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I gasped as I saw a diamond ring glimmer in the moonlight as he opened his hand. He keeled down and raised the ring up a little. "Leslie, my Lesbug." He smiled. "I love you, I always have and, over these past days my love has only grown stronger. This isn't an engagement ring, just a promise. Promise me that the very second you decide you love me too, you'll tell me and we'll run away together, just you and I and maybe Cordelia if we still have her, and we'll stay together. Forever."
"OK." I said. Just because he gives me this ring doesn't mean I'm committed to him. He smiled and rose from his knee. "But, if I ever want to hang out with a guy friend you can't complain." He slid the ring on my left hand and nodded. "So, does this mean we still have to go on dates, because now that I have Cordelia, I just don't want to dump her off on the Cullens, she's my responsibility." I rambled.
He laughed, "Your not getting off the hook that easy but, I will shorten the amount of dates to 3. I don't mind having Cordelia around."
I sighed. "Fine. But not anytime this week, I want to get Cordelia use to me."
"Mhm." he hummed and moved toward me leaning down for a kiss but then Cordelia started to cry. I pecked his lips and ran to the crying baby.
"Shhh." I whispered rocking her to the living room in the cottage. "Shhh. It's OK." Her crying turned into sniffles after a couple minutes. "Good girl." I cooed as I continued to rock her back and forth. "You just have to get use to me, huh? I know this is all new and weird for you, but it is going to be OK. I get to watch you crawl and then maybe walk and talk." I talked softly and rubbed her tiny back, soothing her back to sleep. "Your such a good little baby, huh, Cordelia?"
"Your such a good mommy, huh, Leslie?" Carter mocked me walking into the cottage.
I rolled my eyes. "Is she back to sleep?" I whispered turning my back to Carter.
"No, but she has gorgeous hazel eyes." He stepped up closer. "Hi, little one." he spoke softly, and a moment later she started laughing.
"What are you doing?" I asked, not being able to see.
"I'm a bunny, now a teddy bear, now a chick.."
I laughed. "How is being a chick funny, little girl."
"Oh, get with the program, Leslie. Little yellow chickens are all the rage."
"Do you have a bow too?" Now we were all laughing.
"Wait," Carter whispered. "Shh, she's going back to sleep."
"But, she's still laughing."
"Mhm." he hummed. "Her eyes are slowly closing." He drug out his words like they never ended. "OK. Do you want me to put her back down?"
I handed Cordelia to him and leaned against the doorway to see a sleeping Renesmee and Carter laying Cordelia down. It was insanely adorable.
"We need to get my room put together with Cordelia's stuff." I said dragging him back to the Cullen's house. We grabbed everything Alex and Milly had brought over, a crib, with sheets and everything already in it, a changing table, 10 medium size boxes full of bottles and baby formula and food and diapers and toys and blankets and mostly clothes, 2 diaper bags for on-the-go, 2 strollers, a car seat, bath chair, and a dresser and toy chest. There was even a little baby bouncer for the doorway. Everyone grabbed something and helped me get it into the room, just now I have to organize it. Carter and I did everything human speed. We didn't have anything else to do.
"Look at this lady bug dress." I said in awe as I put away all her little clothes. I feel like a mom who just got home from a baby shower. Everything was so little and adorable. She had little skinny jeans and leggings with little gladiators and flats. Her little tops were almost identical to what Alice and I wear, just more age appropriate. She even had cute little aviator sunglasses and bows for her hair. I felt like a giant compared to her things.
"Might want to buy little one a bigger dresser." Carter said struggling to close a drawer. "She's going to be giving you a run for your money with all these clothes."
"Don't break the drawer, geez. Just put it under the dresses in the closet." I said finishing up what I was doing. "And were done." I said sitting on the floor.
"Thank god!" Carter over-dramatically said putting his head in my lap, looking up. "How do itty bitty babies have that much crap. God, how do normal people do that? It tires me to even think about it." He smiled up at me.
"Aren't we lucky were not normal?"
"Well, I am, but you? Nah. Hell would have to freeze over before you were considered normal."
"What do you mean? I'm a vampire. That's not normal."
"Leslie, common, don't kid yourself. You just immortal. You don't eat human blood," He said counting on his fingers. " which by the way is sort of a turn off." He laughed. "You have all these powers inside you that you never use."
"You don't know that!" I interupted, even though it was true.
He gave me a yes-I-do-look and continued. "You, care for Cordelia like you won't give her frost bite." I had never really thought about that. " and I've never ever met a vampire that gets attached like you do."
"I was in love." I inturpted, defending myself.
"Yeah, but you got attached to Italy and the people who you weren't in love with, to name a few.
Your attached to me." He grinned from ear to ear. "And lets face it, the Cullens and Cordelia are on the same list too." He made a disgusted face. "Even wolf boy."
"Well, vampires can do that." I defended again.
"Our instinct is to not feel. We feed and move on. The only time we get attached is when we have found a mate. I think it's that animal blood you drink, gets you all human. Hence not normal."
I stared into his red eyes. "Your not normal either." I protested. "Your eyes, they are kind and warm."
"That's because I love you." He said softly. "Other than that I'm just cold, detached and heartless. You have seen the way I act around people. I don't like them." He whispered like it was a big secret and smiled like it was an accomplishment. I frowned. "Oh, don't get all good on me. It's just the way I is." He grinned all cheesy trying to make me laugh and I did.
"But your so good with kids." I protested further. He's not what he says he is.
"I don't know why, really." He shrugged. "Must have been around them a lot when I was human."
"You have never told me about your life before you met me."
He sighed. "It's nothing worth talking about. I call it my 'teenage slash bachelor phase'. You know, when you feel like everything and everyone is out to get you and you always think your right. I did whatever I wanted. Not my most enjoyable years. Well, it was." He laughed to himself. There was a long pause.
"Are you going to tell me, or not?" I pouted.
"Oh, fine." he sighed. "It was back in 1855 and I woke up in the middle of nowhere. Instinct took in immediately and I ran to the nearest feed and I just kept feeding and roaming and feeding and roaming and so on and so forth. After a good 5 years of that, I met my buddy Evan. He.." He laughed, but there was a little sadness behind it. "He was the best friend you could ask for and damn, he sure knew how to let loose and have a party. He was the type of person who would take you straight to a bar whenever you told him you spilled coffee on your good shirt, or something little like that. We did so much drugs and drank so much booze every night. It was pretty sick! We must of died so many times in one night. And that is pretty much what I did for the next 59 years. Then I met you." He half smiled.
"Whats wrong?" I asked.
"I don't miss those days but I miss Evan. You know he begged me not to go with you. His exact words were, 'You go with this girl, who is brainwashed in believing happily ever afters actually exist, and yeah she's smokin, but your just gonna get hurt. So why leave our pain free world, when we can just drink and smoke and feed it up together. Don't you remember? Us against the humans and shit like that.' He said I betrayed him. My best, hell my only friend, said I betrayed him."
"That pretty much blows." He smiled trying to lighten the mood. "See, you care!"
"You got me, I have a heart, I just choose to use it on you, Evan and apparently little snot nose kids."
I smacked him lightly on the cheek and leaned into him. "Spiddy-kiss, my fav." I whispered before meeting his lips and then Cordelia started to cry. I pulled away from Carter as he lifted up his head and I ran to Cordelia.
"Good morning." I whispered, not wanting to wake up Renesmee and Jacob. I wrapped her in many blankets, so I don't get her too cold, and took her to the main house to change and feed her.
"You slept for a good 2 and a half hours, little girl." I said as I changed her diaper and outfit. "And you drank your whole bottle, and after I'm done getting this stupid shoe on we get to go downstairs to say hi to everyone." I was struggling to get the shoes zipped up. "Oh, forget it. You won't be walking." I smiled an picked her up off the changing table and brought her downstairs. "Good morning, everybody." I said as I layed Cordelia on the floor in front of the couch.
"Morning." Everyone said at the same time.
"Look, she's sitting up." Rosalie informed me and picked Cordelia up, bouncing her around.
"I remember when Renesmee was that little." Bella said reminiscing.
"Didn't last very long." Emmett laughed.
Edward sighed. "Our little girl is so big now."
"Common, guys, she's only two. Yeah she is well beyond her years but she's still a baby." Alice said taking a seat on the arm of the sofa by Bella. "You act like she's in her teen years."
"I agree with Alice. Renesmee is still small." Jasper said, kissing Alice's hair as she grinned with warmth.
"A baby!" Renesmee said with excitement running to Rosalie, who kneeled down so Renesmee could get a better look.
"Speak of the princess and she shall appear." Edward laughed.
"So, who wants to tell me how a baby came about?" Jacob asked walking through the door.
I informed him and Renesmee what had happened last night.
"Cousin Cordelia." Cooed Renesmee as she stared with loving excited eyes at Cordelia.
"Wow." Jacob said. "Don't think Seth will be that much into you when he sees that you have Cordelia to look over." he laughed.
"No!" I said immediately and his laughing died. The word just jumped out of my mouth. "Seth can't come near her. She's not going around any of the wolves who haven't imprinted yet. I can't risk it." Everyone was silent, except Renesmee and Cordelia who seemed to be having to much fun to notice the conversation. "Uhm.." I started to say but just walked up stares to my ringing phone.
New Message: Cater it said.
I just bought a car n a house. Want 2 come n furnish it wit me?
Yah sounds fun. I texted back.
OK, bring lil one too n I'll be there in a min.
I packed Cordelia's diaper bag, grabbed her stroller and car seat and headed downstairs. "Cordelia and I are going to go help Carter buy things for his house." I called to everyone as I pre-prepaired Cordelia's bottles.
"Oh, well that's nice." she said slyly looking at the ring on my finger.
"Alice you can just ask."
She laughed. "I don't need to, but I think it would be nice to tell everyone what that pretty rock means."
"It's not even a big deal." I shrugged.
"OK, you tell them when your ready." and she danced off up stairs with Jasper following.
I sighed. "Edward, I know you know... Do you thing its a tell-everyone type of deal?"
"No, it's a if-someone-asks type." He said it a little loud so Alice could here loud and clear.
I pouted. I'll just wait til someone asks. It's not even like I am engaged. Suddenly someone was at the door.
"Hey." Carter said stepping inside to give me a quick kiss. Our kisses now were not so overwhelming. More of a routine, but it was still nice to have.
I kissed him again and lead him to the living room where Edward and Bella were on either side of Renesmee while she held Cordelia, Rosalie was looking over with gaga eyes, Emmett was just mindlessly flipping threw channels, Esme and Carlisle were sitting on the loveseat all happy and content, and Alice and Jasper were making their way back down the stairs. I walked over to Renesmee, "Hey sweetie, I'm going to have to take Cordelia with me to get Carter somethings for his house."
"I don't want to let go of cousin Cordelia. She is my friend." Renesmee argued.
"Nessie, you can hold the baby all you want when Leslie comes back." Edward helped.
She looked up at me with her baby eyes. "You, promise?"
I nodded and took Cordelia from Renesmee. "Most deffinatly." I said goodbye and walked out the door, while Carter got the stroller and diaper bag.
"This car is amazing." I noted as we drove along the 101 off to the 5 to Seattle. "Orange with the black interior look awesome."
"Well, I needed some transportaion and I thought this would be best. I've always wanted a camaro, ever since they first came out. The old ones are better but this 2011 convertible will just have to do."
"Where did you get a house at?" I said after popping a bottle into Cordelia's mouth to stop her little fusing.
"Seattle. Just for the time being. I'm actually building a house in a little section of the woods in Neah Bay. It looks right over the water, so most of the windows face west so we can always watch the sun go down." I smiled as he kept talking about the designs. Wrap around porch, 3 bedroom, 2 and a half bath, big kitchen with an island, huge living and dining room, big grand staircase. This was a total dream house. And it looks over the water!
"It's going to be amazing." I said.
"Yeah." He sighed as we pulled into the IKEA parking lot.
After wondering around for about 2 hours, and criticizing every piece of furniture there, we decided to get only a decorative picture.
"Well, that was a total bust." I laughed. "but hey, that picture will go with anything."
He joined me. "It looks like a kindergartner took paint and flicked it toward the canvas."
"Well, you can always go online and find what you want." There was a long pause. "Lets go to Neah Bay. I want to see the house you have in the works"
He looked at me through the rear view mirror and smiled. "Second date." he winked.
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