Maybe baby 19:
I think I'd changed colors for the baby room at least 100 times already. Jasper had a paint swatch fan and I kept going back and forth with pink or purple for her or going neutral with yellow or green and even a peachy color. Jasper only requested if I chose pink I didn't go to pink with everything else in the room.
"What do you think?" I asked Darcy who had come over to hang out while Jasper was gone for the weekend on a business trip.
"Honestly I say go for the peach colors, maybe that tangerine color" she said pointing at a color I had been surprised I liked.
"They are all colors in the blanket I got for the baby" I said and pointed at a striped blanket.
"And you are going to paint 2 walls one color and the other two the other?" she asked and I know I was confusing people but I figured I'd come to an easier solution by picking two colors instead of just having to choose one.
"Actually, bottom half will be one color, top half another color and the insides of the shelves are gonna be painted the same as the bottom part of the wall" I explained and Darcy raised her eyebrows. "Darker color on the bottom and the lighter one will be on top" I said and she nodded.
"I have all boys so I've done widely scattered blue and green" she said and I laughed. "Purple isn't in the blanket" she added and I sighed.
"Point taken" with that I took all the purples off the wall.
"Ok so most baby clothes for girls are pink so I say stay away from pink walls since most accessories are gonna be pink" she said and I nodded and took away the pinks. "But that just leaves blue, yellow and tangerine" she said and I sighed.
"No yellow" I said and tossed the yellows down. "If I do tangerine I'm not gonna do yellow" I said and Darcy nodded. "Am I driving you nuts?"
"No, I'm just trying to wrap my head around what you want to do" she said with a smile and I laughed. "Pink seems to go pretty well with the tangerine so I'd say keep the pink" she said and I sighed.
"I guess it'll be alright if I go really light pink" I said and Darcy laughed and I pulled out the fan and tried to find a different shade of pink.
"Well I have to get home, the boys need to be picked up from daycare" she said when she looked at the clock.
"Yeah, thanks Darcy, Jasper says I am just over thinking everything about the baby's room" I said and she laughed.
"Let me put it to you this way. This is what we did with the boys rooms, especially the first time around, we went with the dream theme of Rick's, what he would have wanted as a child if he were born today, do that with this room, make it the colors you would like to use but know wouldn't fly elsewhere, just don't go too bright, the room should still be pretty calming" she said and I smiled.
"Thanks I appreciate that" I said and walking her out I went back into each room and removed the paint chips from the walls where I had placed them. Jasper was going to get to work on the nursery and I'd asked him to wait until the baby was here and I would do the rest, since I would need something to occupy my time. As if the baby wouldn't be enough but still, I am optimistic that our child will inherit her father's calmness and I'll be dealing with the perfect little angel, doubtful but I'm hoping for the best.
Jasper
I pulled into the garage and looked around, Alice's car was missing, she must have gone out but it is pretty late at night for her to be out. Since the move she's been going to bed pretty early or at least getting into her oversized night shirts and vegging out until she finally finds sleep.
Pulling out my phone I hit send, I figured she would be home, I wasn't supposed to get in till really late but I still figured she'd be here waiting and I'd wanted to surprise her by coming home early.
"Hey" she said and I replied in kind. "You getting on your plane?" she asked.
"I'm home actually, where are you?" I asked shutting the door to my truck with my bag in the other hand.
"Really?" she said excitedly and I smiled. "I'm watching a movie with Ash and Brooke" she said. "I'll be home in a few" she added and I chuckled.
"You can finish your movie baby" I said with a smile, I was glad she and my sister's were getting along so well, I felt like there was always one of my siblings around while I was away, or calling for Alice.
"Seen it before" she said and I could hear keys and my sister's telling her bye and to say hello to me.
"Well I will see you in a few then" I said pushing the button for my garage to close as I entered the house to find Millie passed out on the couch, she seemed to have fallen in love with the old couch and while she normally went crazy at the door when someone was in the garage she merely looked up when I came in the door and then laid back down. "Millie just shunned me" I said and Alice giggled as I heard the familiar sound of her engine starting.
"She's been super lazy lately, I think she's just so spoiled with that back yard that she wears herself out" Alice said and I nodded, Millie spent most the day outside running around and the rest of the time sleeping or running around the house, no matter how you looked at it, this place was so much roomier than Alice's New York, apartment that Millie now walked herself.
"Ok well drive safe" I said and with that we hung up the phone, I didn't like Alice talking on the phone while she was driving, not because I didn't trust her but because it had truly been years since she had driven that often and this place was still new, I'd prefer she be alert and careful when driving for herself and our child.
I had already separated what I had worn and what I hadn't by the time I heard Alice's garage open. I stowed my suitcase back in the hall closet and met Alice in the kitchen, she was wearing cotton shorts and a large t-shirt covering her growing belly and the cherry on top was that she was wearing my Homer Simpson slippers where it looks like your foot is being eaten by Homer's mouth.
"You drove in slippers?" I asked with a laugh as I hugged her.
"My feet are swollen today I didn't want to put any shoes on" she said with a frown before pecking my lips.
"I suppose those are roomy" I chuckled and she grinned.
"And oh so comfy, I can't believe you never wore these" she said and I covered my mouth as I grinned.
"I wore them, on Christmas when I received them from Aiden year before last" I said and she rolled her eyes.
"5 minutes, you really have no idea what you are missing" she said and opened the fridge to pull out the pitcher of pink lemonade she was addicted to since having to quite caffeine.
"Well maybe I'll just start to wear them more if they are so great" I said knowing she wouldn't want to part with them, Alice loved wearing my things, especially when I was away, whenever I came home she always seemed to be wearing something of mine when I came home or I'd see a shirt I hadn't worn yet in the hamper because she'd worn it while I was gone.
"No they're mine now" she pouted pouring herself and me a glass.
"But you'll share with me won't you?" I asked taking the glass and giving her my puppy dog face.
"If you're lucky" she smiled tapping my nose before dancing into our bedroom.
So HOT: Alice
"I feel like I'm melting" I said as I fanned myself, we were once more at the camp site, this time it was a spur of the moment kind of thing, Brooke and I were miserable, the heat on top of being pregnant meant we felt a million times hotter than the rest of the family there.
"I'm surprised I'm not a puddle on the ground below me" Brooke groaned in the same amount of discomfort.
"Next time plan for a fall and winter pregnancy" Rick said with a smirk before Darcy smacked him in the chest but you could tell by the look on her face that she was amused.
"I blame you for not warning us this was a bad idea" I said knowing she had been pregnant in the summer time, or had to of been since her kids birthday's were pretty spread out over a calendar year.
"Don't blame me, this wasn't my idea and I just figured you two ladies would have stayed home" she said and Brooke muttered something under her breath that I was pretty sure was not appropriate for the ears of the children only feet away from us playing in the mud.
"Ice" Jasper said handing each of us a fresh cup of ice, our last glass had turned into water not too long ago so we'd emptied it and instead of getting up to get our own ice we'd pestered our men until Jasper, who took little convincing had gone inside the trailer to get us some ice.
"We're going for a swim" Whit shouted to the crowd as he carried out a bunch of tubes, so that was what he'd been up to, inflating the tubes and rafts.
"You two going to come?" Jasper asked and I nodded, the water would definitely be a welcomed activity.
"Tube?" he asked Brooke and me.
"Pass" I said wanting to stay in the water since it was so hot out, of course it's August in Texas, I'd grown up in a pretty warm climate but being pregnant and growing as fast and as much as I was it wasn't as surprising.
This time around there was no skimpy bikini's to wear, only a royal blue one piece. With the help of Jasper I stood up and was joined by Brooke who was pretty big herself, she was about a month behind me but at the rate she was growing alongside me, Liv was figuring we'd probably both deliver around the same time.
We let the current take us and it was heavenly, the cool water was extremely refreshing.
I was settling in pretty well to my new life and getting on a whole lot better with Jasper's family, sometimes I felt a little out of place but you got to start somewhere.
"How you been feeling today?" Jasper asked me as we floated.
"I have not had morning sickness in a week and a half" I said with a smile, it was new and refreshing not fighting the urge to vomit whenever around strong scents or just because.
"Maybe it has finally passed" he smiled and I nodded, hopeful, I'd read in the books it usually went away and while I'd wished it had gone away sooner I wasn't going to complain so long as it was done now, better late than never.
"Anymore business trips?" I asked. Jasper had been out of town at least once every other week and sometimes during the week he'd have to drive out to Dallas, he was always home late the next night but it still sucked. I felt like I still didn't get to see him near as much as I should since we lived together.
"Next week, 3 days, Atlanta" he said and I frowned, I got pretty moody when it came time for a business trip, Jasper usually had to deal with me being extra whiney and clingy since the hormones, my god the hormones, made me act like an over the top diva.
"Again?" I asked and the tone of voice was definitely whiney.
"I promise to paint the nursery when I get back, I shouldn't have to go out there too much in the coming months I promise" he said and I sighed but hugged him, he took my mood changes with a grain of salt, I know they affected him sometimes but he tried to appease me when my moods would change, I almost always apologized to him but he swore that as long as I let it go and wasn't mad at him later on that didn't need to keep apologizing, the hormones were enough of an apology.
"So tangerine and a really pale pink" I said and he nodded his head, I'd finally chosen two colors, they hadn't changed since that day Darcy had helped me out so that was a huge step since the baby's room was the one room I just couldn't decide on. Jasper had painted just about every room the color I chose and now all that was left was the nursery, kitchen, and our bathroom. "Is your family still coming out in 2 weeks for the baby shower?" he asked.
"Yeah, Tiffany is going to come, she was obviously surprised I invited her, she seemed pretty nervous but I think she'll be fine, mom will keep the claws retracted, she knows it's not her fault" I said and he chuckled, my mom still hadn't warmed up to Jasper, she didn't think he would stick around and while I told her often that he wasn't going to leave me I could understand her worry it just isn't something I really want to think about, much less with my mood swings and hormones risking blowing things out of proportion.
"I'm still taking Johnny and Ian out to do manly things right?" he asked and I nodded my head, the boys were going to come but not the shower as it is considered to girly though I wouldn't mind the boys being there, I'm sure there will be too much pink and oohing and ahhhing for their liking. "Is Emmett coming with Rose?" he asked me and I shook my head.
"No Emmett has to work and they are not exactly on the best of terms right now" I said and he frowned.
"I thought they were fine last time we talked" Jasper said and I shrugged.
"They seem to live to fight lately, by the time she's back in New York if not before she comes here they will be all over one another again" I said and Jasper shook his head, Rose and Emmett were two of the horniest people I think I'd ever met and comparing that too the current situation between Jasper and I that was saying something since there was rarely a day passing by, unless he was out of town, where we didn't find ourselves having a quickie here or there, my hormones screamed for some TLC from Jasper quite often. Jasper wasn't looking forward to the time during my pregnancy when I wouldn't want to have sex.
AN: I know it's not a great chapter, in my opinion I guess but I've really lost my muse on this story so this is more of a filler chapter, I'm starting to feel Alice and Jasper more again but while some of my reader may be Jonas Brothers fans I am NOT so having my PB for Alice be movie Alice kind of makes me go egh, dunno just weird writing mojo. Any who, I will try and wrap this story up soonish and I also need to get a move on finishing out my other story which has been so neglected I doubt anyone even cares anymore but you never know. Hope everyone had a great holiday as this is my first update of The New Year and let's be thankful summer is just around the corner. BTW writing will either come more frequently in the coming weeks because I am starting a new job or it will be side tracked until I get into a groove at work and need my escape.