Ok, some of you are pretty close to what I was originally planning:) most of you are saying no Jacob but it would be sad to leave him out during their childhood, but I don't think he'll have much part cause he's not my favourite person but thanks for letting me know and remember I'm always open to ideas and don't worry if I use your idea I will mention you and give you credit.

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Chapter 4 – RPOV – bit by bit

3/4 years later.

The clock flicked to 6am, the 18th April 1991. I lay in bed and began to think about my daughter who gets more beautiful every day; her dark brown hair falls in curls to the bottom of her shoulder blades and her eyes are just as pretty as the day I first saw them. Charlie still looks at her with pure adoration and her eyes are filled with love for him. She is a smart child, and was walking when she was one and talking only a few weeks later. Now she can almost say full sentences and I think she understands more that she can express.

I still have my strange dreams and we get cards every birthday with money inside and a keepsake every Christmas from the same handwriting and the same signature, 'guardian angel'. I kept everything from Charlie, he would never understand; probably make me see a doctor or something. I put all of the gifts in my safe although I thought about getting Bella her own safe, she would need it soon! I was also starting to think she really did need someone to look out for her, she was incredibly accident prone. I know looking out for her is my job and I do the best I can but I swear if I look away the danger comes to her like she's magnetic.

Last year I was playing with Bella in the garden, she'd already fell off the slide so I stopped her from playing on it. It scared me so much, I thought she was really hurt but she just brushed it off. Anyway, the most unlikely thing happened, I went to get some water so she could water the plants and I went back outside to find a chicken chasing Bella. I mean god knows why a chicken was anywhere near here but it caught up to her and pulled her down pecking at her feet and legs, she was terrified. I sat the plastic jug of water on the step and frightened off the chicken. It ran off into the woods and I walked back to find her face down in the mud soaked and filthy with the jug empty next to her. She was crying and shouting for me, I ran to her and she calmed. I decided we'd had enough fun outside, well I say fun but the next day Bella had multiple bruises. I took her inside for a bath and we had lunch.

Things between me and Charlie were bad. We argued a lot, mostly about silly things like how he doesn't help with the washing and he would argue that he works all day but the thing is he doesn't spend time with us and it isn't fair on Bella. We would shout for hours on end some nights while Bella was asleep and more times than not one of us would sleep on the couch. It was hard on us both and probably on Bella too because I knew she could understand what most children can't. She would look at us with heartbreak in her eyes and it made us stay together. But bit by bit we were falling apart.

My alarm went then, 7am, time to get up and get breakfast ready for Charlie and Bella. I went to check on her first, she was still sleeping but she was an early riser so I'd give it 10 minutes.

BPOV (just a tiny bit of her)

I hear mommy's footsteps on the stairs and she thinks I'm still asleep but I like to play that trick on her. It's funny. I'm still tired; mommy and daddy were yelling again last night. They think I'm sleeping but I sit at the top of the stairs to listen. I know they think I don't understand but I do and they always shout about me. It makes me sad and it scares me. I don't want them to fight because of me.

"Your all I have Renee, if you take her it will kill me!" daddy shouted.

"Well maybe you should try spending more time with her, with me, with both of us. It's not fair" mommy shouted back at him.

I sat there for a little while then my friend came to take me to bed. I met him in my back garden, he is very pretty and he twinkles in the sun. I like it when he visits me. I don't tell my mommy about him because he's my friend. He took me to bed and tucked me in the way mommy does because daddy didn't do it right last night. He hummed a tune that sounded very nice and I fell asleep.

I'm bored lying in my bed so I get up because I can smell the toast mommy is making. I slide down the stairs on my bottom and mommy is in the kitchen.

"Good morning my sunshine" she says to me. I still feel sad about last night.

"Hi mommy" I said to her and I climbed onto a chair, I can do that all by myself now.

RPOV

There was that look again, like her little heart had been crushed in two. Maybe we had woken her last night. I felt terrible.

"Would you like fruit loops or toast and jam, sweetie?" I asked feeling a little guilty and offering her favourite cereal. Her face brightened up, that's more like it.

"Foot loops please mommy." She grinned that perfect little smile.

"Okay baby, what should we make for daddy?" I let her help make his lunch every day and she enjoyed it.

"samich with ham and lettuce" she answered thoughtfully, sliding from the chair to go to the fridge. Of course she cracked her head off the fridge door and whined. I kissed it better and we continued to make a sandwich when Charlie came down the stairs.

"Hey you guys" Charlie smiled. I was still mad at him for saying I was being childish last night.

"Daddy!" Bella ran to him and he lifted her in the air, she laughed a beautiful laugh that only Charlie would get out of her which made me sad that she would only laugh like that with her father.

"How you doing, Bells?" he asked her, placing her on a chair and pouring out some fruit loops for them both.

"Kay" she replied, sounding sad again. I kissed her head and splashed milk into her bowl.

Charlie left for work and I bathed Bella and we both got ready. I left her in the bathroom to get myself clean underwear and I returned to find the joker from batman in my bathroom. Oh no, it was just Bella discovering my eyeliner and lipstick.

"Oh my goodness Bella, what have you done? I only left for a sec!" I said to her, a little bit irritated.

Hearing the annoyance in my voice she gave a whispered "sorry mommy."

"Aww honey, it's alright but this is for big girls, you can't play with it yet, okay?"

"yea okay." I sighed.

I wiped the make-up from her face and set her back on the floor. She flittered to her room to play. I washed my face and got changed. I went into Bella's room and found her peering out her window at the forest.

"whatcha looking at, cutie?" I asked looking in the general direction that she was gazing at.

"Look mama, sun's out, can I play outside today?" she asked. I was fine with having her outside by herself. She knew not to go anywhere near the woods and she had her own little den is some trees that were a couple of metres from the house and she practically lived in there. I could always see her if I looked out and she knew to come in or shout me if she wanted me. "of course, do you want to change?" she was in a pretty little dress that my mom had bought for her and I didn't want her to ruin it.

"yes." she slide from the rocking chair that sat by her window and I watched her pull out a pair of shorts and her favourite top that had a picture of a cat and said 'purrfect'.

I helped her change and opened the back door so she could come in and out as she pleased. I decided I'd clean the house. I can play with her later, she enjoys her own company.

EPOV

It was sunny today so I shouldn't really come but I couldn't leave last night. Renee and Charlie were fighting and I could smell Bella sitting on the stairs listening to them argue about the most pointless reasons. It pissed me off! Couldn't they see how sad it made Bella? I have watched her cry herself to sleep and she's only 3 and a half. I crept in to take her back to bed last night and I hummed to her a tune that I had composed for her called 'Bella's lullaby'. She drifted to sleep after only a few minutes.

This morning Bella had asked Renee to play outside, she had noticed it was sunny and she always comes outside to see me. I knew the weather was going to be nice and I should have left but I love keeping her company. Renee was cleaning today and I would hear if she was coming to check on her so I was safe to talk to her for a while.

She waddled out holding a juice box and once she was down the steps she ran to her den. She tripped and fell down, I cringed and was about to dart out to help her but she was up and running again. Charlie had made a mini hammock between two of the trees and she climbed into it, falling off twice but third time lucky. Renee was cleaning the bathroom so I walked to her tree den.

"Hey Shorty" I giggled. She made me feel like a child and I felt so much like her big brother looking out for her when she needed me.

"Hi, Edward." She grinned. At first she had trouble pronouncing my name but she's pretty smart so she got it quickly.

It was on the 17th of June she first saw me. It had been sunny again that day and I hadn't left, I had nothing else to do and it was fun watching her run around giggling at her own feet. Bella had been let loose in the garden and she glanced over to the trees just when the sun shone overhead. I didn't have time to move when she spotted me sparkling through the trees. "Wow, what's that?" she whispered and then ran to her den. I thought I had scared her so I was about to leave when she said in her normal voice "will you come and talk to me please?" I was amazed. She didn't shout and she didn't leave her den but she knew I would hear and see her. I slowly walked into her little place and she was waiting there patiently for me. "Want some?" she held out her juice box. I grinned "no thank you." I replied and I studied her in amazement as she chattered away to me like it was nothing. I knew it was dangerous and it still is but she trusts me and she doesn't say anything to anyone about me.

"what y' finking bout?" she asked me as I replayed that day.

"How pretty your den is." I answered pointing at the purple feather boa she had hung from a tree.

"hehe, I like this place" she smiled and laughed. Her laugh was so precious and her little smile so cute. I read her top and smiled, she was 'purrfect.'

I could hear Renee now, thinking about leaving Charlie, leaving Forks and running with Bella. I was sad but I knew that all the arguing wasn't good for anybody and I wanted Bella to have a happy life. Charlie would be heartbroken but it will do them all good. She was thinking the same and straight away came to check on Bella before packing. I disappeared for the moment.

Renee took her inside. Oh god! Was that the last time I'd see her? No, it can't be. I thought, I don't think I would cope, she keeps me sane. Renee gave Bella a small child suitcase and told her to pack her favourite clothes, toys, books. Bella demanded to know why but Renee said they were going away for a while and left to pack her precious things she keeps in her safe. All of the keepsakes I had given to Bella were I there too. She spent some time reading some of her favourite messages and looking at the pictures from her mother. She took the gold charm bracelet that I had send two years ago, out of the box and took it to Bella. Her little eyes lit up when she saw the sparkly diamond heart. Renee had also added a sparkly gold rainbow. I giggled, it showed her personality well.

Charlie returned soon after. Renee sat Charlie down and had a long talk about how she was leaving to stay with friends in California. I didn't want to listen so I snuck into Bella's room where she was sitting humming her lullaby and holding Barney, her bear. I smiled.

"Hey chick, what you doing?" I asked her.

"singing. I'm going away with mummy." She beamed like she was hoping for a holiday.

"I know and I'm not sure when I'm going to see you next." I replied. It saddened me.

"Oh" was her simple reply and she was concerned about it. "You come with us? We're going to Calwifornia; it's real sunny vere so you can be pretty all the time." She said; hope filling every word of her idea.

"I can't" I said, "People would think I looked strange if they saw me like that and they can't know our little secret, can they?" I said. I felt like I had just told a child that Christmas was cancelled, it was heartbreaking. Bella knew about me, my family and how we were vampires but she wouldn't tell anyone and I didn't tell my family she knew. She was a smart child I would be safe, I had trust in her.

"but I'll be back soon so we can see each uver then, k? and you can come and visit if we talk to long to come back cus I will miss you." I could say anymore so I nodded. I hugged her and jumped out the window. If I could cry I would have.

I watched Renee drive away from the house with Bella strapped in the back seat. After a few minutes they were gone. My stomach dropped and I fell to the floor.

Oh no:( Renee and Charlie are split. Sorry but it didn't feel right to keep them together. And how will Edward cope? :/ and sorry about the chicken story and if anything is off with Bella, I don't have any children or little brothers/sisters so I don't really know anything but I do have chickens so that's where that came from :)

Tell me you guys…. Should I change Bella when she's older? Make her more outgoing, more friends or should she stay the same? :)

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