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Chapter 34- Home Sweet Home
The week was over, and it was time to return to Boston. Sunday morning was spent packing up all of our things, scattered around the house over our stay. As she had last time, Esme loaded us down with food, which was very much appreciated on Abra's and my part.
Abra gave Esme and Carlisle a hug, and climbed into the car, and sat down in her car seat. I hugged them both as well and got into the passenger seat of Edward's Volvo. Edward dashed out of the house with his suitcase in tow, put it in the trunk, and gave his parents each a hug before getting in the car.
Esme waved as we pulled out, making sure one last time that she had given us enough food for the way back (and the next month and a half). We all waved, and Edward and I assured her repeatedly that we had quite enough food. Abra just sat in the back seat waving and grinning.
The drive back went quickly, the traffic was light all the way until we got to Cambridge almost, and we chatted about classes, teachers, and other miscellaneous topics.
We drove into the garage where Edward stored his car, near our dorm, and parked. He took out our suitcases, and I unbuckled Abra and followed Edward, carrying her and her car seat up the stairs to my door, where Edward set down our suitcase and I gave him a hug. "See you Tuesday!"
He grinned. "See you!"
Abra waved sleepily at him as he lugged his suitcase down the hall and into the stairwell.
I pulled my key out of my backpack pocket, and inserted it into the lock, and turned. My hand fell away from the lock, and I looked at it. I held the head of the key in my hand, and the rest of the key was still in the lock. My key had broken!
I groaned as I realized that I would have to drag all of my stuff, and walk Abra, back down the stairs to the lobby, to go to the office to get a new key. People's belongings, when left in hallways, often disappeared in this dorm.
So I lugged all of my stuff back down the stairs and into the office. And waited, for ten minutes, while the incredibly, unbelievably slow substitute secretary, got up out of her chair, turned around, and got an extra key off the rack of keys in the little cabinet behind her, and handed it to me, reprimanding me for losing my key the whole time. I didn't bother to remind her of the fact that my key had broken.
After toting everything back up the stairs, including a mostly asleep Abra, I jiggled the broken bit of the key out of the lock, and opened the door. Abra walked in and I put her in her crib, where she fell asleep immediately. I did about five minutes worth of unpacking, and then collapsed on my bed. Before I fell asleep, I check the time on the alarm clock next to my bed. Could I really be so tired at only one in the afternoon?
I woke up a few hours later, and put the finishing touches on a couple of assignments that would be due in the next few days. It was my last semester, my time at Harvard coming to an end, and I would be graduating soon, so the number of essays and other assignments we had to complete would be huge for the next two months, but then it would wind down.
I would graduate from the Harvard School of Public Health on June 4th, with a Masters of Public Health degree. For my residency training, I have been assigned to the Department of Epidemiology at the New York General Hospital, in New York City. Edward will get his assignment in July sometime, so we have no idea how far away we will be from each other for the next year. I wonder what I will do with Abra.
As I type, my computer makes a faint dinging noise, signaling that I have an email. I pull the Internet screen up, and check my email. It's from Edward.
From:
To:
Re: Hi!
Hi!
I'm bored.
Edward
I roll my eyes, and reply.
From:
To:
Re: Hi!
Do your homework.
Bella
I type another few sentences onto the end of my essay, and my computer dings again.
From:
To:
Re: Hi!
But I don't want to!! And I'm still bored.
Will you entertain me?
Edward
I can't help but smile at his little-kid whining.
From:
To:
Re: Hi!
I have homework to do myself.
Bye.
Bella
To:
Re: Hi!
Okay, okay, I'll do my homework, if just to make you happy.
Edward
From:
To:
Re: Hi!
Thanks! See you on Tuesday, with your homework done!
Bella
And with that, I quit out of my e-mail, so he couldn't bother me any longer.
My essay is finished late that evening, and I prepare myself a sandwich with some bread and cream cheese. I sit on the window seat and eat it, remembering the night I sat here so many months ago, when life seemed so very hopeless. Now I was filled with hope for the months and years to come, for my residency, and for afterwards, and for the family I might be able to find in the Cullens.
I finish my sandwich, and brush my teeth, and fall asleep, dreaming of the years to come, filled with visions of Abra growing up, Edward, Esme and Carlisle as amazing grandparents.
The next morning dawns bright and early, and I am up with the sun, pulling Abra out of her crib, dressing her, and taking her to Angela's, where we can both have our breakfasts.
Angela greets me at the door, with a sunny smile that matches the blue sky above our heads.
"Good morning, Bella, hi Abra, how was your trip?"
I smile. "It was lovely."
"And how is Edward?"
"He is fine."
She grins. "Come in you two, it's cold outside, but it sure is a beautiful day! If it stays this nice, we might walk over to the park in the afternoon."
"Sounds lovely." And as we walk up the stairs, "It smells great it here to! What's baking?"
"Apple muffins. Should be done-" The timer goes off and she rushes into the kitchen. "Now!"
I grin, and follow her into the kitchen.
"Abra and you can be my taste-testers." She says with a smile.
I set Abra down in the high chair, and Angela sets a muffin in front of her. "Be careful, it's hot!"
I pull a muffin out of the tin, and switch it from hand to hand rapidly, to keep from burning my fingers. As it cools down, I take a bite. "Angela, these are great!"
She smiles. "Thanks. Take another one, and head off to class, okay?"
I nod, and steal a muffin off of the plate she is setting them on, upsetting her symmetry, and give Abra a goodbye kiss before setting off back to Harvard.
The hot apple muffins keep me warm on my walk through the crisp air, back to the Davis Square T station.
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