Chapter 2 -- First Beach


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Sam and Emily invited Jacob and I to come to First Beach with them about a month after the wedding. We never turned down the opportunity to get the kids together to play so, of course, we packed up our fishing gear and piled it into my Mercedes (the car had been a gift from Edward and he let me keep it) and headed down to the beach. I wasn't particularly excited about this trip because I had been nauseous all day long. My stomach felt like it was full of bubbles since after breakfast.

"Fish! Fish! Fish!" Norah chanted from the backseat.

"Yes, baby, we're going fishing," Jacob said, looking in the rearview mirror at Norah, who had a big smile plastered on her face.

"Yay!" Norah said, raising her hands up in the air. She looked out the window excitedly.

"I've never seen a little girl so excited about going fishing," I said, shaking my head.

"Well, you're not exactly a girly-girl yourself," Jacob said, raising one eyebrow.

"True," I agreed, looking off toward the pier as we drew closer to the beach.

Jacob parked the car and got our fishing poles out. We headed toward the pier, Norah running out ahead of us through the sand.

In the distance, Sam was waving at us.

"Uncle Sam! Uncle Sam!" Norah called.

"Nowah!" I heard Levi call.

I couldn't help but laugh. At the age of two and a half, Levi Uley was already smitten with my daughter.

"What?" Jacob asked, looking over at me.

"It's just cute, that's all," I said, nodding toward Levi who was hopping up and down with excitement.

Jacob nodded. "It is."

We got to the pier and set our poles up. I sat Norah on my lap and I cast her pole for her. She sat holding her pole while I kept an eye on mine from afar.

Emily sat down next to me.

"Did you tell him?" I whispered.

She nodded. "I went to the doctor the other day. He says I'm nine weeks and that the baby's doing fine. We're announcing it to everyone pretty soon, but I'll bet you anything Sam mentions it to Jacob today."

I smiled. "Probably," I said, shaking my head in amusement.

"Wait! Wait!" Jacob exclaimed, diving over to his pole. He grabbed it and started reeling in.

"Go Daddy!" Norah said, clapping her hands.

Levi started jumping up and down. "Go Uncle Jake!"

He reeled in and a big fish came out of the water. My not-so-fish-savvy skills didn't know what kind it was.

"Whoa!" Norah gasped.

Jacob came over and brought the fish over to Norah. The smell from the fish wafted up toward me and I jumped up and ran to the side of the pier and vomited, regurgitating my breakfast from that morning into the shores of the Pacific.

"Gosh, Bella, are you okay?" Emily asked.

"I'm fine. Just a little nauseated. That fish stinks!" I complained, gagging.

Emily nodded. "It does," she said sympathetically.

"Ew!" Norah said, holding her nose. "Fish stinky! Mama stinky!"

Levi laughed.

"Levi Joshua Uley," Emily said sternly. "It is not nice to make fun of people! Especially your Aunt Bella!"

I sat up, my arms wrapped around my knees.

"Bells, honey, are you okay?" Jacob asked worriedly. I noticed he had put the fish away somewhere.

"I'll be fine," I croaked.

"Are you coming down with something? Do we need to go home?" he asked.

"I'm telling you, Jake. I'm fine. It's probably just something I ate," I replied, dismissing it.

"Gosh," he said. "You don't think you're pregnant or anything?"

My jaw popped open.

"Jacob, you know that's not possible. I've been on the pill and – " I broke off, blushing in embarrassment.

"Speaking of pregnant," Sam interrupted. "Did Emily tell you that we're expecting another baby?"

"No," Jacob said. "Congratulations, man!" he grinned. "That's great."

I just smiled.

Pregnant? Nah. That wasn't possible. I hadn't missed a pill at all, had I? I mean, Jacob and I had been fucking like rabbits nearly every night since the wedding, but I hadn't missed a period. If I was pregnant, wouldn't a missed period be the biggest indicator?

"Bella?"

"Yeah?" I said, clearing the thoughts from my head.

"I just asked you if you and Jacob were coming to our party next weekend," Emily repeated, looking at me strangely.

"Sure," I said, grinning at her. "Sorry, my head was a little dazed for a second."

I sat down and watched Jake and Sam fish with Levi and Norah cheering them on. Emily and I discussed the goings-on of the reservation. She and Sam were building a swing-set for Levi, who had wanted one ever since they had visited her sister, Heather's, house. She had one for her two daughters. Now that Alyson and Claire were nine and six, they didn't use it quite as much, but Heather recommended that Sam and Emily build one for Levi. It was Sam's new project.

I told Emily that everything was going well for Jacob, Norah and I. And things were going well. I was enjoying my new role as a wife; it wasn't what I had expected. I had expected total domination and control like Edward had subjected me to. That's not what I got with Jacob and for that I was grateful.

Our day at First Beach eventually came to an end as it started raining. We packed up our things and the few fish that we had caught and headed back to the reservation. Sam and Emily brought Levi over to our house and we sat in the living room talking. When Norah fell asleep on the couch, I picked her up and headed toward her nursery.

"Can I ask you something?" Emily asked, following me into the nursery.

"What?"

"Are you positive that you're not pregnant?"

"Why does everyone keep bringing that up?" I sighed.

"It's just that normally when we go fishing it doesn't make you nauseous at all… I'm not trying to butt in or anything, but I really think you should test, Bella. Just to rule it out."

"I'm telling you that I'm not pregnant. If I really need to test to get everyone to stop thinking that, I will. I really don't want to get Jacob's hopes up. I know he wants another baby," I sighed again. "But right now, I don't want a second one. Norah's enough for me right now."

"Jacob wants another baby?" Emily asked. "I never saw Jacob being that… paternal. I mean, not until Norah was born, of course."

"I just think he feels guilty because he wasn't able to be around very much when I was pregnant with Norah," I said, catching my breath. "That's because Edward was around and things were a lot more difficult."

"Jacob also came from a slightly different family than you did," Emily reminded me. "He had two older sisters. And maybe he wants a boy, you know? When I was pregnant with Levi, before we found out he was a boy, Sam told me that he wanted at least one boy. It's a Quileute thing. And Jacob's son would be an Alpha…"

I nodded.

"Maybe," I said.

"Do you not want another baby?" Emily asked me.

"I don't know," I said honestly. "For me, right now, Norah is enough. I might want more eventually, but I just… I don't know."

"It's not like you don't have room," Emily said. "I think Norah would like a little brother or sister. And besides, it'd be cool to be pregnant at the same time again, you know? Levi and Norah could play together and our babies could play together, too."

I nodded. "True."

Secretly, I resolved to never miss a single pill ever again.


That night, Jacob and I made love again. We were still in that honeymoon phase where we couldn't keep our hands off each other. We were cuddled under the blankets together when Jacob finally broached the baby issue.

"That's wild about Sam and Emily, isn't it?" he asked. "I'm happy for them."

"Yeah," I said. "That's great."

"They're such great parents," Jake said, sighing.

"They are," I agreed.

"Can I ask you a question?" Jacob asked suddenly, propping himself up on one elbow.

"Uh, sure. What?"

"What if what Emily said was true? What if the reason why you were sick today was because you're pregnant?"

"I'm not pregnant," I said, a little too sternly.

"I know that. It's just that… I don't want Norah to be our only baby. I want another one. Actually, I want another one really bad. I don't know if you do or what…" he trailed off.

"Jacob, if you want another baby, all you have to do is tell me," I said, amused. "If you really want another one, I can stop taking my pills. I just don't want an unplanned pregnancy."

"I don't want to plan it like a grocery shopping list," Jacob said. "I just want it to… happen. I want it to be a surprise, not something expected. That's important to me."

I sighed. "I guess you can get me a test in the morning and I'll take it. And then… I guess we'll know and then we can… plan accordingly."

Jacob made a face.

"What?" I asked him.

"Plan accordingly?" he asked, one eyebrow raised.

I sighed. "Fine. If you want another baby, I'll just stop taking my pills and let what happens happen."

"Can I still buy you a test in the morning?" he asked.

"Yeah," I said, "I guess that would be necessary."

His face lit up and he leaned in and kissed me passionately. Then he paused and pulled back.

"What?" I asked him.

"You keep saying that if I want another baby… do you not want another one?"

"It's not that I don't want another one. It's just that Norah is enough for me right now. I'm happy just having her. If you want another one, then I won't say no. I guess I'm just riding the fence on the whole issue."

Jacob nodded.

"But I swear, Jacob Black, if you knock me up with twins, I will beat you from here to Seattle ," I said, locking my jaw.

Jacob grinned. "Wouldn't that be fun?" he jibed.

I rolled my eyes. "You're not the one who has to push babies out. Be nice to me," I said, pouting.

He nodded solemnly before wrapping me up into his arms and kissing the top of my forehead.

"I love you," he murmured into my hair.

"I love you too," I replied.


JPOV

Early the next morning, I headed out of the house and met Sam in the woods for our Alpha meeting. This was something we had just started doing fairly recently. Since we had two different packs, we decided that the best thing to do would be to cooperate with each other and combine forces if a severe threat ever came to the reservation. I guess you could say that Sam and I were the great orchestrators of this... the rest of the pack really didn't have much to do with it.

After we had finished talking about pack business (there wasn't much), I got up and started heading in the direction of the reservation. Sam followed me.

"How are things with you and Bella?" he asked. "You two seemed happy yesterday," he commented.

"We are," I said. "Things are going well, I guess. Last night, we discussed possibly having another baby."

"Really?" Sam asked, looking rather surprised.

"Yeah," I said. "I mean, there's the possibility that she could be pregnant. She wants me to go pick up a pregnancy test today," I explained.

"Oh," Sam said, looking toward the sun rising in the east, over the Pacific. We had come out of the woods and we walking down a side road of the reservation. "You want another baby?" he asked me, frowning.

"I do," I said. "I'm not so sure about Bella."

"Well, this is something you might want to clear with her. I mean, it is her body, after all. Emily and I never had this... discussion. Things just sort of happened. We got married and then she told me that she was pregnant with Levi. And the other night, when she told me about this new baby... I won't pretend I wasn't surprised. I thought we weren't having anymore kids. We originally wanted them so close together... and it just took longer than either of us expected."

I nodded.

"What if Emily didn't want anymore kids?" I asked him suddenly, pausing in the middle of the street.

"Then I would have listened to her wishes," Sam said. "Emily's my partner, my wife. We decide things together, as a team. You can't force Bella to do anything and I highly stress that you not. Marriage is hard enough without the disagreements."

I knew what he meant.

"She seemed like she was coming around last night," I said. "So maybe we'll come to a compromise. You know how bad I want a son."

"I do," Sam said, nodding. "We all do."

I continued walking up the hill. We passed Sam's house and he paused.

"I should go in. Looks like Emily's making breakfast," Sam said, nodding toward the house. I could smell bacon and eggs in the distance. And French toast.

"I'll see you later, Sam," I said, heading down to the grocery store on the rez.


I know this one is really short, but I couldn't think of much to fill it up with. It's mostly a filler chapter with the family stuff anyways. :) I'm working on the big stuff for the next chapter. hehe.

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