Loving Arrangements (Living Arrangements Sequel) by Zoelis9 COMPLETE.pdf

Fanfiction Based On Characters From Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Series

Rated M for Mature Content

Loving Arrangements

By Zoelis9

Summary: Sequel to Living Arrangements. About the new challanges Bella

and Edward will face now that they have everything they have ever wanted.

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Chapter 1: The Move

Bella POV

“Alright, so are you guys going to be okay until I get back?” Edward asked

Emmett, Rose, and I, as he grabbed his coat.

“Yeah, we‟ll be great,” Emmett nodded. “We‟re almost done with the packing

anyway, and the movers will be coming by later tonight. You should be back

from work by then.”

Edward walked over to me and gave me a kiss.

“I‟ll see you after work. Call me around lunchtime, alright?”

“I do every day,” I smiled, as I wrapped my arms around his neck. He gently

placed his hand on my stomach.

I was only three months along, and I wasn‟t really showing yet. But Edward

always acted as if he could actually see the baby.

“Don‟t do any heavy lifting today, do you hear me? That‟s why Emmett‟s here,”

he warned seriously.

“I know, I know,” I whined. “I‟ll be very careful. I‟ll only do packing, and I

won‟t go up any ladders.”

“That‟s my girl,” he smiled. “I‟ll be home by 5, and then we can officially move

everything into the new house. Are you excited?”

I nodded happily. I was thrilled that we were finally moving in. When we came

back from New Zealand, another couple had attempted to put in a higher bid,

but Edward put a stop to that. I never asked how much we ended up paying for

the house, but Edward assured me that we could more than afford it.

Honestly, I didn‟t care how much we paid for it. I was just overjoyed that it was

ours. The past week, Rose and Alice had been helping me decorate it and

furnish it with whatever we didn‟t already have. We even had a space cleared

for the piano. The nursery wasn‟t done yet, but I wanted to wait until Edward

could help me with it. That was something I wanted us to do together.

Ever since we returned from our honeymoon, there had been rumors around

Edward‟s firm that he was considered being made partner. This would be an

amazing feat, considering he had been with the firm a little over a year and

wasn‟t even 28. (His birthday would be next week.)

So, ever since he told me this, I had been encouraging him to put in more

hours in order to push that rumor into a reality. He acted as if he wanted to

spend more time at home, but I knew being made partner would be a dream

come true for him. He had racked up quite a reputation, and he was starting to

work with very important clients. Sure, I would love for him to spend more

time with me, but I would rather see him get what he wanted. He was still

home by 5 or 6 every night, and perfected balancing out both aspects of his life.

As for me, I was still writing my column, and a big fashion magazine had

sought me out to write a monthly segment about relationships. I don‟t know

why I was suddenly the expert, but they were willing to pay me $4 a word,

which was a lot considering what I would usually be offered. I was fine with

whatever, as long as it meant continuing to work at home. Especially with the

baby coming, I had to stay put.

As I was packing away the books, Rose came over to help me get the ones on

the high shelves. I knew that Edward had had a talk with both Rosalie and

Emmett about making sure I avoided dangerous situations. He had only

become increasingly protective since I became pregnant. And for the longest

time, he would send his babysitters to come over and check on me during the

day. I always joked that he had paid Rose, Emmett, Alice, and Jasper to keep

an eye on me.

“So, why aren‟t Alice and Jasper over here helping you?” Rosalie asked

curiously. “It feels like I haven‟t seen them in forever.”

“Well, Alice is busy with the baby and everything. Plus, I know Jasper has been

working really hard lately. I guess they‟ve been running kind of short the past

few months.”

“Oh,” Rosalie gasped. “I had no idea. Do they need help?”

I shook my head. “We offered, and they refused. They will not take money

from family or friends. But Jasper is working part-time for Edward now. He

got him a job in accounting or something.”

“I feel terrible,” Rosalie whispered. “I mean, how bad is it?”

“It‟s not too horrible. It‟s just that the baby brings up a lot of expenses, and

Alice‟s shopping addiction doesn‟t help. Jasper had to cut her off last week.

Their credit card is hidden somewhere in their house, because he doesn‟t want

her to rack up more charges.”

“That Alice!”

“I know,” I laughed. “But she‟s not that bad. It‟s just the fact that raising a baby

costs money, and they make just enough to do that. They are both adjusting to

making sacrifices right now.”

“Well, I work with Alice. Maybe I can give her some of my overtime, and I can

take the baby for those extra hours while she works. Then she doesn‟t have to

pay extra to the babysitter.”

I put my hand on Rose‟s shoulder. “That would be a really nice thing to do,

Rose. Just make sure you suggest it delicately.”

“Of course,” she nodded. “Besides, I think I should start getting used to babies.

It won‟t be too much longer before Emmett and I start trying.”

I looked at her in shock. “Seriously? You and Emmett are going to try?”

Rose nodded excitedly as I gave her a hug. “That‟s fantastic!”

“I know. We‟ve been talking about it for a while, and the idea is growing on us.

Next month we are going to officially start the process.”

“Oh my God! Rose, what if our babies grow up to be friends? Wouldn‟t that be

amazing?”

“How could they not be?” she laughed. “They are going to be friends whether

they like it or not.”

Suddenly, Emmett came in holding a huge heavy box.

“Hey, a little help here?” he groaned. “This weighs a ton.”

“Sorry,” I shrugged playfully. “No heavy objects, remember?”

He rolled his eyes and Rose hurried over to help him. I sighed. I really wished I

could be of more use to them, but I knew I had to be extra careful now. I was

clumsy enough already, and I couldn‟t risk putting my baby in danger. I

decided to go into the spare room/office to go pack things up in there.

I laughed to myself when I entered the room. It was still that pale blue color I

had painted it when I first moved in. I remembered the short period of time

when I had stayed in that room. That time before Edward and I finally

admitted our feelings for each other. At that time, I was still pretending that I

wasn‟t in love with him. Now, over a year later, I was moving out, going into a

place where Edward and I would be starting a family together.

I sighed and went over to the desk to clean out the drawers. The top one was

mine, where I kept all of my stuff, and the bottom was Edward‟s. I opened his

first, to put them into a safe box. But when I can across a certain cluster of

files, I stopped.

Inside, were a bunch of clippings from the newspaper. When I looked at them

closely, tears almost ran to my eyes.

He had cut out every one of my columns. Everything I ever wrote, he saved.

Even back when we first met, and I was writing those obituaries and wedding

announcements, he kept those as well.

Then I came across our own wedding announcement that had a picture of us,

along with the details of our fake wedding. He had it laminated and placed

prominently in the folder.

I wanted to call him right then. I wanted to cry on the phone and confront him

about how hopelessly touched that I was that he had kept these all this time.

But instead, I closed the folders and put them in the box. I didn‟t want him to

know that I had seen these. This was something personal that he did, because

he loved me. If he would have wanted me to know about it, he would have

showed me his collection of my work.

I smiled and packed away everything in that room. It was little things like that

which reminded me that Edward really did love me and care for me with all of

his heart, and motivated me to move on with my life with him and our baby.

~*~

Edward POV

That night, the movers had taken almost everything over to our new place.

Bella and I decided to stay the night there for the first time, now that the bed

was set up.

While we were clearing up the apartment before we left, one of the movers

came back in to take one of the last boxes. But when Bella came out of the

kitchen, he stopped.

“Hey, Bella, right?” he said with a grin. I didn‟t like the way he was looking at

her.

“Um…yeah,” she hesitantly replied. “Do I know you?”

“Oh, it‟s Mike,” he explained. “I don‟t know if you remember, but I helped you

move in here, like a little over a year ago.”

I looked at Bella, as we remembered at the same time. He gave him his number

when she first moved in. I had been the tiniest bit jealous of him, because he

could be so forward with Bella and I could not. But now, this was just funny.

“Oh yeah,” Bella remembered. “Mike. H-How are you?”

“Good, good,” he nodded. “You never called me.”

Bella started blushing.

“Well, um, things were really busy, and I never really got around to it.”

“Oh,” he said, taking that as an answer. “So, looks like you‟re moving back out.

Are you moving for work or something? How have things been for you lately?”

He eyed me, thinking that I was still just her roommate. This would be fun.

“Actually,” Bella started guiltily. “I kind of got married a few months ago. I‟m

moving into a house with my husband. We‟re expecting a baby.”

Mike‟s eyes went wide. “Oh, wow. That was uh…quick. Where‟s the lucky guy?”

I walked over smugly and put my arm around Bella.

“That would be me,” I smirked. “We got together not long after you made your

last delivery here.”

He was almost speechless. “Well, uh, I guess, congratulations…on the wedding

and the baby and uh everything.”

I nodded and smiled, while Bella gave me a kiss on the cheek. Mike turned

around quickly and finished moving the rest of the boxes.

“Wow,” Bella laughed. “What a difference a little over a year makes.”

“Yeah,” I smiled rubbing her stomach. “So, are you ready to go?”

She sighed and took a final look around, as did I. This was so strange, saying

goodbye to a place that held so many memories. I suddenly took her hand.

I walked her over to where the bookshelf used to be. “Look, this is where I first

realized how amazing you were, when you were telling me how you had read

most of my books. I thought you were so beautiful, even after you had just

survived a fire.”

She laughed and walked me over to where the piano was. “And this is where I

first knew I was in love with you, when you played me that song for the first

time.”

We kept that up for a while, reminiscing in each room of the apartment. Each

one held a memory, one that we both cherished. I smirked and led her into our

old bedroom.

“Well, I guess I don‟t have to tell you what went down in here,” I joked, as she

punched me in the arm. We walked together out towards the balcony.

“This is where I told you that I was pregnant,” she sighed, looking out over the

city. “I have to admit, I‟m going to miss this place, Edward. We‟ve had a lot of

moments here.”

I wrapped my arms around her waist. “Yeah, I know. But think about all the

new memories we‟ll have in our new house. We are going to get to watch our

kids grow up there, running around in the backyard, and having nice family

dinners in that beautiful dining room. We‟ll have nice evenings in front of the

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