Jake's POV
Bella decided the only place she will let Lexi met her grandmother is at mine and Leah's house. A public place was too risky since there is really no way to keep Marcus from being there and her house was out since she doesn't want to see the woman.
Leah just went to stay with Bella since she's a nervous wreck and Sam and Lexi are on their way here. Lexi made me promise not to start dinner so I'm just sitting and waiting and hoping this goes well. I can't believe Bella even agreed to it.
Soon they show up and the three of us start dinner. Lexi is so nervous she can't really focus so Sam convinces her to let me make dinner and she sits at the table and draws. She loves to draw and paint and lately she's been showing a lot of interest in photography. She was going to work with Bella on the weekends before Bella had to stop working.
Just before dinner is ready the doorbell rings and Sam goes to answer it. Lexi won't leave the kitchen.
"Lex, you wanted to do this, you have to go meet her. I'll finish up in here, Sam is out there and if you feel uncomfortable you can come right back in here." I convince her.
"Come with me Jake. Daddy can finish dinner. I want you." Oh he'll love that. Just as Bella stopped running to me for everything, Lexi started.
I go get Sam and tell him she needs him in the kitchen and once he comes back in she tells him she wants me to go out there with her and he's actually relieved because he's not liking this woman anymore than Bella seems to.
We walk into the living room and she gets off the couch and tries to hug Lexi but she hides behind me. This woman obviously does not know kids.
"I'm sorry Alexandra, I'm just so happy to meet you!" She's crying but I'm not really feeling the sympathy I probably should.
"Lexi. And I should call you?" Lexi has an attitude probably because this woman tried to attack her.
"You can call me grandma." She's not picking up on the attitude…
"Real name please? I hardly know you." She's slowly coming out from behind me but she's still holding onto my arm.
"Carol." She says coldly. This is going so well.
Finally Sam comes out to tell us dinner is ready and we all sit down to eat. Conversation is slow and awkward and Lexi and Carol don't seem to like each other much. Sam and I catch Carol up on Lexi's life and Lexi responds to everything with one word answers. Bad first impression and she hates you for life. Sam seriously has no idea how lucky he is they both liked him so quickly. Or at all.
Dinner drags on and after we are done we all move to the living room.
"Alexandra," Carol starts and Lexi glares at her, "I'm sorry, Lexi, I am so sorry me and you dad haven't been a part of your life up until the point…" at which point Lexi interrupts her and tells her Sam is her dad, "but we would both very much like to be from now on. I am dying as I'm sure you know and my greatest hope is that you can have a relationship with your REAL father once I am gone." Sam and I are sitting there shocked and Lexi calls her a bitch and runs into my room and locks the door.
"I'm sorry about her calling you a bitch but I assumed you knew that neither her nor Bella want or will allow Marcus to be a part of her life. And he agreed to that before we agreed to this. You should probably just go now because I can assure you Lexi will not leave that room until you are gone. I'm sorry this didn't go better." Sam is trying to be nice about it but you can tell he's mad.
"He is her father." She tries.
"He walked out on them! I was the one that went to all her doctor appointments, I was the one that was with her the day she had Lexi. I woke her up with Lexi in the middle of the night when she was a baby; I was there when she was sick. I took her to her first day of school! Bella is an awesome mother but when she couldn't be there I was." Sam's looking at me like where the hell are you going with this? "Then Sam came along and he has been there for Lexi ever since. He is her dad. The only one she has ever had and the only one she will ever accept. He would do anything for her and he would never walk out on her."
"She's lucky to have both of you. But Marcus is sorry." She's not so determined anymore, she's knows she lost already.
"He probably could have come back while Bella was pregnant or even after Lexi was born and Bella would have been hurt and angry but she would have let him in her life. But after 8 years all he is, is drama that no one needs. You need to leave my house now."
"I never meant to upset her. You have no idea how hard it is to know your own son turned his back on his child and child's mother. I just wanted to make things right. I'm sorry." She's crying and I almost feel bad. She is dying after all.
After she leaves Sam goes to knock on my bedroom door telling Lexi through the door she is gone but she won't come out. The lock is one that you can open from the outside but he doesn't want to force her out.
I call Bella, tell her everything that happened then slide the phone under the door for Lexi to talk to her. She finally comes out red and puffy and runs to Sam, buries her face in him and mumbles that she's sorry about calling Carol a bitch. Sam tells her she shouldn't of said it, and not to say it again, but she was right so he's not mad.
"I don't have to see him do I Daddy?" And he tells her of course not. "Do I have to see her anymore?" And he reminds her that it was her idea to see her this time.
"I'm tired, can we go home? I want to see Mommy."
She hugs me good bye and they leave. I clean up the kitchen and call Bella while I wait for Leah.
A/N I think I am going to kill either Bella or Jake. I have a storyline in mind for both possibilities. Who would you rather I kill?