I'M SO SORRY! I didn't think it would take me so long to get this up!
From now until the end I'm just going to be doing December (the month she's due). The last chapter will be Baby's birth.
This is in Cahrlie's POV. Tell me what you think!
Enjoy!
Moving
I watched her as she came through the front door. It was the first of December and she was moving out. To live with him. I always thought that Edward was so close with his family that if she did move out it would be into Doctor Cullen's house. At least there they could be monitored and Carlisle and Esme could give me updates. But they weren't moving there. They were moving into a three bedroom, three bathroom home on Will Scarlett Pl.
She wasn't taking that much. The rocking chairs, her clothes, her books, her CDs and CD player. Alice had begged her into letting her buying new bedroom furniture and new kitchen appliances and new living room furniture. Not to mention the furniture for the nursery. I thought the stuff she picked out was too over the top for Bella and Edward, but Bella had just smiled and nodded whenever she saw Alice get all doe-eyed over a sofa or a fridge.
When she told me she was moving out I kinda flipped.
"No."
"What?" she seemed shocked.
"You're not leaving this house Isabella." She stared at me in confusion. Had I actually just used her full name? I knew I shouldn't be so unreasonable. Besides, it wasn't like they would starve; Edward had enough money to feed them both for ever. They wouldn't get pregnant. Oh, no. That was already taken care of. But there was a voice in the back of my head screaming that if I let her go now, I'd never get her back.
I didn't know if it was some weird fatherly sixth-sense or just my frustration and anger letting through.
"Yes, I am, dad. I'm not a little girl anymore. I'm an adult making adult decisions and this is very important to me." my face scrunched in denial.
"Look what happened with the last 'adult decision' you made." Her face crumbled into an unpleasant scowl mixed in with a tint of guilt. She hid her face in Edward's shirt and he started to stroke her hair. The fact that I'd made her feel that way fed the fire!
"Please, Charlie," why had I ever told him to call me that? It only made me want to flip out even more. "Chief Swan. Bella won't be far. She'll be able to see you every day. I wouldn't put it past her to come and make you dinner every night." What, did this kid have some kind of mind-reading ability?
Bella laughed a bit and playfully punched him in the arm. She hurt her hand in the process and Edward kissed it better. One of his arms was behind her back, the other rested on her belly. She was due in two months. She was leaning against him for support and he didn't mind at all. The smile on her face when he kissed her hand was incredible. I could never remember Renee's face like that.
The scowl slipped off my face. How could I take from her what I thought had been taken from me?
"Okay, just come and visit me every now and then, alright? I love you, Bells."
That was a month ago. Now Bella was just entering her ninth month, due on the 31st.
It was raining. She hated that rain so much when she came here. Edward changed it for her. I couldn't change it for Renee. She was wearing maternity clothes with a brand name so that Alice would smile. When Edward came up behind her and put his hands on her belly to move her away from picking up a heavy box, she smiled like the sun. Renee was the grouchiest pregnant woman; she would have told me to stop touching her and leave her alone.
It was hard to believe I'd tried to deny her from moving. If I had said no she would have moved out anyway and we'd both be angry with each other. I couldn't imagine that.
Edward picked up the box he'd just scooted Bella away from and headed out to his Volvo. Bella picked up a smaller box marked "Old t-shirts" and carried that out. There was only one more box filled with books left to be packed now. Edward came in and took that out to. When both of them were inside I got up off the couch to say goodbye. There was a game playing on TV but I hadn't seen a single minute of it.
"That's all it! We're going to go and bring it all to the house now. Alice's appliances and furniture came in yesterday. So all we have to do is put it together." She came to hug me and I walked to meet her half way.
It was ridiculously hard to hug around my grandchild, but we managed.
Edward walked over and held out his hand.
"We'll see you later, Chief Swan." He wasn't actually a bad kid. Well, let me rephrase that. He wasn't a horrible kid. He didn't drink or do drugs. He had excellent grades. And mostly, he took care of my daughter, even when I though for sure he'd bail out. Maybe they actually did love each other.
I took his hand and shook it. "I though I told you it was Charlie." He smiled a blindly white smile at me and then wrapped an arm around Bella.
"Bye, dad. I'll call to check up later." Then they were both out in his car and driving away.
I'd been home by myself before. In fact I'd spent the better part of seventeen years alone. But as soon as I couldn't see the silver car anymore I let out a yell.
It echoed back at me in my head.
I tried to watch the game but I wasn't even sure what sport was being broadcast.
I went into the kitchen and opened the fridge. There were little Tupperware containers filled with Bella's food, little sticky notes on the top with instructions on how to heat them up. I closed it.
I went up to her room and stared at it. It looked filled with memories, but so abruptly deserted.
And then the phone rang and I was answering it and she was talking on the other line. About how I should come for dinner tomorrow because Emmett and Alice were staying for the night and helping to set up all the rest of the house. And the elation in her voice seeped through the phone, into my heart and over flowed and stained the floor and the walls and the ceiling. And I smiled. Because I knew now that Bella wasn't gone, would never be gone, she was here. In the house. In the kitchen and the bathroom and the living room. When I stood on the porch she'd be there.
Besides, I told myself, she's only five streets away.
