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…TEC…
"Ugh," I wiped my forehead and groaned as I tore open another heavy ass box. I had been sitting in our messy attic, with Ellie and Seth going through all of our old shit that we were too lazy to unpack when we moved in, looking for Edwards old pictures that I knew he had, but had never seen.
"Mommy?" Ellie whined before pulling the bandanna off of her head and throwing it to the ground. "What are we even looking for?"
"Pictures of Grandma."
"Why?"
"Because Daddy would like it. He misses her."
"But we saw her last week…. Why would he miss her?"
"Not my Mommy, Daddies Mommy…" I explained slowly, she huffed again.
"Why is the baby up here?" She pushed Seth's walker away from her. He came speeding towards me, happily. I caught the toy and steadied him.
"Ellie don't do that. You could have hurt him."
"Sorry, Mommy. What are we looking for again?" I sighed.
"Pictures of Daddy's mother."
"What! I found those a long time ago! You should have tolded me!" She squealed, I groaned and dramatically fell onto my back, in exhaustion. Seth waddled over to me in the walker and stood over me, peering over the rounded edge of the toy and smiling at me. Then Ellie was over me, holding up a picture frame of her mother.
"This is her? This is what you're looking for right?" I nodded and sat up before taking the picture from her. She went over to a large box and pushed it over to where Seth and I were. She pulled out another picture and held it up in front of Seth.
"Look, Baby. It's Gran-ma!" She cooed.
"His name is Seth, pumpkin." I shook my head, running a hand through her hair. She shrugged off my comment and continued looking through the boxes.
"What's this?"
"That would be Daddies degree, from college."
Why the hell was all of this packed away?
"Wanna help me get this stuff downstairs?" She shrugged. I pulled out a bag I had brought up with me, knowing that I wouldn't be able to drag the boxes downstairs. I jammed some frames and whatnots into the cloth bag and I descended the ladder with it handing it to Ellie before going back up for Seth. I pulled him out of the toy before realizing there was no way I was carrying that big ass thing down steps. I went back down the ladder with Seth, sitting him far away from the steps and making Ellie hold onto him.
I quickly went back up that ladder and let me tell you. That shit was getting old.
"Mommy, what are you doing?" She asked as I pushed the walker over the opening in the ceiling.
"Back up, Ellie!" I yelled, she shrieked as I sent the large item through the hole. It crashed to the ground below and the kids screamed like it had hit them despite there being more than a few yards between them and the crash.
I came down the ladder for the final time and pushed it up into its little hole.
"Good lord, Mommy! You couldn't have thought that was a good idea!" I shrugged and knelt down next to them.
"You guys are okay, right?" Ellie nodded and Seth cried and reached for me.
"Take it like a man, Baby!" Ellie said as I picked up her little brother. I shook my head at her and kissed her forehead.
"Help me get all of this set up, before Daddy gets back?" She nodded and grabbed the bag, dragging it behind her as we walked down stairs. "Don't break anything." She huffed as she picked the bag up, while descending the steps.
We set up the pictures all around the house, pictures of Elizabeth and Edward, and a few that we found of Ellie as a baby. Seth trailed Ellie around in his newly broken walker, one of the wheels was messed up during its fall, so when he attempted to walk towards the direction of the wheel he was stopped and spun in the opposite direction. I officially earned the bad mother of the year award when I laughed every time.
The garage door went up while I was in the kitchen, making sandwiches, because I'm, a walking and bitching, cliché. Edward's footsteps sounded as he approached the door that separated the garage and kitchen. Ellie jumped up to meet him at the door, and when I say meet, I mean tackle.
"Woah… Hi honey." He chuckled as he lifted her into his arms.
"Hi, Daddy! I missed you! Mommy tried to kill me and Seth earlier today." She said happily, Seth squealed in agreement and his walker spun him into the counter next to my legs, I gently nudged him away, making sure to avoid the bum wheel.
"That's not true." I rolled my eyes as Edward came to me and wrapped an arm around my waist before kissing my cheek.
"She threw Baby's chair at us." Edward's easy smile then turned concerned.
"I dropped Seth's walker…" Edward nodded.
"Over us." Ellie added.
"I dropped it from the attic. Thank you very much. What does it matter you were like… ten feet away." Ellie snickered.
"And why were you dropping things from the attic?"
"Don't worry about it." He sighed before casting a glance at his watch.
"Shit I have to go, Baby. I'll be back soon, I'm just going out with the guys." I nodded and he pecked my lips before giving Ellie a dollar and rushing out of the door.
"You know, this dollar completes what I need for that hotel room. Got the bus ticket yesterday." She gave me a look from under her lashes with a dark smile and I jerked the dollar out of her hand.
…TEC…
EPOV
"How knows what her issue is. She goes on and on… 'Where were you? Why didn't you call me? Who is she?'" Stanley mocked in a high pitched voice, when in all honesty his wife's voice was deeper than his normal speaking voice. "Controlling… I tell ya'…" There were two other nods around the table.
"Alice flips a shit every time I leave the house! Yet she's always out." Jasper looked to me and shrugged, "She's usually at your place though. Still though, I can't go out on fishing trips because the wife thinks I'm screwing every chick with a pair of legs. Gah…" I sighed and took a pull from my beer while they nodded in agreement with Jaspers words.
"What about you, Masen?" Crowley asked before leaning towards me.
"Yeah man. You gotta' have something on that Bella… She's uh…" Stanley's eyes widened and I glared at him.
"She's uh- what?" I growled before setting the bottle on the table.
"Nothing man! I was just thinking that she was the jealous type."
"She's not." I grumbled. I realized that hanging out after work with a bunch of married guys wasn't what I thought it'd be. All they did was whine about their wives. And gossip. It was like sitting around with Bella after she spent an excessive amount of time with Riley and Alice.
"Mhmm." He said disbelievingly.
"No really, she won't give a shit if I came in at two o'clock tomorrow morning." I said honestly.
"Is that so? Why is that?"
I looked around the room, "She trusts me."
They all started laughing and I threw my hand up, "What the hell?"
"She trusts you." As if that explained anything.
"So? That's a good thing." I attempted to convince.
"Oh puh-lease." Jasper said… flamboyantly. He leaned forward resting his elbows on the table. "That just means that she thinks you're too big of a pussy to cheat on her."
"That, my friend, is a sure sign of a failing marriage. You shouldn't be surprised if she packs up and moves in with a biker sometime soon." Crowley pitched in. He shook his head sympathetically but laughed all the while before pushing a shot glass towards me and signaling for another.
"That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard." I groused.
"What? So you're okay with Bella thinking that you're not good enough to cheat on her?" Stanley hedged.
"I don't think she thinks I'm not good enough… What's so wrong with her trusting me?"
"Man there is no such thing as trust. It's either 'Oh I need to keep my man… he can get snatched up because he's that great' or it's 'Oh he isn't going anywhere. Who would want his ass anyway?' You my friend sound like the latter." I ran a hand through my hair, another shot glass was thrust into my face and I knocked it back easily.
"Bella's different." I whined.
"Yep, okay. Well when the sex stops you'll realize that we were right."
"And what do you suppose I do about Bella?" Was it wrong to feed into this stupidity?
"Cheat on her." Newton suggested, I rolled my eyes because that jackass was the only single one here.
"Spray some cheap perfume, with sparkly shit in it, and lube up a condom and put it on. Then ask her to take a shower with you."
"So I'm ready?" I knocked back another glass, feeling a little more than buzzed.
"No so it looks like you had sex. With a stripper. I did it with Jessica. Worked like a charm." Stanley snorted before taking a shot and passing me another. Jasper looked at the glasses longingly as he was the designated driver. I nodded as I considered what they'd said as I knocked the small glass back.
"Slow down there buddy." Jasper warned after I knocked back two shots in a row.
"So I have to sleep with someone else? To make Isabella love me again?" I slurred slightly and then realized that I called her Isabella it's such a pretty name.
Isabella.
I don't want to lose her.
"But I love her so much!" I cried as I threw back another glass.
"Looks like you're going to have to get over that and fuck someone else." Newton said as if it was him losing his wife.
"Shut up… Newton. You're just mad cause you want my wife…" I slurred before pushing him gently, well I put all my strength into it but apparently I'm not too strong while drunk.
"Dear goodness, you're such a light weight."
"That's like his fifth shot." Newton snorted, I pointed at him.
"You don't know what it's like man. You don't know how it feels to be unloved. I have to go sleep with another person!" I wailed, Jasper stood and pulled me out of my chair.
"That's enough, you asses. If I get a call from Bella while Ali and I are having relations, I'm going to hunt each and every one of you down. Seriously. You don't understand how scary she is…" Jasper pulled me by my shirt sleeve.
"She's not a-scary. She's beautiful…" I slurred, "Don't talk about my wife dick… She's going to leave me because I can't cheat." The fact that I would soon be single weighed heavily on my mind.
What am I supposed to do?
I'll always love her.
"Edward… dude, why are you crying?"
"You don't know how hard it is being a single parent, Jasper…" I cried feeling the warm tears slip down my cheeks quickly. "You don't know!"
"Neither do you." Crowley laughed before patting my back.
"Edward you aren't single." Jasper assured.
"You're just drunk, genius." Newton jumped in.
"Guys get him outta' here. You're starting to make a scene." Crowley muttered before going to pay the tab. I laid my head on Jaspers shoulder, letting my tears soak his jacket.
"I'm drunk on forbidden love." I cried, Jasper patted my back sympathetically before urging me towards the door.
"You're married, Edward."
"Not for long!" I wailed, I rested a hand on Newton's shoulder and leaned in. "Do you know what it's like to have my wife sleeping with someone else?"
"Yeah man. I know exactly what it's like you know, since she's sleeping with me." I leaned backwards before throwing a pitifully executed punch to his jaw, which he dodged. Jasper was back a minute later.
"You're the reason she doesn't love me!" I screamed before trying to throw another punch, Jaspers arm wrapped around my waist and he strong armed me out of the restaurant.
"I just lost my entire life… in an hour." I said in awe before running my hands through my hair.
"Edward. Calm down. I swear if Bella sees you crying not only are you going to be embarrassed in the morning but I won't be able to have children." He shifted and covered his crotch, I smiled.
"You're having a kid? Congratulations!" I hugged him tightly and he pushed me back.
"You're such a lightweight." He chuckled. Newton, Stanley and Crowley exited the bar soon after.
"Who's taking him home?" Crowley asked.
"I will. It'll give me a little more time to get to know Swan while he sleeps." Newton wiggled his eyebrows and I lunged for him again Crowley held me back.
"Okay I have him." Tyler patted my back while simultaneously pushing me towards his car. "See you later guys. Newton I'm going to kick your ass tomorrow if Bella kills me."
…TEC…
BPOV
"But my friend is in that class Mommy!"
"Yes well your teachers a dick, pumpkin. So you're switching classes."
"What's a dick?"
"I meant he's a jerk."
"So Aunt Alice is a dick?"
"Yes. Goodnight, Ellie." I kissed her head three times before adjusting a sleeping Seth on my shoulder.
"Night, Mommy. I love you!"
"Love you too." I tucked the blanket in around her and turned on her lava lamp and leaving the room.
"Wuv Mama." Seth whispered sleepily, I hadn't even realized he was still awake.
"Aww," I coo'ed before peppering his little cheeks with kisses. "I love you too, honey." I set him in his crib before kissing him again and handing him a stuffed animal. The front door opened and there was a shit load of stomping downstairs. I hurried into the hallway and peeked over the railing to see Edward, who was crying, and being supported by Tyler.
"What happened?" I asked before darting down the steps. I pulled my hair into a ponytail with the holder on my wrist.
I'm about to fuck someone up.
"Crowley what happened to him?" I said before cupping his jaw and looking at the bruise there.
"He hurt himself getting out of the car." Tyler rolled his eyes and Edward pulled out of my grasp.
"Don't touch me." He said before batting my hand away. "You think I'm not good enough to cheat on you?" His eyes widened and I closed mine in exasperation.
"What are you talking about?"
"Why don't you love me anymore?" Tears leaked from his eyes, it was very emasculating but he was drunk, so…
Crowley cleared his throat, "See ya', Swan." He backed out of the foyer and I turned my glare on him
"You stay." He didn't stop but took off running instead, I just shook my head.
"Are you okay? How much did you drink?" I asked before cupping his face.
"You're not gonna' ask me where I was?" He whined, I furrowed my eyebrow.
"No…? I haven't before…"
"Everyone else's wife asks! You don't though. You think I'm afraid of you Bella? You think I won't cheat?" He stood shakily from his seat and I looked at him with an intense burning indifference.
"I know you won't cheat, Edward." I said attempting to soothe him.
"Why because you trust me?" He cried, slurring the word trust in a disgusted tone.
"Yes." I wrapped my arms around his waist and he pushed me away.
"No! You can-can't trust me, Baby. This isn't going to work." I attempted to suppress my smile but he was so damned cute, his cheeks were all flushed and his nose was red.
Too cute.
I wrapped an arm around his waist and pulled him towards the steps, "What's not going to work, Honey?" We started up the steps and he leaned heavily on me.
"Our marriage." He said seriously, stopping on the stair case, I turned to face him.
"Edward come on now. You're drunk."
"I'm serious! What's a marriage without deceit?" He said grabbing my hands in both of his, his tears stopped.
"A successful one. Come on, Baby. Bed time." I whispered in an attempt to have him lower his voice. He shook his head and turned to go back down the stairs, but fell on his ass… up the stairs.
"Don't wanna…." He slurred before stomping his foot.
Could he be more wasted?
"Honey stand up. You're being silly, let's go to sleep."
"Will you intercourse with me?" I nodded and rolled my eyes.
"Sure… Tomorrow I'll 'intercourse with you'. Or you know the next day."
"I wana coitus now, Baby. Come on," He grabbed my leg, pulling it over his legs and shoving me down into his lap.
"No not now. Edward, Honey, get up." His head dropped to my shoulder and I huffed.
"I'm tired, Baby. You're so pretty."
"You're just drunk, I look like crap."
"Don't say that! You're beautiful." His face wrinkled up like he was going to cry again, "Every girl should feel pretty!" His hand tangled it's self in my hair and he pulled me down for the sloppiest kiss I've ever had.
"Yep, get up. You're really fucking wasted." I stood from his lap and caught my footing on the step next to him. He shook his head, "Honey if you get up and come to bed I'll feel really pretty."
"I'll make you feel pretty?" I nodded and kissed the top of his head.
"Come on." I coerced, he stood and wrapped his arm around my shoulder before letting me lead him up the rest of the stairs and into the bedroom. He collapsed into the bed, well he attempted to collapse into the bed he actually clipped the side of the mattress and fell on his back, on the floor.
"Oh shit!" He cried, I leaned on the wall and doubled over with laughter. I clutched at my stomach while he shot up. There were three hard knocks on the door, I turned and opened it to reveal a hesitant looking Riley.
"Is everything all right? I heard some… noises."
Wish you heard them when I was lugging his heavy ass up all of those stairs.
"We're fine." I chuckled he looked into my eyes as if he were searching for something.
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah she's sure! Go away boy." Edward slurred as he stood and nose-dived into the bed.
"He doesn't drink very often… That's why he's… so…" I gestured to Edward who was curled up into fetal position with his ass in the air. "Yeah, goodnight, Riley."
"Night." I closed the door and walked to Edward.
"Come on, Baby. You want to take off your shoes? Yeah you do!" I said before grabbing at his foot.
"Bella. I'm drunk not a dog." He said seriously. He sat up and looked around the room no doubt taking in Ellie and my handiwork. "That's my mom." He picked up a picture of her and stared at it for a bit before setting it back down on the dresser. "I miss her. Thank you." He frowned before sloppily holding open his arms. I walked to him and sat with my back to him, letting him wrap himself around me.
"I know, and you're welcome." I wasn't sure but I think he drooled on my neck.
"Not a dog my ass. That's gross."
"What now you don't want to kiss me? You never loved me!" He pulled away from me, crawling around me so that he could lay facing opposite of me.
A kiss, is that what that was?
"Alright, you go to sleep, honey." I said before patting his ass and turning on my side. He didn't need sleep, he needed a fucking tampon.
…TEC…
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