I am well aware that last chapter wasn't you all's favorite, per say. All of that drama and pettiness won't last long though, I promise! Also there won't be cheating in this… so yeah.
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…TEC…
I woke up the next morning swaddled in Edward's strong arms with my head tucked into the crook of his neck. I nuzzled the slight scruff there before realizing that this wasn't the position we had fallen asleep in. I shifted a little bit closer to him knowing that I wouldn't get the chance to when he was awake.
Fuck being pissed.
I ran my thumb gently over the contours of his abs. his legs started to shift between my own and I frowned at the signs of him waking up. I pressed against him tighter and closed my eyes pretending to sleep longer. I heard his heavy sigh before he gently kissed my head, as a reflex. His lips froze on my scalp as the memories flooded back to him. His body stiffened and my heart dropped. He gently started to move, untangling his legs first before easing his body away. Leaving my head to drop to the warm pillow. He quietly left the room and I sat up.
Alone.
…TEC…
"Why do I have to get dressed up?"
"Because it's thanksgiving, Ellie."
"So?"
"So… everyone else will look nice."
"I don't give into peer pressure."
"No, but you give into Mommy pressure."
"But I don't have to look nice when I see them other days."
I rolled my eyes, "Don't you want Riley to think you look pretty?"
"Of course. But I could do that in my pajamas, I mean… I'm beautiful." I shook my head and finished curling the ends of her hair.
"… What about your grandma?"
"Who?"
"Grandma… My mommy." I slightly cringed at the words and she shrugged.
"I don't know her like that, though."
"So?"
"So… don't you want to make a good impression?"
"I do that naturally with my stunning personality." She gloated.
Stunning, as in stun gun stunning.
"Right." She smiled up at me before giggling at herself.
She looked into my room and gasped before pulling away from the iron. "Why doesn't Daddy have to dress up?" She pointed at him.
I looked at Edward who shook his head, "That's up to him." He was still acting like a jackass about Alec and I talking at night. Giving me the silent treatment…
It was like an early present.
Lies.
"Daddy, tell her I don't have to dress up, please?"
"I'm going to get dressed, Ellie. Dinner is about an hour away though." He said avoiding her pleading and essentially avoiding talking to me as well.
Ellie frowned before coming back to sit at the mirror. I watched Edward move around the room for a while before giving Ellie my full attention.
Her eyes met mine in the mirror, "If you want him to know that you still like him, you should punch him."
"I'm good." I said while finishing up her hair. "In second grade that's cute… when you're my age-"
"Old." She cut in, Edwards quiet chuckle rang out and made me smile.
"-it's assault." I finished giving her the bitch brow, which she returned easily.
"Who's coming to dinner?" She asked while she fiddled under my hands.
"Grandma, uh…Phil?"
He was only like three years older than me… could he be called grandpa?
"Alice-" she groaned, "Jasper-" she smiled, "Emmett, Rosie, Riley, Grandpa and… that's it, I think."
"Next time can you assault me when making up the guest list?"
"What?"
"Insult me?"
"Okay… you-"
"No! Unsult…?" She put her hand to her chin as she thought.
"Consult, honey." Edward pitched in.
"Consult me, cause' I don't like… half of those people."
"Alice is not half."
"My dislike for her makes up for all my like of everyone else." I squinted and thought over that sentence.
"You like Alice and you know it." Edward said from our room.
"I do not."
"Why?" I asked.
"Uh uh. You can't double team me like that. I need a partner!" Alice popped up behind Edward and I screamed.
"Where the fuck did you come from?" I asked. When I say popped up, I don't mean walked up, I mean she was just there out of nowhere. Edward's eyes widened as he thought I was talking to him. Alice smirked at me and let Edward answer.
"My mother's uterus." He said looking at me like I had lost my mind.
At least he was talking to me.
"Couldn't have said it better myself." Alice said before flouncing out from behind Edward. He jumped away from her and screamed so femininely I was waiting for him to sprout tits.
Alice ignored him and walked around his panting body to enter into the bathroom.
"Creepy whore." Ellie said quietly. I popped her on the shoulder and shook my head at her. Alice perched herself on the counter.
"I'll be your partner!" She said smiling at Ellie. Ellie gave her a just a bright but sarcastic smile.
"Okay." She smiled sinisterly in the mirror.
"What are we arguing about?"
"Why I don't like you." Ellie answered easily.
Alice rolled her eyes, "That's easy because you're a-" I shot Alice a look and she sighed before finishing her sentence slowly, "crackhead…" There was a knock on our bedroom door and Edward went to open it.
"Are ya'll decent?"
"I'd hope so, your wife has been in here for like ten minutes." Edward answered; He and Jasper reappeared a few seconds later.
"Nudity wouldn't stop her." I looked to Alice and she nodded at me from the corner. I held out my hand and she furrowed her brow.
"What?"
I curled a lip at her, "Give me your key, bitch." Ellie held out her hand and I dropped a quarter into it. "That just reminded me," I covered Ellie's ears, "I'm tired of you walking in on Edward and I when we… you know."
"But you're mad at him." Alice said looking heart broken and clutching her key.
"So?"
Edward snorted, "Mad at me? Psh…" Alice leaned forward to look out of the door at him.
"Will you let me keep my key, Edward?" She glanced at me before turning her attention back to him.
"I don't care." He said, she smiled smugly at me and I glared at him. He and Jasper left the room and next thing I knew Alice was shooting off questions.
"Did you kiss, Riley? Did you sleep with Riley? Was it good?" She asked leaning forward on the counter with wide eyes.
"Of course not!" I answered the first two questions. Ellie looked up at me with wide eyes too.
"You messin' with my man?" I shook my head at her.
"Go get dressed Ellie." I said shoo'ing her out of the bathroom.
"So what's his issue if you didn't fuck him?"
"Riley and I both have issues with staying asleep at night… So we were meeting in the kitchen at around three, and Edward found out about it and flipped his shit." I explained. "Now he's being a dick about it, I didn't think it was enough to get mad at…"
"Well say there's this chick… We can call her Tanya." I glared, "What if Tanya and Edward were downstairs together, while you slept, doing who knows what?"
Damn her…
"Does this mean I have to apologize? At some point he'll get over it and apologize to me… I can wait." I said looking to her for approval of my plan, she shook her head before yelling- scratch that- shrieking his name.
"Hurry up! Oh god… I don't know what happened!" She screamed while waving her hand in her face dramatically, I gave her a strange look before Edwards footsteps thudded up the steps and he burst into the room followed by equally panicked Jasper.
"What's wrong?" He asked, he rushed into the bathroom to see the two of us standing there.
"You guys need to talk." She uttered casually, he looked at Alice incredulously. He gestured around speechlessly before yelling.
"You almost gave me a heart attack." She grinned before leaving the bathroom and dragging Jasper with her. Edward looked at me with his eyebrows raised.
"I'm sorry." I grumbled he cupped his ear and leaned towards me, I scowled and leaned away before crossing my arms over my chest.
"I'm sorry?" He asked.
"You're forgiven." I said with a smile before throwing my arms around his neck and pulling my body to his, kissing him deeply.
"Bella, stop." He said against my lips, attempting to push me away. I backed away and pouted at him.
"Do you want another speech, Edward?" I took a deep breath, "I love you… always will yadah yadah yadah he doesn't matter to me in that way…" I said flippantly, Edward covered my mouth giving me a serious look as he sat on the edge of the tub.
"This isn't funny, Bella."
"Nor is it serious! I mean… My goodness, Edward. What do you want me to do?" I was hit with déjà vu when I spoke. The doorbell rang.
"I don't know." He admitted, our front door opened and Alice greeted all of our guests.
"Nothing happened between Al- Riley and I. We were just talking; you know I've been having trouble sleeping. I don't know why you're so worried about him. What would I look like going all cougar on him?"
My Mom.
"You're so lucky I love you." He said shaking his head. He wrapped his arms around me and I buried my hands in his hair, holding his head to my chest. I rolled my eyes and he continued to speak, "What the fuck was all that about in the kitchen though I was going to tell her she didn't need to lose weight'? Who the fuck says shit like that?" He bit. "Tell him to go after someone else's wife." He whined, I sat on his knee and kissed his head. "My Bella." He said possessively, grabbing my ass and kissing my shoulder. I rolled my eyes before pulling his hands off of me, he pouted up at me.
I ignored his pout, "We need to get downstairs, Baby." He stood up and pulled me against him again. I pushed against his chest and gave him a stern look. I grabbed his hand and dragged him out of the bedroom. I peeked over the railing in the hallway and saw Charlie and Renee sitting on opposite sides of Emmett.
Where was Renee's little boy?
They all sat in silence and Emmett looked around uncomfortably. "Hey guys!" I called happily before hurrying down the steps. When I reached the couch they all stood to hug Edward and me.
"How've you been kid?" Charlie asked as he kissed my head.
"Great." I mumbled as I switched over to hug Emmett. When I let him go to move down the line I was almost knocked over as Ellie leapt into his arms.
Where the hell did she come from?
She squeezed the shit out of his neck and I hugged Mom.
"Hey, Mom." She grinned brightly and squeezed me tightly. I made a show of looking behind her and around the room, "Where's Phil?" She opened her mouth to answer and I cut her off.
"Oh goodness, you didn't leave him in his car seat did you?" She sent me a sneer and I laughed.
"Phil's in Florida. He had a game yesterday and couldn't catch the plane this morning." I nodded. We all made idle shit chat for a while before Riley made an appearance. It was only then did Rosalie and Alice appear. I hugged Rose tightly before letting her go once I noticed her lack of response.
"Rose?" I held her shoulders as I stepped back and looked her in the eye. Her eyes weren't on me but staring over my shoulder. I turned to see Alec enter the living room, smiling all charmingly and what not.
"Hello, Ladies." He said softly, looking me in the eye, I blushed and almost fell as Rosalie's knees buckled.
"Alec. You look…" She gestured to his body and I furrowed my brow. How the hell did she know him and by name. Emmett walked into the kitchen with Ellie on his back, followed by Edward who glared at the back of Riley's head.
"You look….good." She finished, Emmett turned to take in the scene after filling up a glass of water. Ellie slipped down his back and wrapped her arms around Alec's leg giving Rose the bitch brow.
We all stood in silence, "Well this is slightly awkward." Alice piped up Seth squealed from his high chair and I jumped, not knowing he was over there. Rose's head whipped around and she went to go pick him up. I would swear she was slightly obsessed with my kid.
"You two know each other?" Emmett asked casually. Alec nodded and crossed his arms over his chest.
"We went to school together actually; back in New York." Rose came back to my side and passed Seth to me.
She was only obsessed when he didn't have a full diaper.
"I've got him." Edward said before pulling him out of my arms and taking him upstairs.
"Dinner will be ready in a second," I said before shooing the guys and my mother out of the kitchen, Rose and Alice went to leave and I grabbed their shirts pulling them backwards.
"Um so…" Alice gestured after the crowd that currently presided in my dinning room.
"What?"
"What's up with you and Riley?"
"Who?"
"Riley."
"You are going to have to elaborate… obviously." She groaned.
"Alec." I clarified.
"What about him?"
"That's who we're talking about…"
"You've lost me."
"Alec is Riley." Rose frowned before shrugging.
"Okay?"
"And now we know why there are so many blond jokes in the world." I said before pulling the turkey out of the oven.
"I'm confused."
"So you and Alec? Were you… you know…. Close?" Alice asked.
"No not really, we talked at a couple of parties nothing major…" She peeked under some foil and I sighed.
"Well that wasn't as interesting as I thought it'd be." I muttered before taking the Turkey into the dining room. I looked around at the table full of people and groaned when I noticed all but Edward and Ellie had started drinking.
"Don't you all think it's a little early to be drinking?"
"It's twelve o'clock somewhere, Bells."
"Emmett it's twelve o'clock here."
"Told you!" He said raising his glass at me and throwing it back. I shook my head and filed back into the kitchen before bringing out more dishes, when everything I had was on the table I took my seat in between Edward and Riley. Alice and Jasper sat in front of me, Ellie sat on the opposite side of Riley, Em was at the head of the table with rose and Mom on his side, Edward sat at the opposite end, next to me and Seth, Ellie and Charlie sat across from Charlie.
"Okay, I want to make an announcement." Alice said before standing. We gave her our attention and she took a breath, "I am thankful for all of my friends… and Bella's family." She said looking at my parents and Ellie. "I'm so grateful to be a part of this little rag tag group of misfits." She smiled at us all and received only incredulous looks.
I mean, who the fuck says that?
…TEC…
"Can we watch Disney Channel, Mommy?" Ellie said looking at me with those beautiful green eyes and I reached for the remote, mesmerized. A hand shot out and stopped me.
"Just say no, Baby." I smiled at Edward and snuggled in to his embrace as he sat the remote down on the side table next to him. We had all moved into the living room after 'diner' to watch Baby Phil's football game.
"Ma-ma!" Seth gurgled as he wiggled out of Rosalie's arms and crawled towards me rapidly. Mom cooed at him from across the room and Emmett looked at him with big eyes.
"Hey I didn't know Eddie Junior could talk." He said happily. There were times that I wasn't sure if Emmett actually knew Seth's name.
"Yeah," I said as I pulled away from Edward to pick Seth up before settling back into his arms. Seth touched Edwards cheek before giggling, "Dada." Everyone around aww'ed and Ellie huffed.
"How come you won't say my name, baby?" She asked, I wasn't sure if she knew his name either. Seth turned in my arms and looked at Ellie before squinting.
"Eh-ee," He smiled at her and she grinned back.
"It could use some work." She said before leaning back against the foot of the couch, next to Edwards legs.
"I have a question." Mom said loudly from her spot next to Emmett on the love seat adjacent to us.
"Who's he?" She pointed at Riley, who had stopped his conversation with Rose to look up.
"Riley Masen, ma'am." Mom blushed and I raised an eyebrow at her.
"So you and Edward are related?" I rolled my eyes.
"Yes ma'am."
"Oh don't call me ma'am! I can't be that much older than you…" She giggled and my eyes widened sarcastically.
"Mom…" She held up a hand to me.
"Tell me about yourself, Riley…" She said batting her eyes a him.
"Well he's the only on in the room who isn't married, Mother." I bit.
"Riley is a high school dropout and a pothead." Edward said smoothly, I slapped his chest.
"He works in the local dog shelter, he cleans dog shit all day." Emmett helped.
"Up to his elbows in shit, Mama Swan." Jasper piped up. "Only job you can get when you're stoned 24/6. Gotta' leave Sunday open you know…"
"Yeah… I mean he's crawling around in it and-"
"He's also a Levi model." Alice threw in, effectively cutting off Emmett's rant. Riley sat next to Rose looking bashful as we all added some twisted tid-bit to his fake life. Charlie laughed heartily as we continued to fuck up his life.
Sticks and Stones may break his bones… but words made him a shit crawling pothead.
"How are you two related?" Mom asked, as if she met gorgeous shit sweeping, pot smoking, Levi models on the daily. She pointed at Alec and Edward.
"He's my brother." Edward said sadly.
"We're related?" Ellie shrieked. She looked to Riley and shook her head, "You, Uncle Riley, are disgusting." She huffed before standing and crawling into Edwards lap. I snickered and jumped when there were four hard knocks on the door. I got up to answer the door but approached it warily. I peered through the peephole and frowned when all I could see was shoulder. I cautiously opened the door.
An old cranky voice fell on my ears.
"Well if it isn't Bella Cullen." The woman said lifting an eyebrow at me.
"It'll be great, aren't you happy to see her?" The tall gentleman said, as he was midsentence when the door opened, before gracing us with a bright smile. "Happy Thanksgiving!" He said in my ear before hugging me tightly.
"What are you two doing here?"
"I don't know but, Jacob?" She looked up at him with a scowl, "This is a load of shit." Ms. Isabella grunted before walking past me and into my home.
…TEC…
Hope you laughed and/or enjoyed!
So the winning vote for the returning character was obviously Ms. Isabella. I decided to bring back Jake because he was also voted for, not as many times as Ms. Isabella, but I love him anyway!
Alrighty, let's get to one seventy for an update tomorrow!
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