After another crazy month of clutching the side of the toilet in pain throwing my guts up, to laughing and rejoicing with the family to thinking of baby names, to smiling every time I looked in the mirror, noticing the visible change my body was going through. I had a more pronounced bulge in my stomach now, but not enough to start growing out of all of my clothes. I could still mostly fit into everything. (I remember crying when I found that my red Roberto Cavalli halter dress was becoming too small) I had carefully hidden the black bruise like shadows appearing on my stomach from where the babies had kicked me. As far as I could tell, Emmett didn't know they were even hurting me yet besides the throwing up and the stifled cries because of the fire. I planned to keep him ignorant in the subject of pain even though, it seemed he was always there protecting me somehow, whether it be his soothing hands stroking my face or his voice as he told me it was almost over... It's like he was… no that's stupid. Okay fine, it was like he was the antidote to suffering, not to pain, but to suffering. He protected me. No one had solved the mystery of Emmett and I being the only ones to hear the child's heartbeat. I had a theory… but I wasn't going to voice it.
I had been in Carlisle's office most of the day now, and I was glad when he was done measuring, comparing, recording, observing, whatever he did to keep track of the growth. He had told me last week that he expected from the rate of development, I should be carrying the children for about eleven months. I had sighed, I was getting impatient. I wanted to hold my beautiful wondrous children in my arms right now.
I returned to the room to luckily find Emmett back to himself again. Nessie was trying to teach him how to play guitar hero.
"Starpower Emmett!" Nessie commanded, throwing her hands up in frustration.
"What the heck is starpower?" He laughed. Then the virtual crowd booed him off of the stage. I smiled.
"That's my rock star." I kissed him on the cheek.
"Oh hey Rose. That was me winning, okay?" He smiled. I looked to Renesmee and mouthed a thank you.
"Emmett, you've got to start listening to me!" Nessie punched him in the arm very hard. He rolled his eyes.
"What the heck is 'starpower' supposed to mean?!" He asked. She showed him how he was supposed to tilt the guitar up so he could get more pints or something like that. I didn't much understand.
"Kay, got it." He nodded and started the song over. He was playing 'Talk Dirty to Me' by Poison. I rolled my eyes and smiled. We'd seen their concert in the eighties. He was actually pretty good at guitar hero. I laughed when he started singing along.
"You know I never
I never seen you look so good
You never act the way you should
But I like it
And I know you like it too
The way that I want you
I gotta have you
Oh yes, I do
You know I never
I never ever stay out late
You know that I can hardly wait
Just to see you
And I know you cannot wait
Wait to see me too
I gotta touch you
Cause baby we'll be
At the drive-in
In the old man's Ford" He sang, making the actual singer's voice sound awful in comparison.
"Emmett!" I scolded him. It was getting too far as far as lyrics go. He laughed.
"I'm sorry kid. Gotta keep it G rated now." He cooed in a way, I knew he wasn't talking to me. He was talking to our babies! I smiled widely and touched my fingers to my stomach subconsciously. He finished the song and the crowd cheered this time. Everyone in the room applauded and Emmett took a theatrical bow.
"My turn!" Alice chirped and hopped up trying to take the guitar from Emmett.
"No Alice… you've already had three turns." Emmett complained yanking the guitar back from her. Alice stuck out her tongue and pulled against the guitar again.
"Stop acting like such babies." Renesmee rolled her eyes. "We'll play Rock Band now." She smiled and turned to Emmett. "Come help me carry it." She said.
"I call dibs on guitar." He said following Renesmee from the room.
"Ugh!" Alice pouted. Renesmee sighed.
"Grown ups these days." She said and exited the room. Alice grabbed the guitar and put it on expert difficulty level and picked the song Barracuda while Emmett was gone. Everyone watched in disbelief as she hit every single note.
"Wow." Bella said as the song was over. Alice curtsied.
"It's not fair. She knows which notes are coming before they come up on the screen." Jasper smiled. Alice bit her lip.
"You caught me." She grinned sheepishly. Jasper wrapped his arms around her in a hug.
"But I still love you even though you cheat on guitar hero." He smiled and kissed her on the cheek. I sat down on the couch as Emmett and Renesmee returned and quickly set up Rock Band. Emmett was eventually forced off of the guitar and he was warned that if he even thought about breaking the drums by hitting them too hard, Renesmee had the right to take away his Rock Band privileges for a year. I thought it was quite funny how much of a control freak Renesmee was. It was quite entertaining watching them. The night passed, along with most of the next day with Renesmee teaching us all how to play her video games until Alice decided it was time for us to go shopping again. I actually wanted to go too.
"Hey Emmett?" I said. He was busy trying to figure out one of Renesmee's games I couldn't remember the name to.
"Yes, Rose?" He said turning over his shoulder.
"Watch out Em! Kill that guy!" Renesmee demanded pointing to the little guy on the screen. Emmett shot it and blood squirted everywhere the sound effects quite gory. "Nice." Renesmee complimented. Edward and Bella's eyes widened.
"Did you get her this game?" Edward asked.
"No, I thought you did." Bella responded. They both shrugged.
"Jacob…" They both discovered in unison. Should have known the dog got her the gory game.
"I'm going shopping with Alice." I told Emmett. He nodded before shooting the guts out of another guy. I rolled my eyes.
"Bye Rose! Bye baby." He smiled turning over his shoulder to smile at me. I was thrilled he spoke to them too. It made me want to run up and hug him. It still sent a shiver of pleasure down my spine to know that this was real. This was seriously my life. I smiled.
