Alrighty well I've decided that I will keep writing this, so bear with me, it may take a while what with school, exams, etc…anyway, happy reading

Alrighty well I've decided that I will keep writing this, so bear with me, it may take a while what with school, exams, etc…anyway, happy reading!

3 months later….

At 4 months, I was showing much more noticeably. Alice had dragged me shopping to get maternity clothes from all sorts of expensive stores. I was perfectly happy in my old sweats and T-shirts, but Alice will be Alice. She said it was 'unacceptable to wear them when there are fashionable alternatives'.

Thankfully by now I was over the morning sickness. Instead of that now I had cravings for anything and everything. Emmett thought it was hilarious when I came downstairs one day asking for Brussel sprouts and honey. Looking back on that makes me feel ill…ugh…

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I woke up groggily and rolled over. I was only able to sleep on my back and sides now, which restricted my use of movement during the night, making my already stiff muscles even more painful.

"Morning, love." Edward was grinning at me.

I sighed. "What did I say?"

He chuckled. "Well, we have names now. You mentioned your favorite name for a boy and girl."

"Really? What are they?" I didn't consciously have any names picked out…

"Well, for a boy you said you liked William. For a girl you said you liked Hannah."

"Hmm. I do like the sound of that, actually. What about middle names?"

"Well, I was actually thinking of William Charles or Hannah Elizabeth. What do you think?"

I rolled them over in my head. "Yeah, I like them. William Charles Cullen or Hannah Elizabeth Cullen. Sounds nice. I still can't believe this is happening! OK, I'm hungry. Can you please help me get downstairs?"

"Sure." He lifted me effortlessly into his arms and brought me downstairs to the kitchen, where I opened the fridge and frowned.

"What's wrong?"

"There's nothing good to eat!" I complained. He chuckled.

"Don't laugh at me, I am seriously hungry." He masked his face in a too innocent way.

"Well, what would you like? I'll go to the store and get you something." I smiled at him - he was such a good husband and father-to-be.

"Ummm, I think I want pancakes today. With lots of maple syrup. Buy two bottles, just in case." He smiled at me and kissed me on the cheek.

After he left, I walked into the lounge room where Emmett and Jasper playing a game of baseball on the Wii. It was hilarious. We had to have several controls on standby, as Emmett tended to squeeze them a little too hard when he got upset.

I plonked myself down next to Esme, who was watching her 'sons' with great amusement.

"How did you sleep, dear?"

"Pretty well, thanks. How much are they betting?"

She laughed. "Emmett bet Jasper 200 that he could beat him. Jasper won so Emmett made it best out of three." I was laughing along with her by the time she stopped speaking.

"Bella!" Alice's sing-song voice came from the other room. "Let's get you dressed for today!"

I groaned. "No, Alice! I haven't even had breakfast yet! Besides, I am not going out today, so what's the point?"

"Bella, there doesn't have to be a point to get dressed up. Edward will be back in 1 minute and 37 seconds so after breakfast I want you up in my bathroom. OK?"

I sighed. "Yes, ma'am."

As promised, Edward returned a few minutes later, bags full of food.

He immediately started mixing ingredients together and before I knew it, there was a plate of steaming hot pancakes drowning in maple syrup making my mouth water sitting on the table in front of me.

I began shovelling them into my mouth, ignoring the fact that my throat was being burnt in the process.

"Bella! Time for hair and make-up!"

"Alice!" I whined. "I don't wanna."

Half an hour later, I walked downstairs in a completely new outfit (maternity, unfortunately), and my hair was in light, bouncy curls. Alice reluctantly agreed to put only a small amount of make-up on my face - she has learned that pregnant Bella is able to put up a much better fight when she feels up to it.

Edward kissed me on the cheek when I made it downstairs into his arms.

"Bella, you look beautiful. Carlisle just called and reminded us that the doctor had to change our appointment for tomorrow to today. It's time for the 16 week check-up on the baby."

"OK, when do we have to leave?"

"In about half an hour. Do you want anything before we go?"

"No, but I think we should pick up some lunch on the way home. I want to stop at the supermarket and pick up stuff for dinner as well. I told Charlie we would have dinner with him before we go away, so I was thinking tomorrow we could go to his place? It's probably easier to go to him."

"OK, have you spoken to him yet?"

"I was going to wait to talk to you first, actually. But I might call him now to make sure it's alright before we go to the store and buy stuff."

I spoke to Charlie, who was in a surprisingly chatty mood, and we agreed that Edward and I would come over for dinner (meaning I would cook) at 7pm the next night.

"So, love," Edward started as we sped down the highway to the hospital. "We can find out the sex of the baby today. What do you think?"

"I bet Alice will be happy if we find out today. That way, she can start on the nursery without having to hide it from you. I do want to know, though, because then we can start calling it by name, instead of Baby. Do you want to know?"

He smiled at me as he parked the car. "I would love to know. Alice will be thrilled. I can hear Carlisle; he says he'll meet us outside Dr Hart's office."

"Edward, Bella. How did you sleep, Bella? I left before you were awake."

"Hi, Carlisle. I slept pretty well, I can't move around very much so that makes it uncomfortable, but all things considered, pretty good."

"Mr and Mrs Cullen?" Dr Hart came out of her office holding my file. Carlisle wished us luck and said he'd meet us at home after our appointment.

"So, Bella, how have you been feeling?"

"Tired. I'm finding it harder to sleep nowadays. My back is getting sorer everyday and I'm only four months! Is that normal?"

"Absolutely. Even though you're not that big yet, aching muscles and joints is completely normal. Other than that, are there any other concerns?"

I looked at Edward and he shrugged. "I don't think so. We were wondering though if we might be able to find out the sex of the baby today. Bella and my sister are anxious to get started on the nursery." He chuckled.

Dr Hart laughed along with him. "Sure, I'll get the monitor set up for an ultrasound."

I lay down on the examination table and she squirted cold gel onto my belly. She ran the sensor over my stomach and both she and Edward gasped.

"What? What's wrong with the baby?!" I started to panic.

"Nothing's wrong, love. Look at the screen." I stared at the screen for the moment, seeing nothing.

Then, the most beautiful image showed up on screen.

"Is that-" Edward nodded and turned to look at me.

"There are two of them! We've got two babies?" I was ecstatic. Edward kissed me in a way he had never kissed me before.

"Congratulations, you two. Do you want to know the sexes?"

"Yes please."

"Right, well, here we have a little girl, she's curled up. And here is your little boy! You have one of each, congratulations!"

I didn't realise I was crying until Edward was wiping my tears away with his cold fingers, a stupid grin on his face, too.

"Oh, Edward, we have two! Can you believe it?"

"William and Hannah. You are the most amazing creature on earth, Bella." I laughed.

"You helped." I joked. He laughed along with me as Dr Hart continued with the regular check-up procedure.

Edward opened my car door for me and was in his seat before I had even gotten my seatbelt done up.

"Everyone is going to be so excited! Do you think we'll be able to cope with two babies?"

"Bella, sweetheart, there are eight people in our family. I'm sure we'll manage. Besides, seven of them don't require sleep, so we'll have round the clock supervision." He chuckled.

"True." I could barely contain myself as we pulled up to the house. I couldn't wait to tell everyone. Then something occurred to me.

"Alice knows, doesn't she?" I guessed. Nothing gets past that pixie-like vampire.

"I'm sure she does. She has never thought about it, though. She knew we would want to find out for ourselves."

Emmett and Jasper were still battling it out baseball style when we walked into the house. Esme came over to greet us and sensed that we had news to tell everyone. It was probably because I couldn't stop smiling and Alice was buzzing with excitement.

"How was your appointment?" Esme asked with care.

"Fantastic! Could everyone please come and sit down? Edward and I have some news."

Emmett was about to argue, but with a glare from both Edward and Esme silently sat down next to Rosalie as Alice, Jasper and Carlisle joined them.

"OK, what's this news you're talking about? I've yet to finish Jasper off." Emmett, of course.

"Well," I began. "We had our 16 week check-up today, as you know. We wanted to find out the sex of the baby today so that Alice could get started on the nursery and not have to hide it from Edward."

"So what is the baby?" Esme asked excitedly.

"Hold on, Esme. There's more." Alice almost squealed.

"Dr Hart did an ultrasound and when we looked at it…" Esme was almost on the edge of her seat in anticipation.

"We're having twins!" I was a heartbeat away from jumping up and down. It's just as well I didn't, though, because who knows what would have happened to me or the kids with my clumsiness.

Esme looked as though she would cry if she could.

"Congratulations! Oh my, this is so exciting! Two babies! Well Alice and I are going up to Alaska tomorrow. We were going to go to start on the nursery, but now we have two to do! Oh, how wonderful!" Esme had as much enthusiasm as Alice.

Carlisle kissed me on the cheek and gave Edward a hug. Jasper and Emmett said a quick 'congratulations' and got back to their competition.

The person that surprised me the most, though, was Rosalie. We had never been anywhere near as close as I was to Alice or Esme, but since we found out about Baby, or should I now say Hannah and William, she had become surprisingly supportive.

She kissed me on the cheek and did the same to Edward before going back to the couch to watch her husband make a fool of himself.

As soon as everyone had calmed down, I began to feel hungry. I wandered in the direction of the kitchen, then realised that in the rush to get home and tell everyone the news, we had forgotten to stop at the store.

I felt Edward's arms around me as I reached the kitchen table to get the keys.

"Where are you going, love?"

"We forgot to go to the store. And I'm hungry."

"I'll come with you."

"Sure, but let's go now. I'm starving. I'll have to get some chicken or steaks or something for dinner with Charlie, since we can't eat fish. One of the downsides to being pregnant." He laughed.

"OK, come on. How about we get steaks? That way, I can have mine very rare and it might be easier to stomach." he said, looking slightly queasy. I laughed at him.

"That sounds like a good idea. What am I going to have for dinner tonight? I feel like eating pasta. That's quick and easy."

We sped down the highway to Forks' supermarket. I gathered various ingredients for dinner with Charlie and for my pasta, while Edward looked at different foods in disgust.

"How do people eat this stuff?" he mused, eyeing a packet of M&M's.

"Edward, it's chocolate. Every normal person likes chocolate. Speaking of which, throw a packet of those M&M's in the trolley. I feel like some chocolate now." He laughed and tossed two packets of them into the trolley.

We arrived back home an hour later and I got started on my dinner straight away. The ravioli was sitting in the bubbling hot water when Edward came and wrapped his arms around me from behind.

He placed his hands on either side of my belly and I placed my hands on top of his.

I sighed. "Edward, I don't think life gets any better than this."

"I couldn't agree more." Just as he leaned in to kiss me, the water started bubbling so high it started to spurt over the sides of the pot and so I was forced to pull away from Edward and turn the heat down on the stove.

After another uncomfortable night's sleep, I woke up moody. All the family quickly learned to not speak to me unless they were spoken to. Edward made me breakfast as he gloated about being the only one not being told off by me.

He then ran me a hot bath, which I slid into easily. I almost jumped out of my skin when I felt two ice cold hands start to rub my stiff shoulders, making my whole body feel like a lump of jelly.

"Mmm that feels so good. Thank-you Edward."

"My pleasure, love. I thought my wife and children might need this." he chuckled.

I moaned as his hands worked their magic on my neck. "You thought right."

After a while, the water started to turn cold, so he helped me out of the bath and dried me off with a fluffy, white towel.

"Alice left you an outfit here to wear today. What do you want to do today?" he asked me as I eyed the maternity pants and top Alice had left.

"Well, we've got dinner tonight with Charlie, so can we just watch a couple of movies until we have to go?"

"Sure. Get dressed and you can come and pick them out. I'll get you some popcorn and a drink, OK?" I smiled and kissed him quickly.

"Thankyou. I'll meet you in our room, 'kay?" He gave his agreement and set out for the kitchen.

I had trouble choosing which movie I wanted to watch and in the end decided I had time to watch all three of my choices.

Edward lay in bed with me. My first choice was Dirty Dancing. It was one of my favorites. I couldn't count the number of times I watched it with my mother back in Phoenix.

My next choice made Edward laugh. For some reason, I had the sudden urge to watch Toy Story.

"Toy Story, Bella?"

"What? It's a good movie. It's good for kids and adults!" He gave me a 'yeah, OK, whatever' look and switched it on.

My final choice was The Sound of Music. Edward approved of this one.

"I remember when this came out. It was a huge hit. This is one of Julie Andrews' best movies."

"I dunno, Mary Poppins and The Princess Diaries are good movies. But yes, this is a good movie."

We didn't get to watch it all, unfortunately, because we had to leave to have dinner with Charlie.

The night went off without any major events. Charlie was thrilled to hear he was getting two grandchildren out of me. When we first told him I was pregnant, I wasn't sure how he was going to react.

He had been good about Edward and I getting married, and thankfully he didn't say he was too upset about Edward getting me pregnant.

When we returned home, I immediately went to bed. I said goodnight to the family, brushed my teeth and fell asleep almost the minute my head hit the pillow.

I woke suddenly in the middle of the night, tears pouring from my eyes.

"Bella! What's wrong?" Edward asked frantically.

"I had the most awful dream."

"What happened?"

"Well…"

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