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"Wait…what?" He whispered, completely surprised by my words. Obviously, he hadn't seen that one coming…just like me. "What do you mean you are pregnant?" He demanded, giving an end to our hug in less than a second.
He searched for my eyes, but I didn't let him reach them. Instead, I fixed my look in the sand...this was already too bad for me.
"Oh my god" He said in a low voice, separating each word with his frustration.
I wasn't looking at Jacob, but I already knew which was the expression that was crossing his face. If I looked up at him, I would find his dark half-closed eyes staring at me with incredulity, and his forehead wrinkled as a signal of disapproval…of confusion.
Before I could realize, he was a few steps away, turning his back on me and staring at the rough sea, with his arms tightly crossed over his chest, as if he was holding back a desire to scream.
The dampness in my eyes was preventing myself from seeing with clarity, and that was not helping to diminish my dizziness. Feeling off-balanced, I decided it would be better to sit down before I fell.
I held my head with both hands, taking deep breaths…trying to stay all in one piece.
"You've got to be kidding me" I heard him mutter before he turned to me again.
His features were sinking in pain, while his eyes were burning with rage. He made me feel even more weird. Like as if I was guilty of a serious crime. Well…it couldn't be labeled as a crime. But it did mean trouble after all. My baby was a trouble. How bad did that sound? Yes, terrible –and I felt that way, believe me. But was it the part when I said that I was having a baby? Or the part that I said he or she meant trouble?
"Please, Bella," He started saying with his eyes shut "Don't tell me he is the father"
I didn't answer, but he obviously took my silence as a yes. I couldn't understand why I felt like I had to apologize to him, or something.
A deep growl of anger escaped from his throat…crushing us both in pain.
"Jacob…" Was all I could say.
"Where is he?!" He suddenly exploded. "Where the fuck is he?!"
"Jacob, please." I begged him. I have always known he would react badly, but this wasn't what I was needing at that very moment.
"He is dead. That parasite is SO dead. I'll kill him…I swear to God I'll kill him!" He was out of control…and that only made me cry harder. "I knew something like this was going to happen! I told you, Bella! He got you pregnant and he ran away. He is nothing but a disgusting bastard. You should have listened to me back then!"
I couldn't bear his words against the man I loved. He was not such thing. Edward was the best that had ever happened to me.
"Jacob, STOP!" I shouted at him in a faltering voice. "You are the only person I can talk to right now. I was hoping you could understand that. I have no one else." I added in the end, whispering with sorrow.
His expression softened a little, but not entirely. He seemed to hesitating, but finally he came back to me, and sat over the fresh sand, right beside me.
"I'm sorry, Bella." He said with sincerity, but still with stiffness. "I just—"He took a deep breath. "It's just that I can't believe this is happening."
I grimaced while I dried the tears on my cheeks with the sleeves of my sweater. Do you think I can? I wanted to ask him, but I don't know how, I kept those words inside.
"Jake, you've got to help me find him." I finally said. "He doesn't know…anything"
He looked at me as if I had asked him to murder his father.
"You want me to find him?" I didn't know why, but he sounded offended. "Bella, I'll do more than finding him. I'll wring his neck and tear him into pieces as soon as I see his face."
"Please, just listen for a minute." I said, pleading again. "I have to find him, I need to find…Edward." His name sounded on my lips like as if it belonged to an spectrum of the past. My past.
"What for, Bells? So that he can come and ruin your life a little bit more?" He said harshly, as if I had gone crazy.
I sighed with frustration. Jacob Black would never understand what Edward Anthony Masen Cullen meant to me.
"No. So that he can come and help me to bring up our son."
While I was driving home, I couldn't calm my thoughts, and that, combined to the fact that I was feeling really sick at the moment, didn't make my journey back to Forks any easier. To make things worse, it was raining cats and dogs, and that decreased my visibility a lot. On a normal day, I would have stopped on the side of the road for a while, hoping that the rain would cease; but on that day, dying on a car accident didn't sound that bad. It sounded like an attractive idea, actually.
If I died at that moment, all of my problems would vanish, and I'd be free from all that suffering…Now that Edward wasn't by my side, had I something to lose? I thought about that for a moment, and then I realized how selfish I was being. It wasn't all about me. Not anymore. There was someone else in my life now. A tiny baby in my stomach. He was my son or daughter, and I was his or her mother.
I was a mother, for crying out loud!
After all of this time, a smile crossed my face.
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