Chapter Twenty-seven
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Bella's POV (1 week later)
"Go to sleep… go to sleep… go to sleep little baby…" I sang to Natalie. She wasn't falling to sleep. I was about ready to cry. Alice was the only other one home with me- the rest were hunting. Without Edward, Natalie never fell asleep. She was really cranky and desperately needed a nap.
Elizabeth started crying. "Not you too," I wailed, "Alice! Alice?" I asked. I ran down the stairs carefully, I had both babies I my arms. I looked around for her.
I spotted a note sitting on the counter. Dear Bella, I had to leave-had a vision of you in an awesome outfit, so I had to go find it. Have fun!! Love Alice.
"What?!" I screamed to no one in particular. The babies started crying harder. "Shh, it's okay," I said bouncing them up and down. I went back upstairs where all their things were.
"Must be just their diapers," I muttered to myself. I set Elizabeth in the bouncer seat and took Natalie to the changing table. "Okay, maybe not the diapers," I said after I checked both of them. They were still screaming.
I sat down in the chair and tried to feed them. "Not hungry either," I murmured frantically. I tried to remember what I had read in a parenting magazine. "Gas bubbles!" I exclaimed. I took Elizabeth and burped her gently. Nothing. Same with Natalie.
I started singing and rocking them back and forth. My head was pounding. I tried this for fifteen minutes, nothing, nada, zilch. Tears were streaming down my face and I was hyperventilating. I was still rocking them back and forth when Edward ran in. "They won't stop, I've tried everything!" I yelled over their insane screaming.
He took Natalie from me and sang softly in her ear, bouncing her back and forth. She stopped for about a minute. "I guess they just wanted their daddy," he laughed. Then Natalie threw up all over his face and shirt. "Or not," he sputtered.
He set her down in her bassinet, she had fallen asleep already. I looked at Elizabeth and raised my eyebrows, "You going to throw up too?" she responded with a huge belch.
After getting that huge gas bubble out of her system, Elizabeth fell asleep quickly. I slumped into a chair, exhausted.
Edward stepped out of the bathroom with a new shirt on. "Where's Alice?" he asked looking deadly, "I specifically told her that she would not leave you alone." He fumed.
"She went shopping," though in her defense I said, "She saw a vision,"
"Oh, yeah, one that just called her away right before she saw the throw-up scene," he said sarcastically.
I didn't hear the rest, I had fallen asleep.
I was awakened by a door bell. Judging by the dark room, Edward was downstairs. Elizabeth was stirring so I picked her up before she could start crying and wake Natalie. I jogged downstairs to find a beautiful woman talking to Carlisle.
She was about 6 foot, with shining strawberry blond her down to her lower back. She was absolutely stunning. She turned to face me, I saw that she had full, pouty lips, and a tiny turned up dainty nose.
"It's been too long Carlisle…" she was saying. "Ah, and you must be Bella," she said with pure disgust. Eyeing the baby she said, "Oh, what a cutie," with that she yanked Elizabeth out of my arms and cradled her in her long arms. Elizabeth started screaming and kicking. I guessed she didn't like strangers.
"Here, I'll take her back, she might be hungry," I said coolly.
"No! Don't be silly, just bring me the bottle," she said trying to do the awkward bouncing trick.
"Actually, Bella breast feeds so just give her the baby Tanya," Edward said coming to stand beside me.
"Oh," she said and handed back Elizabeth roughly.
I went back upstairs with Edward fuming. I sat down in the rocker and started to feed Elizabeth.
"Bella, sorry about that, it's just that Tanya is like Jacob, she won't let go."
"Well, you can tell Tanya that she's not to touch our babies again. Did you see the way she handled Elizabeth, she could have broken her so easily," I said angrily.
"Bella, she is only here for a visit," Edward said soothingly, but the anger in his voice marred it, "She is the one that helped me when you moved to Forks."
"Yes," I grumbled. I would just have to ignore her best I could.
Uh, oh, mad mommy on the loose. Just joking. Thanks for all the reviews!! Now, please review again!!
