We had two beautiful babies, Bridget Eve and Thomas Lee. Michael, Jacob, and I all went home. Michael had the twins.
I got a call back from my boss, and got the next three days off. When we got there I started to talk to Salicia but she cut me off.
"Jacob unknowingly leaked your twins to Paul, who told everyone." Salicia told me.
"Are you mad?" I asked like a child to their mother.
"No." She replied. "Confused, yes, mad, no." She told me.
"Why are you confused?" I asked and sat next to her on the couch. Jacob went upstairs. Matthew had already left.
"Why'd you do it?" She asked and tucked her knees under her chin.
"I don't know." I sighed honestly.
"How are the babies?" She asked. "What are they like?" She seemed eager.
"Bridget Eve, and Thomas Lee." I replied and smiled at the sound. "They were nice once they stopped kicking." I laughed. "You dad has them up in Alaska. We'd both assumed you'd be angry once you found out, so he's got them up there until we decide what to do." I told her.
"We could move up to be closer." She replied.
"I don't think Jacob would like that option." I told her.
"We could leave him." She said quietly to herself.
"Why?" I asked.
"You obviously love dad." She replied and looked up at me.
"I do, and I love Jacob." I told her.
"Why did dad leave you?" She asked.
"He told you. I always refused the idea of him becoming a vampire. I was honestly worried this would happen. Not this exactly, but he has had a lot of…" I trailed off thinking of a word.
"Girlfriends?" She offered.
"Not quite. They weren't close enough." I sighed.
"You were worried about that?" She asked.
"Yes." I sighed.
"Mom, are you blind? Do you need glasses?" She said sarcastically. "He loves you. Tanya, Jacob, Matthew, Quil, Jane, Grandpa, Great Grandpa Cullen they all see it." She told me.
"How do you know?" I asked like a three year old.
"Jacob, and Quil were talking about it in front of me. Matthew mentioned that he was worried how Jacob will react if Michael got his way. Grandpa Cullen, and Great Grandpa Cullen were talking about it at my party. Tanya, and Jane are obviously jealous, and controlling." She told me.
"You need to be more naïve." I told her.
"When you were my age you were a widow with a baby in med-school." She smirked.
"Shut up." I replied and hugged her.
"What do they look like?" She asked.
"Bridget looks like you if you had golden eyes, and Thomas looks like Michael when he was a baby, but like Bridget Thomas has golden eyes." I replied.
"So, no chance they're Jacob's?" She asked.
"There wasn't to begin with." I sighed and tucked my knees under my chin like her.
"How did you know?" She asked.
"Jamie was normal." I replied. "They came in about twenty four hours." I replied.
"Twenty four hours?" She asked. "That's all?" She wondered aloud.
I took out my phone and she watched me dial Michael's number, and put it on speaker. It rang twice.
"Hell-ow!" He yelped.
"What?" I asked.
"They are literally ankle biters." He laughed. "Salicia was a sweet little girl, Bridget is trying to eat me." He laughed.
"So Thomas isn't?" Salicia asked.
"He's handing out with Garrett." Michael said and laughed. "Nap time." He announced. "Just a second." He said and there was silence. "No, Bridget!" He said and there was another yelp, but from Tanya. Salicia started cracking up. "Finally." He sighed two minutes later.
"How are they?" Salicia asked.
"Like you, they favor their mom." He laughed.
"How do you know? You haven't even gotten to know them." Salicia objected.
"True, but I have spent quite a while with them, and they give me the cold shoulder, but you didn't start that act for a while." Michael sighed. "We need to decide on something." He told us.
"Salicia likes the idea of leaving Jacob behind and moving up to you." I told him.
"So do I." Michael muttered. "I thought you were sleeping!" He half yelled in a playful voice. "C'mon, sweetie, please, be a good little girl, and just this once do something for daddy?" Michael said pleadingly. "Thank you." He sighed. "So, got any acceptable ideas?" Michael asked. "Tanya doesn't like puppies." He laughed. "I would move down with you, but too many humans." He sighed.
"Okay, joint custody?" I joked. "These ideas are shit." I sighed.
"You can say that again." Michael sighed. "Tanya thinks we should keep the adorable little girl." He cooed. "And give you the handsome little boy." He said lovingly.
"You haven't changed that much." I muttered.
"Not personality wise. I'm still the weirdo I always was." Michael laughed. "But, not as unattractive, obviously." He said and laughed.
"You were never ugly." I objected.
"I can say one thing, Salicia didn't get her looks from me, beautiful." Michael flirted, and Salicia gave me the I-Told-You-He-Loved-You I-Told-You-So look. "I can think of many people that are on my side." Michael laughed and sighed. "Bridget Eve Whatever-Your-Last-Name-Is get back in bed, and go to sleep, bedtime." He sighed.
"She still doesn't have a last name?" Salicia asked.
"Either Black or Spencer, but we don't know what we're doing, so they have no last names." I told her.
"I say it should be Spencer, and so should yours." Salicia muttered.
"My daughter loves me." Michael announced proudly.
"She doesn't like Quileutes." I replied.
"Aw, sweetie, can't you let me ride the high?" Michael asked.
"Nope." I replied.
"Neither can Tanya. Shut up, Tanya." He sighed. "I don't really care, I am not Jasper, and I am busy watching the twins, but I can tell you're jealous without even listening to you." Michael sighed. "Bridget, how about you come over here and talk to mommy and sissy?" Michael asked.
"That's what Matthew calls me." I laughed. There was the sound of him kissing something and then some baby jabber.
"So sweet, so evil." Michael sighed.
"Evil?" Salicia asked.
"Salicia, Renesmee what are we going to do with these adorable monsters?" Michael asked.
"Keep 'em." Salicia replied.
"I know that, smart ass. You are your mother's daughter." He sighed. "Who will keep them? I can't have them next weekend, because I'm going to be in Italy." He told us seriously.
"Sleeping with Jane?" Salicia asked.
"I can't sleep!" Michael said proudly.
"Smart ass, you are my father." Salicia said.
"I'd hope so, otherwise your mother has some 'splainin' to do." He said doing a bad Ricky Ricardo impression.
"This isn't I love Lucy." I told him.
"I don't love Lucy, I don't know a Lucy." He said and then laughed. "The Volturi secretary person was named Lucy when I was with them. She's gone, but I knew a Lucy." He laughed.
"Good for you, how many times did you sleep with her?" Salicia asked.
"Never, for one, I can't sleep, and for two, that would be stupid." Michael replied. "You know what, I love my old phone." Michael sighed and laughed. "I did some pretty good photography." He laughed.
"Shut up." I growled.
"Just kissing, well not really, but for your sake I am." He said truthfully. "I have to go, I love you both." He said and Salicia looked triumphant.
"Bye." Salicia and I said together and hung up. I put my phone away.
"It's getting late, bedtime, sweetie." I told her and kissed her forehead.
"What are you going to do?" She asked and let her knees drop.
"I don't know, honey, I don't know, but it's bedtime." I told her and we both got up. We went upstairs and to our rooms.
"What now?" Jacob asked when I got in.
"I don't know." I replied and tears streamed down my face. I got ready for bed and got in.
"What's wrong?" He asked and pushed my hair away from my face.
"Everything." I told him.
"Define everything." He said and kissed my cheek.
"What did you and Michael talk about?" I asked and he shook his head.
"It's no big deal, he just decided we needed to talk. No big deal." Jacob said and kissed my nose.
"Okay." I sighed. Jacob wrapped his arms around my waist, and that's how I fell asleep. I woke up the next morning and got breakfast for Salicia and I, and then woke her up. "Breakfast." I told her.
"I wanna sleep." She objected.
"C'mon, sweetie." I told her. She groaned and got up. She got dressed, and we ate breakfast.
"You decided anything yet?" She asked.
"No." I sighed.
"Do you plan on deciding anything?" She asked.
"Yes, just, not now." I sighed. My phone buzzed. I answered it. "Hello." I sighed.
"Hey, did I wake you up?" Michael asked.
"No." I replied.
"I wanted to know if you wanted to maybe tonight I could come by with the twins and Salicia could meet them, we could all talk, and figure something out." He said in a kind of pathetic voice.
"You sound pathetic." I replied. "Your tone, what's up?" I asked.
"Not pathetic, just hopeful, I guess." He sighed.
"Just a minute." I told him.
"As many as you need." He replied sounding like my dad and mom.
"Salicia, what do you think about your father, and the twins coming over tonight and we'll arrange something?" I asked pressing the phone to my chest.
"I wish you'd be able to decide, but okay." She muttered.
"This isn't going to go perfect, baby." I told her and put the phone back to my ear. "Okay, as long as it's okay with Jacob." I replied to him.
"Deal." Michael replied and then there was the sound of a chair being pushed out. "I thought you were asleep, baby girl." He sighed. "Bridget is awake." Michael sighed.
"How are they?" I asked missing him, and them.
"They're doing good. You know that whole twin telepathy theory thing?" He didn't wait for an answer. "They have it, kind of a relief for me, 'cause I only have to listen to one to know what they're both up to. They're about equal to three year olds now, and their growth rate is slowing. They keep asking for mommy, mommy." Michael said and I could almost hear the smile in his voice. "You know, there is extra room here if maybe Salicia, Jamie and you wanted to move here." He coaxed.
"Salicia would already have her bags packed if I'd let her." I laughed.
"I understand why." He sighed.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"I'll talk to you later, but Thomas and Bridget need food, now, or they will start trying to eat me." He joked.
"No!" A little girl objected.
"Yes." He said in a playful voice. "I wish I had of stuck around before, hurts worse this time." Michael sighed to himself almost too quiet for me to hear. He probably didn't mean for me to hear.
"I better let you go." I replied.
"Let me or not, I'll have to go due to the hungry munchkins." He said happily.
"Bye." I sighed.
"I still love you, bye." He reminded and hung up.
"How are they?" Salicia eagerly asked.
"Hungry, about equal to three year olds, but their growth is decelerating." I told her.
"When's he coming?" She asked.
"When he comes." I told her. She finished her breakfast but I wasn't hungry anymore. There was a huge knot in my stomach. I put the plates in the dishwasher and we both got dressed.
"I don't want to go to school." She whined when I went to get her.
"No skipping." I told her.
"You're skipping work." She replied.
"I have my reasons." I replied.
"Just today." She replied and flashed a smile.
"No." I replied.
"Please." She begged and planted herself on her bed.
"Why?" I asked.
"I don't want to go." She replied.
"Not good enough." I replied.
"I want to stay home with you." She said and smiled innocently.
"Kiss ass, no." I replied.
"I could just skip." She threatened.
"I will personally call the school and make sure you are in every class." I threatened.
"You're no fun." She frowned.
"Moms aren't supposed to be." I replied.
"You're usually pretty cool." She replied.
"Is anything bothering you?" I asked thinking about Michael's statement.
"No." She replied a little too quickly.
"What is it?" I asked closing the door. I sat next to her.
"I'm not like you, I'm not popular, or anything…" She trailed off. "I don't like Forks, or Quileute." She replied.
"What do you want me to do?" I asked.
"Dad's offer." She said quietly.
"What?" I asked.
"I have good hearing." She replied.
"I still haven't decided anything." I replied. "I'll let you stay home today if you're good." I told her.
"Okay." She replied.
"Promise?" I asked.
"Promise." She repeated.
"Sweetie, I was only popular because the bitchy kids decided I was their friend. I was called a bitch for being with them, or a slut, or a whore, or any other name you've heard Matthew call me." I told her.
"You kind of earned some of those." She replied. "I know how to figure out how old you were when I was conceived." She added. "You hadn't graduated yet." She pointed out.
"You're too smart, stop it." I told her and hugged her. "Be good, I'm going to go to the store."
"Bye." She said and grabbed the remote for her TV.
I got things for dinner and when I got home Jacob was up and sitting on the couch. I put the groceries away.
"Decided anything?" He asked.
"Michael and the twins are coming tonight to decided who gets them." I told him.
"No, I don't mean the twins, I mean… have you decided… I know you've had your doubts lately…" He couldn't get it out.
"No." I replied.
"No, what?" He asked.
"I haven't decided." I sighed.
"Who do you love more?" He asked.
"I don't know." I replied.
"What do you mean?" He pressed.
"I mean, I don't know." I said angrily and went upstairs. I took a nap and Salicia woke me up.
"Dad's here." She said tapping my shoulder.
"Shoot." I said and got up. I looked at the clock. It was noon; I had gone to sleep and eight.
"They're adorable." She told me referring to the twins I guess. I went down stairs to see two little kids talking to Jacob, and Michael sitting in a chair waiting.