I don't know how long I slept, but when I heard the cries of Charlie I sat up. Glancing at the clock, I saw it was a bit after one in the morning. He'd slept for at least three hours. I knew he'd be starving. I got up quickly and went to him before he could wake anyone else.
I picked him up and he stopped crying instantly, his little mouth rooting at my pajama top. I quickly unbuttoned my top, but not before he'd become frustrated and had started crying again. I wasn't wearing a bra, so that helped, but he'd worked himself into a frenzy from crying.
What happened next happened so fast, I'm not even really sure what took place. One minute I was looking down at Charlie in the glow of his nightlight, trying to get him latched onto my breast, and the next thing, the room was flooded with light, blinding me. Edward yelled out, "OH SHIT!" and flipped the lights back off.
I sat there in stunned silence for a moment. Then I heard a soft knock at the door. "Bella? Oh God. I'm so sorry. I don't know what the fuck I was thinking." Edward was whispering loudly.
"I um… Edward what happened?" I was trying to be quiet so I didn't wake Elizabeth or make Charlie start to cry again.
"I heard Charlie cry and I guess I'm so used to getting up to get him, I forgot you might get him too, and well, I didn't see much."
MUCH? My mind raced. What had he seen? He said something else but I couldn't hear. I looked down and covered Charlie with the light blanket while he ate. "Edward, I can't hear you. You can come in."
He was silent for a minute. "Did you say I can come in?"
"Yes," I whisper shouted back checking once more to make sure I was covered.
He opened the door slowly and walked in the room. He was looking the complete opposite direction. "It's alright, I'm covered."
"Oh!" he said and turned around slowly. His cheeks turned pink when he realized that I was still feeding Charlie. You could hear the loud slurping sounds that newborns sometimes made when they were very hungry.
"He, uh... wow that's loud!" Edward finally said breaking a bit of the tension.
I smiled. "It just means he's hungry and the gulping sound means he's swallowing so it's all good."
Edward nodded. We were silent for nearly a full minute, but it felt like ten. "I am really sorry to have walked in on you. I wasn't thinking. I'd been sound asleep."
