Chapter 2- Decisions

Edward's POV

In the morning, I watched the sun slowly rise above the horizon. I waited for Baby Izzy to wake up, although it was a little early for her to be waking up.

Later, after waiting a few hours, she began to stir. She rolled over and snuggled closer to my side. At first I thought she was still asleep, but then she sat up a little and spoke to me.

"Edward? Are woo where?" she asked, so timid that I might have left her.

"I'm here. Don't worry, baby."

"Okay. Can I meet mommy?"

"Sure. Let's go find her after we get you dressed."

"Yay." She jumped up and down repeatedly on the bed, she was so excited.

I dressed her in simple clothes. She wore a little floral dress, tights and tiny little shoes.

"Come on. Let's find mommy."

Izzy ran out of my room and started to run for the stairs. I was afraid she might hurt herself running near the glass stairwell.

"Izzy! Don't run near the stairs!" I shouted as I ran after her. Once I had scooped her up in my arms; I told her to be more careful, that she could have gotten seriously hurt.

I kept a hold of her as I went to get Esme from the garden. Izzy saw where we were headed and started shouting, "Pity flower! Pity flower!"

Esme looked up to see the overly excited child in my arms. Once the novelty of the garden wore off, Izzy saw Esme and enthused over her.

"Mommy! Mommy!" she reached out of my arms.

Esme took her from me and gave her a very heart-felt hug, while Izzy hugged her back.

"Hello. What's your name?"

"Izzy Bewwa. What's woor's?"

"My name is Esme."

"Wesme!" Izzy seemed so joyous to know the name of whom she considered her new mother. Esme appeared just as happy; maybe she would let me keep Izzy. I would be eternally grateful if we could keep her.

Izzy looked like something was wrong with her, but her mind was silent. I couldn't tell what was wrong. "Baby, what's wrong?"

"Hungy."

"Well, let's get you some food."

Esme and I took her into the kitchen to find her something to eat. I didn't really know what to give a small child, hopefully Esme would know. At this kind of thing I was a bit out of my element. I think I'll just help with the other stuff that would need to be done.

Thankfully, Esme did know what to give Izzy. While she was sorting that out, I sat with Izzy and played with her. She was easy to keep occupied and she kept giggling at absolutely everything.

Emmett came bounding into the lounge after we had fed baby Izzy. We were playing on the floor, with Esme watching from one of the couches. Izzy was building a tower with some building blocks Alice had gotten, but with Emmett bouncing around everywhere, he knocked it down. Then Izzy was crying because of what he did.

I scooped her up and started bouncing her against my hip, trying to calm her down. It took a good while, but I did eventually get her settled.

Emmett finally noticed what was going on around him and came to see her. She was a bit shy meeting Emmett, him being a huge burly guy.

"Hi! Who are you?" he boomed at baby Izzy.

"Emmett, stop it. You're scaring the child," Esme scolded him.

"Sorry." He suddenly seemed bashful, "Who are you?"

"Izzy Bewwa. Are woo Eddie's fwend?"

"I'm his brother, well, adoptive brother."

"What's that mean?"

"It means that we aren't related but live in the same family."

"Could woo adopt me?"

We all exchanged an apprehensive glance at each other, "We should wait for you to meet everyone else, honey. Okay?" Esme said gently.

Once the day was almost to a close, Carlisle came home and was bombarded by Emmett begging for Carlisle to let him keep Isabella with us. He seemed to love her as much as I did.

Carlisle decided to sit and talk with Izzy, see what she was like and such. He seemed curious about her; his thoughts were also in line with keeping her here with us.

When he left Izzy to play, I approached him. "Carlisle," I said quietly.

"Yes, Edward?"

"I was thinking, maybe if we moved to a different climate before settling Izzy in here and having to move a couple years down the line? She could grow up in one place, mainly. What do you think?"

"I think it is a good idea, but I think I should approach the others on the subject."

I agreed and let him continue on toward his office.

I walked back into the lounge and saw everyone that was home playing with Izzy. Emmett was being his usual loud self, Esme was quiet and motherly on the sidelines and Alice was bright and bubbly. They were all so enticed by Izzy, all so curious about her and extremely excited to have her here, hopefully.

Rosalie and Jasper said they'd be home by eleven tonight. I suppose they'll be meeting Izzy then and Carlisle will have his meeting thing with everyone.

We wouldn't be waiting for very long, it was already half past ten. Although I was getting a little worried about keeping Isabella up this late, it couldn't be good for a child. Even though she seemed quite content to sit and play all night if left there.

Jasper and Rosalie came in the back door at precisely eleven o'clock. Izzy spotted them quickly and asked me who they were.

"They're my other adoptive brother and sister," I explained to her as Rosalie approached her and Jasper sat with Alice.

"What they called?"

"Their names are Rosalie and Jasper."

"Hi, Jaspa and Wosawie!" Izzy waved excitedly.

Rose played with Izzy for a little while, and then Carlisle called his meeting. I excused myself to put Izzy in some jammies.

Once I was back we started the meeting. I wasn't really paying attention to everyone around me; I was concentrating on getting Izzy to fall asleep.

It took almost the entire meeting, but I finally got her to sleep. I put her in my bed upstairs and when I got back they had decided to keep Izzy.

I was so overjoyed to be keeping her and she'd be so happy here.