JPOV

I picked up the phone and dialed Bella's number. She picked up quickly once my name appeared on her caller I.D. I had watched her do this very thing a million times. She would check the I.D. and then decide whether or not she wanted to answer. Needless to say Bella had never received a bonafide phone 'call' from Mike Newton.

"Jasper!" Bella exclaimed as she picked up the phone. I smiled to myself Bella's voice always made me smile.

"Hey Bella, listen can I meet you somewhere in about two hours?" I asked hopeful that she would say yes. I wasn't kept waiting long.

"Of course, Bella Italia as per our usual?" I could hear the smile in Bella's voice.

"Sounds great. I'll see you there." I loved Bella Italia.

"Okay, love you,"

"Love you too. Bye" I hung up the phone and breathed a sigh of relief. That had gone smoother than I had hoped, but then again I hadn't given Bella a reason to hate me yet.

We had only been dating for four months before I had fallen so helplessly in love, that I had proposed. Lucky for me Bella had said yes.

That was only last week. Now I had to come clean about something that I had been keeping a secret from Bella for too long. Bur before I confessed to Bella I needed to talk to my parents, namely my mom.

I dialed the number and my father Carlisle picked up before I had even heard the phone ring.

"Hello?"

"Oh, hi Dad I thought that you would still be at work."

"Nope I'm off today. Everything except the ER is closed. They're training the interns today and didn't want to accidentally kill someone. Besides no one was in any of the other wards. So there's only 3 doctors and a couple nurses today. Anyways enough about me. Why did you call?"

"Um, I was wondering if you and Mom could watch Nikki tonight. I'm taking Bella out."

"Of course we will. We love watching Nikki, she is our favorite granddaughter." We both chuckled quiet at his well over used joke.

"Dad she's your only granddaughter,"

"So what? Now I can't pick my own granddaughter over herself?" I took the phone away from my ear and stared at it awkwardly for a moment before answering.

"That didn't even make any sense."

"Fine make fun of you old man why don't you?" I rolled my eyes at him and didn't answer.

"You really love Bella don't you?" he asked serious at last. I couldn't help smiling at the mere mention of her name.

"Yeah I do." I breathed.

"Are you going to tell her tonight?"

"Yep. I think that it's time she met you and Mom as well as Nikki." Carlisle chuckled.

"As long as we finally get to meet her formally, she still has no idea that she sees your father on a weekly basis." I was watching Nikki as we talked. I can't believe that I was finally going to tell Bella after keeping it a secret for all this time.

"Yeah that's my Bella. Hey could I bring Nikki over now?"

"Sure see you soon." I hung up the phone and turned to Nikki.

Picking her up from her position on our black leather couch and settled her on my hip, I kissed the top of Nikki's honey blonde head.

"Hey darling, what do you say to spending the night at grandmas and grandpa's?" The way her face lit up at the mention of spending the night at her grandparents was absolutely adorable.

Nikki started jumping up and down in my arms, squealing all the while. I set her down and she ran off to her room to get packed. A few minutes later she came running back out, her pink overnight bag in one hand, and dolly Hannah, in the other.

I could have sworn that she already had her bag packed, she came out of there so fast. I didn't get the chance to question her packing methods however, as she ran out the door and into the garage below our apartment before I could stop her.

I looked out the living room window and saw that it was raining, hard. I also saw that Nikki's rain jacket was draped across the arm of the couch. I smiled, she was so forgetful.

Swiftly I snatched up both of our rain jackets and sprinted out the door after Nikki. When I caught up to her in the car, I discovered that Nikki was so excited that she had already buckled herself into her car seat. After a quick check to make sure that she had done it correctly, we were on our way.

The drive to my parents house was long - almost a half hour drive- and for the most part uneventful.

Of course there was one terrifying moment when I almost hit a deer, and I unconsciously flung my arm out to stop Nikki should she come flying forward. Luckily we avoided the small doe and Nikki remained in her car seat. I remained frozen as I was and then laughed ruefully at the realization that I had developed mom arm.

The laughter ended quickly as my eyes began to sting with the faint traces of tears that always appeared whenever I was even faintly reminded of Nikki's mother… and her father.

I shook my head to clear my thoughts are resumed driving. Nikki had fallen asleep somewhere along the way and when we arrived at my parents she still had yet to awaken.

I reached into the backseat of my car, and once I had retrieved Nikki's things, I unbuckled my tiny sleeping beauty, and recovered her as well. And so, Nikki balanced on one arm, her belongings in the other, I walked up to my parents front door, and in lew of knocking with my head, I opted instead for ringing the doorbell with my knee.

To my chagrin it was not either of my parents, but by overly cheerful sister Alice, poised to squeal and jump for joy at the sight of her petite niece. She would have done it too if I hadn't quickly clamped a hand over her mouth.

Unfortunately for Alice the hand that halted her speech was the same hand that held Nikki's supplies, and my previously peppy sister was left rubbing her shoulder. What did Nikki have in that little pink bag anyways?

I brushed past Alice not in the mood to deal with her today. After I had laid Nikki down on my parent's couch, I held my hands up in a gesture that asked where the deed holders were. Alice responded by pointing to a doorway on her left. My parents were emerging from said doorway, when I quickly herded them back through it wanting to talk somewhere where we wouldn't wake Nikki.

Seeing the confused expressions on their faces once we where alone I explained,

"Nikki's asleep, I didn't want to wake her." They nodded their understanding in unison. After a few moments of silence I took a deep breath and asked,

"Would you two mind trying to keep Nikki awake until I get back from my date with Bella? I'd really like her to be conscious when she meets the woman I'm going to marry, for the first time. I recommend jelly beans." Carlisle laughed.

"Don't worry we'll make sure that she's awake and I don't even think that I'll need the jelly beans to do it." Carlisle replied confident in his medical abilities as always. I didn't want to know what he planned on doing, I probably wouldn't understand anyways.

"Great, well I've got to go meet Bella now, Bye" I kissed Esme and hugged Carlisle, and left through the back door so as not to wake Nikki.

I walked out to my car, got in and started it. I didn't move for a while, but rather sat there staring into space thinking about what Bella would do when I told her.

She would either completely understand and love Nikki as a daughter, or she would get mad at me for keeping such a big part of my life from her and leave me. Oh God I love her so much, please don't let her leave.