I hope you guys enjoy the new chapter. The characters are not mine, the belong to the author. The story line is mine though.
The girls walked towards Rosalie and Emmett. Rose had managed to put on a black cover up maxi dress and Emmett was wearing a pair of yellow swim trunks. Even Bella had managed to throw on a green cover-up with an open back.
"I am sorry Rose." Emmett pleaded.
"No Emmett." Rose said while taking her son from her husband.
"I promise I won't let anything happen." Emmett pouted at his wife. Rose just sighed.
"Emmett sweetie…you said that last time…just be glad I was there." Rose said while placing her hands on her hips.
"Rose…I didn't mean-"
"No…now I am going to go sit because my feet are killing me." Rose said while cutting him off, before she turned on her heels and walked over to the wicker sofa. It was a nice wicker sofa with white seat cushions. There was two-wicker chair besides the sofa with a huge tan umbrella shading the area. Across the pool, there was same set-up and off to one of the sides of the pool, there was a huge white cabana with a white mahogany slatted tabletop and eight white mahogany chairs with an x-back, scooped arm fronts and a slatted back. The whole set up reminded Bella of a coastal look. The pool was a just a couple of feet from the house, but not directly behind it. You had the garden directly behind the house. When you stepped out of the kitchen, you ran right into the big beautiful English garden and then behind that is the pool and pool house. If you turn to the right in the garden and go straight from there is the barns and racetrack. The family estate is huge with surrounding woods. Across the pool you could see the small pool house. The pool was huge, almost Olympic size; Bella's mom took pride in decorating the pool to look like a tropic beach. There were huge rocks at one of the sides of the pool, making a waterfall and if you followed the path to the top of the waterfall. You would notice a nice small pool with its own waterfall, it always reminds Bella of a small lagoon. There were tropical bushes and trees that surround the pool area that her mother has planted every summer. Rose lowered herself down on the sofa, while Bella and Alice followed. Alice leaned back on the sofa and sighed.
"Let me see my God son." Bella said while motioning for Rose to hand over her son. Rose smiled and handed the little boy to Bella. "So what did Emmett do this time?" Bella asked while smiling at the little boy. "Your such a cute boy Henri." Bella said while kissing the little boys messy dark brown hair. He giggled.
"Your pretty Bellie." Henri said smiling. Bella kissed the top of his head again and smiled.
"He has grown so much since the last time I saw him…he reminds me so much of Emmett." Bella laughed.
"Yes he is like Emmett." Rose smiled while rubbing a hand across her swollen stomach.
"That may not be a good thing." Alice said laughing while sliding her glasses over her eyes.
"So what did Emmett do? Bella asked again.
"We have pool at home and he wanted to take Henri for a swim…I didn't care…and I had to go into the gym that day…and I get back and Emmett…he is talking to are next door neighbor…and Henri was floating in is little thing, but you still have to watch him…he wasn't watching Henri…thank God I came home early…Henri had gotten out of his inflatable baby float thing and was about to be face first in the water, had I not yelled at Emmett…I was so mad at him." Rose said with a grumble. "I so hope this one isn't like his daddy."
"Yeah…one mini Emmett is enough…we do not need another." Alice said while laughing.
"Yes…I love my husband…but I do not need another one like him…he is still a kid himself." Rose laughed.
"Yeah Emmett can be a kid but I don't think he would ever really let anything happen to Henri." Bella said smiling. "Emmett's always protected and taken care of me…so it's a little boy?" Bella asked while bouncing the little boy on her knee.
"Yep." Rose said smiling. "I suppose we will have to try for a girl next time." Rose laughed. Motherhood suited Rose; she loved kids.
"Have you picked out a name yet?"
"Yes…Logan Matthew." Rose replied.
"So no more family names?" Bella asked. Henri had been named after his father and grandfather, along with his great-grandfather on the Lockhart side. It was traditional to name the boys in the family after their fathers or after members of the Lockhart family.
"No…he will be named after my father." Rose said smiling. "Actually Alice…we were wondering if you and Jasper wanted to be God parents to this one?" Rose asked Alice. Alice squealed. "Going to take that has a yes." Rose laughed.
"Of course…Bella is always the one that gets asked." Alice said while laughing and bouncing up and down. Bella was too busy talking to the little boy to notice anything else. She felt a pang in her heart at the thought of not being able to do this with her own child. She kissed the little boys head and tried to hide the tears, but both Rose and Alice caught her.
"You will be such a good mother…any kid will lucky to call you mom." Rose said smiling.
"Yep…maybe it was a blessing that your not having this one…look at your life…James is a jerk...would you really want to raise a kid with that man?" Alice asked.
"I know…but it still hurts." Bella sighed. Before any of the girls could say anything, Jen came and set down in one of the chairs by the sofa. She was holding her little 3-month-old daughter. "Is that my namesake?" Bella asked while turning to face Jen and trying to change the subject. Chris and Jen's daughter had been named Anna Marie, after Bella.
"Yes it is." Jen said while shifting the little girl so they could see her. "Anna say hello to the woman that your named after." Jen said smiling. Bella smiled at the little girl.
"She is so damn cute and that is saying something…seeing has how she looks like her daddy." Alice said laughing. Little Anna had big hazel eyes and tuffs of jet-black hair. She would look exactly like her daddy when she gets older, just the female version.
"She is." Bella gushed. Chris was another of her favorite cousins.
"I know…Chris is going to be beating boys off of her when she gets older." Jen said laughing.
"Ah…she'll have her big brother and cousin Henri to protect her…because I see those two being best friends." Rose said laughing.
"Oh yeah…that also might not be a good thing…if they are anything like their dad's." Jen laughed.
"Oh I know." Rose laughed also.
"Yeah the boys could be annoying when the were younger…me and Alice can tell you a few horror stories about them." Bella said laughing.
"You know are daughters are not that much older than each other...it will be nice having someone she can have friends with in the family." Alice smiled.
"Is that my little man?" Esme gushed while coming towards the girls. Esme was a shorter woman with shoulder length, wavy caramel colored hair and emerald-green eyes. She had the Lockhart's fair skin and she was spitting image of her father, with more of her mothers hair color. She was also the smartest of the four Lockhart sisters. She was a wearing a pair white shorts and blue button down with the sleeves rolled up. She did not look like she could be forty-five; she looked more like she was in her late thirty's at least. Bella smiled up at the woman who had been like her second mom.
"Yes it is." Rose said smiling.
"Can I see him…Carlisle loves spending time with him?" Esme asked.
"Sure." Rose said laughing. Esme took Henri from Bella and smiled at her.
"Don't let your momma see ya holding the babies…she is already driving us crazy about you having none of your own…you look like a natural dear." Esme said while kissing Bella's forehead and laughing, before she left. Bella did not have time to think before Jasper was bringing over Paisley, he had also managed to change into a pair of blue swim trunks and no shirt.
"Can you take Pay…Emmett's putting up the net…we have a game against that Mike dude and his friends?"
"Sure." Alice said while taking Pay from her daddy. "She needs a nap anyway."
"After you put her to sleep…you better be back down here to watch us beat these guys." Jasper whispered into his wife's ear, but Bella could hear them. She watched has Jasper kissed his wife's cheek before running back to the pool and jumping in. Alice just shook her head and smiled.
"I think I am going to go to the other pool while they are doing that." Bella said while standing. She just wanted to get away from everyone else.
"You okay girly?" Rose asked.
"Yeah." Bella lied.
"You are a terrible lair." Alice sang while she stood up, still clutching Pay to her chest. Jen just watched the girls closely, while she rocked Anna back and forth.
"I am not." Bella shot back.
"You are…you're talking to me Bell…I know you very well." Alice said. Bella just shook her head before leaving them standing there. She wanted to be alone. She could the boys playing volleyball in the pool. She quickly made it to the top part of the pool that was made to look like a lagoon. It always reminded Bella of something out of the Blue Lagoon. She actually always would play scene out of the movie in the pool. She was underneath the waterfall, just standing there with her back to the world, when she heard someone whistle at her.
"I figured I would find you up here Bells." The person said in a deep voice. Bella quickly turned around; she could see Jacob Black, her ex-best friend standing at the edge of the pool. He was wearing nothing but his black swimming trunks. Bella could tell he had changed; he was now taller than that he had been back in high school. She would guess that he was around 6ft 6inches tall now, with short jet-black hair and the darkest brown eyes she had seen, along with his olive skin tone. That's really the only thing about him that didn't change. Everything else was different, he looked very muscular, he had always been muscular but now he looked like a freaking bodybuilder. He could give Emmett a run for his money and that was saying something. Emmett always reminded Bella of someone who was very buff looking.
"What do you want Jacob?" Bella asked annoyed. She was not amused about him bothering her. She use to have a crush on him back in high school and it was still there, she found him attractive, she would be blind if she did not.
"Remember when we would act out your favorite scenes from that one movie?" Jacob asked. Ignoring the look that Bella was giving him.
"You mean…before you stopped me being my best friend?" Bella said while glaring at him.
"It wasn't like that Bells and you know it." Jacob sighed. They hadn't really talked since they had been thirteen.
"Oh I think it was…now what do you want?" Bella asked while getting out of the pool and crossing her arms over her chest.
"I came to talk to an old friend."
"Funny…we haven't been friends since we were thirteen…try again." Bella said with a sigh.
"Really I just wanted to see how you were doing…I would have come up earlier…but I could see you were with Alice and you know she hates me." Jacob chuckled.
"I wonder why?" Bella sarcastically said. "Where's your pet anyway?" Bella asked. She knew Jacob had to be married to Leah by now with a couple of kids. Leah Clearwater was considered the bitch of their school. She was the queen bee.
"Leah…is talking to your cousin Tanya…along with Jessica and Lauren." Jacob said with a sigh. He really did not want to talk about Leah at that moment.
"Then I suppose I need to be going or you can…I don't need a repeat of last time I tried talking to you." Bella huffed. They both knew what she talking about. Last time they actually tried to talk, was at the pool party after they graduated. The only thing Bella had done was say hi to him and Leah threw a fit, she caused a scene with saying that Bella was a mistake and would always be a mistake and she would never date Jacob. Then Leah did something that Bella did not think she would do, she slapped her and then pushed her into the pool. Bella being clumsy had hit her head on the side of the pool and had almost drowned. If it had not been for Jacob saving her and her father rushing her to the hospital, she probably would not be here now. Let's just say her parents blamed her for causing the scene. It always made her wonder if she should stop crushing on Jacob, but nothing had caused her to stop having a crush on him. Every time she saw him, she wanted to smile and even now it was really hard not to start smiling.
"Bells…its not like that anymore." Jacob said while trying to grab a hold of her wrist. He wanted to make her see that he was different.
"The hell it ain't…I am not dealing with your pet right now…and I really don't want to deal with you." Bella spat before jerking her hand back and running down the small slop and pass her mother, who grabbed a hold of her.
"Bella what are you doing?" Renée calmly asked. She smiled at her sisters, who were sitting around the table under the cabana, that she had been sitting at. Renée was dressed like any mayors wife in her tan pencil skirt and a fancy blouse. She did not look like she should be at a pool party, but she played the part of mayors wife perfectly.
"Going upstairs…I can't stand being out here right now mother…do not tell me that I have to stay out here…I showed my face…now I am done for today." Bella whispered loudly to her mother, while jerking her hand out of her mothers hand and rushing passed her and into the house. Renée bit her lip and turned back to her sisters and smiled before taking a seat.
"Bella…what are you doing?" Alice asked while pouring some water into a glass. Alice's voice caused Bella to stop.
"Huh?" Bella asked while turning to face Alice. She was only thinking about making it to her room and just having a good melt down. She wanted to scream so badly.
"You okay?" Alice asked.
"Oh…yeah…just tried." Bella rushed out before running up the stairs and into her room. She locked the door behind her. Flinging herself onto her couch, she brought her knees to her chest and let the tears flow freely down her face. She thought about James and their unborn child that did not make it, and how James cheated on her. She even thought about Edward and how he saved her, but then left her. Out of everything, that was the one thing that she could not get over. She could not figure out why he had left her. She felt protected with him and without him, she felt scared. She did not know how long she sat their just thinking until someone tapped her on the shoulder. She jumped a bit and looked up at the person, it was her mother smiling down at her. Only her mother would come visit her, she had locked her door and her mother was one of the few people to know about the secret door. Her whole room was a dark; she had not even noticed that it had gotten dark outside.
"Bella." Renée said before wrapping her arms her. "I am sorry…I really thought it would help you forget for awhile…I did see you taking to Jake…did he say something dear?" Her mother asked. Bella wanted to scream, she hated that boy so much, but for some stupid reason, she still had a crush on him. "You were doing fine with the girls."
"No mom…I just…I can't figure out why me…he left me mom." Bella cried. "Did I put our family in danger?" That had been a thought that kept running through her mind, since Edward had left her.
"Bella…what did he tell you when he was leaving?" Her mother asked.
"He told me that I would be safe…but was he lying…did he get me out…so I could lead them to my family…did I put you guys in danger." Bella rambled.
"Bella…listen to me…the Edward I knew would never cause someone pain."
"Yeah…but he could have changed." Bella sniffed.
"I don't think so." Renée said while shaking her head. She remembered Edward and he was always very sweet.
"He said he knew my father…that was actually when he started to help me escape…he called me the Grand Princess."
"See…he wouldn't hurt you or your family Bella…he is very loyal to your real father…he would do anything to make sure that Charlie was happy." Renée said while hugging Bella.
"Yeah…but he left me." Renée just tighten her hold on her daughter and kissed the top of her head. She did not know how to make her daughter feel better and it was causing her heartache. No mother wants to see their children suffer.
"Why not get to bed…we have an early morning." Renée said while kissing Bella's forehead before standing.
"What are we doing tomorrow?" Bella asked while wiping her eyes.
"Canoeing…remember…we do it every year." Renée said smiling. "Get some sleep…maybe it will help you." She said before she left through the secret door. Bella finally got up and headed into her room. She tried to snuggle into her pillows but she felt like something was missing, or like someone was missing. She reached across to the other side of the bed and couldn't feel anything. Her heart hurt and she did not know what do. She missed him and was worried that he had set her up. She still could not believe that he was gone. She began to cry again, finally making herself so tried. Her body just shut down and she finally fell asleep.