I know I'm horrible at keeping up with this.

Alice was released from the hospital the day after my parents arrived. We went to the hospital with 10 members of our strange combined family and left with 11. And none of us could be happier.

Now that Jacob and Alice were home it was time for us to start getting back into things. We had just come home from Catalina about a week ago. Esme, Carlisle, Alice and Jasper just got back like 3 days ago and then immediately after Jacob decided to join us. We hadn't had the chance to get back into the swing of things. Admittedly it is summer vacation so there isn't much for us to do.

Emmett, Rose, Edward and I quickly learned to sleep in the opposite house than where the baby sleeps for the night.

It was wonderful having my parents home but all too soon my father had to leave because of work. My mom was staying at least until we went back to school so he would definitely be back several times before then.

I, unfortunately, developed a summer cold yesterday and was basically quarantined to Edward's bedroom as to not spread the germs to Jacob. Everyone basically avoided me not wanted to spread any germs, except for Edward. He was normally here but currently he left me to run some errands for Esme and to spend some time with Jacob.

Not wanting to be alone any longer I decided to venture out of my quarantine room, definitely a risky move if one of the mothers caught me, and check Emmett's room for Rosalie.

I quietly walked down the hallway and tapped on the door a few times. "Come in," I heard her say quietly. I opened the door and stepped inside. She was leaning against the headboard on her computer, hair in a messy bun on top of her head, wearing black leggings and one of Emmett's hoodie. She looked up at me.

"Bella you should be in bed," she said sternly.

I frowned. "I'm sick and grumpy and I just want to cuddle," I complained with a loud sniffle in a futile attempt to clear my nose. She looked at me pitifully.

"Aww Bells, come here," she said and held her arms out. I crawled onto Emmett's bed and lay down next to her, my head next to her hip. I wrapped an arm around her waist and snuggled in for a nap. She absentmindedly ran a hand through my hair and she continued to scroll through Tumblr and Facebook. I was asleep within minutes.

I woke up hearing Emmett begging Rose to go with him to visit Jacob. "Come on Rosie, you haven't seen him all day."

I felt her run her fingers through my hair. "She's asleep and she's been basically alone for the last couple of days," she whispered. "You can go," I groaned out in a raspy voice. "You sound horrible Bella, do you need more medicine?" Emmett asked me.

"I have so many drugs running through my body right now it's possible I will become the Hulk soon."

Both Emmett and Rose laughed at my pain; or more likely my joke but I digress. Eventually I made the trek back to Edward's room where he was sitting at his desk on him laptop. He looked up when I entered and a smile crossed his face.

"Good news, my dad has officially declared you not contagious anymore. However they want to wait until at least tomorrow before you can actually leave in hopes that you will feel better."

I smiled at the prospect of actually leaving the second story of Edward's house. Still feeling tired, even after my nap, I just decided to go to bed in hopes that more sleep would make me feel better and also bring tomorrow more quickly.

I woke up around noon the next day feeling about fifty percent better. I got up took some medicine, took a shower, and got dressed. I headed downstairs to where everyone was in the kitchen and Esme and my mom were making lunch.

Everyone turned to me at once and just kind of stared.

"Bella! You're alive!" Emmett yelled. "You look like you're feeling better sweetheart," my mother said and she walked over to me feeling my cheeks and forehead. I nodded.

"I want baby snuggles," I demanded. Alice let out a loud laugh at my choice of words and stood up to walk Jacob over to me. I took him from her arms and situated him into mine. I sat quietly at the kitchen island admiring my nephew until lunch was ready. Alice and Jazz took him to put him down for his nap. When they came back down we enjoyed our meal with much laughter and many jokes.

Wanting to actually leave the house, not just the second floor, I had to convince Edward to go with me somewhere.

We were cuddling on the couch watching TV. I was leaning up against him and his arm was around my shoulders. I turned my head to look up at him. I stretched to kiss his jaw. He turned his head, smiled, kissed my lips and turned his attention back to the television. I kissed his jaw again and he didn't really react this time.

"Edward," I said in an innocent voice.

"Yes Bella?" He asked now suspicious.

"We should go out and do something," I said hopeful.

He groaned. "I'm tired. I went for a run with Emmett today. Do we have to?"

"Yes," I said determined to get out of the house. He turned to look at me. His eyes softened when he say my desperate expression. "Okay. What do you want to do?"

"I don't really care. We could go get ice cream or go to the mall," I suggested. I saw him perk up at the mention of ice cream so I knew what we would be doing. We got up to get ready to leave and tell everyone where we would be. Emmett and Jasper both got excited at the idea of ice cream so before long Jacob's first outing was planned and we took him to get ice cream.

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