All Grown Up: The Story of Jacob and Renesmee Part I

Mini Chapter: Anthony

Anthony

"Borrow?" Swan kept picking up my blocks and asking me. I let her, but I don't think she really knew what that meant. I hadn't gotten any of them back yet. I got tired of Swan "borrowing" my blocks while I was trying to use them, so I asked Aunt Alice if I could go upstairs. I was glad she'd said yes.

Even then, I knew my new sisters were sick. Xandra, the bigger one, didn't have things on her face anymore, and she only had one wire left. Mollie still had things on her face, but the really big one was gone. Xandra didn't have to be in the box anymore, she had a crib now. Grandpa had put it right next to Mollie's box in Mommy and Daddy's new room. I wasn't sure what they were going to do with the old one. Maybe Grandpa and Grandma would sleep in there. Aunt Rachel would go to sleep when she was here, but nobody else did. I guess because they didn't have their own place to sleep since Aunt Rachel's was on the couch. Soon I wondered if we would need a lot more rooms. There were a lot of people here. I liked them all, but I liked spending all day with Mommy better. Daddy didn't leave to go fix the cars at work anymore, but I still didn't get to play with him very much.

"Incoming!" Uncle Jasper called out as I was walking up the stairs. I didn't have to hold anybody's hand, I was allowed to go by myself. When I went into the room Mommy was sitting in Daddy's lap with her head on his chest. He said hi to me as he was picking Mommy up, and sitting her next to him. I think he liked to pick her up. He did it a lot when she had babies in her tummy. But Mollie and Xandra were not in there anymore.

"Hey buddy," Mom said opening her arms. I was allowed to sit in her lap again now and I was glad. So I climbed into it, and she wrapped her warm arms around me. "I'm happy you came up to see me, I was missing you," she said running her fingers through my hair. I liked it when she did that.

"I miss you, Mommy," I told her.

"I'm sorry, honey. I know things are different now, but they will go back to normal soon. Everybody will go back to their own house and it'll be just us, Daddy, and your sisters." I hugged her tightly, I liked the sound of that.

"Who could that be?" Mommy asked him. 

He just smiled at her. I could hear the gravel in the driveway crunching. It was a car. That meant it was one of Daddy's brothers. Maybe it's Seth? I like Seth. Or maybe Uncle Solomon He always came over with Aunt Rebecca and Forrest. Or it could be Grandpa Charlie and Grandpa Billy too. Mommy sniffed the air, so I did too. I couldn't tell who it was though. I knew Mommy and Daddy's smells, my sisters, everybody's. My sisters smelled the same. Not Swan, but the babies. Also, they looked like they were the same person. There are two of them, but only one me, and only one Swan. I don't know why though.

Mommy got off the couch and when she did Daddy put his hand on the small of her back. When she got to the window she took a deep breath in.

"Jake, it's huge!" she said. I ran to the window and since I was too short to see out of it, I jumped up and grabbed on to Daddy's legs. In our driveway was a really big car. It was big, and shiny, and white. And big.

"Wow," I said. I dropped down and ran out of the room. Down the stairs, past Swan who was with Uncle Jasper, and I jumped up to turn the doorknob. When I pushed the door open, Aunt Alice was on the other side of it. I jumped, I had almost run right into her.

She smiled as she picked me up. Swan shoved past us to see what was going on. She shoved too much. "I knew, I knew!" she was screaming and pointing at the car as it was coming off the big truck. She screamed too much. And I really don't think she knew. But Aunt Alice was glad, so was Uncle Jasper. "Well done!" Aunt Alice told her. "You two stay here next to Uncle Jasper. Mommy wants me to sit with your sisters for just a minute."

So we did and then Mommy and Daddy came outside. She still walked like she did when she had the babies in her tummy, slowly, and she was holding Daddy's hand.

"Carmen especially I think will get a kick out of it," Mommy said. Carmen said a lot of funny words that made me laugh when she talked to me, and she smelled nice too.

Daddy asked, "What do you guys think of our new car? It's a Denali."

"So big!" Swan said. I nodded.

"Is there a TV in there?" I asked.

I don't think Mommy knew, because she looked at Daddy. "Yup, it has all the cool stuff Mommy's little car has. We just needed a new one that had room for all of us!"

Mommy wanted to sit in the car, as she climbed in she told Daddy she didn't need any help, but he still kept his hand on her back. I don't think he was pushing her up though. He was just doing what Mommy did to me if I was climbing on something outside. When she got in she smiled and waved to us. She made the window go down and Daddy went up to the window and gave her a kiss.

"I do love you in white," he said.

I wanted to see inside it, so I asked Daddy if I could. He said yes and opened the door. Swan climbed in with Mommy, but that wasn't what I'd meant. I ran around to the front of the car. "No, here," I said.

"Ohh," Daddy said. He picked me up so that I'd be able to see, and he told Mommy how to pop the hood. I heard a little noise and then he lifted up the hood.

I'd seen the inside of the other cars. The Rabbit was the coolest one. It was the one that he built! He said he used to ride around with Grandma in that car all the time. He took me for a ride up and down the driveway in it one time.

"Here's where you put the oil, and this is the battery here..." Daddy showed me all the parts of the car. The inside parts were as big as the outside ones.

"What would you think about going for a swim today, big guy?" Daddy asked me.

"Good idea," I said. I liked to swim. I didn't really need floaties, but I had to wear them. Except for that one time, just Daddy and I went swimming when Mommy was taking a nap.

Daddy came swimming with me, so did Uncle Jasper. Daddy wanted Mommy to swim too, but she said, "Not today," and stayed upstairs with Aunt Alice. Swan never came in the pool, Aunt Rose did only sometimes. Those two liked to sit in chairs with sunglasses on and try to make their skin darker. I think they wanted to look like Daddy more.

I was having fun in the pool so I thought my other sisters would too. But Daddy said they were too little.

"When they are older, like Swan, they will be able to play with us," he promised.

Hopefully, those two wouldn't take all my blocks too, or I wouldn't have any left!