TPOV:
~Note the Twin's birthday is the 6th of June~
"Hey, love, wake up." Jasper said shaking me slightly.
"No, it's the first day of summer break, let me sleep in." I muttered sleepily and rolled over burying my face in the pillow.
"I need you to come look at this though." He said and pulled the covers off of me.
"Fine." I said and got up following Jasper over to the room where my little angels were sleeping.
"They kept waking up, and I had no idea what they wanted, they weren't thirsty, they didn't have an accident, and then I saw Caleb try to reach over to his sister's crib and Kai was reaching for Caleb. I tried to put their cribs together, as you can see, and well, basically just ended up taking off the one side then sliding the two cribs together, it worked and they both slept for the rest of the night, and well look." Jasper said, and pulled me over to their now conjoined cribs. They were snuggled up to each other hugging each other.
"Aw that's so cute!" I said and ran over to Jasper and mine's bedroom to grab my digital camera. I snapped a picture of them, and the flash woke them up. "oops." I said. Jasper laughed, and picked Caleb up as I picked Kai up. "Hi baby" I said and gave her a kiss on the forehead. "Did you sleep okay?" Kai smiled at me and grabbed a handful of my hair. I laughed. "Mommy's hair isn't a toy." she yanked on my hair when I said that, not hard, but it was a good yanking. I laughed. "Okay, fine Mommy's hair is a toy." I said and gave her an Eskimo kiss.
Carlisle walked into the room then, "Tali, how are the babies doing?" he asked.
"They're fine," I said, and I think I jinxed it, because right after I said that, they both started crying. "Well, they were fine." I said laughing.
"Maybe they're hungry or something?" Jasper suggested.
"Oh, speaking of the babies being hungry, Tali. Are you going to be breast feeding them, or going with baby formula?" Carlisle asked.
I blushed, "Ugh this is why it's awkward having a boyfriend whose dad is a doctor! Well I really don't know. Which would be better in the long run Carlisle?" I asked.
"Well the breast milk has nutrients that can't be found in any baby formula out there, so I'd say that the breast feeding would be better." Carlisle said with a small smile.
"Okay, so how're we going to do this, one baby on each boob or one at a time." I said with a laugh trying to picture me doing it with both of them at the same time.
"Um, I don't know." Carlisle said.
"Let's just do it one at a time for now I guess." I said, "Carlisle, can you like leave, I mean this is bad enough as is, and having my future father-in-law in the room would make it worse." I said with a laugh.
"Oh...okay." Carlisle said, and left the room.
I unbuttoned my nightshirt, and then, seeing as I don't wear bras when I sleep I moved the fabric and brought the baby to my breast. "Ugh, this is so weird." I said laughing, and the baby started sucking. Jasper came over and gave me a kiss on the cheek. Caleb started squirming in Jasper's arms.
"Be patient Caleb, my gosh." I said laughing. "Kai, are you done yet, my gosh, you're going to get fat before you even start eating food that you have to chew." I said with a laugh and pulled Kai away from my chest. I gave her a kiss on the forehead, then the cheek and handed her off to Jasper as Jasper handed me Caleb. I repeated the action with Caleb, and then Jasper took him, holding both of my kids, while I buttoned up my shirt. The two of them were smiling and reaching for me. I took them both, one in each arm, and Jasper and I walked downstairs smiling at each other. We put Kai and Caleb in the playpen Emmett and Edward set up for them, and gave them a few toys. They didn't bother with the toys, and had a staring contest with each other.
"Wow, those two are weird." Emmett said, watching them watch each other.
"Edward, what are they thinking?" Jasper asked.
"They're' thinking a lot of things." Edward said, putting his hands on the side of his head. "It's giving me a headache, but what's weird is, it's like, they're getting inside of each other's minds and having a private conversation that way. It's weird." Edward said, rubbing his temples trying to ease his headache.
"Really?" Jasper and I asked, looking at each other. At about ten Jasper and I took the kids from the playpen and set them on our laps so we could watch Disney movies together. We decided to watch Beauty and the Beast. Caleb got scared every time the Beast came on the screen, we thought it was cute, but Jasper calmed him down a little after the third time the Beast came on. Both Caleb and Kai yawned at the same time shortly after the movie was over.
"I think it's time for a nap." I said to Jasper. "Mind if I sing them to sleep?" I asked, and glanced around the room. Everyone shook their head no. "Hey, just a random question, do any of you play piano, flute, or violin?"
"Edward plays piano, I play the fiddle, which is the same as a violin I suppose, and Carlisle can play the flute, but why do you want to know that?" Emmett said with a confused look.
"Because, I'm singing Lullaby and Goodnight, which is Brahms Lullaby, only with words, and I don't like singing without instruments, so if you boys would be so kind as to go grab your instruments and play."
"Okay then." Emmett said and grabbed his violin, Carlisle came back down with a flute and Edward just walked over to where his Piano was in the room.
"Jasper, can you sing it with me, I don't remember all of the words, and if I mess up I'll get annoyed with myself and lose track of where the song is going." I said laughing.
"Sure thing love," Jasper said and gave me a quick kiss on the cheek. "Wait, aren't there like twenty different renditions of Brahms Lullaby?" he asked.
"Well the one that I know goes like "Lullaby, and good night, in the sky stars are bright, 'round your head flowers gay set your slumbers till day. Close your eyes now and rest, may these hours be blessed, close your eyes now and rest, may these hours be blessed."" I sang the words.
"And the one that I know goes, "lullaby and good night, with pink roses bedight with lilies o'er spread, is my baby's sweet head. Lay thee down now, and rest, may thy slumber be blessed, lay the down now and rest, may thy slumber be blessed. " Jasper sang.
"I know! We'll ask Carlisle, he was probably there when it was composed so he might know the original lyrics to it!" I said with a grin in Carlisle's direction.
"Oh hardy har, har, I was not there when it was composed I mean I was living when it was composed but I wasn't there in the room...and I know that the original is not the one that Jasper said, and the one that Tali said was just some crazy rendition that I think Celine Dion sang. The original goes Good evening, good night with roses adorned with carnations covered, slip under the covers. Early tomorrow if god wills you will wake once again, early tomorrow, if God wills, you will wake once again. Good Evening Good night, by angels watched, who show you in your dream the Christ-child's tree, sleep now peacefully and sweetly, look into dream's paradise, sleep now peacefully and sweetly look into dream's paradise." Carlisle said with a laugh.
"Okay fine! Let's agree to disagree and just do one verse with Jasper's version, one verse with my version, and then keep alternating however many verses there are." I said with a smile.
"Or since your version has some French in it, we could just use my version." Jasper said with a laugh.
"Fine." I sighed. "I'll take the first verse Jasper." I said and Carlisle started playing away on his flute.
"Lullaby and goodnight, with pink roses by bedight, with lilies o'er spread, is my baby's sweet head, Lay thee down now, and rest, may thy slumber be blessed, lay thee down now and rest, may thy slumber be blessed." I sang to Caleb.
Emmett came in with the violin and Jasper sang, "Lullaby and good night, your mother's delight shining angels beside my darling abide, soft and warm is your bed, close your eyes and rest your head, soft and warm is your bed close your eyes and rest your head."
I took the last verse as Edward came in with the piano, "Sleepyhead, close your eyes, mother's right here beside you, I'll protect you from harm, you will wake in my arms. Guardian angels are near, so sleep on, with no fear. Guardian angels are near, so sleep on, with no fear."
Seeing as they were still slightly awake, we sang through it again, this time Jasper took the first verse, " Lullaby, and good night, with pink roses by bedight with lilies o'er spread, is my baby's sweet head. Lay thee down now and rest, may thy slumber be blessed, lay thee head down now and rest, may thy slumber be blessed."
I continued, "Lullaby and good night, your mother's delight, shining angels beside my darling abide soft and warm is your bed, close your eyes and rest your head soft and warm is your bed, close your eyes and rest your head."
We both harmonized the last one slowing our tempo down so we could finish the song, "Sleepyhead, close your eyes, mothers right here beside you. I'll protect you from harm you will wake in my arms." They both were asleep, with small smiles on their faces. "They're so precious." I whispered and then snuggled closer to Jasper, careful not to wake Caleb. "Should we keep singing just for the heck of it?" I asked quietly.
"If you want to, but I can't think of any other good lullabies." Jasper said.
"What about Hush little Baby? Y'know, it goes, "hush little baby, don't say a word, momma's gonna buy you a mocking bird, and if that mocking bird wont sing, momma's gonna buy you a diamond ring."" I said. "We should probably take turns singing the random things we're going to buy them if they keep breaking." I said with a quiet laugh.
"Fair enough." Jasper said with a huge smile. "You first."
I sang, "Hush little baby don't say a word, momma's gonna buy you a mocking bird,"
Jasper took over, "And if that mocking bird wont sing, papa's gonna buy you a diamond ring."
Then I sang, "And if that diamond ring turns brass, momma's gonna buy you a looking glass."
"And if that looking glass gets broke, Papa's gonna buy you a Billy goat."
"And if that Billy goat won't pull, mama's gonna buy you a cart and bull."
"And if that cart and bull fall down, you'll still be the sweetest little babies in town." Jasper finished, with a huge smile.
~Skipping ahead to December 23rd.~~
JPOV:
"Last day until winter break!" Tali said, "Then I get to celebrate the holidays with my babies!" She said dancing in front of her locker. Her newest friend, Sophie Ferrara, came walking up to us.
"Um, is she okay?" She asked me.
"She's just happy because this is the last day of school and she gets winter break to spend with Caleb and Kai." I explained with a laugh.
Sophie had spent some time with us earlier in the year when she first moved to Seattle. She saw little Caleb and Kai and thought they were Carlisle and Esme's babies at first. We laughed and told her about the whole Seth incident and that they were Tali's children. "So, can I come over and visit Caleb and Kai?" She asked.
"Sure," Tali said grabbing her chemistry books. "Come on guys, let's go make some stuff explode." She said with a grin.
"Aliana, we don't actually make things explode." I said and wrapped my arm around her waist.
"Well, if we do it wrong on purpose, then we make things explode!" Tali said with a huge grin, and Sophie started laughing as we walked down the hallway together.
APOV:
I heard the explosion coming from the throne room, and ran there as fast as possible, "SETH! You need to learn to control your anger." I said when I walked in and saw one of the Human servants cowering in fear. I assumed that he made one of the thrones explode due to this poor human doing something against his will, which whenever they don't listen to him he gets angry. "Seth, it's time to train you some more." I said "I'm just curious on whether or not you could make living things explode, like other vampires, or people, so lets go test that theory." I said. We were preparing for a feast anyways. Within the eighteen months since I found Seth, we've made the Volturi guard about half the size it was before those bloody Cullen's destroyed it. "Seth, I want you to try to well, as cruel as it sounds, make one of those humans explode." I told him. Once the feast started, I glanced over at Seth, he was glaring at one of the humans. He had what I liked to call his 'explosion' expression on his face, and the next thing everyone in the room knew, there were chunks of that poor human all over the place. "That's gross, but still, good work Seth." I said.
TPOV:
Jasper, Sophie and I were all covered in pink goop. "Um, I don't think those two were supposed to be mixed together." I said with a grin.
"What makes you say that Tali?" Sophie said sarcastically.
"Well the explosion of pink goop was enough to tell me that." I said with another grin.
"Jasper, Sophie and Taliana! Clean up your station, now." The teacher shouted at us, Jasper told me not to touch anything else after we cleaned up and he and Sophie finished the experiment the right way. After we finished the experiment, the afternoon announcements came on and told us to have a great break. My dad was letting me stay at the Cullen's house, mainly because they were helping Jasper and I take care of Caleb and Kai, and I literally got on my knees and begged him to let me stay there. So Sophie, Jasper and I all climbed into my dodger blue mustang and drove to the Cullen's house. As soon as we walked in the door Jasper and I both ran over to the playpen where Caleb and Kai were having one of their staring contest and conversation things. I picked up Kai and Jasper picked up Caleb.
"Hi babies!" Jasper and I said together. Caleb and Kai both giggled. We put them on the ground and they resumed their staring contest. "We're home!!" Jasper, Sophie and I all three shouted together.
"Hi guys." Carlisle said as he came downstairs. "Sophie, Tali are you hungry?" He asked.
"Nah, we just ate lunch." I said with a grin.
Just then out of nowhere, one of Caleb's blocks came flying across the room, which didn't make sense, because they never actually touched their toys. It almost hit Jasper in the head, but he ducked and then it smashed into the wall and broke. "What the heck was that?" Sophie asked.
"Um that was a block smashing into the wall." I said. "But that doesn't make sense, because they never touch their toys." I continued as I picked up Caleb. "What did you do baby?" I asked him. "Can you do it again?" He looked confused.
I sighed. He looked over at his sister, and apparently started up one of their secret conversations, that even Edward couldn't follow. Then Caleb looked at another one of his blocks and it went flying across the room. He giggled and clapped. I shared a wide-eyed glance with Jasper. "Did he just...No....No way." Sophie said.
"Me thinks we got ourselves a talented baby on our hands." I said and gave Caleb a kiss on his cheek.