Chapter 12.
Right, new chapter up. It took a little while, but you have all been patient with me. This is the first time that I have done this, but I'm going to say thanks to people who have reviewed the last chapter. holnico gave me some ideas about what I could put into the this chapter. I tried my best, but im really going to need your reviews now to make sure that I write the next chapter right.
Anyway, im going to stop babbling on now and going to let you enjoy the chapter.
6 months down. 3 to go. I was starting to get really fed up of being pregnant. I was having really big mood swings which is why Jasper has stayed away from me over the past few weeks.
I had started to get a bad back from carrying the baby. And I had no clothes to wear because nothing fitted me any more. Sure I had bought maternity clothes, but my bump wasn't the problem.
My boobs had gotten huge in the last few months. I knew that my boobs were going to get bigger when I was pregnant, but this was taking the piss a little bit. I had gone from a B cup to a D in a few weeks so all my clothes pushed them up and make me look like a had a push up bra on, which I didn't. I didn't want people looking at me like that.
I needed to go shopping. I know I hate it, but I need new clothes or at least I needed new underwear just so I could stop drawing attention to my chest.
I put on the seventh top this morning and it made me look like a tart. I took the top off again and threw it back into my closet.
"Aghhhh" I yelled at the top of my lungs in pure frustration. I should have known that someone was going to hear me. They could probably hear me breathing for crying out loud.
"Bella are you ok?" Alice had come upstairs to see if I was ok.
I was standing in my bed room with a bra and a pair of jeans on. I didn't have a problem about being in my underwear with Alice, she had seen it all before as I was her personal Barbie doll.
"No Alice, I don't have anything to wear" oh great I was crying now. Damn mood swings.
Alice came over and hugged me.
"Bella you have loads to wear. We only went shopping a few days ago." She said looking throw my clothes that I had thrown all over the floor.
She found a top that I did like but like all my other tops, my boobs ruined it.
"Put this one on" she instructed.
I did as I was told, she would soon see why I had thrown it on the floor.
The top that she had given me was just a plain red tee shirt. Normally it looked great when I wore it with a waistcoat and jeans. But being pregnant really didn't make the outfit look good.
I turned around and looked at Alice. And just with all my other outfits, by boobs were not willing to co-operate.
Most girls wouldn't complain if they had big boobs. But it didn't suit me. I was small and slight so big boobs did not look right on me. Plus they would always bring unwanted attention when I was out in public. From men in particular.
Alice looked at me and nodded her head.
"Ok I see what your problem is, but there isn't a lot you can do about it. The only thing that I can suggest is if you wear a scarf or something just so you can. cover them up" she said shrugging her shoulders.
"A scarf. Alice it is the middle of July, do you know how silly I will look if I go out of the house with a scarf on." I said back.
I listened back to what I had just said. Was it honestly July. Had the months gone that fast. Then I remembered why I had panicked about the date.
"Alice what's the date?" I asked her.
"It's the 10th of June. Why?" she asked. Sounding a little confused by my sudden obsession with the date.
I gasped. Oh my god! I was a terrible mother. It was Naomi's birthday in 2 days and I had totally forgotten about it.
The tears started to fall again, but these weren't from my mood swings, these were genuine tear of sadness. How could I have forgotten my Child's birthday. I didn't have anything planned.
"Its Naomi's birthday in 2 days Alice. What am I going to do?" I asked through my tears.
"Bella, its going to be fine, don't worry. You have had a lot on your mine recently. You are obviously going to forget something's" she told me. She had come over to me when I had started to cry and was now rubbing my arms.
"Yes Alice, I am going to forget stuff. But my daughters birthday. My. Daughter" I emphasised the last 2 words.
"Bells, its going to be fine. Your not a horrible mother Bella. You have had a lot to deal with. Being pregnant, looking after your child who is more vampire than human" she smiled at me, reassuring me that everything was actually fine.
"Thanks Alice, I still think that we should do something though, she has never gone a birthday without having some sort of party." I said. I should have guessed that Alice's reaction to a party would be a lot of jumping around and screaming.
And that is exactly what she did.
"Alice, you do realise that this party is going to be for a 6 year old. So nothing over the top." I told her.
"Yes Bella, I know that. it wont be anything big just us." She said. her expression then went blank. When she came back she gave me a weak smile.
"What is it Alice?" I asked a bit worried about why she was smiling at me this way.
"You are going to find out in 5...4...3...2…1." she said counting down with her fingers.
The second that she got to 1, Carlisle walked in through the door.
"Alice I've just got off the phone with Tanya. Her and her coven are going to be in the area either tonight or tomorrow, so they are going to stay with is for a while. We haven't seen them in such a long time, it will be nice to see them again." He said.
I looked at Alice and she shrugged her shoulders.
Carlisle was just about to walk out of the room, but then he turned around to talk to me.
"Oh Bella, me and Esme were wondering if we could take Naomi out for the day tomorrow. I know we haven't had that much time with her since you moved in, and Esme wants a opportunity to spoil her." He asked me.
"Yea, Carlisle that would be really nice of you. Thanks." I said. it was nice that Carlisle and Esme would get the chance to spend time with Naomi. She hadn't had the chance to spend a lot of time with them because they both had such busy jobs or Naomi was in school or something like that.
"Great. Ill go tell Esme. And if we take Naomi out or the day, that will give the chance to get to know Tanya." He said smiling as he walked out of the room.
"Great, that isn't going to be a awkward conversation" I said to myself as Carlisle left the room.
Alice just smiled at me.
"Its going to be fine Bella. Tanya is really nice once you get to know her." Alice said.
I wasn't bothered if she was nice or not. I was just a little concerned about how she was going to react to me. I had never met her, but I knew enough about her to know that she had been trying to get her claws into Edward years before he met me. And I wasn't sure if she had given up, even though Edward and I now had 2 children together.
I decided to go down stairs for a while and wait for Edward to come back from hunting with Naomi. Every since the time she went hunting with Edward and Emmett, that is all that she has wanted to do. She didn't like to eat human food anymore, but she needed to. Blood wasn't enough to sustain her. she had tried not to have anything except blood, but it did make her a little ill. When she ate some food again, she was back to normal. So she still needed food just so she could have enough energy to go hunting.
When I got down stairs I saw that Emmett and Jasper were in the living room playing a video game.
"Hey" I said as I walked into the room, knowing that they probably heard me coming down the stairs.
"Hey Bells." Emmett shouted at me, not taking his eyes off the TV screen.
"Did Carlisle tell you that Tanya is going to be in the area soon?" I asked.
"No, he hasn't said anything, but I'm guessing if she is going to be in the area that she is staying her for a few days. Am I right?" Jasper asked.
"Yep according to Carlisle." I picked up one of the Magazines that was on the table and started to flip through the pages.
"Wow, this is going to be a awkward few days for you Bells." Emmett said while laughing. Its nice to know that I was loved!
"Yea, that's what I said. Oh By the way, it Is Naomi's birthday in 2 days and I think Alice is going to organise a party thing, just a little head up if she starts blabbering on about it." I said, not taking my eyes off the Magazine.
Just then the game stopped and Emmett and Jasper walked out of the room.
"Where are you two going?" I asked them.
" Well if it is Naomi's birthday we have to get her a present don't we." Emmett answered and he grinned at me.
"Nothing to big, she is only 6 remember." I shouted as they left the house.
I sat in silence for a few minutes thinking about what was going to happen in the next few days. I had Naomi's party to watch over, because knowing Alice she was going to go way over the top for a child's birthday party.
I had Tanya to worry about. Even though I had never actually met Tanya or the rest of her family I had a strange feeling that she wasn't going to like me.
Disrupting me from my trail of though was the sound of Edward and Naomi coming back from hunting.
"Mommy!" Naomi shouted as she ran through the house.
She ran into the living room and jumped onto my lap. Thankfully she had become a lot better at hunting which meant that she didn't make such a mess with the blood, so that meant less bloody clothes for me to wash.
"Hey sweetie. That's what I like to see. No blood." I smiled at her.
Edward wasn't far behind her and sat on the sofa. I thought that this would be a good time to time to tell him about Tanya and Naomi's Birthday.
" Naomi, go upstairs and see Alice. Tell her that you are back." I told her. I gave her a kiss and she got off my lap and went upstairs.
I went over to sit next to Edward on the sofa.
He put his arms around my shoulder and kissed my head.
"And how was your morning?" he asked me while I traced patters with my finger on his chest.
"Well, I've been crying all morning because I have nothing to wear" I started. Edward looked down at me.
"Well you appear to have clothes on now." He said while smiling.
"Well this is only because Alice made me wear it. Anyway, I forgot that my daughters birthday is in 2 days, so I sort of cries over that too. And then Carlisle told me and Alice that Tanya and her family are staying her for a few days. Isn't that going to be fun" I said the last part with as much sarcasm as I could muster.
He gave me that crooked smile that always made me feel better about myself.
"So I take it Alice is going to be organising a party." he asked.
"Yes she is. She said it is going to be small, but Alice's definition of small and my definition of small are two totally different things"
Edward nodded in agreement. He must have some idea about what Alice is planning. I didn't ask because knowing Alice she was telling Edward to keep his mouth shut in her head. I just had to hope that it wasn't going to be that big a deal.
Later that Night.
It was about half 9 in the night. Naomi was bathed, dressed and ready for bed. At this moment in time, me and Naomi were lying in her bed watching the little mermaid. It was coming to the end of the film. I looked down at Naomi she was curled up at my side. Here eye lids were closed and her breathing was even. She was fast asleep. I lay further down into the bed and held her closer to me. I was really tired tonight. Normally I wouldn't go to sleep until maybe 11, but I was just so tired I couldn't help but get comfy.
Ill get up and go to bed soon.
I thought to myself, but I was soon fast asleep, just like my daughter.
Edwards POV.
I was sitting in the living room with Emmett, Jasper, Alice and Rosalie. Emmett and Jasper were playing video games while Alice and Rose were looking through fashion magazines.
I was sitting at my piano trying to write a lullaby for Naomi. I thought it was only fair since her mother had one, that she should have one too. I was also going to write one for the other baby, but I was going to wait for it to be born before I start writing it.
Bella had decided that she didn't want to know the sex of the baby until it was born. And I wanted what ever she did.
I glanced over to the clock, it was 10 o'clock. Bella had taken Naomi up to bed about 2 hours ago, surly she should have come back down by now.
I put down my manual script and headed upstairs to see where she was.
First of all I checked in our room to see if she was there, but she wasn't.
She must still be in Naomi's room.
I went over to Naomi's room and opened the door. When I opened the door, I saw that Bella had fallen asleep in Naomi's bed. The similarities between Naomi and Bella sleeping were unbelievable. Naomi's hair was spread over Bella's shoulder and one of the pillows.
Bella as always looked beautiful when she was sleeping. Her hair was resting on one of her shoulders and she rested her head just on top of Naomi's. While she had one are wrapped around Naomi holding her close, her over hand was resting on her stomach. She looked so peaceful that I decided that I would leave her sleep. Honestly, I didn't want to wake her and risk facing a moody Bella in the morning. I know that pregnant women had mood swings, but Bella had them really bad. It has gotten to the point that some days Jasper cant even be in the house with her. He goes out when she gets up from bed, and he comes back when she goes to sleep.
I left the room and closed the door behind me and walked back down stairs.
"Did you find Bella?" Emmett asked, still playing video games with Jasper.
"Yea, she fell asleep in Naomi's room. I love her, she is my life, but I'm not going to wake her up and risk her being in a mood tomorrow" I said.
"Good. If you do, you will have to cope with it on your own, because I'm not staying in this house with moody Bella" Jasper said, smiling at me.
I had to say, that Bella's pregnancy was hard on all of us, but even more so for Jasper, because he could actually feel the different moods that Bella was having. I think he will be the happiest (next to me) when the baby is born, because everything else will go back to normal.
I sat quietly watching Emmett and Jasper play video games, that I caught the sound of a familiar car coming around the street. I then remembered what Bella had told me this afternoon about Tanya coming.
"I thought Tanya was coming tomorrow." I said to no one in particular.
"Well, she is here early, obviously." Alice said as she went to open the door.
Just as Alice opened the door Tanya, Kate, Irina, Eleazar and Carmen came through the door. We all went over to greet them. Carlisle and Esme must have heard them as well, as they both came down the stairs to say hello.
After I had welcomed everyone else, I turned my Attention to Tanya.
"Tanya, we really should have so much time between your visits. It has been a while since I saw you last." I Said. The last time I had seen Tanya was when I left Bella. That memory still hurt me. Once I had left I went up to Alaska to stay with Tanya for a while before going my own way.
"Yes Edward we should see each other more often, it has been about 5 or 6 years since I saw you last. Tell me what has been happening with you" she asked, and then she gave me an over friendly hug.
Oh yes, Bella was right. This was going to be fun.
Whoo, this could be interesting. Review this and let me know where you think I should go in chapter 13. I know I said before that something interesting would happen in chapter 13, but as I rewrote chapter 12, the big stuff is going to happen in chapter 14 or 15 now. Sorry.
Anyway, hope to hear from you soon. Ly
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