Well here's the next chapter In this chapter Bella is turning one and celebrating her first birthday and there will be a surprise in this chapter as well due to a review I got a few days ago
EPOV
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"Edward please take those things away from her" Rosalie whined walking into the kitchen. I looked up from my spot on the kitchen floor with Bella and just laughed.
"Sorry Rosalie no can do" I said watching as Bella continued to hit a few pots and pans together laughing at every noise she could make with them. Today we were going to be celebrating Bella's birthday; it was amazing how quickly the past 9 months had flown by. Esme and Carlisle were officially "ma-ma" and "da-da", while the rest of us had short nicknames. I couldn't believe that in a short amount of time it had taken Bella to change into the slightly bigger little girl that sat in my lap right now. Her blue eyes seemed bigger, if that was possible, and her chocolate brown hair was all put up into two little pigtails with ribbons courtesy of Alice. It still amazed me to see what kind of progress she had been making. She was Speed-Racer when it came to crawling. Walking, however, was still a work in progress. Dr. Seuss was nightly occurrence for her and Esme, along with her new lullabye that I hummed for her every night. At some point I wanted to get it all worked out on the piano, but for some reason we were all so wrapped up in this tiny little human.
"Edwwwwwy" whined the little voice that was sitting in my lap. Hey Edwy was better than when she was calling me "Ewwy" a couple months ago. Emmett almost never let that one go but after he lost out on a mountain lion up by the Canadian border he finally shut up about it.
"What is it my Bella" I said looking down and being met by a pair of bright blue eyes. She smiled up at me and swung a pot at my head. I grabbed it before she could even realize it. Lately Bella's had a thing for throwing stuff at us; hopefully Esme can fix that. Bella squealed with delight when she realized I had reacted to the pot and went back to slamming a couple pans together.
"Edward please make her stop, I have to use some of those to make her birthday cake" Alice whined practically hopping over each pan before landing in front of Bella and I.
"Who's a big birthday girl" She said grabbing Bella from my lap and bouncing her up and down. Bella continued to laugh, it was like her life was a constant game. This little girl spent all day playing with whatever she could get her hands on and being bounced from person to person. Alice swung Bella around and as Bella squealed with excitement Alice laughed and went back to holding her.
"She's adorable isn't she" Alice said tickling the little girl once more as Jasper made his way into the kitchen. I couldn't help but laugh when he eyed me sitting on the floor with the pots and pans.
"Um Edward I think you've been playing with Bella's toys" he laughed and went to stand by Alice's side looking down at Bella. We were all really surprised at how quickly Jasper was able to get use to Bella's scent. I'm surprised I got use to it too. The little girl smelled just like an ideal nature. The scent of the grass, the flowers, it even reminded of that feeling of the sun hitting my face back when I was human.
A couple hours later and we were all once again gathered around the little ball of joy who was sitting in her high chair. Esme stood next to her side holding a camera, ready to take yet another picture of Bella. Alice had made a small little cake, since Bella was the only one who would be eating any, that was covered in pink icing and in white icing it read "Happy Birthday Isabella Cullen". Looks like Bella really was part of the family now. As soon as the cake was placed in front of Bella we all started singing Happy Birthday. Naturally Emmett had to be the loudest, the rest of us just tried to remember all the words. After all, it had been awhile since we had celebrated a birthday in the Cullen family. Esme and Carlisle got Bella a little baby doll, Emmett announced that the Cullen family would be getting an in-ground pool as soon as possible, Rosalie bought a small book shelf filled with books for us to read to Bella and may be she could read them to us one day, and finally Alice got Bella a special Birthday Girl sash that was baby pink with little diamonds spread throughout the front of the sash. We were all so involved in the little girl that we almost ignored the knock on our front door.
"I'll go see who that is." Carlisle murmured, I couldn't understand who would drive all the way out here, much less come talk to us. After about fifteen minutes of listening to Carlisle and some male voice talk to each other Carlisle came back into the room and a young man about our age. He had dark black hair and eyes that actually reminded me of Bella's own.
"Everyone this…..is Bella's biological father. His name is Charlie Swan." Carlisle said looking at us as he said this. No wonder the kid looked like he was dying to be anywhere but here.
"Are you kidding me"
"Swear to god if he tries taking Bella away he won't make it out the front door"
"Oh please please don't take Bella away from us"
"Psh this kid's nothing. He wants to try starting something I can take him down"
I almost wanted to look at my family and tell them to shut up. Their own thoughts were rushing into my head so fast I couldn't think for myself, not that I wasn't thinking the same thing. This kid left Renee, ditched her and Bella when they needed him the most. Now he decides it's a good time to come back? It made me wonder would have happened had he shown up just nine months ago when Renee was still alive, when Bella still had her mom, and Renee still had hope that she could have kept living.
"How did you find us?" Rosalie whispered scooting closer to Bella. None of this even seemed to faze Bella, her fingers and most of her face were now covered in pink icing and bits of cake, fortunately some of it had managed to reach her mouth.
"Please let me explain." Charlie said taking a second to look at his daughter. "My parents didn't like Renee, or the family she came from. When they heard that Renee and I were going to have a baby they packed up everything and forced us to move. I didn't have any idea how to live on my own so naturally I moved away with them. I felt awful, but my parents made sure any kind of connection I had to Renee was cut off. I didn't even know today was her birthday. Finally when I heard about Renee's death….and how she died from a friend back here in town I knew I had to learn about what happened to my kid. So I got in contact with Renee's dad and pieced together the information. I live on my own now in town after I got the courage to move back here in my own. I know….I'm her father and all, but you guys are her family. I can't take that away from Isabella, but I do want to be part of her life."
"God these people must hate me" I chuckled to myself as I read his thoughts. Good, the kid deserves after everything that had happened. If I ever had the chance at being the father of someone as precious as this little girl I would have tried so much harder. All of us remained still for a minute or so just kind of looking at everyone. Jasper had to helping out the emotions because there's no way Rosalie was able to be that calm. Finally Esme pried herself away from Bella's side and walked up to Charlie.
"Charlie if you really want to be part of her life then we can't stop that from happening. Although, we do love this little girl and she's practically become another daughter for me. All that I ask is that no irrational decisions are made" It was unbelievable how calm Esme could be in a situation like this. Charlie gave a small smile as he looked at all of us and finally nodded to Esme. "Would you like to meet her? She's a little bit of a mess right now" Esme laughed. Finally everyone began to relax and made room as Charlie slowly walked over and knelt down in front of Bella. The little girl couldn't possibly have a clue as to what was going on but as Charlie got closer her eyes never moved from his face.
"Isabella…..I'm your father. My name's Charlie and I promise…I won't desert you ever again." Charlie said as he slowly wiped off a smudge of pink icing and gave a small chuckle. I was glad that Charlie had shown up when he did. But I don't think any of us want to share this little girl.
Let me know what you think of this chapter If you take the chance to review please let me know what age you would want to see from Bella next. I'm open for any ages up to about 14 because that's when a lot of stuff is going to start happening.
