New chapter up. yaaay. Right, this is going to be the last chapter for a while. firstly because i havent started the 9th chapter yet, and secondly have so much work that i HAVE to do for college. and i have a exam in a few weeks to revise for. So savor this on, becasue it might be the last one you get for about 3 weeks. I know im sorry, but i promise i will update multiple chapters after my exam is over.
well anyway here is the next chapter, i hope you enjoy it.
AN: Right, just so everyone knows. Naomi's hair in previous chapters is like what Bella's hair in like in the prom scene in the film, but waist length instead of shoulder length. That all you really need to know for this chapter.
"Alice, what have you done to my child's hair" I asked in shock.
Naomi's hair was usually in tight ringlets that went down to her waist, but not it was straight. There wasn't even a tiny bit of curl left in it, and it was almost double the length it was before she went out.
I looked at Alice waiting for an answer.
"Well, I took her to the hair dressers and they said that her hair would look good if they straightened it. It took them hours to do it." She said.
"Alice, she is 5. I don't want her to have her hair like this. Maybe when she is older I would have let her, but not when she is this young. What am I going to do with it when she is in school. You better hope the curls come back when I wash it!" I told her as I turned to walk up stairs with her.
All the Cullen's had en suite bathrooms, so I took Naomi upstairs into Edward room, went into the bathroom and started to draw a bath for Naomi. I couldn't believe that Alice had done this to her hair. I really hoped that the curls would come back after I had washed it, but I knew that they probably wouldn't.
I walked back into Edwards bedroom where Naomi was and asked her about her day with Alice.
"So, apart from Aunty Alice taking all the curls out of your hair. What else have you done today?" I asked her.
"We bought lots of clothes and shoes and stuff. Aunty Alice took me to lunch and uncle jasper bought me a guitar." She said.
"Jasper bought you a guitar?" I asked. I was a little taken aback that she was calling jasper, "uncle" jasper. It felt good that she was starting to see the Cullen's as family and not just people that mommy knew.
Just as she was about to answer, someone knocked the door.
I went to open it to find jasper standing there with a small guitar case in his hands.
"I brought Naomi's guitar up." He said as he handed me the guitar.
"You bought her a guitar?" I asked him as I was slightly confused as to why he had bought it.
"Yea, I thought it would be out uncle-niece bonding thing. I know she likes music, so I thought I would teach her how to play the guitar." He said. I was happy that Jasper was making an effort to get to know Naomi. God only knows what Emmett was going to do.
"Wow Jasper, that is really sweet. She will love that." I said back to him.
"Bella, don't be mad at Alice about Naomi's hair. You know what she is like when she is in one of her shopping days. She cant stop herself." He said. he was obviously reading my emotions.
"I wont be mad at her for long, I just need to try and get some curl back into my daughters hair." I said as jasper turned to leave. I put the guitar onto the bed and walked over to Naomi.
"Right you. get in the bath, lets see if we can get your hair back to normal" I said as I picked her up and threw her over my shoulder and carried her into the bathroom.
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I finished washing Naomi's hair and took her out of the bath. Her hair wasn't as straight as it was when she came home with Alice, which was a relief, but it still wasn't back to normal. I needed some hair moose so that I could get it to curl again.
"Alice" I called from the bathroom. It wasn't to loud but I knew that she would hear me. Just then I heard her running into Edwards room.
"Bella, where are you?" she asked walking through Edwards room.
"In Edward's Bathroom. Can I borrow some moose please, so I can do Naomi's hair." I said. I heard Alice disappear and then she reappeared holing a can of hair moose.
"Bella, I'm sorry that I did that to her hair. I just thought that it would look nice, and well, I thought it looked nice, but you obviously disagree" she said as she walked out of the bathroom.
"I didn't say that it didn't look nice Alice. I just don't want my 5 year old daughter to be using straightens. Maybe when she is older." I had had this conversation with Alice downstairs so I thought I better clear it up now. I could tell that she thought I was mad at her.
"I'm not mad at you Alice, it just took me by surprise that's all. Just don't do anything like this again" I told her and I put some moose in my hands and began to scrunch Naomi's hair so that I would get some sort of wave in it.
I started with the back of Naomi's hair and then made my way to the sides. Only when I started to scrunch the sides, did I notice something again.
There was a small shimmer of gold behind Naomi's hair. Right about where her ear would be.
She wouldn't dare! I thought to myself. I moved Naomi's hair so that I was behind her ears, and sure enough, I saw two gold stud ear rings.
That was it. Naomi had been asking me for months to have her ears pierced, but I had told her she couldn't have them until she was 8. I was so mad right now!
"ALICE! GET UP HERE NOW!!" I knew that I didn't have to scream, but I did just because it made me feel better.
Alice then came into the room with Jasper right behind her.
"Why have you put holes in my child's ears?" I asked Alice.
Jasper was the first one to talk, but he was talking to Alice.
"I told you she would be mad if you did that." he said.
"Damn right I'm mad. How could you do this?" I asked her. I then realised that my daughter was getting off way to easily here. I turned around and looked at her.
"You, young lady are in so much trouble when we get home." I said to Naomi. She didn't way anything, but she did look really upset. I didn't want to make my child unhappy, but she knew that she wasn't allowed to have ear rings.
Suddenly, I felt the my phone begin to vibrate in my bra. I had forgotten that I had put it in there to keep it away from Emmett. I put my hand into my top to get the phone from my bra. It was Edward.
"Hello?" I answered, I tried to hide the anger that I was in my voice.
"Bella, what's the matter?" he asked sounding concerned.
"Its nothing, im just having a bit of a heated discussion with your sister."
"What has Alice done now?" he asked.
"Don't get me started, you will see when you come back. Well, ive nearly fixed one part of what she did." I said.
There was silence on the phone for a few seconds.
"Well, me and Rose have gone a but further than we would have wanted to hunt, so we wont be back till tomorrow morning." He said.
"Well, I could very well be here in the morning, because I need to talk to Alice, and ive made the mistake of giving Naomi a bath this early, now she is going to be asleep within the hour" I said.
"Well then, I will see you in the morning. Love you."
"Love you too, bye" and with that I hung up the phone and turned to face Alice again.
"Alice, I need to talk to you. Jasper, can you take Naomi downstairs." I asked him, he nodded and held out his hand for Naomi. Naomi then took his had and left the room. So that left just me and Alice. Alice was the first to speak.
"Bella, I'm sorry, didn't know you would react like this." I looked at her sceptically.
"No honestly I didn't. I didn't even think you would have noticed." She said.
"Not notice. Alice, you put holes in my child's ears. How am I not going to notice that!" I asked angrily.
"God Bella, calm down. They are only ear rings. It not as if I dyed her hair or anything!" she said back with just as much venom in her voice.
Suddenly my mood changed, and I just wasn't mad at her anymore.
"Your right Alice, I did over react a bit. Just promise me that if you are going to do anything else to my daughters body you will let me know first" I asked her calmly. Alice looked at me slightly confused by my sudden mood change.
"Yea, sure." She said as she walked over to hug me. I hugged her back and then she left the room. I followed her and shouted down the stairs for Naomi to come back up so I could dry her hair.
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After I dried Naomi's hair, and to my surprise, the majority of her curls come back after her hair was dry. They weren't as tight as they were before, but her hair was no longer straight, which was a relief. I took her down stairs and sat in the living room with her. As soon as we went in there, her eyes were instantly drawn to the grand piano that was standing in the middle of the room.
"Mommy, can I play on the piano?" she asked, looking up at me.
"No, its Edwards piano, you will have to ask him if you want to play it." I told her. she broke her gaze from me but continued to look at the piano. I tired to distract her.
"You can watch a movie if you want. Listen, you go and pick one and I will go see if there is popcorn here, Esme wont mind." I said to her. she walked over to the other side of the room where the Cullen's had a very large DVD collection. I walked into the kitchen to look for the popcorn, but before I had change to look for it, I heard Alice shout from upstairs.
"Its in the far left cupboard, right at the top Bella." She shouted.
I smiled as I looked in the cupboard to find a bag of microwave popcorn. I pulled a bag out and put it in the microwave.
As I waited for the popcorn to cook, I listened to the sounds that I could hear in the house.
I could hear Music coming from Alice and Jaspers room.
I could hear music coming from Emmett's room. I laughed out loud just thinking about what Emmett was listening to.
I could hear the piano being played in the living room.
What! Edward wasn't back yet, who was playing the piano?
I Turned around to see Naomi sitting at the huge piano playing a piece of music that I didn't recognise. It could have been one of her exam pieces or some thing.
She saw me standing in the door way to the kitchen and changed the music quickly.
It turned into my Lullaby. That was one of the first things she learnt to play on the piano, and it was all by ear, because I played it so much after Edward had left, she must have just picked it up.
I smiled at her and walked back into the kitchen to get the pop corn. I came back and Naomi was sitting on the sofa with a DVD in her hand. It was a Disney film. "Beauty and the Beast". This was one of my favourite films, and it was Naomi's favourite Disney film. I looked at the clock, it was only 7 o'clock, but I was so tired and I knew that Naomi would be falling asleep soon. I sat Naomi on my lap and watched the film.
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I must have fallen asleep while watching the film. I woke up to find myself lying on the sofa with Naomi nestled next to my chest fast asleep. I looked at the clock, it has just gone 11.30. I only then realised where I was. I forgot that I was in the Cullen's house, I groaned as I stretched trying not to wake Naomi in the process. As I stretched across the sofa, my feet hit something cold at the other end of the sofa, I looked up and Edward was sitting there. He looked at me and smiled.
"Did you enjoy the movie?" he asked me with a smile on his face.
"Obviously, its not often I stay awake while watching a film I like" I said with a smile on my face.
"She looks so much like you when she is asleep." He said looking at Naomi.
"Well, I cant say anything, I don't know what I look like when I'm sleeping. Only you know that." I said.
"Should we move her do you think?" he asked.
"I don't want to, but I know she will moan if she wakes up after sleeping on the sofa." I said as I moved picking Naomi up in the process.
I picked her up and put her on my hip, she grumbled a little as I moved her, but she rested her head on my shoulder and fell back to sleep. Edward walked ahead of me and lead me into his room, where there was a large bed in the middle of the room. I had seen the bed when I was drying Naomi hair, but I had wondered why a vampire, who didn't sleep have a bed in his room. But I didn't ask. I lay Naomi on the bed and watched her as she fell into a deep sleep.
I turned around to face Edward again. I walked towards him, he opened his arms so I could give him a hug.
"When did you and rose get back from hunting?"
"We got back about half a hour ago. When I got back you and Naomi were fast asleep on the sofa. I was going to wake you, but I just couldn't do it, you looked so peaceful" he said. I had my head against his chest, and I was closing my eyes because I was really tired. I really wanted to talk to him, but I really didn't have the energy. I could feel my head starting to fall to one side as I gave into unconsciousness. I felt Edward pick me up before I fell over, he carried me over to the bed and lay me down. I knew that I was next to Naomi because I could smell her hair in my face.
Before I fell asleep properly, the last thing I thought of was how happy I was at this moment. My daughter had a larger family, she was getting along with them. Edward was back in my life, everything was perfect.
A few weeks later.
It had been a few weeks since the whole straight hair and ear ring fiasco, I was quite happy to forget about it, even though Naomi wouldn't let me tough her ears as she feared that I was going to take her ear rings off her.
At the moment, it was only me Emmett and Naomi in the house, Edward was in he Garage with Rosalie tuning up the cars. Alice had dragged Jasper shopping.
To my relief Naomi was finally starting to come around to Emmett. At this preset time, Emmett had Naomi on his lap reading her a story. They had yet to find a thing that they could do together. Jasper was teaching Naomi to play the acoustic guitar, Alice and Rose were teaching Naomi fashion skills which I wasn't to impressed about but, Naomi seemed to enjoy it. And Edward was giving her extra Piano lessons. I had to admit, she sounded pretty good. And Carlisle and Esme were just spoiling her.
While in my little moment, I was brought back to the present when I started to think about something.
"Emmett. What is the date today?" I asked
" it's the 19th. Why?" he asked sounding a little confused.
With out saying anything I got up and walked and picked up my car keys.
"Emmett, can you watch Naomi fro a while. If you need anything Edward is in garage, but I got to go." I said as I walked out.
Emmett didn't say anything else, well I didn't really give him chance to because I was soon out the door and in my car.
I drove to the pharmacy and looked around until I found what I was looking for. A pregnancy test. My period was over a week late now and I was never late. I picked up the pregnancy test and took it to the counter to pay.
I thought about what it would mean if I was pregnant. Its not that I didn't want another baby, its just that well, would I be able to afford another baby. If I was pregnant I would find a way around that, but it was just a worry.
I got back to the house and Edward didn't even notice that I had gone, Emmett was still sitting in the living room with Naomi, they were now watching TV. Emmett looked at me as I walked in, but didn't say anything to me. I walked upstairs to do the pregnancy test.
As I waited for the pregnancy test to finish, someone knocked on the door to Edwards bathroom.
"Bells, are you ok?" it was Emmett. I knew he would be concerned, he was nearly as over protective of me as Edward was.
I opened the bathroom door and looked at him.
"I think I'm pregnant." I whispered. Before Emmett could say anything I held my finger to my lips telling him to be quiet. He pouted. The time was up on the test, I walked back into the bathroom and looked at the little stick. "Yea, I thought so!" I said to myself as I walked out of the bathroom again. Emmett was there waiting for a answer. I nodded and he picked me up into a huge bear hug. He put me down after spinning me around a few times.
"Emmett, you are the only one who knows now, so you cant tell anyone. Not even Rose. I will tell Edward by the end of the week, but this is out little thing until I do that. ok?" I said. Emmett nodded enthusiastically.
Great, I'm going to have another baby.
This is quite a long chapter it took me a while to write. Like i said at the top of the page, you may not see me for a while, but i m going to keep wrting, im just not goiing to update untill after i have done my exam. Just because im not going to be updating, doesnt mean that you dont have to reveiw. Im expecting reveiws people.
Ly all and thanks for reading. see you soon.
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