Submerged

in

love

Disclaimer: Stephanie Meyer owns Twilight I'm just messing with the characters.

A/N: This is the third part of "Free fall into love", enjoy.

They had been together for two years now, being in a relationship was so effortless for them that it was like second nature. His warm and caring nature was like a gift from the gods to her, compared to Edward's cold and distant one. The way he could carry on a conversion with her or any of his friends was amazing to see. Edward on the other hand, it was like pulling teeth to get him to say anything and if he did it was usually him asking her questions, she could barely get a question in most of the time. But with Jacob, even if he at times dominated the conversion, he would quickly apologize and let her talk about anything she wanted. He even taught her a few things about cars, when she changed a flat tire on her truck for the first time, she literally jumped for joy on doing everything right. While Jacob who was standing by, quietly applauded her efforts.

Their weekly homework nights still continued into their college years. While she concentrated on a teaching degree, he worked toward his business degree. With Bella's help Jacob kept up a steady A/B average on his grades. Bella, with a lot of hard work even made the dean's list her first year. When Bella first got there she fell into the pace of college life. She wasn't distracted by the parties or the late nights of some of the people, who being away from home for the first time tend to want to do. Her idea of a good time was a free night of reading a good book, her roommate liked to go out sometimes but she was like Bella in some ways, wanting sometimes to just stay in and read. Or they would rent a few movies and have a marathon with a big bowl of popcorn to share.

When Jacob graduated high school and joined her at college, he was over in Bella's room almost all the time that his own roommate joked that Jacob should just moved in since he spent so much time over there all ready. The first time her roommate saw Jacob she subtly told Bella "dibs on the hottie" the death glare that Bella gave her was enough for her to back off from then on. Bella's roommate would leave them alone when they studied together. Because she soon found out when those two were by themselves, they'd be all over each other. She'd had come back early from the library and found them on Bella's bed, Bella sitting on top of Jacob both of them had their shirts off. When they were caught both were blushing so bad that Bella and Jacob couldn't look her in the eye for a whole month. And it didn't help that she'd tease them every chance she got. From then on she'd call Bella's cell when she was coming home so there wouldn't be anymore more awkward moments between them again.

The first time they were together, it wasn't like in all the movies and television shows but it was real and that was all that matter. Before they started, they made sure to lock the door and Bella called her roommate to tell her not to be back for a few hours. Jacob stayed and napped in her bed for a little while, Bella liked that he stayed. It was mostly that she liked to cuddle him so their nap was one of the best Bella ever had. They were awakened by Bella's phone going off, Jacob scrambled out of the bed and got dressed. While Bella told her to give them a few minutes so Bella could get her pajamas on and Jacob could leave, they kissed before he left.

Bella was in her third year of school when she started feeling tired in the mornings and she started to get irritated at Jacob for even the littlest things. She couldn't put her finger on it but when she was at the store and going though the aisles, she thought maybe...I'm pregnant. She bought a couple tests and hid them in her purse after checking out, so no one would see. When she got back to the dorm, she quickly drank nearly a gallon of water and a couple sodas so she could pee sooner; and not have to wait to long.

It was the waiting that got the better of her, sitting in the bathroom stall, staring at her phone waiting for the timer to go off. She started to think about how this would effort her, Jacob, their parents, going to school, their careers, and them as a couple. When the techno beat from her phone sounded off all of the sudden, it made her jump off the toilet seat she was sitting on. She settled back down and looked at both the tests. They were both positive, damn it, that's just great she thought. What would her parents say?, what would Jacob's dad say?, and what would Jacob say? That was the one that filled her with so much dread. Since they were so young they never really talked about having kids, She thought, she might like to have some a very long time from now. Jacob didn't really say anything about them but she knew that he was really good with his sister Rebecca's son, when they visited.

After wrapping the tests in toilet paper and putting them in their boxes, she took them with her to throw them away in her dorm room. She put them in the bottom of her trash can under some wadded up papers and a few soda cans. She texted Jacob to tell him that she needed to talk to him a.s.a.p., when she got the okay from him, she calaspped on her bed still feeling the weight of the world on her shoulders. As she waited, she decided to read that book assigned from her English class, to relax a little. The book was really absorbing, to the point that she didn't hear the knock at her door, until it became a loud pounding. She got off her bed and answered the door, Jacob was there with a worried look on his face.

"Hey, I just got out of class are you okay?" he asked stepping into the room. She turned around, circling her arms around her middle as she walked to her bed. Jacob plopped down as Bella eased herself down on the bed. "Are you okay, Bella?" he asked as he tried to put his arm around her. She shrugged it away, "yes, no, it depends on you." he had a confused look on his face, "why what is it?" Jacob was starting to worry that she was going to break up with him or something. She released the breath she didn't know she was holding, " I'm pregnant", she said in a voice so low that even Jacob had a hard time hearing her. Jacob leaned in, "what was that?" she cleared her throat to try again, " I said I'm pregnant." it came out in a louder voice. His eyes went wide, "you are, really?" all she could do was nod her head. He took her in his arms, "it's okay, we'll get through this." She relaxed into his heated embrace. "Thank you for being so understanding about this," she mumbled into his chest. He started chuckling, "what's so funny?" she asked pulling away. "I hope your dad is so understanding as I am. Because I really like being your boyfriend and I really want to be this baby's dad, and I have a feeling that your dad will try to kill me or something for getting you pregnant and you're still in school." Bella smiled up at him, "I think he'll being more understanding than you think, after all he and my mom weren't that much older when they had me. Besides we're going to be as responsible parents as we can be." With that said they chatted a little bit more before Jacob had to leave so he could study for a big test coming up in his economics class that Friday.

That Saturday, they drove to Forks to tell their dads the big news. When they pulled up to Bella's house, they could hear their dads inside yelling at the television because of a supposed bad call on a game they were watching. Bella's heart was pounding so hard in her chest that she thought it would burst because of how nervous she was. Her hands were shaking and she didn't know how bad it was until Jacob took a hold of them. "Bella calm down, it'll be okay." Jacob squeezed her hands in a calming gesture, she smiled at him, "thanks Jacob I think I'm ready to go through with this." he nodded and they both got out.

When Bella knocked on the door she heard her dad yell, "I'm coming, I'm coming hold you're horses." Charlie's scowl was quickly replaced with a bright smile at who was at the door. "Bella I'm so glad you stopped by to see me and you brought Jacob with you even better." It was a while since her last visit, not since Christmas, Charlie brought Bella in a very rare hug. At the sudden contact, Bella was slow to return the hug but when she did she could feel the love. They let go and Charlie shook Jacob's hand, "it's good to see you too Charlie." Charlie moved aside to let them in, Jacob went to give his own dad a brief hug and so did Bella after him. They sat down and Charlie sat himself down in his recliner, "is something wrong Bella, you're kind of fidgeting." Charlie asked when he saw how she looked.

Bella stopped bouncing her knee and grabbed Jacob's hand for support, "I'm pregnant". There was dead silence in the room. Bella was having a internal panic attack waiting for their reaction, Jacob was no better his eyes darted from his dad's face to Charlie's, to see how they were doing with this but their seemingly blank stares were not helping him. Billy was the first to say anything, "you are, huh?" Bella and Jacob nodded. "I'm going to help Bella with the baby, I love her and since I found out about the baby, I've started to love it too. And don't worry we already agreed that we're still going to school." Bella spoke up too, "We know that we're still young and in school but Dad you and Mom were about the same age when you had me. And we think we can handle it just fine and we don't want any hand outs from you guys." It was a relief to both fathers that they seemed to have their responsibilities in order.

Charlie surprised all of them by bursting out laughing, "I knew that this would happen one of these days. But I didn't think this would happen so soon." Bella stood up and walked toward her dad, and gave him a big hug, "thanks for taking this so well Dad." She then went and gave Billy a big hug. "Well, you been loving my Jacob for a long time now and I'm sure you'll be good to my next grandchild too." She let go, "thanks Billy" with the relief of the 'baby news' out in the open, they started talking about different things. Both, Bella and Jacob breathed a quiet sigh of relief. Now all Bella had to do was tell her Mom, she inwardly cringed at her mother's possible reaction to the news.

It was late when they got back to the dorms and Bella was tired so Bella decided to call her mom in the morning. As soon as Bella got up, she grabbed her cell phone and dialed her mom's number. Her mom answered on the fifth ring, "hello Bella honey, how are you doing?" Bella pulled her blankets up around herself before answering. "Good, the reason I'm calling this early in the morning, is because that I have something important to tell you." Her mother was on the edge of seat waiting to hear what her daughter had to say. " Well, spit it out already," her Mom shrieked out, Bella held the phone away from her ear. Bella sighed out, "I'm pregnant with Jacob's baby. And before you say anything I already told Jacob and I told Dad too." There was silence as her Mom processed the information, Bella waited nervously to hear her mother's reaction. "Wow" was all she said. "Bella, honey I think you'll make a great mom, heck I always said you were like a little adult while you you growing up. There were times that you even took care of me. I can't wait to meet my first grand baby, so let me know when you're ready to deliver it, I want to be there when it happens." Bella was smiling, "you got it Mom, you'll be right there." Bella was happy that her family was so accepting of her baby and she was happy that Jacob was going to be there with her every step of the way.

A/N: Here is the third part to the story, please tell what you think about it. I'll be working on the next part soon. Bye for now.