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Chapter 7 – Barbies, blue dresses and blushing

Alice's p.o.v.

It was so nice to see Edward like this, so happy and smiling all the time. He would lie on the floor of the living room playing with Bella and all of her birthday gifts for hours each day. He had played with Barbie and dolls for 3 months now, and neither Bella nor he ever got tired of playing it – even though it was hard to understand what Bella wanted.

She had moved on to learning other words than Eddie. Her second word was Momma, which really pleased Rosalie. That was probably also the only reason that she hadn't ripped Edward's head of yet. Then Bella proceeded to Dadda, grandpa, grandma, Ali (short for Alice), and Japper (Jasper) – she wasn't really good with the s'es yet, but she learned quickly. After our names came simple words like food and nap. Edward would babysit her whenever Rosalie was hunting, and try to play with her every chance he got when Rosalie was at home. After the first laugh- and first word-incidences, she wasn't really comfortable leaving Bella, and especially not with Edward.

Luckily for Edward Bella was being really stubborn. Whenever Rosalie pulled her away from her lovely Eddie, Bella would start crying, and she wouldn't stop until she was back in Edward's embrace. So they had a lot of Bella-Eddie time.

I was sitting beside Jasper on the couch watching Edward laying out different Barbie dresses arranging them by color so Bella easily could choose her favorite for when her doll was walking down the runway. She had an impossible amount of different dresses, some of them actually rather pretty. She chose a deep blue one. I sighed, how could she choose THAT dress? It looked absolutely horrible. I'll admit that the color was very beautiful, and it looked great next to Bella's skin, but the cut and the shape looked awful. I was going to learn her a thing or to about fashion when she got older, and I would definately take her shopping - even if i had to force her!

Edward chuckled a bit at my thoughts and I could see that he was going to comment on them, but then he looked at Bella, and his thoughts immediately vanished. He just sat there watching her, while she struggled with the dress. Looking like some stupid drowling moron, but he didn't care. That much was eay to see. All he cared about was Bella's oppinion about him, very sweet actually.

After a short time she gave up with the dress and crawled to Edward's side. She grabbed his finger in her little hand, and gave him a demanding look. "Eddie, Eddie! Help Bella!" she said, showing him the doll and the dress. Edward took the doll from her and swiftly pulled on her dress, then handed Barbie back to Bella who gave him a breathtaking smile. Edward smiled back at her, his eyes filled with love and pure passion. I don't even think he noticed how much he smiled anymore.

He did it all the time, like it was the most typical thing for Edward to do. Before we adopted Bella into the family he hardly ever smiled. She was so good for him, she had changed so much.

Bella squealed with delight over the now dressed doll. She took Edwards chin and tilted his head so she could look him straight in the eyes.

"Pretty, pretty, pretty.. Soo pretty" she sang. Then got serious again and said in a low voice: "Bella love Eddie" and she pressed the doll to his lips and made a kissing-sound. She got irritated when Edward didn't kiss the doll back. She hadn't even realized that he was deep in shock after the: Bella love Eddie -thing. He had stopped breathing, and he just looked her right in the eyes.

Jasper obviously felt the mood change, and he looked from Edward to Bella, and back to Edward again.

"Kiss her Eddie. You have to kiss her back!" Jasper shouted, probably feeling Bella's impatience and annoyance.

Edward seemed to pull himself together, then looked at Jasper in pure disgust. "What! Come on, she is only a baby! I should…"

Jasper interrupted him: "Edward I meant the doll. You are supposed to kiss the Barbie."

"Oh" Edward seemed embarrased, since when did Edwrd get embarrased? He quickly kissed the Barbie and Bella's mood changed instantly. She gave him a warm smile, and gave Edward's finger a squeeze.

Then I got a vision:

A beautiful Brunette, obviously Bella as older. She was wearing a deep blue dress not much different from the Barbie's, but with a much more stunning cut and shape. It clung to her body perfectly. Her hair fell in soft curls down to her waist. She wore only a small amount of makeup, clearly my work, and she blushed sweetly. She glided down the stairs, looking a bit clumsy. Then she tripped in her high heel, which she obviously wasn't used to wearing. A bronze-haired guy caught her before she fell, and they looked at each other. Bella's blush deepened when you heard Emmett burst into laughter in the background and Edward hissed, too low for Bella to hear. "Eddie!" she squealed.

Then the vision ended.

Edward looked at me and smiled. I couldn't help but smile back.

Edward leaned against Bella who was really engaged in her own little Barbie-runway-show. "So pretty" he whispered in her ear.