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Chapter 21

BPOV

We ended up spending two nights in the new house while we explored Savannah State University and also did some touristy things around Savannah. I was glad to be back in Chicago and back to our normal routine. The weeks flew by as we settled into our routines of school, football practices, tutoring, cheerleading, and baby central. It seemed like when Edward got the green light to return to normal activity using his leg that everybody in the world needed either Edward or me for something. We were close one weekend while Alice and Jasper were supposed to be out of town. We were getting it on on the rug in the middle of the living room with a fire going in the fireplace when Alice and Jasper busted through the door soaking wet claiming they had had a flat tire. Valentine's Day weekend, I had booked us a little cabin getaway when Edward had received a call from Eleazar saying that Tanya had gone into premature labor and it might be a good idea for him to come to Nashville. They managed to stop her labor just as we arrived at the hospital. We even tried skipping school one day. We left after lunch but were back to Edward's house no more than twenty minutes when Esme came knocking on his bedroom door with Carlisle in tow wanting to make sure we were okay. That was embarrassing but we survived it and just chalked it up to that we were never going to be left alone to consummate our relationship unless we left the state and didn't tell anybody where we were going. Spring Break was our goal. We were going to Savannah. Alone until the weekend to celebrate mine and Alice's big birthday, we were turning 18.

I was beginning to get frustrated at it just not happening. I knew our relationship was based off of so much more but I was aching inside and nothing was apparently going to satisfy it but Edward. We had finally given in and told them we were going to the house in Savannah when they were worried that something may happen to us and they wouldn't know where to start looking.

Then they all wanted to fly down with us to help get the house set up. I snapped on them when that conversation first came up. "Hell no, Edward and I are going to be alone where NOBODY will interrupt us. You guys can come down on Thursday but not a day sooner. You can pick out your furniture then."

They had laughed in sympathy for me but also knew how frustrating it could be, they had been there. When Rose's parents had found out she was pregnant and was planning on keeping the baby and postponing college temporarily they gave her an ultimatum; either dump Emmett and stay home or move out and don't look back. She had chosen to move out and in with Alice and I since Emmett's parents had said no to her living with them because of Emmett's younger siblings. Emmett had opted to move out of his house and in with Edward and Jasper so he could be around Rose more because his parents forbade her for even coming over to their house because of Em's younger brother and sister.

They had also found out they were having a little girl and were planning on naming her Blakely Rose McCarty, so Emmett had become even more overprotective of Rose and that in turn irritated Rose and she withheld sex which made us all miserable.

I was excited to be going to Savannah with just Edward, our house was overflowing with estrogen and pregnancy hormones. Over the past two and a half months, we had gotten a lot accomplished furniture wise. I had never dreamed that it would take so much furniture to fill a house of that size. Esme had sat down with me one evening when I had become overwhelmed with buying furniture for the house because Edward honestly had no opinion to offer. He just kept telling me to pick what I liked, he was game for anything as long as it made me happy. Rose said that it was our house and it should be our choice because they didn't plan on living with us forever. Alice had said the same thing; our house our choice. It was really sweet but it was no help at all. Esme had sat down with me and on a sheet of paper she wrote a list of the rooms we had to buy furniture for and then we went shopping online, printing out pictures of everything we ordered so we could coordinate it all. We had started in the easiest room of the house, the dining room and went from there and it had been fairly easy once she helped me. The house still held our taste and flavor with a touch of maturity to it. We had ordered everything from furniture to rugs to candles and candle holders to accent vases. We had also packed up all of out personal belonging we were planning to take with us and had them shipped to the Georgia house.

We had a surprise for everybody but an extra surprise for Rose and Emmett. We had decided to make the downstairs a game room/ lounge area for when they had friends over and didn't want to be inundated with all the baby stuff that was sure to be spread all around the house. Edward had also called the design studio that was doing Gavyn's bedroom to set up a date and time to show up and asked if they could also do Blakely's room for an extra fifteen thousand for their work and the charity. They had readily agreed. We were set to land in Savannah late Friday evening, furniture was being delivered on Saturday, designers were coming in on Monday to work on the nursery's, and to top it all off we had to finish furnishing the house because the next time we would be coming up here would be with Gavyn in tow and we wanted it all complete and ready to move in.

"Are you ready, baby?" Edward asked leaning against the tutor room door. I was a little sad but this was my last day of tutoring.

I looked up and smiled at him. He now helped the athletic department with training and drills but didn't actually play the game anymore but he was okay with that because I often found him sitting with his music paper in his lap writing out songs or tinkling at the piano in the band room. "I am. You finished for the day?" I asked him as I noticed his damp hair from a recent shower, he must have been working out with the guys.

He nodded and ran a hand through his hair. "Yeah, one thing I don't miss about football is all the intense workouts, I barely hung in there today."

I laughed as I packed my things up to take with me. "I bet but you still look fantastic." I told him as I walked up to him gripping the front of his shirt and tugging his lips to mine in a sweet kiss. "Did you know it's supposed to be in the 70's in Savannah right now." I commented as we walked to his Volvo.

He nodded. "I know. It will take some getting used to but we will acclimate eventually."

Within an hour of school letting out, we were boarding our plane and on our way to our future. When we walked out of the airport I could immediately tell the difference in the climate and temperature, much more so than I could when we were here in December. The air felt thicker but it wasn't anything we couldn't manage or get used to. "Ready to see our home again?" Edward asked as I slid into the seat of the car he had rented for the week.

I smiled and nodded. "I am, I've missed it even though we only spent a few nights there." I told him when he had climbed in.

"I miss it to, baby. I have a surprise for you waiting at the house."

I groaned and laid my head back. "Edward…"

He shook his head. "No complaints, this is all about us this week, Isabella and I fully intend to make it amazing for you. Plus, you told me I could take care of the bedroom." He said kissing me gently.

I smiled and nodded because I just knew 'it' was going to happen this week of being away from our friends and family. I knew we were going to have people in and out all day long but the nights and evenings would be strictly ours to do with as we pleased.

When we pulled into the driveway I immediately noticed the blooming flowers and the mowed lawn. "Who mowed the grass?" I asked him as we climbed from the car.

He turned and pointed across the road. "Remember our neighbors Lesley and Rachel that we met back at New Year's? They have a teenage son, Toby, who needed a job this summer, so I offered to pay him if he would keep our yard mowed and watch out for our house. He's 15 and trying to save for his first car." Edward said wrapping an arm around my shoulders leading me up to the porch and to the front door.

"Okay, he looks like he has done a good job. It's amazing how you know so much about them already." I commented as I unlocked the door and stepped inside. It still smelled faintly of cleaning supplies and a little musty from being locked up for months on end. "We need to open some windows, Edward." I told him as I headed for the living room windows.

A few minutes later we could feel the breeze wafting through all the open window and patio doors that led to the screened in patio. "You ready for your surprise, Isabella?" Edward whispered huskily in my ear as he wrapped his arms around my waist pressing his chest to my back.

I smiled and nodded as I leaned into his embrace. "Since you insist." I whispered quietly.

He chuckled before tugging me down the hall and up the stairs. "Close your eyes, baby." He demanded as we stood in front of our closed bedroom door.

I sighed dramatically but closed my eyes none the less. "What did you do? Pay Toby to blow up the air mattress too?" I said snarkily but knew that he had probably gone all out on our bedroom.

He just laughed as he reached past me to open the door and shuffle me forward slightly. "I did something even better than that, baby. I am not making love to you for the first time on a damned blow up mattress. Do you remember what happened to Rose and Emmett's mattress? We thought a damn bomb had gone off." He said recalling Emmett and Rose's mattress popping in the middle of their wild sex when we had stayed here over Christmas vacation.

I couldn't help the laugh that came out of me because it really was funny. "Okay, so what's this surprise? I don't want to talk about Emmett and Rose's sex life, I would prefer to get one of our own." I pouted adorably.

"Open your eyes, beautiful and we will get started on that." He whispered huskily against my ear.

I slowly blinked open my eyes and was amazed at the vision in front of me. The bed was huge and magnificent and looked like four trees growing from the floor and their branches meeting around the edges of the bed. "It's beautiful, Edward." It was covered in a beautiful gray/brown/light turquoise comforter with a gorgeous turquoise throw over the middle of it to match the turquoise in the numerous pillow on the bed. "I thought you hated all of my pillows?" I told him as I trailed my fingers over the gorgeous new bedding.

He just laughed. "I'm starting to get used to them and they aren't hard to toss off the bed." He said as he leaned against a dresser that I hadn't noticed.

"Where did you get all of this stuff from?" I asked softly as I looked around the room and noticed it was completely furnished as well as decorated. Not one thing needed to be done besides adding our clothes to it. There were even pictures of us hanging on the walls and on the dressers as well as some of Gavyn's ultrasound pictures. "Who did all of this?" I asked as I noticed the accent candles, vases, chair and small table by the windows, lamps, rugs, curtains, pictures, everything coordinated beautifully.

He just laughed. "You will have to ask Esme who created all of these, I just told her what I wanted and she said she would do it all. I okayed the design of the bed and told her what colors I wanted the room to be and she said she wanted to take care of everything for us." He explained as I trailed my fingers across the back of the chair and fingered the curtains.

"It's beautiful. She got it perfect." I whispered as I walked to where he was propped against the dresser. "Remind me to thank her after I thank you properly." I whispered against his lips leaning into his body.

He groaned and reached down to my thighs picking me up. I wrapped my legs around his waist as he walked us to the bed. "No interruptions now. You are mine now, Isabella." He whispered before sealing his lips to mine.

An hour later I was a panting mess and our beautiful bed was no more perfectly made. "So worth it." I whispered as I cuddled into Edward's side.

He chuckled and wrapped an arm around my shoulders placing a gentle kiss to the top of my head. "Thanks, love. Better than an air mattress?"

I laughed and nodded. "Much better, but as long as we are together it will always be perfect." I told him as I leaned up to kiss him passionately renewing our passions once again.

That is how we spent our night, making love, taking a bath together, making love, ordering pizza and eating it in the middle of our huge bed, making love, collapsing exhausted onto the sheets in the early hours of the morning.

I was disoriented when I first woke up the next morning but as soon as I moved my legs stretching the kinks out of my back last night came flooding back to me and I couldn't stop myself from giggling like a school girl into my pillow. I stopped immediately, pulling the blankets up over my bare chest, when I heard voices coming from the hallway.

"That goes in there." I heard Edward telling someone, sounding agitated.

"Edward?" I called out to him since I couldn't see him because our bedroom door was shut all but a small crack.

He poked his head around the corner of the door frame sticking his head through the crack and smiling at me. "Good morning, baby, the delivery guys came early as did the designers for Gavyn and Blakely's rooms." He said as he stepped through the doorway shutting the door behind him.

I smiled and nodded. "Okay, I was just wondering who you were talking to and where you were at." I said softly.

He shook his head. "I would still be right here beside you, baby, if they hadn't shown up. They've only been here about twenty minutes or so." He said as he laid down beside me but on top of the blankets. "How do you feel this morning?" He asked softly as he brushed my hair back from my face.

I buried my burning face in chest. "Sore. Amazing. Inadequate." I whispered quietly.

He pushed me back down on the bed, trying to look me in the eyes. "I understand sore and amazing, but why inadequate? Bella last night was amazing and mind-blowing in every way, baby."

I nodded and swallowed loudly not able to meet his eyes. "I just know that you have been with girls that knew all the positions and how to pleasure you correctly and I don't know how to do any of that stuff." I mumbled.

He groaned at hearing my words. "Isabella, I want you to listen closely to me. I love that I will be your first and only. I love that you are innocent beyond your years and I get to be the one to teach you all of those things. Baby, last night was perfect. Don't doubt that. It was the best night of my entire life."

I smiled and nodded. "So my ignorance doesn't bother you?"

He laughed. "I will tell you again that it's not ignorance, baby, it's innocence. We've been over this every time we take another step in our relationship and I find it awesome and beautiful to be able to teach you the things you want to learn."

I smiled and nodded as I heard thumping outside our door. "Go make sure they don't damage anything while I take a shower and get dressed. Did you bring our luggage up, yet?" I asked as I quickly kissed him on his lips before climbing from the bed.

He laughed and swatted my bare ass as I almost fell out of the tangled blankets. "Your clothes are already in the drawers and hanging in the closet, per Alice's instructions inside your suitcase."

I laughed as I headed for the shower. Esme hadn't stopped in our bedroom, she had decorated our bathroom too. It flowed with our bedroom. Since it was a fairly small bathroom, she had apparently opted to paint the wall behind the vanity a bright turquoise while the rest of the walls were painted a light gray. It was all beautiful and I was immensely thankful for her and I had indeed called and thanked her while Edward ordered pizza for dinner.

Once I was showered, I wrapped a fluffy towel around my body and I pushed open our bedroom window and stuck my head outside to check the temperature before picking out what I wanted to wear today. It was warm but not too hot so I decided a tank top, a light hoodie, shorts, and flip flops would work perfectly. I pilfered through my drawers until I came found my pair of blue jean shorts that I wanted to wear and my plain white tank top. I slipped them on over the top of my white lacey underwear set before slipping my feet into my pink flip flops and tugging on my pink and white striped zippered hooded light jacket. I slipped my watch onto my wrist so I could keep up with the time as the day went by.

I poked my head into Gavyn's room and was blown away by how much the designer had accomplished in the short amount of time they had been here. "Oh, I hope this is all okay. I couldn't find your husband anywhere." The designer said as he noticed me standing there.

I smiled as I stepped on into the room. "We're not married and I'm sure he is around here somewhere. I love the calmness and softness of the blue. Do you have the design laid out on something I can look at?" I asked him as I looked at the light blue walls.

"Absolutely. Here you go. My name is Jayce Meyers." He said sticking his hand out for me to shake.

I smiled and shook his hand. "Nice to meet you Jayce, my name is Bella. I thought you guys weren't coming till Monday?"

He sighed and nodded. "I explained it to Edward, it was a scheduling mishap. He said it wouldn't be a problem to start today." He said nervously.

I chuckled. "It is fine, I was just curious. This is amazing by the way, I love the mural idea. This is perfect." I told him handing him back his drawing of the mural he was going to paint on the walls. It was a huge tree in the corner with a wooden sign hanging from it that said 'Snips and snails and puppy dog tails, that's what little boys are made of!' and on the adjoining wall a young boy hung from the tree with his hand hanging down touching a dogs tail while another boy had his fishing pole hung over his shoulder with a fish attached to his line and a bucket of fish in the other hand. On the other side of the room was going to be a branch coming down from the ceiling with a wooden plaque hanging from it with Gavyn's name written on it. "I will leave you to your work but first do you have a sketch of the other nursery design too?" I asked him as I was getting ready to leave.

He looked up from his painting. "My boyfriend and business partner is doing that room so he has those drawings. His name is Brayden." Jayce said with a smile on his face.

"Okay, thanks." I told him as I headed down the hall to what would be Blakely's nursery and room for the foreseeable future. The layout of the upstairs was perfect for all of us. We were right across the half from Gavyn while Rose and Emmett would only be through the bathroom away from Blakely but the babies would be far enough away from each that they wouldn't disturb the other one.

I knocked on the door before sticking my head around the edge of the doorframe. "Brayden?" I called out when I didn't see him.

He jumped out of the bathroom. "Yes?"

I laughed and smiled at him. "I was just being nosy and wanting to see the designs of this room too. I just got finished bugging Jayce with Gavyn's room." I told him with a smile as I stepped on into the room.

He chuckled lightly. "Oh ok. I have the sketches in here in the bathroom if you would like to come take a look at them. Please just be easy on the plastic." He said pointing to the plastic covered floor.

I smiled and nodded. "Okay." I told him as I eased over to the bathroom door where he and all of his supplies were sitting.

"It was my understanding that this nursery wasn't supposed to be an explosion of pink so this is what I came up with." He said handing me his poster that he had sketched the basic design on.

"The walls are going to be a dark gray while keeping the base boards and crown molding all stark white. There is going to be a white tree coming off the middle of that longest wall, leaning towards where I will put the crib. The 'leaves'" he said using air quotes "will be different shades of pink flowers that will flow the whole length of that wall and part of the other wall up to this doorframe. There will be white butterflies fluttering around also. On that other wall over there above the changing table will be the name being spun by butterflies." He explained pointing at things on the design board and around the room.

I smiled and nodded. "It sounds perfect. When is the nursery furniture supposed to be coming? We are only here for a week." I asked him as I eased back to the bedroom door.

He laughed. "We will be done with the murals by tomorrow evening and the furniture is set to be delivered on Monday. We will be completely done by Monday evening or early Tuesday morning."

I nodded. "Okay, sounds good. We will probably be in and out while you guys are here." I told him as I left the room only to run into Edward.

"Just what are you doing, Isabella?" he asked as he tugged me to him.

I smiled and wrapped my arms around his neck. "I was just introducing myself to the designers and checking out the design plans for each of the nursery's." I explained as some movers eased by us with what looked like a headboard. "What is all of that?" I asked pointing in the direction of the disappearing headboard.

Edward groaned and laughed. "Apparently nobody listened and ordered their bedroom sets online and set them to be delivered today anyways. Our furniture that we ordered is just now arriving and so is our stuff we all shipped from Chicago, that's what I was coming to find you for. To help direct traffic flow." He said placing a sweet kiss on my lips.

I laughed and nodded. "I told them idiots they could wait, apparently this has been done for a little bit though because our truck delivery couldn't be scheduled for two weeks out at the earliest. I'm not setting their beds up or anything. They can do it when they get here on Thursday." I told him as we headed downstairs.

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