Chapter 24

BPOV

I groaned as Sophie started crying again. I haven't had one ounce of sleep this whole night. Sophie has kept me up all night crying.

She woke me up at 11 because she needed to be changed. At 12, she was cranky. At 2, she was hungry. At 3, she needed a cold toy to chew on for her teething. At 4, she kept me up an hour and a half because she was cranky again.

Charlie had slept through all the crying, lucky duck. Edward had been out with his family, hunting before my birthday party. Ugh, my birthday. It's not that I hate my birthday, it just means I'm older than Edward. Weird how I was always the youngest in our relationship. Now he is.

At 5:30, Charlie came in and saw me rocking a whimpering Sophie. He gave me a sympathy smile.

"Rough night?" he asked.

I growled at him, which made him laugh.

"Well, I just stopped in to say, 'Happy Birthday,'" he said.

"Thanks, Dad," I said, exhausted.

"Welcome, Bells. Oh, and I got this for you. And your mom's present came in," he said, holding out two gifts.

I groaned. "Dad, you really didn't have to," I said.

He smiled. "I wanted to. It's not everyday your only child turns 18," he said. He looked out into space for a minute before shaking his head.

"I'll leave you alone and let you get some sleep before you have to go to school," he said, laying the presents on my bed.

"Thanks, Dad," I said.

He smiled and walked out, shutting my door behind him. I laid Sophie down in her crib, and luckily, she didn't stir. I went to the presents and opened them.

From Reneé, I got a photo album with a note attached.

'For your senior year. Happy Birthday, Baby!': it read. I smiled and moved onto Charlie's.

It was a very nice, digital camera. It was pink and had a widescreen that took up most of the back.

I set my presents on my desk and went back to bed, trying to sleep at least for a few more minutes…

I felt someone shaking me as I was dreaming of Edward. Wow, that sounded cheesy.

"Bella…." a voice called. I moaned. Just let me sleep.

"Bella…." the voice said again. Wait, I sounded familiar.

"Bella, sweetie. Wake up. You're going to be late," it said.

I opened my eyes to see Esme sitting on the edge of my bed. I looked at the clock and shot out of bed. It was almost eight! School started in 15 minutes!

Just as I got up, Sophie started crying again. I got out of bed and ran over to her, taking her in my arms.

"Please, Soph. Stop crying for Mommy. You've been crying all night," I started to cry with her, exhaustion taking over my emotions. Today was not my day. Well, it was, but it sure didn't feel like it.

Esme came over and hugged me.

"Go get ready. I got it from here. I'll write you a note," she said.

I handed her Sophie and thanked her. I flew through my routine, putting my hair up, brushing my teeth, and throwing on a pair of jeans and a t-shirt. I slipped my sneakers on and grabbed my keys and book bag. I told Esme bye, who had calmed Sophie down and was waiting with a note to the school. I kissed Sophie bye and ran outside.

I jumped in my truck and pulled out and sped down the street. I still drove carefully, just with a purpose. When I reached the school, no one was in sight. Great, I was 15 minutes late.

I jumped out, locking my truck before running through the rain, into the warm, dry building. I flew down the hallways, finally making it to class.

I opened they door and all eyes fell on me. Especially a pair of golden ones. Edward had made sure our schedules were identical this year.

The teacher turned to glare at me. Mr. Tripp and I didn't get along very well. I think it had to be because of the subject her taught. Me and math are like fire and water. We don't cooperate with each other at all. I always have to get Edward to tutor me, which ends up with us making out rather than studying.

"Well, it was nice of you to join us, Ms. Swan," he snapped.

I blushed and handed him the note. He practically snatched it from my hand. I saw a movement in the corner of my eye, and knew who it was.

When Mr. Tripp looked up, he was still glaring. Another thing about him, he hates teenage parents. He thinks we ruined the rest of our lives. He made a point of it the first week of school. Edward had a hard time keeping his growls down as Mr. Tripp practically bagged on me on how my life was ruined. The lecture was aimed at me, it was pretty obvious, and Edward didn't like that very much.

"I suggest you invest in an alarm clock to wake you up, Ms. Swan. You can't use the child excuse every time. Go take a seat and turn to page 65," he snapped before turning back to the board.

I ducked my head and headed to my seat in front of the bronze haired angel. I sat down and took out my book and turned to look at what Mr. Tripp was writing.

I felt a hand rest of my shoulder and smiled, putting my hand over his. He pulled his hand away for a minute before returning it with a note.

I took the note and opened it discretely.

(Bella, Edward)

'About time you showed up Sleeping Beauty.': it read.

I smiled and wrote back before tossing it over my shoulder.

'Hey, blame your daughter. She's the one that decided to keep me up all night crying. Your lucky ass got to go hunting.'

'Aw, my poor baby.'

'You'll be thinking 'poor baby' when I kick your ass.'

'Ooh, someone's cranky.'

'Grr.'

'Haha. I'm just playing with you, love. By the way, I love you.'

'I love you, too.'

'Oh, and happy birthday.'

'Ugh. Don't remind me.'

'Your birthday is definitely something to celebrate about.'

'Not when I'm older than you, Mr. I-am-17-forever.'

'Technically, I'm still older than you. I'm suppose to be 19.'

'Doesn't count.'

'Does too and you know it. What did you get from your parents?'

'I got a camera from Charlie and an album from Reneé. And you suck at distracting me. It doesn't count.'

'Why are you so stubborn?'

'You can thank Charlie for that. Besides, you know you love it.'

'That, I do. You know me so well.'

'Well, it' s not like I grew up with you for 18 years. ;)'

Before he could write back, the bell rang and I gathered my stuff together and turned to see Edward waiting for me.

He grabbed my hand and we walked to English together. Before we got there, I had to stop by my locker since I didn't have time this morning.

When I shut it, Edward was close to my face when I turned around. It shocked me and I got pinned against the lockers. Edward put both hands on either side of my face.

"I didn't get my proper kiss this morning," he said, moving his face closer to mine.

I smiled and buried my hands into his hair as he captured my lips with his. I was enjoying myself until an annoying pixie's voice pulled us out of our moment.

"You two can suck face later!" she said. Edward groaned and pulled away.

"What, Alice?" he snapped.

She smiled, glad she was annoying him. She turned to me, smiling a huge smile, before pulling me into a hug.

"Happy Birthday!" she sang.

"Alice," I whined as she pulled out a neatly wrapped gift.

"Shush, now. I've seen you open it already and you love it. You'll wear it tonight, our house at seven," she said.

"Alice…." I trailed off. I did not do parties.

"Please," she pulled the face I couldn't refuse. Cheater.

"Ugh, fine," I gave in.

"Yay! Thank you, Bella!" she said, as she skipped off to her class.

I gave Edward a look, who looked amused.

"You knew," I accused. He stuck his hands up defensively and we walked to English.

"Can't trust vampires. Trust me," he said.

The day went on and no one seemed to know it was my birthday, thankfully.

By the time Chemistry , our last class, rolled around, I was drained. I actually fell asleep and had to be shaken numerous times by Edward to stay awake. Sophie's restless night affected me, too.

Finally, the bell rang, waking me up from my half asleep daze. Edward was already standing up, waiting on me.

"Tired much?" he chuckled. I yawned, grabbing his hand and walking out with him to my truck.

"Sophie woke me up every hour. I didn't get any sleep," I said, laying my head against his upper arm.

"I'm sorry," he apologized.

"It's fine," I smiled up at him. He smiled down at me.

~Later that night~

Edward knocked on the door to his room. I was putting on the dress Alice got me for my birthday. It was green with black flowered designs on it, with thick straps.

"Come in," I yelled, stepping in the dress.

"Are you-oh," I turned to see Edward covering his eyes with his hand. I rolled mine.

"It's not like you haven't seen it all before, Edward," I said, pulling the dress straps over my shoulders.

"Well, yeah…." he stuttered over himself.

"Stop stuttering and help me zip up the dress," I said, turning my back to him, so he can reach it better.

I moved my hair to the side and I felt his cold fingers on the dress, moving the zipper slowly up my back. When it was zipped to the top, I felt his cold lips at the base of my neck. I shivered and turned around, facing him.

He smiled down at me, leaning in and kissing me.

Before I could get carried away, he pulled away. I pouted up at him.

"You take away all the fun," I said. He ran his thumb over my jutted lip.

"I think your safety is more important," he said. I rolled my eyes. Before I could respond, there was a knock on the door. It was Alice.

"You guys!" she sang, dancing over to us and taking my arm, pulling on it. "It's time, it's time!"

I followed her through the house, Edward following behind us. We got to the top of the stairs and I looked down into the living room.

It was decorated with thousands of candles and roses in bowls, a giant cake surrounded by presents sitting on a table, and a huge birthday banner hanging across the far wall. Esme was holding Sophie, who was in an adorable blue dress. Carlisle had his arm around Esme's waist.

Rosalie was standing next to Emmett, who had his arm around her shoulders. Jasper was standing at the bottom of the stairs, waiting for Alice.

When we reached the bottom stair, every sang, 'Happy Birthday,' which made me blush. Edward kissed under my left ear and kept his arm around my waist as I was handed presents.

I got clothes from Alice and Jasper, a radio for my truck from Emmett and Rosalie, and some books from Esme and Carlisle. Edward's gift from him and Sophie, was a silver necklace. It was a heart with the word, 'love,' inscribed in it. It had a picture of the three of us together inside.

After eating cake and helping clean up, I gathered Sophie into my arms and headed up the stairs with Edward.

It was all arranged, thanks to Alice, for me to stay the night with the Cullens.

I changed out of the dress and into some comfortable clothes and crawled into bed next to Edward. Sophie laid sound asleep between us.

Edward reached over and kissed me lightly.

"Happy Birthday, Bella," he whispered.

"Mm, best birthday ever," I murmured against his lips.

He chuckled and I fell asleep in the arms of my angel.

I bet 99.9% of you were expecting a repeat of New Moon. But sorry, I hated the idea of Edward leaving. New Moon was the hardest for me to read because Edward was barely in it. And what kind of father would Edward be if he left his baby Momma and kid? A horrible one! And we all know Edward is NOT a horrible father! Well, sorry it took me, what, 2 months to update? Band has taken over most my life! I finally got a weekend off last weekend and took the opportunity to write out the chapter! So, speaking of band, I managed to get some ideas for this story while I SAT IN EARLY MORNING DETENTION LAST WEEK! Why? Because high school is totally unfair! And I'm not saying that in an overly dramatized teenage way! Here's the story. One Friday night at a football game, the trombone section did their weekly trombone suicide, a cool trick you can look up on YouTube. Well, the drums play the beat and some of the trumpets, my section, decided to dance pervertly. It was all except me and 5 other people and 1 tuba dude. So their all sitting there dancing, and I was originally recording the trombones on my phone. Well, I saw my crazy section doing that and recorded that instead. I posted it, not thinking of what could happen in the future. The following Wednesday, my band director calls us into his office. He had found the freaking video! What did he do? He got the administration involved. They came down there the next day and started on and on about how we could all get suspened. Even me, who didn't do any dancing but only recorded the dancing. They ended up giving us all three days of EMD. My parents were pissed at the school. They thought that was the most stupidest thing to do, when there's people doing drugs and skippin class to go have sex in the woods. So yeah, now tell me that high school is fair. But whatever, it's over and done with. I had to delete the video, even though there's technically freedome of speech. I don't think my school has ever heard of freedom of speech, or press should I say. But, whatever. Hope you enjoyed this chapter! I made it extra long for you guys because I haven't updated in a while! Review! Love you guys! This Saturday is my last competition so I'll have more free time to write more chapters out and get them up! Wish our band luck Saturday! And don't forget to review! Bye!

~Taylor~