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All Grown Up: The Story of Jacob and Renesmee	By : VanessaWolfe Category: Twilight Series > Het > Jacob/Renesmee Views: 19932 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Jake

I love Nessie’s boobs. I'm sorry, but I can't help it. She's my wife so that's not that bad is it? That must sound so vulgar, but they are spectacular. I'm a breast man, what can I say? I loved them before, but I heard her talking to Rose, and she's gone up a whole cup size. She looks like she's about six or seven months along now, by normal human pregnancies go.
It was ungodly hot out. Even with the A/C full blast, those of us who ran at 108 degrees or so were still hot. But we could have been standing in the middle of a wild fire for all I cared, if I got to look at her in that triangle bikini top with her favorite cotton yoga pants.
I couldn't keep my hands off her. She was usually just as eager to be touched, as I was to touch her. They felt so good, so soft... heavy in my hands.
"Jacob!" Nessie banged her little hand on the kitchen table.
"Huh?"
"I said, what about Ava?" she said with obvious frustration.
"What about her?"
"I'm trying to pick out names for our child Jacob, but if you'd rather stare at my boobs I'll figure it out myself!"
Oh.
Oops.
She stalked upstairs. Damn it. I knew I should probably leave her alone for a while. Going for a run with my brothers seemed like a good idea. I went upstairs and found her sitting up in bed with her lap top, a thin sheet covering her up to her neck.
"Hey baby?" she didn't look up.
"I'm gonna go for a run. I'll have my phone if you need me."
I waited to see if she'd say anything.
"I won't be long. Let's talk about names when I get back."
Nothing. I leaned down and kissed her cheek.
"I love you Mommy."
I didn't bother to wait for a response because I knew I wouldn't get one right now. I grabbed the woven pouch I kept my phone in while I ran off our dresser. I'd only been doing that since she'd been pregnant, it made us both feel better. In our downstairs hallway I took off my cut off sweats and tied them, along with my pouch, around my leg.
I carefully peeked out the window, I wanted to do all I could to avoid another incident. A couple weeks ago Alice saw me decide to go for a run, and Nessie decide to do one of her new favorite things, read about anything baby related on-line. She was a few seconds too early and caught me phasing. I didn't even notice her until I heard the giggling. I gave her an annoyed growl before turning and running off into the woods. I was not pleased Alice had seen me naked. Ness reminded me with a grin that I had nothing to be ashamed off, but still that family had no secrets. Certainly not when Alice was involved. I begged Ness to let me phase in the house but she said I'd scratch everything up, especially the door. I doubtfully suggested that we install a doggy door, not in the front door but in the back where nobody could see it. But that was a no go.
Coast looked clear so I stepped outside and phased on the porch. I let out a howl, the one that pretty much meant, phase if you wanna go for a run or hang out. No emergency. Leah was already phased. I felt Seth phase right away then Sam after him. After we greeted each other, I ran through my little spat with Ness in my head. I wasn't shocked when Leah laughed.
You better keep your eyes to yourself, she suggested.
Wow thanks Leah, that's super helpful.
Well you are obviously having woman troubles, and I'm a woman.
Barley.
Oh suck it. I didn't phase because you called, I'm running to Patrick's to watch a movie. I'm only like a mile away so I'm phasing back. Later.
Leah had started dating a guy on the Makah rez, it hadn't had quite the effect the pack had hoped for. It had only made her slightly less hateful. We'd met him a couple of times, seemed like an okay guy. He was quiet, and Leah was the one wearing the pants in that relationship for sure. She bossed him around a lot, but he didn't seem to mind being her little sheep and following her. So whatever floats their boats.
Paul popped in as soon as Leah was gone.
Thank God somebody else needed to get out of the house too! Both of the twins are sick, and so is Rachel. So they are miserable, and Caroline is miserable because she's feeling neglected, and I'm miserable because they are! Paul huffed.
Damn man, how'd you even get her to let you to come out? I asked.
Oh, she didn't want me to! The only reason I escaped is because my mom is over. She's making dinner for us thank God. But after she leaves, bath time and bedtime will be another nightmare I'm sure.
Hey man, we can take Caroline for the night if you want. Nessie is mad at me so she could use a distraction anyway.
Really? That would be so awesome! Hang on let me phase so I can call Rach and ask.
I'd stolen the cell phone pouch idea from Paul. He was the last pack member I would have chosen for a brother in law, and he may be stressed today but he was good to my sister.
Wow, this wife and family stuff is hard, Seth commented.
You ain't kidding. Don't get me wrong, I love my life but there are days...
Sorry I don't have much to offer, Seth told me. I can't really relate.
Well, Sam began, I call tell you this, don't even think about touching her. Let her make the next first move. Otherwise you'll just get yourself into deeper and deeper shit. Trust me I learned my lesson on that one.
It's hard because sometimes she'll catch me looking at get mad, other times she'll catch me looking and it turns her on and...well she'll jump on me! I mean, how am I supposed to know the difference?
You can't, I tried to figure that out plenty when Emily was pregnant. Hormones just get outta control. Paul phased back in and caught the end of what Sam had been telling me.
So, trouble in paradise Jake? he asked.
Yeah. Apparently I'm not allowed to look at my own wife.
I showed him what he'd missed.
I know how you feel there. I know Rachel is your sister but-
Oh God Paul, don't! I begged. I had a feeling I did not want to hear whatever he was about to say.
No I was just gonna say, she hardly lets me near her when she is pregnant. So I know it's hard.
Okay, that could have been worse.
That's for sure, I told him. So you want me to come get Caroline?
Yeah, I do feel bad for the poor kid. She's not getting much attention these past couple of days. It will be easier on all of us.
I could go get the rabbit now and come for her after I talk to Ness, do you want us to give her dinner?
That would be so great.
She likes chicken nuggets right? I know we have a ton of those.
Yeah. Rach tries to get her to eat veggies too, but a night off isn't gonna kill her.
I turned and started back towards home. As I made my way up the stairs I heard blankets rustling. I cautiously opened the door to our room, Ness was still in bed with her lap top, the sheet pulled up to her chin once again.
"Hey, is it okay if we take Caroline for the night?" She ignored me.
"I know you're mad and I'm sorry. Please just answer."
"That's fine," she said in a dull voice. I bent down and put my hand on her face, she unwillingly turned to look at me.
"I really am sorry."
She sighed.
"When is Caroline coming?"
"I was gonna get her now if that's okay. I'm gonna make her dinner. And you too. Think about what you want and I'll start on it as soon as I get back...do you want me to get you a drink?"
"No, I just had one," she said in that same bored voice turning her face back to the computer.
Oh, okay," I said dropping my hand. "I'll be back soon...I love you."
"Uh huh." Man, I hope she cheers up when Caroline is around.
When I got to Paul and Rachel's house, I saw Paul had been right, it was chaos. Paul was still out running and I didn't blame him. Rachel was slumped on the couch, her upper body hidden by a blanket that had two little feet sticking out of it. Caroline was clinging to her pants and wailing, worse then the baby hidden by the blanket was. "Caroline please!" Rachel moaned. Caroline lost her grip and fell on her diaper padded bottom, it couldn't have hurt much but she screamed at a decibel I wouldn't have thought possible. I could hear screaming baby number three down the hall. Their little house had no A/C and it was hotter then Hell.
"Holy crap Rach, it's like an oven in here."
"Wow Jake I had no idea, thanks for the reminder." she snapped. "Caroline, look Uncle Jake is here, go see Uncle Jake." Rachel said sounding stuffed up and tired. My little niece toddled towards me.
"Jay!" she whined, seeming glad to see some one who had not denied her attention yet today. She clung to me when I picked her up, I could see what Paul had meant.
"Wow kid, you are some kind of hot mess."
I carried her to the kitchen to wipe her nose.
"Who've you got under there Rach?"
"Noah. I've been trying to get him to eat and it's not going well. Paul's mom is changing Grace." and Grace didn't sound too happy about it either.
"Would you mind grabbing her car-seat out of my car? I've been trying to get outside to put it in your car but I never made it out there," she said reaching for a tissue to blow her nose with, with her free hand.
"Sure that's fine."
Paul's mom came from the hallway holding a wiggling and crying Grace, and a diaper bag under her arm.
"Thank you so much for packing her up Nancy, you are a saint I swear!" Rachel said.
"You are so welcome, I'm glad to do what I can dear. Hi Jake," she said with Grace almost drowning her voice out. "Here's Caroline's bag. There's two binkies, some books, some toys, pjs, clothes for tomorrow and some extra clothes just in case." She hung the bag over my shoulder that Caroline wasn't clinging to. "Oh and here's her diaper bag." There's another one?
"Her diapers are in there, her wipes, some cream, and the changing pad. Don't put the cream on her unless her bum is red though," Rachel instructed me. Paul's mom hung the second bag on my shoulder. "She needs a bath so her bath stuff is in there too." Rachel went on. "That little wash cloth shaped like a duck, and her soap and baby shampoo. Do NOT use adult soap or shampoo on her. And don't let her stand up in the bathtub." "Okay, okay I won't. I guess we are ready to go then miss Caroline," I told her.
"Come here Jake let me give her a kiss." I walked back into the living room and bent down in front of Rachel. Caroline leaned away from me to wrap her arms around her mothers neck. Rachel kissed her cheek. "Bye my angel. Mommy loves you, be a good girl for Uncle Jake and Aunt May may." Somehow May may had turned into a nick name for Renesmee. Rachel kissed my cheek too. "Thanks hun, I know I'm being a b-i-t-c-h but I feel like s-h-i-t, we all do. Thank you so much this is a huge help." Nessie read online that when you spell bad words in front of your kids, all you are doing is teaching them how to spell, but I decided now was not the time to bring it up.
"No problem." I said trying to balance Caroline and the huge bags on my shoulder as I straightened up. I wasn't successful and the bags slipped off my shoulder.
"Kids need a lot of stuff, you better get used to it Jake," Rachel said.
"May may?" Caroline asked hopefully.
"Yup lets go see her." As we walked out the door Rachel called after me, "Thanks Jake! And make sure you read her Goodnight Moon before bed!"
"I will." As I walked towards Rachel's car Caroline twisted around in my arms to look back towards the house.
"Ma?" Caroline asked with panic creeping into her voice.
"We said bye to Ma. We are gonna go see Aunt May may." Seeing Nessie was all fine and dandy until she realized Nessie wasn't here, and that I was taking her away from her mother.
"Ma!" Uh oh. When I got to Rachel's car I unbuckled and unclasped everything that attached the car-seat to the car while Caroline wiggled in my arms, reaching towards the house. I dragged the baby and the bags and the car-seat to my car and put them all in the back seat. Caroline slid off the seat and pushed against me, getting angry that my legs were blocking her way.
"Moo!" she shrieked at me.
"Caroline, I'm not moving, we are going to see Aunt May may." Why had I not paid more attention to the way this was strapped in to Rachel's car? If this clicks into this, then this part goes over Caroline right? It has to click into that, I don't see where else it could go. Yeah that will go over her chest and her arms...go through here? But there's only one of them, she has two arms. Then what the hell is this strap for? Surely they must all be important. Somewhere in the middle of that she switched to screaming for Paul instead of Rachel. Oh man, what did I agree to?
"Daddy is running, because the house is a zoo."
"Dada!"
"Jake?" I turned around to see Rachel standing on the porch, without Noah. I noticed then there were two sets of screams coming from the house. "You know that kind of car seat can't go in the middle seat right? It has to go on the end."
"Oh...either you or Ness usually does it."
"Do you need help?" Rachel asked.
"No you go ahead back in, I think I've got it now."
"Okay...if you get her lamby out of her bag she'll calm down."
"Ma?"
"Bye baby, I love you. See you tomorrow."
Once Caroline had her beloved stuffed lamb, and I had the car seat in the right place it seemed so much easier. After I triple and quadruple checked that Caroline was securely in, we were on our way.
"Whew!" I exclaimed as we pulled out of the driveway on our way out of La Push. Surely it can't always be that hard getting a kid out of the house can it? I hope not. Will it be different when it's my own child? Part of the problem here was taking her away from her mom, I wouldn't go many places with just me and our kid would I? Even if I did, I would think my own kid would be willing to go with Daddy, more willing then Caroline had been to go with Uncle Jake.
She seemed in a better mood when we got back to the house, thank God. I didn't see Ness downstairs, so I decided to just leave her alone and let her come down when she was ready, I knew she'd hear us. I dumped out the toys and books so Care could play while I started her dinner.
"How about some chicken nuggets for dinner, cutie?"
"Nuggs!" she yelled throwing her arms up in the air. I laughed.
"I'll take that as a yes." I heard Ness slowly making her way down the stairs. "Caroline guess who I hear?" She looked at me curiously. "Aunt May may!"
"May may?"
"She's over there," I said pointing to the stairs.
"Go get her!"
She turned to look and pushed herself off the floor when she spotted Ness. I noticed that over the bikini top she was now wearing one of my old wife beaters that she'd stretched out during the course of her pregnancy.
"May may!" Caroline shouted as she ran to her.
"Hello my sweet!" Ness said crouching down. She groaned when she picked her up. "Oh my. Aunt May may's little girl is getting heavy isn't she!"
Ness made her way over to the counter where I was arranging chicken on a tray. She set Caroline on the counter, just out of reach of the chicken, and stood in front of her so she wouldn't fall. She exhaled with a huff.
"Aunt May may's back just can't deal with you right now honey."
"Want me to make you some of this?" I asked hesitantly. "I'll take care of our dinner tonight you don't have to do anything. I can make something else if you want though."
"Chicken sounds fine, thanks." She grabbed my shirt and pulled me to where she was standing in front of Caroline. Ness looked up at me with those big eyes.
"Gimmie a hug," she said. I was glad to oblige.
"I'm really sorry." I murmured. She seemed like she wasn't mad anymore so I felt safe to joke around.
"It's not my fault you are so sexy, ya know?" She laughed and pulled away to playfully slap my chest.
"Don't talk like that in front of her!" I shrugged and smiled, glad to be forgiven. I leaned down to give her a gentle kiss before going back to the chicken.
"It's just there is a time and a place, okay?"
"I know." I told her.
I still didn't see what I'd done that was so bad. If I'd realized she was talking about something important I would have paid attention. I hadn't even known what she was talking about. Oh. Guess that was it.
Ness put her hand on Caroline's back, Caroline stretched her little arms around Nessie's bump, they didn't even get close to her back, and laid her head on top of it.
"Aw are you saying hi to your cousin? You'll get to meet him or her soon. This will be your first cousin won't it?" Nessie looked at me and I nodded.
"Paul's an only child," I told her.
"Ohhh you are gonna be such a good cousin aren't you! You know, your Momma called me today."
"Ma?"
"Yes she did! And she said your house is just crazy today isn't it! Bet you're glad to be here with us huh. We are gonna have a fun night just me, and you, and Uncle Jake."
"Jay!" She shouted and pointed at me.
"Uh huh. We are gonna have a yummy dinner together. Then we can play, and read some books before bed."
"Moon?"
"Yup, Goodnight Moon."
Nessie chatted with Caroline while the chicken cooked and I hunted for something that would go well with our oh so elegant main course. Fruit cups. That seems easy enough. I set the 4 pack on the counter.
"Oh honey, no." I went about what I was doing, thinking Ness wasn't talking to me. "Jake?"
"Sorry, what?"
"Lets skip the fruit cups," she suggested.
"Why? Whats wrong with them?" I asked.
"All that sticky juice?" I picked up the 4 pack and swished it around.
"Oh."
"It's gonna be messy no matter what, but lets not make this even harder on ourselves. I'm sure as heck not planning on mopping this floor tonight."
"Well, how about grapes?"
"Jake, she'll choke!"
"Oh um...I dunno you pick then."
"Why don't you cut up some of that melon on the bottom shelf. Make them about this big." She showed me with her fingers. Wow that's small. "Do that with the chicken too."
Usually when Caroline was over Nessie took the lead in taking care of her. Trying to do it myself was making me realize I wasn't very good at it, and that I had so much to learn in such a short time.
We sat at the kitchen table and ate dinner together, I watched as Ness feed Caroline trying to learn something. She didn't put the plate on the highchair tray, but left it on the table only giving her a few pieces of food at a time. When I asked her why she said that if you give a kid that age too much food at a time, they are likely to just play with it. Plus they will probably throw their plate too. I stored that away in my memory bank. I wondered how old they have to be when you can just give them their own plate, when they can feed themselves.
Bath time was interesting, we usually didn't give her a bath here but Rachel and Paul had been too busy yesterday, so this definitely had to be bath night. Ness said there's no way she was gonna be able to kneel down on that hard tile floor, so bath duties fell to Uncle Jake. Ness sat on the toilet with the lid closed and turned on the water, trying to get the temperature just right. Soon as the water went on Caroline started wiggling in my arms.
"No baf!"
"Yes, bath," I told her as I was taking her shirt off. After I got her pants and her diaper off I turned to throw the dirty diaper in the garbage. When I turned back around Caroline was gone. I jumped up and darted out of the bathroom and found her running down the hallway away from me, as fast as her chubby little legs would carry her.
"Where do you think you're going?" She laughed when I caught her and picked her up, but quickly expressed her displeasure as soon as we got back in to the bathroom.
"No baf!" Despite her protests I lowered her into the tub and she sat in the water. Ness threw a couple bath toys in the tub from the bag which I'd forgotten about until just now, but she remembered to bring upstairs. Caroline was so busy having fun with her toys she hardly noticed me washing her. Washing her hair was another story though. She cried and splashed in the water when I tilted her head back to wet her hair, and did the same when I rinsed it.
"Aw it's not that bad," Nessie cooed from her seat. Caroline blinked her eyes furiously, her dark eyelashes wet. After getting over the trauma of having her hair washed, she calmed down and happily played with her toys until her fingers and toes started to look like prunes.
"Okay I think that's enough for tonight." To my surprise she kicked and screamed as I pulled her out of the tub. All that drama over getting in, and then she doesn't want to get out? Ness was ready with the towel and I placed Caroline in her lap. Well, what she had left of a lap anyway.
"Come on now silly girl," Ness said wrapping her up, cuddling her and drying her off at the same time. We took her to our room to put her diaper on, we wouldn't have any of our baby furniture until after the shower so we always changed her on our bed.
"Wanna try?" Ness asked me as she got Carolines pjs and a diaper out of her bag. I had never actually changed her before, and I realized I had never watched anybody change a baby very closely. But it was time that I learned. I laid Caroline on our bed and she immediately rolled out of the towel and kept on rolling.
"Uh oh, naked baby on the bed" I said.
"Come back!"
Ness had opened the diaper up and started to instruct me as I attempted my first diaper change.
"Now just place her right in the center of it...she's like half out of it Jacob."
"I know but she's so squirmy!"
"Well that's why you gotta be fast. Try it this way, grab both of her ankles and lift up, just enough that you can slide the diaper under her."
When I eyed her warily she assured me, "It's not gonna hurt her, you won't break her trust me."
I went with the 2nd method and it worked better.
"Okay just bring the front up over her and hold it on her tummy while you get the tabs." I was taking to long and Caroline was starting to get annoyed and twist around as I fumbled with the stupid tabs.
"Come on Care, give me a break I'm trying to hurry I promise," I was filled with so much anxiety I was actually breaking a sweat. When I finally got it on, it was crooked, but it was on. I'd had enough and let Ness put her pjs on. Since it was hot out she was only going to sleep in a thin cotton onesie.
"This is just precious," Ness said pulling the onesie over Caroline's head of dark hair that was getting thicker every day. The onesie had a picture of a slice of pie with a cherry on top, and in a childlike font underneath it, said Cutie Pie. She was right it was pretty adorable. I paid close attention to the way she did the snaps.
"Jake why don't you get the pack and play out and I'll start on Goodnight Moon."
"Moon! Moon!" Caroline said.
"Okay," I told Ness and went to the hall closet to get the portable crib/playpen we kept there for when Caroline was over. In the short time that took me, Ness and Caroline had already gotten settled. Ness was reading Goodnight Moon, with her other arm curved around Caroline's little body. Caroline was in Nessie's lap, curled around her bump with her binky in her mouth and lamby under her arm. I needed a picture of this. This was what Nessie called frame worthy so I hurried and got the camera.
"Goodnight stars. Goodnight air. Goodnight noises everywhere." Nessie read in a whisper. Caroline's eyes were half closed and she didn't even notice the flash of the camera. Ness smiled, but didn't look up. She kept reading while I set up the pack and play as quietly as I could. Now this was something I could do, assembly was my specialty. When I was finished Ness was through reading the book and was rubbing a sleeping Caroline's back.
"Wow she went out easy tonight," I whispered.
"It's been a busy day for her."
"Yeah, busy running bare assed down the hallway from me," Ness giggled quietly.
"Come take her, I'm not smooth enough these days to get up without waking her." I picked her limp little body up off of Nessie and crossed our room.
"Night night, Jay loves you." I kissed her forehead and gently laid her down, then I tucked her blanket around her. She curled up on her side, subconsciously clinging to her lamb.
Ness was stripping down for bed. She was in light blue cotton panties that she wore under her bump now. She reached behind her under my wife beater to untie the bikini top. I watched out of the corner of my eye as she undid the tie behind her neck and pulled the top out of the front of her shirt. I could see her nipples through the shirt. I thought it was so sexy when she wore my clothes.
Down boy, child in the room.
I got a clean pair of boxers to sleep in out of my dresser and went in the closet to change, wouldn't want to traumatize my niece should she wake up suddenly.
Ness was curled up on her side of the bed facing the middle. I got in to bed next to her and put my arm around her.
"When are we taking Caroline back?" Ness asked.
"I was gonna drop her off on my way to work. I don't have to go in until 10:00."
"Okay. Aunt Alice is taking me shopping tomorrow, she said she'll come here to get me, we'll probably leave when you do. My Mom and Aunt Rosalie are supposed to come too.""What are you guys getting?" "Mostly clothes. I want to get some dresses, that's what feels the most comfortable. It makes me feel better to look at least halfway decent. I can't wear your clothes all the time ya know." I put my hand on the small of her back and pulled her closer to me.
"I like it when you wear my clothes though," I breathed. She laughed softly.
"I know. We are going to look at furniture too. Of course Aunt Alice won't let me buy anything that I don't need right this minute. We'll be getting all that at the shower."
"How's that coming?"
"Good. She wants to have it in about a month. We have a theme so I don't see why the wait, we could at least start painting the nursery. But she says I need to get the 'full effect' so we aren't even starting until after the shower" Since we had a mystery baby, they had picked the gender neutral theme of Dr. Seuss, sounded pretty good to me.
"So I looked at girls names today. Found some cute ones. I like Ava and Lucy because they are simple and classic. But I also like Addison and Sativa, Rhiannon. Those are unique don't you think?"
"Yeah, those are all pretty nice. We could always go with a classic first name, and a unique middle name. Or the other way around."
"That's a good idea," she said rolling over with some obvious effort. "Let's look at boys names when you get home. We don't want to be those parents who wait til the last second."
"Right." I scooted closer and wrapped my arm around her stomach. We used to sleep face to face, with our arms around each other, but that was pretty awkward now and becoming more impossible each day. So we switched to spooning. I buried my face in her hair, "You're gonna be such an awesome mom. You already seem to know everything."
"Aw thanks. I hardly know everything though. I've just spent a lot of time with the other imprints and their kids." For a moment it was quiet, I was kind of scared voice my fears out loud.
"What if I'm not a good Dad?"
"Oh sweetie, why would you say that? You are gonna be a great Dad."
"I don't know. I have no idea what I am doing here."
"Well neither do I really. Just because I know how to babysit doesn't mean I have a clue about being a mom. I'm scared too," she admitted.
"Really?"
"For sure. You know, when I talked to Emily the other day she said those 'What to Expect' books are good. Easy to understand and pretty informative. I was planning on looking for the pregnancy one tomorrow, and the one for kids under a year old. Would you want to read them?" she asked gently.
"Hmm that might good. Sure." She was probably right, maybe I would feel better if I had an idea of what to expect, hence the name of the books.
"Some things will just come naturally Mom says. Like you are a pretty good tucker inner," she said laughing at her made up phrase.
"Really?"
"Yeah." I curved my hand around the bottom of her bump, moving it from side to side. At first that made her laugh when I started doing it because she would look down and tell me she couldn't see my hand. But after a few minutes of that, she would be so relaxed she'd fall right to sleep.
"Ahh" she sighed. "That feels so nice Daddy."
"I'm glad. Goodnight Mommy, I love you."
She murmured back sleepily, "Love you too."
The next morning Nessie woke me before my alarm when she threw my arm off of her and hauled it to our bathroom. Ah good old morning sickness. I staggered after her still half asleep to kneel next to her on the floor. Her hair was up and out of the way so I rubbed her back as I felt her body tense up. Ness running past must have woken Caroline because I could hear her whimpering.
"Ma?"
"Jake, will you go get her," Ness said laying her head against the bowl, "I don't think she remembers where she is." I didn't want to leave Ness alone but the whimpering had turned to crying. Ness felt my hesitance, "Just go," she told me.
When Caroline saw me she looked confused for an instant, then must have remembered that I was an okay guy and being here wasn't so bad.
"Jay," she said.
"Morning cutie." She was standing up reaching her arms up to me, I picked her up and bounced her in my arms.
"She's gonna need changed," Ness called from the bathroom. "And don't forget the changing pad. "Can you get her dressed too?"
"Yeah, I will."
I carried Caroline around while I grabbed what I needed. It seemed easier since our house wasn't baby proofed yet and this way she wouldn't run off. Okay changing pad, I threw it on the bed. Diaper, wipes, that's it right? I think did a tiny bit better then I did last night. Ness got sick again in the bathroom, I heard her moan "Oh shit," over the flush of the toilet. I hated seeing her like that, but I knew by now there was nothing I could do for her. I grabbed a pink sleeveless dress that had a tiny print of white daisies. It took me a minute to get her arms through the arm holes but I did it. I put some toys in the crib, converting it to a play pen, and Caroline busied herself. Ness was still on her knees, in the same position. "You okay?"
"I'll get over it," she said.
"Do you still wanna go today?"
"I have to, I need clothes and I want to have a say in what I wear." I rubbed little circles on the small of her back underneath her shirt.
"Why don't you go back to bed, I'll take care of Caroline."
"I think I will. Just give her some cheerios for breakfast."
"Okay." I kissed the cheek that wasn't pressed against the toilet lid and took Caroline downstairs. Breakfast went well, plenty of cheerios ended up on the floor but they were easy enough to sweep up.

RenesmeeAfter brushing my teeth I crawled back in to bed. While I lie there I listened to the sounds of Jake playing with our niece. He was doubting himself, but he was so sweet to her. That was the most important thing.
Jake brought Caroline up so I could kiss her goodbye before he left to take her home on his way to work. I knew that look he was giving me, and I was finding it annoying. "You know it'll pass, just go to work."
"Yeah, I know. Call me or send me a text once you are up and about. I love you."
"I will, I love you too." I sat up and put my hand around the back of his neck to pull him to me for a quick kiss. "Hopefully I'll be home by the time you are."
"Okay. Caroline wave bye to Aunt May may."
"Bye May may!" my niece called, her little fingers opening and closing, her version of waving. As crappy as I felt, it was adorable and I had to smile.
"Bye sweetie." I decided to sleep it off, I knew Aunt Alice would see so sometimes her gift could be very convenient, I'll give her that. And no phone call was needed when I decided it was time to start the day after a nice cat nap. As I was choosing an outfit, I caught the scents of my Mom and both my Aunts before I heard or saw them.
"Hey," I called out in greeting to wherever they were. Suddenly they were behind me when I turned to walk out of my closet.
"Gah! You sneaky vampires are gonna make me pee my pants one of these days."
"If you need to use the little girls room do it now because we have shopping to do!" Aunt Alice sang.
"You feeling up to it?" Momma asked.
"Yeah, I'll be feeling more up to it after I have something to eat." Aunt Rose got me my liquid breakfast, and after sending a text to Jacob we were on our way. The long ride to Seattle didn't take nearly as long with Aunt Alice. The store we were going to had maternity and baby clothes, baby furniture, pretty much everything Aunt Alice assured me.
First stop was clothes for me, I went right to the dresses. I didn't need anything fancy, just around the house clothes. I found the perfect one, light and breezy.
"It'll fit," Alice said with authority as she walked by. I grabbed one in every color and threw them in the cart.
Mom found some nice skirts that looked so comfortable, so I got a few. As we were picking those out, Aunt Alice gasped dramatically in front of a t-shirt display.
"Oh. My. God! These are great!" They said the cutest things on them. I laughed at the one that said, We're hungry in a simple font across the top. I threw that one in the cart. There were lots for the other members of the family to choose from, Alice being Alice, she picked out one for everybody.
"These skirts are casual enough that they will look so cute with the t-shirts." Aunt Rose said. We got a few for Jake too. One in the style of those old I'm with stupid shirts that said, I did that, with an arrow. I knew that and the one that said, My swimmers are strong would make him laugh. And I got him the one that said I'm afraid of my pregnant wife because it made me laugh! Since Aunt Alice picked them you could tell who's Uncle shirt was who's. Uncle Jasper's said Kiss me I'm an Uncle, and Uncle Emmett's was just perfect for him, he'd love it. It said, kick ass uncle.
We found an adorable one that said Proud New Cousin for Caroline. It was black and had colorful flowers all over it. We chose some grandma and grandpa ones for Nanna and Grandpa, a couple aunt ones, then Momma burst out laughing and held up the perfect shirt for Daddy. "Oh you've got to be kidding, how funny is this!" It said, don't I look too young to be a grandfather?
She was right, it was pretty funny and I knew everybody would get a kick out of it. I made her get the matching grandma one for herself, she didn't seem to mind a bit. After picking out a few tank tops and pairs of pants, Aunt Alice was confident enough that I would be well dressed for the remainder of my pregnancy. We weren't actually buying anything for the baby today, I had to wait for the shower, but I teared up at the tiny onesie we passed that said Mommy and Daddy's little miracle. "Now that's a must buy," Aunt Rose said. Mom and Aunt Alice nodded in agreement.
We looked a little at furniture, I could tell Aunt Alice was making mental notes. I was so happy to find they had books there too. I really wanted to get those books today, but I was starting to fade and I was dreading the thought of adding another store to our trip. I got the ones I had been looking for for myself, and What to Expect When You're a First Time Dad for Jake. I hoped this would make him feel better, help him gain a little confidence in himself. I had no doubt he was going to be a great father. Who cares about silly things like putting a diaper on crooked? I knew as long as the love was there, we'd figure the rest out.
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