You know you love me.

Chapter 7

Memory

I wasn't sure what'd just happened, but when I came back in again, Edward and Alice both seemed calm.

"That went well." Alice breathed and sank down in an armchair.

"Do you remember what she came to apologise for?" I asked them. They looked at each other, and Alice shrugged. "It wasn't that important I guess."

"How was Dartmouth again then, Edward?" She asked smugly. "Was someone outrageously bold and violated the school-moral or were the old fossils as boring as ever?"

"That's Dartmouth in a box for you, old fossils." He mumbled, pulling me down with him in the couch. I snuggled up in his lap, and he ran his fingers along my spine.

"I can't understand you would go through all that again." I laughed at her.

"Don't try to mock Edward, Alice. You're doing it as well." Her smile only reached halfway and she looked almost dangerous. My instincts jumped in, preparing for a fight.

"Who said I was? Calm down, Bella, we won't be fighting." I calmed down and leaned back against Edward. Jasper had entered the room, a wave of controlled emotions along with him.

"So you're not attending school this year?" I breathed, my head on my husbands shoulder.

"No." She said and got interrupted by a vision. "I'll be right there Jasper." He nodded and disappeared up the steps. "You see after I posted your wedding photos online…"

"You did what?" I hissed, drawing back my lips.

"Jasper." She said, and another wave of calm hit me.

"I'll take that one out on you later, brother-in-law." I murmured loud enough for him to hear me.

"As I said, after I posted the pictures, of course editing away all the faces, I got all these compliments over the design and even some inquiries. I just couldn't turn all those nice people and their request down, so I started designing some." She patted a notebook on the coffee table I hadn't noticed before. "This far I've been very successful." She added and smiled proudly.

I shook my head in my hands.

"Did you know about this?" I asked Edward. He chuckled.

"Of course. You forget I have a free passage into the inner workings of her dark mind."

"Yeah, you're right. I guess I'm not surprised though, I was just waiting for the day this'd happen." Alice giggled and shone like a star.

"Thank you, Bella. I'll take that as a compliment."

"You should get up there." Edward murmured, face buried in my hair. "Jasper is starting to get impatient." Alice stood up as soon he'd said the words. She winked at me and disappeared up the stairs as well.

"I wonder what Jasper wanted?" I asked sweetly. Edward grunted.

"I think you understand, or you will hear it soon." I swallowed hard.

"I don't think I want to hear that. Should we go?" He chuckled but rose, with me in his arms

"We should." I struggled to get down and he let me go with a sigh. I pecked his cheek and wrapped my arm around his waist.

"We're going to find Renesmee. Any idea of where she might be?" He looked at me with amusement.

"You do realize what time it is?" Immediately I throw a look on the clock hanging on the wall beside the front door. It was half passed eleven. Renesmee was asleep.

Embarrassed I giggled, but started walking away from him backwards.

"Then it saves us the time it would take to find her."

I gracefully turned around again and started walking down the hall to her room. Not so gracefully I almost fell over Jacob, who lay inside the door. Edward grabbed my wrist before I hit the floor and pulled me back up.

"Don't wake him up, love. He'll wake Nessie as well."

"Yeah yeah. I'll be careful, but some things just don't change, and I guess parts of my clumsiness will stick with me forever." I frowned and took a wider step over Jacob then was necessary, even though he was unusually wide. Edward sighed behind me and followed me into the room.

"Why can't he sleep in his own room?" He mumbled and poked the sleeping werewolf with the tip of his shoe.

"I can hear you, blood-sucker." Jake rolled over and peeked at us with one eye.

"Be careful, dog. Consider the distance between your head and my foot." They had gotten back into their old nicknames. I didn't like it.

"Shut it. You'll wake her!"

"Mom, Dad's cheating." Renesmee shouted and made a dissatisfied sound. We all froze staring at her bed. My guts turned to ice. Did she just say what I think she said? Did she hear us before and was now starting to accuse her father? I would really not want any tension in their relationship. They were so cute together it broke my heart.

I almost cursed at Jacob for waking her, and then I saw her closed eyes and realized she still was sleeping. She was only dreaming. I breathed out.

Edward forgot all about Jake on the floor. He turned his now sparkling eye at his daughter and walked up to her bed.

"We were right in time." He breathed, and carefully sat down at the end.

Low snoring told me Jacob was back to sleep. I shot a glance at him, and was able to catch the drop of drool that came from his mouth before it landed on the carpet.

"Gross, Jake." I hissed, and almost ran over to Edward.

"Mom! Tell him!" Renesmee threw her small fists through the air. Her father chuckled low to not wake her up.

"She's a bit angry tonight isn't she?" He commented. His question was answered by a loud snort.

He chuckled again and fixed the covers around her.

"How come I was the one who wanted to see her, and you're the one who seems to enjoy it the most?" He didn't answer, just reached out for me. I sat down in his lap, his arms pulling me tightly to his chest.

We'd watched Renesmee sleep for an hour when she suddenly gasped and abruptly sat up.

"Mom?" She whispered, whining a little. She was in the confused state of newly awake as I was so familiar with even though I hadn't slept for a year.

"Yes, my dear? Did you have a bad dream?" I reached out for her cheek and she moved closer to me. Under me, my husband had stopped breathing, out of worry most certainly.

"No, I was just…"

"What did you dream, dear?" She sighed and crawled up in my lap so both Edward and I were able to sooth her.

"Oh, I dreamt we were in Washington. And dad and I were playing the memory-game, with the map, and he cheated, always peeking on the map and in my head, so I told you to stop him. And then you walked out from your bedroom, and you just stared at us and said 'I'm sorry, I can't remember. What was it again?'. And that was when I woke up." She rubbed her eyes. "May I go back to sleep now?" I glanced at Edward, who was looking at me with worry.

"Of course." He said, and patted her hair, without looking at her. She didn't mind, just lay back under the covers and turned away from us.

He continued to stare at me with that look for a while, and it bugged me so I dragged him out of the room.

In a safe distance from Renesmee, so she wouldn't wake up if we became loud, I stopped.

"What?" I placed my hands on my hips, trying to force him into telling me just with my posture and eyes.

"You know, when Liberty came over before?" He started, carefully watching me.

"Yes, what about it?"

"She was very humble and apologised, but none of us remembered what she apologised for. And then the girl with your genes of understanding things in your dreams, dreams that you're saying that you don't remember something. Isn't that enough to get you a bit worried?" I snorted at him.

"Don't start, Edward! It's just a coincidence. I'm sure Liberty overreacted, and that's why we don't know what she was apologising for." His eyes became even more worried when I reacted as I did. "Even so, there could be no way of understanding anything for Renesmee. She didn't overhear our conversation, did she? I certainly couldn't sense her around, I'm pretty sure you couldn't either. So how would she be able to think anything about Liberty?"

"Bella, are you mad?"

"No." I sighed. "It has just happened so much today, I have a lot on my mind, I think."

The sounds from above had not reached me before, but now the thing Jasper needed Alice for was clear. I sighed and leaned my forehead against Edward's chest.

"I'm not up for that, either." He muttered, closing me in to an embrace. But they didn't affect me as he thought they did. Instead I got an idea.

"Where are the others?" I asked; looking up at him, doing my best to hid my intentions.

"Carlisle's working in his study, Esme's in there with him, working on some blueprints. Emmett and Rosalie went away on a ride. They won't be back before Thursday." I quickly thought this through. The study was in the other end of the house, but with the super hearing, they could probably hear us anyway. Alice and Jasper wouldn't mind, and Renesmee and Jacob were fast asleep.

I looked around, realising I wouldn't do it in here.

"Come." I grabbed his hand and pulled him with me as I flew up the stairs and to our room. When we passed through the hall an enormous wave of lust crashed down from above our heads. It was totally obvious what they were doing, and I smirked. I didn't mind Jasper's gift stepping in and fire me up even more.

I pushed the door to our room open and closed it behind him. His eyes asked me what I was doing, but when I grabbed the collar of his shirt he smiled crookedly, grabbing me around the waist and pulling me against his body.

"You said you'd let me lead more often." I breathed, still trying to keep some distance, and not letting him kiss me just yet.

"One of the best things I've ever said." He stammered, trying harder to kiss me. "That, I love you and I do definitely tops my list." He was satisfied with kissing my neck when I kept dodging him. I breathed heavily when I melted against his body. Another wave of lust hit us and I couldn't hold back anymore. But I had too, otherwise this wouldn't work. I pushed him down on a chair that happened to stand close-by. I didn't want to take the few more steps to the bed.

Still standing I leaned forward to kiss him. He saw that as an encouragement, but when I finally sat down it was with my back turned. He growled playfully in my ear, and I shivered when he started kissing my neck. "I have to do this if this is going to work." I mumbled, my eyes closed and head leaning backwards.

"Do what you want, only you hurry up." He growled against my skin.

"Pull my jeans of for me." He froze for a moment, but was then as eager as ever.

"With pleasure." He said, his hands following my chest down to my hips. His hands were slow when he reached the button and took extra time running the fingers above the low cut. I gave up a low moaning sigh when he flipped them open, and I knew he heard me. Quickly I pulled the jeans off of me and turned around. I sat straddle over his lap, and before I could react he'd pressed his lips against mine and pushed my hips closer to his.

First he kissed me tenderly and passionate, but then the kisses grew harder and more eager. My body trembled violently when I returned them; I'd started moving against his chest without noticing.

He didn't move the hand that was placed on the small of my back. But the other one had stopped the free run over my body. He decided I no longer needed my shirt and pulled that over my head, so I only wore underwear. He paused for a moment to gaze at my body. His eyes were filled with tender and excited emotions. I giggled, placed my hands on his gorgeous face and crushed my lips against his.

An hour later we both strolled hand in hand down the stairs back to the living room. Of course Rose and Emmett, Alice and Jasper and Esme were gathered there. I quickly turned my face to the floor, embarrassed about the fact that they'd most probably heard what we'd been doing.

"I think someone should get those two a new house." Emmett smiled wickedly from behind Rose.

"Whatever I do, you keep teasing me about my love life!"

"Always so correct, Edward." Rose snickered, and leaned back against her husband's broad chest.

"Remember he wasn't the only one up there." I tried, hoping that that'd get them of his back. But in vain, of course.

"Bella, of course I remember, it is very hard to do, considering the sounds you two make."

"Emmett!" Esme warned. She stood up and walked away. I closed my eyes, just wanting to sink through the floor. Edward, sensing my embarrassment, leaned down to kiss the top of my head and wrapped his arm around my shoulders.

"Don't try to blame this on us!" Alice said. Edward had apparently decided to do just that. "We all know that you two don't need any encouragement. I can't see why that's a bad thing, so get off his back, Emmett."

"I was never on his back, Alice." Emmett chuckled; he was truly amused by this situation.

"Yes you were!" I turned to look at her. She'd folded her arms over her chest, and was now holding a very intimidating pose in front of Emmett. Jasper was nowhere in sight.

"Okay, a little maybe. But only as a proud brother. It's good to hear he's in a healthy relationship." Would those to ever stop bickering?

"Why are you two even back?" Edward interrupted. No matter how much I loved Emmett, I didn't enjoy discussing Edward and me with him, and not in front of the others.

"Well." Emmett said, pulling Rose closer to him. "We decided that the trip could wait for a few days, and went back home." I arched a brow. Edward sat down on the sofa, and I lay down, head in his lap.

"Why would you do that?" Edward asked. His fingers were no longer cold against my skin, but they still made me shiver as they ran along me cheek, neck and shoulders.

I loved him so much I was almost in physical pain.

"Please Bella, don't make me throw up."

"Shut up Jasper, just because I'm blissfully happy doesn't mean you have an excuse to be rude." Alice gasped.

"Am I not making you happy, Jazz?" She shrieked. Stupid Bella, why did I have to say the one thing that was bound to make the life a little less blissful for all of us? Typical Alice to read between the lines of everything. If no one stopped her soon, she'd go on about this for a long time.

"Of course you do." Jasper smiled lovingly, but the fear was still visible. He probably wasn't scared of Alice, he'd been with her too long for that. He was most certainly scared of what his brother's would do to him if she didn't let it go.

I giggled.

"This is not funny, Bella." She snapped. "Ponder what you'd do if it was Edward, huh?" She got me there.

But before I even had time to freak, Edward's hands calmed me down.

I shoot him a grateful glance; he just winked.

"Alice, you should know there's no way for me to stop loving you, so just calm down and get back here." Jasper wasn't pleading, but he wasn't demanding either. He had obviously developed some sort of Alice-tone to his voice. One he know she could never resist, nor argue with him about.

She pouted but grabbed his hand and pulled him outside. Apparently he was forgiven.

Emmett grunted.

"Nice to have the conversation back to were it should be. About me." He said.

"I didn't know you were that vain, Em." I snickered.

"I'm not, but you act like the ones you hang around, right." Rosalie reacted instantly.

"Emmett Cullen, was that just a personal insult?" It wasn't even a question. It was a statement. What ever he'd say now, she wouldn't consider it anything else then an insult.

Emmett was just too stupid for his own good sometimes.

They started arguing. Or Emmett was crawling in the dust, and Rosalie was shooting lightning at him with her eyes.

How their relationship was able to intact was beyond me sometimes. There were so many arguments all the time.

"Mommy?" A sleepy voice woke me up from watching the fight.

I rolled over and sat up, only to see my daughter in her nightgown, standing in the doorway.

"Yes my love?" Why hadn't anyone reacted to her before now? Had she been standing there for a while?

"What is it, princess? Did Jacob wake you up again?" Edward whispered softly, opening his arms for her.

She obeyed and came walking up to us, crawling into his arms.

Her parents weren't the only ones curious now.

Rose and Em had stopped their argument, and were now standing beside me.

"I was just having another strange dream." Renesmee yawned, snuggling closer to her father's chest. I leaned forward, tucking the loose curls behind her ears.

She was so beautiful, our little princess.

"Yeah?" Edward asked. Always so curious about dreams. "What was it about?"

"Um, nothing special." She murmured, just about to go back to sleep.

"You came out here for nothing special? Was it a bad dream?" I said, leaning against his shoulder, looking down at the child in his arms.

The happiness was probably radiating from all our bodies, until Edward suddenly jerked and startled Renesmee.

She just looked curiously at him. "Didn't you like my dream, dad?" He blinked, unable to say a word.

"What did you dream?" I hated being the one who wasn't telepathic in any form. She smiled, and reached out for my hand.

The pictures from Renesmee's dream came flushing through my head.

Myself with a huge belly, obviously pregnant again. But this time I was a vampire. How was that possible? And Edward, he just looked at me in the dream with a mixture of joy, confusion and eagerness. He looked like the way he used to do just before Renesmee was born. In the dream I smiled back at him, with as much pride and longing after the new baby as him. In the next moment, her dream had taken another turn. I held a baby in my arms. But my face was twisted in pain, sadness and heartbreak. Edward looked the same way; only determination was in his eyes too.

In my arms, buddled up in soft blankets was a little human boy. A baby with bright green eyes and a beautifully beating heart.

What's up with Renesmee?

Tell me what you think.

xoxo