A/N- I'm really sorry about taking so long to update life just caught up to me. I promise that I'm not giving up on this story. I love it too much. Ok so in this chapter Edward and Bella will be learning what it means to be parents. Thanks for the reviews they really mean a lot to me.

Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THIS!!! IT ALL BELONGS TO STEPHINE MEYER!!!

Chapter 4

Previously- Edward and I had a lot of changing to do. We would have to get used to Renesmee waking up in the middle of the night, and feeding her, and a lot of other stuff. One day she would be a teenager and I wouldn't now what to do with her. I was so glad to have Edward by my side because there was no way I could do this on my own. Thank god we had each other because we were the freshmen of parenthood.

BOV:

When I woke up in the morning it took me a while to gain the courage to open my eyes and see if everything had been a dream. There were a few things that made me certain that it wasn't a dream, like the fact that I was really comfortable and not on the living room couch, and the gentle snoring of someone else.

With these things in mind I slowly opened my eyes and turned to see Edward's tender gaze.

"How are you this morning love?" he asked me while softly caressing my face.

I was so glad that he was finally touching me again. The last time he had touched me with such affection was before we left the island. After that I was even more fragile then usual and Rose wouldn't let anyone-let alone him-come into touching distance anyway.

I leaned into his touch while I answered his question, "I'm fine, a little hungry, but I feel better then I have in a long time."

"Well I'm glad that you're feeling better and I think I can take care of the hungry part," he told me still stroking my face as I smiled at him, "Is there anything in particular that you're craving?"

"No, not really anything sounds good to me," then after a moments thought I added, "Just anything but eggs, I don't think I could even stand the smell of them right now."

At that he ruffled my hair and said, "Wow, and here I thought that you'd never get tired of eggs. It's all you've been eating for over a month."

"Exactly, so now I've grown tired of them," I explained.

"Well ok then, I'll go downstairs and get you breakfast and you stay here and rest," he told me as he made his way to the door.

Normally I would have objected and insisted that I get my own food but I really hadn't had any real alone time with my baby and I was being greedy.

Once the door closed again I jumped out of bed and tiptoed to the crib were Renesmee was sleeping.

She looked so peaceful with her eyes closed, body relaxed, and lips slightly parted. Her little soft snore was so adorable I couldn't help but smile at the sound of it.

I let my mind wander as I watched Renesmee sleep. I went over all the little details that had brought us here today. My honeymoon, the long days and nights fighting for my baby, giving birth to her, and even… Jacob.

I hadn't seen him since the day before Renesmee was born. For some reason I figured he would want to stay by my side and spend all the time he could with me because he thought I was going to die and if I didn't then I would be worse then dead. At least in his opinion I would be. Well he would come around… hopefully. The need to have him close to me was gone but I still wondered if he was happy where ever he was. He was still my friend after all. Just because he was having a hard time accepting the choice I made didn't mean that all the friendship I felt toward him had diminished. I hoped that he still felt some kind of friendship towards me after all that I had put him through.

I suddenly started to worry that he would never come back. That he would think Edward had changed me into a vampire and he wouldn't even want to see me.

Before I could go into a full-scale panic attack Edward walked into the room with my breakfast and a worried look on his face.

"Are you ok, love?" he asked me. "Jasper can feel your panic all the way downstairs. It's actually quite funny, you have him curled up into the fetal position," now he had a slight smile on his face though he was still clearly worried.

"Oh, I'm sorry, poor Jasper." I said as I tried to calm myself down.

"It's ok, you don't need to apologize. Just tell me what's bothering you so much," he set the food down on the nightstand and called me over to sit by him on the bed.

I sat down next to him and he wrapped his arms around me. "Ok so I was kind of wondering where Jacob was and when I would get the chance to see him again. Then I started thinking that if he believed I had died and you changed me he would never come around again," I told him. Then a new possibility occurred to me and I was even more frightened then I had been a second ago. "Or maybe he thinks you changed me and he went back to Sam to tell him and they're planning to come and destroy the family," at this new thought I couldn't even breathe.

"Bella, Bella, Bella calm down everything is better then you think," he said when I started to hyperventilate. He took a deep breath before continuing. "When Jacob came back from his day at the park I asked him to give me permission to change you if I had to and he gave it. He is the alpha, not Sam, so now the wolves can't get mad about me changing you. Yes he does know that you could be a vampire right now and that's probably very hard form him to live with so he's staying away. Although the wolves are still here protecting us from the other pack," by now I was shocked speechless.

"Whoa wait, the wolves are still here?" I asked when I found my voice again.

"Yes my love. Sam doesn't know that you have already given birth to Renesmee or that Jacob gave his permission to let me change you," he told me patiently "They could come at any time to try and kill Renesmee or check if you are a vampire. They are completely in the dark so Jacob feels we could still use the protection," when he finished talking he let me take it all in.

Jacob was still here protecting my family and he had given his permission to let Edward change me. He really was such a great person and I regretted ever causing him pain. (A/N even though in my opinion he deserved it.)

I would give him all the time he needed to gather the courage to finally come and see if I had been changed or not for himself. He had given up everything for my new family and me. My patience was the least I could give him in return.

"Well that's vey kind of him. I'll need o make a mental note to thank him for it later," the tone of my voice told Edward that I didn't want to talk about that anymore and thankfully he didn't push it. "So what did you get me for breakfast?" I asked him, trying to change the subject.

"Well, I decided that you should still try to eat healthy since you just gave birth so I made you some oatmeal and toast. I hope that's ok," he said as he handed me the tray.

"It's perfect," I told him as I dug into my food. It was delicious, as usual.

Once I had finished eating Edward and I drifted to the crib and looked at Renesmee.

"I'm so glad she has your eyes, love," he told me," that way I'll never have to loose them."

"Since she got my eyes I'm happy she got your hair," I responded," I dot think I'll ever get tired of running my fingers through it when she's had a stressful day."

We spent the rest of the morning talking about which traits Renesmee had inherited and whom she had inherited them from. I was so happy just looking at my baby with Edward I never wanted to move. Soon she started to stir and she finally woke up. She didn't cry like she had last night, she just sat there looking at us. I had every intention to pick her up and coo to her about how cute she was.

Of course a certain little pixie wouldn't let me have my way.

Alice busted though the door saying," Ok Bella and Edward you two have been extremely selfish this morning. Don't you think everyone else wants to faun over the baby too? I have given you enough time alone with her as I can stand. Now move out of my way and let me see my niece," she didn't even wait for our reply. She just walked around us and picked Renesmee out of her crib.

"Alice," Edward whined," come on just give us a little more time with our baby. She was just born yesterday for Christ's sake." It was funny to see him whine to his sister like that.

"Sorry Edward but you two have had all morning with her. You need to learn how to share," and with that she walked out of the room with Renesmee.

I stood there, a little in shock and finally said," We were just baby napped by Alice."

"Yes we were, love." Edward agreed. "Come on lets go get her before Alice has the chance to start a fashion show staring our daughter." Once the words were out of his mouth I darted to the door and ran downstairs.

There I found that the family really was rather impatient to see Renesmee. They all surrounded her and were gushing about her. Seeing them all happy like that made it impossible to be mad at Alice for stealing my daughter. Which she probably knew was going to happen. She really was a tricky little pixie.

"Good morning Bella," Esme told me as soon as she saw me. "Sorry about the whole Alice thing but you know as well as we do that there's no stopping her when there's something that she wants," she offered my an apologetic smile.

"It's okay Esme, I know everyone was excited about seeing Renesmee," I shrugged it off. "I think we should feed her soon. She hasn't eaten since she was born I don't think," I continued. "I wonder what she'll want."

"I think you're right Bella," Carlisle was officially in 'doctor mode'. "I had some baby formula brought here from the hospital, I guess we could try that out first," he offered.

"Well I'm defiantly getting the feeling that she's hungry," Edward confirmed my suspicion.

"Then I'll be right back," Carlisle said as he went into the kitchen.

When Carlisle cam back with a bottle in his hand Esme sat me down on the couch and gave me Renesmee saying something about how I should be the one to feed her. Carlisle gave me the bottle but Renesmee sniffed at the bottle and turned her face away. She wouldn't let the bottle come near her mouth. I was beginning to worry when she reached out to touch my arm.

It was like seeing a memory, I could see it but it was still transparent. I saw a bottle coming into view and the smell of it was horrible. The feeling of disgust came over me. Then a yearning for a different liquid was building up.

I gasped when Renesmee took her hand away from me and everything went back to normal.

"What happened Bella?" of course Carlisle would be the first one to ask.

"I-I think Renesmee showed me why she won't drink the formula. It smells gross and I think she wants blood instead," I told him wondering if he would think I was mental.

"I think Bella's right," Edward defended me. "I'm getting the feeling of impatience from her."

Carlisle still looked a little awestruck so I handed Renesmee to him and told her to show him what she showed me.

"Amazing," Carlisle said after Renesmee had showed him. "This must be her gift. It's like she's flipped what you can do Edward."

"Well know that we know what's wrong will someone go and get her what she wants please?" I asked since all this talking wasn't helping feed my daughter.

Once I said that Emmett went to get Renesmee her desired liquid. When she came back I tried to feed her again and this time she drank greedily from the little bottle. Soon she was finished and she put her hand on my arm again and she wanted more. Since there was no way Edward and I could ever deny our little girl anything she wanted we gave her 2 and a half bottles until she was full and content, the rest of the day was spent reveling the new little quirk of hers. (A/N I'm not going into great detail since S.M. explains it in Breaking Dawn.)

When she finally fell asleep Edward and I took her upstairs and put her in her crib before I finally got ready for bed and went to sleep myself.

The next day was much like the first. Alice gave Edward and I time in the morning to be by our selves with Renesmee and then she came and took her downstairs so everyone could play with her.

But everything wasn't picture perfect like I wish it could have been. I don't know why I thought that after Renesmee was born she would start growing at a normal human pace. Maybe I was hoping that I would have more time with her as baby. Well all my hoping was done in vain.

She was still growing at a faster rate then was normal. Carlisle decided to start monitoring her growth; so four times a day he measured her. I was starting to worry again. If her growth never started to decrease the she would only live for 15 years. There was no way I was going to be ready to say goodbye to my beautiful Renesmee in 15 years.

I tried not to think about it often but I slipped if I was left alone to my thoughts. But luckily I had other things to think about.

My birthday was tomorrow and I had a feeling that the Cullens weren't just going to let it pass without recognition. But I kept my mouth shut in hopes that they would forget and the day wouldn't be about me. Like that was going to happen.

I woke up on the morning of my birthday wondering how long I could pretend to sleep for.

"I know that you're awake Bella," apparently I couldn't get away with fake sleep at all. "Come on, love you know I'm not going to let you skip your birthday," Edward tried to get me to open my eyes.

With a sigh I opened my eyes and turned to face him. "Edward, please don't make a big deal about my birthday. There is honestly nothing I want, I've already been given the very best gift life could give me," I pleaded with him.

"Don't worry about anything I promise there will be no big celebration," his eyes smoldered as he tried to reassure me. It was so unfair of him to look at me like that because he knew there was no way I could resist him when he did.

"There better not be," I said. Then I rolled out of bed and got ready for the day.

"I still can't believe that we were blessed with such a beautiful daughter," Edward whispered as I went to go stand by him.

"I know," I agreed. There was no doubt that, aside from Edward, Renesmee was the very best part of my life.

Alice came into our room again that morning and took Renesmee like she had for the past 2 days.

When I went downstairs there was no extravagant decorations like promised but I was greeted with a loud chorus of 'Happy Birthday Bella', which caused me to blush. Even if there wasn't a party or anything special the attention still bothered me.

The day went by rather normally which only made me more suspicious because there was no way the Cullen's were letting my birthday go unnoticed.

Just as I was finally beginning to believe that my wishes were going to be listened to Alice stood up and said, "So Bella it's time for us to give you your present. Oh come on you don't really think we were going to let your birthday go by without us giving you anything?" she asked when she saw the disbelief on my face.

"Oh I guess not," I sighed a little exasperated.

"Great! Then come on and bring Renesmee with you," she said as she headed towards the garage.

I complied without complaint because I just didn't have the energy to fight. Although I did throw Edward a couple of dirty looks. I sat in the back seat of the Volvo with Edward and Renesmee and Alice drove with Jasper in the passenger seat. The others were following us. We drove out on the main drive until we suddenly turned onto another drive that I had never even noticed before.

"Alice, has this drive always been here?" I asked

"No," she said with a smug look on here face.

"I didn't think so," that little pixie was up to something.

The new drive was long and serpent like just like the main one. After what seemed like an eternity the car stopped and I looked out the window.

There was a little two-story cottage nestled in the woods.

A/N- Ok so I was planning on making this chapter longer but I wanted to post before the weekend was over so here's chapter 4. I know it's not my best work but the next chapter will be much better. All the drama will be back. And Jake might be back in the next chapter. If not then he will defiantly be back in Chapter 6. In the next chapter I promise to bring back the romance between Bella and Edward. As always please review and if you have any ideas then please tell them to me, I'm having a lot of writers block.