"Hey sunshine. Glad you're awake." I said tapping the end of his tiny nose. He wrinkled his nose and giggled. He coughed weakly and lifted his head off of my shoulder looking into my eyes with questions in his eyes.
"Rosalie, I don't remember what my mommy looked like or how a mommy is supposed to be but you're what a mommy should be to me. I want you to be my mommy now okay? You'll do that?" He asked placing his tiny hand on my cheek. I took three quick breaths and smiled widely. I wanted this more than the entire world.
"Of course I will sweetheart." I whispered grinning and kissing him delicately on his cheek. He looked up to Emmett and asked him if he was married to me yet.
"Heck yes I am." Emmett laughed tightening his arm around my waist. Rosslyn smiled so I had to as well. He reached down for my left hand and I placed it gently in his as he examined my wedding ring. He whistled and grinned.
"Wow… You sure know how to get it done. That's such a pretty ring." Rosslyn smiled and patted my hand and then nodded up to Emmett in approval.
"Thanks alot." Emmett grinned. Rosslyn sighed.
"Then I guess you'll just have to be my father. I don't remember him at all. But I've seen a pretty good amount of movies. You seem to fill the job." He chuckled. Emmett beamed.
"Now what do you want to do now?" I asked Rosslyn as I stroked a dark curl from his face.
"Hmmm… I think I'll have to say. I want to hear about you now." Rosslyn said looking to Emmett and me.
"Okay. Whatcha' want to know?" Emmett smiled.
"Tell me about your parents." Rosslyn said.
"Well you know Dr. Cullen?" Emmett started. "That's my adopted father. I don't remember my parents at all and neither does Rosalie so Carlisle. I mean Dr. Cullen and his wife are our only family." That was almost the truth.
"Whoa! Dr. Cullen is your dad? That is so cool!" Rosslyn smiled then coughed weakly. He looked so fragile and frail.
"Yes, he's pretty cool until he tells me and Rosalie's brother Jasper to stop wrestling in the house. Not cool." Emmett rolled his eyes. He was still mad about the wrestling match he'd lost to Jasper yesterday. I giggled.
"He's just trying to protect you." Rosslyn nodded. He was sounding more like the adult and Emmett the child. I laughed at that. We continued answering all of Rosslyn's endless questions until sunset started to come. I realized I had been holding onto Rosslyn the entire day. I was suddenly thankful to be a vampire. A normal human's arms would have gotten tired after all those hours even if Rosslyn only weighed all of twenty pounds. I was glad to be a vampire because that meant that I could hold him forever. Rosslyn yawned tiredly and coughed again. He looked better than he had even this morning but he was still so frail looking I was afraid to touch him in fear he would shatter to pieces. I laid him gently down on the bed and adjusted him so he would be comfortable. The nurse came in and prepared him for the night attaching more wires and tubes and placing an oxygen mask over his mouth.
"Goodnight Mommy. Goodnight Daddy." He mumbled smiling drowsily. My heart jumped at those words. The hole that had been in my heart for all this time had finally been filled by this tiny angel. I was aching to hear those words for so long. I felt Emmett take a deep breath around me and wrap his arm around me tighter. I began singing Rosslyn a lullaby softly stroking his dark curls. He smiled and drifted off to sleep. I loved that baby more than my entire life. My Emmett and my angel were my everything now.