A/N: Sorry for the wait. I have a lot going on, school starting and with me being on vacation and all, but i'm back in FULL swing! yayy! I think a lot of you all will enjoy this chapter (: I loved writing and typing it. It's one of my favorites! Anyways i would like to thank you all again as i do every chapter for reviewing my story even though it is not worthy (BUT I DO LOVE LOVE LOVE YOUR REVIEWS!) So...THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! I will TRY to update ASAP, and that may or not be in a few days, we'll see according to the amount of reviews and if my homework allows. *crosses fingers* Here is Chapter Ten! Woot!
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Chapter Ten:
BPOV
"Mama," a sweet voice called to me. It sounded as if the volume on a radio was being turned up. But though the volume was off, this was the voice I'd know anywhere—my Sunshine, my Ethan. I moaned a little, as I fought against sleep. His little hand patted my face and he started bouncing on my lap. "Mamaa, 's me, Etan." I finally won against my heavy eyelids, waking up groggily, rubbing my eyes. And there before my eyes, sat my little baby, with a silly grin playing on his cheeks, his brown eyes smiling at me as well.
"SUNSHINE!" I laughed, as Ethan tried to stand, but fell on his bum back on my lap. Little dents formed between his bronze eyebrows. "It's okay, Sunshine. You'll be up and walking around being a little menace in no time!" I kissed the dent away, smoothing out his forehead. His hair is a little mess today, I observed, moving my hands up to his hair, experimenting with what I could do with it. I smoothed out his hair between the palms of my hands until there was a little faux hawk on his head. I had a giggle fit as Edward slipped back into the front seat.
"I see Momma's up, Ethan." When his eyes reached Ethan's hair, he boomed out laughing. "I see Momma had some fun with your hair, Sunshine," he laughed, reaching for our son. Ethan just looked at us innocently, his brown eyes wide with an angelic look, his arms outstretched towards his father. Edward cradled him to his chest, lovingly. "Why don't you get into the house and I'll get all the bags in?"
"The house?" I repeated in confusion. "I thought we were going to Vancouver. Where is the hotel?" A frown was on my lips as I thought of the vacation we were supposed to have away from all the stress of what awaits us back in the United States.
"Do you think that I'd rent a hotel room, even for a day?" Edward questioned, with a look radiating absurdity on his glorious face. His eyebrow arched when I hadn't answered. He had caught me staring. Blood crept up my cheeks.
"What was the question again?"
He ignored my question. "Well, I wouldn't. So why don't you get going into the house." His hand found mine and produced a single key, which I assumed would open up this mystery house. He then reached into the backseat, and settled the red Frederick's of Hollywood bag on my lap. "Now come on, let's get going," his lips reached across the open space to find my cheek. I nodded, opening my door and getting out of the car. I extended my arms back into the open car, expectantly. "What is it, Love?" he asked.
"I can't go anywhere without my baby boy." He arched his eyebrow again, but kissed Ethan's forehead, handing him to me. Once I had Ethan lounging on my hip, Edward's hand grasped mine and turned it palm up, his lips pressing to it, his eyes focused solely on mine. The embarrassing blush of mine raged on, leaving Edward chuckling in the car. I turned towards the path leading up to the house, the big house. I unlocked the huge set of double doors to reveal the open atmosphere of yet another Cullen home. I headed directly for the huge winding staircase and into the master bedroom. It was massive. I walked in, slowing my pace down a bit and just looked around in awe. There was a sitting room along with a crib and changing table, too. I grinned, setting Ethan in the crib, giving him a teddy bear that sat on the changing table and headed back to the master bedroom. I strolled over toward the French doors, opening them, letting the breeze rush in. That was when a pair of cool arms wrapped around my waist. "Ethan is in his crib," I murmured, but before I could even think, I was on the bed. It was white and fluffy from what I could barely feel and see. I moaned as Edward's cool kisses moved down to my neck. Snickering seemed to snap us out of our mood.
"Gahh, Alice!" I shrieked, seeing the Pixie, bouncing Ethan in the corner of the room.
"Mama, Mama, Mama!" Ethan chanted as he enjoyed his aunt.
Alice giggled, rubbing her nose on Ethan's. "I see that you two can't keep your hands off each other."
"Alice, can't you come back in an hour or three?" Edward groaned, falling back onto the bed, his chest heaving.
"Ahh, no, dear brother of mine. I need to spend time with my cute nephew. Who's my cute nephew? Who's my cute nephew?" Alice crooned.
"Me, me!" Ethan screeched. "Etan!" he smiled, angelically. "Awi, I ungfry." Edward got up, leaving me lying on the bed.
"I think I should get baby Ethan some food." He plucked our son out of a not so willing Alice's arms.
"Ookies, da, Ookies!" Edward marched out of the room, with Ethan over his shoulder waving back at me.
"So…." Alice started, picking up my shopping bag on the way to sit with me on the bed. "What did you buy?"
"No touchie, nosie Rosie!" I screeched, tugging at the bag, but Alice being Alice she won the tug of war. "Oh, Bella, you did wonderfully. This baby doll will look great on you!"
"Shh, Alice! I want to surprise Edward!" I half shrieked.
"Don't worry, Bella, I'm merely putting on a show. Right now, Edward pretty much wants to take you right here and right now. So obviously, it's working to your advantage!"
"And let me guess, you can't wait either, for an 'official' reunion?" I asked suspiciously.
"No, I cannot wait, my sister! You know I never liked Tanya! WENEEDTOGETYOUAWEDDINGDRESS! OMGINEEDTOGETADESIGNERONTHEPHONE--!" Great, now I got her all hyped up.
"Alice, calm down, I just got engaged." All to quickly, Alice was shoving my little present for Edward back into its bag. "Alice, what's going—" Before Alice could open her mouth, footsteps made their way into the room.
"Hey, Darlin'. Did you miss me?" a voice spoke in a southern accent. It was Jasper!
"Oh, Jazzy, it's just you! Did you see Eddie downstairs?"
"No, I came through the backdoor," Jasper smiled, covering Alice with his embrace. When she pulled back, he acknowledged my presence. "Hi, Bella. Sorry about your birthday before, I didn't mean…"
"Its okay, Jasper. I know you didn't mean it." I extended my arms for a hug and he did.
"Oooh, Jazzy, we have a surprise for you!!!" Alice announced, springing up and down. "Edward!" she screamed, "get your butt up here." I heard Edward huff loudly downstairs, then I heard him sprinting up the stairs. "Okay, Jazzy, close your eyes." He easily obeyed.
"I hope this surprise isn't like my last bachelor party in which you had Emmett give me a little 'special' dance," he muttered.
"Don't worry, Jazzy, it's not. Though you gotta admit, that was hilarious! You should've seen the look on your face!" Jasper muttered something incoherently.
"Yes, Alice," Edward murmured, holding Ethan whom was drinking out of a juice box.
"I hear sucking, that can't be good!" Jasper muttered, shaking his head.
"Hey, Jazz," Edward called over, apparently happy to see his brother, whilst bringing Ethan to Alice.
"Eddie," Jasper acknowledged. "Alice, can I open my eyes yet?"
"No!" she yelled. "Now, make a cradle with your arms," she demanded and Jasper did obey. "Now when I put something in your arms, hold it securely, and DO NOT drop it."
JasperPOV
(This is my first attempt to write in Jasper's POV)
What is going on? Alice just told me to make a cradle with my arms and to hold on securely to what I was given. And I could feel the energy and thrill radiating off my wife, since I was an empath. Something soft and warm was placed in my arms.
"Jazzy, open your eyes… now!" Alice yelled. I opened my eyes and looked down into my arms. There lying fair and adorable was a baby. And it wasn't just any baby; it was one that looked just like Edward and Bella?
"Wha…" I was speechless. How could this happen? I thought. My mind came up with millions of explanations but none of them made actual sense, not in reality. Edward was about to speak up, but instead I heard a cute, small voice answer my thoughts.
"I Etan…" the baby spoke, even though he is merely just a year old. This is not possible! "Azzy?" he asked, confusion coming off in waves from his tiny body. I smiled a polite accepting smile at him before looking up to Alice and Edward.
"Who… Who's baby is this?"
"Bella and Edward's silly!" Alice responded, laughing.
"Meet Ethan Scott Cullen," Edward murmured, a look of awe on his face, as if he couldn't believe it either.
"How?" I choked, gazing down at the cooing infant in my arms. He had Edward's messy bronze hair, styled up into a mini Mohawk and Bella's big chocolate brown eyes, Edward's nose and Bella's rosy cheeks.
"When a man loves a woman…" Edward trailed off with a smirk on his face. Frankly, I wanted to wipe that grin off. I know how it works! This is a serious situation. What would the Volturi think of this?!
"We didn't… know." Edward spoke for my thoughts.
"But how did you and Bella conceive Ethan?"
"Do you remember after Bella's birthday party, when Edward didn't come home?" Throughout this whole conversation, Bella's cheeks grew darker and darker. I nodded, slowly. "He took her to the meadow and quite naturally they hit it off." I groaned. I mean scientifically, how did this happen. Our bodies are dead, how is it possible that we reproduce? Edward finally decided to come out straight with me. He could hear my frantic thoughts.
"That we are not sure of. I do have my own theory, though. I think that since Bella is human, her body can surely alter to accommodate a growing fetus and so I conclude that her body must've responded to my venom as it would with sperm, considering that my venom does contain some sort of DNA. And with her kind being more common, her genes dominated mine, keeping Ethan more of a human, growing and such." Edward smiled at his son for a moment. You could tell he was proud. "And so Ethan is our baby boy."
"And Tanya?" I felt exasperation flow off of Edward.
He sighed. "Divorce is the only option, Jasper. She's never meant anything to me. I love Bella. I have always loved her. And our son is just icing on the cake."
"He's so adorable," I crooned, beginning to rock the small child in my arms. "So perfect…"
"I know," Bella responded in a small whisper, handing me a box of apple juice. I gave it to the baby in my arms, sitting him on my lap. He slurped the rest down.
"Azzy." He held up an empty juice box. I took it and chucked it with skilled precision into the garbage bin by the wall. He yawned at that moment. "Da," he called, quietly. Edward was instantly by my side and I gave Ethan up to him. He already had me wrapped around his tiny finger.
BPOV
"Are you tired, Hun?" I asked. Ethan nodded and clutched Edward's shirt in two tiny fists.
"We'll give you two parents privacy. We'll be out hunting, so use your time wisely." Alice winked at me as Edward turned his back on her. She went to pick up the red Frederick's bag. I knew she was blocking a distracted Edward's mind. 'I'm going to put this in the bathroom,' she mouthed on my direction. I nodded.
"Bye, Ethan," Alice and Jasper spoke in unison.
"Bye Bye, Awi, Azzy!" he said before yawning again.
"Edward, Bella, we'll be back tomorrow morning," Alice spoke. We nodded in unison, walking to put Ethan in his crib. I fixed the blankets in the crib and Edward set him down.
"Nighty Night, baby boy," I whispered, kissing his hair. "I love you."
"Uv ooh, Ma."
"Love you, Sunshine," Edward bent down to kiss Ethan's nose.
"Uv ooh, Dada." Ethan slowly closed his eyes. I turned, striding toward the master bathroom.
"Edward, I'm going to use my human minute. Make sure that you are in bed when I get back. Don't disappoint me." I tried my best to sound seductive. I caught a glimpse of his breathtaking grin in the full length mirror that the bathroom exposed and before I could get halfway across the room, his lips found my neck. He sucked a little them released. A smile graced my face as I made my way into the bathroom.
I locked the door behind me, checking twice, and sure enough on the granite countertop was my present to Edward: a blue baby doll lingerie piece, along with one of Alice's personal pieces, deep blue matching lacy boy shorts, that I was sure would show off my bum well, considering I had something to show off. I blushed simply at the thought of wearing this to please my loving fiancé, Edward Cullen.
I immediately got to work, shaving my legs and washing my hair with Edward's favorite shampoo: Strawberries and Champagne. I finished up, blow-drying my hair and slipping into the lacy ensemble. I finally walked off to meet my man, my bare feet announcing my return. Once I opened the doors, Edward was kissing me and I was not disappointed at all. He carried me to the bed, not breaking his kiss once. He kissed every part of my face before moving down to my arms. He started out at my fingertips, kissing every one then the ring that rested on my third finger, up. At one point, he stopped so abruptly that I looked down at him. He was staring at my forearm, horror playing on his angelic face.
"Edward, what is it?" I asked, propping myself up on one elbow.
"Bella, how long?" he questioned.
"How long what, Edward?" I asked in confusion.
"How long?" he asked again, bringing my hand up so that my forearm was clearly in view. Oh my God, the scars. I gasped, trying to tug from his grasp.
"Edward, please let me go." I worked my way to worm out of his gentle hold. "Please, let me go, please," I pleaded.
"Please, Bella." His breathing grew ragged. "Tell me how long." Those piercing eyes met mine and I felt tears building up in mine.
"Edward, you mean everything to me, I don't want to lose you," I cried. I was so disgusted with myself.
"Bella, when will you ever understand that I'm not going to leave you again, ever? Now please, tell me how long you've been doing this to yourself." He carefully traced the scars that ran side-by-side, across my arm.
I closed my eyes, letting the memories pull me back into the past. "Since you left. But I promise I never did anything to hurt Ethan. NEVER!"
"Shh, Bella, shh. I know you never would. You never would. But when was the last time?"
"I stopped weeks ago, because Ethan saw me. I didn't want him to have that image of myself trying to commit suicide," I sniffled.
"It's all my fault. I never should've left. I never should've—" Edward shook his head in pain. I pulled his chin up with my finger.
"It's not your fault. It's not your fault," I repeated, pressing my lips to the tip of his nose to comfort him. "Besides, tonight is our night," I reminded him, kissing the spot between his eyebrows that wrinkled together.
"You know what, you're right," he whispered, but picked up my arm, bringing his lips to my scars. "I'm sorry I'm ruining our night," he apologized and went back to showing his love for me.
I cannot possibly doubt now that he is a mistake.
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