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Chapter Nine: A New Years Kiss.
Clovice's POV
I reclined on the sofa in our home lazily with Manda on my chest. I looked down at her flat tummy trying to picture what was growing inside of her. Would it be a boy or a girl, would it be blonde and pale or dark haired and dark skinned. I smiled softly; the baby was exhausting my poor fiancé. I kissed the top of her nudging her away.
"Piss off." She muttered sleepily, we were expected at the Cullen's for a New Year's party and we're already quite a few hours late.
"We have to get going." I whispered kissing her temple trying to gently wake her up. She nuzzled her head under my chin shaking her head,
"We should stay here." I chuckled rubbing my hands over her back.
"You parents and grandparents will kill me if I don't get you there." I whispered in her ear. She groaned,
"I don't want to put those damn shoes back on." She whined pointing at her six inch black stiletto peep toe heels. I looked at her in disbelief,
"You always whine about your shoes and how painful they are but you never, ever stop wearing them. If they make your feet hurt so bad why do you keep wearing them?" I asked running my fingers lightly up and down her back which was covered by the magenta satin fabric of her dress.
"They make my legs look sexy." She muttered sitting up on me, her long pale legs displayed for me; I ran my fingers up and down them slowly eliciting a shiver from her glowing body.
"I think your legs are always sexy my dear." I whispered gravely nipping her ear softly as possible, she giggled,
"You would say that." I chucked deep in the back of my throat,
"I am saying that, because it's true." I tucked a strand of her soft honey blonde hair behind her ears looking deep into her ocean blue eyes, "I'm going to miss your eyes so much." I whispered thinking foreword to in a few months when they would be blood red and eventually the topaz of the rest of the Cullen family. She bit her lip looking down,
"I know if I had my way I wouldn't have to be turned." I held her in my arms just holding her, she was just like Rosalie, she didn't want to live to see all the ages of the world, the hardest part for her is she will have to watch our child grow old and die but she never will.
"I know baby, if there was any way, any way at all I would stop it from happening." I whispered in her ear, I never want her to be sad, I need her to be okay with what she is being forced to do out of love for her parents, "We should get going though, put your stupid, evil shoes back on so we can floo over to Carlisle and Esmee's." She giggled softly nodding her head. It was good to see her smile, especially since her smile makes my world okay. Her smile makes my life worth living.
Once her shoes were on, we walked over to the fireplace and I grabbed a hand full of floo powder; we stepped into the fireplace and I dropped the powder,
"Cullen Cove." I could feel the familiar swirl of the floo powder taking us, and Manda clutching my side, she was going to have to vomit after this. I thought to myself, bracing myself for the inevitable shoe kick and run, that would end with me following behind dutifully with her stupid black peep toes. Once we arrived at Carlisle's and Esmee's I knew I was right. Manda covered her mouth with her hand kicked off the black shoes and raced to the upstairs bathroom. I bent over picked up her shoes and walked up the stairs behind her, waiting outside the bathroom for her. She smiled blushing as she walked out,
"Thanks for bringing me my shoes." She whispered, I smiled at her laughing,
"No problem, it's what I do." I told her watching her slip her dainty pedicured feet into the shoes she loved so much but hated to wear. I smiled to myself softly, they were in fact her favorite shoes but they hurt her feet so bad, she had spent a month wearing them for eight hours every day to break them in perfectly last summer. They've only started hurting her feet again now when they are starting to get swollen from being on her feet while pregnant.
"Stupid shoes are so perfect." She mumbled under her breath standing up smiling at me causing me to chuckle. Manda would never give up her shoes. She'd already started buying clothes for her changing pregnant body but she would never give up her sleek stylish name brand shoes.
"Come on, let's go join the party." I teased her wrapping my arm around her waist leading her into the large room that the Carlisle and Esmee always used to entertain guests. Emmet walked over to us,
"I thought I heard you two floo in." Emmet gave Manda a huge hug, even now when they seemed to be the same age, anyone could tell that when he looked at Manda he still saw his baby girl.
"Hi Daddy." She whispered hugging him, "Where's Mom?" She asked still embracing her dad.
"She's off with Alice and Bella somewhere." Manda laughed,
"Well, I'm going to go find them." I watched Emmet walk away with Manda and my own parents approach, My mom looked happy as ever, even with the crows feet and the beginning of smile lines, My dad's hair started graying around the temples, but he still wore it short the way he did when he met my mom, and he still dwarfed her the way Sean towers over Apolline,
"Hey son." My dad greeted me clasping my shoulder, I hugged my mum,
"How are Aunt Bella and Uncle Edward holding up?" I asked them, I was scared to hear that Renesmee and Seth would have shown up at their parent's home,
"Edward is being strong and stoic for Bella, she's a wreck. None of us have heard from them." Mum said I sighed running my hand over my hair,
"Let's hope we don't hear from them again." I muttered looking at Manda. If Seth and Renesmee came back now, I would be too scared for her and the baby. "If they come back, make sure Manda and the baby are safe." I told my parents, they just nodded their heads as Manda reappeared at my side,
"It appears to be almost midnight." My mother teased with her all knowing smile, "You two are a little late." Manda smiled shyly,
"I fell asleep." Mum gave Manda a huge bear hug reminiscent of Molly Weasley, only my mum isn't a red head and isn't a rotund woman, she's still thin and willowy.
"I remember how hard my pregnancy with Vice was, I don't think Jake could have woken me up once I went to sleep if he had wanted too." Manda smiled, it meant the world to her that my mum accepted us having a child so young. Manda was scared she'd hate her for taking away her little boys youth. My mum could never hate Manda, she could never hate her own god daughter. I could hear the clock strike twelve in the background as we all cheered, I smiled watching my father give my mother a small chaste kiss on the lips, I leaned over and kissed Manda's soft pink lips. This was the best way I could think of to ring in this New Year. Kissing my fiancé whom is having my baby.
