CHAPTER 4

EDWARD

I got here early… way too early. Like an hour before I was supposed to! I was so nervous I barely got any sleep last night after leaving my parents' house. To say they were surprised was an understatement after they learned they had three granddaughters not just one grandchild. My mom is chomping at the bits to meet them but understands that I have to first and it may be a while before Bella is ready for all of that. I do hope not to long though… My parents aren't getting younger and they have already missed so much. I have already missed so much.

Finally it's time to make my way up their driveway and my stomach is a ball of nerves. Will they like me? Will they be afraid of me? Could I be a good enough father? A father they deserve? I try to shake those thoughts as I ring the doorbell.

"Edward. It's nice to see you again," Bella says as she opens the door. "Please come in." She opens the door wider and seems to peak behind me like she is looking for someone. I step in and notice the tiniest little baby hanging onto her side, as I look down the hall I see two more looking around the door way seemingly curious as to who is at their home.

"Thanks," I say as I take a deep breathe and look at her. She smiles a soft smile almost reassuring and urges me forward as she carefully picks up the one that seems to be attached to her and walks in front of me toward the other two.

We make our way into the kitchen where the other two girls are now playing by themselves under the kitchen table. I'm watching them babble to each other completely oblivious to me being in the room when Bella clears her throat catching my attention.

"Where is your wife?"

My wife? "Im not married so I don't know," I say back lightly, effectively making her blush.

"Oh I just thought… that girl yesterday the one that was sticking up for you? I assumed she was your wife or girlfriend maybe?"

"Alice?" I ask while she shrugs. "No Alice is a good friend almost like a sister. Do you remember the blonde haired guy that was with us?" She nods while trying to extract the baby from her side. "That is her fiancé. Alice is just very loyal and protective of us all."

"Oh well that's very nice of her," She says, finally setting the little girl down on the ground who turns to look at me with wary eyes. Great so far only one seems to hate me.

"Girls," Bella calls, getting the other two attention who were playfully wrestling each other. "Can yall come see momma? Please?"

They both toddle over to her, one sweetly sucking her thumb and the other popping a pink pacifier in her mom that is hanging on her shirt. Bella drops to her knees and motions for me to do the same before she starts to speak to them.

"Girls we have a very special person that is going to be spending the day with us. His name in Edward. Can you tell him hi?"

The biggest one waves to me almost slapping the on that hates me in the face. She ignores Bella's request and dodges her sisters flailing arm. While the third and smallest on the three smiles at me showing three sweet little teeth on her bottom row of gums.

"Edward this is Adeline," pointing to the bruiser who seems to be the ring leader. "Charlotte." The tiny one with the sweet toothy grin. "And Evangeline." The one who is still giving me the stank eye… five minutes and counting at this point. She seems to be very protective of Bella and even her two sisters.

"Hi girls," I said while slightly waving at them. The smallest one Charlotte slowly made her way over to me. Me trying to be positive opened my arms for her, she looked at my arms then continued to flatten the color on my shirt and walk straight back to where her sisters and mother was standing. Effectively making Bella laugh and me confused.

We spent about one more hour at the house. Bella and the girls showed me around and I have to say this house was even more impressive on the inside once you actually got to look around. All three girls has their own room but all sleep in one huge room still in cribs as of now. Bella says she is hoping to keep them in there for another year or two before putting them in their own rooms, so that they are closer to her bedroom which is across the hall and is so big my apartment could fit right inside. She has built as amazing world for the triplets and for that I am truly so thankful, she seemed to be as perfect as a mom can be.

After helping her change the girls into their day clothes we made our way into her garage and starting loading the girls up.

"From the looks of all this I'm assuming it's a lot to just take them out the house…" I trail off looking at all the stuff they will need for just a trip into the city.

Bells laughs and replies, " Well we have the stroller, the diaper bags.. which are filled with everything I need and the things I may need in an emergency. Lots of extra clothes just in case and snacks for the day. They sometimes get antsy so I try to make sure I have enough to keep them occupied to avoid meltdowns."

"Well I'm sure you know a lot more about taking them places than I ever will."

"It will come to you," She says softly, with a sweet smile, while trying to strap and squirming Adeline into her car seat which is still rear-facing surprising in this day and age but Bella seems to be a safety nut from what I can see.

20 minutes after walking into the garage we are finally pulling out of the driveway. The girls are singing along to some children's show on their DVD players which was said to be her best triplets purchase up to date.

Finally we pulled into the parking lot at the aquarium and started the process of getting the girls out of the car. Hopefully our outing goes without too much turmoil.

BELLA

Watching Edward try to undo the triplets' stroller was very entertaining to say the least. I thought about helping him but found it way more fun to see him slightly struggle with it. To be completely honest I hated putting together that stroller up anyway so more power to him!

"I got it!"

I giggled while walking to the back of the SUV with Evangeline in hand.

"Good job," I said while strapping her into the seat. She was still glaring at Edward which I could see made him nervous but that's just how she was. Takes a long time to earn her trust.

Once we got all the girls in the stroller we made our way to the entrance. Edward being a gentleman wanted to pay for our admission but with me having the membership I actually got all of us in for free. Adeline almost jumped out of her stroller seat at the sight of all the fish while walking through the tunnel.

"Fishy… Fishy!" she screeched, trying her hardest to get out of her harness. The other girls were content sitting back and looking at them so I decided to test Edward.

"Edward why don't you get Addie out do she can have a closer look."

"You sure," he asked, although he was the one who looked unsure.

I smiled nodded, watching as he ever so carefully unbuckled her from the stroller.

"You wont break her," I giggled. "Maybe the other two but not that bruiser" I said jokingly.

He seemed to loosen a bit and finally got her out. Adeline being my most loving child proceeded to throw her arms around his neck, still chanting "Fishy" and pointed toward the huge tanks. Edward walked over and was talking to her about the fish all while she was watching him with wide eyes. Both the fish and Edward seemed to mesmerizing to her which seemed to make him very happy. My gaze was broken by the sudden scream of Charlotte who when I looked down and somehow gotten her finger stuck in the metal clamp of the stroller. The nurse in me kicked in but before I could get to her side Edward was there and started yelling for a first aid kit.

"Edward Im a nurse. Ive got this," I tried to tell him but he cut me off.

"I'm a pediatric surgeon Bella. Her finger is pretty smashed and I think she is going to need stitches." He said, frowning and trying to hold pressure on the bleeding wound.

At this point all the girls were screaming and we were attracting the attention of everyone at the Aquarium. Quickly we rushed out and to the nearest emergency room as fast as we could.

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