Guardian Angel

Chapter Four: Pirates and Parties

Saturday morning came quickly and Bella and Alice were sitting on the floor laughing, watching the boys run around pretending to be pirates. Alice had come over the night before, insisting that she wanted to see the boys, had had slept over after much pleading from Daniel and Ethan. They had quickly become attached to "Aunt" Alice and she had become attached to them. Bella was certainly glad to have a friend and found herself telling Alice about the past two years as she and the boys had been moving.

"Avast ye maties!" Daniel cried jumping up behind the girls, who pretended to scream and cower, clinging tightly to each other.

"Mates!" Ethan parroted, waving around the wrapping paper roll that he was using as a sword.

"Oh no!" Alice cried dramatically in a fake southern bell accent. "The pirates have captured us! Whateva shall we do?" Daniel and Ethan giggled like crazy before sobering up.

"You shall walk the plank, THAT is what you shall do." Daniel cackled, pointing them towards the coffee table that they were using as a plank. Bella and Alice glanced at each other before grabbing pillows.

"Not if we capture you first!" Bella screamed before she started hitting Ethan with a pillow. Next to her, Alice and Daniel were going at it, though Daniel seemed to be winning. Within minutes, Alice and Bella lay crumpled in a heap on the floor.

"Mercy!" Alice cried, waving her arms in defeat.

"We surrender!" Bella fake sobbed, covering her face with her hands so the boys wouldn't see her laughing.

"NOW you must walk the PLANK!" Daniel growled.

"Oh, but I can't! I'm just so weak!" Bella pleaded.

"PLANK!" Ethan screamed. Bella and Alice hung their heads and stepped onto the coffee table/plank.

"Please good sirs…" Alice pleaded.

"PLANK!" the boys yelled together. First Bella then Alice glumly walked off the plank lying on the floor on top of one another, not moving.

"Momma Ella? Auntie Alicccce?" Ethan asked, staring at the two "dead" teens laying on the floor. Bella cracked one eye and stared at the boys.

"Shhh, we're dead." Bella whispered before closing her eye.

"Why?" Daniel asked.

"Because you made us walk the plank." Alice whispered out of the side of her mouth.

"Please don't." Daniel said, his voice quivering. Bella sat up and opened her arms to him. He immediately fell into them, burying his head in her shoulder.

"I'm sorry baby boy. What's the matter?" Bella rubbed soothing circles along the boys back and he mumbled something into her shirt. "What was that?"

"Mommy died. And so did Daddy. And they didn't come back. So, if you died, then you wouldn't come back." Daniel sobbed.

"Oh, baby boy, I am not leaving. Mommy wouldn't have left if she had any other choice. She loved you just as much as I do." Rocking back and forth, Daniel eventually quieted down. "All better?" Daniel nodded. "Good. Now, why don't we go get ready? We have a party to go to."

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Half an hour latter the boys were dressed and playing quietly in the toy room. Alice was standing in the middle of Bella's closet staring at the clothing they had bought the day before. Bella was sitting on her bed, shaking her head as she listened to Alice muttering to herself. Finally, Alice let out a triumphant "AHA!" and came out of the bathroom flourishing a two piece bathing suit, a dress, and a pair of shorts.

"Put this on." Alice demanded. Bella rolled her eyes.

"Alice, I do not need to wear a bathing suit." Bella reasoned.

"Just do it Bella. It won't kill you. I'll go pack a dipper bag for the boys while you get changed and when you get out, I'll go get changed. When that's done we will talk about hair and make up. Bella groaned but complied. The bathing suit wasn't THAT bad, it was technically a one piece. The dress was a pretty yellow that faded into white and brown with a print on the bottom half of the skirt. When she walked out of the bathroom, Alice slipped in quickly after her, forgetting her dress on the bed. When she came out a couple minutes latter, she had a ridiculous pout on her face and was wearing a skimpy black bathing suit. Bella just rolled her eyes at her friend as Alice slipped on a short light pink sundress.

"Now, your hair!" Alice exclaimed, forcing a scared Bella to sit on the bed. Within fifteen minutes, Bella had soft curls falling down her back and over her shoulders. Alice left her hair in it's usually short spikes. Knowing what Bella would never let her near her face again if she went over board, Alice add a small bit of make up to Bella's face before "attacking her own face" as Bella would latter describe the experience.

By the time Alice was done, it was 6 o'clock. The barbecue had started at 5:30 so Bella grabbed the boys while Alice grabbed the dipper bag and they all headed over to the party in Alice's bright yellow Porsche.

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When they reached the Swan residence 15 minutes latter, the party was already in full swing. People were scattered all around the front and back yard and the front door was standing open. Alice helped Bella get the kids out of the car and into the back yard. Once there, the boys took off to play a game of tag with the other kids their age and Alice lead Bella into the kitchen where a group of people were standing around talking.

"Alice! Dude, where you been?" A big burly man asked, slapping Alice on the back as another came up and slipped her arm around her waist. Alice giggled.

"I was helping Bella here get ready and get those adorable little boys of her's over here. Okay, so, guys, this is Bella. Well, technically her name is Isabella Marie de Medici, but she prefers Bells." Alice took a deep breath. "But, ANYWAY, yeah, this is Bella. Bella, this is Renee, the hostess of this wonderful shindig." Renee was a beautiful woman in her early thirties who looked a little lost. Bella defiantly got what Alice meant when she said that Renee was a bit ditzy.

"This is my cousin Emmet and his girlfriend Rosalie." The big burly one and a drop dead gorgeous blonde. "Don't let his looks fool you, Emmett's nothing but a big teddy bear." Alice mock whispered. Emmett took a swing at Alice's head, but she ducked just in time. Bella just giggled.

"This is my mother and father, Esme and Carlisle." These kind looking people looked much too young to have a child Alice's age, but she just figured she had no right to say anything as she was to young to have Daniel.

"This is the love of my life Jasper." Alice smiled up at the man with his arms around her waist who was looking down at the little pixie with such love that it made Bella ache.

"And this is my lousy, good for nothing brother, Edward." Alice joked. Bella's breath caught in her throat. Standing before her was a god. A god who was glaring at her as if she was the bane of his existence, his black eyes narrowed. As she felt the tears well up in her eyes, Bella wondered what exactly it was that she has done that was so wrong as to piss karma off this bad.

A/N: Seven reviews! Thank you very, very much! I didn't have school today, so I wrote another chapter. Bathing suits and dresses on my profiles. R & R

VB4ECULLEN: I am 16.

CrazyBookReader: Bella is NOT a vampire. In the books she is Charlie's daughter, but I couldn't stand killing him off so… *shrugs* Her two "sons" are her cousins who were so young when their parents died that they started calling her Momma Bella. Hope that helped clear things up. And no WAY am I telling you who killed her family. I'll just say, it's not who you think.

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