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Edward POV

With all of the overtime I had put in, I was able to take a good two weeks off. Alice and Jasper had taken off too; they were on their way to Bermuda, for a long overdue honeymoon. Alice had no idea what was going on with Bella. She knew that she had been acting weird on the flight home from Florida, and after that she didn't see or hear from her in a while.

It wasn't until the rumor had got around that Alice found out Bella quit.

Something was going on with her and I was determined to find out what. All I knew was that she had moved out of her apartment and into her dad's house in Forks, that she quit the airline and had gotten a job at the Port Angeles Library.

It was the Saturday of my first week off that I Skype'd Alice and decided it was time to tell her about Bella and me. If Bella wanted to be secretive then I would need Alice's help to get her to come around.

"Hello, big brother. Edward! Oh my shopping! There are so many cute shops here! Look at the hat I bought for Mom!" Alice was prancing around their room, showing me everything she had bought for people. While Jasper was in the background groaning from the pain of his sunburn.

"How is the trip? I take it Alice is having a bit more fun, huh, Jasper?" I chuckled as I saw him glare at me and flip me off before plopping back down onto the bed, his skin shining from all of the aloe he had just put on.

"Brother it is beautiful here! We should all come here as a family sometime. Mom would love it. But anyway how are you doing? How's work?"

"Actually that was what I was calling about, Ali. I took some time off to get my head back on straight."

Alice cocked her head to the side, squinting her eyes at me.

"You take time off? Has hell frozen over?" She screeched. "Why would you do that?"

"There are some things I need to fix, but to do that I need to tell you something, and I need you to not freak out. Do you promise?" I was hesitating and slowly backing away from the computer without even realizing it. It's not like she could jump through the screen.

"It depends what you did." She told me through clenched teeth.

"How do you know it was my fault?" I asked her but quickly corrected myself.

"Yeah it is my fault, but promise me."

She took a deep breath and looked back and Jasper, who nodded his head, well tried to nod his head.

"Fine I promise."

"Okay, so about a year ago, Bella and I were in the bar together on one of our flights, you and Jasper had just left and we were drunk, I mean really, really drunk…"

"Fuck Edward! You fucked my best friend! What the hell were you thinking? Of all of the stupid shit you have done this is the stupidest! Using Bella like she was one of your whores….holy shit this has been going on for a year?"

I could see Jasper in the background trying to get off of the bed to calm her down, but he gave up about two minutes later, sighing in defeat.

"Alice, please. It's not like that…" But she cut me off.

"Of course it's like that! That is how you are, you use your job as a ploy to get woman, and you played my best friend! Why did she go along with it? I know Bella; she is not one to participate in random sex."

"Alice please, calm down. I need to explain."

She took a deep breath and nodded her head, before collapsing against the chair. Then she started laughing. Laughing!

I could see Jasper in the background and I knew I wasn't the only one confused.

"You should have seen your face! God that was priceless."Alice managed to get out while catching her breath and wiping the tears from her eyes.

"What the fuck? Have you lost your mind?" I asked.

"I know, Edward. I know all about your and Bella's….relationship.

"Wha….what? How?"

She sat back again and rolled her eyes.

"Puh-lease, Edward. You two were not as slick as you thought you were. You think I didn't notice the looks and the way you two lit up when the other was around. Plus you both had that freshly fucked look, and I knew that there hadn't been anyone else for a while. For either of you. You people really don't give me enough credit. And I have seen this happening since I met Bella, she was just destined to be part of our family."

"If you knew why didn't you say anything? Why let it go on for so long?" I was dumbfounded. If Alice knew then that means our whole family knew. Fucking wonderful.

"I knew that if you wanted me to know one of you would tell me. I know meddling is what I do best, but I figured I would wait until this blew up in your faces. Because let's face it, the minute something would go wrong you were coming to me for help. And look, I was right. Again."

"Well, that was easier than I thought it would be. Now I really need your help, Ali. I'm in love with her. And I know, despite the fact that it was never said, that she loves me too. I am sick of being naïve and not seeing the whole picture. Bella and I are in love with each other, we were both too stupid to realize and now we are both hurt. Please, help me."

"Okay look, I already filled Esme and Rose in, like two months ago, and we are willing to help you if you really need it. But honestly Edward, I don't think you will. Bella is smart and I think she knows that there is something more between you two then just sex. I think there is a piece that we are missing. Because something is not fitting. She is scared of something, and it's more than your feelings."

"Yeah I guess. But what? What could possibly be…" then everything came rushing back to me.

How she didn't drink the beer, even though she could drink me, Jasper and Carlisle under the table. How Newton said she was ready for something bigger, something more meaningful, the random conversation about settling down and having a family. Her weird behavior on the flight home. Was it possible?

I mean I know it is possible, but how? We were so careful.

Holy shit.

I am going to be a daddy.

"Alice…holy shit. I think I figured it out. Can you remember a time that Bella turned down a beer?"

I knew I was freaking Alice out, my eyes had gotten really wide and my hands were sweating.

"Bella? Turn down beer? No way. Why….fuck! I am going to be an aunt? Jasper! Did you hear we are going to have a little niece or nephew! Holy shit, I need to go shopping for him/her." She was jumping up and down on the bed, ignoring Jasper's cry of pain.

"Alice. Alice. ALICE!" I screamed into the computer.

She automatically sat down.

"We don't know for sure. But it makes sense right? I mean this is the missing link, she ran because she was scared of my reaction. Bella would never force a baby on someone who didn't want it, and I did tell her that I didn't have time for a family. Plus, she quit now, because come a few months she can't fly. It all makes sense now."

Alice jumped up and charged towards the computer, pointing her finger at me.

"Your ass better get to Forks right now. If you are not there by the time she gets home tomorrow I will fly back early and kick your ass. Get my best friend back, Eddie, please."

I was in Forks by midnight. I decided I would stay at my parents for the night. Bella was due back from her flight tomorrow night around six, so I had some time to think about what I was going to say.

I walked into my parent's house, surprised to see them all awake. Them all including Emmett and Rose.

"Edward, dear. We missed you. You are looking too thin. Do you eat at all? Here, sit, let me make you something."

I kissed my mom on the cheek and thanked her, before going over to hug the rest of them.

"So to what do we own the pleasure, son?" My dad, asked.

"Well I am sure you all know about Bella and I now, Alice and her big mouth. We had a bit of a falling out in Florida and I am here to fix it."

Rose was shaking her head, and I could tell that she did not believe me.

"That poor girl, Edward. You drag her along for a year and think that one night is going to fix this?" Rose spat at me, I could see Emmett place a arm around her, calming her a bit.

"Rose, please." My mom started but I cut her off.

"No, she's right. Bella and I's relationship was not healthy, we both knew that but we did it anyway. I know it is going to take a while for her to see my true feelings for her, but sooner or later she will give in. I know her; I know that Bella loves me too. So please, let me do this on my own, no meddling or trying to move things along. Let them happen at the pace Bella and I set." I said, staring at my mom, who looked around like I wasn't talking about her in particular.

"Don't worry Edward, they will be on their best behavior I promise. We all love Bella, and we want her to be a part of this family, so we will let you deal with this. But you will in no way make this worse, you hear me?" My dad, always the voice of reason.

"There is no way this will get worse. I don't expect it to be easy, but I know that it will happen. I am confident in my feelings for her."

They all nodded and started talking about Alice's trip, finally turning the conversation away from my problems.

The next morning I woke up and went for run, preparing myself for the conversation that was going to happen in a few hours. After I drove to the grocery store to pick some things up for my mom. There I ran into Charlie Swan.

Who did not look happy to see me.

"Hello sir." I said, holding out my hand.

He just looked down at it, and then back at me.

"Edward." He said gruffly, before moving down the aisle, away from me.

"Sir, I need you to know that whatever you think you know is wrong. Please you have to know…"

He turned quickly and I thought I saw his hand twitch towards his gun belt.

"What I know, Edward, is that my little girl came home crying about a man who she claimed didn't love her back, who was too pussy to put an end to things when he knew that feelings were starting to grow. I know that she has been put in a crappy situation, one that is both a blessing and a curse. But what I really know, Edward, is that you love Bella, I can tell. I am just wondering why now, things are suddenly clear to you, and that now that she is gone, you decide you want her. So don't tell me what I know and don't know."

I was speechless. I knew Bella and her dad had always been close, but I didn't think she would talk to him about this.

"Look, sir. I love her, you said you know that. And I know the situation Bella is in, and I need you to know that I was coming back to her way before I knew about the baby. I love her and deep down she loves me, but I need you to know that because your opinion means everything to Bella, it means everything to me. So please, trust me to fix this, because I will."

He was still glaring at me, but I could see it in his eyes that he believed me.

"You better fix this, because if you don't, know that I am one of the few people in this town who can kill and get away with it." With that he turned away and down the aisle away from me.

After recounting the story to my family, we all sat down to eat lunch.

It was 2:17 that Alice called, in a panic.

It was at 2:18, that she told us to turn on the news.

It was at 2:22 when we saw that there had been an accident. Flight 345, flight from New York to Seattle, had gone down right as it was flying over Kansas.

It was at 2:25, that the news reported that there had been no survivors.

And it was at 2:25, that my brain flashed to Bella and my baby. It was at 2:25 that my heart stopped.


You know when they say that when you die, your life flashes right before your eyes? Well that kind of happened to me, right before I passed out.

Only it wasn't my life that I saw, it was the life I was supposed to have with Bella. The life that was filled with love and happiness and babies.

It was a life that was lived. Not like the one I lived before, one that was wasted, and one that I took advantage of.

And right before I passed out that last think I heard was Riley's voice echoing in my head.

"…this job isn't worth doing if you have no place to go home to when it's over."

A/N: sorry about the Cliffhanger. Review if you want to know what happens next! :D