Chapter 6: Turning Twenty and Terrible Two's

"Lex, wake up." Mitchie said shaking her girlfriend a bit. It was about 7 in the morning on April 20th, Alex's golden twentieth birthday and since she and had school that day Mitchie got up early and made Alex breakfast in bed to celebrate before she left(Mitchie had the day off so she was staying home with Ariana). Alex's eyes opened slightly and saw her girlfriend and a tray of food on the dresser.

"Happy birthday babe." Mitchie smiled giving Alex a kiss.

"Up!" Ariana exclaimed holding up her hands. Alex giggled and picked up Ariana and let her crawl on the bed.

"Hey baby girl." Alex greeted giving Ariana a kiss on the forehead.

"Can't I just stay home in bed today? I mean it is my birthday after all." Alex said as Ariana cuddled into her mother's side.

"Nope, gotta go to school." Mitchie said giving Alex a quick peck before picking up Ariana.

"Come on baby, time to get ready. Lets let mommy eat her breakfast so she can get ready for school." Mitchie said bringing Ariana into the next room and getting out a light blue dress with a few flowers decorating it from the closet. Within record time Mitchie had gotten Ariana undressed, changed her diaper, dressed her and did her hair in two ponytails.

"There, nice and pretty and ready for the day." Mitchie smiled giving Ariana a kiss before letting her down from the change table. About 15 minutes later every one was ready to go. Since Mitchie needed to go out and grab Alex's present she dropped Alex off at the campus before heading out with Ariana to pick up the present.

"Hi, welcome to Peoples Jewellers, how many I help you?" the sales clerk asked.

"Hi I'm here to pick up a ring." Mitchie said adjusting Ariana on her hip.

"Sure, whose name is it under?"

"Mitchie Torres." Mitchie replied.

"Okay I'll be right back." The sales person smiled as she headed into the back room. Now, Mitchie had talked about Marriage quite a few times over the last little bit, and even though they had both decided they should wait until they were finished school to get married Mitchie still wanted to make it official. So as Alex's birthday present Mitchie had gone to Peoples Jewellers a couple weeks ago and picked out a Promise Ring that had two hearts connected and each heart had a small diamond in the center of it.

"Here it is." The lady said handing Mitchie the box. After paying for the ring Mitchie headed over to one of the small coffee shops, Sacava Coffee, with Ariana and got a pumpkin spice latte for her and a small apple juice for Ariana.

"Okay baby now what should we do?" Mitchie asked looking at the little girl.

"Jai!" Ariana said wanting to see Jaiden.

"Honey I don't think we can go see Jaiden today." Mitchie told her. Alison and Chase were still on their honeymoon and Jaiden was staying at Alison's parent's house till they got back.

"See Jai!" Ariana repeated.

"I'm sorry baby but we can't, maybe in a few days." Mitchie said as she put Ariana into her car seat. As they made their way home all Mitchie could concentrate on was an idea of how she would give the ring to Alex. She wanted it to still be sentimental but yet not over the top, over the top could wait until her actual proposal. Finally after tucking in Ariana once they had gotten home she started writing down some ideas and figured out what she was going to do. By the time 3:30 had hit and Alex walked through the door (She had gotten the cab home so Mitchie didn't have to wake up Ariana from her nap) Mitchie had just scribbled about the 10th idea she had gotten.

"Hey babe." Alex greeted throwing her keys on the counter.

"Hey, how was your day?" Mitchie asked tucking the piece of paper into her back pocket and giving Alex a hug and kiss.

"Long. I think by second class I was counting down till 3." Alex replied, putting her arms around Mitchie's neck.

"How about you, have fun relaxing at home?"

"Didn't do much relaxing actually. We were out most of the morning and part of the afternoon, apparently it's someone's birthday today and birthday's require presents." Mitchie smirked.

"I see. And what pray tell did you get them?" Alex said.

"Can't say. It'd ruin the surprise." Mitchie said smiling evilly.

" I promise not to tell them." Alex promised, adding in the puppy dog pout that she knew Mitchie couldn't resist.

"Sorry babe, not giving into the puppy dog pout today." Mitchie said giving Alex a kiss as she giggled.

"Meanie." Alex accused.

"You know today, I'll take that as a compliment." Mitchie said patting the spot beside her on the couch for Alex to sit down. For the next little bit the girls just relaxed until Ariana woke up from her nap.

"Mama!" the little girl cried from the next room. Alex got off the couch and headed into Ariana's room where she was standing up in her crib holding her stuffed bunny Peter.

"Morning baby girl." Alex said lifting Ariana from the crib.

"Have a good sleep?"

Alex brushed Ariana's hair a bit and replaced her messy pony tail with a neater one then brought her out into the living room to play with her toys.

"So what time are we heading out for dinner?" Alex asked as she placed Ariana down on the carpet with her toys.

"Seven. I phoned earlier and confirmed the reservation and your parents are expecting Ari at quarter to." Mitchie recited. At around 6 o clock Mitchie and Alex started getting ready to head out. In the midst of all the preparation chaos, little Ariana was walking around and thought Mitchie's jacket, which still had the ring in its pocket, would make a good toy. Grabbing onto the sleeve Ariana gave it a few good tugs before the jacket fell to the floor and Ariana fell over and landed on her butt. Hearing the jacket and Ariana fall Alex walked into the kitchen to see what had happened.

"Baby we can't play with momma's jacket." Alex said picking up the jacket. Just as Mitchie entered the room the ring box fell out of the pocket as Alex lifted the jacket off the ground. Mitchie's heart raced as soon as Alex noticed the navy blue box and picked it up.

"Mitch…" Alex said, totally at a loss for words.

"I was going to give it to you later but I guess it's been moved to now." Mitchie said taking the box from Alex shakily.

"Lex, I know you said you wanna wait until were both done school to get married, and I'm totally okay with that, but I still wanted it to be official even if were going to wait a while." Mitchie said opening the box revealing the ring.

"It's a promise ring. I know it's not an actual engagement ring but still it means the same thing. That I want to spend the rest of my life with you, with Ari, and I never, ever want to have to live without you."

With that, as Alex extended her shaky hand Mitchie placed the ring on Alex's finger and gave her a kiss.

"Now how's that for a birthday surprise?" Mitchie smirked causing Alex to giggle as she wiped the last few tears away.

"The best." Alex confirmed giving Mitchie another kiss.

"Uck." Ariana said which made both Mitchie and Alex laugh.

"Sweetie, just wait till you're older." Alex told her daughter.


~*2 weeks later*~

"No, no honey, don't play with the streamers." Alex said taking the streamer out of her daughter's hand. It was nearly 5:30 and so far Alex had had to replace (now) 5 streamers, blow up 8 extra balloons(and with every balloon popped Ariana cried from the noise) and had to change Ariana because she had made a huge mess when she was eating her snack. Needless to say the terrible two's that had only arrived earlier that morning had come in with full force. Since Mitchie was in the middle of decorating the cake Alex went into the bedroom and grabbed the pack of streamers and replaced the destroyed streamers with new ones.

"There, good as new." Alex said proudly as she placed the streamer roll on the counter.

"Ari come on lets go get dressed." Alex said holding out her hand for Ariana to take. Ariana took her mother's hand and they headed into the bedroom. Like last year the birthday party would be family and friends but this year they were only inviting a few people, Alison and her family, Mitchie and Alex's parents and siblings and that was about it. Alex hoisted Ariana onto the change table and started to undress her.

"Do you wanna wear your pretty dress?" Alex asked getting the light pink polka dot dress from out from the closet.

"Dess." Ariana repeated happily. After putting on the dress and braiding her hair into two pony tails Alex put her back on the ground to let her play.

"The cake looks amazing babe." Alex commented looking at the cake. Sticking with the theme of polka dots Mitchie had created a white cake with yellow, pink, purple and blue polka dots and had "Happy 2nd Birthday Ariana!" written on the top.

"Thanks. I just need to finish the last few details and it should be done." Mitchie told her. In the midst of her sentence Mitchie and Alex heard the sound of yet another streamer ripping. Alex let out a groan as she picked up the streamer role.

"Ariana, we can't keep ripping the streamers." Alex said picking up Ariana and bringing her towards her toys in the living room.

"Here, play with your toys while mommy fixes the streamers…again."

As much as Alex wanted it to be that wasn't the last time she would have to replace something before everyone had gotten to the party. Within the twenty minutes it took for everyone to arrive Ariana had ripped another streamer down, then popped yet another balloon and ripped off the polka dot bows from two of the chairs.

"Need any help honey?" Theresa offered her daughter noticing Alex and Mitchie had their hands full trying to get dinner finished and making sure Ariana didn't destroy anything else.

"No I think we're good. Ari doesn't seem to be trying to get at anything so it's a little easier to concentrate on dinner." Alex said.

"Well Max is pre occupying her so that's keeping her out of trouble." Theresa said as both she and Alex looked over into the living room where Max was playing dolls with Ariana to keep her busy.

"Good. Man the terrible two's are no joke." Alex commented as she flipped one of the pancakes she was making. For something a little different Alex and Mitchie decided to have breakfast for dinner: Pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausage and hash browns.

"Well she seems pretty good compared to how you were. I remember just after you turned two and we went over to the Finkles you practically destroyed Harpers play room by yourself." Theresa said. (Lets just say Alex and Harper knew each other since they were babies, okay?)

"Hey, I was an energetic child and got bored of the same toy after like a minute." Alex said in her defence, remembering back when she was a toddler and would fight with Harper over one toy for a few seconds before moving on to a different one. Finally dinner was done and everyone sat down to eat. While Alex ate and played with Ariana Theresa and Jerry watched their daughter in amazement. Alex had changed so much since she had Ariana. Sure, they had their worries about how Alex was going to handle being a young mother but so far she seemed to be doing an amazing job, and Ariana was a good girl. Once dinner was done and cleaned up and presents had been opened to give some time for everyone to give their stomach's a break it was time for cake.

Happy birthday to you

Happy Birthday to you

Happy birthday Ariana

Happy birthday to you

Everyone clapped and cheered as Ariana tried to blow out her number 2 candle but couldn't quite get enough air to get the flame out. Alex lightly blew it and Ariana clapped as the candle went out. Mitchie took the cake away and cut a piece for everyone. By the time everyone had left it was nearing 8:30 and Ariana was putting up a struggle to stay awake.

"Come on baby, time for bed." Alex said as Ariana held up her arms so her mother could pick her up. By the time Alex had changed Ariana from her dress to her Disney princess pyjamas Ariana had fallen asleep in her mother's arms.

"Night honey. Love you." Alex said kissing Ariana on her forehead and leaving the bedroom to let her sleep.

so there you lovely readers are, chapter 6. So I was wondering if I could get some feedback from y'all...should Jacob come back for a litle part in some point in the story? I have all the chapters planned out but i think i might be able to sqeeze him in somewhere if you think it'd make part of the story more interesting.

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