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The characters do not belong to me, but to Stephanie Meyer, and I would rather not repeat that every chapter so I'll just say it once now!
(All human, when I say hunting, I mean like actually hunting birds, etc.)
Bella paced around the kitchen of her and Edward's new Portland apartment. The sunny walls should have cheered her up, but the ominous skies cancelled out any chance of happiness. Rain fell swiftly from the dark grey clouds that had been accumulating for the past four days. Four days. Four days since Edward had been gone on his hunting trip with Emmett and Jasper. Four days and a year since she and Edward had been married. Fourteen days that she had been late for her period. Four hours since she had taken a pregnancy test.
That test was still sitting in a cup in her bathroom. She couldn't bring herself to view the results quite yet. As the rain continued to drench the street below, Bella poured herself a coffee mug full of tea she had been brewing intermittently for the last four hours. Edward was due to get home tonight, and Bella was most certainly not prepared for his arrival.
He left the morning after their one-year anniversary for his hunting trip. Luckily, this trip was not only a hunting trip but also a boy's camping weekend. The three brothers wanted to fish and hunt and camp out and be away from their wives for a peaceful few days of boys fun before returning to their husbandly duties. In this case, Bella was seriously missing her some Edward.
He was expected to return around 8pm that night, and Bella looked at the clock that read only 3:51pm. She had cleaned the house from top to bottom, switched Edward's summer and winter clothes out, being the middle of April, he would need less sweaters and more shorts. She reorganized her shoes, pushing the stilettos Alice had given her aside for her Sperry's and Doc Martens that she found to be much more stable (not to mention, comfortable). She had Lysoled the bathroom, chosen a new pattern for the curtains in the dining room, and polished her grandmother's silver that had been left to her when she passed away last year.
Bella finally sat down at the bar in the kitchen to deliberate. Her constant rush and burst of busyness had pushed the impending topic from her mind, but now she had to deliberate. Carlisle said this could happen, after the transformation. He said that her cycle would stay and there was a chance of her becoming pregnant. He had said the chances were slim, and not to put too much hope into the subject. Edward and Bella had already filed the adoption papers, in fact. They were trying to adopt. She couldn't be pregnant just yet. Would Edward be happy? Was she even pregnant?
She didn't want to be the one to look at the test. Edward would want to be there for that. She was too nervous anyway. That is such a life-changing thing, pregnancy. This was too big of a step or a decision or an event for her to take in by herself. If she was pregnant, Edward would want to be there when she found out, and if she was not pregnant, Edward would want to be there to know just the same. There was no point in even looking at the test without him. Bella was not one to try and form some cutesy way of telling her husband after finding out the news. She didn't want to put balloons with "It's a Boy" and "It's A Girl!" at the front door in hopes that he would understand. She didn't want to carpaint his car, or buy him a baby outfit or just yell and scream at him in order for him to figure out the were expecting. Bella wasn't like that. Pregnant or not, happy or not, Edward should be the one to read the test. And he was going to have to read it tonight. Little did he know the things that would face him upon returning from a relaxing weekend away being a boy.
Bella looked at the clock. 7:59. She got up off the bed, pulled up her jeans that were getting a little too baggy around the waist and pulled her hoodie over her head. She wasn't looking too nice for Edward's return, but at the same time, she didn't feel so hot either. She waited for the door to open.
Exactly one minute later, Edward came in the door to a sweet aroma that could only be described as the beauty of his wife's cooking. She had prepared macaroni and cheese with grilled chicken and Caesar salad, his favorite dish. He could smell the brownies baking from all the way out in the hallway, and he planted a big kiss on Bella as he dropped his bags by the bedroom door.
"Good evening beautiful lady." He said as he took her face in his hands.
"Hey there baby. I sure have missed you." Bella said back, surprising even herself by the cheesy reunion. It was harder having Edward gone than she would have been able to imagine before marriage!
"How's it going? Dinner smells great!" Edward said, following his nose to the kitchen.
Bella smiled. She knew he would want to know before he ate dinner so she held back by the bedroom door.
"Are you coming babe?" Edward shouted from the kitchen. Bella just shook her head as she yelled back, "Actually, Eddy, there's something I think we should talk about."
Edward's ears perked up at the mention of needing to talk. That could only mean two things: he had done something wrong or Bella had good news. He hoped for the latter as he returned to the bedroom.
"What is it baby, what's wrong?"
"This afternoon, I took a pregnancy test?" Bella said in a hesitant tone. "I took a pregnancy test. And I've honestly been too scared to look at it. So, I wanted to wait til you get home. I mean, if it's negative, then it's no big deal, but in case it is positive, I wanted you here with me."
Edward wrapped his arm around Bella's waist excitedly. He tried to calm down a bit just because he knew how upset Bella would be if he showed great excitement and then the test turned out negative. He meandered into the bathroom.
"Bells, do you want to come with me?"
"No Eddy, I think I'll just wait right here." Bella responded with a nervous glance back into the bathroom.
Edward waited a moment and then emerged from the bathroom grinning ear to ear. Bella jumped off the bed.
"Yes?!"
Edward smiled "Congratulations, mommy!"
Edward showed a awe-struck Bella the pregnancy test he was holding with the positive digital marking and she dropped it to the floor as Edward swung her around the room. After a few minutes of dancing and jumping around Edward passionately kissed Bella's mouth unexpectedly.
She fell back on the bed, still kissing Edward, their fingers intertwined. An hour later, Bella and Edward sighed contently from under the sheets where she rested her head on his chest. Life could not possibly be better for the couple about to add a third to their young family. At twenty three years old, Bella and Edward were the epitome of perfect young couple. Happy, healthy, and well-educated (Princeton for the both of them), they lived happily near their families.
As Bella snuggled into her spot in Edward's chest, she was startled by the ringing of the phone.
Edward reached over to answer.
"Hello?"
"Mr. Cullen? This is Laine Wright from the adoption agency. We have an approved child for you—tonight, in fact. I know you're on the adoption list waiting for a child, and there is a child that has just been approved for you. With the increasing numbers in our homes, it would be ideal for you to pick him up as soon as possible. He is four years old—his name is Ian."
Edward nearly dropped the phone.
"Mr. Cullen, are you there Mr. Cullen!?"
Edward set the phone down on the bedside table and looked with wide eyes into Bella's.
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