EPOV
To say teaching four and five year olds is rewarding would be an understatement. They seemed to eat up everything I was saying. Sometimes I felt unsure how to explain things to them because they were little and I needed to keep it simple. Angela would give me an encouraging smile though and I would continue.
"Mr. Edward have you ever taken pictures of dinosaurs?" asked a little boy whose name I think was Riley.
"Dinosaurs are all gone," Chloe said quietly but knowingly beside him.
"Chloe is right, I have taken pictures of elephants, though," I offered showing them pictures from a safari shoot I did in Africa when Mackenzie was two. I remembered Bella wanting to kill me when I returned. Kenz had an ear infection and didn't sleep the whole time I was gone.
"Daddy, show the Zebras!" Mackenzie ordered reaching for the small pile next to my feet.
"Mackenzie," Angela warned and surprisingly she froze.
"Daddy, please," she asked sweetly switching up her tactic.
I smiled at her and noticed Angela rolling her eyes, I scooped my girl up on my lap. She held my pictures as we went through them.
"As a photographer you can take pictures of anything," I explained showing them pictures of landscapes I took in San Francisco and New York.
"That's the Libity Lady," Kenz announced holding up the Statue of Liberty.
"Mackenzie can you tell us about the Statue of Liberty?" Angela asked with a giggle. She knew Mackenzie would give her a performance.
"Well this lady is really, really big and me and Mommy and Daddy rode a boat in the water…" She trailed off looking at me. The last time I went there with all three of us was before I left for Africa.
"This was in New York, have any of you been to New York?" I asked.
Morgan raised her hand slightly with a frown. "My dad lives there," she mumbled. Her father was definitely a smart man for moving across the country to get away from Jessica, but I felt sympathy for this little girl.
Angela jumped in diverting the awkward situation, asking me more questions about traveling. That was how the rest of my show and tell went. Angela asked me if maybe I would be able to speak to the other classes in the school because the other teachers were interested. I told her it wouldn't be a problem as long as it wasn't Jessica's class or if they wanted to, they could combine her class with someone else's.
Around lunchtime, I went home to my strange wife.
BPOV
Edward left with the girls this morning to help Angela. I was bored and uncomfortable. I sat up as straight as I could leaning forward so my cheek was resting on my huge belly. I wrapped my arms underneath my beach ball and I guess I was supporting the weight because I could feel some of the pressure lessen.
"Tony, you're getting too big for Mommy," I mumbled. If Edward was around and heard me, he would probably flip his shit because first of all I knew we were having a boy when he was quite adamant that we needed to be surprised and secondly I already had him named.
If Edward named our children, we would have Yoko and Lennon. I mean Hendrix is a perfect example of that, so I took it upon myself to name Mackenzie and Anthony.
I randomly came up with Mackenzie, but Anthony was going to be named after his Daddy. I didn't need another Edward and so why not choose his middle name, I liked it.
My problem is I am going to slip because lately my Little Tone and I have been having chitchats and the Carl nonsense is hard for me to keep as a charade.
"No worries my little man Daddy won't be naming you. You don't want a dead rock star name… So no Kurt, Harrison, or even Elvis. Daddy is really silly when it comes to music, I guess we love him, huh? He is amazing most of the time and loves us all of the time," I felt my boy moving beneath my cheek. "You like talking to me Tony," I cooed.
Alice came huffing into our room dragging Jazz in behind her. "I thought I told you yesterday…"
"Shut up, while I apologize," she hissed.
Bitch!
"Jasper and I have decided that we are building a house close by. Our children will be friends," she emphasized by pointing between my stomach and hers. "I love Jasper and you were right, I am elated that he has forgiven me of my foolish ways as I have of his," she grunted.
By this point, my eyebrows were probably up to my hairline. Jazz was grinning like a psycho. "They've lost their minds," I whispered to Tony.
"I'm going to get food, because I'm hungry and I want to rub in the fact I can do as I please," she snarked, referring to my bed rest. You really are a bitch Alice Brandon.
"That was a fucking awful apology," I said to Jazz.
"I'm floored that she was on my doorstep this mornin'," he chuckled.
"What did she tell you?"
"That you were a bitch and kicked her out of your bed for bad mouthin' me," he crooned in his southern accent.
Maybe we should move to Texas or even England for a couple years then we would have cool accents. I mused to myself. I blame Little Tone, he has crazy ideas for such a little thing.
"Little Tone?" Jazz smirked. Shit, I said that out loud.
"You heard nothing," I growled.
"I actually heard you say Tony when we were comin' up."
"No, you didn't."
"Don't worry I'm not gonna say any thin' to him, he'll cut my balls off if I knew he had a son before him."
"That is so very true."
"Speaking of your husband, where is he?" Jazz asked lying next to me on the bed.
"He's teaching young minds the art of photography," I smiled thinking of him in his khaki pants, button down with tie and his midnight blue sweater to top it off.
"No really," he scoffed.
"I'm serious, Kenzie's teacher asked him to talk to her class."
"I bet she's lovin' that. That girl is so proud of him, bein' as young as she is, it's amazin'. You both have brought her up right," he murmured turning his blue eyes to the window.
"I know you still feel really bad about what you said and now you're kind of living it, but we don't hold it against you. Honestly, I think Edward enjoys watching you struggle. Out of the two of you, you were always the self-confident one where he was unsure of himself."
"He is cocky," Jazz argued.
"He is now, but up until you guys got into high school what was he like?"
"He didn't speak in school unless it was to me, Em, or you."
"Exactly, he was shy Jazz you know we were never like that. He has never said this, but I think he put so much effort in socializing to keep up with us."
"You were shy in high school," he pointed out.
"Correction, I had three boy best friends that were way older than me and other girls were vicious to me because of it."
"Bella…"
"It's the truth I stood up for myself when I needed to, but you guys had no idea what it was like. Jessica and Lauren said things to everyone about me. Jess wanted Edward and Lauren wanted you."
"I never went nowhere near Mallory," he frowned.
"I know…we've lost focus on my point, Edward never has judged you and he has always been there for you. When you said what you did, it hit him to his core. I know he can be an idiot at times, but he loves his children. You can't try picking a fight with him and use them as ammunition," I said frankly.
He told me what he said all those months ago and I didn't really scold him about it, but with him in the same predicament, he needed to hear this, to understand why Edward was hurt by it. I knew when Jazz and Edward pushed buttons they hit low, so I knew they didn't mean what they spit out in a fit of anger.
"That's why I feel so shitty," he sighed swiping my hand up in his.
"You should feel shitty," Edward said leaning in the doorway. "Mind getting out of my bed."
Jasper didn't budge, the showdown was about to begin but if I could help it wouldn't.
"Eddie-ward," I whined and Anthony started moving around. I disturbed his sleep.
Edward was by my side in a second cupping my face in his hands checking to see if I was all right. "Love why are you sitting like this," he murmured. Predictable.
"It's comfier if I sit this way," I explained honestly. "You and Jazz need to make up."
"Bella," he groaned.
"You promised last night," I pouted and he sighed rubbing my back.
Jazz was still lying back watching us because I think he was afraid to do much else. Edward sighed again and turned his attention towards him.
"You're girlfriend is raiding my fridge… how about lunch?" he asked.
Jasper's eyes widened, "Uh…sure."
I couldn't believe that's all it took… boys. I rolled my eyes to my boy that was kicking around. He wouldn't be like that though because he was going to be a smarty and not let Edward's behavior influence him.
The last few weeks had been going pretty fast and the baby wasn't cooperating with my body. It kept telling him he was hurting it and he kept telling it he wasn't done growing.
I didn't want the whole baby shower thing so Rosalie and Esme did the nursery for us. My mother-in-law was a genius who made sure she put a lock on the door so Edward couldn't get into the room. He was pissy and pouty, but I knew that they did the room just for Anthony. If Edward saw it then he would know the three of us knew.
Kenzie was better about her soon to be sibling, but she had it ingrained in her little brain that she was getting a little sister. I knew we would have to do damage control when Anthony came, but I was more than happy to do it.
Irina seemed to have other plans though. Carlisle sat in on our appointment because he dealt with my recovery and Irina thought it would be best to have his opinion.
"I know we have a c-section scheduled for you in a month Bella, but I don't think you can wait that long."
"But it will be too early…" I argued.
"From the ultrasounds the baby is developing wonderfully, I don't see a reason that we would have any complications."
I glanced at Carlisle to see if he agreed.
"Dad?" Edward asked.
"Honestly, I don't think there is any choice, she had a crack on the bone the last time we did scans. You both knew that surgery was a possibility and if we can help it and deliver the baby, surgery might not be necessary."
"Carl will be alright?" he asked trying to hide his worry from me.
"The baby may have to spend a couple extra days here, but should be fine," Carlisle assured.
"So when did you want to do it?" I sighed knowing the answer.
"We're going to have to admit you now." Irina said softly as Edward squeezed my hand.
A/N: This was a filler kind of, but it need to get us where we need to be for the next couple of chapters I might add more chaps on not completely sure. We will get to see Anthony, Tony or Little Tone as she's been calling him, Bella's so sure his name is secure... Dolphin62958 is my beta and she correct what I miss! :D
Also someone reviewed I said Renee was sentenced to a mental facility because of her illness that totally wasn't what happened she was sentenced to go there because she kidnapped a child and she obviously couldn't go to prison due to that. Just thought to mention this to clear that up...