Chapter 16
(EPOV)
While Bella was sleeping, I decided to check out our bank account. So far for Christmas, she spent $106,250.00! That was pocket change to me. I'm glad that she had fun, because she deserved it. "Hey babe, how much damage did I do?" I turned to her and said "In one day, you spent over One hundred thousand." Her jaw dropped. "I am so sorry! I just got carried away!" I started laughing. "I am telling you now, do not worry about money! We have a hell of a lot more. Spend as much as you want!" I got up and kissed her. "I'm dead serious. Spend whatever you want. Now, let's go get you breakfast." She put on her robe and we went downstairs.
(BPOV)
"Look who is finally awake! Morning sleeping beauty." Emmett said giving me a hug and kiss. I started blushing and everyone laughed. After I ate breakfast, I ran up for a shower. Chloe walked in the room while I was drying my hair and getting dressed. She stepped aside and my babies ran to me. "I missed you guys yesterday!" The next thing they said, made my jaw drop. "Us too mommy!" I started crying. Edward walked in and smiled at us all. He and Chloe took the kids downstairs. I finished getting dressed and went downstairs. Alice ran over to me. "Come on slow poke!" We ran outside and opened the truck. It was jam packed. The guys started sorting the bags and separating them. We each stored our stuff in the apartments that weren't being used at the moment. I looked at the apartment after I put my stuff in there and saw that the living room was already half full. I decided to go back to our apartment and started decorating our tree. After a couple hours, the whole apartment was decorated. I was so happy! I went downstairs to help with the downstairs decorations. The girls worked on the inside, while the guys did the outside. 5 hours later, everyone was done. The inside of the house looked so beautiful. The guys came in and put their hands over our eyes. Edward helped me walk outside and turned me around. When they took their hands off our eyes, we were in shock. It looked like a winter wonderland. It was magical. We all stood around for a while until we heard the triplets waking up from their nap. I ran in and started making dinner. Esme came in and sat down beside me. "Sweetheart, you look like something is bothering you. Are you ok?" I shook my head and sat down. "It's almost Christmas and I still haven't heard anything from my mother. We were close when I was growing up, but when I got pregnant with Chloe, everything changed." I put my head down and started crying. Edward was next to me in an instant. "What's wrong baby? Are you hurt?" His worried eyes looked me over. I said to him "I'm ok, I just miss my mother." Esme put her arms around me and I broke down crying even harder on her shoulder. Soon, everyone was standing in the kitchen watching me. Edward leaned over and picked me up. "Come on baby, we are going upstairs." I nodded and looked over at Esme. "Don't worry about the babies. We can all watch them. You go rest." Edward ran up the side stairs.
When we got to our room, I started crying again. I don't understand why I am so emotional. I haven't seen my mother in 3 years. Last thing she told me was that she was disgusted with me. Edward laid me down on the bed and got behind me. He held me while I cried. I cried for 2 hours. He just sat there and held me while I let everything out. "How did I get this lucky to have you?" I said to him as I turned over. He chuckled and said "You always had me. It just took us a long time to find each other. You complete me in every way possible." I smiled and snuggled into him. We stayed that way until Alice came in and knocked on our bedroom door. "Come in Alice." She walked in and sat on the bed beside me. "I just came up to see how you are doing and also to tell you that the triplets are looking for you." I sat up and hugged her. "I'm doing a little bit better now." She nodded. I looked over at Edward and said "Come on babe, our kids need us." We went downstairs and the kids came running over to us. We knelt down and hugged them I love my babies more and more each day. Esme came over and hugged me. "How are you feeling dear?" "I'm doing much better. Did the kids eat?" She nodded. "They ate right after you went upstairs." I walked over to the couches and spent the rest of the night playing with the kids. They were crawling all over Edward and I and everyone laughed. The kids started yawning, so we took them up to bed.
(EPOV)
Bella and I cuddled on the couch for a couple hours until she fell asleep. I picked her up and carried her up to bed. After a couple minutes, I snuck downstairs. Chloe was asleep on the couch in Jakes arms, so I sat in the kitchen. All the guys were sitting around. "Who's up for shopping tomorrow? The girls went Friday, so I suggest we go tomorrow. Can't do it during the week, because we have the kids while the girls run the spa." Everyone agreed. Emmett and Jasper went in and started playing video games, Jake carried Chloe up to bed, Carlisle went up to his study, and I went to make a list of stuff that I had to shop for. The women have been sleeping lately, since they are pregnant. Carlisle set up a hospital type doctor's office on the second floor. He is thinking about running a doctor's office business out of the house, but doesn't think it's a good idea. He is still trying to figure out why the women are sleeping all of a sudden. Emmett and Jasper aren't worried about it, because this means no nagging women!
Finally after a couple hours, the women all woke up. Bella came downstairs with the kids in tow. "So, what are your plans today?" she asked. She went over and started making breakfast. "Well, the guys and I are going shopping. We figured we would go today, since you all have to run the spa during the week. Sue and Leah are coming over today to help out." She turned around and looked at me with a funny face. "Why do they have to come over? There are 5 of us and 3 kids." "Well, we figured you would want to wrap the stuff you bought, then you will have more room for when you go shopping this coming weekend." She turned back to breakfast and flipped the pancakes. "Babe, I can watch them and wrap presents. They can just play with some toys while I'm wrapping." I stopped, because I knew it would turn into a fight.
After all the girls were awake, the guys and I took off. We went to hunt first, so that Jacob will be ok around the humans. About 2 hours later, we took off to the mall. I found a beautiful locket for Chloe, a ring for Bella, 2 bracelets for Emily and Carlie, and a cross necklace for Masen. After 2 hours and 20 bags later, we decided to go over to Toys R Us. We all got some toys for the common room and a bouncy house for the playroom. I found a huge ball pit and a playhouse also. The kids were going to have so much fun. We had the stuff delivered to the house. On the way home, we stopped off and did grocery shopping. SAMS Club is easier to shop at, since we had so many people to shop for. Esme, Alice, and Rose seem to be craving human food a lot more now. The babies are half- vampires also. Legends claim that we can't eat human food, since we are suppose to be dead. We can eat it, we just chose not to. To us, it smells really bad. Anyways, after $3,750.00 in food, we were on our way home. Sue stepped outside when we pulled up. "The women are still wrapping presents. They haven't left those rooms in over 4 hours!" We shook our heads and carried everything in.
(BPOV)
The guys decided to go shopping today, so we decided to go wrap the stuff in our rooms. I had so much stuff to wrap. My children were going to be so spoiled this year. I never got to spoil Chloe, so this will definitely be a change. After 4 hours, I had everything wrapped 2/3 of the room was full. I carried all the presents into one of the bedrooms and locked the door. Alice promised she wouldn't look into the future to see what everyone got. I just hope she keeps that promise. I heard loud talking as I came downstairs, so I knew the guys were home. Before I knew it, Edward had me into a hug and kissed me. "I missed you all day!" I giggled and blushed. "Me too!"