A/N: HEY GUYS!!! So here is chapter 13! There are important points in this story! I swear! And I figured out a way to extend the story by a chapter or 3 haha! so if you don't mind me writing in Chrissy's POV and Carlisle's POV then let me know and I'll get right on it! I need to know between now and chapter 15! Chapter 14 will be uploaded sometime near the weekend, so you got about a week to let me know!
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Chapter 13
Neither of us was moving, if anyone outside the family saw us like this, they would have assumed we were asleep. But that was not the case, we were comfortable vampires, basking in each others company after a night of bliss...again. With Edward, every time felt like the first time, and I loved it. I loved how he was so caring, and I loved how he would whisper in my ear while we laid together, just like he used to when he stayed with me at Charlie's. And how he softly hummed my lullaby to me every chance he got. But most of all, I loved him. With everything I had inside of me, he was the most amazing guy I have ever met, and he's mine just as I am his. I was the luckiest being on the planet.
"Bella..." He turned onto his side slightly, shifting his arm from under my head.
"Shhh...I'm comfortable, don't make me move" I whined.
"That's not what I was going to say, it's only 5am, we have a few hours before Nessie wakes." He soothed
"What's up then?" I turned my head up to look at him, and that was my first mistake.
*
Edward put his arm around me and pulled me close into a hug again, just like we were an hour ago, and kissed the top of my head. And we lay quietly together for 15 minutes before I spoke.
"So um... what were you saying before I interrupted you?" I giggled.
"Well," He chuckled, "I was just thinking, because we didn't really do much for our one year anniversary this year, I thought that we should go away. Me, You and Renesmee."
"Mmm, sounds good. Where do you want to go?" I snuggled closer to him and twined my legs around his.
"Well, I was thinking we could go back to Esme's island. Have a few weeks there, and while we are there we could set things up for Charlie and Sue's stay."
"Set things up?"
"Yes, give instructions to Gustavo and Kaure about their stay."
"Oh right." I shrugged, and then burst into laughter.
"What are you laughing at?" Edward smiled.
"Kaure!" I barely managed to speak her name through my laughter.
"What about her?" Edward frowned. Obviously hoping that I wasn't being disrespectful about her.
"Well, what do you think will shock her more? You, showing up with me in tow and a kid, me obviously being alive and you being a father. Or you showing up with me looking as pale faced and cold as you? With a child who has a beating heart? She might try and steal Nessie, thinking that we want to eat her! Oh bless that woman's heart!" My laughs had subsided to giggles now.
"You have a point." He chuckled, "But I think a combination of the two, you're alive, I'm a father, and we're both pale faced and cold. I don't think she would try and take Nessie, even if she felt it was for her own safety. She'd see we're her parents." He was smiling now.
"Yeah I suppose. She wouldn't get past us for her take Nessie." I smiled.
"Anyway, we need to get up. We need to ask Esme and Carlisle if it is ok to vacation on the Island. She already agreed that it was a great idea to send Charlie and Sue out for their honeymoon."
"Ok, fine. I'll get up. But you have to get up first..." I smirked at him, hoping he wouldn't move and would pull me closer instead.
"Ok." He jumped out of bed and walked into the closet.
"No fair!" I called after him.
"Get up!" He chuckled, and a pair of jeans came flying out the closet and landed next to me on the bed.
"I can choose my own clothes, thank you very much."
"Hurry up then."
I stood up, snatched the jeans off the bed, and walked into the closet to find a still undressed Edward. I put the jeans away and took out a pair of red jogging bottoms; I stuck my tongue out at Edward as I walked back out of the closet to get some underwear and socks from the drawers. After I was partially dressed, I walked back into the closet, found the matching zip up jacket for the bottoms, and picked out a pink spaghetti strap top. I turned around to look at Edward, and saw he still wasn't dressed.
"Well this hardly seems fair. Why do you get to be naked and I have to get dressed?" I whined at him.
"I was watching you get dressed, it's not as much fun as seeing you undress, but still..." He chuckled.
"No fair. Get dressed."
"I'm not sure what to wear... We're supposed to be going hunting today; Jacob's coming to look after Nessie this afternoon, but what about Chrissy? I don't want to put on clothes for hunting and then stay home. And vice versa."
"Well, I'll stay home with Chrissy."
"You have to hunt too Bella!"
"I can hunt locally. Jake can stay with Chrissy and I'll take Nessie out to find a couple of deer."
He sighed and turned around to pick out his clothes for hunting. On the days when we hunt, we wear clothing that allows us to move without feeling restricted, and also clothing that we don't mind getting ripped, if our prey manages to get a lucky swipe or two at us. Alice always moans, but knows that it's for the best, Edward feels comfortable, like it's his lazy day, and everyone else just accepts it.
"Ok, I'm ready. Let's go." He held his hand out for me to take, but I shook my head.
"I need to pick out something for Chrissy to wear. Oh, can you find Nessie something to wear please?"
"Sure I can." He smiled at me as he headed into Nessie's room.
I found Chrissy a pair of jeans I wore 3 months ago, I liked them alot. But Alice was stubborn and said I couldn't wear them again for at least 6 months, so Chrissy might as well get some use out of them. I was just pulling out a sweatshirt out for Chrissy when I heard Edward laughing quietly to himself in Nessie's room.
"What are you laughing at?" I asked him.
"You'll see." Was all he replied with, which confused me.
Just as I finished pulling the tags off some new underwear I bought a few months ago, Edward walked into the closet with a bag and eyed the bra.
"Oooh, nice. I like it." He smiled.
"It's for Chrissy." I smiled back.
"Oh, well, not so nice." He shrugged and stepped back, pretending to look at something on the ceiling while I finished.
"Ok I'm done." I laughed, and put the underwear and clothes into the bag with Nessie's clothes, "Speaking of Chrissy, have you heard anything in her thoughts about which Cullen she likes the look of?" I nudged him with my elbow.
"Not quite." He smiled and looked away from me.
"What does that mean? Ooooh, is it Jacob? Does she like Jacob?" I pressed him for information, but he wasn't giving any up. He just looked away with a little smile playing on his lips.
"Edwaaaarddd! Tell me! Please?" I pleaded with him.
"No, it's not Jacob. Now come on. Let's go." He started to walk out of the closet and through the bedroom without me. "Are you coming Bella?"
"Yeah..." I caught him up at the bedroom door and we walked through and out of the cottage together and started the walk to the house. "So, who does she like? Which brother or wolf?"
"Bella, it's neither. Ok?"
"Neither? So she's not dazzled by any of you?" My face twisted into confusion.
"Oh she's dazzled all right, just not by us..."
"Then by who?"
"By you..."
"ME?! She's dazzled by me!? Oh my..."
"Yes Bella, you... She likes you. Or, she did like you. Now she thinks of you as, and I quote, 'a sister type person' "
"Ooooh that would explain the dazzling..." I recalled the first day she got here, when she descended the stairs and stared at me. I'd dazzled her because she liked me...
FLASHBACK
Christina came down the stairs in a pair of jeans I vaguely remember Alice wearing once, and a cotton long sleeved shirt, with a pair of blue ankle socks covering her feet.
"What smells so nice?" She asked.
"Me" Emmett laughed, but his laugh was cut short with a sharp jab in the ribs by Rose, which made me grin at Emmett. "Ow, you know how much that hurt?"
"Yes, it was supposed to" Rose smirked at Emmett. Christina was at the bottom of the stairs looking from Rose and Emmett to me with a cocked eyebrow and half smile.
"Just ignore him, everyone else does" I looked at Emmett and smirked, "Esme is making you pancakes in the kitchen." I smiled at Christina; she stopped herself walking off the last two steps, and stared at me... mouth open, eyes glazed over kind of staring. Without another word she shook her head and smiled at me sheepishly.
"Sorry, you kind of..." She started.
"Dazzled you?" I laughed.
"Yeah, how'd you know?" Christina was giggling now and walking towards me.
"Edward used to do it to me all the time, sometimes I was sure he did it on purpose just so my pulse would go through the roof" I laughed.
END FLASHBACK.
"I didn't know you dazzled her!" Edward looked at me just as we started running and jumped over the lake. We both landed gracefully and resumed our slow walk up to the house.
"Yeah I did, I should have realised then, but it's never happened before so...I didn't." I shrugged.
"Hmm. Oh and, I didn't always dazzle you on purpose..."
"I said you did sometimes. There's a difference."
"If you say so," He laughed, and pulled me away from the back of the house, he dropped the bag with Nessie and Chrissy's clothes in, onto the grass, "Follow me..."
He jumped onto a bench, and crouched. He looked at me and grinned, then jumped onto the roof of the house. I followed suit and followed him to the middle of the roof.
"Look, over there." He pointed to the East, towards La Push. He stepped behind me and wrapped his arms around my waist, resting his chin on my shoulder.
I could see the sea at La Push, and the Sun that was rising just beyond. It was so beautiful, I'd never stopped to watch the sunrise, and all the time's I've known it was rising and just ignored it. And here with Edward, made it even more amazing.
We watched the sun for 10 minutes or so before I turned around to kiss him.
"We should go down, Nessie will be awake in an hour." He ran his nose along my jaw as he said that, signalling to me that he could stay here forever.
Just as we were about to jump down, Alice and Emmett walked out of the house having a disagreement.
"Emmett, stop following me." Alice walked further onto the grass and stopped.
"But Alice, you're not listening to me!" Emmett whined.
"Does Alice know we're up here?" I asked Edward in my thoughts.
He nodded and then put his finger to his lips; he swiftly stepped to the edge of the roof and took my hand in his own. And we jumped.
"Alice, it's just not fair though, how can you say that he doesn't do thi..."
"Boo." Edward and I said in Emmett's ears, Edward at his left ear, and I at his right.
Emmett screamed and jumped forward, turning around to look at us, he put his hand over his heart and bent over, using his other hand to brace himself on his knee.
"DUDE! YOU COULD HAVE GIVEN ME A HEART ATTACK!!" He yelled.
"Not likely Emmett!" Alice was laughing hard behind him; Edward and I were leaning against the house to stop from falling over with laughter.
"Dude, you scream like a girl!" I laughed.
Carlisle, Esme, Rose and Jasper joined us outside, having seen what happened from inside.
"She's right, you do scream like a girl." Jasper laughed.
"Rose! Tell him!" Emmett looked at Rose and pointed at Jasper.
"You tell him!" She retorted, "You can't have a girl fight your battles all your life, can you?"
"But Rosiieee!" Emmett pleaded, "You're not just any girl!"
"Fine" Rose pretended to look agitated with Jasper, "Jasper! Leave my big man alone, if anyone screams like a girl, it's you."
"Sorry" Jasper tried to hide his smirk but failed.
"Are we finished children?" Carlisle put extra stress on the word 'children'.
"Yes" We all chorused.
"Good," Carlisle chuckled, "I figured you should leave to hunt at 6pm, and be back by morning, 10am latest. You'll have to go further this time, the ranger's are noticing a decline in animals in our usual spot" He smiled.
"Actually Carlisle, there's been a change to that, not the times. Bella is going to stay behind with Chrissy, Nessie and Jake. She'll take Nessie out locally to hunt for a while and Jake can stay with Chrissy while she's gone." Edward informed everybody of the new change.
"That's not necessary; I'll be in Seattle with Esme, not too far away."
Carlisle had been to Seattle a few days ago to order our new identities, and he was going back later today with Esme to pick them up. They would be spending the night in a hotel for some alone time.
"I know Carlisle, but I'd feel safer if someone was here with them, and everyone else needs to get out and hunt, I'm fine with local deer. Honestly." I smiled at him.
"Very well then, but next week, you come hunting with Esme and I. Local deer don't satiate as much as what is up the mountains, you know that." He smiled.
I nodded and picked up the bag of clothes from the grass, and walked back into the house with Edward and the others, while Esme and Carlisle went to sit on the bench by the lake.
"Alice, when will Nessie wake?" I asked her.
"She's already awake; I ran her a bath actually. I was going to go up now and wash her hair, but you can do it if you like?" She shrugged.
"Ok. Is Chrissy still asleep?"
"Yep, she'll be up in about an hour." Alice smiled.
I gave Edward a short kiss and ran up to the bathroom. Nessie was sat in the bath, her hair wet, playing with a mermaid bath doll Charlie bought for her birthday.
"Hey sweetie!"
"Mommy! I missed you!" She reached her arms out for a hug.
"I missed you too, sweet pea." I leant down and hugged her, stroking her hair.
"Can I wash my own hair? Please?!" She asked as I stood up.
"How about, I wash half and you wash half?" I compromised.
"Deal!" She grinned.
I picked up the Strawberry scented shampoo and poured it into my hand and began to massage it into the top of her head and scalp, careful to not let any drip into her eyes. When I was finished, I let her do the rest of her hair.
"I love this shampoo, it smells a bit like you do mommy." She smiled at me as she finished rubbing the shampoo into the ends of her hair.
I smiled back at her as she lay down in the bath and I began to rinse the shampoo out of her hair. I finished washing her hair with conditioner in silence, while she played with her mermaid doll and hummed a song I didn't know.
"What song is that you were just humming?" I asked as I picked up a towel to wrap around her head.
"It's the song from The Little Mermaid. Alice taught me it!" She stood up and raised her hands, ready for me to wrap a towel around her and lift her from the bath.
"Oh, well maybe you can teach me it later?"
"Ok, but we have to watch the movie first!"
"Well, we can do that tonight, when Jake gets here." I walked with her back to Edward's old room, with the bag of clothes in my hand. I placed the clothes I had packed for Chrissy, onto the bed, and took Nessie to Alice's room so we didn't wake her.
"You're staying tonight? With me, Jake and Chrissy?" She asked after I closed Alice's door.
"Yup, me and you are going to have our own little hunting trip. Then we can watch that movie." I smiled.
"Yay! I can't wait!"
I pulled out the clothes Edward had chosen for Nessie and laid them onto the couch, then I realised Edward had chosen the exact same clothes for Nessie, as I was wearing. That was what he was laughing about!
"We're matching again!?" Nessie looked at her clothes, and then at mine with a big grin across her features.
"I guess so." I sighed. I had wanted Nessie to wear something warmer, today was going to be a cold day, and I couldn't heat her up with just a hug.
"You look sad..." She pouted as finished pulling on her jacket.
"No I'm not sad hunny. I'm just worried you'll be cold today, that's all." I gave her the best smile I could manage and pulled her in for a hug.
"I won't be cold, and if I do get a little cold, Jake can give me a hug and warm me up!" She grinned.
"Good plan!" I chuckled; I walked to Alice's dresser and picked up the hairbrush and hair dryer, "Come on Ness, torture time!"
*
Once Nessie's hair was dry and brushed, we walked back into the hall to find Chrissy walking to the bathroom, with the clothes I left for her in her arms.
"Hey Chrissy!" Nessie grinned and reached for a hug.
"Hey! Someone's chipper this morning." She laughed as she hugged Nessie.
"Me and Mommy match again!" Nessie did a twirl to show Chrissy, "Mommy, do a twirl too!"
I sighed and twirled with Nessie; Chrissy raised her eyebrows and laughed.
"I see that! You both look amazing, as always. Anyway, I have to go shower and get dressed! I'll see you downstairs. Thank you for the Clothes Bella." Chrissy smiled as she headed into the bathroom.
"You're welcome." I called after her.
Nessie and I walked downstairs, where she proceeded to hug each family member and then tell them all about us matching. Edward took Nessie out to find her some breakfast with Rose, Alice and Jasper were online buying DVD's and computer games, and Carlisle and Esme were upstairs packing, while I kicked Emmett's ass at a racing game, twice.
"Best out of five?" He offered.
"Go for it. But if I win, you have to clean everyone's mess for a week." I grinned, knowing Emmett liked a little bet now and again.
"Deal, and vice versa."
We started our third game just as Chrissy came downstairs and sat on the floor next to Emmett.
"You have to brake." She told him.
"Excuse me?" He replied, never looking away from the screen and moving the control pad in the direction he was turning the car.
"That's how Bella gets around the corne..."
"Chrissy, shush, we have a bet on this" I laughed, I couldn't have her giving away all my secrets.
"Oh right, sorry." She giggled.
"No! No! Tell me! I'll make it worth your while!" Emmett pleaded.
"Nope sorry, sworn to secrecy." Chrissy crossed her heart with her fingers and laughed at Emmett.
"Awww you suck!"
"Actually Emmett, I do believe it's you who sucks. Bella's winning."
"Not for long!"
Emmett concentrated really hard on the race, and the one after, and won both. The score was a tie, who ever won the next race, also won the bet.
"Chrissy, would you like some pancakes? Before I race Bella again, I can make you some." Emmett smiled at her, hoping to get some tips from her about the game too.
"Sure Em, that'd be nice." She smiled back.
They walked into the kitchen together and Emmett started on the pancakes. Emmett tried everything to get Chrissy to spill some tips on my playing, he pouted at her, he begged her, he pleaded, he tried to bribe her, but nothing worked. She refused to give up my secrets, and Emmett walked back to the couch sulking, leaving the mess in the kitchen for either him or me to clean up after the race.
"Let's play." He grumbled.
"Ok, but instead of the usual 10 laps, let's do 30!" I told him with a grin on my face.
His face lightened up as he looked at me, "Deal!!"
For nineteen laps, I let Emmett lead, and let him get cockier and cockier every time he passed the finish line in first place. But after that, no more mrs nice Bella. By the thirtieth lap I was still in first place, and two corners away from the finish line, Emmett was trailing behind me a little and any slip ups now would lose me the bet. As I rounded the last corner, I hit the wall and spun around, Emmett crashed his car into mine as he rounded the corner and it was a rush for us both to straighten out and get to the line. I straightened out first and Emmett started to swear just as he straightened out too and we were just about neck and neck as we crossed the line together.
"Who won?" Emmett looked at me confused.
"Erm...I think we both did?"
"We can't have both won!"
"You won Emmett" Chrissy told him.
"How do you know?" We both asked her at the same time.
She pointed to the screen where the race results were showing.
"Oh..." I'd forgotten the race results showed up after the race.
"HA! GO TIDY THE KITCHEN BELLA!" Emmett boomed as he jumped up and pointed at me.
"I was only a millisecond behind you! No fair!" I pouted.
"I still won though!" He started to do a little dance, swaying his hips from side to side, jabbing his hands in the air and turning in a circle, chanting 'I win' over and over.
I stood up and headed to the kitchen to clean Emmett's mess.
"I'll help you" Chrissy smiled as she walked to the kitchen with me, "you won't want to do this on your own..."
I stepped into the kitchen and stopped, Emmett had messed it up real good. The was pancake batter up one wall from his boisterous mixing, there was half a pancake on the ceiling, the other half on the floor, batter on top of the stove and a few burnt pancakes on the counter. I was going to kill him.
