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Chapter 17
Monday, June 4, 2012
BPOV
I smiled as I cracked yet another egg against the side of the bowl; it was going to be a rare beautiful sunny day in the small rainy town that I used to call home. I heard the footsteps upstairs and knew that the girls were waking up and before long they would have the entire household up. It was strange waking up this morning in what used to be my mom and dad's room, but Edward had consoled me all night as I struggled to sleep in our new bed in their old room.
"Whatcha doin', baby?" Edward asked sleepily as he wrapped his arms around my waist and cradled our sons in his hands.
"Cooking breakfast, barman, what does it look like I'm doing?" I told him as I began whipping the eggs, milk, and cinnamon together for french toast.
"Are you okay this morning?"
I nodded gently and patted his hand that was resting against one of our boys.
"Good, what do you want to do today?" He asked as he placed a gentle kiss against my neck.
I shrugged my shoulders. "Doesn't really matter to me, just something outside because it's going to be a rare beautiful sunny day outside." I told him as I stepped to the heated skillet and began dipping the bread and placing it in the skillet to cook.
"You are the tour guide here, Bella." Edward said as he stepped back from me and pulled a glass from the cupboard.
"There is this little place not far from here that I used to go to as a kid and is a perfect place for a picnic. It has a stream running beside it that we can all take a swim in and plenty of room for all the girls to run around in." I suggested as I began plating the stacks of French toast and topped them with a sprinkle of powdered sugar.
"That sounds fantastic, baby."
I told the others the plan over a rather rowdy breakfast at the new dining room table that was big enough to fit us all and they all agreed that it sounded amazing. We all put on our bathing suits, shorts, tank tops and hiking boots because it was a bit of a hike from the closest road and hit the road in two separate vehicles. We stopped at the grocery store and got stuff for an easy picnic lunch as well as some easy snacks for the girls.
"B, how much longer?" Skylar asked as we stepped over yet another fallen branch in our path.
"Not much farther, Sky, not much farther." I told her as I pushed a branch out of the way and we stepped into a flower filled meadow.
"Wow! This is awesome, B!" Skylar screeched as she took off running through it, causing a shitload of butterflies to fly up from the flowers.
I just chuckled at her exuberance as the rest of the crew stumbled through the last bit of bushes and into the clearing that Skylar was running around in.
Anna, Maggie, and Tori took off running around behind Skylar through the clearing. "Who knew something like this could be found out in the middle of nowhere?" Emmett commented as he placed Lilly down and she toddled after her sisters.
"I did, Em. I used to come here to chill out when I was a kid. You can actually get here on foot from behind the house." I told them as I leaned my head back and looked up at the sky through the tree tops.
"It's beautiful, Bella." Rose said as she and Alice spread out the blankets for us all to chill out on.
"It really is breathtaking, Bella." Jasper said as he sat down the cooler that contained our food and snacks.
Alice nodded in agreement as she flopped back on the blanket.
Edward hadn't said anything yet but he walked to the edge of the stream and stared off in the distance.
I walked over to him and wrapped my arms around him from behind the best I could. "What's on your mind, Edward?" I asked him quietly.
He tugged me to his side and kissed me on the side of the head. "Nothing's wrong, baby. I'm just thinking about you being here as a child."
"Bullshit, Edward. You haven't said a word since we got out of the car." I told him seriously. "Let's go for a walk and talk, okay?" I suggested quietly.
He nodded as he hung his head. I turned back to our friends. "Guys, we're going to go for a walk. Be back in a little bit, okay?" I called out to them.
They all nodded and I gripped Edward's hand in mine and took off through the shallow part of the creek to the forest beyond. We walked hand in hand in silence until we came to a fallen log and I tugged him down to sit on the ground and I settled between his legs leaning back against his chest. "Now tell me what's wrong, Edward? What's bothering you?" I asked him quietly.
EPOV
Watching Bella go through the gamut of emotions the past few days since we had been in Forks had been really hard on me. I had no idea how I was going to react when we reached Chicago and it was my turn to relive the memories. I was grateful for our friends showing up unexpectedly, but I really wanted these trips to be just about Bella and I and I didn't want to hurt anybody's feelings. I tried to hide my irritability, anxiousness and nervousness from her but when she confronted me as I stood beside the stream; I knew I had been doing a shitty job of hiding how I felt.
I took a deep breath as I held her between my legs and thought about how to tell her how I felt.
"I don't know how I'm going to handle going home in a few weeks." I told her quietly.
She nodded. "I'm not going to lie, it's been hard coming here reliving the memories but it has also been kind of nice."
I nodded but otherwise kept silent. "Walking back into that house for the first time in six years was mind blowing. It was like I had walked into a time warp or something. It was just like the last time I had walked out of it, albeit a little mustier."
I chuckled. "Yeah." I told her in agreement.
"I can understand your reluctance to go back home, but I honestly don't think that's what's bothering you." She told me as she fiddled with the fingers of my broken arm.
I took a deep breath and decided to just confess. "I wanted this be about you and me. Learning about the other's past, childhood, and dealing with the grief together. I am grateful for our friends, but I want to be the one to console you, experience these things with you, and relive the memories with you." I told her quietly.
She just chuckled. "I know what you mean. I think it's time for them to go home, too. We can always come back another time for a vacation together but I want this time to be about me and you connecting as well."
I breathed a sigh of relief that she agreed with me. "Now the hard part, how do we tell them?" I chuckled against her head.
"I think they will understand. I am glad that they were here to help us redecorate and to at least share this place with me. I don't have any memories of my parents here. They never came out here; they left me alone when I came out to the woods as long as I checked in every couple hours." She explained to me.
"How deep is that water right there?" I asked her, changing the subject entirely.
"Probably about four foot or so; it's one of the deeper areas of the creek." She told me as she turned to look at me. "What are you thinking?"
I winked at her. "I was thinking we could take advantage of being alone out in the wilderness." I told her huskily.
She quickly, well as quickly as she could anyways, stood up and stripped off her tank top. She revealed one of her bikinis from our honeymoon but it looked a lot smaller on her now and it showed off her growing baby belly amazingly well. Her skin was stretched tight but didn't have any stretch marks because of our morning lotion rubbing rituals. "Wow, you look amazing baby." I told her as I stripped off my t-shirt and tossed it on top of where her tank top was.
"You think?" She asked as she looked at me from under her lashes.
I nodded quickly and kicked off my shoes and tugged off my socks. I grabbed her hand and hauled her towards the water. "There are rocks that act as stepping stones down into the water." She told me as we approached to edge of the water.
I stuck a toe in the water and felt around for the rock and planted my foot firmly on top of it as I eased myself down into the water. "This is amazing." I told her as I helped her into the water.
"I used to love swimming here when I was a kid. Jake and I used to come here all the time when we were teenagers with some of our friends." She told me and I scowled at her. "Oh, get over it already. I'm married to you and having your sons."
I laughed. "I know, baby, but I still don't like what he did to you." I told her as I floated in the water.
"I know, Edward, but I have a lot of memories with him in this town in general. We both grew up here together, and were best friends for years before we started dating." She told me as she settled into the water.
I nodded. "What did y'all do out here in the woods as teenagers?" I asked her as we floated side by side.
"Oh, if my dad ever found out what we did in these woods he would have grounded me until I was 50!" She told me as ran her hands over the water causing it to ripple.
"Like what?" I prodded as I stood back up and sat on one of the steps and pulled her between my legs.
"Well, for prom, the guys from the reservation brought out a bunch of tents and we set them up and partied to the wee hours of the morning. It was crazy." She told me.
I laughed. "That sounds pretty cool." I told her as I ran my hands down her back and cupped her ass in my hands.
"It's probably pretty lame compared to yours though." She said on a groan.
"Not really, I didn't go to my senior prom because it was the weekend after my parents' death. For my junior prom I went with this girl I had been dating, Sarah Sarthe. About an hour into prom she had disappeared and I went looking for her, only to find her in the bathroom on her hands and knees giving a blow job to some bellhop. I got so wasted that I ended up sleeping in my mother's rose bushes and woke up the next morning to thorns in my ass and her spraying me with the water hose." I told her and she busted out laughing.
"That's hilarious, Edward." She said as she draped her legs over mine and leaned back to float in the water as I supported her back.
"It is funny now, looking back, but at the time it sucked big time." I told her as I leaned forward and placed a kiss on her glistening stomach. "I hope our boys don't ever do stupid shit like that." I told her gently.
I stroked my hands up her back and cupped her shoulders in my hands. "Have you ever had sex in this creek before, baby?"
She smirked at me and shook her head. "Nope."
I smiled back at her and leaned forward and nudged her bikini top to the side, sucking a nipple into her mouth. She groaned and pressed her hips against mine, grinding herself against my hardness. I released her nipple and gripped her hips in my hands. "Are you opposed to it?"
She shook her head.
Almost two hours after we had left the meadow, we returned to it hand in hand, and our hair dripping wet. Emmett was the first one to spot us. "Uh huh, what have you guys been up to?"
Bella blushed and ducked her head into my chest as I just laughed and shook my head. "Nothing you wouldn't do given the chance." I told him as we made our way across the meadow.
"That's true! Skylar is proof of that." He said as he gazed affectionately at his wife and kids as they all lay sound asleep on a blanket beneath a tree off to the side of the meadow.
Bella and I both groaned and sat down on the blanket beside him. "Em that is way too much information. We all know that you and Rose go at it like bunny rabbits. Your seven kids in five and a half years are proof enough of that." Jasper said as he stroked a hand down a sleeping Alice's back.
"I think we are done after this one." He said quietly as he still looked at his family.
"Going to give up on the boy, huh?" I asked him as I cradled Bella against my chest.
He nodded. "I wanted a boy to carry on my legacy, my last name, but I guess it's not going to happen and that is okay. As long as all my girls are happy in the end, that's what's important." He said.
"Speaking of boys, have you guys thought of names for your boys?" Jasper asked quietly.
I shook my head. "Not really. I know that I at least want to name them after our fathers' but we haven't really discussed it yet." I told him as I stroked Bella's stomach as she breathed rhythmically, letting me know she was asleep.
"I don't know if Alice could be that patient." Jasper said as he looked down at his beautiful fiancée.
"Is there something you want to tell us, Jazz?" Emmett asked as he stood to go get a stirring Sariah.
He just grinned. "There are a few things."
"Like what?" I asked as Emmett sat back down cradling his latest addition to his chest as he popped a bottle into her mouth.
"Like we are trying to have a baby, been trying for about a month now." He said quietly. "You guys have given her baby fever."
We laughed. "Oh my babies were so very unexpected and not planned." I told him honestly. "I wouldn't change anything about it now but, they were still a surprise." I told them honestly as I stroked a hand over them.
"Don't you guys want to wait until you are married?" Em asked.
Jasper just grinned and shook his head. "We are already married. We went to the courthouse the week after the accident and sealed the deal."
I gasped at him. "And you didn't think to tell anybody?" I asked him quietly.
"Alice didn't want to upset either of the women since they are both pregnant." Jasper explained.
"Wow!" I said quietly astonished.
Em didn't say anything and silence fell on the meadow, except for Sariah's sucking noises. After several minutes, I decided to just throw the bomb out there. "Bella and I appreciate you guys coming out here to help us through this, but we need to do this on our own. We need you guys to go back home." I told them quietly.
They just nodded in understanding. "I understand, Edward. You know that we are all just a phone call away if you need us." Jasper said quietly.
"You guys deserve this time to get to know each other's pasts and to deal with this together. Besides, we will still see you in Chicago for the fourth of July and yours and Tori's birthday celebrations." Em said as he burped Sariah.
BPOV
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
I waved as my friends pulled out of our driveway in our SUV. They were driving it back home so that we wouldn't have to worry about it when we headed out for Chicago. I had agreed to try flying again; it would be a whole lot easier than another long ass road trip. We were going to keep the vehicle that Jasper and Alice rode up in from Seattle and turn it in when we went to board our own plane when we headed to Chicago.
"You okay, baby?" Edward asked as he walked back up the sidewalk.
I nodded and smiled at him. "Perfect." I told him as I turned and headed back into the house to finish cooking our lunch.
"So what do you think about Jazz and Ali hiding the fact that they had gotten married?" Edward asked as he sat down at the little kitchen table.
I shrugged my shoulders. "I can't really judge considering we got married in Vegas on a spur of the moment." I told him as I sliced pieces of chicken to go on top of our salads.
He nodded. "Do you regret not having anybody there?"
I took a deep breath. "In some ways, yes, in other ways, no." I told him quietly.
"Do you want to get remarried after the boys are born? Maybe on our one year anniversary?"
I smiled as I grabbed our bowls and headed towards the table. "Maybe we can have a double ceremony with Ali and Jazz." I told him as I sat down.
"We'll ask them when we see them in Chi town. Speaking of Chicago, when do you want to go?" He asked as he dug into his salad.
I shrugged my shoulders. "Everybody else is expected to come in on the 2nd and I am sure you are going to need a few days to adjust to being back there." I told him as I tucked into my own salad.
He hung his head and sighed. "I feel like such a baby about this." He mumbled so low I almost didn't catch it.
"I know for a fact it's hard, Edward. I am sure it's going to be twice as hard on you because your parents were so involved in your life, unlike mine." I told him as I placed my hand over his.
He nodded and sniffed. "Maybe we should go a week before everybody else gets there. I hate cutting your trip so short though."
I laughed. "Trust me, by the time it's time to leave, we will both be bored out of our minds. There isn't a whole lot to this place, which is one thing that sure hasn't changed in the last six years." I told him as I laughed.
"I agree, this is one small ass town, but it's kind of nice that everybody knows you though." He told me honestly.
I nodded. "Yeah, it is nice to have other people help me remember times with my parents." I told him as I sat back and contemplated on telling him what I wanted to do this afternoon.
"I bet; Chicago is huge but the little community I was raised in is very tight knit and I'm sure you will hear some memories of me and my parents when we get there. What else is on your mind, love?"
I took a deep breath. "How do you feel about meeting the parental units today?" I asked him quietly.
He smiled at me and clasped my hand tightly in his. "If you want to go visit your parents, then I say let's do it."
I smiled back and nodded as I stood up and took our empty bowls to the sink.
It was almost an hour later that we sat in the car outside the Forks Cemetery where my parents resided now. We had been sitting here for almost ten minutes with tears streaming down my face. "Love, if you can't do this today, there is no shame in that; we have two more weeks to be able to come do this." Edward told me as he cradled my face in his hands.
I shook my head. "I've not been here. Once I made the arrangements for their funerals, I left town with Jake in the middle of the night. I didn't want this to be real, so I didn't attend the funeral or burial. I wasn't ready to say goodbye, and I don't think I'm ready now either." I told him honestly as I stared ahead at all the headstones in the cemetery.
"How about we don't consider this a goodbye, but an introduction? You can introduce me to your parents and you can introduce our boys to their grandparents? How does that sound?"
I smiled at him. "You always know the perfect thing to say, husband. Let's go do this. Our boys deserve to know how awesome their grandparents were." I told him as I nodded again before opening the door and climbing out.
He was around the car and to my side before I had fully climbed from the SUV. "I'll be right by your side the entire time, unless you tell me to skedaddle." He told me and I smiled at him and placed my hands on his arms.
"I love you for that, but could you give me a few minutes alone with them?" I asked him quietly.
He nodded and leaned back against the SUV. "I'll be right here if you need me. I love you and you can do this. You deserve the closure, love."
I nodded and kissed his lips gently before wrapping my hands around our babies and making my way to where I knew their graves were.
I felt the tears increase as I got closer to their spots. "Oh, daddy!" I cried out to no one in particular. Once I reached their headstones I sank to the ground in front of my daddy's grave and leaned back against it. "Daddy, I miss you so much. I'm sorry I haven't been to see you but I need the time to heal, just like your letter said I would." I told him as I ran my fingers over his name, Chief Charlie Swan. His real name was Charles but he hated it, so I went with what everybody knew him by.
"So much has changed since that fateful day when you and mom were ripped from this world. I left town with Jacob but we are no longer together and I have found the most amazing man in the world to be with now. I did like you asked me to in your final letter; I went to college and made something of myself. I graduated with honors in English Literature and got my teaching certificate. I teach advanced placement English in Texas, where I live at now." I told him as I felt one of my boys kick my ribs.
"I have recently married that amazing man, Edward, and we are expecting your first of I'm sure several grandchildren in about five months or so. I'm sure you would have loved him, daddy, he's perfect for me. He has suffered a severe loss of his own, just like me, but has persevered and became a wonderful man. We are expecting twins, daddy! Can you believe it?" I continued talking to my daddy for the longest time until my ass went numb then I stood up and moved over to my mom's headstone.
"Hi, mom, I don't know what to say to you. Even when you were alive I didn't know what to say to you half the time. We weren't on the best of terms when you were yanked from this world so suddenly, but I will never be able to forgive myself if I didn't at least try to make amends. I forgive you mom, for everything. You have actually taught me a very valuable lesson." I told her as I stood there staring at her headstone while I rubbed a hand over my sons.
"I am going to be a mother in a few months and you taught me what I want to give to my children. You weren't into being a mother, and I understand that, but I don't understand why you didn't just leave and leave me with daddy. I love my boys more than my own breath and they aren't even here yet." I told her as I felt the anger bubbling just below the surface.
"It was so unfair of you to rely on me so much, I was just a kid. You were supposed to be the adult, not me." I told her angrily. "It's all in the past now, and I know that I will always strive to be a better mother than you were capable of being. I just wanted to let you know that you are going to be a grandmother soon. I love you, mom." I told her as I ran a hand over her tombstone again.
I looked up and saw Edward watching me as he leaned back against the SUV. I whistled at him and motioned for him to join me. "Daddy, there is someone here I want you to meet. At least now, I know you won't pull a gun on him and try to scare him away." I said to my dad just as a breeze swept through the cemetery. I smiled, thinking it was my dad, giving me his approval.
When Edward had reached my side, I reached out and clasped his hand in mine. "Edward, I would like to introduce you to my parents. This is my daddy, Chief Charles Swan, even though he always went by Charlie." I swept my hand over my daddy's tombstone. "And this is my mother, Renee Swan."
Edward spoke in a clear strong voice. "Chief, I just want to let you know that your baby girl is the apple of my eye and the love of my life. I wish you could be here to see the love that I have for her, but I am sure you are watching over her every move. She is a clumsy one and needs all the watching she can get. I try my best to watch over her, but she gets irritated with me when I hover too much." He told my dad and caused me to laugh through my tears. "I love her, Chief, and I promise to take care of her and our boys to the best of my ability for the rest of our lives together."
He then wrapped his arms around my waist as we stood there having a one-sided conversation with my parents, mainly my father. It was therapeutic and upsetting all at the same time.
"Charlie, I promise that I will bring Bella and the boys up here to see you as often as I possibly can. You have my word on this. Even though our lives are in Texas, we plan to spend some vacation time here and in Chicago, where I'm from, throughout the year. I promise that my kids, all of them, will know who their grandparents are and how amazing they were as parents." Edward said and I sighed as I knelt down in front of their graves again.
"Dad, Mom, I'm sorry it's been so long, but I just wasn't ready for all of this yet. But with Edward by my side, I think I could conquer the world. I will be back to visit before we leave town in a few weeks. I love you both." I said as I kissed the tips of my fingers and pressed it to each tombstone.
With that being done, Edward wrapped his arm around my shoulders and guided me back to the car. "You okay, love?"
I nodded against his chest. "Yeah, I'm good. It was nice talking to them again, especially my dad. My mom and I weren't really on speaking terms when she died but it was still nice to let her know that she was forgiven." I told Edward as he helped me into the car. "I'm tired now though, so can we go home?"
He nodded and headed towards my childhood home.
EPOV
Thursday June 21, 2012
Visiting Bella's parents' graves had been an eye opener for sure. Unlike her, I had gone to my parents graves before I had left Chicago, but didn't attend the funeral and had no part in the preparations either. My father being the planner that he was had taken care of everything in his will that he faithfully updated every year the day after my birthday. I had only been seventeen when they died, so my father's business partner/ my godfather had taken care of everything and also made sure I had everything I needed while I stayed at the hotel. When I had turned eighteen, everything transferred into my name - the house, the cars, the money, everything.
Today was going to be a different kind of day; I was going fishing for the very first time. I had been out in a boat before but never fishing and Bella was taking me to her and her father's special secret spot.
We had been in Forks for almost three weeks and we were both bored and tired of the rain. Last week at our doctors' appointments, I had gotten my cast cut off and we had seen our boys again and they were healthy and growing like they were supposed to be.
"Edward, let's go!" Bella hollered up the stairs.
I groaned and finished lacing my tennis shoes before I raced downstairs. "I'm coming, love, I was just tying my shoes." I told her as I skidded to a stop in front of her.
She looked delectable in her short shorts and tank top since it was warm outside. "You look amazing, love, absolutely amazing."
She just rolled her eyes at me and held out the car keys to me. I snatched them and opened the door for her. She guided me as I backed up to the Chief's boat hitch and she wound it down onto the tow hitch of the SUV. "Okay, Edward, scoot over. I'm driving." She said as she yanked open the drivers' side door.
I rolled my eyes and scooted over and let her hop in the SUV and we were on our way. We were scheduled to leave on Monday so we could head to Chicago and it would be my turn to face my own demons. "Tell me a memory of you, your dad, and this fishing hole." I prodded her gently.
She took a deep breath. "I remember when I was about fifteen and my dad brought me and Jake out here for an interrogation before he could take me out on a date."
"I thought you guys grew up together?"
She laughed. "We did, as friends. But, when Jake asked me out on a date it changed everything. I was my daddy's little girl and he was very protective, so he took his job as protector very seriously. Anyways, we came out here so that Jake would be trapped in the boat with him with no way to escape."
"What happened?"
"Dad being dad, scared the shit out of Jake and threatened to feed him to the fish if he so much as thought about laying a finger on me. Dad left me on the bank and took Jake out for a quick spin before they came back." She chuckled.
I groaned. "I don't think you dad would approve of the way we met." I told her as we bounced over a rough beaten overgrown path.
She laughed deep belly aching laughs. "There is a big difference between being fifteen and being twenty four, Edward."
I nodded in agreement. "If I had daughters, I don't know what I would do if they wanted to go out on a date. I think taking the guy fishing is a perfect way to break the ice." I told her thoughtfully.
"Dad thought it was perfect, too, and it worked because it took Jake almost a year before he even went beyond kissing me chastely on the lips. I don't know if it was because he was terrified of my dad or because he was sexually confused." I busted out in the deep belly aching laughs this time.
She backed the SUV up until the boat was in the water then climbed out. "You take over driving and I'm going to go get the boat untied and floating." She said and shut the door before I could protest.
I groaned and climbed back over the seats until I was seated behind the driver's seat. It took no time at all to have the boat in the water and the SUV pulled back up on flat land.
I almost busted my ass getting in the boat which caused Bella to laugh, but once I was settled into my seat Bella handed me a paddle. We paddled ourselves out to the middle of the lake before Bella deemed it the perfect spot.
"Do you need me to bait your hook for you, husband?" She asked and I laughed.
"I think I can handle it, love. It can't be that hard to bait a cricket on the end of a hook." I told her as I picked a cricket out of the bucket we had bought on our way up here.
She just laughed and baited her own hook in silence.
After a few attempts I finally had the critter on the hook and ready to toss it out in the pond. After a few failed attempts to actually get the line to go more than five feet from the boat, I finally got it.
Once we were both settled in with our poles in the pond, I looked at my wife sitting there with her feet propped up on the side of the boat and her pole resting in her hands looking out at the lake. "Tell me another memory."
We had been doing this for the past two weeks, me asking her to tell me a memory and her having to think about which one she was going to tell me.
"Hmm…the summer when I was ten years old, my mom had been gone for a few weeks with no contact and my school had just let out, so my dad had to come up with a cheap way to occupy me during the days while he was at work."
I jerked on my pole when it tugged on my line and quickly reeled in the line with a little bitty ass turtle hanging on the other end. "A turtle, really?" I exclaimed.
Bella just laughed and handed me the wire pliers to pull the hook from its mouth. "Try not to kill it, and toss it back." She told me as she continued with her story.
"Dad decided to take me to work with him instead of hiring a babysitter. He set me up to answer the telephones all day and folks got a kick out of me answering the phones. I can still remember what I had to say every time the phone rang. 'Forks Police Department, this is the Chief's daughter speaking, what can I help you with today?' That is when I got the nickname of little chief."
We continued fishing until the sun starting to set and we deemed the day done. We didn't catch anything but a turtle but we had a nice afternoon just chilling out on the water.
The next morning, my birthday, my lovely amazing wife woke me up by kneeling between my legs blowing my mind.
We spent the day naked and mostly in bed, just what I wished for.
We weren't doing anything big because we were going to celebrate my birthday in Chicago, as well as Tori's second birthday.
Monday, June 25
BPOV
We were leaving Forks today to head to Chicago. It was kind of bittersweet to be leaving again, at least this time I was leaving on better terms. We were sitting in the diner that we sat on the first day we arrived in town, chatting with the town folks.
Sue set our plates down in front of us, grinning at me with tears in her eyes. "Oh, Sue, please don't cry. I think I have done a fine enough job of that all on my own." I told her as I wiped underneath my eyes for the umpteenth time since I had woken up this morning.
"Sorry, sweetheart. Just please don't stay away so long this time, and at least send us pictures of the babies when they get here." She said as she hugged me tightly.
"I won't. We plan on coming back once the babies are here with our friends for a family vacation. I will send monthly pictures of the boys when they get here, Sue. I will send them to you and you can put them up by our plaque." I told her and all the other people around us that were listening in on the conversation.
"That sounds like a fantastic idea, little chief." Sue said as she released me and headed back behind the counter.
Edward remained pretty silent throughout the whole conversation as he was lost in his own thoughts and demons. "You okay, barman?" I asked him as I nudged his burger at him.
He shook his head and smiled at me. "I'm fine, love, just thinking about my own parents." He said quietly.
"Are you sure you still want to go?" I asked him as he picked up his burger and took a big bite.
He nodded and flashed a quick smile at me.
"Okay, then eat up, cause we have a flight to catch. Are Mrs. Emily and Mr. Joe still going to open the house up and buy the groceries today?" I asked.
He had called the neighbors who had been taking care of his parent's place since they had died and asked them if they would go in the house and open it up for us and buy a short supply of groceries since we were getting in so late. Mr. Joe had even offered to drive one of the Cullen's vehicles and park it in short term parking at the airport, which we accepted.
"Yeah, Mrs. Emily is going to clean the place up. She practically begged to do it once I told her I was bringing my pregnant wife back with me."
I laughed. "I can't wait to meet them." I told him as I finished off my burger.
He groaned. "Oh, I can't wait either." He said sarcastically.
We finished our lunch and headed to Seattle to catch our flight. It was almost midnight by the time we landed in Chicago and Edward was a bundle of nerves.
EPOV
I couldn't control the shaking in my hands as the airplane touched the runway in my childhood hometown. "Oh God, I feel like I'm going to puke." I said as I put my head between my knees as we rolled to a stop.
"Deep breaths, honey, deep breaths." Bella said as she rubbed a hand up and down my back soothingly.
"I can't do this, love, I just can't. Can we please go home?" I begged her as I tried taking deep breaths.
So Edward is not wanting to deal with Chicago at all. Do they go home or stay?
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