisle asked him amusedly.
"Yes." He nodded furiously.
"Es, you better start planning the wedding." He chuckled watching Edward talk some more with Bella.
"Who's getting married?" Emmett boomed coming into the room.
"Indoor voice." I warned.
Emmett just shrugged joining them on the floor.
"She's a tiny squirt." Emmett said cocking his head curiously at her.
"Do. Not. Call. Her. A. Squirt!" Edward's little voice growled through clenched teeth.
I have never seen him stand up to Emmett's teasing until this moment. Carlisle looked at me with a raised eyebrow and then turned his attention back to the boys and our guest.
"Mom, I got the lead in the recital!" Alice sang and then paused curiously watching the little girl that had all the Cullen men wrapped around her finger. "What do we have here?"
"Alice, meet Bella." Edward smiled running up to his sister pulling her over to the small group on the floor.
"I'm bored." Emmett declared standing up running to his room. Alice rolled her eyes at him.
"She is precious, Edward." Alice smiled. The look on her face was somewhat knowing, she looked at Bella and grinned giving her a kiss on the cheek.
They played with her for a while longer, Carlisle even checked her over stating that she did have colic. Edward was the one that insisted she needed sleep when he saw her yawn.
"He is in love." Alice sang brushing past me.
I watched him for a bit longer I was taken back. My little shy Edward disappeared for a few hours and he became a protector of Isabella Swan. That was the day his world was turned upside down.
A/N: This is my first fic. I really can't wait to read your reviews. Please read and review I love to know what you're thinking!