Three years later
Three years have passed since that day when Jacob imprinted on Elizabeth and Bella was now a vampire. The first year was very hard, but for some strange reason Bella was not tempted to drink Elizabeth's blood. Carlisle's theory was that Elizabeth is our daughter and therefore we are protective of her. I had a feeling it wasn't that, but I wasn't sure what it could be either. Jacob now lived in an apartment in town and worked as a waiter at the pub below his apartment. Today would be Elizabeth's first day of preschool and Bella and I weren't worried about it, but we were having difficulties getting her to get ready.
Elizabeth was standing in her underwear in the middle of the living room with her arms crossed over her chest and a scowl on her face. Her bright green eyes were mad and had tears in them, she was like Bella in the sense that when she got mad she cried. Bella was holding up a cute pink dress that Esme had bought her for her first day.
"Come on Elizabeth. Put this on and tomorrow you can wear whatever you want," says Bella pleadingly.
"NO! I don't want to wear it!" screams Elizabeth angrily. Bella sighs heavily and lays the dress on the couch. Then she walks towards Elizabeth who runs away. Then the doorbell rings and Elizabeth runs towards the door. "I'll get it!" she yells. She opens the door and her face lights up. "Jakey!" she says happily. Jacob picks her up as he walks into the house and closes the door behind him.
"Do you want to let the neighbors to see you in your underwear?" he asks jokingly as he hands her to me. She screams like I was trying to kill her so I put her down worried I was hurting her.
"Jacob, see if you can get her to put this dress on," pleads Bella as she holds up the dress. Jacob takes it and kneels down to Elizabeth's level.
"C'mon Lizzie, lemme see you in this pretty dress," says Jacob holding out to her. She looks at him with an angry expression on her face and her eyes swell up again, but she gives in like we knew she would. "You look very pretty in it. Turn around so I can see the rest, Says Jacob with a grin. Elizabeth quickly spins and loses her balance, but Jacob catches her.
"Thank you, Jacob. We've been chasing her all morning trying to get her to put it on," says Bella in exasperation. Jacob laughs and looks at Elizabeth who was lifting her dress and letting it fall over and over again.
"Lizzie, aren't you going to preschool today?" asks Jacob with a grin. Elizabeth's face lights up and she runs over to Jacob.
"Uh-huh. Daddy says I'll make fwends," says Elizabeth proudly. Jacob hugs her and chuckles.
"Of course you will, you're too cute not to, just don't forget about me, okay?" says Jacob in false sadness at the very end.
"I won't forget you Jakey. When I get home we can play," says Elizabeth trying to cheer him up.
"I'll be happy now if you gimme a kiss on the cheek," says Jacob. Elizabeth kisses his cheek and Jacob smiles. Bella was watching them with a grin on her face. Jacob was very good to her and she loved him like a brother, which was the only way they saw each other at this point.
"We need to get going," I say as I pull my keys out of my pocket. We all go out to my Volvo; Jacob gets in the back seat and straps Elizabeth into her car seat. We go into town where the preschool is located. Once there we go inside, Jacob was carrying Elizabeth. A man walks over with a smile on his face and his hand outstretched.
"Welcome to Kinderville. My name is Mr. Bizarre and I will be your daughter's teacher," he says cheerfully as I shake his hand.
"My name is Edward Cullen and this is my wife Isabella and My daughter Elizabeth, and our friend Jacob," I say as I scan his thoughts for any danger. He seemed kind enough so I motion for Jacob to put Elizabeth down.
"I think Elizabeth and I will have a lot of fun. Is there anything I need to know about her?" He asks as he looks at Elizabeth who was trying to hide behind Jacob.
"She's very open about how she feels about things. If she doesn't like something she'll let you know even if it's rude. She asks many questions and we are very open about any questions she has so feel free to tell her, even if she asks where babies come from," says Bella with a smile. Then she giggles because Elizabeth had already asked us where babies came from so we told her a little bit about it, although we didn't go into great detail.
"She's allergic to chocolate and we try to give her healthy foods, not candy and things of that nature," I say as I continue to scan his thoughts to make sure he was paying attention. He was a little surprised that we were open with Elizabeth and was hoping she wouldn't ask him personal questions, but he was listening.
"Is graham crackers and juice okay?" he asks.
"That's fine. She likes graham crackers," says Bella. I turn to Elizabeth and hug her.
"It's time for you to go with Mr. Bizarre. He'll take good care of you until we come to get you at noon." I say gently. Elizabeth looks up at Mr. Bizarre and blushes because she was shy, but I knew it wouldn't last long. Mr. Bizarre holds out his hand and Elizabeth takes it.
"Bye mommy, bye daddy, bye Jakey. Love you," says Elizabeth as Mr. Bizarre begins to take her into the classroom.
"Bye sweetheart. Have fun at preschool. I love you," says Bella happily.
"Be good, Elizabeth. I love you," I say quietly.
"Go have fun Lizzie. Love ya kiddo," says Jacob with a grin on his face. And then she was in the classroom and the door shuts, then I realize she was growing up too quickly and I wasn't ready for this step. Bella grabs my hand and leads me out to the Volvo with Jacob following behind us.
"I can't believe she's in preschool. Isn't she too young?" I ask worriedly.
"She'll do fine. She's very smart for her age and I'm sure the other children will love her," says Bella as I start the Volvo.
"It's only four hours, dude, lighten up," says Jacob. I glare at him before turning to look at the road.
"When you have a child of your own you will understand, but seeing as how you do not I suggest you keep quiet." I say angrily. Jacob holds his hands up in surrender and goes to looking out the window. I sigh heavily as I drive home. After being home for about five minutes I go back to town, this time on foot, and look in the window of the preschool. I could hear them as they played, but Elizabeth was alone.
I was ready to get her out of there then and there. Why was my daughter all alone?! Then a boy walks over to her with a smile.
"Hi, my name is Todd," he says kindly.
"My name is Lizzie," says Elizabeth shyly. I smile; finally someone was talking to her.
"Me and Jimmy are playing with blocks, do you want to play too?" he asks her. She looks over at the boy playing with the blocks and nods. Todd grabs her hand and pulls her over to the boy, Jimmy, and they begin to play. Then Mr. Bizarre calls the children to order. They all go and sit on a rug around Mr. Bizarre who sat on a chair in front of them.
"Why don't we get to know each other? I want you to say your name and what you want to be when you grow up. I'll start, my name is Mr. Bizarre and I want to be a teacher," he says. Soon it was Elizabeth's turn so she stands up just like the other children, a nice start, I was proud that she was following direction.
"Umm…my name is Lizzie and I want to be a…Vampire!" she says happily. I groan as I hear her exclamation. A vampire?! At least she was young and Mr. Bizarre didn't believe her. Soon they were playing again when Mr. Bizarre pulls Elizabeth aside.
"Elizabeth, what do you mean you want to be a vampire?" he asks.
What are her parents teaching her? She's only three years old, he thinks.
"I want to be a vampire when I grow up," says Elizabeth seriously.
"Vampires aren't real though. Don't you want to be a doctor or maybe a nurse or something like that?" he asks. Elizabeth's eyes swell up with tears and she scowls at him.
"NO! I wanna be a vampire!" she screams angrily causing Mr. Bizarre to back off and make a mental note to talk to Bell and I about it. Soon it was time to pick up Elizabeth. When I get there Mr. Bizarre wanted to speak to me about Elizabeth.
"Mr. Cullen, where did Elizabeth hear about vampires?" asks Mr. Bizarre.
"My older brother Emmett let her watch Dracula a few weeks ago, against my knowledge, and she's been hooked on vampires ever since," I say easily. Mr. Bizarre didn't seem to approve of this one bit, but he didn't say anything either. "Why do you ask?"
"Well she says she wants to be a vampire when she grows up."
"It's just a phase. She'll grow out of it, but until then let her think what she wants, we try to be supportive of her," I say.
"Of course, Mr. Cullen. Tomorrow we'll be learning some colors and the days of the week, I thought you'd like to know, maybe you can prepare her," says Mr. Bizarre. I nod and Elizabeth and I leave. Soon we get home and Elizabeth tells us all about her day at Preschool. She seemed to enjoy it, but she didn't like Mr. Bizarre. We assured her it'd get better.
Thirteen years pass by a little too quickly and Elizabeth, or Lizzie as she preferred to be called, had grown into a beautiful young lady. Now the true anxiety of being a father has begun.
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(A/N: Thank you for reading chapter three. I know I skipped thirteen years, but they weren't the point. The next chapter will be in Lizzie's point of view so we can get a feel for it. Edward and Bella will still play important roles of course, but this is more or less about Edward and Lizzie. It'll be like Twilight, how it was in Bella's point of view, but Charlie was there to give fatherly advice and what have you, but Edward will be watching her and his point of view will also be scattered about. I promise to keep it a Twilight fanfic and not Lizzie's life story with Twilight characters thrown into it randomly. Thank you for the reviews and I'll continue to post chapters up as quickly as possible.)
