Okay, for those who don't know I had been rereading Breaking Dawn and I noted the name that Bella had wanted to name the baby if it had been a boy. And it seems that she and I were on the same page…for the most part on naming baby boys. E.C. in this story was named after her two friends from when she was younger, while Bella's E.J. was her two best friends: Edward and Jacob. Yeah totally weird…and totally a new chapter! ENJOY!!
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Chapter Eleven
The Store
Bella's POV
I opened the fridge and glanced around.
"Edward," I said, frowning as I noted the bare shelves.
"Hmm?" Edward said, walking into the kitchen, holding E.C. in his arms. He was feeding him.
"We're out of food," I said, pointing at the bare fridge.
Edward blinked. "Oh…sorry, I didn't realize. Let me finish feeding E.C. and I'll—"
"How about we all go?" I asked, closing the door. "I've been stuck in doors all day…and I'm pretty sure the twins would love to see some sunshine."
"Okay," Edward said, smiling.
It didn't take long to feed E.C. considering he sucked down the entire bottle of milk in no time. Edward joked lightly that I wasn't feeding him enough. I just glared at Edward as he loaded the twins in the back.
When we arrived at the store, the twins were the main attraction. An elderly couple stopped us in the fruit section, by the apples, and cooed over the twins.
"Aw, they are precious, dear," the woman said, smiling down at Lillian.
"Thanks," I said, leaning on the cart.
"Oh Roger, remember having our own children?" the woman said, looking up at her husband, her eyes glowing.
I watched the man wrap an arm around her shoulder and kiss her forehead. I wonder if Edward and I would be like that when we're their ages.
After the elderly couple, a mother with her teenage daughter and a possibly a six year old walked by us in the cereal section.
"Mommy, what are those little dolls?" the six year old girl asked, leaning over to get a better look of the twins.
E.C. stuck a fist in his mouth and had a staring contest with the girl.
"God, Doe, those aren't dolls," the teenager said, glaring at her sister, texting on her phone. "Those are babies."
"Ginger," the mother said warningly at her daughter before turning towards me. "You have beautiful children."
"Thanks," I said, smiling slightly before looking down at the twins.
Lillian gave a little yawn. The six year old saw her and said, "Hey I'm not boring!"
The mother chuckled as the six year old went on to say what she did that day that was interesting. The mother gave me this "I'm sorry to bother you" look and pushes her cart down the section towards the no sugar cereals like oatmeal.
"Okay, I feel like we're the main attraction at the carnival," Edward joked, kissing me on the forehead as I placed frozen peas into the basket.
I chuckled. "I think that this is it," I said, looking at we had in the basket.
Lillian got a hold of Edward's shirt sleeve and started yanking it forward, her mouth open. I knew that look. She wanted something to suck on.
"No, Lillian, sleeves doesn't go in your mouth," Edward said, smiling as Lillian continued to pull it.
When she realized that the sleeve wasn't going into her mouth, she started to whimper.
"Let me see if I can find her pacifier," I muttered, digging through the diaper bag in the basket to find it as Lillian's whimpers got louder.
I was in a rush to find the silly thing before E.C. caught on that his sister was crying. If he did, he would start crying just because she was crying. I guess it was a twin thing.
"Uh…Edward, I can't find her pacifier!" I said, looking up from the bag.
"Go to the baby section and get one," he said, picking up Lillian in hope to calm her down.
Lillian didn't want to be hold by Edward and she was daddy's little girl. She just continued to cry. I noticed that E.C. was picking up on Lillian's cries.
"I'll be right back," I said and hurried towards the baby section.
As I rounded the corner of the frozen section though, I ran head on into someone else.
"Ouch," I said.
"Well, I didn't think I could run into you again…literally."
I looked up and gasped. He offered a hand and helped me up.
"I'm really sorry Nemo," I said, blushing. "But I'm in a hurry."
"It's okay," he said, stuffing his hands into his pockets.
"Bye," I said and ran towards the baby section when I heard Lillian's cries.
I found pacifiers and picked out two, knowing E.C. would want one too, and then rushed back to Edward. Edward was bouncing Lillian in hope to calm her down but she was pretty upset about not having something to suck on. I opened the pacifier package and reached into the diaper bag for something to clean it off. Quickly air drying it, I offered the little thing to Lillian just as E.C. started to cry.
Lillian took the pacifier gladly and her cries stop right away. In fact, she looked pretty happy to having something to have in her mouth. I quickly did the same thing to second pacifier, dried it and then offered it to E.C. He gladly took it and stopped crying too.
"I bet I left their pacifiers in the kitchen," I muttered as Edward put Lillian down in her carrier.
"It's okay, I've done that," Edward stated.
"Okay, I think we really do have everything," I stated.
Edward smiled and kissed me on the forehead. We cashed out and I felt my eyes pop at the amount.
"Whoa," I breathed as Edward scanned his credit card.
"Aw, are those your twins?" the bagger said, pointing at the twins who were both staring at their fists.
"Yeah," Edward said, smiling.
"They are so cute," the cashier said, smiling at Edward.
I glared at the girl, seeing the time of smile and how she was leaning on her scanner. Jealous, I wrapped my arms around Edward's waist. Edward turned his head and smiled at me.
"Let's go," I said, smiling at Edward.
The bagger placed the last cloth bag into the basket and smiled shyly at us as we pushed the twins and our food out. We had just reached the car, Edward popped open the trunk to let me put the food in the back as he strapped the twins in the back.
I had just put the last bag in and was about to close the trunk when a bagger came rushing towards me.
"Miss, miss, you forgot this," she said, offering me a bag.
I blinked. "I didn't forget anything," I said, looking past her.
There standing by the doors of the store, Nemo sat at one of the tables. His was looking by way, his feet up on the table. When I looked at him, he smiled and nodded his head in my direction.
"Uh, thanks," I said, taking the bag from her.
She smiled and rushed back towards the store. I looked down at the bag and then back up towards were Nemo only to find him gone.
"You ready to go?" Edward asked, closing the door.
"Yeah," I said, smiling at Edward.
I put the bag into the trunk and took a quick look inside. Inside was a two rattles and two teething rings that turned into ice or heating packs. I felt the tears form at the sight and leaned back to let Edward close the trunk.
SNEAK PEAK INTO CHAPTER TWELVE
"I swear Alice, any more silk and I'll shove it down your throat."
I've been meaning to mention that if anyone speaks German, Hitched is being translated into German! I know, how cool is that?! I felt really honored that someone wanted to translated Hitched.
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