CHAPTER 4

Just mere seconds after rading that message I sat up and pushed the call icon on my screen. "Well hello there Princess."

"What do you mean that your mother warned you about me?" I said cutting to the chase.

Edward chuckled through the phone. "Calm down, Princess, it's not good for the baby. My mother had visions. Ever heard of Madame Esme?"

I gasped aloud because I had indeed heard of Madame Esme. She had become famous when her visions had helped located several missing children. I had been just a little girl when she had become a household name with her work with the police and the books she wrote. And when I got old enough I ordered every book she had written. "Wow. I have loved her books for years. What did she say about me?"

"Just that a beautiful brunette was going to alter my life in ways I never imagined." He said softly.

I huffed in annoyance because it could be any brunette in the world. Not me. "How do you know I'm that brunette, Edward? Brown hair is a very common hair color, you know."

"Ma told me that the beautiful brunette would literally trip into my world and upon first touch I would just know." He said confidently. "It's you, Princess, I promise. There is no doubt about that. Now I just have to work on getting you to believe me and trust my moms vision."

"Good luck!" I told him with a chuckle. "Why would you want to tangle yourself up with a girl who is pregnant with an idiots baby?"

The sigh Edward let out told me he was getting annoyed with me. "Are you in love with the baby's father?"

"Well no. Getting pregnant was just an unfortunate side effect of losing my virginity to a charming man-whore." I told him honestly.

"Then give me a chance? I'm not out for sex or anything of the like. Just allow me the privilege of getting to know the girl my cousin has bragged about for months. Please?" he asked practically begging me.

Just when I was about to tell him 'no' and to take his offer somewhere else I heard Alice yelling in the background "Say yes, Bella! Take a chance, girlie."

Alice had never led me astray so with a heavy sigh I agreed to spend some time with Edward so we could get to know one another. Later that night my mom told me she had a luncheon she couldn't miss so I would have to take myself to my doctors appointment.

The next morning at school Alice and Rose were pissed at my moms attitude and lack of priorities. "You are not going to that appointment by yourself." Rose said to which Alice nodded in agreement. We were walking to Art that we all had together.

"You guys don't need to miss classes because of me. I will be fine by myself. It didn't shock me at all that she didn't cancel her other plans." I told them as I tugged my bag up onto my shoulder some more before it was suddenly plucked out of my grasp. "What…?"

Edward stood behind me smirking as he shouldered my bag. "Good morning, Princess." He said as he reached forward touching my baby bump. "And baby."

Alice rolled her eyes while Rose shook her head while she smiled broadly. "JB. Not baby." Rose informed him as we started walking again.

"JB?" Edward asked curiously as he fell into step beside me.

Alice stuck her head around me with a smile on her face. "JellyBean."

"Cute." Edward said as we walked to class. I went to follow Rose and Alice into the room but Edward stopped me with a hand on my elbow. "See you later?" he asked handing me my backpack.

Smiling I shook my head. "No can do, Romeo, JB has a photo shoot to get to in a few hours."

"Photo shoot? During school hours?" he asked with a raised eyebrow.

My body shook with the laughter I couldn't contain. "I was being a smart-ass. I have my first doctors appointment today at 10:30. I'm not sure if I'm coming back after the appointment or not. Just gonna play the day by ear." I explained as our 1 minute warning bell sounded. "You better get to class. Text me later!" I told him as I ducked into my class heading for my table.

Rose, Alice, and I left the school a little before 10 so we could make it across town to the building my appointment was in. "I'm so scared, you guys." I told my best friends as we rode the elevator up to the fifth floor.

"Why? I figured you would be excited to see JB." Rose quipped.

I shrugged. "I'm not sure. It's almost as if this is making it more real for me. It's about to be documented on paper. And charged to my Dad's insurance."

"Have you told him yet?" Alice asked as the elevator doors slid open.

I shook my head. "No. He's gonna be so disappointed in me."

"Oh Bells. He may initially be disappointed because you aren't going to have the life he probably envisioned for you but J and B are going to win him over to your side." Alice said as she pulled open the door so I could walk into the waiting room.

I walked to the receptionist while Rose and Ali headed for some chairs. "I have an appointment at 10:30." I told the redhead sitting behind the counter.

"Name?"

"Isabella Swan."

She handed me a clipboard that had a huge stack of papers on it. "Fill this out and bring it back when you're finished. Do you have an ID and insurance card?"

I swapped my drivers licenses and insurance card for the clipboard of papers before join Rose and Alice. "This sucks." I told them as I began tediously filling in the paperwork.

An hour after we had arrived my name was called. "Here we go." I muttered as I walked hand in hand with my best friends through the door where a friendly nurse stood.

The unfortunate side of this first initial visit was that I had to listen to all the options available to me.

Abortion was a big NO for me. I didn't hold it against anybody if that is what they felt was best for them and their life but I just couldn't do it.

Adoption seemed an impossible option to me because I couldn't imagine not holding and kissing and loving on JB and I'd only been incubating her for 4 months.

Life as a single teen mom. This is what I was doing. This is the option that I willingly chose.

Now it was on to the fun stuff. Listening to the heartbeat and getting to see the baby that had been making my body change in ways I never dreamed of. Morning sickness had not been an issue at all but tender and expanding body parts is not something I got out of. Even at almost 16 weeks my breasts had almost double in size making them extremely tender to the touch and my hips had started hurting a little bit last week. My butt had also grown. Rosalie had pointed that one out the other day when I wore leggings to school.

THUMP thump THUMP thump

"What is that? An echo?" Alice asked excitedly as she gripped my right hand.

The ultrasound technician laughed and shook her head. "Not at all. The doctor said you were measuring big for 15 weeks 4 days so she asked me to check for multiples."

"Multiples?" I asked with tears in my eyes.

The ultrasound tech nodded as she flipped on the monitor that popped up a picture that showed two heads. "Twins. Identical twins from the looks of it." She said as she moved the wand around my stomach.

"Can you tell what they are?"