Bella The Babysitter: Chapter 10

Bella the Babysitter

Chapter ten

Bella Swan POV

"I can do this, I can do this, I can do this." I muttered my mantra as I carried Lucas through security. The mild sedative Alice had provided me was nestled in the locket hanging around my neck just in case I got too panicky.

Edward laughed when I jumped a foot in the air after the metal detector went off when I walked through it. I had never flown and didn't know what to do so I started trying to convince them that I wasn't a terrorist and planning on blowing up the plane. Luckily they didn't freak out at my babbling and tackle me to the ground and arrest me. It was probably Luke. While I was shaking, he sat and babbled playing with his toy airplane that Grampy Carlisle had gifted him before we left. He flirted with anything in a skirt and had the security woman swooning in seconds after my massive mistake. Every couple of seconds I could see Edward smirk or laugh softly to himself at my misfortune.

"I can do this, I can do this." I breathed as we sat in hard plastic chairs waiting for our plane to start
boarding.

"Bella calm down. It's just a short flight down to San Antonio." Edward said, the smirk still firmly embedded on his stupid pretty mouth.

"Shut up asshole."

"Oh, Nanny Bella. Such language." Edward took Lucas out of my arms and started talking to him. "We don't say that word, no no no. As soon as we get to the hotel we're going to have to wash Bella's mouth out with soap." He then turned to me with a serious expression. "I can't believe you didn't mention this horrific phobia of flying that you have when I asked how apposed you were to traveling."

I chose to ignore the man child holding the baby next to me and instead focused on my breathing. The
whole in, out thing wasn't happening easily for me.

"FLIGHT 1120 IS NOW BOARDING FIRST CLASS, PLEASE HAVE YOUR TICKETS READY." the voice said over the intercom.

"Well, that's us." Edward passed the baby over to me and grabbed the carryon bags.

"Wait? First class?" I said from my seat. "That's expensive."

"No it's not. Ben paid for them." Edward shrugged. "Besides we're going to have Lucas, you'll be happy about having the extra bit of room. Let's go."

When I made no attempt to get up Edward sighed loudly and grabbed my arm pulling me up. He then gripped my free hand and dragged me to the line. Lucas was cooing tiredly and I could tell he was ready for a nap by the way his head kept swaying back and forth on my shoulder.

Edward had just handed the attendant our tickets when I yanked my hand out of his and started backing up.

"I can't do this, I can't do this."

"Bella come on. It will be fine." he chuckled.

"I can't. I don't want to die. I've seen Final Destination. What if I wake up and we're sitting back in the
kitchen eating our breakfast or something and then death follows us?" I started hyperventilating and patting the hell out of Lucas's back. "Oh god oh god. I can't breathe. Shit."

"Sir, I can't let your wife on the plane until she calms down." The attendant said quietly as she ushered the people behind us forward.

"Oh, n-" I made an attempt to correct her assumptions but Edward cut me off.

"She'll be fine, we just need a minute." he snapped before turning to me with a pleading look. "Bella this meeting is really important and I've been looking forward to spending Lucas's birthday with him. Please calm down and come with me?"

"I can't. I'm deathly afraid of heights and this. This isn't good." I gasped.

"Bella. Look at me." Edward instructed and I obeyed. His green eyes stared straight into my soul as his free hand caressed my cheek. This intimate gesture was somewhat of a surprise, we never touched, and that was a silent law of the house. Both Alice and Esme had started picking on me over the sexual chemistry and tension that supposedly oozed from the house.

In truth it's not like there had been any naked encounters or accidents that involved he or I walking in on the other changing. Hell I had never seen him without his shirt, but he'd seen my lacy power bra. So it wasn't as if we were fighting the urge to jump each other's bones at any given second. I'm not saying I didn't find my boss extremely attractive because I do and I've recently found myself thinking about him in a non authoritative way. I'll even admit to it that sometimes I found myself wanting to be a family with Edward and Lucas in a different way that didn't include me getting a pay check every month for my duties.

The only thing keeping that from happening would be Edward and the fact that he only looked at me as his employee. Until now that is.

His hand trailed down the side of my face and for a second I thought he was going for the girls but instead he popped open the locket. He then placed the pill between my parted lips and my heart fell into my stomach. I immediately started to chastise myself for being so stupid in my thoughts.

"Swallow that." he whispered closing my mouth with his thumb.

Easier said than done. I'm not a professional pill popper so swallowing a pill with a dry mouth because of my panic attack was difficult but somehow I managed to do so without choking to death.

"THIS IS THE FINAL CALL FOR FIRST CLASS FLIGHT 1120" the robotic voice said.

"Just keep your eyes closed until we got on the plane and seated. Alice said that that will kick in almost immediately so relax and everything will be okay." Edward said softly taking Lucas out of my arms and balancing both of the bags on one shoulder before leading me up to the attendant yet again.

As instructed I kept my eyes closed as he led me through the gate and onto the plane so I was able to avoid the scrutiny of judgmental people. I sat in a plush chair and opened my eyes just as Edward plopped Lucas into my lap and put our bags in the overhead compartment. Lucas leaned against my chest and sighed so I took the small blanket out of my purse and draped it over us while Edward got situated in the seat next to me, the window seat.

Before I knew it we were in the air and I was high as a kite, pun intended. Lucas was drooling on my shoulder while I leaned against Edward talking his ear about anything and everything. We had just finished a great debate of Coke vs. Pepsi when I noticed that he was smirking again.

"What are you thinking?" I asked.

"That I need to ask Alice for a refund for that sedative because instead of knocking you out for an hour or two it's turned you into a chatter box with an attention deficit disorder." he laughed.

"Well fine then. I'll just sit here and shut up then." I huffed.

"No, I like this version of you."

"As opposed to the sober responsible caregiver to your child?" I joked.

"No, that's not what I meant. I'm just saying when you're in nanny mode every focus and conversation is based on something Lucas related. It's nice to talk to you about something as trivial as soda's with you." he shrugged. "And the fact that you're throwing yourself at me is definitely different and new."

"I'm not throwing myself at you." I snapped causing Lucas to stir. "Your just squishy and warm and you sort of smell nice."

"Ah, another good thing about that sedative. It's like a truth serum for you or something." Edward laughed loudly.

"Yep, not talking anymore." I blushed and ducked my head under the blanket.

I closed my eyes in attempt to go to sleep but the blanket slipped off of my head and the light from the window was right in my eye. I opened my eyes and realized everyone was standing up.

"What's happening?" I asked.

"Flight's over. We're getting ready to exit the plane. We were wrong about that sedative huh?" Edward laughed.

"Wait. What?" I sat up without jostling Lucas too much.

"You slept the last hour of the flight after ducking away so I let you. You woke up right after we landed, so great timing." he chuckled.

We made it to the hotel a surprising two hours later after finally getting a baby safe rental car. I was still groggy from the sedative and Lucas was cranky and hungry so we decided to just get room service and hang out in the room. The following day, Lucas's birthday to be exact was going to be hectic to say the least. With the celebrating and Edward's very important meeting he still hadn't told me anything about because he didn't want to jinx it, I was going to be a very busy woman.

We were staying for three days so that Edward could finish the final stages if he was hired. If not it would turn into a small vacation to cope with the loss of the opportunity. Either way Lucas and I were going to have fun whether or not Edward got the job. And seeing as it was his birthday, that's all that matters.

"So how are you feeling druggy?" Edward asked as he sat my bag by the door to mine and Lucas's room.

It was decided that since I was the nanny that Lucas and I would share a room and Edward would occupy the one across the hall. We would do the partying and spending time together in my room because all of Lucas's things would be handy and Edward could lay out his suit and paperwork without worrying about little sticky hands getting to them.

"I'm a little groggy and hungry." I shrugged. "So food is definitely in order then a nap."

"Okay. I'm sure Luke would like some food too." Edward kissed the top of Lucas's head and unlocked our room for us. "Come knock or call the room or my cell when you two are settled and we'll order one of everything on the room service menu."

"Yes sir." I saluted.

It took me ten minutes to get our clothing situated while Lucas munched on a teething cookie on the bed. I wanted to take a quick shower but with Lucas I had to result to wiping the both of us down with a warm wash cloth. I had just changed Lucas into his pajamas when he did something that surprised and scared the hell out of me at the same time. His clear blue eyes stared up at me and he gave me a gummy smile before blurting out a word that terrified me possibly more than the whole flying on a plane ever did.

"Mama."

"No no sweet boy. I'm Bella." I cooed as I backed away from him covering my mouth with my hand as my eyes filled with tears.

I didn't know what to do. The first thing that popped in my head was a scenario that involved Edward hearing Lucas saying that and thinking that I was a psycho trying to steal his kid or something. Every crazy thought that went through my mind at the moment resulted in me getting fired. So I did my best to change it.

"Bella. Bella." I said over and over again pointing to myself.

Lucas's tiny bottom lip quivered as he started to cry and hold his arms out for me to pick him up. And he kept saying that word.

"Mama, mama."

"No Lucas." I said sternly. "Bella."

My attitude only made him cry harder and louder. This wasn't what was supposed to happen. I had been trying to get him to say Daddy because it was important to me and now this. His first word is momma and he doesn't even have one.

I sat on the bed and put my head in my hands trying to come up with a solution. Lucas continued to cry and eventually crawled into my lap hugging my body close to him.

We sat there for a couple of minutes crying to each other until someone knocked on the door. I cradled Lucas in my arms and opened the door forgetting that that was one of the number one things not-to-do when staying in a hotel. Luckily it was Edward's smiling face on the other side of the door.

"Hey it's been almost an hour so I wanted to check and see if you two fell asleep." He joked before taking in our appearances. "What's wrong?"

"Oh, nothing. I um forgot to pack Lucas's favorite blanket he likes to have when he sleeps and we both were upset about it." I lied.

"Oh, I didn't know he had a favorite blanket." Edward's brow furrowed in confusion before he gave me a serious look. "Are you sure you're alright? You look really upset. So does Luke."

"Yeah we're fine. A little tired and starving but other than that we're fine." I stepped back and gestured for him to come into the room. "Let's order some food."

Everything was going smoothly until Edward offered to take Lucas from me so that I could make him a bottle seeing as I knew where everything was. I passed him the baby and grabbed one of the bottles before moving to the bathroom to mix it over the sink when I heard it. It had almost the same affect on me as the first time.

"Mama."

Except this time when I heard a gasp emit from Edward I wanted to cry for a whole new reason.

Vicky.