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Chapter 20
EPOV
Watching Bella explore our new house was mesmerizing and exhilarating because I could see us as a family in each and every room we explored. I hadn't seen our friends since we had stepped foot in the house. I followed Bella up the stairs and groaned at the sight of her delicious ass in her tight black dress pants she had worn today. "Remind me to always walk behind you on the stairs." I told her as I eased up the stairs. I had decided to leave the crutches at the inn while we handled business around town.
She just laughed as she added a little hip action to her steps now. "Like what you see, Casanova?"
I groaned. "Don't tease, Isabella, please baby." I begged her quietly.
She stopped suddenly and turned around on the step she was standing on putting her face to face with me as I was one step below her. "I'm not teasing, Edward. I'm ready. This whole past week has shown me that I have nothing to be afraid of. I'm ready when you are." She whispered quietly.
I groaned and rested my forehead against hers. "Okay, baby, I don't want to rush things, though. I want them to be perfect because you are perfect, baby." I whispered quietly.
She shook her head lightly. "I'm not perfect, Edward, we're just perfect for one another."
I smiled and nodded. "I like that. Let's go find our sons room, shall we?" I asked her trying to turn this conversation back to the here and now and not on our soon to be sex life. That was a big step that we had yet to take together and it wasn't because I was hurt, it was because neither of us were in a big hurry to rush things.
She smiled and nodded placing a sweet kiss to my lips before turning around and heading on up the stairs. "Let's go." We explored the upstairs bedroom that contained three spare bedrooms and bathrooms. There were two bedrooms roughly the same size that had a jack-n-jill bathroom separating them at the far end of the hall.
There was a room directly to the left of what would be our bedroom door and right in front of the stairway that wasn't classified as a bedroom because it had no closet and was small so we figured it would be an office. The other room was across the hall from our bedroom and was perfect for Gavyn's nursery.
"Will this work for Gavyn? We will be across the hall from him and Rose and Emmett or Alice and Jazz will be at the other end of the hall from us." I told Bella as we stepped out of the tiny closet that would be solely Gavyn's.
She smiled and nodded. "This will work for a nursery but once he gets up older he can go into one of the other bedrooms. Let's go check out our room!" She said with a huge smile on her face.
I was shocked to see our entire family sitting out on the roof right outside our bedroom windows. "How did they?" I asked Bella pointing at our friends.
She just laughed. "Alice and I sit on the roof of our house in Chicago all the time. It's not hard, just climb out the window and have a seat." She explained as she opened up double doors to reveal a huge walk- in closet. "This is amazing. I'm not going to know what to do having a separate closet from Alice. Even before we turned our parents' master bedroom into our huge walk-in closet we still shared closets. The jackets, jeans, and shorts were in my closet while the shirts, and shoes were all in Alice's closet." She explained as she walked out of the closet closing the doors behind her.
"How do you feel about sharing with me? I promise to not take up too much space." I told her as I followed her into our master bathroom. It had a small claw foot tub, a walk-in shower, double vanity, and a toilet, all the essentials. The master wasn't overly huge but it would suit us just fine and the bathroom was small but nicely remodeled.
She just laughed. "I don't take up as much space as you think, Casanova. I plan to donate or get rid of most of my clothes before moving."
I laughed. "I will have to be there the day you tell Alice that you are doing that. That girl lives to see you dressed impeccably."
She smiled nodding her head. "Yeah, but I do know how to dress myself contrary to popular belief."
I nodded before tugging her towards the windows excitedly. "Let's go see what the others think." I opened a window so we could climb out. "Is there room on our roof for us?" I asked as I helped Bella through the window.
Once we were all settled on the roof leaning back against the siding of the house overlooking the backyard that contained a play set and a sandbox in the far corner along with a huge swimming pool that was currently covered with a hard top cover. "So what do you guys think?" I asked as Bella settled between my legs with her head resting on my shoulder.
Alice was the first to speak. "That closet in the downstairs bedroom is absolutely amazing. It's huge!"
Bella laughed as she nodded. "Figures the closet size would be your deciding factor, Tinker."
Alice just laughed and nodded eagerly. "I'm in. I think there are plenty of spaces in the house for us all to be able to study and do homework too."
I nodded at her. "Jazz, what about you? Anything you need to say?" I asked my brother.
He shook his head. "I would love to be around to see my nephew grow up and it also will make college easier because we will have a secure place to call home. None of us are partyers so we should all get along just fine." He said like the wise brother that he was.
Bella and I both nodded because we knew that swaying Jasper and Alice wouldn't be hard, it was going to be Rosalie and Emmett that needed the extra persuasion. "Rose, Em?" I asked quietly because they had remained silent thus far looking out over the backyard.
"How do you guys feel about another baby being in the house?" Rose asked quietly with her head hung down.
I heard Bella and Alice both gasp. "Rosie?" They asked as they both leaned forward so they could see her better.
She nodded with tears in hers as she faced the girls. "I found out last night when I got sick after dinner. Emmett went out and bought a pregnancy test and it came back positive. Apparently we're pregnant."
Bella jumped out of my arms and scrambled across the roof to where Rose and Emmett sat and launched herself into their arms. "I'm so happy for you guys! Our kids can grow up as best friends!" She said as she released them.
Rose smiled at her. "You don't mind us living here with a baby on the way? I will be missing the first term of college because I am sure my due date will fall right around August or September sometime."
Bella looked back at me and I shrugged. "Who am I to judge? I am the lucky bastard that knocked up the biggest whore in Chicago."
We all laughed at that as the realtor stepped out into the backyard looking up at the roof. "Are you guys having a good time up there?"
We all laughed and nodded at her. "We are. Do we need to go?" I asked her and she nodded.
"The office just called and said your check just cleared so we need you there to sign the paperwork and hand over the keys." She said with a smile on her face.
I nodded. "We'll be right down." I called to her as we all started easing back through the windows. "Why did you guys decide to climb out our bedroom window? Doesn't your room have roof access also?" I asked Emmett and Rosalie since it was obvious by Alice's earlier comment about closet size that they were taking the downstairs bedroom.
They nodded. "It's street access though, we didn't want to give the neighbors a heart attack before we even moved in." Rosalie said as she slapped Emmett's hands away from her. "I am not helpless, you idiot. You fall over more than I do!" she snapped at him as she climbed through the window and headed downstairs.
Emmett's eyes got huge in disbelief. "I was just trying to make sure she was okay." He mumbled to himself.
Less than an hour later, Bella and I were walking out of the realtor's office with our keys in our hands and a smile plastered to our faces. "Still want to spend the night in the new house?" I asked her as I held open the door for her.
She smiled at me and nodded. "Absolutely. We should be able to just have the utilities transferred into our names since they are all still turned on from the previous owners."
I nodded. "Okay we will go back to the inn and get a game plan together." I told her as I pulled out of the parking lot.
"Sounds good, Casanova."
Two hours later, we were scattered to the four winds to prepare for our first night in the house. Alice and Rosalie were shopping for bedding and towels for the three couples. Jasper and Emmett were scouring the town for blow up mattresses and pumps. Bella and I were running all over town getting utilities transferred into our names. It made it all so much more real every time we had to sign our names to the paperwork and hand over the deposit money for each utility.
"When are we going to buy furniture for the house and set it up?" Bella asked as we left the gas company heading for the grocery store for some sandwich fixings.
I shrugged because I honestly hadn't thought that far ahead but apparently she had. "We can always order some things online and come down one weekend to meet the delivery guys or we can come back on spring break and just do it all then. We also have to set up a date for the designer to come do the nursery. I just know it would be so much easier on us if it was all done before Gavyn comes home in May." I told her because I honestly didn't care either way. "Hey, we could always send Esme down here to decorate it all one week. I'm sure she and Carlisle could make a vacation of it." I said as an afterthought.
Bella shook her head and wrinkled her nose. "As much as I love Esme and her decorating skills, I want this to be our home not some show piece."
I smiled and nodded. "Okay, so order online and make some weekend trips or do it all on spring break?" I asked as I parked in the parking lot of the grocery store.
She sighed. "It would be easier to do it room by room so maybe order some of the basic furniture online but for couches and our bed and chairs and stuff I would like to sit in and feel the texture before ordering them."
I smiled and nodded. "Okay, whatever's easiest for you, baby. I'm with you all the way. I just want to pick our bedframe and bedroom furniture."
She looked at me oddly with a quirked eyebrow. "You don't want an input on the rest of the house?"
I shrugged. "I don't know the first thing about picking out furniture or decorating a house, baby. I figured you, Rose, Alice, and Esme could all get together and tag team it." I told her as I climbed from the car pulling my crutches from the backseat so I could keep some of the weight off my leg. I didn't use them completely, they were more for something to lean on and take a little of my weight off my leg. I hadn't used them all morning and I could already feel my leg tensing up.
We were quickly in and out of the grocery store. We got chips, dips, cookies, sandwich fixings, cokes, bread, muffins, and ice. A quick stop by Walmart secured us toilet paper, paper plates, cups, napkins, and some pillows. We were the last ones to the house as we pulled into the garage, parking beside the truck Emmett and Jasper had rented.
An hour later we were settled in the living room on a pile of pillows Alice and Rosalie had bought for us to use downstairs. We sat about eating sandwiches and chips and cookies as we laughed about the enormity of what happened today.
"Rose, when are you going to go to the doctor?" I asked around a mouthful of turkey, cheese, and bread.
She groaned and rubbed her stomach. "I don't know. Soon so the doctor can tell Emmett to stop acting like an idiot."
We all laughed at her. "I'm not an idiot, baby, I am just worried about you and our offspring." He said defensively as he popped a chip in his mouth.
Rose reached up and slapped him across the back of the head causing him to choke on his chip. "What did I tell you about that word?" she asked between clenched teeth with an angry glint in her eye.
He immediately looked contrite and scared which caused the rest of us to giggle even louder. "It's not an offspring, it is a baby made from love and passion." He said like he was quoting something boring and non-important.
"That's correct. What did I tell you was going to happen next time you referred to our CHILD as an offspring?"
That got us all to shut up and pay close attention because we were curious as to what could make Emmett go so quiet and white.
"You were going to tell everybody my full name." He mumbled and I immediately started cheering. He had been so protective over his full name that he even kept it off of his school records.
"Come on Rosie, tell us, please. He's been a bad bad boy and this is a GREAT punishment for him." I begged her shamelessly.
She laughed and shook her head. "I think I have an even better punishment for him in mind." She said with a sly smile on her face.
I groaned and shook my head. "I am so glad our room is on the opposite side of the house from yours. No wonder you guys have a baby coming." I grumped because it seemed like I wouldn't be figuring out the big secret after all.
Rose smiled and laughed. "The reason we have a baby on the way is because Emmett had to borrow a condom from Jasper a few months back and the bastard was old and busted." She grumped as she got up to throw her plate away and rinse her cup out for in the morning.
Alice just hung her head because that was around the time she and Jasper had had their baby scare. Jasper just shook his head but wisely kept his mouth shut as they just cleaned up their messes and retired to their own rooms to get their beds ready for the night.
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