Chapter Twenty One
The next few days I barely saw Edward, he was starting his online classes this week, which meant that I wouldn't get to see him as much. This also meant that I had a lot of free time on my hands. I keep thinking about Rosalie and Emmett and how they were both going to be able to be there for Emily. Me and Edward weren't going to have that we were going to have to agree to some sort of arrangement until we could afford a place of our own. I tried not to think about it and focus on just being able to hold my baby in my arms soon.
One morning I was woken up by a lot of banging in the spare room. I got out of bed and walked into the room to see what all the commotion was about. I found Sue, Esme and Alice moving all of the old furniture out of the spare room.
"What are you all doing?" I asked trying to work it out myself. Esme and Alice were dressed in old worn looking clothes which were a new development they always look neat and well dressed.
"We're doing the nursery. Seen as you could have your baby early like Rose we don't want to be unprepared." Alice said dusting her hands off.
"Um...ok does my dad know you're doing this?" I asked looking more at Sue knowing she would give me the honest answer.
"Of course he does Bella. In fact he was the one who gave us the money to buy everything you would need for the room." Sue said coming over and placing her arm around my shoulder.
"So Bella what colour do you want the room? I was thinking we could do blue but I thought that might be too boyish so maybe green or yellow could work to." Alice started babbling.
"Green's perfect Alice." I said to stop her from going in to detail about the different types of blues, greens and yellows there were. I spent the rest of the day watching Esme, Alice and Sue clean out the spare room. They wouldn't allow me to lift anything which was annoying but at least having them move around helped keep me distracted.
The next day they decided to start the painting and forced me out of the house because of the fumes. I didn't have anything to do for the majority of the day so I walked around town and ended up in front of the police station. I walked inside figuring that while I was here I could see my dad. I walked past the main desk saying hello to the officer there and found my dad at his desk.
"Hey dad."
"Bella what are you doing here? Is something wrong?" He asked frantically getting out of his seat looking over me as I sat down.
"I'm fine Sue kicked me out of the house so they could paint the nursery." I rubbed my stomach feeling the baby move around. It wasn't a new occurrence that I could feel the baby but I still loved the feeling. I remember when the baby first moved.
Flashback
I was lying on my bed reading a book that was propped up against my ever growing stomach. Edward was lying next to me with his head and hand on my stomach. I was just coming up to the five month mark. I was so lost in my book until I felt a slight nudge in my stomach, Edwards head shot up with the feeling.
"Bella did you feel that?" I rolled my eyes.
"No Edward I couldn't feel it even thought it came from my stomach." I replied sarcastically. He frowned at me.
"I'm serious Bella something could be wrong and you're making a joke of it." I closed my book and put it down so I could look at him properly.
"Yes Edward I felt that but nothing is wrong it's just the baby saying hello to its daddy, god you can be so dense sometimes for a man who wants to be a doctors." He gave me the biggest smile ignoring my last comment
"Really the baby just kicked?" I nodded my head.
"Wow." He went back to my stomach putting his head back where it was and started talking to the baby.
"Hey baby I'm your daddy. I love you very much and I can't wait to meet you." The baby kicked right where Edwards face was, Edward placed a kiss in the exact same spot. I looked down at this man and knew that I would always love him even if life sometimes got in the way.
End of Flashback,
"So she should, we don't need you around all those chemicals." My dad said bringing me back from my memories. My dad looked down at my stomach where I was rubbing.
"Is he kicking again?" I nodded my head and smiled.
"Yeah he doesn't stop most of the time." My dad placed a hand on my stomach feeling his grandson kick.
"He's got one fine kick there Bella maybe he'll play football when he's older."
"Maybe I just wanted to come by and see how your day was going?" My dad stood up and walked over to his seat and sat back down.
"It's ok nothing to interesting. Why don't we go out to lunch? I have all my cases covered already and if they need me they'll put it over the radio." I nodded my head glad that I would get some quality time with my dad.
Lunch with my dad flew by and so did the next few days. One day Alice came into my room and dragged me out covering my eyes so I couldn't see.
"Alice really covering a pregnant woman's eyes is not a good thing I could fall and it would be your entire fault."
"Shut up I won't let you fall, anyway we're here." She pulled her hands away from my face and her, Esme and Sue all yelled surprise. The room was gorgeous it was painted in soft greens with a white boarder breaking up the colours. All the furniture was white with little green details. I had tears in my eyes this is where my baby would sleep.
"If you don't like it dear we can change it?" Esme said noticing the tears in my eyes. I shook my head and turned to all three of them and hugged them.
"It's prefect thank you so much." I pulled away from them and wandered around the little room looking at all the little clothes stacked in the dresser.
"Bella, honey that's not the only surprise for you today. Why don't you go downstairs and see what the other one is?" Sue said coming over to me putting her arm around me so I could go downstairs. She walked me to the front door where I opened it and saw Edward and Emmett standing next to Emmett's jeep. Sue walk back into the kitchen giving us some privacy while Edward walked towards me.
"What are you doing here I thought you had some classes today?" I didn't want him missing classes because of me.
"They were cancelled, the teacher couldn't webcam because he was sick or something." I looked over Edward's shoulder and waved to Emmett.
"So I see you two are getting along again?" Edward looked towards his brother and then back to me shrugging.
"I haven't fully forgiven him but we're getting there. He's my brother no matter what so I thought I should act civil." I gave him a hug to show that I was proud of him for being able to put the past in the past where it belonged. When I pulled away Edward nodded at Emmett who opened his jeep and started unloading boxes and bringing them into the house.
I looked at Edward confused at what Emmett was doing.
"I spoke to your dad about us wanting to raise the baby together. He didn't want to let you go just yet so he's allowing me to move in with you so we can do that." I jumped on him as much as my stomach would allow and gave him a hug and kissed him all over his face. He pulled back a little so he could talk.
"This way I can be there for every feeding and dirty diaper. I hope you don't mind a bed partner seen as the spare rooms been turned into a nursery the only place to sleep is in your bed unless of course you would rather me share with Charlie and Sue?" He said giving me his signature smirk.
"I would love to share my bed with you. I can't believe you asked my dad, this is one of the sweetest things you've ever done for me. I love you so much Edward." He pulled me closer to him giving me a kiss.
"I love you to Bella." After that he turned to help Emmett moved the rest of his stuff into my room. I walked into the kitchen to find Sue.
"You knew that Edward asked dad and you didn't tell me?" I faked whined to her.
"Of course I knew your father tells me everything, but they wanted to keep it secret. Are you happy he's moving in?" I nodded my head.
"Of course I am I think it's going to make it so much easier when the baby arrives and I love him so I want to spend as much time with him as possible." Sue smiled at me. Just then my dad walked into the kitchen from his shift at work. I ran to him and threw my arms around him.
"Thank you dad." He patted my back.
"So Edward's moved in then?" I nodded my head.
"I'm glad you're happy about it Bells that boy has a good head on his shoulders and I know he will help you with the baby which you'll need in the first few months." I walked up to my room to find Edward and Emmett putting his things away. Edward looked up and wrapped me in his arms.
"I just saw the nursery. It's beautiful, I can't believe they all did that for our baby." I laid my head against his chest listening to his heart beat. I was thinking I could get use to this having him around all the time and being able to be in his arms. This was the start of something wonderful.