12ready to party!

The evening went smoothly as always. We watched some tv. The twin and I teased Jacob a bit, and Bella came to his defense. I put everyone to bed and did a double take on Bella. Bella rarely woke up from her nightmares anymore but once in a while they returned.

Bella POV
I was 100% sure I was dreaming, but that never made a difference in a nightmare like this one. It was dark and I was in a nice simple room I should be sleeping, but I wasn't. The reason being that there was something wrong with the air I was breathing. It was too thick I couldn't get enough oxygen out of it. I heard screaming from somewhere below me. It scared me, I heard someone I love screaming. Mom! She's scared. Someone came up the stairs… the sound stopped. Lots of people in the house, still not breathing right. 'Help!' I want to scream, thought I know they won't hear me. There's too much noise downstairs and I can't stop crying. Then suddenly the door opens and I'm outside. I look up and breath in thankfully. There above me is a weird shiny thing, a hand reached up and pulls it away and now it's a face. A face of a man I recognized immediately. Dad.
This is the moment I always wake up. "Bella? Are you alright love?" I roll my eyes. Dad is always so scarred. It was silly but in a sweet way.
"Yes, just the same old nightmare dad. It's okay. It's not even that scary anymore," I reassure him.
"Do you want to go to them?" I shake my head. Sometimes after a nightmare like this one I feel the need to pay my birthparents a visit. Dad always takes me no matter when I want to go. We once went at midnight. He knows I like to talk to them. "Nah, don't want to wake them." I mumble already starting to fall back to sleep. "Love you" I mumble. I hear my song and drift of too sweeter dreams.

A few months later.

Edward pov

"A happy early birthday sweetheart!" I say softly when I wake up my princess. I haven't told her about her early party so it would really be a surprise. "Dad, my birthday is September 13th not august 20th. How can you forget?" I chuckle.
"I didn't, I just wanted to celebrate before you would be too busy with school and friends." It hurts me to know my baby girl will be going to school soon. She'll be out of my reach and open to bad influences. I can only hope she knows how to choose her friends.
"Yeah, like I'd ever be able to get out of an 'Alice planned party'." She rolls her eyes but not in an annoyed way. She had a loving glow in her eyes. She loved her aunt even thought they could tease each other merciless sometimes.
"That may be true but I wanted one more birthday with just the family. We will invite your friends for a party when you-"
"Which friends dad? I don't think I'll have many after only 2 weeks at school." I smile, no need to tell her what Alice told me. She'll be the most popular girl in Forks high. And she won't like that, she has always been and probably will always be a very shy girl. It's in her nature. She blushes easily, is very clumsy and hates party's especially when they are for her. It's not because she is not used to attention, obviously. She just doesn't like the spotlight. And I try to keep her away from it, but Alice would make me lose a limb if I allowed Bella to get out of a party and Bella knows and understands that. But I always make sure she is as happy as possible.
Don't get me wrong. I always made sure she knows how she has to behave, she's far from a brat.
She barely ever asks anything because she knows I'd fly her to the moon and back if she'd want me to. She gets more then she asks for so she asks as little as possible.
She's a curious, intelligent young lady. She doesn't play any instruments, but between you and me, she sings like an angel.
She knows everything about fashion and cars, but doesn't really care for it, she only does it because it makes her aunts happy. She also knows most about sport, again just to please, this time her uncle Emmett. Her Spanish and French is amazing. And she shows great interest in literature and history. Not just American history but world history. She reads about everything from the ancient Egypt to the old Germanic tribes to the great wars. She absolutely hates math but she isn't that bad if you ask me.
"Dad!" Bella's voice brings me out of my thoughts, she's looking incredulously at her breakfast with big eyes.
"Breakfast in bed? You shouldn't have," she exclaims, I raise my hand to halt her.
"Only the best for my princes." Bella tries to look mad, but she can't.
"Bella, please. Just let me spoil you for once." I look at her with pleading eyes, I know she can't resist that. She sighs and gives in. After she ate her breakfast I leave her alone so she can change. I'm honestly surprised when turns out that Alice made all of her clothes disappear and only left one dress. She must've been exeptionally carefull with her thoughts.
After a while Bella decides going in her pajamas isn't an option (we considered it thought) but the Denali's and the Blacks are coming so that plan wouldn't go well.
"Dad, will you and Tanya go out while I have a sleepover with just my friends?" Bella tries to make it sound like she asks it as a favor, but I know better. Bella just really wants me to have a girlfriend. (See last chapter)
"No but I will go out for work tonight, your aunts will be only a scream away."
Bella looks disappointed. "Dad why don't you want to go out. Ever! I mean, it's not that nobody would be willing to go out with you." I laugh at that. That is most definitely not the case.
Ever since I have Bella, girls seem to be more attracted to me than ever. I first noticed that when she was just a week with us.
I sat in Carlisle's study with Gabriella. We had decided that it was best to move our study session to my place, since bringing Bella to the library would only have caused problems. I had Bella in my arms and was feeding her while I was explaining goniometry to Gabriella.
"See?" I asked after explaining how to calculate the length of the diagonal side of a triangle with the help of the cosines and the lengths of the two other sides. She nodded rubbing her temples.
"I think… let's take a break." I nodded and finished Bella's lunch. When I made Bella burp Gabriella giggled. I raised my eyebrow.
"You're so good at this, and she's so cute." Hmmm, it looked like her mother instincts and her crush on me flow together and make her admire me even more.
"Thanks," I mutter. 'come on say something attractive' I never said she wasn't trying anymore.
At that moment Bella yawned. 'thank you sweetheart' Apparently Bella's yawn gave her inspiration for a 'cute and funny' comment. "Seems like Bella finds calc boring," she giggled. I laughed lightly.
"Oh well. Who knows she'll be a math genius because she learned all about goniometry before she could even talk." I joked back. Okay maybe I engaged in playful flirting. Sue me.
"It's so nice of you to keep her with you." She sighed while I laid Bella in bed.
"What else could I do?" I asked. "Given her to your parents, someone else… Few people would want to spend the rest of their life looking after someone else's child." I look at her while she stands up to walk a bit and stretch her limbs.
"I tried, but she can only sleep sound when I'm around. I would never forgive myself if I caused a trauma. What use would it have had to save her life only to ruin it minutes later?" I explained.
'Can a man be so… completely perfect?' Gabriella wondered. Lost in thoughts she didn't notice the chair in her path. She tripped over one of its legs and fell. I caught her and suddenly looked her straight in the eyes. An image of me leaning down to kiss her flashed through my mind and just as I was about to do that I realized that this wish didn't come from me. I put her back on her feet.
"Are you alright?" Gabriella blushed and muttered a 'yeah thank you'. She quickly excused herself and wanted to leave.
"But we didn't finish" I said. It was a bit low to pretend like I didn't know what bothered her. But this way she wouldn't take as long to recover from our almost kiss. If I let her think that I possibly could have considered kissing her she would wonder 'what if' for a couple of months, now she'll probably recover within a week.
"I got past my biggest problem, I think I can work the rest out myself." I nodded.
"If you are sure," I said while guiding her outside. That's the last I heard from her.
I snap back to the present day.
"Bella, I'm just not interested in any girl. And as for Tanya…" I'm not about to tell her exactly what happened the day Tanya first met Bella. (Again see last chapter madward made an appearance)
Not yet. "She's like a cousin. Can you imagine kissing with Emmett?" Bella made a face.
"Alright. I won't push it… today." Yeah my Bella is stubborn.