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Chapter 6

Alice's POV

"Bella!" Emmett yelled getting up and running to her, ready to crush her with one of his bear hugs, while she gracefully moved escaping his embrace. We all stared surprised. Was she that mad at us? Not that she didn't have reasons but still…

"Emmett!" Bella scolded him. "She's asleep. Don't scream!" She whispered.

"Sorry. Can't I hug you?" He was hurt by her action and his voice showed it. He never stopped thinking of Bella as his baby sister. None of us did.

"Not while I'm holding a very fragile half human girl. You would crush her." Bella explained.

"Oh." Realization dawning on his face. "Can I take a look?" He asked glancing at the little girl.

"Sure" Bella said. Emmet got closer and took a peek.

"Wow. She's so tiny." He commented in daze touching the girl's small hand that was on Bella's shoulder.

"She's only four Emmet." Bella spoke shaking with a silent laughter. "And compared to you…" She commented looking at Emmet's huge hand next to the little hand of the girl.

"It's so good to see you again Bella." Esme said getting up from the couch were she was sitting and walking towards Bella. Looking at the little girl in Bella's arms, Esme could barely conceal her excitement. "She's gorgeous Bella and you look absolutely stunning."

"Thanks Esme." She replied embarrassed. I bet she would be blushing if she could.

"Yeah Bella but you could wear something more interesting. C'mon, jeans and a top? That's boring." I commented looking at her jeans and her midnight blue tank top, she could do so much better.

"What do you suggest Alice?" She asked amused.

"You would look amazing in a mini-skirt or…" She had great legs, why not show them? She can't possibly still think she's not beautiful…

"Alice, I'm the mother of three very energetic kids. Wear mini-skirts would not be appropriated and it would make taking care of them a lot more difficult." She explained. Well it made sense. I will stop for now but I will not give up.

"Do they usually take a nap in the afternoon?" I asked curious. I was dying to know everything about my nieces and nephew.

"No, but last night they didn't sleep very well." She clarified. What had happened?

"Why? Were they sick?" Carlisle questioned worried.

"No, no… huh… they just… had a … nightmare." Then before we could ask anything else her cell started ringing. "Would you mind holding her?" She asked Esme. She didn't even need to ask. I was sure Esme would not mind a bit.

"Of course not." Esme responded eagerly, gently picking the little girl from Bella's arms. Bella quickly took the cell out of the front pocket of her jeans and answered it.

"Hello"

"Bella, it's Luke." Hearing this, Edward shot me a worried glance.

"What happened? Is everything ok? Did they wake up?" Bella sounded really worried.

"It's fine Bella. They're still sleeping. I just called to know if Lizzie had already fallen asleep."

"Oh. Yeah, she did." Bella responded relieved.

"You worry too much Bella."

"When it comes to them there is no such thing as 'worry too much'. You know that."

"You're right."

"Look I'm going to take a little longer that I thought. If they start to wake up call me. I'll go home immediately. I want to be there. They might get scared if I'm not."

"Sure. Bye."

"Bye." She ended the call and put the cell back into her pocket. Esme put the little girl still asleep in Bella's arms again.

"Who's Luke?" Jasper asked. He knew we all wanted to know for sure who Luke was and I'm sure his power allowed him to fell Edward's apprehension.

"He's like a brother. He has been helping me since I found out I was pregnant. I would have died without him." Edward's face was a mask of horror, guilt, pain and jealousy, but there was also some relief.

"Why don't you take a seat Bella?" Esme invited.

"Can I lay her on the couch?" Bella asked looking at the little girl.

"Of course but if you prefer to put her in a bed upstairs…" Carlisle offered.

"No, here is fine. She might wake up and get scared." Bella carefully laid the girl on the couch in front of the one where Jasper and Edward were seated, adjusting the blanket so that it covered the girl's entire body except the head. I took my place next to Jasper and Esme next to Carlisle and Rosalie.

"Can I hug you now?" Emmett pouted.

"I guess…" Bella managed to say before Emmett engulfed her in one of his bone crushing hugs.

"Stop Emmett you're crushing her." Rosalie told him.

"Sorry Bells." He told to a shaken Bella, putting her feet back on the ground. I glanced at Edward and there it was jealousy again. He wished he could do that. He was such an idiot for leaving Bella. If he hadn't done it, he wouldn't be this emotional mess.

"Alice told us you have one more girl and a boy." Carlisle said encouraging her to speak while she sat next to where her daughter was laying. We want to know more about her, her kids, their life. Everything we have been missing.

"Yes I do. They are at home with Luke."

"What are their names?" Rosalie asked thrilled.

"This is Elizabeth Alice, but we just call her Lizzie." She said stroking the little girl's brown hair. Her hair was just like Bella's. "The boy is Lucas Anthony though we call him Luke; the other girl is Lillian Esme, but she goes by Lilly." She said. Oh! She had named her daughters after me, Esme and Rose.

"Lillian? That's my …" Rosalie trailed off

"Your middle name. I know. As you can't have kids I thought maybe you would have liked if I gave your names to my daughters." She explained. I couldn't believe. After all we had done to her she still did this? I also noticed that her son's middle name was Edward's middle name as well, Anthony.

"Thank you so much Bella." Rosalie said getting up and hugging Bella.

"Did you name your boy after your brother?" Jasper asked, referring to Luke.

"Yes. After all he did for me and for my kids it was the least I could do. Besides I like the name." She smiled weakly.

"I'm sure they're gorgeous too." Esme stated.

"I… I have some pictures in the car. I'll go get them. Watch her please." She left the room. Edward followed her with his eyes until she was out of sight. Then he just stared at the floor. He hadn't said anything yet.

"Are you just going to sit there and look at her or are you actually going to say something?" I asked him.

"I don't know what to say. She's just so beautiful. And I…" he stopped when Bella came back in.

"Here." She handed the photos to Esme and went back to her seat next to her daughter while everyone got up and gather around Esme to look at the pictures. Edward was the only one who didn't move. He kept staring at Bella and the little girl. There was so much in his eyes: love, sorrow, pain, amazement, uncertainty… He still didn't believe the kids were his!

"Oh my…!" Esme exclaimed. She was holding a photo of the triplets; the boy was right in the middle. "He looks so much…" Bella stiffened and Edward looked at Esme, probably seeing the image on her mind.

"See for yourself!" I said taking the picture from Esme's hands and handing it to Edward.

"This is not possible." He looked at the picture with disbelief. When would he stop denying what everybody had already accepted?

"I think it is Edward." I told him. He had to start doing something.

"Are they mine?" He asked looking at Bella straight in the eyes, for the first time. I can't believe! It's the first thing he says to her and he's practically accusing her of cheating on him, when he was the one who left her.

"Are you really asking me that? I don't know. Let me see." She replied ironically, taking the picture from his hand and looking sarcastically at him. She took a quick glance at the picture and threw it back to him murmuring "Just like I thought. I had the impression you knew at least a bit about genetics."

"I know about genetics. What I want to know is if they are my kids." He spoke desperate, the uncertainty was killing him.

"That or right after you left I went to bed with a vampire that looked just like you." She said angry. "You're right. The second guess is a lot more likely." She finished, irony dripping of her voice. I had never seen Bella like that. She was really mad. I think I would be too if I was in her place.

"It's not possible. Vampires can't have kids." He muttered

"You don't believe it? He looks so much like you it hurts. It's fine for me. I'll leave. Shouldn't have come anyway." She said turning her back to Edward and going to pick her sleeping daughter.

"Wait!" Edward shouted. Bella quickly turned facing him again.

"Don't scream!" She hissed.

"Mommy" The little girl called waking up.

"See what you did." Bella said harshly to Edward, knelling in the ground close to her daughter's head. "Mommy's here honey." She said sweetly, kissing the girl's forehead.

"Where are we? Are we at home?" Lizzie asked with a sleepy voice.

"No honey we are not at home. You should sleep a bit more. I promise when you wake up again we'll be at home." Bella said, caressing her daughter's hair.

"Okay mommy. I love you."

"Love you too sweetie. Sleep tight." Bella kept stroking the girl's hair until she fell asleep again.

"I'm sorry Bella."

"Save them. I don't need your apologies Edward. I never did."

"I want to apologize, Bella. I know it's not enough… We should talk…"

"There is nothing to apologize for. You didn't love me and you left. And we don't have to talk about anything." It seemed like she just wanted to end this and leave.

"Of course we do. We have three kids; I think we have a lot to talk about."

"We haven't talked in five years and everything is just fine."

"I don't agree. You needed me and I wasn't there."

"I managed. I won't say it wasn't hard because I would be lying." That shocked us because for the first time she wasn't hiding anything. "I have to hear everybody talking and whispering about me, while I walk in the street or when I take the kids to the kindergarten. The poor girl who was left by her boyfriend when she was pregnant and is living with her brother, raising three kids. It was disturbing but Luke helped me get through it. I'm used to it by now." This was awful. How could she get used to it? How could people be so mean? I can't imagine how much Bella must have suffered. Edward was horrified. Just like all of us.

"I didn't know Bella. I'm sorry" He apologized.

"That won't change anything now. I need to leave." Where did she think she was going? This conversation was far from finished.

"No Bella!" Edward said grabbing her wrist. "As I said, we have to talk."

"Let go of me." She said trying to break free. "What do you want to talk about?" He released her wrist.

"I want to meet them. Can you bring them tomorrow?" He asked with hope filling his voice.

"I don't know. "

"What? Bella, I want to meet them. They are my kids too!" He said indignant.

"Why? So that you can leave them when you get bored? Just like you did with me?" Those words surprised us. Especially Edward. Was this what she thought? How much had she suffered because of my brother's stupidity?

"No Bella. I won't leave. I will never leave again. I promise." Edward said in despair.

"Stop! Your promises are empty. I don't believe in you anymore. I will not let you do to them what you did to me."

"Bella I want to meet them." He insisted.

"I want a lot of things too. But guess what? I can't get them."

"I'm their father. I have rights!"

"What rights? What have you done to be their father? You think that the fact that they share your genes makes you their father? God Edward! You were never there! You never did anything for them. You didn't comfort them, you never played with them. They don't know you!"

"I didn't know you were pregnant." He replied.

"That doesn't change the fact that you weren't there for them!"

"What do they know about us? About me?"

"Your names." She answered curtly. Was that all they knew? Why?

"What? Did they never ask about me?"

"They did."

"And what did you told them?" She seemed to be afraid of answering.

"The truth. That you didn't love me so you left before I found out I was pregnant." She answered furiously.

"Why didn't you look for us?"

"First you're not the easiest people to find and second I didn't want you to stay with me just because we had kids! You don't love me but I knew that if you found out I was pregnant you would stay because of them or you would take them away from me. I didn't want that to happen. I won't let that happen." She still thinks about that as a hypothesis. They we're so mad I don't even now how they could control their voice, they were whispering.

"I would never take them away from you." He tried to tell her. By now their faces were really close. If I didn't know what was going on I would say they were about to kiss.

"I don't know. I can't trust you anymore. I don't know what you're capable of anymore. I don't know you." These words hurted him more than anything. They hurted all of us. Only now we were realizing how big our mistake was, how much our departure affected Bella. She's not as strong as she wants us to think.

"Please Bella. I'll beg if I have to."

"I don't want you to beg. I'm not doing this as revenge! I would never use my own kids. Besides you did what your heart told you. You stopped loving me and you left. I understand. I wouldn't want to make you unhappy. I wouldn't make you stay. I'm just trying to protect them. I'm not going to put them through this. I can't risk their happiness."

"Please Bella, stop saying I don't love you! I do! I won't leave. Please let me get to know them. Let me see them. Let me see you."

"You don't love me Edward! I will think about bringing them. I have to talk to Luke. It's his decision too."

"Bella!" He exclaimed desperate.

"I have to go now." She said looking him in the eyes.

"No!" He closed the small space that was still between them and kissed her. Oh my!! First she kissed back but then pulled him away.

"Stop Edward. Don't make this harder. I really have to go!" She begged dry sobbing. She picked the little girl carefully wrapping the blanket around her small body and turned to Edward one more time.

"Please Bella…"

"Just know that if I bring them tomorrow it's not for you. It will be because I think it's the best for them." She was starting to get mad because of the kiss.

"Please Bella, bring them. We will not leave again." I promised. Even if she didn't believe in Edward, she believed in me, right?

"I'll do what I think it's best for my kids. If I come and bring them, please be careful with the way you greet them." First I thought it was an odd request but when she glanced at Emmett I understood her concern.

"Bye." She said running to her car, holding my niece and leaving us standing in the room.

Edward sat back in the couch with his head on his hands murmuring "How could I leave her? What have I done? "

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