AN: I'm (insert as many so's as possible to make everyone forgive me for my disappearing act) sorry! I finally got most of my life situated now. Mom is completely fine now, and my best friend that I love are starting to rebuild our relationship with each other. Just want to thank everyone who sent me review telling to update, you guys kicked my ass lol! I also want to thank everyone that has stuck with this story since my absence.
Without further ado I give everyone the long awaited new chapter of U.D!
Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight, just my oc's for the story.
Chapter Seven
Christmas!
Night before Christmas- Bella's Pov
So here we are on the night before Christmas getting everything set up. I was currently wrapping lights around the humongous tree that Emmett brought home from the woods. It was at least nine feet in height, maybe a little bit taller. Jamie and Alice were helping Esme get the ornaments out, and Jasper and Edward were playing some music to get us in the holiday spirit. Carlisle and Emmett were trying to find a Santa costume so that they could surprise Jamie with it next morning. Rosalie said that she needed to do some last minute shopping and took off.
"Finally," I huffed out as I finished wrapping the lights around the tree. I grabbed the plug and walked over to the socket behind the tree. I stuck the plug in and watched as the lights lit up. Jamie squealed and ran over to me with a couple of ornaments in her hands. We started on the bottom and began to work our way up. Alice would hand me the ornaments, and I would give them to Jamie, who's currently sitting on top of my shoulders. Since she definitely couldn't reach the upper part of the tree, I put her on my shoulders so that she could reach. When we finished, it was time to put the star on top.
"Jamie, do you want to put the star on top of the tree?" I asked her as I set her down on the floor. Her eyebrows scrunched up like she was in deep thought, causing me to chuckle from how cute she looked. A minute later she smiled up at me and shook her head.
"I want Mommy to do it cause I always do it." she replied. I looked over at Alice and saw that smile that always takes my breath away on her face. I was about to put Alice on my shoulders, but I heard Rosalie's car that I didn't work on come up the driveway. She called out my name for me to help her, so I grabbed a six foot ladder and set it up.
"Sorry Alice, Blondie needs help right now. Are you going to be okay?" I asked as I handed her the star. We laughed as we heard Rosalie yell 'hey' at the use of my nickname for her.
"Yeah, I'll be fine. Go help your sister out before she has one of her temper tantrums again." she replied.
A couple of days ago I pulled a prank on Rosalie. I put baby powder in her blow dryer. It was not one of my best ideas. She found out it was me and ruined a fairly good make out session that I was having with Alice. She stormed into the home gym since Alice and I were hanging out in the hot tub. Holy shit, Alice in a bikini only one word comes to mind, heaven! Anyways, she came towards me looking like a bat out of hell and proceeded to chase me around the gym yelling that she was going to castrate me. Luckily Jamie came in a saved my ass from being pummeled by asking Rosalie what castrate meant. Needless to say Rosalie was speechless, and to make up for what I did I had to do anything she wanted until Christmas day. It involved a lot of back massages and a whole lot of carrying shopping bags.
I went outside and grabbed all of the already wrapped presents that I could carry and brought them inside. When I got inside, I set the presents on the kitchen table. I went back into the living room to see Alice standing on the very top of the ladder. Everything was fine until Emmett came bounding into the living room, and then everything seemed to move in slow motion.
"I FOUND THE SUIT!" Emmett yelled, causing Alice to scream and fall off of the ladder. I ran as fast as I could and dove in the air. I caught Alice in my arms and turned so that I ended up slamming my back into the floor instead of Alice. We slid backwards a little bit from the force of the fall when we landed. When we stopped, I looked down to see Alice clinging to me with her head buried in my chest. I felt panic run through me as the need to check to see if my mate was okay overwhelmed my emotions.
"Alice, are you okay?" I asked frantically, checking to see if she had any bruises, scrapes, or cuts anywhere. She looked up at me with a few tears in her eyes and nodded. I sat up and pulled her closer to me, and she wrapped her arms around my neck. I rubbed her back and nuzzled the top of her head with my nose. She started to giggle when I began to purr, my cat side coming out to play. She pulled away with a smile on her face and gave me a quick peck on my cheek before standing up. I stood up with her and immediately turned on Emmett.
"Emmett! If you ever do-," I started to say, but Alice cut me off by putting her hand on my arm. She walked over to Emmett and pulled him into a hug. I was really confused as to why she would hug the guy that caused her to fall off of a six foot ladder and seriously injure herself.
"It's okay, Emmett." she said sweetly, but then the real beast came out. I saw her look down at the floor with a devilish grin plastered on her face. She replaced it with her amazing smile as she released him. I swear I almost pissed my pants from laughing to hard when she reached up and smacked him on the back of his head. He cried out in pain and began to furiously rub his head to get rid of the sting.
"But if you ever do something like that again I'll hunt you down, or even better, I'll get your wife to." she finished. I burst into laughter again, but soon shut up when I saw Alice give me a death glare. I audibly gulped in fear, my eyes widening in seeing that haunting glare. It was the same one that Rosalie gave to Emmett before she would cut him off from getting any.
"Don't worry Emmett, Bella is cut off from kissing me for two weeks." she said. My mouth dropped open and I almost started to feel tears sting my eyes. No lovin' from my baby for two whole weeks. I think I should just go crawl in a hole and die then if I cant kiss Alice for two weeks.
"Ali, please no! I'll find someway to make it up to you, but please don't cut me off!" I pleaded as I got down on my knees and wrapped my arms around her legs. I know I must've looked pathetic, but this was devastating news for me.
"Bella, you are so whipped!" Emmett said as he began to laugh. The only thing he didn't count on was for Rosalie to standing behind him, and her smacking him in the exact same spot that Alice did. He cried out louder than the first time because of the force of the smack, and furiously rubbed the same spot again.
"Dude, I'm in love with this woman. I could care less if I'm whipped or not. Besides, aren't you supposed to be whipped with Rosalie, you know, your soul mate." I replied. He blushed in embarrassment and looked over at Rosalie sheepishly. She was currently standing with her hands on her hips with her foot tapping up and down as she glared at her husband. It was his turn to gulp in fear, and boy did he.
"Emmett, you're not getting any for two weeks for what you said to Bella." she said. Emmett's eyes damn near popped out of his skull. He ended up doing the same thing as me, causing the entire family to laugh.
When our girlfriends didn't give in, Emmett and I looked at each other with knowing smirks plastered on our faces. We looked back up at our girlfriends and gave them the puppy dog look. I could see Alice start to crack but she still held firm, so I went to my secret weapon. I started to mewl like little kitten and began to nuzzle my cheek against her legs. She finally cracked and pulled me up off the floor and kissed me. Jamie started giggling and clapped her hands. We pulled away, a big smile on my face as we did so.
"You're just lucky that I'm in love with you, Bella. Otherwise I seriously would've made you wait." Alice said and poked me in my chest. I laughed and then took a glance at the clock hanging on the wall. It read that it was nine thirty, so I needed to get Jamie to bed so that we could finish up downstairs.
"Jamie, you have to get to bed before Santa comes by, or else he wont leave any presents." I said. Her eyes got wide and she ran over to me. I picked her up and headed towards the garage to let the dogs inside. They followed us upstairs into my room. Jamie had started to sleep on the couch pull out bed, because she loved to sleep with all of the dogs. They would jump onto the bed and cuddle with her throughout the night.
I placed her on the bed and tucked her into the covers, before all of the dogs jumped on and snuggled into her. She giggled and then yawned. She outstretched her arms towards me, so I bent down and gave her a hug and a kiss. She turned on her side and snuggled into Midnight. I was just about to leave the room, when I saw a slip of paper sticking out from under Jamie's pillow. I grabbed it carefully and opened it up. It was a letter that Jamie had written to Santa.
Dear Santa,
I don't really want a lot for Christmas this year. What I really want is for my Mommy to be happy. She has this job that I don't like, because it takes her away from me. She's always sad too when she comes home from it. I know it might be hard, but could you give her a new job? She really likes art and dancing. The other thing that I want for Christmas, is a daddy. This one might be hard too, because I want Bella to be my daddy. She makes my Mommy so happy, and she makes me happy too. She's very nice and keeps us safe. She kept me from getting hurt by kids at my school, and she saved my Mommy from mean people at the mall. So please, Santa, can you make these come true? I just want my Mommy and Bella to be happy.
Love, Jamie
Tears were flowing from my eyes like mini waterfalls as I read the letter. How a four year old could want this instead of all of the toys she could ever want, I would never know. I don't know how such selflessness manifested itself into this child at such an early age. I neatly folded the letter and stuck it in my pocket for safe keeping, before grabbing the presents out of my closet and heading back downstairs. When I got there, I saw that everyone else was gone except for Alice, who was in the kitchen. I set up the presents that Alice and I got around the tree, next to the ones that were already there. When I finished I went into the kitchen and saw Alice putting out fresh milk and cookies for 'Santa.' I went over to her and pulled her into a bear hug. She smiled and hugged me back just as tight.
"Do you have any idea about how much of a wonderful daughter you have?" I said into her hair. She nodded against my chest and pulled back a little so that our arms were touching each other's waists. She face clouded over in worry as she saw my eyes.
"Bella, why were you crying?" she asked and stroked my cheek with her thumb. I held her hand to my face with mine and kissed her palm before replying.
"I'm just so happy that I get to spend Christmas this year with the ones I love. Especially my amazing girlfriend and her amazing daughter." I said. I smiled down at her and pulled her into a kiss. We took it slow and gentle, the kiss only lasting about twenty seconds at the most. My stomach growled as the scent of the cookies wafted around my nose teasing it. Alice and I laughed and she handed the plate and glass over to me. I ate them quickly and sent the plate and glass back down on the table.
I looked back over at the tree, and noticed that the star wasn't put up yet. I picked Alice up quickly, causing her to squeal, and ran both of us over there. I grabbed the star and handed it to Alice, and then set her on my shoulder, my arm pinning her legs down so that she wouldn't fall off. She reached up and set the star down on the top of the tree. I put her back into my arms before running upstairs. I jumped into bed with her still in my arms, and tucked us in since we were already in our pajamas. She flipped over so that my front was to her back, and then she took my hand and placed it on her stomach inside of her shirt. This was actually starting to become a regular thing, because she told me it stopped her from having any nightmares. That being said of course I complied to it.
I kissed her pulse point and then nuzzled my nose into her hair, breathing in her wonderful scent. She snuggled into my body tighter as my body began to purr. I held her against me tight as I heard her heartbeat slow and her breath even out. When she fell asleep, it wasn't to long after before I drifted off into unconsciousness.
Christmas Morning - Bella's Pov
Alice and I were woken up by something jumping on the bed. I opened my eyes to see Jamie jumping up and down like a kid on a trampoline. Alice and I laughed, and I grabbed Jamie out of the air. Alice and I pinned her to the bed and started tickling her. High pitched squeals of laughter erupted from her. Soon all of the dogs piled on the bed too. Midnight decided to jump on me while the puppies dog piled Alice and Jamie.
We played around with the dogs for a little bit, and then got up to get dressed. I remembered to put the note that Jamie had written into a box in my closet. All of us had gotten dressed into a pair of sweatpants and t-shirts. We put on our fuzzy slippers and went downstairs. I was carrying Jamie downstairs, who had rested her head on my chest, and holding hands with Alice. Everyone else was already up and downstairs except for Emmett. He decided to be Santa this year for Jamie, and I couldn't wait to see the expression on her face when she saw him. We sat down in the living room, with Alice sitting on the couch with Jamie, and me sitting on the floor in front of Alice. Edward was sitting next to Jasper holding hands while his head rested on his shoulder, and Esme was sitting on Carlisle's lap next to Alice. Rosalie was sitting by herself on the couch where Jasper and Edward were.
Knock! Knock! Knock!
Jamie looked at me confused, seeing that she didn't know that it was Emmett at the door. I got up and walked over to the front door and opened it to see Emmett wearing the suit, with the full on beard and some pillows stuffed in the front of his stomach. He was carrying some of the presents that he and Rosalie had bought in the Santa bag that came with the outfit. I pulled him aside before he could go into the living room and surprise Jamie. I needed to tell him about the note just in case if Jamie asked him about it.
"Emmett listen, Jamie wrote a letter to Santa asking for a couple of things. All I need you to do is to say that you got the letter, and that you're going to try really hard to make the things happen." I whispered into his ear so that nobody else could hear. He gave me a thumbs up and walked with me into the living room. As soon as he got in there, Jamie practically jumped him from her position on the couch.
"Santa!" she yelled as she flew through the air. Emmett caught her in his arms and held her as he went over to the other couch that had nobody on it.
"Well hello, Jamie!" Emmett said in his Santa accent. Jamie looked up at him with wide eyes, causing him to start chuckling in a deep voice.
"You know my name?" she asked in bewilderment.
"Of course I do! Your name is on my list for this family." Emmett said and proceeded to pull out a small list. It had all of our names on it and were split into either the good category or the bad.
"Well Jamie, it seems to me that you've been a very good girl this year. So here's a giant teddy bear for you to keep and snuggle with." Emmett said and grabbed the bag. He opened it and pulled out a giant teddy bear that was three times larger than Jamie. She tried to wrap her arms around the thing, but she couldn't, it was just that big! I helped her carry it over to where she was sitting before Emmett came. The bear was heavier than Jamie, but still super light to me.
"Let's see what else I've got for all you good children. Jasper, Edward, your presents have been installed into your cars already. Carlisle and Esme, I have a special portrait of both of you two, and it looks like the rest of you are on my naughty list. Especially you, Miss Rosalie." Emmett said and gave Esme and Carlisle their present. He turned to Rosalie and wiggled his eyebrows at her suggestively. She gave him a sexy smirk back, and I cut her off before she could reply.
"Excuse me, Santa, but they're little ears present right now." I said. He blushed and rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly.
"Sorry, I forgot. Anyways, I think that I'll leave the rest of the presents for Rosalie and Emmett to pass, because I have to head home Mrs. Claus before she gets angry." he replied and headed for the door.
"Santa, wait!" Jamie said and hastily made her way towards Emmett again. She motioned for him to bend down, to which he complied to, and whispered something in his ear. When she finished, Emmett nodded his head and was pulled into a hug by Jamie. He hugged her back before heading out the front door.
Not long after that, Emmett had managed to enter the house from upstairs, and made his way back down to the living room. When he got settled, we all exchanged our gifts with each other. Rosalie had gotten brand charms from all of us to her new charm bracelet that Emmett bought her. Emmett, a huge stack of new video games, and some more training equipment from me. Carlisle and Esme got a portrait of all of us, including Alice and Jamie. I gave Carlisle a hand carved pocket watch, and Esme a hand inscripted locket. Both Edward and Jasper got more music equipment, and Jasper got an exact replica of his civil war uniform hand made by Alice. I'm definitely going to have to get her a job in the art industry. Maybe she could come work for me as a graphic designer for the cars.
Next I got a brand new lighter that had a swan carved on the front of it from Carlisle and Esme. I had gotten a new set of airbrushes and paints, along with a new set of drawing materials from Edward and Jasper. Both Alice and I blushed at what Emmett and Rosalie had gotten us. They gave us reservations at my favorite hotel in Paris that was good for three months, and it was already paid in full. Alice had told me that what she wanted to give me, she wanted to hand to me in private.
I decided to hand out all of the big presents that I had for everyone. I gave Alice and Jamie both a puppy of their choice along with Emmett and Rosalie, and Esme and Carlisle. Jasper and Edward loved Midnight as much as I did, so they declined the offer. Jamie got the solid white one, Alice the solid silver, Emmett and Rosalie the russet colored one, and Carlisle and Esme got the black one. I then told everyone to come to the garage so that they could see their cars. Out of all of them, Alice was the most surprised. She gave me a big hug and a kiss as tears of joy streamed down her face. Apparently she had been trying to get it fixed, but just didn't have the money to do so.
After we were done with the presents and cleaning up, Esme made a huge breakfast for all of us. We all ate together happily, laughing and teasing one another. When we finished, we all helped out to get the kitchen cleaned up, and then we separated off into our little groups. I helped Jamie carry all of the toys and movies she had gotten. Surprisingly to me, Jamie's a little tomboy at heart. She seems to like martial arts, judging by how many seasons of the Power Rangers she got. Alice and I started to put her stuff away as Jamie went downstairs to play with Spirit, her new puppy.
"So Alice, what did you get?" I asked as she put some of Jamie's movies on one of my bookshelves. She stopped what she was doing and turned around to face me.
"I got a lot of art supplies from your parents. I got two special bracelets from Edward and Jasper, one for me and one form Jamie. They have a tracker in them so that you can see wherever we're at on this thing that Edward has. He said that they were a must since the Volturi have been hangin' around and what not." she replied. I couldn't agree with Edward more, and would have to thank him for it later. I noticed that Alice turned beet red, so I asked what was wrong.
"Umm, Rosalie got me… ughh this so embarrassing! She got me some lingerie just in case we took that trip to Paris sooner than she expects." she answered. I just don't get why it was still so embarrassing to her. She has an amazingly, gorgeous, body that makes my head spin and my body crave for her. That's only one part of why I love her so much.
"Why is it embarrassing, Sweetheart?" I asked as I reached out to cup her cheek.
"I'm embarrassed with my body, Bella. I just see myself as damaged goods." she replied. I felt my body get overcome with anger, but I pushed it down. I took a few deep breaths to calm myself down before responding to what she said.
"Alice, I never want to hear you use that term ever again. You are an absolutely beautiful young woman, who I'm proud to say that I'm in love with. I think that you're the most gorgeous woman I have ever met. Your beauty doesn't run skin deep, Sweetheart. Your personality and caring loving nature are the reasons why I fell in love with you. Your striking beauty was just icing to the cake." I replied. I pulled her into a tight hug and inhaled her scent. These are the moments that I cherish. I love the fact that our relationship isn't based on sexual interaction, but on intimate moments like these.
"I got something for you by the way." Alice said as she pulled out an averaged sized box. I pulled the top off to see boxers in them.
"I didn't like the way that those two girls were hanging themselves all over you like that, so I got you some special made boxers." she said and held up a pair. The pair was black and had 'Alice's Property' with an arrow written on the crotch. There was noway possible that I could laugh at this. The main reason being that they showed how much she loved and cared about me, but the fact that they were silk boxers. I couldn't live without silk boxers, because they just made me feel good in all the right places. You know what I mean?
"I love them, Alice." I said and pulled out a medium black box that had the necklace that I had seen at the mall that one day in it. Alice opened it and gasped at the beauty of the necklace. I motioned for her to turn around so that I could put it on her. The blue from the sapphires complimented her eyes perfectly. I pressed a kiss to her temple and wrapped my arms around her. She automatically leaned back into my touch and sighed in contentment.
All of a sudden an idea struck my mind. I was going to teach Alice and Jamie how to defend themselves from anybody they needed defending from. I knew for a fact that it was going to be some hard workouts for Alice, since I plan on teaching her advanced stuff. Jamie on the other hand I was only going to teach the basics. It was perfect, I would be able to protect the ones I love by teaching them how to protect themselves.
"Alice, I've decided to teach you and Jamie how to defend yourselves from any attackers that you guys might come across. What do you think?" I asked her. She nodded her head vigorously, looking like a bobblehead doll, and causing her spiky hair to become more disarrayed.
"When do we start?" she asked excitedly.
"How about we start tomorrow." I suggested. She nodded and smiled up at me brightly, before going back to organizing the movies she put away. I walked over to my closet, and opened up this little compartment in the back of one of my drawers. I pulled out a small black box and opened it to see the ring that matched the necklace I gave to her. I knew that this was the ring that I wanted to propose to her with, but not until we were both ready. Still, I just had to get now. I didn't want someone else to snatch it. The bottom line, is that I cant stop thinking about what our lives would be like if we got married.
I closed the box and stuck it back in it's special little compartment. I looked back at Alice to see her dancing to a tune that she was humming. If only she knew.
AN: Let me know if I did a good job on this chapter or not! There should be some steamy situations coming up in the next couple of chapters, so watch out for them!
