We're Serious Adults Now
(Bella's POV)
Life is too far to walk alone,
You can't do it on your own,
It's like bare hands digging through stone.
And if things go down much steeper hills,
Even money won't pay these bills,
But time will show you now.
The people gonna be okay,
Storms never come to stay,
They just show us,
How bad we need each other,
How bad we need each other.
"Hey there baby boy!" I said, picking up little Eddie in my arms. He was giggling in his high chair as he ate some of his food. "Aren't you an adorable little boy," I added, cuddling him. He looked a lot like me compared to Edward actually. He has my brown hair and my brown eyes, but I have to say he has Edward's face.
"Hey Bells," Rosalie said, coming towards me with a small little boy in her arms, no more than a month old. "Look who woke up from his nap!"
"Aw yay! Emmett Jr is up!" Emmett exclaimed as he came over with Tony, a.k.a Little Emmett. Tony looks like a combination of Edward and I wish his bronze hair and big brown eyes. He's like the perfect blend of us. "Now the two smaller Emmett's can play!"
Rosalie and Emmett had their first son a few weeks ago, Nathan Emmett Swan, or 'Emmett Jr.' as my brother loves to call him. He's a cute little baby with blonde hair like his mother, but chocolate brown Swan eyes from his father.
"Don't forget about Ella and Ed," Edward said, raising his eyebrow at my brother as he came over with Ella cradled against his chest. Ella looked the most like Edward. She has his bronze hair and his bright green eyes, but she has Charlie's curls.
I grinned at the picture before me. Ella was seriously Edward's little girl. Ella was probably attached to her father the most, meanwhile I had my little boys. Eddie was probably more attached to me than Tony. Our son Tony, well he was a free spirt and defiantly a little Emmett. I love each one of them more than anything else in the world, besides Edward.
"And my baby, god don't forget about her" Alice said, chuckling as she came over with her little bundle.
Alice and Jasper had a baby girl together, Alyssa Rose, a little bit after Em and Rose had Nathan since they were pregnant around the same time. Alyssa has blonde hair like her daddy and she even has his blue eyes. Poor Jasper didn't even get to meet her yet since he's overseas, but he'll see her soon. Jasper should be coming home soon to his nice little green home him and Alice had built. It was finally finished and Alice just moved in there with Alyssa only last week. Before that she was staying with Esme and Carlisle.
"I hope they all become best friends, besides family," Rose teased at the thought as she rocked her son.
"I'm sure they will." I chuckled as we all looked at our babies.
"They're all too adorable," Esme said, sighing as she came over to kiss each of them. "Too cute. I'm such a proud grandma."
All the parents and family were all here today, we were just missing four at the moment. You see, today Esme and Carlisle decided to hold a BBQ at their house. It was just a nice get together of the family and friends. Billy, Sue, Charlie, Renee, Phil, Leah, Cynthia, Kate, Garrett, Ben, and Angela were all here.
"Look who's arrived!" Carlisle exclaimed as he rushed to the front door to open it up to none other than Ness.
"Hey guys! We're here" Nessie exclaimed as she came through the door with Jacob, Seth, and Maggie with the twins. Ness was holding Sarah in her arms while Jake had Hunter. I smiled at them as I joined the others in greeting them.
Sarah and Hunter look so much alike now. They both have Ness's brown eyes and Jacob's mom's brown hair. Though the two seem to look much more like Ness than Jake, but I have to say there is an equal blend of each parent.
"Ugh, I've missed you dorks," Alice said, hugging Ness by the side so she wouldn't crush Sarah. "We haven't seen each other in such a long time."
Ever since we got the homes here we've seen them less since they're all the way in Seattle. It's not like we don't see them at all, just not as much as we'd like. Anyway Seattle is a three hour drive so it isn't easy for them or us to see each other a lot.
"I agree," Nessie said as I went to hug her. "I miss Forks."
"You should move out here then!" Alice said, whining as she hugged onto her sister's arm. "It would be fun having you all back with us."
"Well we might be moving out here soon," Jacob hinted off as he sent Ness a smile. She giggled as she went to kiss his cheek. That's when I noticed the hand that was supporting Sarah had a shimmer coming from it.
"Oh. My. God!" Rosalie, Alice, and I all squealed when we noticed it.
"You're engaged!" Emmett cried out, jumping up and down with us. "Jake and Ness are gonna get married for realsies this time!"
"Yeah," Jacob and Ness said as she leaned against his shoulder. They smiled as they kissed one another with the twins attached to each of their hip. Jake and Ness always talked about how when they'd get engaged they'd move out here. Maybe this is the sign that they will.
"This is wonderful," I exclaimed as we all went to give them hugs.
"Nice way to drop the bomb on us like that," Rosalie teased as she hugged the two.
"That was so cavalier of you guys. I felt like I should've been shocked more," Emmett said, looking at Ness and Jake. "Like oh yeah, by they way we're engaged."
"Well you were surprised, weren't you?" Jake asked as Emmett gave him a pat on the back. "You were shouting for joy too."
"Okay maybe I was," Emmett said, shrugging. "But still, very caviler."
"I don't even know what that word means," Seth whispered from behind.
"Let's just focus on celebrating, huh?" Esme said, patting Seth awkwardly as she went to congratulate her daughter and future son in-law with Carlisle and Billy.
"I can't believe my little sister is getting married," Edward said as he hugged Ness to his chest once she was finished hugging Carlisle.
"Oh Edward, you knew about this already since Jacob asked you, mom, and dad for your blessing," Ness said, rolling her eyes. "But I know, I can't either."
The two siblings chuckled as he placed a kiss on the top of her head. "I'm so proud of you Ness. I love you."
"Thank you Edward, love you too," Ness said as they broke apart.
"Ugh, all of my babies are so grown up," Esme said, sighing dramatically as her and Carlisle wrapped his arms around Alice, Ness, and Edward's shoulders.
"Seems like yesterday we adopted you three," Carlisle added as he gave the three adopted Cullen children a smile. "You three were the best things to ever happen to me and your mother. Right Es?"
"Yeah," Esme said, sighing. "I feel so old…."
"I feel the same way Esme," Charlie teased, chuckling as he came to wrap his arms around my shoulders and Emmett's.
"Aw dad, you're not old," I teased as he kissed my cheek.
"Thanks hun. But hey, now I get these little monsters to have fun with," Charlie said, chuckling in a tease as he lifted Tony into his arms.
"Well I can't wait to plan your wedding," Alice gushed, kissing Ness's cheek and Jacob's. "I have so many plans. Maybe theme it after your childhood marriage."
"That wouldn't be a bad idea," Jacob said, causing us all to laugh. "We can spend our honeymoon playing cards, just like Edward told us when we were eight."
"The big brother in me is really hoping that's all you'll do," Edward muttered, getting a nice playful nudge from Nessie.
"Well hey, I'm even going to preform the ceremony like I did when we were eight!" Seth exclaimed, grinning as he twirled around with Maggie. "I got a chicken suit and everything!"
"What is with the men in this family and animal suits!" Alice cried out, rubbing her temple. "Don't you have a sense of fashion, Emmett or Seth!"
"Don't judge me or the little wiener!" Emmett said as he placed an arm around Seth's shoulders.
"Yeah, we were born this way," Seth added, striking a pose with Emmett.
"Jesus, where did you two come from," Leah said, chuckling as she came over with her now husband, Brady. Their three year old son Mark was currently playing with Mackenzie in the backyard. Billy, Charlie, and Carlisle were chasing them before. It was rather cute since Charlie was pushing Billy after them. After watching our dads play with the kids, I think it reminds us where people like Emmett get their traits from.
"We're from the planet Ork," Emmett answered simply as he gave Seth a nice little rub on the head.
"I don't think any of us are surprised about that," Kate said, chuckling as she came over with Garrett, Angela, and Ben. Kate was rubbing her little baby bump. She's been pregnant for almost a month now and her and Garrett are really happy. Angela and Ben are really happy as well and are suppose to get married in a month or two.
"Emmett and Seth are both Mork, and I guess that makes Maggie and Rose Mindy," Ben said, chuckling as he made a reference to the old T.V show.
"I actually have no problem with that, I chose the crazy one for a reason," Rosalie said, grinning as she kissed Emmett on the lips.
"The same goes for me," Maggie said as Seth went to kiss her cheek.
"By the way! We have a surprise!" Charlotte Hale announced as she came over with a grin on her face followed by Peter Hale.
"It's Jasper!" Alice squealed as she hugged tight to Alyssa.
"How do you know it's Jasper..." Rosalie trailed off.
"Well first off, if everyone looks to the right you'll see that Jasper is on the front step," Edward said, chuckling as he pointed to the army man starring back at us with a big grin on his face through the window.
"Jasper!" Alice yelled as she opened up the front door and ran straight into his arms. We all smiled as he held tight to Alice and his daughter. Alice made sure to plant a nice passionate one on Jasper's lips before he could say anything. Thank god Alyssa wasn't squished in the making.
"Honey, this is Alyssa," Alice said, now showing him the blonde little baby girl in her arms. I watched as Jasper's whole entire face softened and tears welded up in his eyes.
"This is my baby girl," Jasper said as Alice placed the baby into his arms. We all smiled as Alyssa blinked at her daddy and smiled at him for the first time. "She's so beautiful."
"I know, she looks like you," Alice whispered, kissing his cheek. We all awed as Jasper held tight to his daughter and looked at us with a big smile.
"This day is a really good one, isn't it?" I mused out loud as I held tight to Ed.
"One of the best kind of days," Angela said, smiling as we all went outside to greet Jasper.
"Jasper! Don't leave us again buddy!" Emmett cried out as he latched on to Jasper, trying not to crush Alyssa who was in his arms.
"I missed you too, Emmett," Jasper said, laughing as Edward went to give him a side pat.
"Oh how we've missed you, it's not complete without you here," Rosalie said, hugging her twin brother close. "Especially since I need you around more Jazzy."
"Me too, Rosie," He said, chuckling as he gave a her a kiss on the cheek.
"Well it's nice that everyone is happy," Charlie mused with a smile as we all gathered around Jasper, giving him hugs.
"You're right about that dad," I said, giving him a smile as I then head over to give Jasper a hug. Today has been one of the happiest days in awhile. I guess this kind of marks our new beginning as a parents and a family together.
After all the partying that day and when most of our friends left, it was just us and our parents.
"We're going to take the kids off your hands for a little bit," Renee announced as she picked up Eddie in her arms.
I smiled as my kids grinned at their 'Mimi'. Since Renee didn't really liked being called grandma, she likes to be called Mimi. Esme's grandma and Charlotte and Sue took on the name Nana. Meanwhile Charlie's Pops, Phil is Pappy, and Carlisle is grandpa. I know, our parents are insane. You know, sometimes I wonder what our grandkids will call Edward and I.
"It'll be fun, all the grandparents and all the grandkids," Charlie said, taking Ella into his arms.
"Fine," I said, agreeing for everyone.
"Jasper, it's time to let go of Alyssa," Alice said, taking his daughter out of his arms. Jasper literally hasn't let go of Alyssa for five hours now. I don't blame him though, he never got to hold her yet.
"Fine," He said, sighing as he handed Alyssa off to Charlotte. "But I get dibs when we go home."
"Alright dear," Alice said, chuckling as she curled into his side and kissed his cheek.
"So what do we do now?" Emmett asked once the grandparents all left with the kids. We were now in the Cullen's basement, hanging out there like we were kids again. "We're not exactly young anymore, if you know what I mean. We're parents now. We're serious adults now."
"Maybe not you, but I've always thought of myself as an adult when I hit twenty one," Edward said, giving Emmett a smug grin. My brother just rolled his eyes as he gave him the middle finger.
"But nothing has changed much though, we're still crazy," Jasper mentioned, chuckling.
"And we'll be crazy till the end," Maggie added with a grin.
"She's right!" Seth said, giving his girlfriend a kiss on the cheek as he held her close to him.
"Hey! I have an idea," Alice said as she took out a tape from the Cullen's large shelf of movies.
"Alice?"
"Watch," she said, placing it into the Cullen's old VCR. We all smile when I noticed it's us as children, running around on the Cullen's front yard.
"We're going to be nostalgic and look at our childhood?" Emmett questioned as he pulled Rosalie to his side. "This will just remind me that I'm not a kid anymore. You realize I'm going to be thirty soon, before any of ya'll."
"Hey, thirty isn't that old," Seth pointed out, rolling his eyes. "When your forty, complain. I can't wait to start having a mid life crisis."
"Why would you want that?" Jacob asked, raising an eyebrow.
"So I could have an excuse to act all young and wild again," Seth said, grinning.
"Seth, I'm pretty sure you and Emmett will act like crazy nut jobs till the end. We'll all be in our retirement homes and you two will be in your motor scooters, naked, as you race around the area," Ness said, chuckling.
"Probably," Emmett and Seth said at the same time and then giving each other a high five.
The ten of us all then sit around the old table in front of the T.V. I was on the old lounge chair sitting on Edward's lap, Rosalie and Emmett were on the couch with Alice and Jasper, while Maggie, Seth, Jake, and Ness were on the other one. We all had beers and soda in hand as we looked at the screen.
"Hey I just thought, why not watch these. Maybe it'll give us some idea on what to do," Alice said, wrapping her arms around Jasper's neck. "I wasn't planning on giving them the naked scooter idea, but whatever. Maybe it'll give us another idea."
"It was actually not a bad idea, Alice," Rosalie commented, giving her a smile.
I smiled when I saw the little freckled me come onto the screen with Edward, holding my hand. The children us were laughing and grinning as past us talked about how great the other one was. We truly are best friends for life.
"You're such an adorable and amazing wife and person. I don't know what I did to deserve you," Edward said, chuckling under his breath as he gave me a kiss on the cheek.
I smiled as I went to kiss him on the lips. "You cornball, we were made for each other, for your information. You're the other half of me."
"And I'm the cornball," Edward teased, kissing me again on the lips. "I love you, Bella. So much."
"I love you too," I replied as we kissed one more time before looking at the tape to see it was our high school graduation.
"Graduating high school and going off to college was a pretty big milestone for us," Jasper mused at the memory. "That's when things really started to change."
"But hey, at least we have each other," Nessie pointed out.
"Yeah," Rosalie agreed, shaking her head. "We're a family till the end."
"And hey, I've still got my good looks and immaturity even though I'm an adult. Nothing will go bad for us as long as I have that," Emmett added, grinning.
"Guys, no matter what nothing will change for us. Even if we're parents now, it doesn't change our lives. We'll always be crazy kids. I think it'll just make it more interesting," I said, smiling fondly at everyone. "At least we've got each other."
"Amen to that!" Edward said, holding up his beer as we all then hit our tin cans together.
Even though I'm grown up, and I'm not a kid anymore nothing will change. The world does change each day and crazy shit happens every minute, but I think it just shows how I have an amazing family and group of friends to stay with me throughout this crazy thing we call life. I guess this is what it's like to be all grown up.
And the trials of today,
They are signs along the way,
To remind us,
How bad we need each other,
How bad we need each other.
And I can get so high,
I get so high on myself sometimes,
I keep on drifting a million miles,
From this planet.
But what a shame it would be,
To look back on our lives,
And realize that I've taken you,
And you for granted.
The people are gonna be okay,
Storms never come to stay,
They just show us,
How bad we need each other,
How bad we need each other.
A/N: Hey guys! So I guess this is the closing chapter to All Grown Up :'( There is still an epilogue and another short story after this, but wow. This journey is coming to an end soon. I really love these stories, the Ever Since We Met ones, and they'll always be my fan fiction babies. I can't believe that over a year ago I started this. It's been fun and I still can't believe there is only just the epilogue left! :O Thank you all so much for reading, please review, and keep a lookout for the epilogue!
