Chapter 5: The Godfather and Mother
Hello
Hello
Hello
Waking up at the start of the end of the world,
But it's feeling just like every other morning before,
Now I wonder what my life is going to mean if it's gone,
The cars are moving like a half a mile an hour
And I started staring at the passengers who're waving goodbye
Can you tell me what was ever really special about me all this time?
I believe the world is burning to the ground
Oh well I guess we're gonna find out
Let's see how far we've come
Let's see how far we've come
Well I believe it all is coming to an end
Oh well, I guess, we're gonna pretend,
Let's see how far we've come
Let's see how far we've come
BPOV
We stayed in Arizona for a few more days after the funeral. Mostly living in mom's house, going through her stuff. We decided to sell the house for 50,000 as it was a pretty impressive size; four bedrooms, two full baths, a living area, basement, and kitchen. We had not been to surprised to notice Phil moved out and taken a lot of the more expensive stuff. A lot of my mother's jewelry was missing as was some of her antiques.
I had been very angry at first but finding the safety deposit key under the floor board under her bed and seeing the more precious jewels in the box made me happier. Inside had been her wedding rings from when she had been married to Charlie and I made a point to put them on my right ring finger. We left for Washington almost two weeks latter on January 30th because of the twins only being a week old. It was a long drive, about five hours and as we arrived in Seattle we stopped for the night at a hotel.
Charlie even took us to the Space needle for dinner. I admit I had fun but I had been very scared about the height we were at. He had just laughed and ordered us a three course meal. It turned out to cost 400 dollars by the time we were finished and the only reason we could afford it was because of the money I had taken out of my savings before the funeral and of course the money in the bank from selling the house in Phoenix.
"Bella! You ready to head home." Charlie asked as he came into my the hotel room the next morning on February 1st. I was busy getting the Twins ready, Mary was dressed in a simple pink body suit and pair of pink pants, and Sarah had on a red body suit with a little red skirt; Both had on black booties.
"Almost dad, you can go ahead and put the twins in the cruiser." I said and handed him the twins. He smiled and left the room, we had traded the rental car back in when we arrived the night before and picked up the cruiser from the airport. I decided not to go to extreme on my appearance, I was just going home. I brushed my hair down and washed my face before throwing off my PJ's and putting on a Black long sleeved shirt over my blue lace bra and a pair of ratty jeans over my blue panties. Alice would not be amused I was sure.
The past week since getting the twins had made it easier for me to think of the Cullen's, the only one I tried my best to completely forget was...him. I shook my head and grabbed my purse off the bed and left the room for the car. Dad was putting the last bag inside the trunk and had fastened Mary Alice and Sarah into their car seats. I got into the passenger side and he got into the drivers seat before we pulled out and headed back to forks.
The ride was quiet. Things had changed a lot since the Cullen's left, I had been through hell and back since then. Charlie had to Indore my hell on earth, and now I was a Mom. I had talked to Charlie about this and he seemed so proud and happy. He knew I saw the Twins as my children, he didn't understand how or why my instincts seemed to awaken so suddenly but he knew were I got it from. My mother may not have passed her grace on to me, but she had given me my maternal instincts.
I don't know when but I fell asleep on the way home. It didn't seem like long before I was being shaken awake by a hot hand. I opened my eyes to see Jacob, he looked the same as always, long black hair and dark almost black eyes. His russet colored skin made him that much more beautiful.
"Jake...how, what?" I muttered almost in a whisper. I then realized the car was stopped and Charlie was out talking to Billy. I looked behind me to see the Twins asleep, and smiled before opening the car door almost rendering Jacob infertile. He jumped back like he had been burned before chuckling.
"Nice Bells...nice." He said and I looked down shyly and blushed. How embarrassing, I looked up at him and he furred his brow. I looked at him confused before he put him hand on my cheek and moved forward. I widened my eyes, what the hell was he doing?
"Your eyes....their green?" He said and I shook my head and laughed backing up at the same time.
"Yeah...its a medical thing...too much stress." I stuttered slightly. He just nodded and I opened the back door and unbuckled Sarah from her seat. I pulled her out and then turned so Jake could see what I was doing and he gasped.
"Bell...did you have something to tell me?" He asked and looked from me to Sarah. I chuckled and moved forward to hand the baby to him. He looked at me like I had two heads and backed up but I glared and he sighed before putting his arms out and I put the baby into his arms. Sarah awoke and looked at him with blue eyes. He seemed surprised, "This is my adopted daughter, Sarah Rosalie Swan. She is my biological half sister." I said and he looked at me and then back at the baby and smiled brightly.
"Well hello Sarah." I smiled at this and turned back to get Mary Alice who was now awake as well. I pulled her close to my chest and turned back to Jacob and he looked from Sarah, when he saw Mary he raised a eyebrow.
"Another one?" He asked and I rolled my eyes.
"This is Mary Alice Swan, Sarah's twin sister." I said and he chuckled and nodded his head. It was at this time Billy and Charlie had come around to us and Billy looked from me to Jacob with a smile.
"I see you too are getting along well..I am sorry about Renee Bella." Billy said and I smiled and thanked him before walking forward with Mary Alice. I lent down to let him hold her and he widened his brown eyes but smiled and let me put her in his arms.
"This one is Mary Alice...or Mary or Ali as dad as taken to calling her." I said and he laughed and nodded and smiled at the babies giggles.
"Well, Hello Mary Alice." He said and I laughed at the irony that it was the same thing Jake had said to Sarah.
"The one Jake has is Sarah Rosalie Swan." I spoke and he looked at me in disbelief.
"Sarah? Did you name them Bella?" He asked and I nodded, and put my hand on his shoulder.
"Yes..I named Sarah after your wife and Jake's mom and of course Renee's grandmother." I spoke softly and he looked at me with tears in his eyes.
"That was very kind of you Bella..." He trailed off and I turned to Charlie.
"Why don't you all come in and I'll cook dinner for us." I said and everyone nodded. I chuckled and walked into the house, knowing Billy and Jake could bring the girls in safely.
-------------------------------------------------------TIME SKIP
February 14th:
It had been weeks since me and Charlie returned to forks, and though I still felt a hole in my heart from the Cullen's I no longer had nightmares, and when I did it wasn't as bad as it used to be. I had returned to school, everyone was shocked at my 180 turn about, and though I no longer hung around Lauren, or her two new brain dead girls, Samantha and Fern, Jessica and Angela had become my best friends. We had a good connection, Angela more so then Jess.
Mike was now seemingly over me...he was seriously dating Jessica now. Angela and Ben were going strong and I had asked Angie to be Sarah's godmother. She had been so happy and honored she had already set up play date's for Sarah, Mary, and her two twin brothers, Eric and Edwin...only two years of age. I was happy but shocked, I had never known Angela had younger siblings, especially one's so young. (Turns out Angela's mother was only 33, she had Angela as a teenager and married Angela's dad at 16.)
I had taken time to look into colleges, Plan B wright? I had gotten brochures for many colleges, UC Seattle, Yale, Dartmouth, Princeton, Harvard. Dad had been so happy he had almost turned into Albus Dumbledore with all the sparkling in his brown eyes. Today was probably one of my worse days...Valentine's day. It wasn't long after this day I had moved to this town, met the Cullen's and then had my heart broken into tiny pieces not six months latter.
"Bells? You ok?" I heard Angela ask as we walked around the male in Seattle. I had Mary Alice and Sarah in their two seat stroller. Jessica was in front of us with Mike hanging off his arm. You could tell she was in love, and though I couldn't say the same for Mike, it looked like he could come to love her just as much. It made me envious and I tried to squish that notion, I wanted to be happy for him.
"Yeah..just thinking..." I trailed off and she raised a eyebrow as she chewed on a Twizzlers.
"About what?" She asked and I sighed.
"The Cullen's...It will almost be a year that I moved here...over half a year since they left me." I said and she sighed and put her arm around my shoulder, patting my back. I was wearing a Blue Nuisette Batwing Top, the last gift my mother had gotten me, just never got around to sending me. A pair of skinny vintage white colored jeans that I had left in phoenix so Alice had never seen. Around my neck I wore a pendent that Jake gave me, with a symbol for the Quilette wolf pack. I guess I forgot to mention Jake was a werewolf. I had been spending a lot of time with him, and one day he got so mad at me I thought he was going to hit me.
It was not seconds latter Sam and Paul burst from the woods and grabbed him, just as they did he turned from my best friend into a very big wolf. I was shocked and bit scared. Go figure, I could handle Vampire's but throw in a little wolf and I take three days to handle it.
"Don't worry Bell..they weren't worth your time." Angela said and I smiled, if only she knew it was the other way around. Angela was wearing a two in one sweater shirt in crimson red and white, a jean skirt, her rosary was around her neck and a pare of earrings finished the outfit with a pare of swede ankle length black boots.
"Thanks Angie....what do you think about getting a bite at the Pizza place." I asked and was headed on to the only place to eat in the mall.
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I got home around six that afternoon, Sarah and Mary were fast asleep. I was very happy that they were not loud babies, as it was I didn't get great sleep at night. As I unlocked the door I jumped when it was pulled open for me. Inside was Jake, he had grown since he first phased, her was tall, 6'3 give or take, huge muscles, but no where near as huge as Emmett's and his once long hair was cut in a crew cut I think could describe it best. He didn't looked like the 16 year old boy I knew he was but a adult in their mid 20's.
"Jake! You about gave me a heart attack." I said my hand had flown to my chest out of reflex. He smirked and took my bags from me, there was only three but it was causing me problems as I had to hold only the twins' stroller as well. I followed him in and was shocked to see the house cleaner then I remembered it, he had steered me clear of the living room and I just laughed and took the twins out of the stroller and followed him up the stairs so I could put them into their cribs.
After that I looked at him and I asked a curious look over my face.
"What's going on?" He smiled the bright smile that made the sun want to come out. I smiled back unable to stop myself and he pulled me down stairs. I was shocked when he pulled out a midnight blue blind fold and turned to me. I shook my head but he just laughed and gave me puppy dog look, with his wide dark brown eyes it was hard not to give in.
"No funny business." I spoke and he chuckled and said, in the way it was easy for her.
"Sure, Sure." I turned and he secured it to my eyes, I let him steer me around and then we stopped at what I knew was our living room. I smelt the sent of Roses', Babies breath, and Sun flowers. Odd, I thought before he put his hand at the tie and pulled it lose. The sight I saw shocked me.
The furniture was gone, only a round table, a vase with flowers in it, and two seats. On the table was a plate with pasta and a wine glass and a bottle of wine. Also on the table was a heart shaped cake. I didn't understand what was happening until Jake led me to the table.
"Bella...I know this year had been hell for you." He began as he pulled my chair out for me. I blushed, I never realized what a gentlemen he could be.
"I also realize that this may be too soon...but I really like you. I know I love you..I may not be in love with you right now, but give us time." He continued and I almost stopped breathing. I got up and saw the hurt on his face, I just smiled, he thought I was mad.
"Bella, will you be my girlfriend, my valentine?" He asked after swallowing and I smiled but then stopped. Was I ready for this? It wasn't long ago that they had left me, but then again he said he didn't love me. I was just a human pet, he would never love me. I looked into his hopeful face and I put my hands into his. I leaned up, being only 5'4 ½ I had a long way to lean before I could reach him. I kissed him and felt as sparks shot through me.
I was in love, but I did love him.
"I would like nothing more." I said after we pulled apart. He smiled and I smiled back, I sat down and he went around to do the same. We spent the rest of the time talking and getting to know each other.
It's gone, gone, baby, it's all gone
There is no one on the corner and there's no one at home
It was cool cool, it was just all cool
Now it's over for me and it's over for you
Well it's gone, gone, baby, it's all gone
There is no one on the corner and there's no one at home
Well it was cool cool, it was just all cool
Now it's over for me and it's over for you
I believe the world is burning to the ground
Oh well I guess we're gonna find out
Let's see how far we've come
Let's see how far we've come
Well I, believe, it all, is coming to an end
Oh well, I guess, we're gonna pretend,
Let's see how far we've come
Let's see how far we've come
Let's see how far we've come
Let's see how far we've come
Let's see how far we've come
Let's see how far we've come
Let's see how far we've come
Let's see how far we've come
Let's see how far we've come
A/N: I hope everyone liked this chapter. It took me the longest...three days. I HATE writing Jake and Bella Love fluff but for you all, here it is. I hope it does all you JACOB/BELLA fans justice. In future chapter I shall dystroy Jacob...MWAHAHAHAH...*cough* Sorry. Got carried away.
Anywho....
The song was How far we've come by Matchbox 20.