My Fiancée is my Babysitter?
Bella had wished she could have spent the weekend with Edward; but she really couldn't. She had to babysit. It's not that she did not want too because that is what she did in Phoenix on a few occasions and she enjoyed the kids, but she needed to re-save up money since she blew all of her college fund that she was never going to use on motorcycle parts. She had wanted to give Edward a present.
Edward had just gotten her a car as a pre-wedding gift since her old truck broke down and even Rosalie couldn't even repair it. She had totally resented Edward for it at first. In fact she hated receiving gifts all together because she could not get anything extravagant to begin with. But she felt that she needed to give him something in return. She had gone through a list in her head as to what to give her 109 year old vampire boyfriend, but came up with nothing…so far.
She just had to think of something, but it wasn't worth thinking about if she did not have the money to get something for him. So instead she had to keep the decision away from Alice to try babysitting again. It all started back at Newton's store and Mike had a date with Jessica, but at the time Mrs. Newton had made plans so no one was going to be home to watch his sister. Mike had not hung out with Jessica in awhile and they were planning to see a movie. So seeing her opportunity she told them about her past babysitting experiences and with much convincing that it would not be a problem they gave her the job. Since then some of the parents in Forks had her babysitting.
"Hey Belwa," sighing she turned her head to see the new little one she was watching…Ethan Reynolds.
Ethan was four years old and his mother just dropped him off at her house. Their house was undergoing some remolding and she did not want the boy around the new construction area so she had asked Bella the week before if it would be ok to bring him to her house instead, and of course with Charlie out fishing for the weekend it was not a problem at all.
"Hey Ethan what's up?" She asked as he came into the kitchen.
"Can I eat my snack and watch a movie?" He asked her shyly.
Bella laughed, "Yea sure. What did you want to watch?" She had only met the kid previously and he had taken a liking to her.
He thought and it took all she had not to laugh as he pretended to put on his 'thinking hat', "Ice Age!"
Laughing she got his snack and went to the living room to set the movie up. But before she could the door rang, "I wonder who could that be." She wondered out loud.
"Maybe it Santa." The boy smiled walking with her to the door wanting to help answer it.
Bella smiled and opened and was surprised to see, "Carlisle…Esme?"
"You not Santa." The boy said disappointed and went to sit on the couch.
"Hey honey we are sorry that we didn't call. Can we come in?" Esme asked.
Shaking her head Bella responded, "Yea sure. I'm sorry. Come in."
Leading them into the room Ethan was sitting patiently and that is when Carlisle said, "If your busy we can come back-"
"No. No its fine. Let me just get him set up and we can go into the kitchen and talk." Bella explained.
So she set the movie up, "Ethan. I have to talk with Carlisle and Esme ok."
"You not going to watch movie the movie with me?" He asked looking hurt thinking that Bella did not want to spend time with him.
"In a little bit ok, if you need anything I'll just be in the kitchen ok?" She explained gently.
He smiled, "Ok."
So once she made sure that the movie was on and working, she led the parents of her boyfriend into the kitchen, "Is everything ok?" She asked as they sat down.
"I wish dear." Esme stated. And sensing her heart rhythm picking up Carlisle back tracked and said, "Everything is fine in the sense that no one is hurt and everyone is ok…physically at least."
"Ok I am confused." Bella said relieved that no one was hurt and Edward was ok.
Esme sighed, "we are having problems that we can't seem to leave our house for a weekend and leave our 'kids' alone."
"We always come back to find the house trashed or half demolished." Carlisle stated.
Bella was even more confused, "Ok so maybe you should place Edward in charge and-"
"That is just the thing though. Edward we can't seem to be able to trust to be in charge because we come home and find him fighting with either: Emmett, Jasper, Rose, and Alice. Like today for instance." Esme explained.
Carlisle sighed not looking at his youngest soon to be daughter, "We came home to find a bon fire that was made of fashion designer clothes, Edward's piano turned to woodchips, the Wii trashed, plumbing backed up from a five hundred page book, and the interior was a…excuse the term but a…complete hell whole."
"Oh my God." Bella said not believing a word her future parents were saying.
Esme shook her head, "Yea. It was that bad."
"So before we can give them punishments they ran off…although they will be home for school and we fully intend on punishing them, Esme thought that…" Carlisle was unsure on how to explain the next part.
"I thought that we should get them a babysitter and treat them like the babies they are acting." Esme finished.
"But that would be risking exposure and the Volturi would not like that." Bella said slowly trying to piece together what the plan was; although she did find it kind of funny that one hundred and something year old vampires needed a babysitter, but she could not believe that Edward was not as responsible as he made himself out to be.
"Well that is what I was saying and well Esme found this sight that listed the top five best babysitters in the country and well…" Carlisle started.
"And your name came up. We didn't know you babysat." Esme explained.
Before Bella could explain Ethan came into the room, "Belwa?" He looked at her and she came and knelt down in front of him, "Hey bud. Is everything ok?"
"Can I have more apple juice?" He asked holding his empty cup.
"Yea sure." She took his cup and refilled it and he went back to the movie.
"He is so cute." Esme said, "Whose is he?"
"The Reynolds. That is Ethan. He is four years old, he takes swimming lessons in the summer, he has minor seasonal allergies, he likes soccer, and his favorite movie is Ice Age." Bella explained, "His mom dropped him off this morning because they are working on a remolding on their house and she did not want him to be near it while they were working."
"Wow that is nice that you offered to watch him." Carlisle said.
"Actually Mrs. Newton was the one who passed my information to her. You see one day I overheard Mike arguing with his mom because he had a date and she made plans and his dad was not around to watch his sister so I told them I used to babysit in Phoenix and all my certs were still valid like I have CPR, First Aid, AED, and of course nearly everyone had a pool where I lived and if they didn't and they would be allowed to go swimming I took them to a pool so I also got Life Guard too. And they let me watch Mike's sister; so yea…now almost everyone who has a kid in Forks I now kind of babysit." Bella explained.
"How does Edward not know this? Why didn't you tell us this?" Esme asked.
"Well I didn't think I would be babysitting again, but after Edward got me the car as a pre-wedding gift I decided that I wanted to get him something so I took the opportunity with Mrs. Newton to try and earn extra money…" Bella gasped, "I think I know what I want to get him…" but then she was crushed, "wait no."
"What?" Carlisle asked.
"I just thought that if his piano was destroyed I could get him a new one, but I don't have enough money to even get him one and he probably already ordered a new one."
Esme and Carlisle looked at each other and smiled, "Don't worry we already have that taken care of. You see when the cowards ran away they didn't take their phones. So as we were fixing the house up we took away the phones and computers and disabled the credit cards. So we have that covered." Carlisle explained.
"Yes I am sure Alice will be gushing about it in school tomorrow." Esme smiled.
Bella internally smiled at that. But she still had to be careful and not make any decisions that would alert Alice. She was lucky that she had yet to realize the second job she took on, but of course she was Bella after all and luck never lasted long…speaking of which, "So what actually brought you here anyway? I am sure it wasn't just to tell me that I wouldn't be allowed to see Edward because he was going to be grounded or that you were actually planning on getting a babysitter for them."
"Well that is just it. When your name came up…" Carlisle trailed off and Bella noticed how they were looking at her and it clicked.
"Wait you expect me to be their babysitter?" She gasped.
"Well that is the plan. I mean it is not set and we are trying to distract Alice with other plans that do not center around you." Esme said. She was trying really hard not to think about Bella at all.
Bella was looking back and forth and seeing that they were not joking she had to ask, "You really want me to be a babysitter for my fiancé and soon to be siblings who are vampires and I am just a human?"
"Yes." They both said.
Bella got up and started to pace, "You do realize again that I am human and they are vampires. Not only that I am eighteen and they may be physically seventeen and eighteen but reality they are old enough to be my great-great grandparents right? So they would not listen to me because of that right?"
"Yes we understand that it is a crazy idea, but who else can we trust? I mean can you imagine a random human in that house dealing with Emmett and Alice?" Carlisle asked.
Bella stopped pacing and realized that he has a point…the nightmares the poor innocent sucker would have at the end of the day. Bella internally shuddered, "Ok I see your point but they will not listen. Especially Edward, they would probably laugh and just do what they want."
"Yes we understand that they may give you a hard time, but Carlisle is Coven Leader so while he is gone he could say that you are in charge and they will listen to that." Esme said gently.
"Yes I could. I do not like holding that title over their heads because I would rather be a family instead of a coven, but if that is what I have to do then so be it." Carlisle said.
"And we are willing to pay you whatever you need to get Edward a wedding gift." Esme said.
Bella looked at her, "No I can't take you money."
"Bella we insist, we know that you have done a lot for us and if you do this then you most certainly deserve something. Besides it would be for Edward right? I mean we will be happy, you will be happy, and he will be happy. It's like a…what would Emmett say…win win situation." Carlisle persuaded.
Bella just stared at them, "Did you want to see my file or anything before going an further with this?"
"Already taken of and we trust you." Esme winked pulling a folder out of her purse.
Again Bella stared and relented, "Fine I'll do it. When is the next time you guys are going out?" She pulled out her phone and went to the calendar.
"How is this coming weekend for you?" Carlisle asked smiling.
"Sounds perfect to me." Bella said. After they left, the rest of that Sunday flew by with a blur and when Ethan was picked up the only thing Bella kept thinking about was: I am going to be babysitting my fiancé…what?