***Ladies and gents, after careful consideration and MANY reviews begging for a sequel or to stretch this story out I've opted for the latter. I am rewriting 'Taking a Chance on Life' to make it better and longer... We will see what will happen after the graduation from high school and E & B's life in college with twins. Hopefully it'll all work out like the Epilogue says... hmmmm?***
Chapter One
Never before had a plus sign been the bane of my existence. Up until I'd seen the cursed sign I'd been sure that I had food poisoning, that's why I'd been vomiting so much. And as for my period being late, well I was sure I had just miscounted days. I was positive of all of this until I broke down and bought the pregnancy test in the town next to ours. I was still positive when I drove home and locked myself in the bathroom. I was even more so positive when I peed on the accursed stick. It wasn't until the blasted plus sign came across the little screen that my positiveness flew out the window. I was pregnant... at seventeen.
Thinking back I could have prevented all this. My parents had divorced when I was a little girl and my mom took me to live with her. She hated Forks because it was so rainy and wet so we settled in the driest and hottest place she could think of; Phoenix. I came back most summers to spend with my dad, Charlie, but once I turned thirteen I didn't want to come back anymore. I made him meet me in California for a two week vacation rather than spend my whole summer locked away in the house alone while he played Chief of Police or went fishing. When I turned seventeen my harebrained mom, Renee, had married a much younger semi-pro baseball player named Phil Dwyer. She wanted to go on the road with him so me being the adult like daughter that I was decided to move to the wettest place in the continental U.S., Forks, Washington, to live with Charlie.
I had been in Forks all of two weeks and made one friend, Alice Cullen. She invited me to what was supposed to be an unsupervised beach party behind her house. Her parents were going to be in the house of course but they weren't going to be watching the party. I was not a party person anymore and how she talked me into it I had no clue but she did.
I remember sitting on the logs surrounding the bon fire by the ocean with Alice trying to stay warm when her twin brother and the hottest guy in school, Edward, came up to us.
"Alice, aren't you going to introduce me to your friend?" he asked with a playful smirk gracing his face. His smirk turned into a full lopsided grin melted me right there on the spot.
"Edward, this is Bella. Bella, Edward, my twin brother," she answered turning away from her boyfriend Jasper Whitlock.
"Nice to meet you Edward," I said looking up into his fire lit face.
"Likewise. Need a drink?" he asked.
I had my bottle of water but I didn't want him to leave, "What do you have?"
"Well we got some Gold Shlogger and a little bit of Grey Goose. What'll it be?" he replied with a grin.
"Grey Goose," I answered, "With a chaser?"
"Coming right up," he smirked before turning to head towards the cooler and keg stand that was hidden in the brush.
He came back with a plastic cup of beer and the bottle of Grey Goose in one hand while holding another plastic cup of beer and the bottle of Gold Shlogger in the other.
"I thought we'd go shot for shot?" he said as he straddled the log I was sitting on.
I eyed him, "Think you can handle it?"
"I know I can, Bella. Can you?" he asked narrowing his eyes at me.
"I can definitely handle this," I replied snatching the beer and the bottle from him.
I chugged at least a double shot into my gullet then chased it with the beer. That shit burned going down but I wouldn't have given him the satisfaction of knowing that so I smiled brightly.
"Your turn," I grinned.
He chugged his own double shot and chaser then smiled back, "I think this is the beginning of a wonderful night."
The next few hours we spent trading jibes at each other while going shot for shot on our bottles. Several plastic cups of beer and the bottles of liquor later Edward convinced me to take a walk down the private beach. We stumbled our way down the rocky beach to a secluded cove.
"Ya know Beller, I tink you are one hot chick," he slurred.
I cackled, "Beller?"
"What? That's your name right?" he asked still slurring his words.
"Sur-re," I replied slurring my own.
"Sit with me," he said as he slumped down onto the ground.
I clumsily fell down beside him only to be pulled closer to him until our thighs were touching.
"I tink your a purty cool chick," he mumbled into my hair.
Somehow his face went from being in my hair to his lips being on my neck to his lips being on my lips. Before I knew it we were all out making out in the sandy gravel.
"God, I want you so bad Bella," he mumbled against my lips.
I had no inhibitions at that point because I actually told him, "Then take me."
He raised his head up and looked at me with glassy eyes, "Are you sure?"
I rolled him over, straddled his hips, and mumbled "I'm positive."
Slowly our clothes were peeled away and he rolled me back onto the gravelly sand.
"Think we can put something under me?" I asked sitting back up.
He pulled his sweat shirt out of the pile of clothes and spread it out for me to lie down on. He laid down half on top of me and began making quick work of my breasts, making sure to perk up each nipple. He used his hand to work magic on the apex of my thighs. Just when I thought I'd explode from all the sensations he stopped.
"Wha-" I cried causing him to chuckle as he set himself between my legs.
"Just relax," he whispered soothingly.
I laid my head back on the ground and felt his cock at my entrance. Slowly he slid in my moist heat and it felt like I was whole. It was such a weird experience so I just chalked it up to being drunk. He began to set a steady pace of thrusting in and out of me.
"God, Bella... ugh... you feel so good," he grunted as he moved along my body.
I realized I was just laying there like a bump on a log so I began meeting him thrust for thrust. I was making my own whimpers and moans as the waves crashed on the shore. Edward picked up his pace driving me to a near frenzy.
"Oh, God!" I cried as I came around his cock clamping down on him.
He tensed moments later and thrusted two more times before he spilled his seed inside of me. After nearly collapsing on me he rolled over to lay beside me and pulled on his boxers. I laid there quietly for what seemed like forever then finally I managed a whisper.
"Edward?" I croaked.
He didn't answer so I looked over at him and he was out like a light snoring softly. I took my chance and jumped up, nearly falling over in my still drunken state, to grab my clothes. I dressed quickly and walked back toward the bonfire.
"Where'd you run off to?" Alice called as I came into view.
"Just for a walk. Listen, I'm going to head home, okay?" I said as I got up to her.
"You sure?" she asked warily.
"Yep, thank you for inviting me," I said as I scooped up my water bottle.
I managed the drive home safely but I wouldn't have ever told Charlie I was driving under the influence. That was just stupid to begin with and telling him wasn't smart either. The next few weeks flew by until I realized I didn't have food poisoning and that I hadn't miscounted the days on my period's due date. I could make up many excuses as to how it all happened; blaming Renee for leaving Charlie, for marrying Phil and going on the road. I could blame myself for going shot for shot with Edward, for not saying 'No' or 'Dude put a condom on'.
My lamest excuse was I was drunk. That wasn't an excuse. I should have known better, but there I was seventeen, a junior a Forks High School with a 4.0 grade point average and junior editor of the school paper. I was on the fast track to the scholarship I wanted to Dartmouth but it was all going out the window. I couldn't in good conscience 'get rid of it'... that's just not me. I'm sure it works for other women but not me and knowing that I have a child in the world... eh. I don't know about that.
So ten minutes after taking the blasted test I'd resigned myself to fact that I was having a baby and keeping it. Now I just needed to tell him. Therein lies the problem. We didn't necessarily hang out in the same crowd. He was the star of the baseball team and I'm sure he got okay grades, I'd never seen him crack a book in my two months here in Forks though. He was surrounded by the most beautiful girls and basically the cool kids. I, Bella Swan, police chief's daughter was merely a fly on the wall compared to Edward Cullen, Chief of Staff at Forks General's, son.
I wouldn't have even told him except that it was bound to get around the school, let alone the town. Alice asked me about it the next day as did many people at school. I hadn't been seen with any other guys at school. Now here's the rub, he was going to want true confirmation that I was indeed pregnant, not just my word. I guess I was going to have to go to the doctor.
Two days later I parked my blue Malibu in the parking lot outside the local free clinic and breathed. It was going to be fine. Just breathe. I got out of the car and the drizzle that was falling that mid November was fairly normal. I brushed the dampness off when I walked into the building and walked to the window.
"May I help you?" the receptionist asked through the speaker.
"I was under the impression I didn't need an appointment for pregnancy confirmation," I said into the speaker. I was the only one in the waiting room.
"No, you don't. Just sign in and fill out these forms," she said putting a clipboard through the slot in the window.
I signed in and sat down with the clipboard. Fifteen minutes and what seemed like a thousand sheets of paper later I handed the clipboard back through the slot.
"Do you have a picture ID?" she asked.
"Yes, but I'm a minor," I said.
"That's fine. We still need a picture ID," she said.
I let out a whoosh of air I hadn't realized I was holding in as I handed her my driver's license. She made a copy and handed it back just a nurse came out of the door to my left.
"Ms. Swan, you can come back." she said.
I followed her to a chair in the hallway where she instructed me to take my heavy coat off so she could take my blood pressure. Once she blew the cuff up it was tight around my arm and caused my left hand to tingle.
"One hundred twenty over eighty-two," she said as she wrote it in my chart.
"Is that normal?" I asked.
"Perfect," she said with a smile as she pressed her fingers to my wrist. "Pulse is a little high 114. Nervous?"
"You don't know the half of it," I muttered.
She laughed, "You'll be fine. You wanna step on the scale for me?"
I hated scales. I wasn't fat, far from it. I was one of those girls that was a bean pole. I had no curves. I couldn't gain weight if I tried, though I stepped on the scale.
"One hundred and ten," she said.
"Are you kidding?" I exclaimed.
"Is that good or bad?" she asked hesitantly.
"Amazingly good! I weighed 99 pounds six weeks ago. I thought with all the vomiting I'd have lost more weight," I said smiling as I hopped off the scale.
She wrote the number in the chart laughing then led me to an exam room.
"Have a seat, Ms. Swan," she said sitting down on the swivel chair as I sat in the chair by the desk, "What brings you in today?"
"I'm a week late, I've been vomiting and not just in the morning. Whoever called it morning sickness was sadly mistaken. My boobs are killing me and the home test I took two days ago came back positive," I said rambling a bit.
"Did you have unprotected sex?" she asked.
I hung my head, ashamed and nodded my head then quickly added, "I didn't know what I was doing. I mean I did but I didn't if that makes any sense."
She nodded her head and said, "And I take it you're not on birth control?"
I hung my head, "Well I just moved here from Phoenix two months ago and I got sick. I was on antibiotics at the time I had the unprotected sex and well..."
She simply nodded her head, "I understand. Do you know the date of your last menstrual cycle?"
I thought for a second then said, "Even on my birth control they are so erratic. I'd like to say the beginning of October sometime but I don't really know. I just know its been the longest its ever been between periods and with all the symptoms and the unprotected sex then with the positive test I'd just like a definite yes or no, you know?"
She smiled, "The doctor is going to examine you and depending on the exam on the outcome of the urine test he'll want to do an ultrasound to determine your due date. Go to the bathroom and give me a specimen then come back here and undress from the waist down."
I nodded and followed her to the restroom. Of course my bladder turned shy and it took ten minutes to finally pee but once I started it was like I couldn't stop. I peed in the cup then peed in the toilet for like another twelve years. When I was finally done I cleaned up and left the bathroom. The nurse came into the bathroom after me as I walked back into the exam room. There was some paper waist gowns on the exam table so I quickly undressed from the waist down and covered up.
After what seemed like an eternity there was a knock on the door and then the doctor came in.
"Ms. Swan?" a very handsome blond man in a white lab coat asked.
I nodded my head, he looked vaguely familiar, and shook his hand.
"I'm Dr. Cullen," he said.
"You're the doctor here?" I asked in shock. There was no way I was going to let my kid's grandfather look at me... down there.
"Yes, I work here one weekend a month. You just happened to catch me on my weekend. I understand you believe you may be pregnant?" he said looking over my chart.
Still in shock, I simply nodded my head.
"Does the potential father know?" he asked.
I shook my head and finally found my voice again, "That's kind of why I'm here. I wanted definitive proof before I told him. I didn't want him to think I was lieing."
"Ah, good idea. Now you know that anything that is said in this room stays here... so tell me what happened?" he said leaning over his desk to write in his chart.
"Well to be truthful, your daughter Alice talked me into going to your son's beach party. I met...er..umm..." I couldn't find the words.
"This happened at the beach behind my house?" he asked turning to me.
I nodded.
"Not that long ago?" he asked.
"About four weeks I think... why?" I asked searching his face.
"Because that party wasn't as unsupervised as you all thought. My wife and I were in our room upstairs watching the whole thing. Alice was surrounded by all of Edwards friends of course and I couldn't find Edward. I remember that party very well. I don't remember you there," he said looking me straight in the eye.
It took every ounce of energy I had to look away to say, "I was with Edward."
Dr. Cullen hung his head, "Oh, God."
"I didn't plan this, Dr. Cullen. I swear... We were drinking..." at that he shot off of the swivel chair and groaned, "I was on birth control but I just moved here and I'm not used to the weather so I got sick and I was on antibiotics. You know what happens with birth control and antibiotics and since we were both drinking we didn't use any protection." I said as tears pricked my eyes. It was the first time I was allowing myself to cry.
He was pacing the exam room. After a few more paces he stopped and turned to me.
"We'll just pretend you didn't tell me this. If there was another doctor I'd hand your case over but there's not," he said as he sat back down on the swivel chair.
He went about the exam and within minutes I heard him sigh heavily.
"Is everything okay?" I asked.
"Yes, Bella. Everything is fine," he said as he moved back and lowered my legs, "I was hoping that the urine test results were wrong but based on my pelvic exam I'd say your about five to six weeks pregnant."
I sat up, "Does that mean you're going to tell Edward?"
"No, Bella. I'll leave that up to you, but I would like for you to tell him soon. I don't want to lie to my son," he said.
"I will," I said nodded.
"Now, I'd like to go ahead and do an internal ultrasound just to make sure every things okay." he said.
"Is there a reason why?" I asked.
"Humor me? As the grandparent I'm allowed to be overcautious," he said with a smile.
He left the room and a few minutes later returned with a large machine on wheels. He plugged it in and turned it on. He then pulled an actual condom over the wand then squirted gel over the end and sat back down at my feet. I assumed I was to lay back down so I did. Man was that thing uncomfortable. He turned the screen in between the two of us and pointed out the 'sac', the beginnings of the placenta, and the embryo.
"There's only one right?" I said struggling to see what he'd been trained to see on the screen.
He laughed, "Yes, there's only one. And based on measurements I'd put your due date around July 13th."
"That long?" I asked looking at the screen.
"It's the perfect length... trust me," he said as he pulled the evil wand out of me. He unplugged the machine and pushed it outside the exam room then sat back down in the swivel chair.
"Bella, I'm sure you know your options but as your doctor its my obligation to remind you of them..." he started.
I put my hand up to stop him, "I appreciate it, Dr. Cullen. I've all ready thought about what I'm going to do. If I do anything its keeping it or giving it up for adoption. I just don't know if I could give away my child if I'm perfectly able to take care of it. I know it'll be hard but plenty of people do it all the time at younger ages than me and well... I want to think about it."
"Thank God," he said giving a sigh of relief.
"You thought I'd..." I said unable to finish the sentence.
"I couldn't bear the thought," he said shaking his head.
"I could never do that, Dr. Cullen. I'm sure for other women it's fine but not for me," I said shaking my own head.
"Bella, I think now you can call me Carlisle," He said with a warm smile.
"We don't know what Edward's going to say," I said apprehensively.
He smile faded, "Would you like me to vouch for you?"
I thought for a minute. It might be better if his own dad told him and not some random girl he never talked to afterward, but then he might resent me for it... maybe if we did it together?
"Do you think we could tell him together? Like both of us tell him... just you and me? You there more so as to back up the fact that I am indeed pregnant?" I asked.
"That would be fine... when would you like to tell him?" he asked.
"I'm feeling very brave today," I said with a light smile.
"You're lucky that it's my lunch break too," he said smiling back, "I'll give you a ride back to the house. I'm sure Edward is just waking up."
With that he left the room and I dressed. He'd printed off a picture of the blobs on the screen from the ultrasound and I was sitting in the chair looking at the blobs when he came back into the room.
"You ready Bella?" he asked poking his head into the exam room hesitantly.
"Yeah," I said standing up and following him outside. The drizzle at turned to a sleeting rain and Carlisle, as I was calling him now, opened an umbrella for me. He chirped his silver sports car, pressed another button which started it, then opened the passenger door for me as I slid onto the soft leather seat. He reached down beside me and hit a button on the side of the seat before closing the door. He slid in beside me in the drivers seat after putting the umbrella in the backseat and we backed out of the parking spot.
Within minutes my bottom was very warm and I realized that Carlisle had turned on the seat warmer. We sat in silence until we pulled up the rather long driveway to the massive house. It was three stories and had window walls.
"You live here?" I asked flabbergasted.
"Yeah, it was big enough when Rosalie still lived with us but now that she's off at school it's too big for just the four of us. I'm looking for something smaller," he said as he parked the car then turned it off.
I sat in the car as he got out and walked around to open my door. I still sat there while he waited.
"You coming Bella?" he asked.
"I think I lost my nerve," I said shaking.
"You're going to be fine," he said putting his hand out.
I took in a shaky breath and grabbed his hand. I stepped out of the car and followed him up and into the house.
"Esme, I'm home," he called through the house.
"In the kitchen," a melodic voice called back.
I followed him around the corner into a large gourmet kitchen and found Alice, Edward, and a beautiful caramel hair colored and green eyed woman waiting.
"Oh, who is this?" the woman asked.
"Esme, this is Bella Swan. Charlie Swan's daughter?" Carlisle said as he put his arm around his wife's waist.
I was trying desperately to avoid eye contact with Edward, "Hi."
"Hello, Bella. What brings you here?" she asked nicely. "Are you hungry?"
My stomach growled but I ignored it, "No thank you."
"She's here with me. Edward, I need to speak with you in my study in ten minutes. Bella, would you follow me?" Carlisle said looking at his son who was staring me down.
I followed Carlisle down a long hallway then into a massive room then promptly began to hyperventilate.
"Calm down Bella," Carlisle said.
"I... can't... do... this..." I said between breaths.
He put his hands on either side of my face, "Breathe... in through your nose... good now out through your mouth... slowly."
Slowly I calmed down and he sat me down in a chair in front of the desk just as Edward came into the study.
"Dad, you wanted... what's going on?" he asked looked from me to his father.
"Sit down Edward," Carlisle said as he moved to sit on the opposite side of the desk.
Edward sat down in the chair offered to him beside me and I really took notice of how beautiful he was. His bronze hair stuck up at different angles while his green eyes glistened in the light from the study. He wore a plain black tee shirt and a pair of jeans with a pair of red converse.
"Bella has something she would like to tell you," Carlisle said putting his hands together.
Edward turned to me and I could of sworn he winked.
"I..." I couldn't think. Why would wink at me?
"Bella?" Edward asked.
I stuttered and stammered for a few minutes before I finally thrust the printed ultrasound picture at him.
"What's this?" he said taking it.
"A baby," I murmured.
"I figured that much but why are you showing it to me?" he asked handing it back to me.
"Well... remember that beach party you had about a month ago?"I asked.
He nodded and even lifted his lips in a quick smile.
"Do you remember what happened that night?" I asked completely confused.
"I remember taking some liquor from my dad's cabinet and then hanging out with some girl the rest of the night. The next thing I know I woke up half naked the next morning on the beach," he said.
"We'll talk about the liquor later, son." Carlisle said calmly.
"Well, that girl you hung out with that night was me," I said looking down.
"And?" he asked.
"We had sex... and I'm pregnant," I said.
"Whoa!" He said jumping up and backwards knocking the chair over and falling into a bookcase.
"Are you okay Edward?" Carlisle asked jumping out of his chair.
Edward shot up off of the floor, "Yeah, yep. I'm good."
He put the chair right and sat back down.
"You're pregnant? And it's mine?" he asked.
"Yes and yes." I said.
"Are you sure?" he asked looking from me to his dad.
"Well, she says she was only with you and you admit to being with a girl that night. She is indeed pregnant and the timelines match up so I'd believe her," Carlisle said calmly.
"Wow..." Edward said running his hands through his hair.
"I'm going to leave you two to talk. I promised Bella I'd vouch for her and I've done my part," Carlisle said as he got up from his desk then left the room.
We were quiet for a few minutes before he said, "I remember everything."
"Then why act like you didn't?" I asked angry.
"Because... I didn't want my dad to know but obviously he knew so there was no point," he said putting his ebows on his knees.
"Why did you wink at me? And smile?" I asked getting angrier by the second.
"Well, I wanted to hook up again but I guess that's out of the question." he said with a small laugh.
I scoffed, "I can't believe you."
"What?" he asked looking over at me.
I shot up out of the chair, "You are just a cocky little bastard aren't you? You think because your family is loaded and because you're good looking and you're good at sports that you are entitled to... I don't know... stuff..." I was so mad I couldn't think straight.
"Stuff?" he asked obviously amused.
"Don't laugh at me... You don't deserve anything I have to give you let alone this baby," I said as I moved to leave.
He grabbed my arm, "Wait, Bella. I'm sorry."
"Don't touch me. It's your fault I'm in this position anyways," I said jerking my arm out of his strong grasp.
"Excuse me? I'm not the one who straddled the other!" he practically shouted at me.
"I did not!" I said pointing at him. "You brought out the liquor and that makes me do things I'm not used to doing! So it's your fault!"
"I didn't make you drink, Bella," he said smiling.
I started to speak and then I realized he was right... he didn't make me drink. I wanted to impress him that night. I wanted everything that happened that night to happen minus the fertilization of my egg by his sperm and the subsequent implantation of said egg.
I gasped and burst into tears. I cried and cried and cried some more before he finally pulled me into his arms. God, he smelled just like I remembered. I clung to his chest and sobbed into his chest for what seemed like an eternity. Finally the tears dried up and he sat me back in the chair I'd jumped out of. He returned to his seat after pulling it closer to me.
"Now, what do you want to do about this?" he asked.
"I don't know... I can't... do... you know?" I said.
"Good... that's something I can't really wrap my head around," he said with a smile.
"I'd like to keep the baby if I can. I know I still have another year of high school left but I really want to keep it. I don't think I could survive giving my child to strangers," I said shaking my head.
"It's your choice. I support you," he said.
"No, what do you want to do?" I asked.
He sighed and thought for a minute before he said, "It doesn't really matter what I want Bella."
"Yes it does. It matters to me," I said.
He smiled, "I don't think I could give my child to strangers either."
I smiled back.
"So where does this leave us?" he asked.
"I guess you be as involved as you'd like. Your dad is my doctor so its not like I can keep any secrets... I just have one condition." I said.
"What's that?" he asked.
"I don't want anyone at school to know," I said.
"Why?" he asked.
"I just moved here, no one knows me, and all of a sudden I wind up pregnant by the most popular boy in school? Yeah if that's not perfect I don't know what is," I said rolling my eyes.
"Its not like you planned this, Bella," he said smiling.
"I know that... but I'm all ready trying to fit in and this is going to make it harder," I said.
"They'll find out soon," he said.
"I'll handle it then," I said.
"What about your dad?" He asked.
"That's a conversation I have to have alone," I said.
"Why?" he asked.
"My dads the police chief, Edward. He's gonna be pissed," I said smiling a bit.
"What if I came with you?" he asked.
"No way... you want to be alive right?" I asked.
"How about if my dad and I came?" he offered.
I thought for a minute and said, "That actually might work. Your dad might keep him calm."
"Then let's go," he said jumping out of his chair and grabbing my hand.
He half drug me back down the hallway into the kitchen where his mother was waiting.
"Edward Anthony Cullen!" she said briskly. "I thought that as a physician's son you'd be careful. That if we taught you about the facts of life early and the right way that you'd not be in this situation. Not that I blame you Bella dear."
Edward stood there and took the lecture from his mother all the while holding my hand tightly. Finally she turned to me.
"Bella, you are always welcome here. After all, you're having my grandchild," she said before pulling me into her arms. Edward never let go of my hand.
"Dad, Bella and I were wondering if you'd come with us to tell Chief Swan," Edward said to his father.
"Of course, I have a little bit more time before I have to be back at the clinic," he said. "Let's take my car to the clinic then we'll follow Bella back to her house."
A few minutes later we were all climbing back into the sports car this time I was in the back seat. Within minutes I knew I was going to be sick. I tried to breathe and to keep it in but I could feel every turn and swerve on the wet road. Edward turned to look at me and must of noticed how green I was because he told his father to pull over. Carlisle quickly pulled to the side of the country road and jumped out as I pushed his seat up and jumped out of the car. I took no more than five more steps and my oatmeal from that morning came back up. This is what I meant about morning sickness being not so in the morning. Just when I thought I was done, I took the napkin offered by Edward to wipe my face, I began again. I must have stood there on the side of the road for fifteen minutes vomiting until I was dry heaving nothing up.
Eventually it stopped. I wiped my face and turned back to the car.
"I'm going to write you a script for anti nausea medicine," Carlisle said. "Sit in the front seat."
Edward crammed his tall frame into the backseat of the sports car and I slid in the front seat for the remainder of the trip back to the clinic. Once we'd arrived I got out of Carlisle's car as did Edward.
"What are you doing?" I asked as I walked to my car.
"I'm driving to your house. You just puked your brains out, no way am I letting you drive," he said taking my keys out of my hand.
I tried to swipe them back, "I'm perfectly capable of driving."
"Just let him drive you, Bella," I heard Carlisle call from his car.
I sighed and climbed into the passenger seat of my car which was really weird for me. Edward turned the engine over and turned the heat on full blast then followed Carlisle to my house. We pulled into the driveway behind the cruiser while Carlisle parked his car on the street. I was breathing heavy as I got out of the car.
"Bella, don't do this again, you can do this," Carlisle said as he came over to the car.
"I can do this. I can do this. I can do this," I chanted as I walked up the walkway and then the stairs.
"Bells?" Charlie called through the house then appeared from around the corner.
"Hey dad," I said as all three of us walked into the living room.
"What's going on here, Bella?" Charlie asked.
"Dad, sit down. There's something I'd like to tell you," I said pointing to his laz-e-boy.
He reluctantly sat down, "What are they doing here?"
"Dr. Cullen and Edward are here for support, dad. I need to talk to you," I said.
"What do you mean? For support?" He asked.
"Dad, stop. Just listen to me for a minute!" I shouted.
"I'm listening Bells. I'm listening," he said putting his hands up in defeat.
"Dad..." I began, "I don't know how to say this, but I'm pregnant." I said.
His face drained of color then turned bright red and then turned purple. Slowly he stood up.
"Cullen's the father?" he asked through clenched teeth.
"Dad, you need to calm down," I said putting my hands on his shoulders.
"Bella, you need to get your hands off of me now," He said angrily.
I backed away. I'd never seen him this way.
"Charlie, I know how you feel. I was just as angry as you but there's nothing we can do about it now. What's been done has been done," Carlisle said in a quite feeble attempt at calming Charlie down.
I thought Charlie was going to kill Edward but instead he went upstairs and I quickly followed him. He went into my room and pulled my suitcase from under the bed and turned to my dresser and began throwing my clothes inside the suitcase.
"Dad! What are you doing?" I shouted. I ran to him and tried to stop him but he was full of rage and practically threw me across the room with one arm. When the crash reached the downstairs Edward took the staircase three and four stairs at a time. I was in a ball in what had been my rocking chair from my nursery but was now splintered wood.
Charlie continued packing my clothes then grabbed my laptop, phone charger and my shelf of personal items from the bathroom then took them downstairs. He literally shoved them at Carlisle.
"She's your problem now," he said.
"You can't mean that?" Carlisle said.
"I can and I do. I won't have her here. She's not welcome in my house. If I've forgotten anything she can come back next week and get it," Charlie said then walked into the kitchen and sat down at the kitchen table with a PBR.
Edward carried me downstairs against my protests that I was fine.
"Is she okay?" Carlisle asked.
"She says she's fine, but I want you to make sure," Edward said. "She's not staying here."
"No she's not. Charlie has kicked her out," Carlisle said before picking my stuff up and carrying it outside.
Edward followed and put me in the passenger side of my car and then slid into the drivers side and backed out of the drive way.
"I really should go back and give him a taste of his own medicine," he said.
"Don't... it's not worth it. He's just angry. He'll calm down." I said as I began to feel the bruises that I knew were forming on my back and legs.
"You're pregnant and he's going to practically throw you across the room! What if something had happened to the baby?" he shouted.
"I'm fine... the baby is fine." I said. "Just drive. I got some money. I'll stay at the motel for a few days until I can get ahold of my mom."
"And then what? You're going to leave?" he asked.
"I'll go where ever she's at," I said.
"What about me?" he asked then added, "I mean I thought you were going to let me be involved?"
I sighed, "I completely forgot about you. I'm sorry."
He smiled, "It's been a long day. We're going to go back to my house and get some food then we'll figure everything out."
We pulled in the driveway and he opened the door for me. He flanked me and wouldn't let me walk into the house alone. Esme was waiting with a first aid kit, I assumed Carlisle called her on the way back to the house.
"Come with me Bella," she said and I followed her into another room where she closed the door behind us. "I figured you might be more comfortable without Carlisle or Edward."
I nodded.
"Are you bleeding anywhere?" she asked.
"I think my back I just don't know how badly," I said pulling my coat off.
"You might have to take your shirt off," she said.
I pulled my shirt over my head and twisted to see the wound.
"Its only bleeding a little. I'm so sorry you're going through this, Bella," Esme said as she tended to the cut on my back.
"Eh..." I said as I winced.
"Bella, you don't have to be so strong," Esme said turning me to looking into my eyes.
I looked into her eyes and somehow I knew it would be okay if I let go. So I did. I really let go. I cried my eyes out. I bawled like a baby and everyone in that house knew it. I assume Carlisle kept everyone out because no one bothered Esme and I. She held me like a mother would and when I was heaving from the sobs she was brushing my hair away from my face. I kept my back to her and eventually she went back to tending my wound. When she was done I laid there in my bra and let her brush my hair back. After awhile there was a knock on the door.
"Bella?" Alice said poking her head into the room.
I sat up and pulled my coat around my upper body.
"Dad had me change the sheets on my big sister's bed for you. Your suitcase is all ready in the bedroom," she said then she left the room.
I put the coat down then pulled my shirt on and stood up.
"Thank you, Mrs. Cullen," I said.
"Call me Esme," she said.
"Esme," I said with a smile then I left the room. Edward was waiting outside the room and escorted me up to the second floor.
"That's Alice's room," he said pointing to the room to the immediate left of the stair case. We went around the landing and he pointed out two room almost directly beside each other, "This is my room and that's Roses', where you'll sleep."