I went to the restaurant and sat down. "Hi." I said and kissed Jacob.
"How'd it go?" Paul asked.
"Right after I convinced Matthew to pull his pants down so I wouldn't go at him with a scalpel, Leah, and his mom walked in, I of course was already seeing what was wrong. I had my hands on him and it looked so wrong, but Leah just asked what was going on and tried not to laugh. My bag and gloves gave me away." I laughed.
"How'd it go with his mom?" Paul asked.
"Matthew had decided to bring up the fact that the baby wouldn't have any grandparents, and that made me angry, because my daughter had a wonderful father, and wonderful grandparents, or so I thought. My daughter grew up great. I wish Michael's parents could see how she didn't even need them." I said selfishly.
"They have." Rachael said.
"I wish she could have at least known her father." I sighed remembering Michael.
"I kind of wish I could of met him, he sounds interesting." Paul laughed.
"He was, but I never wanted to be near him when him and Emmett talked because they would try their best to embarrass each other, and it just embarrassed Rosalie, my mom, my dad, and I." I laughed.
"Sounds like you, Paul." Jacob joked.
"Nah." Paul laughed. "I'm not that rude." He said.
"You aren't, he would've made you look innocent when he got like that, he didn't say anything about me, but he and Emmett would insult each other, and each other's wives." I said. "Usually in a vulgar, and sexual way." I sighed remembering some of the fights.
"What was some of the things they said?" Paul asked.
"Emmett would usually start by saying 'you should stop screaming', or 'maybe you wouldn't have knocked up Nessie if you two weren't like bunnies'." I sighed. "Even though it was untrue, Michael would just reply with something about Emmett or Rosalie." I sighed.
"Untrue?" Paul asked.
"Yes, untrue, as in, it wasn't true." I defined.
"I don't believe you, well only about the second one." He said.
I glared. "We both had to take care of Salicia, he had doctor's appointments, there were more the closer it got to when he died, I had to take Salicia to see Carlisle once a month, I couldn't just give Salicia a bottle, because she was breast fed, so Paul, think again." I told him glaring.
"Still don't believe you." He replied.
"Salicia hated being alone, so one of us was with her almost constantly." I said glaring still. "I also had to answer or ignore a call from Jacob every day." I said.
"You ignored them for about a month, and then when Michael was sick you finally responded." Jacob mentioned.
"I hated you." I admitted. "For all I cared, you could have gone and died, and I would have still been normal." I admitted.
"Nice." Paul laughed.
"That's the truth, Michael hated him too, because he annoyed the hell out of him." I laughed. "Michael had threatened to kill him, but then he made another joke about dying." I said. "Why do you always ask about Michael?" I asked.
"Because we know nothing about your life then." He said.
"Okay, here's what happened, Matthew kept asking me out, I didn't know who he was, so I got sick of him, I asked his brother out, he said yes, after asking if it was some kind of sick joke, which really, it was in a way. We ended up a month later skipping school and going to his house. When I got home, my dad grounded me, told me if I was pregnant I would have to tell my mother with no help from him, and he took my credit card away. I came back to Forks because of Billy, Jacob kissed me, I got pissed, I went home, found out Michael was in the hospital, and went there. I stayed with him for a while. We continued dating, and then I found out I was pregnant. I convinced him to marry me, though he was against it because of the cancer, he didn't want to hurt me more than he already had, we got ready, I left him at the altar, told him every secret, besides the baby, that I'd been keeping from him, we got married, we finally got done with the reception, we went to our new house, I told him I was pregnant, he almost fainted, and then we told his family and my family that I was six months pregnant, his mother didn't like that I had been pregnant, but she didn't say anything. I had his child three months later, and then on Christmas Eve we went to his family Christmas party. When we got home we put Salicia to bed, and went to bed. I woke up to the sound of him vomiting. That was the biggest fight we had. He told me he was fine." I stopped talking for a second and composed myself. "He told Carlisle he was dying when I finally stopped arguing and left the room. Carlisle got an ambulance over and told me that he didn't think Michael would make it much longer. I broke down crying. I waited for Salicia to wakeup and went to the hospital. He was dead. I broke down and Carlisle had to help me get to my car. I went to Michael's mom and dad's and told them he was dead. Pissed them off, and left. I dropped Salicia off at my mom's. I drove around, got a stupid idea, and went on drugs. I went to Jacob's house and he found them, threw them away, and tried to yell at me. I finally went home. I went to Carlisle and Esme's, almost cussed my father out, coughed up blood, almost cussed my father out again, left Salicia with my mother, and went home. I had Michael's phone so I looked through it. Found out he had a video of him saying goodbye. He had recorded too far and I heard him telling Carlisle exactly what his definition of fine was. I fell asleep and when I woke up I got Jacob to come over because I needed someone more stable than me. He stayed for a couple weeks, and then I finally got stable enough and got my baby home. I finally got completely straightened out and then went to Medical school. I ended up here." I said.
"Wow," was all Paul could say.
Jacob and Rachael were speechless.
"You hadn't told me the whole story." Jacob complained.
"I have more details, but, they're inappropriate, and I wouldn't say them in front of anyone besides maybe Matthew to make his angry, or disgust him." I said.
"What are the details?" Paul asked raising an eyebrow.
"Some of them sexual, others are names he called Jacob, others names he called his brother, and others things that I keep to myself." I said.
"Since we're on this topic, that box?" Jacob asked.
"You really want to know?" I asked.
"Yes." He replied.
"A t-shirt that Michael had worn the day we skipped school, my wedding dress, my rings, Michael's phone, pictures from our wedding day, Michael's ring, Marriage paper's somewhere in there, a pair of handcuffs are buried in there that Emmett had given to Michael to piss him off, Michael's wallet, unopened Christmas gifts, and a photo album Michael's mom had given him of pictures from when he was younger." I sighed. "There might be some more, but I don't know." I added.
"Hand cuffs?" Paul teased.
"Yes." I sighed.
"You didn't open them?" Paul asked.
"I couldn't." I admitted. "I had my dad get them out of my sight, along with everything else, and that's what he did. He knew I'd want it later."
"Why'd you keep his t-shirt?" Paul asked.
"I had stuffed it in there because it still had makeup on it and smelled like him. It made me sad, but also it was a memory like everything else." I sighed.
"Hand cuffs?" Jacob asked.
"The only memory they had were Michael telling Emmett that they wouldn't work, because I had broken too many things, he had listed off things but I don't really care what they were. Then we just threw them in a box to get them out of the way." I told him.
"You didn't throw them away." Paul laughed.
"No, we didn't throw much of anything out." I replied. I looked at a clock. "It's getting late, and Salicia doesn't like her special Ed babysitter." I laughed.
"Special Ed?" Paul asked.
"I said he was special, and she corrected it to Special Ed." I laughed. We invited Rachael and Paul over. Jacob and I went out to the car soon to be followed by Rachael and Paul. We went home and found Salicia sleeping on the couch, and Quil sleeping in a chair. I carried Salicia upstairs and Quil left. I grabbed the box from under my bed and for the first time since Christmas opened it when I went back down stairs. "Jacob." I said and tossed Michael's phone to him. "I know for a fact you don't want Paul to go through that, considering when Michael liked to take pictures." I said and Paul giggled. I shook out the wedding dress and held in up. It was puffy and old.
"Princess-y." Rachael commented.
"Yeah, it was next to impossible to move, or sit down in. Michael liked standing behind me when I had to sit down, because he would occasionally get flashes, and he found it fun, but it was the fact the dress hid Salicia, that Alice and I chose it." I laughed. I grabbed out the handcuffs and threw them to Paul who laughed.
"I hadn't imagined them… quite so…" He trailed off.
"Pink and fuzzy?" I asked.
"Yeah." He replied.
"That's Emmett." I sighed. I took out Michael's t-shirt, and put it to the side. I took the wedding pictures out and handed them to Rachael. "There's a video too, Alice had said that I shouldn't miss a minute of it." I laughed.
"Where?" Rachael asked.
"In here." I said nodding to the box. The look she gave me said it all and I put it in. I pressed play.
"He was kind of cute." Rachael commented when he walked down the isle.
I laughed. "I guess." I sighed.
"The funny part's coming up." Jacob announced when I was close to running away, and then I broke out in tears and said I couldn't do it and ran down the isle.
"Go after her, dumb ass!" Rosalie yelled from the piano and hit some keys.
Paul laughed. "He was kind of stupid." He laughed. It stopped and started again. It got video of Michael getting the garter and I remembered him almost passing out from bending down. There was our first dance, where we were both crying. It ended after a while and I took in out and wiped away the tears I hadn't noticed.
"That was sweet." Rachael said.
"I remembered something." I said and grabbed Michael's phone from Jacob. I looked for it. "Here it is." I announced. I showed them a couple pictures of Salicia.
"She was a pretty baby." Paul said.
"She wasn't nice though. She liked to scream when Michael or I couldn't get to her after a second. I laughed and there was a flutter in my stomach. My hand went to my stomach unthinkingly.
"What?" Jacob asked.
"I am pregnant, at least three months, the baby moved." I told him. I grabbed out the rings and set them aside. Jacob walked over and picked them up.
"His was smaller than yours?" He asked.
"We had to get it fixed every month, because he lost a lot of weight, and it ended up getting really small." I sighed.
"Oh." He said and grabbed out what I hadn't noticed. "What is this?" He asked holding the bag of white powder.
"I think you know, and to your next question, I had it because I wasn't sure if I'd want it again." I told him and set it aside. Jacob touched something but didn't pick it up, he was asking about it in his own way. "I put that in there because he liked it and it made me cry." I told him touching the lacy lingerie. I took out the photo album and immediately put it aside. There were a couple small boxes in there that I was afraid to open.
"That's all." I sighed.
"I had a good time today." Rachael said and got up. She hugged me, and her and Paul put back the stuff I had gotten out.
"Bye." They chorused.
"Bye." I replied and Jacob kissed my jaw. They left. I put the stuff back in the box and Jacob followed me upstairs. They had brought up old memories.