Chapter Seventeen

Baby Shopping

Nessie

Four days gone and three more to wait was the first thought when we woke up. It's funny how fast you go from I to we when you have a little one growing inside you. She's made her presence known today and for the first time I am obviously pregnant. Nahuel is lying asleep on his side his arm curled protectively around my stomach, this is my family my own not one that I was born into, but one I made.

I smiled watching him as he slept I couldn't help but think of Jake when I was younger, he was like a second father a friend and the first person I loved. I missed him but I didn't really want to go to him because of the baby and Nahuel's jealousy. Or at least that's what I think it is, it might just be some primitive chest beating male thing. "Nahuel?" I call softly and he wakes up.

"The baby?" Are the first words out of his mouth and I smile.

"Look she's showing." I told him and his eyes grew wide in awe.

"Your so beautiful." He told me lifting up my nightgown and gently kissing my stomach. "Our daughter will be too, how could she not be with us as her parents?"

"Isn't that just the littlest bit consented, I prefer your head unswelled." I told him and he smiled at me a wonderful smile that made my heart race.

"Anything for you my lady." He replies. "Now it is time to get you some breakfast." With that he lifted me into his arms and carried me into the kitchen. He had started doing it yesterday when I wanted to go anywhere he would carry me to make sure I didn't tire myself out. I felt as though he was making me out to be much weaker then I actually was. He gave me a blood bag and I drank it. It was nice having our daughter asleep and sitting together.

"I love you." I tell him as he looks confused at the pan holding three eggs. I smile he's so adorable when he gets like this, eventually he cracks the eggs and scrambles them right in the pan. He pulls them out and looks confused.

"Why are they yellow and white?" He asks and I smile.

"Usually you mix them in a bowl first." I reply and we both laugh as I start to eat. Alice interrupts me half way through coming down with this strange shirt pants combo, It looked like what plus sized woman who were still fashion desperate would wear.

"Its time to get out of that nightgown, we are going baby shopping." She clapped her hands and let out a girlish squeal and waited expectantly for me to do the same.

"Alice that's really not necessary we have a bunch of clothes from when I was little, they will fit my child."

"A Cullen wearing second hand clothing? We give away clothes to second hand stores we don't get. You need fashion sense."

"Those outfits have perfect fashion sense and your just trying an excuse to get me out for torture, well I won't have it. I ache all over and feel tired and cranky you are not taking me shopping!" She stared at me but then she smiled again.

"When you got the grumpies all it takes is some shopping to turn that frown upside down." She said and I groaned again.

"She doesn't want to go." Nahuel my night in theoretical shining armor said.

"Well Aunt tops boyfriend, you might be able to regrow yourself, but I can still make you take a little nap if I want to."

"You wouldn't!" I said

"Just try me the gods of shopping convince me to do some pretty scary things." Then she went back to Alice. "Go or else I'll make you go."

"Fine I'll go but Nahuel comes with us." I replied.

"This is going to be so much fun! Those pants and shirts are so last century we should go for something like Jasper wears." She said and Nahuel looked terrified for a moment and I smiled he really would do anything for me, even braving a shopping trip.

"Fine I'll change." I said and went into the spare bedroom getting dressed quickly and going back out again. Alice was smiling car keys in her hand. "What car are we taking?"

"Yours, we traded it in for something more family friendly but its still got plenty under the hood. A hybrid van to be exact." I stare at her she got me a hybrid?

"A hybrid?" I ask and she nods and I smile, I always wanted a hybrid, if your going to live for a few thousand years its best to make your pollution machine as unpolluted as possible. We go to the car together and get inside, Alice drives us and I am content to rest my head against Nahuel as he rubs my feet. They hurt so badly for some reason and are swollen.

We get to the stores in record time and Alice smiles. She opens the door and we step out.

Where are we? Amelia asked the broadcast seems weaker and foggier I assume because she just woke up.

"We are going to get you some clothes sweetie." I reply. "Can you just broadcast to me?"

Yes, its harder though.

"Did you hear that Nahuel?"

"What?" He replied and I smiled.

"Good job sweetie." I told her and smiled gently rubbing my stomach as we went inside.

"Clothes for you first."

"That doesn't make any sense, she will be here in four days from now." I told her and Alice smiled.

"I don't think that she will be her only one."

"I do not need maternity clothes." I said and Nahuel smiled.

"I think you should listen to her Alice."

"Fine then we will go to the baby department." She said and with a toss of her hair moved us leaving us to fallow behind her.

Pretty. Amelia thought looking at the clothes. I like dresses.

"Well looks like you have a shopping partner in crime." I tell Alice and she squeels picking up two dresses from the toddler department.

"This one or this one Amelia?"

I wish I had hands, I like the blue one better though its pretty.

"I like the blue." I replied and she squealed again, Nahuel and I winced.

"Your sense of style is so good, we are going to have fun together." She said.

Tell her thank you and that I look forward to it. I can't broadcast to anyone else yet, its because we are so close that I can do it with you and it tires me.

"Thank you I look forward to it." The next twenty minutes were spent in a whirlwind of looking at different dresses, I would pull ones out of the cart that Amelia didn't like. We got enough clothing for her for several months and I was glad the ordeal was over with. Nahuel was as out of my depth as I and I wondered where our daughter had gotten the shopping gene from.

"Lets get some clothes for Nahuel!" Alice said and practically dragged both of us to the mens department. Alice again asked Amelia's opinion on everything and I was relived when it was over. We took the twenty bags to the car, a whole new wardrobe for most people. We stacked them in the car and then I got to sit down. Nahuel sat next to me but we had just started driving when his head flopped onto my shoulder, I smiled at him he was fast asleep. I put an arm around him and leaned my head against his soon I too drifted into slumber.

The next thing I knew I was being gently shaken away. "Drink this." Daddy said.

"Daddy?" I asked and opened my eyes, Daddy held out a packet of blood which I gratefully swallowed.

"I love you sweetie." He said I sat up and realized that I was still in the car with Nahuel's head still on my shoulder but it was now in the garage.

"Love you too Daddy." I replied and snuggled closer to Nahuel watching him sleep.

"I can carry him out of the car if you want." He said and I nodded he would be more comfortable on a couch or bed no matter how much I wanted to stay here and simply watch him. I lifted my head as Daddy carefully took Nahuel into his arms, he looked like a child and I smiled to myself. I got up myself and went into the living room surprised at how late it had gotten, it had been mid afternoon and now it was close to late afternoon or early evening I smile and put a movie in the DVD player watching Toy Story over again, I used to love it when I was little.

I sighed and smiled at Daddy as he brought in a plate of food and watched carefully as I ate it, I felt warm safe and cared for by those I loved. "Nessie?" Nahuel asked groggily and I smiled at him stroking his hair gently.

"Hey sleepy." I replied and he smiled as he sat up. His hair was slightly ruffled and he smiled down at me putting a cool arm around my shoulders. I pulled the blanket off the back of the couch and we wrapped ourselves in it. We finished the movie together, occasionally he would stroke my stomach gently and I would smile up at him. I put my head on his shoulder as we watched the movie together. Dad came back with another packet of blood some veggie this time. I bit into it with my teeth and let the cold sweet nectar fill me. I wiped off some of the excess with the back of my hand. "Would you like the rest of this, I don't think I could finish it." I tell him.

"No its yours." He replies and I smile. "I am not thirsty.

"Nether am I."

"But you will be in the morning, humor me and drink it." He told me and I nodded finishing it off.

"There." I said, and he smiled kissing my blood stained lips.

"Thank you." He said pulling back again. Rosalie came into the room smiling.

"So how was the torture?" She asked me and I laughed.

"Well Amelia seemed to like it but I hated it." I replied and rubbed my stomach gently.

"She liked shopping?"

"Yes, I don't know where she gets that from." I replied and Rosalie laughed sitting next to us on the couch and watching the rest of Toy Story. After the movie was over Nahuel picked me up and carried me to the cottage.

"No protesting you came over by yourself and we spent all day at the mall. I wish I could have carried you then but I couldn't please humor me now." I smiled that was fast becoming his favorite expression. He set me down outside my door and I changed into my nightgown. He came in a few minutes later and I fell asleep listening to his slow and steady breathing.