7
Call me pessimistic but I can't shake the feeling like my happiness is going to be shattered at a moment's notice.
It's been a month since Edward and I got together and we had yet to tell Charlie. So far the only people who knew were Edward's Parents Carlisle and Esme, Carmen and Eliezer and Rose and Emmett (the older one) it seemed like the more I waited it just got harder and harder to tell him. It was just going to have to wait some more though because at this moment I had way too much to deal with to even think about that.
At the moment Emmett Rose and I were sitting in a semi-circle in the middle of Edward's living room our school books and party supplies scattered around us. We were multi-tasking not only did we have mid semester exams all week but also Jasper's birthday party was next week. And to top all that off Rose had insisted on me baking the cake. I didn't mind I could do it but at this moment I was wishing we could hire a professional to at least take that over but when we had told Jasper I would do it his face lit up and I just couldn't change my mind every time I even though about changing my mind his face would pop into my head and convince me not to.
So while we studied Emmett and Rose were in charge of putting together goodie bags and putting invitations into envelopes while I was sketching out several ideas for cake.
"Ugh," I grumbled as I crumbled up yet another sketch, "You would have thought with how much he loves monkeys the kid would have gone with that but no, he had to choose superheroes as if that would make my job easier."
"Oh, don't be too hard on the kid we all know he choose super heroes because he knows nobody else will like the monkey theme." Rose said as she tied off another bag and tossed it into the pile.
"Rose is right he may be turning three but that kid has always been to perceptive for his own good." Emmett said as he stuffed another envelope.
"Yeah I know I'm just stuck is all how am I going to pull this off!" I put down the drawing pad and leaned back against the couch.
We were silent for a minute this was sort of a break I guess after a minute Rose spoke up, "Hey didn't you say your Grandma Swan used to bake the cakes for all the birthdays before she died?"
"Yeah but that's not going to help me Rose she's dead remember?" I said sarcastically admittedly that isn't something one should joke about but we have a morbid sense of humor.
"Well duh, no need to get snippy with me; I was just thinking maybe you can get ideas from the photos she took of the cakes."
"Oh my god Rose you're a genius, why didn't I think of that," I said as I jumped up and grabbed my keys, "I'll be right back watch the kids!" I shouted as I ran out of the house and out to my truck.
I got to my house and parked my truck and hopped out and ran into the house.
"Hey Bells what's up, I thought you were watching the kids tonight." Charlie called out as I ran into the kitchen.
"Yeah I am," I said as I started going through cupboards, "I left Rose and Emmett with the kids I needed to come back here for something."
"What is it maybe I know where it is?" He asked as he came and stood in the doorway and crossed his arms over his chest
"Um, I'm looking for Grandma Swan's cake book that had pictures of the cakes she made." I said as I shut the drawer I was looking through when I came up empty
"Why do you need that?"
"I'm trying to come up with an idea for Jasper's birthday cake but I'm come up empty every sketch I make looks like crap." I said as I went through the last cupboard and turned to look at him in pure frustration
"Oh, yeah I forgot you were making his cake well anyway you won't find it in here I packed up all of Gran's personal recipes shortly after Renee and I got married. Gran never liked her and always thought she would steal them and try and pass them off as hers, so she made me pack them up before I moved her to the nursing home." He uncrossed his arms turned to leave the room, "I'll be right back they're up in the attic."
He wasn't gone very long and pretty soon, book in hand I was walking into Edward's house.
When I walked into the house I saw that Emmett was alone in the living room cleaning up our books and party supply mess.
"Where's Rose?" I asked setting the book down on the table and started to help him clean up
"Oh, she went up to put Jasper back to bed," He paused as he stuffed some books into his bag, "He came down just after you left we think roar of your truck woke him up."
"Are you trying to tell me I need a quieter vehicle?" I asked with a smile
"Nah, but it wouldn't hurt to ge a decent muffler on that hunk of..."
I didn't let him finish that sentence, "Hey don't hate on the truck man, not cool!" I said with a laugh.
He held up his hands in mock surrender and started laughing with me.
We finished cleaning up but Rose still wasn't done with Jasper, "She's going to be up there for a while, and if I didn't think it would make things worse I would go up and take over for her. But you know Jazz he's always been hard to get to sleep."
"Yeah," He paused then looked at me, "any luck on getting him to talk?"
"Um, no," I paused and looked down at my hands, "Edward's getting worried he should be talking by now, well actually he should have started talking 2 years ago. We at least hoped he would have started by now."
He placed his hand on my knee and I looked up at him, "It will be okay, he'll talk when he has something worth saying."
I looked at him surprised, "You know Emmett that was deep I didn't know you had it in you."
"Har, Har, laugh all you want Swan but I can be deep when I want to be, cancer puts a lot of things into perspective for a person."
"Yeah that's true, and thanks that helps a little." I stood up, "I made cookies before you guys came over you want some while we wait for Rose?"
"Yeah sure," He replied as he stood up.
But before we could even take a step towards the kitchen Rose spoke up. "You guys are not about to eat cookies without me!"
"Oh, babe you know we would do that." He answered her while the two of us put mock defensive looks on our faces.
"Uh huh, right, I totally believe you." She said as she followed us into the kitchen.
I grabbed the book of cake photos on our way and we sat around the island looking at them and eating cookies.
As I flipped one of the pages Rose burst out, "that's it, that's his cake!"
The picture we were looking at was three tiered it was Avenger themed, the top tier was Thor and Iron Man posed as if they were about to take flight, they were both made of what appeared to be molding chocolates of different colors and the tier itself was covered in fondant made to look like a landing strip of the flight deck of that ship from the movie. The second tier was of Hawkeye and Black Widow both perched as if keeping watch, they were also made of modeling chocolate, and this tier had a layer of fondant that made it look like a New York City building. And the bottom tier had Captain America and The Hulk. Captain America (also made of modeling chocolate) was perched on a motorcycle his shield pasted on the front; it looked as if the motorcycle was actually a toy. The hulk, (also made of modeling chocolate) and was made to look as if he was trying to climb up the side of the second tier. The bottom tier was made to look like city streets and sidewalks.
"You are so right Rose," I said as I continued to look at the picture, "Although I think I'm going to use actual toy figures of the super hero's my Gran never got the chance to completely teach me how to properly work with modeling chocolate and until I have more time on my hands to practice my first try without her is not going to be on Jaspers cake."
"Yeah I would go with toys too, he could keep them and play with them later on." Rose said as she nodded in agreement.
We sat and talked about ideas and made a list of supplies that I would need to make the cake.
We were still talking and laughing when Edward walked in, "So what's so funny?" he asked as he set his bag down on the kitchen table on his way to us.
"Oh, nothing really Rose and Emmett were just helping me pick out a cake design for Jasper's cake." I said going up to him and giving him a quick kiss.
"Oh, really can I see?" He asked curious
"Um no," I said with a mischievous grin, "you are just going to have to wait till the party like everyone else."
"They got to see it." He replied with a pout
"Well maybe if you had been here when I was coming up with ideas like they were you would have seen it too. And pouting won't do anything for you if it doesn't work for your kids it won't work for you."
He smiled at me and gave me another quick kiss. I could hear Emm and Rose snickering behind us, "Oh, she told you big brother!" he said continuing to laugh
Edward glared at Emmett but he just continued to laugh.
After a while Emmett and Rose left and I followed close behind after talking with Edward for a bit about the kids.
Things felt right but at the same time I had this overwhelming feeling like something bad was going to happen. It just didn't know when or what but I had a feeling though that it would be Charlie.