HAPPILY EVER AFTER
It's about 8.30 pm Bella is sitting at her study table attentively rechecking her thesis that
She had to submit tomorrow. A young girl about the age of 5 years enters the room.
Mae: Momma! I hate daddy!
Bella: Me too honey!
Both girls look at each other and start laughing. Mae turns to her Momma, climbs the
Chair and sits on her lap. She puts her small arms around Momma's neck and asks.......
Mae: If you hate daddy...... why did you marry him?
Bella: First tell me..... If you hate daddy then why don't you sleep unless he comes home?
Mae: (pouts adorably) But I can't sleep unless I get my goodnight kiss and he tucks me in!
Bella: Same here honey (blushes slightly) Momma can't sleep unless he's around.
Both girls giggle again. Bella looks at her daughter ---- Renesmee , named after her mother
And mother-in-law, Mae for short. How pretty her doll is, she's got her same brown curly locks,
Tiny pink lips that when she pouts nobody can resist her demands and the sweetest smile.
Everybody says that when Mae smiles she looks like her mother, but her eyes..... those
Dreamy eyes! They are not like hers..... those emerald green sparkling naughty eyes
Always remind her of only one person. Bella puts her fingers in her hair to smooth it out
Of her eyes and asks.....
Bella: Tell me..... why are you angry with your daddy?
Mae: He promised to teach me the piano this afternoon. He's isn't home yet.
Bella: Honey! Daddy must be busy. Many people at the hospital are ill, he needs to take care
Of them. They need him right?
Mae: But I need him too.....
Mae stops hearing the sound of a car in the parking lot. She runs to the window to look
Down. She really tries not to look happy....but it's really tough! She cannot NOT be happy
When Daddy's around! Edward is locking the car. He looks up to see his princess pleased.
He holds his ears with both hands and mutely says " I'm sorry ". Mae turns around and
Pulls the curtains. Edward smiles, she got her mother's temper apparently. Mae returns to
Her place on her Momma's lap. Edward enters the room with a big chocolate bar and a
White fluffy teddy bear in his hands.
Edward: Hello ladies!
No answer. Bella looks up and smiles at him and returns to pretend reading her files.
Edward: Okay...... I guess I'll have to eat this chocolate alone...hmmm as it is I am
Pretty hungry.
Edward unwraps the chocolate bar looking right at her daughter. Mae glances at the
Chocolate. It's her favourite one that too a big one! Edward takes a bite an eats it
Noisily.
Edward: Ummmm....... It's really yummy now I know Mae why you love it so much!
That's it she can't take it anymore, she runs to Daddy and takes the chocolate bar
And the teddy but she's still pretty upset so she turns around and stands. Edward hugs
Her princess from back and says.....
Edward: I'm really really sorry sweetie! Tell me what do I need to do to make my
Bubbles smile again? Okay I know....see I'm doing push-ups, you know Daddy doesn't
Like them and I won't stop unless my Mae gives me a smile.
He starts doing the push-ups on the floor. 1,2,3,4............
Bell's eyes suddenly tears up..... She remembered how she found out Edward hated going
To the gym or working out in general. She always wondered how did he maintain that killer
Body of his withour workout! She also remembered how he used this technique to make up
To her when she was upset.....Ahhh those happy golden days. Correction... these happy
Golden days. The counting still going on 24,25,26.........
Edward's hair was getting wet from the sweat. Mae looks really worried now. She can't bear
Daddy's pain, she sits beside him and holds his arm and says......
Mae: Daddy please stop...... look I am smiling...see (she smiles widely for him)
Edward hugs her and she cuddles into his chest. Bella leaves to get him coffee.
When she returns Edward is sprawled out on the bed with mae sitting on his belly
Giving him the rundown of the day.
Mae: You know Daddy, Sandy ( the housemaid) broke a glass today!
Edward: Really? But Mae you must not go near broken glass okay .... you can get hurt.
Mae: No Daddy I didn't go near it (she says proudly)....Daddy Tommy got lost today!
Edward replied animatedly: Really??? How could he???? He shouldn't leave Mae .....
Did you find him them?
Mae: Yeah he was hiding in the bushes(she said giggling)....... Ohhh! Daddy something
Bit me in the arm today.....here...it really hurts!
Mae showed him a mosquito bite on her right arm. Edward takes her arm and kisses
The spot.
Edward: Does it hurt now?
Mae: (surprised) No....it's gone. How did you do that?
Edward: Daddy knows magic. So now that I treated your booboo you've got to give me a
Kiss it's my fees!
Mae kisses daddy on his cheeks and continues with her account
Mae: Daddy you know Momma burnt her finger today while making hot chocolate for me.
Edward sits up with Mae in his lap and asks worriedly: What happened?
Bella hands him his coffee and says: Oh! Nothing it's just.......
Edward keeps his coffee on the nightstand and takes her fingers to inspect it then kisses the burn.
Edward : Does it hurt anymore?
Bella: (Smiles) No..it doesn't.
Edward: (Cheekily) Then you've got to kiss me it's my fee.......Right Mae??
Mae supports Daddy : Right.
Bella: Edward stop it! (blushes slightly)
Mae:That's not fair... Momma you've got to give Daddy his fees or you'll be a bad girl!
Edward: Yah...Bad girl! Tsk! Tsk!
Bella: Okay.... Okay fine daddy's little girl! I'm doing it.
Bella comes closer and starts blushing, this always happen, even after so many years whenever
She gets close to Edward her cheeks got all hot and red. She feels like a giddy teenage girl with
Her crush. Edward looks at her "love". How does she manage to get prettier everyday? They
Have been together for almost eight years now and she still seem as new to him as the first
Day of senior year in high school. She moved in from Arizona to the Small time of Forks,
Washington. At first we could stand each others guts but still she appeared to me like a flash
Of light, her first glance like sunrays. Eventually the inevitable happened and they were
Inseperable. Those magical eyes, they still drown him like they were doing now......
Even though they loved each other to bits they were still air-headed at times.
Bella kisses him on the cheek: Happy now?
Mae claps: Yay!!!
Edward hugs them both. Mae now sandwiched between her Momma and Daddy,
Wrapped with their love, secured with their care, closes her eyes. This is a happy moment,
She enjoys the fragnance of her Momma's hair and the warmth of her Daddy's chest.
She feels like a real princess!
Bella softly scolds Edward: Don't teach Mae these pranks. Your spoiling my daughter!
Edward : Your daughter??? How dare you? She's mine!
Bella: Mine.
Edward: No... Mine.
Bella: Mine.
Edward : Mine.
Mae opens her eyes.... Oh! No not again!
Mae: Momma, Daddy please stop it!
Edward: Yeah Bella stop it, see even Mae is smarter than you! She never fights like you!
Bella: (incredously) I'm fighting? You started it!
Edward: You!
Bella: No.. You!
Mae sighs this is her Momma and Daddy and they keep fighting like kids but she knows
That they are the best parent in the world cause they are Edward and Bella!
........ And they kept fighting happily ever after!