Bella The Babysitter: Chapter 12

Bella the Babysitter

Chapter twelve

Bella Swan POV

"I quit."

"No Bella. Please don't do this." Edward panicked. "Lucas needs you. We need you."

"Edward."

"I promise I'll stop. We'll just pretend like it didn't even happen." he continued a guilty expression taking over his entire face.

"Edward." I tried again.

"I can't let you do this. There has to be a way for me to take it back." His hand went straight for his hair, pulling the ends roughly in frustration. "I'm sorry. I'll give you a raise. I'll build a separate apartment on the land for you if you're uncomfortable with living in the same house with me. Pleas-"

I clamped my hand over his mouth. "Will you shut the fuck up and let me talk?" I asked calmly.

Edward nodded his head.

"I've never done this before. Quit a job I mean." I removed my hand when he made no move to interrupt me. "I've had plenty of jobs more than one that lasted only a day if that but I've never quit one. Ever." I took a deep breath. "You made me do this."

"Bella p-" he stopped short when I raised my hand to cover his mouth again.

"I like you Edward. More than I'm willing to admit right now. With that being said I have always followed my strict rule of never dating my employer. I refuse to start now."

I stepped back and let that information sink in watching his face contort in a range of emotions. Landing on surprise mixed with a goofy ass grin.

"Does this mean what I think it means?" he choked out.

"Depends on how you swing it. I better get back before Lucas wakes up." I held up the baby monitor I'd brought with me in emphasis. "See you in the morning, Edward. You can take the two of us out for Luke's birthday before you leave for your meeting."

And with that I turned around, entered my room and shut the door. The last thing I saw was Edward's still frozen form standing in his doorway across the hall.

Smiling, I lay down on the bed and pulled Luke's body close to me. He stirred in his sleep and burrowed into my shoulder. I played with the end of his short red curls at the nape of his neck and thought about what I had just done. Quitting was the only solution I had came up with after Edward excused himself to go to sleep.

I had looked from the door to the baby sleeping on the bed and back to the door again about a billion times going over and over in my mind about what had transpired. And the second I came to my conclusion I scrambled to set up the baby monitor and made my way across the hall. This kiss, was pretty much an unplanned surprise for the both of us.

Edward's panic stricken face when I pulled away and said those two words is something I will never forget. I'm pretty sure I looked that way when Lucas called me momma earlier.

Could it have only been two and a half hours prior that my world turned upside down and then right side up with a single word?

Was it even right side up again?

Could I be getting ahead of myself?

Sighing I rubbed the bridge of my nose. I could feel a headache coming on and wanted more than anything to get up and call Rose. She would help me in this situation. Know what to do.

Hell, she'd probably tell me I was fucking stupid and that I wasn't moving back into her and Emmett's love nest. I wouldn't be surprised if they turned their spare bedroom into a sex room. I had barely seen them in the three months since I started working for Edward and it wasn't the fact that I had an infant strapped to my hip. They were growing closer and closer, I saw that every time we did by chance get together. I guess you could say that I was sort of jealous after the last visit that Lucas and I paid to the apartment, I realized that they had no intentions of my ever moving back in with them. They barely paid attention to the two of us and had moved into the room that Rose and I used to share because it was the larger of the two.

But I sure could use a female friend right now.

My hand reached for my cell phone on its own accord and I was dialing the familiar phone number before I even realized I was doing.

"Hi Bella. I had a feeling you would be calling me soon." Alice's chirpy voice rang through the telephone. "I didn't think it would be tonight, you know at like ten o'clock but here you are. What can I do you for?"

Her play with words even at ten o'clock at night, after the day I've had caused me to smile.

"I uh, just wanted to talk. I didn't even realize it was this late. Lucas is asleep and I'm sort of bored." I explained. "Oh yeah, I need to thank you for the sedative because I sort of freaked out before we even got on the plane."

"I knew you would. That's why I gave you two." she giggled. "If you're so bored why don't you go get Boringward and play some cards or something?"

"Yeah, um I think he might be asleep now." I stammered a blush quickly flushing my entire face.

"It's ten o'clock. Since when does Edward go to sleep at ten?" she asked quizzically.

"I don't know. He has an important meeting tomorrow." I defended. "He's actually the reason I called you."

"Oh and the reason couldn't be that you love me so fucking much? No it has to be because of my dope of a brother in law. What did he do this time. Lay it on me?" she sighed.

"Well, he laid one on me." if possible my skin was an even darker shade of red, I could feel the blush traveling down my neck.

"HE WHAT? HE FUCKING HIT YOU? I SWEAR TO GOD! WHAT HOTEL ARE YO-"

"Alice. He didn't hit me you retard. He kissed me."

"Goddamn Bella." she breathed in relief. "I've already packed an outfit in my purse so that I could fly down there and kick his ass."

"It's not needed." I giggled.

"Well, how was it? Are you finally together? Did Lucas see it? Tell me. Tell me. Tell me." I could hear the springs protesting on her side of the phone and realized she was bouncing on her bed.

"Good, really good. No and no." I simply answered.

"You're not together? What the hell? That means Edward didn't listen to a word Mama Es said. She's going to be so mad." Alice sang songed like a little kid and I rolled my eyes. "Anyways, continue. Please."

"Because you asked so nicely." I laughed. "So it was really awkward and stuff and I started to think that the only reason he did it was to keep me from quitting after Lucas called me momma."

Before I could continue Alice emitted a high pitched squeal so loud that Lucas stirred and he was a foot away from the phone. I zoned out for a second waiting for my ears to stop ringing and when I placed the phone back to my head, it was quiet.

"Alice? Are you there? Did I break you?" I asked hesitantly.

"Um, no. I was just um." she said distractedly.

I could hear rustling in the background and Jasper's southern accent rang through the phone. "Ali baby why are you texting on my cell and talking on yours?"

"WHO ARE YOU TEXTING ALICE?" I panicked.

"Oh nobody. Just Esme… she asked me for a muffin recipe and I just remembered I needed to send it to her." she mumbled.

"You're lying." I said dryly rubbing my forehead in exasperation. "I can't believe I called you of all people."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Alice asked hotly.

"You're in with his mother and shit Alice that's what I mean." I snapped sliding out from under Lucas and hiding away in the bathroom. "You're telling her about this right now aren't you?"

"No. Y-maybe." she said coyly.

"Alice." I gasped. "Please stop it. Cancel the damn text please. Goddamn it. Seriously Alice."

"Okay okay calm your ass down. Take a fucking chill pill. I won't. Jesus."

I sighed in relief. "As I was saying there was a bunch of drama that ensued after that. I got upset and he kissed me. Then it got weird and he went back to his room."

"So you just left it like that? Why didn't you admit you're passionately in love with each other? The entire fucking world believes it and the both of you are too blind to realize it. Shitballs." she huffed.

I could hear Jasper trying to calm her down but to no avail.

"Well after he left I got to thinking. I've always held a strict rule of no dating my fellow employees and or employers so I jumped up and ran across the hal-"

"Aww, this is sooo romantic." Alice drawled.

"And knocked on the door and he came out. I kissed him and then I quit."

"Wait what?" Alice deadpanned.

"I quit." I replied.

"You can't quit. What the fuck Bella?" I could hear more rustling around and Jasper ask her what she was doing. "I'm packing my bag again and flying down there and kicking your brother's nanny's ass for
being stupid."

"Alice." I laughed.

"WHAT?" she snapped.

"I quit because I don't want to go any further in this, whatever we have going on while still being
Edward Cullen's nanny. You just said it yourself." I explained.

"Oh, Jesus Christ." she huffed.

"Yeah." I yawned. "So, I just needed someone to talk to. You're probably not the best choice but you were all I had at the moment. I just sort of left him standing in front of his room."

"Just standing there?" she asked.

"Yeah I think he was in shock or something. It could have been something I said." I said.

"Shit. Jaz baby call your brother. If he's the lame ass I think he is, I'm sure he's still standing in the hall." Alice laughed.

I opened the bathroom door and peeked out to check on Lucas right as he started to wake up. I pulled the mashed potatoes out of the mini fridge and popped them in the microwave while he popped his head up. All of the hair on the right side of his head was sticking straight up with sweat as he looked around tiredly.

"I gotta go. Lucas just woke up and I'm sure he's going to be hungry." I yawned again as Lucas's tiny lip started to quiver when he didn't see me in his direct line of vision.

"Mama?" he cried.

"Aww, okay take care of my nephew. Call me tomorrow after you guys wake up. I want to wish him a happy birthday." Alice instructed. "Bye bye Bella."

She hung up before I could say goodbye and Lucas was now trying to crawl across the bed towards me. I checked the mashed potatoes and sat on the end of the bed propping Luke up against a pillow so that I could feed him. After he ate half of the bowl he decided to play around for a little while despite my desperate need for sleep. We played a long and exciting game of peek a boo before his head started to bob again and he crawled into my lap.

With a quick look at the clock I realized that it was almost one o'clock in the morning.

"Happy birthday baby boy." I whispered kissing the apple of his warm cheek.

"Mama." he murmured sleepily.

I looked up at the ceiling wondering if Vicky and James were watching.

"I really hope you like me because I have every intention on staying in their lives unless they send me away." I murmured right before I fell asleep holding the most important person in my life close to my heart while the other slept across the hall.