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I had decided to start out small. I would get the higher guards to befriend Isabella and work my way down. If my plan works Aro won't have a chance of making Bella leave, especially if everyone likes her. I was going to start with Betsy, the guard who had been with us for at least a good 500 years. She was the woman that everyone looked up to, and she had amazing control over her want for blood. I approached her with Bella in a brand new Juicy Couture romper. She looked extremely cute, for a human, even I had to admit that. As she was sucking on her hand, I gave a tap to Betsy, signaling that I wanted to talk. She jumped nearly a mile, when she saw the bundle I was holding in my arms.
"What in God's name is that?"
It was very obvious that this was going to take some time. So I explained about finding her in the woods, taking her to the castle, the confrontation with Caius, and the shopping spree. When I finished she gave me an awed expression. I let her hold the baby while I explained my plan of getting Aro to like her, and from the corner of my eye, I could see the joy that she was getting from holding Bella. This was going to be so easy.
I took the baby back, much to Betsy's disappointment and went along the rest of the castle, introducing her to a few people, especially the women. And definitely the women who had either wanted a child or lost a child of their own.
I quickly noticed that Bella was getting sleepy so I headed to the dusty kitchen and tried to prepare a bottle. Who in the world knew that making a baby's bottle could be so hard? I went online a few days before, and the site told me that Bella could eat things like mashed food, peanut butter, and veggies, and meat that were cut into small pieces. Thankfully, Jane and I stopped at the grocery store and bought some pasta. If a kid can eat meat then they can eat pasta. Besides I could always toss in the blender if the food is too hard.
After about 20 minutes of vigorous cooking and a crying baby, I was able to serve the food. It was a bit hot so I let it cool down. Placing Bella in the highchair I tried to get her to eat. The second the food went to into her mouth, at least half came back out. So it took me about thirty minutes of spooning and respooning the food to her, and it was extremely tiring. The product was a full and tired baby, which I was grateful for. I picked her up, and put her into a pair of pajamas, and laid her to sleep, and silently switching the baby monitor on, before leaving the room quietly.
I was defiantly relieved when there was complete silence through the hallway. No crying, no screaming, just silence. It would be very quiet if Aro came back and took Bella away. I went down the hallway, and turned left, and went into my room. There in my room was my beau of five weeks, Anthony. I had just about forgotten about him, while I was taking care of Bella. I leaned in to give him a quick peck on his cheek, but then he pulled me in for a kiss. We sat on my bed for a good five minutes just talking and enjoying time in each others embrace, and then I heard the sound of little Bella crying. I snapped my head up, and ran to her room, ignoring Anthony as he called my name. Turned out that she just needed a diaper change. After changing her diaper, and putting her back to sleep, I went back to my room, apologizing before Tony could say anything. Before Anthony and I could carry on the conversation that we were carrying on before I had to leave, I heard her crying again. This was the way it went for the rest of the night. I had to stopped doing whatever it was I was doing, run to Bella's room, check what was wrong, fix it, put her back to sleep, and go back to doing what I needed to do.
This whole parenting was extremely hard.
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