BPOV
"Babe can you grab me my laptop before you leave?" I called to Edward who was just outside the room.
"Yeah I'll grab it." Edward came and handed it to me on the bed. "Are you sure you are going to be okay until my mom gets here?" he was leaning over me.
"Yes I will be fine. It's only about an hour and a half until Esme gets here anyways."
"But what if the kids wake up? You can not get up and that might be troublesome."
"They are still sleeping and will most likely remain that way." I grabbed his shirt and pulled him to me kissing his mouth.
I pushed him off. "Now go to work. You're going to be late!"
He hadn't move form his post of hovering over me. He kissed me one last time before walking out the door. "I should be home early. Maybe a little after lunch."
"Kay." I heard the door downstairs close and I knew I was finally alone. I opened my laptop and turned it on. I glanced at the clock while I waited for it to load and found that it was only a quarter after six.
It was only moments later that I heard my bedroom door open and Elli peek her head through. "Momma?" she asked with sleep coating her voice.
"Yeah honey. What are you doing out of bed? It's still early."
"I heardid daddy when he weft and I coulwent sweep."
"Well how about you quickly jump up here and try to sleep some more. Grandma Esme won't be here for a little while and you can't have breakfast until she gets here."
Elli ran across the room and made it to Edward's side of the bed. She climbed onto it snuggling herself into the covers and lying her head on his pillow.
I logged into my computer and pulled up my email thinking maybe I would have an assignment from work. I scrolled through but there was nothing.
"Mommy?"
"Yeah honey." I turned to face her.
"How long is it until my wittle broser is here?" She moved so that she was snuggled under my arm and tucked into my side. I gently began to rub her back.
"He's supposed to be here in two months." I had officially hit the seven months mark. Which was a relief but this is when things start to become extremely uncomfortable and I had only been on bedrest for two weeks.
"I can't wait to meet him momma." I smiled and leaned over to kiss her hair.
"Me either sweetie, me either." Soon she was fast asleep again lying next to me.
I pulled up a file on my computer and clicked into the program I wanted. It was actually something I had secretly been working on for the last two weeks. Once Alice and Rosalie had talked so much about the nursery, I realized how much work it really is to put one together. So I had decided that with all the time I would have just sitting around on bedrest would be used designing a nursery. So I downloaded an interior design application to my laptop and had begun the work necessary for the baby's room.
It was now just about finished. I had been using every minute of free time I had to work on it. The walls had color I had furniture everything was perfect except for one spot. There was a place just above the crib that was supposed to have his name. Edward and I haven't even been considering names yet and I realized that that would kind of screw up the whole thing.
Once more I did a 360 degree tour of the room I had created and looked at the spot where the name place was to see if an inspiration came to mind. But as it had for many days nothing came to me.
I closed out of the program and opened the internet. If my creative waves weren't flowing today I was going to do this the old fashioned way. I pulled up a baby names website and began searching.
It was now almost 8:30 at night and Edward had just finished getting the kids into bed and asleep. I glanced at him across the room as he changed into something more comfortable for bed. "What?" He looked up to find me staring and I shook my head and blushed.
"Nothing." I mumbled covering my face with my hand.
I could hear Edward move towards me on the bed and when I removed my hand he was standing in front of me. "You were checking me out weren't you?" He said it more like a statement than a question. He had a smug look on his face and at the moment I wanted nothing more than to smack it off.
But instead I wouldn't look at him and looked at the ground. "No I wasn't I was just waiting for you to change."
"Uh huh. And that's why you can't even look me in the eyes right now." I looked up and giggled.
"Fine I was. You are gorgeous. You never cease to amaze me. What do you expect I'm seven months pregnant and on bedrest. My eyes are giving me about the most action I'm going to get for a while. You could at least let me enjoy it without making fun of me."
Edward crawled in next to me and kissed my cheek. "I'm sorry."
I patted his leg and turned my head to kiss him on the lips. "It's okay." I pecked him and pulled back slightly. Just as he was about to move in for another one I reached over to my bedside table and grabbed my laptop. "No more of that right now. WE have other business to attend to."
Edward moved the pillows around behind him and snatched a blanket from the bottom of the bed. At night I always liked to put the throw over us as we talked so he covered us up as he snuggled in close. "And what would they be?"
I rested my head on his chest as I opened the laptop and let it load the internet. "We need to talk about baby names."
I must have caught him off guard because he went rigid for a second before relaxing again. "Okay, but what brought this on?"
He started to rub out the knots in my back and it felt marvelous. "Well when Alice and Rose were talking about the nursery it got me to thinking that we really haven't discussed a lot about this baby so I spent today looking at names online trying to figure out some good ones."
"Okay well then we better start."
"Okay." I pulled the laptop in front of me and opened my list that I had made earlier. "I'm just going to tell you a few because I want to hear your ideas too."
"Well start already honey."
"Well how about Caleb?"
"That's not too bad keep going."
"Blake."
"I kind of like that one too. Any more?"
"Of course. Sebastian."
"Absolutely not." I looked at Edward and he had an incredulous look on his face.
"And why not? It's a perfectly acceptable name."
"If you live in the ocean with the mermaids. No I will not have my son be tormented by being named after a crab."
"Fine I'll take it off the list. What about Christian?"
"Well it's a good name and everything I just think it has too many religious implications and I don't want anyone to force anything on him."
"I see your point so that one is out too. Did you have any suggestions now or did you want some time to research and figure it out?"
He grabbed the laptop and opened an internet tab. "Well I've been thinking for a while and I have a couple ideas but we may want to look at some other options." Edward began to focus really hard and I felt flutters in my stomach. At first it was just nice and simple movement that turned into full on kicking. And he was kicking hard and continuously.
A laugh emerged I couldn't help it. He always started kicking if we did something at night. It was like he was saying 'go to sleep.' "What's funny?"
Edward looked at me. I grabbed his hand and put it on my stomach. "Your son is kicking quite ferociously Mr. Cullen." Edward felt him move under his hand and smiled.
"Be nice to your mommy little man. Honey what do you think about Gavin?"
"That's a good name. It sounds stable and kind. I like it."
"How about Landon?"
"Oh that's such a cute name."
"Then it's out." I looked at him shocked.
"What? Why?"
"Because I can't have girls thinking my son's name is cute. Trust me when he's a teenager he won't appreciate that."
"Fine then keep going."
"Alejandro." I stayed silent looking at him with an eyebrow raised. When he finally looked at me he laughed. "I take it you don't like that one."
"Are you kidding? We aren't Mexican Edward he will not be named Alejandro. That's final." I was getting a bit worked up so I took a breath.
"Bella calm down. Pryce?"
"Price of what?"
"No dear, Pryce for a name." I whipped my head around to look at him again. But this time I could tell he was kidding. His lips were turned into a smile that he was trying to contain. I took the laptop case and whacked him over the head. He let out the laugh.
"Don't do that to me Edward. It's not nice."
He kissed the side of my head and pulled me back into his side. "I know. I'm sorry." I smiled.
"Well we have a nice list of names. Caleb, Gavin, Blake, and Landon oh wait scratch Gavin it's too cute. Now lets move on to girl names." I felt Edward move and I looked up into a very surprised face. Now it was my turn to reply, "What?"
"Bella have you lost it? We are having a boy we don't need girl names."
"Well it's nice to have back up you never know when the machine could be wrong."
"I'm pretty sure I saw a penis in the sonogram picture."
I furrowed my eyebrows at him. "Edward. It's better to be prepared anyways."
He smoothed out the lines that had formed on my forehead with his hand. "I know. But right now you need to sleep. It's better for the baby. We can look at girl names tomorrow night." He reached over me and turned off the lamp cascading us in darkness. I pulled the sheets down and crawled into them. Edward sprawled out next to me.
I was laying on my side and threw a pillow in between my knees. I closed my eyes and tried to fall asleep but the baby was kicking really hard and it didn't feel like he would be stopping soon. I flopped so I was lying on my back. He quit kicking for a second but then started up again. It felt like a really long time I was moving around trying to fall asleep to no avail. I turned so I was facing Edward. He seemed to be sleeping but I couldn't handle this anymore. So I whispered, "Edward." He didn't move at all. I spoke a bit louder. "Edward." Still nothing. Finally I grabbed his arms and told him. "Edward please I know you aren't sleeping."
His eyes slowly fluttered open. He looked exhausted and I felt bad for waking him but then the little one gave another giant kick and that guilt faded quickly. "What sweetheart?"
"He won't stop moving." Edward sighed and motioned for me to turn around. I traded sides and Edward cuddled up close putting one hand across my body and started drawing circles with his fingertips. Immediately the motion underneath his hand stopped. I breathed a sigh of relief. "Thank you. You know you're son is quite the little fireball. Especially at night."
"Seems like it." Edward muttered obviously trying to fall asleep.
"He just loves his daddy." Even though Edward was behind me I felt him smile. That's when something hit me. No not literally but I had an idea. I sprung up automatically so I was in a sitting position. Very quickly Edward was sitting next to me.
"What, what happened?!" His voice was frantic so I put my hand over his to let him know everything was okay.
"Everything is fine. I just had an idea."
"An idea that made you spring from the bed like you were in labor. Which by the way you are not supposed to be sitting up."
"I didn't get my five minutes today so hush." I grabbed the computer off the nightstand where he had left it. I took to the internet and typed in "fire" for the meaning of a name. What happened next was like a miracle. Whatever creative juices weren't flowing earlier were now running high. I saw the entire room I had designed but what I saw last made me smile. A name was printed on the wall above his crib.
I watched Edward's face closely as he looked at the screen. Finally he looked at me and we looked into each other's eyes before Edward whispered to me. "It's perfect Bella."
I smiled. "It really is isn't it?"
A/N Sorry it's a cliffy. I haven't done this to you in a while so I felt it was overdue plus I wasn't intending on this chapter going the way it did. My mind just kind of drifted and the chapter wrote itself. Those of you who have been discussing the details of my story with me for a while may feel like you have the upper hand here because you knew what I intended the name to be. However I have changed my mind so no one really knows right now. HEHE. Anyways leave me a review and tell me what you think. Even if it's just a place to rant about being upset over my cliffy.
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