AN: I own nothing all characters belong to SM I just borrow them. Here's chapter 5 continuing on with there trip to Santa Monica enjoy!
Chapter 5 - Santa Monica
We awoke the next day refreshed and eager to take on the world and enjoy our trip, we had decided when to tell everyone and honestly while I was terrified I was also a little excited about it. Yes, we had things still to sort our but we'd get there.
We got dressed and headed to Seventeen Street café and bakery for breakfast. It was a cute a little café.
"Do you want kids?" Edward blurted out as we sat down at the table.
"Um…" I started to answer.
"It's okay if you don't Bella, I just thought we should talk about it." he said.
"Edward if you would let me finish what I was going to say then you'd know that I do want kids, but I think us having kids right now would be not be such a good idea."
He looked like he wanted to say something but I stopped him.
"Just listen," I said, "I want us to have kids. I really do want a mini you but were not ready for it, once we've fixed us and you're not thinking that I would be leaving you as soon as possible then I'd be ready for us to have a baby."
"A mini me?" he asked wiggling his eyebrows.
"Is that all you paid attention to?" I asked
"No, but that got me thinking of how I want a mini you, a princess." Edward said with a smile.
"What do you want to do today?" he asked finally changing the subject.
"Well I want to check out the pier but I thought maybe we could do that this afternoon and hang around when it gets dark to see the Ferris wheel all lit up."
"That sounds like a plan. So what do you want to do before that?"
"I thought maybe we'd check out the hotel pool and just relax and talk more?" I said and Edward nodded smiling.
We finished our breakfast and walked back to your hotel since it wasn't that much of a walk. Once we got back to our room we grabbed what we needed. I changed into my pool party bikini, which was a black top with a colorful bottom.
I wore a black cover up over it, while Edward wore his black board shorts looking mighty fine might I add. Before I could continue ogling him he put a shirt on covering his amazing body.
"Do you ever work out?" I asked, he was always in such good shape but yet I had never actually seen him work out once in the eight months that we'd been married hell I hadn't even see him go for a jog either.
"I go for a run most mornings, unless I had a late shift. Plus there's a gym near the hospital that I go to from time to time." he admitted.
"Huh? How come I've never seen you?" I asked him.
"I get up between 5 – 6 to go from my run." he replied.
"Oh." Well that made sense, no wonder I hadn't seen him, I never was awake till about 7.
Once we were both ready we headed down to the pool. The water was so nice and warm we swam around for a while before Edward pulled me close to him, my legs automatically wrapped themselves around Edward while my hands went to his shoulder, his hands resting on my hips.
"Describe your dream house." he said.
"What?"
"Well I figured when we do have kids that we wouldn't want to live in an apartment anymore so what would your dream house be?"
"I've never really thought about it before."
"Close your ideas and just picture a house you would love to live in one day."
So I closed my eyes while Edward whispered things into my ear. I slowly started picturing a house in my mind.
"Two levels," I said
"Mhm go on."
"It has a porch that wraps around the whole house, three bedrooms up stairs and three downstairs too. Also, a big beautiful kitchen. A decent size backyard with possible a tree house and a pool."
"Anything else?" he asked.
"Yes, it's not near the city." I replied.
As much as I used to complain about Forks when I was a teenager but now I realized it was better to raise your kids there then the city cause to me, city kids always seemed so rude and bratty to me, and I did not want my kids to turn out like that.
We continued swimming until we were both feeling hungry; we decided to order room service then have a nap. I woke up snuggled in Edwards's arms on the couch; I stayed there just watching him sleep so peacefully.
It was nearly four so I decided to wake him up.
"Edward, baby, wake up." I whispered.
"Eddie, Eddie wake up." I whispered louder.
"Do not call me that." He said opening one eye before launching himself on me tickling me everywhere.
"Edward ssssstop." I said in between giggles.
"Fine, fine I'll stop. We should probably get dressed and head out to the pier." Edward said and I just nodded rolling away from him before hoping off the bed. I walked over and pulled out my red strapless belted dress with the right panties and bra to go underneath it before heading to the bathroom to get changed.
"You can change in front of me you know." Edward shouted from the bedroom making me laugh.
I quickly changed and headed out to find Edward ready to go wearing a nice blue button down shirt paired with his khakis.
"Ready?" I asked and he nodded extending his arm out for me, which I gladly took and we headed off to the pier.
We spent a few hours at the pier; we walked along the front of the water first just checking everything out before heading over to the Aquarium which I had lots of fun at.
We then headed off to Surf View Café for some dinner; we both had burgers, fries and shakes. And it tasted oh so good. We skipped dessert voting to have ice cream later on the Pier.
We had lots of fun at the amusement park Edward even won me a giant ass panda at the ring toss, though it did take him a few go's but he was determined to win me something, I was fine with a little dog but no Edward had to get the giant Panda. He would be carrying it back on the plane not me.
The next day we just drove around, we went to Malibu and checked that out, then we also checked Venice beach. In West Hollywood, we walked up and down the Hollywood walk of fame seeing all the stars that were there. We just drove around LA having a lot of fun just being your typical tourist and we blended in with the many other tourists that where there.
We even bought a Hollywood star home map and did a little stalking, drove past the playboy mansion as well and Edward swears he saw a few playmates walking up the gate, when I questioned him about how he would know he responded with, "I'm a male what do you expect," while shrugging his shoulders just making me laugh.
We ended up having a nice dinner at Lula Cocina Mexicana, where I think we had the best Mexican food we ordered quite a bit of food but we shared it between the both of us. We got chicken and beef taco's, mushroom and grilled eggplant quesadillas, Guacamole with tortilla chips and then had a yummy chocolate espresso brownie and a Pastel De Caramela which is a yummy shortbread crust filled with layers of caramel and Mexican chocolate and topped with caramel whipped cream. It was oh so yummy and hard to share either dessert with Edward but I somehow managed too.
After dinner we took a nice little romantic walk along the beach.
"Have you had a good time?" I asked as we walked.
"I've had a blast, thank you for doing this Bella."
"No problem Edward."
"Have you enjoyed it?" he asked and I nodded before resting my head on him.
"I have. It was nice to get away and just talk and I know now that I'm ready for whatever our family throws at us and what life does too. It's been hard with your long hours but it makes the time I have with you so much better, more special and I love you Edward, I really do."
"I love you too, Bella." Edward said as he kissed my head.
We arrived back in Seattle Sunday afternoon, we both had to work tomorrow so we had a quite night and actually went to bed early too. Alice had texted wanting to know if I wanted to do lunch tomorrow I replied Yes and told her I'd invite Angela too so I didn't have to repeat myself.
I arrived at Seastar Restaurant and Raw Bar which is this amazing sushi bar we ordered a mixture of food, well honestly Alice did she took off ordering really enough food for ten people.
She ordered Putaportiwon's crispy calamari poppers, truffle potato chips, Spider Roll, NYC Bagel Roll, Seattle Fireworks, Crunchy Roll, Rainbow Roll and a Thai Seafood salad.
"Alice that is a lot of food." I said.
"Well whatever we don't finish off you can just take home for Edward I'm sure he'd enjoy that." Alice said we a smile and I just nodded.
"Alice you have to tell us all the gossip on Edward growing up, he can't be that perfect all the time, can he?" said Angela
"Well there's not much to say really, he only had one girlfriend named Baeli but they broke up junior year I think? They both claimed it was because they felt more like brother and sister than boyfriend and girlfriend I'm not sure if they still keep in contact they used to see each other at least once a year to catch up. After Baeli he just didn't really date.
Not saying the girls didn't throw themselves at him because they certainly did, but he just never seemed interested in them. Granted they were all gold digging whores anyway, they tried everything to get Edward they even tried befriending me but I saw through their act, besides they weren't that smart probably still living off mummy and daddy's money while screwing rich married men and god knows what disease's they have now."
"I'm so glad he married you Bella." said Alice.
"What now that you know I'm not a gold digger?" I said jokingly.
"What?" asked Angela.
I recounted the fateful night that Alice and I met which had Angela both shocked and laughing at the same time.
"How was the trip away?" asked Alice
"Oh yes, tell us what did you get up to? Did you have fun? Any fights?" Angela asked.
"The trip was amazing! Santa Monica is just beautiful I just loved it and so did Edward. We explored the Pier and had a blast at the amusement park and then at the games arcade, we also went to the Aquarium. We drove around the next day going from Malibu to Venice to west Hollywood, we also explored the Hollywood walk of fame and did one of those Hollywood stars home tours.
We've also decided that were going to tell our family in 3 weeks since Edward doesn't have a weekend off till then. I'm just hoping Charlie won't want to kill him, hopefully Sue will be there to restrain him with the help of Seth and Leah too."
"Seth, Leah, Sue?" asked Alice
"Oh right sorry Sue is my Step-mum and Leah and Seth are my step brother and sister."
"How long have they been together?"
"Well they got married when I was ten so they've been married fourteen years now. Sue's first husband Harry died two years before her and Charlie got married."
"And you're mum?"
"She's in Florida married to a guy named Phil, who Renee met in Forks he was passing through, they kept in contact. A few months later she moved to be with him and I stayed behind. My parents were never married though everyone did assume they were due to them having a baby together but they did live together but slept in separate rooms, they broke up a while after I was born and it was just easier for Charlie to move rooms instead of Renee moving out."
"Why didn't you go?"
"I thought about it Renee and Charlie sat me down and talked to me about it all but I decided to stay with Charlie in the end, we were alike and I thought Charlie needed someone with him so I stayed and I didn't want to leave him alone. I'd spend 2 holidays out of the year with Renee but overall I preferred staying with Charlie. They told me that I could change my mind whenever I wanted, to and go and live with Renee."
"So have you decided how you're going to tell everyone?" Angela asked
"Not really, I guess invite them all out for dinner, easier to tell them at once maybe with an audience so Charlie won't try to do anything drastic."
"I know we can do a family dinner, I'll take care of it all, I'll also invite Emmett and Rosalie. Well that's if you're alright with that?"
Honestly I was scared about meeting Rosalie from what I had heard she was a bitch and I was sure that I would be called a gold digger from her.
"Don't worry about Rosalie, she can come across like a bitch that has no feelings what so ever but once you get to know her you find out that she's actually one of the best friends you could ever ask for and I'm not saying that because she's Jasper's cousin."
I smiled, "Sure it's fine just let me know that details to pass along to Sue and Charlie."
"You're more than welcome to come along and to bring Ben too." Alice said to Angela who nodded.
"Thanks I'll see if Ben is free the weekend or not."
"Also I had an idea but it's up to you and Edward if you want to go along with it or not. But I was thinking we could throw a party kind of like a late wedding reception, but of course it's totally up to you and Edward if you want to or not." Alice said.
"I'll think about it and talk it over with Edward and let you know okay?" I said and Alice nodded.
"That's fine it's up to you."
"We should do a group date sometime soon." Angela suggested.
Alice and I nodded agreeing, "How about sometime after our weekend in Forks?" I said and the girls nodded.
Surprisingly we managed to eat all the food that Alice had ordered.
"Ok my times up I need to go back to work." I said.
"Yeah me too I'm covering a shift this afternoon." Angela said as we gathered our things ready to leave the restaurant.
I hugged the girl's goodbye and headed back off to work, it was a peaceful afternoon and come five o'clock I was ready to head on home and just cuddle up with Edward on the couch but he wouldn't be home for another few hours.
I must have fallen asleep at one point as I awoke to Edward shaking me; I smiled when I saw him before moving to let him sit with me while I snuggled into him.
"How was your day?" I asked him.
"It was okay no one died so that's a good thing." he said before kissing my head "How was yours?"
"It was good, not extremely busy at the bookshop and lunch with Alice and Angela was good. Alice is organizing the dinner in Forks for us so her and Jasper will be there and I think she's inviting Emmett and Rosalie too."
"Don't worry about Rosalie okay?" Edward said and I nodded I was trying not to but it was hard.
"Also Alice wants to throw us a party as a late wedding reception I told her I'd think about it and talk to you."
"It could be a good thing to do, kind of like sorry you weren't there but hey let's party." Edward said making me laugh, he let out a yawn.
"Come on hot shot let's get you to bed you're tired."
"Not too tired for sex." Edward responded as he pulled me up from the couch.
"Yeah you're not getting lucky tonight, you'd fall asleep mid-way through anyway well that's if you can go more than a minute," I said before racing away.
"I would so last a minute." Edward yelled out as he locked up the house before finally coming up stairs. He had a quick shower before joining me in bed, he pulled me close to him and I snuggled into him making myself comfy.
"I love you."
"Love you too Bella." He responded kissing my head as we drifted off to sleep.
Hope you all enjoyed that chapter, reviews=happy me XD. Thank you to by beta StewLoveeX for her amazing job on this chapter. Teaser as always on wednesday and update on friday.