Chapter 8: Many different times
When I opened the door and saw Mike there I almost fainted. But then I remembered that Victoria and James were in distance of him being able to see them. "Dad! Take Victoria and James upstairs please." I yelled out to him. My dad came running in the room and he saw Mike and right then my dad knew who he was. My dad grabbed the twins and took them up the stairs, I was guessing Mike only got a glimpse of them. I took out my cell and quickly texted Edward and Emmett telling them to get over here now. "Mike what do you want?" I asked him harshly "Bellsy I wanted to see you, and my children." He said, and that honestly pissed me off. "Firstly don't call me Bellsy I have always hated that name, secondly they aren't your children. When you raped me you gave up all rights. The father figure they have right now is Edward." I said not noticing that he and Emmett were standing right there. "Newton what did we tell you earlier today about going near her, and saying something to her?" they asked "you said not to." Mike gulped. "Exactly, now if you don't leave in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 I will personaly go upstairs and ask Cheif Swan if I can kick your ass. Now scram." Edward said and Mike ran to his car and drove away.
Emmett must have gone back to the house because Edward and I were the only two left standing there. "Bella, when you said I was the father figure in Victoria and James' lives, did you mean it?" He asked "Honestly Edward I did. I saw you this morning when you were batheing them, and then when we were taking them over to your moms, they think of you as a father. They call your mom grandma, and if you keep coming over to help they're going to call you daddy, and I think I may want them to." Edward stared into my eyes, and then pulled me closer to him. I tipped my head up to look into Edwards eyes and his head was down looking towards me. Slowly he pulled my head up to his, and we kissed. Then everything felt perfect, when we pulled away for a breath we were smiling. "Bella, I think I love you." he said, and then I knew what to say. "Edward, I have loved you sense we were children, then it was puppy love, but now it's true love." and we kissed one more time. Charlie called down the stairs "Bella, can we come down? Is he gone now?" he asked. "Yeah dad, its just Edward and I down here." Edward whispered in my ear "Bella, will you be my girlfriend?" he asked, "yes" I said happily, and then I knew we were a perfect together.
2 weeks later: 6:55 a.m.
I was making breakfast that friday morning and the door bell rang. Of corse it was Edward so I just yelled that it was unlocked. He came into the kitchen where I was making breakfast, the twins weren't up yet so he stayed downstairs while I went to get them. Edward was everything like a father was to them, and he didn't care. I picked up Victoria and James and brought them downstairs. When I set them down right before the kitchen they ran in. "Daddy!" They called running to Edward. He picked them up and gave them each a kiss on the cheek before setting them in their highchairs. I went over to Edward where he was putting the pancakes on four different plates. "You know sometimes I think you only come over here for my cooking." I said to him laughing as he gave me a kiss on the lips. The both of us finished getting them ready and then took them over to Esme. "Edward, your dad tried to start your car this morning, but it wouldn't start." Esme told Edward, i'm beat to, my car is getting an inspection, I won't have it until later." I told them. "We'll just get a ride from Emmett or Alice." Edward said, but Esme shook her head. "Jasper and Rose already picked the too of them up. But I can take you guys and pick you up later." Esme offered.
So Edward, Esme, James, Victoria, and I were in the merceades, and on out way to school. "I love you guys." I said to James and Victoria as I gave them each a kiss. "By momma." they said waving to me once I was out of the car. Esme rolled up the window and took off in the direction of their house. I turned toward Edward where his lips surprisingly met mine. I started to laugh and Edward came up for air. "Whats so funny love?" he asked me, "Well, maybe it's the fact that I was going to kiss you when you kissed me." I said, Edward rolled his eyes and we arrived at my locker. I took out the books that I needed, and put away the ones I didn't. The day dragged on slowly, nothing that exciting happening, other than the fact that we were let out early. Edward and I put away our books because we didn't have any homework on the weekends. Even thou we stopped we were always one of the first people out of the school. Standing right by Esme's car was Esme, James, and Victoria. "Mommy, Daddy!" they cried out as they saw Edward and I, they came running towards us and we just put our arms out for them.
Heads turned when they heard that. James was in my arms and Victoria in Edwards, but when I turned around standing there was Mike, and he had just saw the kids that he gave to sperm to make. "Edward get them in the car now!" I said to him, he turned around to see Mike 'shit' he muttered under his breath taking James from my arms. "Bella, why'd they just call Edward daddy?" Mike asked "they're my kids!" he said. I scoweled, "Mike, for the last time they're not your kids, you raped me, r.a.p.e.d. me! They think of Edward as their father and i'm perfectly fine with that so just leave me and my family alone!" I said to him hoping it would get the point across. Edward came back next to me grabbing my hand, "Mike, for the last time stay away from Bella, I will get permission from Cheif Swan to kick your ass, because your not exactly on his favorite persons list." Edward said to him, and he turned an ran.
Christmas morning
Christmas was always a big thing for the Cullen's, Swan's, and Hale's. So December 25th we gathered in the Cullen's living room to open christmas presents. James and Victoria knew what day was and woke me up super early so we could go to dappys and open christmas presents. Charlie didn't like the fact of James bargging into his room and yelling "wake up granpa" over and over until he woke up. Victoria did the same with me, I wasn't annoyed because this is how they acted last year. I laughed a woke up, James came in a second later pulling Charlie by his hand, "Bella, you know I am really hating this." He said still being dragged down the stairs by James. I opened my cell phone and there was a text from Edward, 'we are all up, come over any time' he wrote. "Ok, everyone get you shoes on, time to go open presents and see what Santa brought us." I told them. James and Victoria ran to the closet to get their boots and coats on and Charlie and I followed close behind them. Five minutes later we were knocking on the Cullen's door to open christmas presents. "Well look who I found." Carlisle said opening the door. We walked inside and took off our boots walking straight into the living room.
James and Victoria ran to Edward giving their 'daddy' a hug. They went to sit on the floor with Alice, Jasper, and I while Emmett, Rose, Edward, Carlisle, Esme, Charlie, and Rose and Jasper's parents took the couches and chairs. Edward moved down onto the floor with me and put an arm around me. Once all 14 of us had a present we started to open them. James and Victoria were having the best time, one time Emmett even said 'he couldn't find James and Victoria' but as he said they I heard a muffeled 'were right here' Emmett thought it would be funny to throw a whole bunch of wrapping paper on them so we couldn't see them. All Emmett ended up getting was a smack on the back of the head from Rose. But as we finished opening presents there was one left under the tree. I reached down to get it and it said; To Bella, From Santa. It was a small box, and I looked towards Edward. He took the box from my hand, and opened it, in the box was a small diamond ring, and if this is what I thought it was I was going to cry.
"Bella, this isn't an engagment ring. But I love you so much, and one day I do hope to be married to you. When we were children we used to pretend to get married, and we'd play house. I love your children like they're my own, and I love you so much. I want for us to one day be married, this is my promise to you, that I will one day after highschool propose to you and become your husband." He placed the promise ring on my fingure and I gave him the biggest kiss. At that point I didn't care who was around, that was the most thought-ful that he has ever done. I knew James and Victoria didn't understand this but everyone else did. As I was still kissing Edward I heard, "I'm hungary" from James. I laughed and Edward and I pulled away for air. I got up, and bent down towards James, "Ok, then you will get breakfast who wants to help me?" I asked and Edward stood up with me and so did Esme. "Edward if I remember you can't cook worth crap so sit down." I told him and he laughed and went to go play with James and Victoria.
Esme and I walked into the kitchen taking out a bagillion things. I swear we made enough food for the entire sudent body at Westward prep. But we surprsingly ate all of it, Edward and Carlisle did the dishes and the rest of us started to talk or to play with random things. Emmett and Jasper hooked up guitar hero and started to play against each other, and then some way I ended up having to play against Edward and...I won! He wasn't to happy about that. Christmas day was a blast, I don't remember the last time I had that much fun. When we went to say good night we found Victoria and James sprawled across the floor sound asleep. So Charlie grabbed their presents and Edward grabbed James I grabbed Victoria and we walked back to my house. Once Edward and I set each of them in their beds he gave me a kiss before he disappered out the door. Today was the best day ever!