Bella the Babysitter: Chapter 5

Bella the Babysitter

Chapter Five

Bella Swan POV

"Bella meet Edward. Edward this is my roommate and really good friend, Bella Swan. Currently unemployed."

The dude holding the reason behind all of the noise just stared at me as if I had grown a third eyeball or something and I realized that he might have heard my comment. Clamping my hand over my mouth I gave him an apologetic smile.

"Come on in." Edward said as he resituated the screaming infant. "Lucas is apparently starving to death."

The chubby baby that was writhing in his arms clearly had never turned down a boob or bottle for that matter. He had flaming red hair that was sticking up in not so casual disarray up in his wrestling around in an effort to find the source and his baby blues were shining with frustration. The squeal emitting from him was eardrum rupturing, but Edward seemed to not notice.

I followed Emmett inside the house still confused at the situation. He had told me that we were going to be going to an interview but here we were, at a huge ass house with a dude and his baby.

I really hoped that Emmett wasn't trying to get me a job as a maid. I'd rather go and flip burgers at Shake's Shack and I'm a vegetarian, rather than clean up after rich bitches and their ass hole children. A quick look at Edward's hands told me that he wasn't married but people that had children lived together without being married all the time. He could be a single lazy ass mo-fo or he could have a girlfriend at work or inside. He was definitely a looker, all bronze hair and bright granny smith apple green eyes so it wouldn't be surprising if he had a honey. If so, she was probably a blonde bimbo that refused to do a dish or touch a vacuum cleaner.

Rich bitches piss me off.

We sat in a very spacious and beautifully decorated sitting room that was possibly larger than the entire apartment that I shared with Emmett and Rose. I was surprised to see that there wasn't plastic covering on the furniture as we sat in plush couches. Edward snatched a bottle off the coffee table and placed it in front of the wailing babe's mouth. Immediately the hungry cries turned into greedy grunts as he tore into his bottle sucking the rubber nipple like his life depended on it.

"Damn Edward starve your baby much?" Emmett said as he threw his arm over the back of the couch we were sitting on and squeezed my shoulder hard.

"No." Edward snapped. "He's just used to a very complex and set schedule that he was placed on at birth."

I was right. Rich bitches and their set schedules.

He then turned to me. "I'm sure you understand how important maintaining an infant's schedule is?"

Did I look like I have a kid at home or some shit?

Inconspicuously I looked down at my belly. Still flat and toned. While unemployed I tried to stay fit with yoga and here lately that was my only form of entertainment. I wasn't able to fit in my goal jeans but I could feel the burn.

"Um-" Emmett cut me off.

"Yeah Bella knows loads about the baby thing. She used to baby sit my little brother and sister when they were younger."

That's funny. Emmett's an only child.

Edward gave me a warm smile before turning his attention back to the baby. He had a pretty mouth… And body… he was all around pretty let's just put it at that.

"Well Miss. Swan."

"Bella, please." I insisted.

"Bella." He smiled. "Tell me some stuff about you so that I can see what we might be getting into. Lucas and I."

"What do you mean?" I sat up a little straighter hoping he would elaborate. He was clearly not gay so that made Lucas the baby in his arms. He didn't mention a lady friend but that wasn't really my business.

"Just tell me something I don't know about you." he sent me a wink and I proceeded to have a severe case of word vomit brought on by the simple muscle spasm.

"I'm twenty four years old. I grew up in Forks with my grandmother but moved to Port Angeles with Emmett and Rose after she passed away. I fear escalators and spiders. I'm a vegetarian." When I paused he just gestured for me to continue as he situated Lucas on his shoulder and started patting his back like he was choking or something. There were no sounds coming from the little tyke so I figured he was okay, I mean Edward would stop from blathering if his son was in danger or some shit right? "I have broken seven bones in my lifetime, six of which happened at the same time when I attempted to perform a Jackass stunt after seeing the first movie. Green beans freak me out and I've only had one pet a goldfish named Garfield that I accidentally killed when I tried to give it coffee. Speaking of coffee I have an insane addiction to the stuff. Anything with caffeine really but iced coffee is my forte." I finally realized that both Emmett and Edward were staring at me with amused smiles.

"And I just realized that you were probably wanting information on my work history not my life's story." I blushed ducking my head.

"No, you did good." Edward chuckled sending another powerful wink my way.

God he's so pretty. I should probably stop calling him pretty… handsome, biblical? A masterpiece.

"Well, I'm done I guess." I shrugged still embarrassed. "I mean aren't the hired help supposed to be allowed to be somewhat elusive? 'The butler did it' and all that jazz. You probably know more about me now than you do about your boss."

Edward threw his head back and laughed heartedly before stopping, a sad smile graced his lips as he pulled Lucas off of his shoulder and laid him on his legs. Lucas cooed and waved his tiny little hands, awkwardly causing me to snort.

"Yeah he's drunk on milk." Edward said wiping Lucas's mouth with the edge of his baby bib before sitting back and looking at me with a serious expression. "Alright Bella. This has been a deal breaker with some of my recent applicants. Are you available to move in here effective immediately if you get the job?"

"Um, well." I shot Emmett a worried look and he just smiled.

"It's not like Rose and I haven't been doing the bills on our own Bee Bee. This is a really good opportunity for you." he assured me. "I mean I hate to see you go and I'm sure Rosie will feel the same but it's not like you can't visit."

I turned to Edward. "Apparently I'm being forced out of my home so that shouldn't be a problem." I elbowed Emmett playfully.

"Alright question two." Edward reached over and grabbed a baby rattle from a basket under the coffee table and handing it to a gabbing Lucas. "My occupation entails traveling every so often. How apposed are you to traveling at least once every so often? Of course it will be all expense paid."

"Wait. Are you that much of a slob?" I blurted out before I could catch myself.

"What?" Edward asked clearly as confused as I was at the moment.

"What I meant is. No wonder none of the other applicants have made it through your interviews. What kind of person drags their house maid along with them when they go out of town?" I tried to continue but Emmett clamped his meaty hand over my mouth effectively shutting me up.

"Bella, Edward isn't hiring a maid. Lucas here needs a nanny." he said.

"Oh." I squeaked pulling Emmett's hand off my mouth and looking over at the baby who was now slapping himself in the face with his rattle and giggling. "Oh."

Edward Cullen POV

Everything had been going perfectly until Bella revealed that she thought that I was hiring a house maid. The house was big but nothing a person with my lifestyle couldn't handle. Vicky and James never had a maid or nanny for that matter, so hiring a nanny would make it even easier to keep everything organized and give me more than a little peace of mind while I was working.

Emmett was quick to correct her assumption and I got a little worried when she sat with a shocked expression plastered on her face while she stared at Lucas as he resided on my lap. Her petite mouth formed an 'O'.

"Shouldn't you stop him from doing that?" She asked gesturing to Lucas who was now slapping himself in the face again with his rattle.

I took the rattle from him and made a note to find some softer noise making toys for him if he was going to continue this form of self harm. He got angry so I let him latch onto my fingers and pulled him to stand up against my legs.

Lucas was born three months early. After scaring the living day lights out of his family we found out that he was going to be a little slower in development. While most nine month olds were able to pull themselves up to a standing position and some of them able to walk, Lucas had just started sitting on his own. Right before Vicky and James died Lucas was starting to army crawl/scoot around on his own but it would be a while before he walked.

"Are you alright Bella?" I asked after a few moments of silence figuring that she was going to book it. It was apparent that Emmett had drug her here without informing her about anything critical like the fact that she was coming to interview to be a caretaker of an infant, not a damn maid.

"I'm fine. Just a little surprised that's all." She blushed.

She was a very beautiful woman. When I first saw her I was struck with how breathtaking she was. I was a little apprehensive after hearing the first words to come out of her mouth but at the point I was pretty desperate. It didn't feel like an interview so I kept it light and comfortable.

When Bella started rambling after I asked her to tell me about herself, I was surprised. She had been relatively quiet after the initial introduction and here she was rambling about her life story. Usually it would annoy me, a woman going on and on about themselves but with her, it was completely different. I found myself gesturing for her to continue when she stopped to take a breath and wanting to hear more when she caught on to what she had been doing. Her blush was adorable, flushing from her hair line all the way to the professional collar of her blouse.

"Um, what exactly does a nanny's job entail?" she asked fidgeting with her sleeve.

"Your sole purpose would be to care for and look after Lucas and any of his needs. I work at home so I will be here most of the time but your responsibility will be to bathe, watch, feed and nurture him."

"Wouldn't you be the nurturer?" Bella asked nervously as she looked at Lucas curiously.

"Of course. But there are things that I can't provide to Lucas. He's recently lost his mother and father so I want to try my absolute best to give him a normal life."

Bella's eyes grew wide as did Emmett's.

"Wait. I thought you were Lucas's father?" he asked sitting up a little straighter and looking a little angry.

Bella's eyes welled up with tears so she took a second to wipe them on her sleeve.

"No, I'm his god father. His mom and dad died two weeks and four days ago. He was left in my care under the direct instructions to raise him as my own. His mother, my best friend Vicky believed that he was young enough to not know the difference and wanted him to have a normal childhood." I explained sadly.

I hadn't opened up like this to any of the applicants but something about Bella was different.

"I'm sorry." Bella whispered her voice thick with emotion.

"Don't be. It was tragic but I want to make them proud by raising Lucas as best as I can. I'm new to the game so I'm gonna need a lot of help." my voice broke at the end and it didn't go unnoticed by Bella or Emmett.

Where she frowned sadly and blinked away tears, Emmett shifted uncomfortably wrapping his arm around Bella comfortingly and Lucas began to whimper a little in my lap.

"I'd love the opportunity to help you as best as I can Edward." Bella said intently. "But I need to be honest with you."

I waved my hand for her to continue.

"I don't really have a good rapport with holding a job and it's not that I'm not a good worker, it's just that I haven't found the one that's for me." she blushed again.

Despite her background something told me that Bella was meant to be Lucas's nanny. My mother warned me not to jump the gun though.

"That shouldn't be a problem. I think it would be wise to do a trial period. If you feel that the job isn't for you then you can walk away clean." I replied. "You can bring a bag or something until we come to a mutual decision. That way you don't move everything in only to move it back out."

"O-okay. Um there's something else." Bella shot Emmett an apologetic look before turning to me. "I have absolutely no experience."

Well fuck.