The characters in this story are not mine, they are from Stephenie Meyer. The story is not mine either, it's from Teffi Masen, this is just an authorized translation.
Chapter 7: A bad day
As the days passed the three adjusted to their new routine, Bella and Edward got up at the same time, got ready to go to work and after waking Paulette the three of them went down to breakfast, Pau ate a bowl of cereal or fruit with yogurt as she watched her uncles talk to each other, Bella and Edward left minutes before Rosalie and Matilde arrived, Paulette clung to Bella's neck in the mornings when she kissed him goodbye, Bella never removed her, Edward received her kiss with the same enthusiasm and then give her two dollars for school.
Things went relatively well, although Rosalie kept introducing herself every day and leaving until Paulette was in bed asleep, -Bella had no problem paying the Uber to take her home-, after the first week where Rosalie took Paulette on saturday morning became an habit to the point of deciding to even take her from the friday after school.
Edward, who arrived first at home on fridays did not agree with Rosalie's decision so he did not hesitate to go for Paulette and although she was in her pajamas and ready to sleep with their cousins, he took her in his arms and took her to the car where he turned on the heating and handed her the doll that Matilde had assured always slept with her, closed the door and turned to Emmett who shouted that he was irresponsible.
"Bella and I decide what is the best of her and that sleeping tight in the middle of your children is not the right thing to do."
"They have slept together since they were little kids, my children are used to sleeping and taking care of her, Alice and Jasper left her with us when they got a night job."
"But Paulette has a warm bed and only for her, she does not have to sleep tight next to three children who are older than her… I don't doubt that Rosalie's intentions have been good, but she should not go through my authority nor Bella's."
"What authority?" Rosalie intervened, "you leave the girl alone, I can not go on saturday morning and return home immediately, it's an unnecessary expense, I take care of her all day, you just make things more complicated."
"You don't have to go, Paulette wakes up about half a day on weekends and Bella and I get home at three o'clock, Matilde can take care of her in the short time we're not there and on sundays we're at home, we don't need you go for her."
"Paulette can not sleep so late or skip meals, Alice…"
"Alice let her sleep late!" Edward shouted completely frustrated "and now she is ours, so if she wants to wake up until 4 in the afternoon he will be able to do it because neither Bella nor I will deny her.
"You don't know anything about children, but Alice and Jasper left Paulette to us for a reason, Bella and I gave you the option to stay with Paulette with our financial help, but you refused, so save your suggestions and advices, because neither Bella nor I need them.
Edward got into the car and drove away from his brother's house, Paulette who was in the back seat got up and kissed her cheek.
"I also like to sleep in my bed, Uncle Edward," she said looking at him in the rearview mirror. "thank you for coming for me"
"Always, sweetie," he assured her pinching her nose making her laugh.
Twenty-five minutes later when they finally got home, Bella was waiting for them without understanding why they were in the street and with Paulette in their pajamas. After explaining what happened, they took Paulette to sleep.
When the two of them were alone, Edward told him the whole discussion, just as they decided to talk to Matilde so she would not let Rosalie come in on saturday morning if Paulette was still asleep, let alone take her away.
Her new decision brought Esme and Carlisle and the Brandon lords home complaining about how inconsiderate they were, Bella defended herself saying that if they wanted to see Paulette they had free entry to her house but under no circumstances would Paulette sleep outside the home.
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The next few weeks Bella and Edward tried to arrive shortly before three to avoid further confrontations with Rosalie, even though she was waiting for them upset because Matilde had complied with not letting Rosalie bother Paulette while she was still asleep, Esme and Helen -Rosalie's mother- had decided to spend saturday afternoons with Paulette trying to climb on them.
But even they tried to keep Paulette busy most of the week with extra classes and to visit the psychologist twice a week with sessions, they could not avoid the happy and cheerful Paulette who had come wanting to spend every minute I could together with Bella and Edward, I was behaving more and more sad.
Bella had lost count of how many times Paulette told her how much fun she had playing with her friends, but now she barely whispered, on saturdays even when her grandparents visited her she was bored very fast to play and she preferred to sit in the middle of Bella and Edward and on sunday she felt down as she wanted to spend the afternoon in bed when she loved being in the backyard with the little house that Santa had brought her from Bella and Edward last Christmas.
Both let her pass, attributing his little encouragement to the school consumed their energies and sunday the little body of Paulette took the opportunity to rest, but, a call from the psychologist to work of Edward, I assure you that Paulette's little energy was a consequence of something else.
The psychologist had told Edward that it was because the lack of his parents was becoming present in his life, little by little she was losing her essence , forgetting his voice, if for an adult it was difficult to lose his parents for a child of Paulette's age was an even more complicated process, since by not completely understanding death, the slowly notice the absence until they understand that they will not return and the few memories they had have become blurred.
Edward promised to pay more attention to Paulette at night when they were at home. When he spoke with Bella both agreed that they should spend time with her without the interruption of Rosalie of the entire family, a difficult mission to fulfill taking into account that Rosalie really helped them with Paulette more than they would like to accept it, and that telling grandparents that they needed space for all three, would only cause unnecessary drama.
Both had stayed up late working two weeks before Paulette's birthday, leaving her even longer alone, Rosalie had been enraged with them, Bella thought that telling them that overtime was to get the saturday off to party with Paulette would help to avoid a drama, everything would have been joy if Rosalie had not taken to bad that they thought to spend the day with the girl without the present family.
"We want to spend the day with her, we love her and we are more aware of her than you are"
"You love her so much that you have refused to stay with her," Bella said sarcastically after Paulette went to sleep. "Leave your love speech for the rest of the family because neither Edward nor I swallowed your verbiage."
"I love Paulette"
"That's why you should understand that Paulette does not need you, she has us."
"You are never for her."
"Maybe you're right, but she just needs us," Edward said. "we appreciate you being here, but you're not indispensable"
"How dare you?¡" Rosalie asked furious. "Paulette would be even worse if I were not here"
"We don't know because you don't leave my house" Bella said frustrated "you have your family so focus on them and do not come back my house"
"I will return because I care Paulette, for the memory of my sister I will take care of her beloved daughter"
"This is impossible" thought Bella and Edward at the same time.
"Look Rose," Edward said "we already have plans and we will not change them for you and what you think is better, you have said it, we are not so long with Paulette as she deserves and needs, so we will be with her the weekend.
Rosalie kept refusing to accept it, when she left she told them she would take the cake on saturday morning.
Bella and Edward decided to ignore her, they were not going to change their plans, just because Rosalie did not look like them.
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A few days before her birthday after everyone went to sleep, Paulette woke up crying, Bella went to meet her and consoled her until she fell asleep again, many times she was so lazy to go back to her room so the rest of her the night with Paulette, although sleeping with a small 5 years was not so comfortable, so when Paulette woke up the third night crying, Bella did not have to wake up in another three hours, he could not get back to work again, much less when she had a meeting with the partners which would guarantee him a promotion in his position and a considerable increase in his check.
"Bella" Edward moaned, hugging her waist "she is crying"
"I already know it"
"Shut her up, I have a meeting with the Japanese in the first hour"
"I also have important things to do in the morning," he turned and snuggled against his chest "it's your time to turn to go see her, it's your niece"
"It's yours too"
"She doesn't have my blood"
"Bitch" whispered attracting her to his chest
"Fuck you" spirited passing his leg over Edward's
None of them moved, both too tired to go to console the little girl who was sobbing two doors away from the main room.
Twenty minutes later Edward came out of bed still half asleep leaving Bella's warm body. Upon entering the room, Paulette ran to the side of the bed to lie down, Edward got into the pink sheets and hug the small body that sighing against his chest, naively thought that was all the work, three minutes then Edward was involved in a talk about stuffed animals that were afraid of the monster that lived inside the closet in his old house and that they believed had followed them.
The next morning after enlisting and leaving for work, he remembered that he had been so focused on his meeting with the Japanese, as well as dinner with Biers, that had not said good-bye to Paulette.
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Rosalie had not been at the door when Paulette arrived from school and had not arrive any time, Matilde had prepared chicken with macaroni, had set her to do the few easy duties that had been left, bathed her, given dinner and sent her to the bed.
Now Paulette watched the cartoons on the television in her aunt and uncle's room, after Matilde assured her that her uncles would arrive in a matter of minutes, she left confident that Paulette should behave like the big girl who would soon be.
Paulette agreed and said goodbye to Matilde, who made sure to leave windows closed, the stove turned off with the child protection that Bella and Edward had been responsible for putting before Paulette's arrival, put the security codes and passed the three locks, maybe it seemed exaggerated, but I was not going to put the girl at risk, well she knew how important that blonde girl was to Bella and Edward.
Paulette listened when her uncle´s car arrived, just as I waited patiently for them to enter the house and go up the stairs.
The knock on the door frightened her, but when she was open she saw that it was Bella, since Edward had cornered her against the door while he kissed her.
"Aunt Bella?"
They both froze and turned to see her.
"What are you doing here?" asked Edward releasing Bella to make her clothes fit.
"I was waiting for you" said sitting on the bed "why did you arrive so late?"
"We had to do things that do not concern you, now go to your room that is quite late and tomorrow you must get up early.
"Can I sleep with you?"
"No, now go to your room"
"Please, I promise not to move much and sleep very fast."
"No Paulette, you are too big to sleep with us."
"But I was still sleeping with my daddies, they did not care."
Edward froze, how could tell her "no" after she had Jasper and Alice out, but he really wanted some time alone with Bella, and with Paulette in bed he was not going to have any fun.
"Bells…"
Bella snorted at the lack of willpower that Edward possessed, took Paulette's hand down from the bed.
"I'll take you to your room, it's very night to keep you awake."
"But…"
Bella did not let her say a word to try to convince them, before she closed the door she watched Uncle Edward drop to the bed and change the channel to the television.
Bella rearranged the sheets again and helped her up onto the bed before fixing the hair braid, while she thought she needed an urgent haircut.
"Can you stay with me, Aunt Bella?"
"Pau…"
"Just a little while, as I fall asleep."
"Bella rolled her eyes, she wanted to have hot sex with Edward after having to put up with Bree and her horrible food, but with the little face of Puss in boots that Paulette was making she could not leave her alone.
"I propose a deal" Bella said while she tucked her up "I tell you something that Edward and I plan to do and you fall asleep right away."
Paulette thought for a second and nodded excitedly"
"In a few days it's your birthday, miraculously falls on saturday"
"My birthday?" she asked indecisively, she had thought that both had forgotten her birthday and she was afraid to ask why she had remained silent even with Rosalie.
"I know we haven't talked to you about what you wanted to do, but we were thinking that we could spend the day at "American Girl Place"."
Bella was wrapped in Paulette's small arms, jumping excitedly and talking a thousand times an hour.
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