Good Things Come in Small Packages
Chapter 3: A Family
A/N: Well, it looks like you guys got lucky! Well….it was either that or I have way too much time on my hands… -laughs- No, really, I'm starting to actually like writing this. Before I was just writing it because I couldn't get it out of my head. Okay, a BIG thanks to all of my reviewers who just MADE MY DAY this morning! This is for you guys!
Disclaimer: I own nothing….ever. Man….I wonder if Stephenie would sell me the rights to Jasper…probably not. –sighs- Oh well.
The night was hell for Emmett and Edward. There were feedings every three hours and changings in the dark (Emmett didn't think to turn the light on.) and she spit up on Edward's favorite robe. Yep…it was a good night.
"Stupid Jasper." Emmett growled and got out of bed to go feed Elaina. It was six a.m., and he was half asleep.
The child continued to cry until Emmett stuffed the bottle into her open mouth.
"When Jasper gets home, I'm shoving him out the window." Edward muttered as he stepped into the kitchen, dark bags under his eyes.
"Don't worry, I'll help you." Emmett whispered quietly, as the sleeping infant rested in his arms, nearly lost in all of the bulk of Emmett.
There was a knock at the door.
"Who's knocking at this hour?" Edward complained, getting up from his chair.
As soon as he opened the door, he was smashed behind it, by Rosalie and Bella who barged in with bags.
"Up and at 'em boys!" Rosalie called.
"We're up." Edward peeled himself from the wall behind the door that he had been slammed against.
"Oh, there you are! What were you doing hiding behind there?" Bella kissed him on the cheek.
"I dunno. These two maniacs threw open the door and smashed me against the wall." Edward muttered.
"Rose, Edward just called you a maniac!" Bella called after the blonde female.
"He what?" Rosalie arched a perfect eyebrow at Edward.
"Nothing." Edward sighed and stared at her with the baby.
"Long night?" Bella wrapped her arms around him and laid her head on his shoulder.
"You have no idea."
"Well I slept like a baby." She shrugged.
"Must be nice." Emmett grabbed a mug from the cupboard and tiredly poured out the coffee.
"Emm, you're entirely missing the cup." Bella pointed out as coffee splattered onto the counter.
"Hmm…what?" Emmett looked up. "Oh crap, now I gotta clean that up too."
Rosalie passed him some paper towels and he hurriedly cleaned up the spilled coffee.
"Well, we're here to make you breakfast, and then you take us shopping." Rosalie and Bella bustled around the kitchen, frying bacon and sausage and flipping pancakes.
"Does your mother know?" Bella asked as she served Edward a plate.
"Psht, if mother knew, she'd be over here by now." Rosalie rolled her eyes.
"No, she doesn't." Emmett tried to read the comics and drink coffee at the same time….it wasn't going too well.
A cry was heard from somewhere in the house and Rosalie all but ran from the kitchen. She returned a few minutes later with a perfectly happy baby.
"Yes, a short break." Emmett sighed.
"Here, she wants her Uncle Emmett." Rosalie plopped the baby in Emmett's arms and went to take the orange juice out of the fridge.
"Aww man." Emmett cried.
Elaina smiled up at him.
"Well, you're happy today aren't you?"
She responded by making happy baby sounds and forming saliva bubbles with her mouth. She found it hilarious when they popped.
Edward had fallen asleep on his pancakes, his face right in the syrup.
"Hehehe, look at your uncle Edward, he fell asleep in his food!" Emmett pointed out to the little girl.
She reached out and patted Edward's head.
"EDWARD, NO SLEEPING ON YOUR FOOD!" Bella slapped him on the head.
"AH! WHAT, WHAT'S WRONG! IT'S EMMETT'S TURN!" Edward's head snapped up.
Bella handed him a wet towel to wipe the syrup off of his face.
"I'm putting an external lock on Jasper's room." Edward grumbled as he wiped the syrup off of his face.
"Hurry up! The malls open in an hour!" Rosalie was quickly eating a rolled up pancake.
"Ungh." Emmett got up. "I'm gonna go take a shower." He handed his niece to Rose.
"As am I." Edward hurried off to his own bathroom while the girls cleaned up, with the baby laying on the couch playing with Bella's keys.
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"Oh, she absolutely has to have one of these!" Rosalie threw yet another pink onesie into the cart.
"But didn't you already get her like 5 of those?" Emmett asked his hands full of bags from other stores.
"This one has a cute little bear on it, look!" She nearly shoved it up his nose.
"Eh, yeah, I see it." He pulled away.
It was then that he noticed the baby bouncers.
"Oh don't bother with one of those. You can just rock her yourselves.
"Psht, I'm done with the rocking. Emmett got a clerk to take both a baby bouncer and a swing out to the car.
"Hey, I was thinking, we should paint her room!" Bella appeared with Edward. Edward, in the same pack-mule state as Emmett.
"That's brilliant!" Rosalie agreed.
"Wait, what room?" Edward questioned.
"Oh…well…I guess we could do Jasper's room."
"Hehehe, I can just see the look on his face." Emmett laughed.
"What color?" Edward was thinking the same as Emmett.
"Uhm….what about pink and purple….candy-striped?" Bella suggested.
"Perfect!" Edward and Emmett couldn't wait for their revenge on Jasper.
"Hey look at these cute little stuffed animals." Bella took Elaina over to the toy section of the baby store.
She picked up a stuffed puppy and showed it to the baby. Elaina swatted it away.
"Okay, I guess you don't like these."
Bella then noticed the squeaky toys.
"Ooh, look Elaina a squeaky giraffe." She offered it to the child.
Elaina seemed to like it, so Bella tossed it into the basket.
By the time they all got back to the apartment, Emmett and Edward had to make several trips down to the car to get everything up to the apartment.
"Are you guys going to start painting today?" Bella asked as she tried to strap Elaina down in her new high chair.
"Heck yeah! The faster we get it done, the longer we can revel in the idea of seeing Jasper's face when he sees his room!" Emmett was already lugging paint cans into Jasper's room.
"Wait, we have to move a lot of his stuff out!" Edward followed him.
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"Okay, if we connect part A to part B we should have the headboard connected to the right railing." Edward tried to decipher the instructions for building the crib.
The small alcove that had once been Jasper's office had been striped apart and made into Elaina's nursery. It was painted a pale pink, with an arm chair in the corner and a changing table opposite of where the bed was to be. A small chandelier had been hung up for light. (A/N: Link to pic of Elaina's nursery on my profile)
"Got it." Emmett drilled the screw into the slot.
"Aren't you guys done yet?" Bella and Rosalie entered, Elaina in Rose's arms.
"Almost, we just have to figure out how to put this darn crib together!" Emmett complained
"Stupid instructions." Edward cursed.
"Forget the instructions, we don't need them." Emmett tossed them aside.
"Are you sure you won't need these?" Rosalie asked, picking them up.
"Screw the instructions." Emmett waved his hand.
Rosalie glared at him, but stepped out with Bella.
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"We give up!" Emmett and Edward stomped into the living room.
"It's a demon crib." Edward agreed with Emmett.
"So you didn't put it together?" Bella stared at them.
"Are you kidding?"
"I bet Bella and I could put it together." Rosalie got up from the couch and she and Bella went to inspect the work.
"Ten bucks they can't finish?" Emmett turned to Edward.
"Deal." They sat down on either sides of a slumbering Elaina.
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"We're done!" Bella called from Jasper's room.
"Say what?" Emmett grabbed the baby and ran for the room.
"OH MY GOD THEY WEREN'T KIDDING!" Edward cried.
"Noooo!" Emmett howled. "How?"
"We used the instructions." Rosalie shrugged.
"Damn instructions." Edward muttered.
"Now all we've got to do is put the bedding on and we're all set."
"Pay up Emmett." Edward held his hand out.
Emmett grimaced and handed Bella the baby. He dug out his wallet and pulled out a ten dollar bill. As Edward tried to take it from him, Emmett refused to let go.
"Emmett, a deal is a deal." Edward wrenched the bill from his hand.
"Fine." Emmett sniffled. "I loved that dollar like it was my mother."
Bella snorted as she returned from the laundry room with the newly washed sheets and bedding for Elaina's crib.
"Great!" She and Rosalie began to put the bedding on the crib.
When they finished, Edward gently laid Elaina into her new bed.
She slept like an angel for the next 2 hours. It was enough for them to put all of the new purchases away.
When she awoke, she played with her hands, and tried to reach the mobile of angel's wings above her bed.
"Hey kid!" Emmett leaned over the side of the crib.
She grinned up at him.
"Is she awake?" Rosalie asked.
"Yep!" Emmett lifted her out of the crib.
"Great, I want to see her in this bouncer you picked out.
"You will!" Emmett plopped her into the pink bouncer. (A/N: Link on profile, with Elaina in the bouncer!)
She was perfectly content in it.
"See! I told you pink elephants make people happy!" Emmett gestured at the child.
"Right." Edward nodded.
It was then that they all actually felt like a real family for the first time.
A/N: Yay! Another chapter done! Please Review!