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Chapter 72: Two Days Till Christmas Day
Bella's P.O.V.
In two days it will be Christmas day, I can't wait. Nessie is doing really good; it's like she was never sick. We still have not heard from Emmett or Rose but I know what is going on. We are going to have a good Christmas gathering now since Nessie is better and she wants to see everyone again from Thanksgiving. I love both my kids so much. Edward is suspecting that me and Alice are hiding something but has not asked me what; which I am very glad for. I don't think I could lie to him, ever. I hate holding this secret but it's the best for now, I want our babies first Christmas to be fun and not planning an attack against the Volturi.
Today, us women are going to be cooking again for everyone that is coming over. We are not having as many as Thanksgiving but there will be a lot of people again. We have 5 hams, 4 turkeys, and all the sides and deserts to make. The house is decorated very beautifully on the inside and out. It started to snow yesterday and have yet to stop. We are going to take the babies out in it later. Right now it's just five AM and they are still asleep. Dad has gone out and measured how deep the snow is again and so far we are at just about 2 feet of snow. They said on the weather that it is going to be snowing like this for two more days and then it hit me. Is everyone going to be able to get out and come over here for Christmas. As I thought that Alice went into a vision and then smiled at me.
"Bella, everyone that is coming will be here. Forks, always get this much snow every year and everyone knows how to drive in it without getting into a wreck. Also, for the ones that don't drive in it they will ride with other who does. So don't worry about it everyone will be here," Alice told me.
I smiled at her and then shifted in Edward's lap to look at him.
"Let's get the babies clothes ready for them for when they wake up and we can take them out in their first snow," I told Edward.
He smiled at me and I started to get up but he grabbed onto me and we were in our room before I knew it. I looked at him and smile.
"Why are we in our room? The babies clothes are in their rooms," I told him.
"I know honey, but I wanted a little quiet time with you before we did that," he told me.
I smiled at him and we started to kiss and he pulled away from me and looked me in the eyes. But before he could do anything I smelled Alice getting ready to knock on the door.
"Come in Alice," I called to her before she even knocked.
She walked in and gave me a look I did not understand and then she looked at Edward.
"Edward, if you want to know what we are hiding from you, then you will have to come with us so no one else can hear what we tell you," Alice said very low so no one but us could hear.
He nodded his head and we all three walked back downstairs. Alice told everyone that we will be back soon and then we all three took off out the door at full speed. When we thought we were far enough from the house we stopped running. Edward looked at us and he looked upset.
"So you two admit that you are hiding something from me and the family," he told me upset.
I looked at Alice and she nodded her head.
"Yes honey, we have been but it's for the best right now; at least till after Christmas," I told him.
He lighten up and then looked at Alice.
"Tell me everything and I will be the judge of if we tell the family now or later," he said through clenched teeth.
Alice looked at me and then went into a vision. She came back a second later and smiled. She told Edward everything, from Em and Rose to being kidnapped by this other vampire we did not know. To them being taken to Italy and taken to the Volturi. About what Aro told them and the exchange they want to make. When Alice got done telling Edward I could tell by the look in his eyes that he was beyond pissed at us for not telling anyone else.
"Edward honey, please don't say anything until after Christmas. I want all four babies to have a good first Christmas. If we tell everyone now then we will go right into planning what we will do and forget Christmas," I told him.
I could tell then that he knew I was right and he calmed down.
"Well right after Christmas is over we are going to tell everyone and get ready to fight. Because I don't see this going very well. I am NOT going to just give up the babies to the Volturi without a fight," he told me.
I walked up to him and pulled him into a hug and I felt him relax some.
"Okay, lets get back to the house before they come looking for us. Also, the babies should be waking up soon or are awake. I want to get them fed and take the out to play in the snow," I told them.
So we all three started to run back to the house and when we walked in covered in snow mom about had a fit. She told us to strip there in the kitchen and then to go to our rooms and get some dry clothes on. We gave her a hug with our wet clothes on and she took off and left us to undress down to our underclothes. We did that and instead of running upstairs we walked into the living room in nothing but our underclothes and stopped because we had other people in the living room other than just our family and the Denali clan. Jake, Seth, Leah, Jade, and their babies were here looking at us. If I could have blushed I would be a bright red right now. We took off at vampire speed but it was to late they saw us. We could hear everyone laughing. Alice went to her room and me and Edward went out our room to change.
We got into dry clothes and then we heard our babies waking up. We walked to their rooms and sure enough Nessie was out of her new bed playing with her dolls. I smiled at her and when she saw me she came running up to me and raised her arms up for me to pick her up. I picked her up and we hugged and then she pulled away and gave me a funny look.
"Mommy, you are really, really cold. Why are you more colder than normal?" she asked me.
I thought about it and I smiled because when we ran out the door to talk we did not put our jackets on and so our skin would be colder than normal. I smiled at her.
"I am sorry Nessie. Me, daddy, and aunt Alice went for a run this morning to talk about something and we did not put our jackets on," I told her.
She smiled at me and then something hit her because she smiled.
"Mommy, can we play out in the snow today?" she asked me.
"Yes we can, but first you have to eat breakfast and then get all dressed up to go outside. You think I'm cold honey, then just wait till we get outside and you can tell the difference," I told her.
She nodded and I got her in some reg clothes and we walked out and met Edward and Draven. Edward laughed and looked at me.
"I guess we forgot to wear our jackets before we went outside earlier because Draven asked me why I was so cold and I told him why. I heard Nessie ask you the same question. Lets get the fed so we can have some fun outside," Edward told me.
So we picked the babies up and walked downstairs and everyone was still there and they started to laugh again when they saw me and Edward.
"Oh shut up guys, it's not even funny now," I told them.
We took the babies to the kitchen where mom had their breakfast ready along with a sippy cup of blood. We sat them in their highchairs and left them with mom so we could get their heavy clothes ready to go outside and play. I went to Nessie's room to get her clothes and found them already lay-ed out on her bed. I grabbed them and walked out into the hall and saw Edward with Draven's clothes. We walked back downstairs and checked on them and they were done eating so we grabbed them up and took them to the living room. We washed their faces because they had food all over their faces. Then we started to get them dressed in one piece thick suites, with gloves, hats, and all the works to keep them warm while they are outside playing.
When we got done getting them dressed in their winter clothes they looked at us like we were crazy or something. We all then got just our jackets on and gloves and we got more looks from them.
"Why do we have to dress like this and you all just put a jacket on and gloves?" Nessie asked all of us.
I smiled at her and she gave me a look that I did not care for.
"One, Nessie you do not give you mom that look. Two, we are full vampires and we can't get sick like you can, that is why," I told her.
She nodded her head and I looked over at Jade and she had their babies dressed to go out even tho they don't walk yet. I can not get over how their skin color turned out, they are dark just like their dad and they are very beautiful. We all got up and walked outside where it was still snowing. Seth and Leah were holding onto Nessie and Draven till we got out and then they put them down on the white stuff. Nessie and Draven just stood there and bent down to touch the snow.
"Can we take their gloves off for just a moment so they can feel what it feels like?" Seth asked me.
I nodded and they took their gloves and when they touched the snow they pull their hands back and wanted their gloves back on. We all laughed and then we just started to play in the snow. Us adults started to have a snowball fight and I loved it. The snowball fight started to get bigger and bigger until one of the babies almost got hit. Then Jasper stood in the middle of all of us who were in the fight and smiled.
"Lets all have a team snowball fight," he announced.
Everyone said yeah at the same time.
"Now lets make teams and if the ones that are not going to be fighting with us then we need the babies away from here so they don't get hit with a flying snowball," Jasper told us.
Mom and dad grabbed Nessie and Draven and took them into the woods some to where we could see them but they will not be hit. Jade did the same thing and then we made up teams. We had to make it fare so we had to have wolves mixed in with us vampires. So on mine and Edward's team was Seth and Leah. It was just us four and I could not wait till we started. We built a wall so we could hide behind it and made a lot of snowballs to throw at the other teams. When we were done dad came from the woods and told us on our marks, get set, fight. Then the snowballs started to fly. I saw Jasper throwing snowballs at us and we attacked him with a lot of balls and he fell to the ground.
Edward and I took off and left Seth and Leah to defend our wall we made and we ended up on the roof of the house hitting everyone with snowballs. Alice saw us and started to throw snowballs at us and I ducked but Edward did not and got a face full of snow. I started to laugh and he put snow in my face for laughing at him. We played with the snow for so long that mom and dad paused the game to walk through so the babies could get warm. I looked at my hands and they were a little red but I felt no pain as if I was human. Jasper then stood in the middle again.
"We are going to stop the game till later or on Christmas day. I can feel the coldness now and I am cold if you all can believe that," he told us.
I could believe that because I was feeling the cold also, it did not hurt but it was not comfortable. So we all came out from where we were and went in to see mom handing Jennifer, Jade and well the humans all hot coco. The rest of us went to stand in front of the fireplaces that were going to get back to our cold that we are. After a little bit we decided to have a movie night. So we popped popcorn and brought out some chocolate for all the humans to eat. Nessie and Draven were sitting with Leah and Seth and I sat on Edward's lap. Then they put a movie in that the kids could see.
Well peeps, I am going to leave it there for now. I hope you all like it and tell me what you all think of it. Thanks for reading, love to all, JenCullen28.