LOVELY READERS! This chap is from Bella's POV. I tried really hard not to make it all repetative and annoying. I hope I succeeded. Next chap is Thanksgiving, I hope you enjoy!

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I didn't write Twilight. I did write the stuff you're about to read tho... incase you were wondering.

4 – ROAD TRIP AND RECAP Bella's POV

When the alarm went off at the completely unreasonable hour of six am, I swore. Loud.

"Jesus fuck! What is that!" I hadn't heard my alarm clock in a long time, having been laid off a few months prior from the salon I worked in. My sister and I both actually. Stupid corporate Nazi's.

Edward groaned and felt his hand around the bed where I had just been laying. "It's called an alarm clock Snow." He grumbled out. His hand reached my thigh and he squeezed.

"Ugh I know asshole." I sneezed and got another one of those sharp pains that made me feel like I was being snapped by a rubber band from the inside. "Son of a bitch!" I bent at the waist and as fast as the pain came, it went away. When I told the doc about this, she (yes she, I would let no male doctor near my lady bits, thankyouverymuch.) told me that it meant my uterus was moving up and I'd probably be starting to show soon. I was only ten weeks along! This is bull shit. I want a fucking refund.

EJ rolled onto his side and propped up on his elbow before asking "You okay? How's my Sea Monkey?" He said as he poked my stomach with one hand and bent his head down to rub his eyes with the other.

"I'm fine. And you better not be one of those dads that asks if I'm okay thirty fucking times a day. I will so kick you in the junk if you do that to me." Edward laughed at me and I scowled as I walked into the bathroom to shower.

I was mid-shampoo when I heard Edward put the toilet seat up. "Ugh… I can smell your pee. Nasty." I gagged a little and heard him flush. Thank God our plumbing doesn't do that cold water shit.

Edward poked his head in and moved his eye brows all suggestively. "Can I get in with you?"

"No. This is Bella's thinking time today." I closed the shower curtain on him and he laughed.

Finding out I was pregnant was definitely on the list of things I never actually wanted to experience in life, and now that I had, I was so confused. I thought I didn't want this… and now that it's here… I wouldn't change it for the world.

After Jasper and Edward left for the shop on Sunday morning, Alice pulled me into her bedroom. She riffled through a box at the top of her closet and pulled out a pregnancy test.

"I think you should take this." She said.

"Al, why the fuck do you have a pregnancy test in your closet?!" If nothing else was weird about her actually having a pregnancy test, it was where she kept it.

"Well, Jasper and I had a scare a few months back, and the two pack was only like two dollars more. I thought it might come in handy, and it has, so be grateful you big fat bitch."

I turned the box over in my hand and thought about my periods. My last two had been extremely light, but I blamed it on the yoga classes Jasper had convinced me to start three months ago. I was always told that women who were big time athletes often had no period at all because of their lack of body fat, and a lot of younger athletes didn't even start getting one until they were much older. I just chocked the lighter periods to my new physique. Which fucking rocked by the way.

"But Al… why was it in your closet?"

She rolled her eyes. "Because you and EJ are the lucky bastards that have the ensuite bathroom. I'm not leaving my personal shit for everyone to see in that hall bath. Quit asking stupid questions and pee on the damn stick." I should pee on your fucking bed for that shit.

Actually taking the test was nerve wracking. Partially because my sister decided she just HAD to sit with me to take it. As in, she was in the room while I peed on it. She insisted it was to make sure I did it right. Cause it's so effing hard to pee on a stick. The other part was that I knew this wasn't something Edward and I were prepared for. At. All. For the past year things had just been so shitty.

We fought over the dumbest things on the planet (I swear to God that man picked a fight about soap) and we just seemed to resent each other. I was honestly just waiting for the day that he would tell me he was done. I didn't want to do it myself because one: who wants to be alone? Two: I was so afraid that part of him was still in it and that I would break his heart. There was a tiny part of my brain that kept telling me my heart still held him, but I was just sure that the love we had was so different now.

When the stupid little digital test beeped I took a deep breath. Alice jumped up to look at it and I told her not too. She looked at me in confusion and I explained that if Edward couldn't be there to see it, then no one would. It would just be me.

I damn near fainted when the little screen had a stupid happy face on it and said "Pregnant". Once I composed myself enough to actually have a thought, it was only of Edward. I croaked out "He should be here. He needs to be here. He can't be though. I have to be positive. Call Carlisle."

Alice dug through my purse and found my phone to get Carlisle's number. I knew it was a long shot, but there was no way I could wait to see a doctor, and he had connections all over Washington.

I sat completely stunned while I listened to the call that Alice made on my phone. "Carlisle? Hi, it's Alice… Bella's sister. Yeah um… so you can't tell anyone but Bella just took a pregnancy test and it's positive,"

There was a long pause and I could hear the muffled sound of Carlisle's voice, but he wasn't yelling so I took that as a good sign. Alice covered the receiver and asked me when my last period was. I told her and she relayed the message.

"Yeah it's totally weird, but she said it was lighter and shorter than usual too." Another pause. "Look I know this is a long shot since it's a Sunday but isn't there anyone you can call that could see her today?" pause, "No he doesn't know, that's why she needs a doctor. She wants to be one-hundred-percent sure before she tells him." Pause, "Oh, and the doctor has to be female." Pause, "I know right!" Alice laughed and I wanted to kill her. She took in my glare and cleared her throat. "Yeah I can get a pen."

She walked out of the room for about five minutes and came back with a piece of paper that had a name and number on it. She told me that Carlisle would make the appointment and he would call back to let us know the time.

An hour later I was sitting on the couch with the TV on, but not watching it. I just stared and would occasionally chew the skin around my finger nails. My cell rang and I answered in a small voice.

"Bella, its Carlisle. I've called in a favor to an associate of mine, she said she'd see you today at the hospital at one pm. Can you make it there on time?" I told him I could. "Good. Bella, I really think you should let Edward go with you."

"I c-c-can't do that Carlisle." There was a lump forming in my throat because I knew he was right. I tried to clear my throat "Carlisle, he's not going to be happy about this. It's already so rocky and I just… I need to do this alone."

"If that's how you feel Bella, but I have to tell you that I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by his reaction." I held back the snort. "Just please, don't do anything… rash… until you discuss everything with him."

I was disgusted. Did this man really think I'd go and abort my baby just because Edward might go ass-hole over it?

I sighed before answering "Don't worry Carlisle. I'm not going to term my kid or run off without so much as a letter. This may be far from planned, but it's still our kid… if the test is right. Look, thanks for the help. Just… please… I'm begging you, don't tell Edward."

I heard Carlisle's desk chair shift and creak before he promised he wouldn't and wished me a good visit. Then he blew my mind. "Oh Bella."

"Yes?"

"I can't wait to tell Esme she's going to be a grandmother again." I could hear his smile. "She'll be so beside herself with excitement that I doubt she'll know what to do."

"That's… great… Carlisle. Um…"

"Oh, I won't tell her until you say its okay, Sweetie. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't pretty excited about having another grandchild myself though, so don't wait too long to tell everyone."

I expressed my thanks for the connection, threw up, and made Alice drive me to the hospital. I was pretty fucking irritated sitting in the waiting room of the doctor's office. There were only about ten patients in the room, and each one had someone with them. There was one girl who looked to be about sixteen and she had her mother there. She looked… dead. The mother was reading a magazine looking exhausted. All the other women looked happy and chipper and all glowy and shit and I just wanted to hurl again.

"Hey," Alice nudged my arm with her elbow and leaned her head into whisper, "you see that lady standing at the desk, the one in the white shirt?" I nodded "You can totally see her cottage cheese ass through her pants."

Sure enough the woman turned and her ass was covered in fucking dimples. The nurse called my name and Alice followed me back into the hall. The nurse weighed me, and much to my chagrin I had lost five pounds. The nurse, whose name I learned was Jenny, handed me a cup to fill in the bathroom. Alice actually followed me in.

"Alice, I can pee by myself."

"Yeah but I don't want to wait in the hall with that Jenny person. She's got a mustache." I groaned before peeing in the cup and setting in the little metal window as Jenny had instructed me.

After Jenny took us into the exam room and took my vitals, we were left to wait. Alice filed her nails and I sat in the robe that had been supplied me while I read a pamphlet about the practice. Apparently, they tried to make your OBGYN needs more "spa-like". That explains the terry cloth robe and little fountains in the waiting room. The practice consisted of six women and they made a point to have you seen by each doctor and the midwife at least once so that when you go into labor (eek! Labor!) you won't be meeting them for the first time. The pamphlet also stated that they try to make their hours as flexible as possible, offering one Saturday and one Sunday open a month. Explains the full waiting room.

Soon enough a tall, thin woman with a Russian accent came into the room.

"Isabella?" I nodded. "Hi, I'm Dr. Kohaut and I'll be the primary doctor on your file. I hear you're a friend of Carlisle Cullen's?"

"Um, yes. He's my boyfriend's father."

"Wonderful! Okay so I'm going to get some information from you first, and then we'll do an ultrasound to try and date the pregnancy better." I nodded my assent and she started rambling off about four-hundred-and-sixty-eight questions. I was pretty exhausted by the time she was done getting my entire history.

"Okay I'll be right back. I hate the ultrasound machine in this room, so I'm going to have Jenny move you into the next one over, alright?" I nodded again and Alice gave me a look that clearly expressed how insane she thought this all was. Me too Al, me too.

Jenny came in and told me I didn't have to redress, that I could walk to the next room in the robe. Awesome. I've always wanted to walk through a doctor's office hall in a fucking bathrobe. We got settled into the next room, and Jenny stayed with us this time. Dr. Kohaut entered soon and pulled the stirrups from the table.

"Because of how far along you are, we'll have to do the ultrasound internally." Now, I wasn't entirely sure what that meant, but when she rolled the cart into my view, I was pretty sure I wouldn't like it.

The cart held a screen that looked a lot like a small computer, along with a keyboard. Attached to one side of the screen though, there was a strange looking probe that had a sort of flat, yet rounded tip. Covering the probe was a mother fucking condom with the wrapper opened and resting on the tip, I expected it was to prevent contamination. What startled me more than the idea of being probed with a condom covered piece of medical equipment though, was that the condom was ribbed for her pleasure. Ribbed. For. Her. Pleasure. You can't make this shit up.

Alice was instructed to come sit by my head as I placed my feet in the God forsaken stirrups. Thank God Edward isn't here. Dr. Kohaut asked me to scoot my ass closer to the edge of the table, and I shimmied as best I could.

"Okay, I'm going to insert the wand so we can get a good look at everything, and then I'm going to check on the baby." I tilted my head back a little bit and closed my eyes.

Alice rubbed my shoulder. I felt the probe, and while it didn't feel horrible, it was just too damn awkward for me to look anywhere. She pressed around all up in my betty for a little bit before finally saying "Ah, there we go!" I heard a click of a switch and then I heard the most incredible sound I'd ever heard.

Wha-pump, wha-pump, wha-pump. Alice gasped and I slowly turned my head to the screen. The picture was black and white, and in the middle of a big oval was my little baby. I could make out the torso and head, and in the torso was a little white thing that was flashing like a tiny white beacon.

"See there?" Dr. Kohaut asked using the curser on the screen to point to the white flashing. I nodded, unable to form words. "That's your baby's heart. It's strong." I closed my eyes and let a tear escape.

"I'm going to give you a few print-outs, would you like one for your boyfriend that says 'Hi Daddy'?"

"Yes please." I answered.

Dr. Kohaut pointed out a few more things to me on the screen and I relished in the fast wha-pump sound that was coming through the speakers.

Dr. Kohaut removed the wand and handed me the pictures. She told me I was ten weeks along, based on the baby's growth and the amount of fluid in my womb. She told me to go ahead and get ready and then I could make an appointment for four weeks from then if I'd want to continue going there. I lay on the table for a good couple of minutes before I asked Alice if she wouldn't mind stepping out side to give me a minute by myself.

"Sure Doll Face." She quietly answered before kissing the top of my head.

I stayed lying on the table staring at the picture in my hand. My little baby. That heart beat was incredible and I wished I could hear it all the time. I was looking at a picture where he or she looked like they were sucking their thumb and I realized that I loved this baby way to much to bring it into a home with parents that were fighting all the time. I made my decision and stood from the table. I got my phone from my jeans pocket and dialed Angela. I asked her if I could stay with her for a few days, and she told me I could stay as long as I wanted. I threw up four times in the thirty minute ride to the tattoo studio.

When I told Edward my plan, he flipped his shit. I could see in his face as he yelled that he still loved me, and I knew I still loved him. This was going to be a long ride and while I didn't believe him at first, it took him a few times telling me before I got it.

Which brings us to today. I stepped out of the shower, both body and mind thoroughly clean. Edward was dressed and packing up toiletries for our trip to Forks. Yay. I'm so fucking excited.

I sat on my bed to lotion my body. "Um, EJ."

"Yeah."

"You should know something."

Edward sat on the bed next to me and grabbed my lotion to smother my back. "What's up Snow?"

"Please don't be mad… but your dad sort of already knows… about the baby." Edward stopped rubbing the lotion in. "Alice told him… she sort of had to. He doesn't know for sure, but we had to call him so I could get into an OB's office. I had only taken the home test, so we weren't positive, and I didn't talk to him after the appointment."

"Fuck Bella. I wish you would've told me he knew!" Edward wiped his hands on my towel and got up to pace in front of the bed.

"Edward, I'm really sorry. But how else was I supposed to get in to see a doctor on a Sunday?"

"You could've waited til Monday." He grumbled. I snorted. Edward and I were not known for our patience.

"Yeah that would've worked out great. I piss on the stick Sunday morning and I'd have to sit on that information for a whole day?"

"You wouldn't have had to. You could've told me, Bella. I don't know why you didn't."

"Because I had to be sure. People have false positives all the time. Look, even if I did tell you, you would've called your dad anyways to have him set up the same thing I did."

Edward let out a big gust of air and slumped to the bed. "Yeah. Okay. I'm sorry."

I waited a few moments before I spoke in a small voice. "He said he was really excited."

I saw Edward smile a bit. "Alright Snow White." He clapped his hands on his knees. "Let's finish getting ready so that we can get to what's sure to be my death." I snickered knowing that my dad could put such fear in what I had always considered to be the toughest guy I knew.

An hour and a half later, Emmett and Rosalie were at our house with coffees for everyone.

"I still think it's shitty that I'm the only one that has to ride with EJ." I grumbled. Emmett laughed and Alice shot me a look full of pity.

Edward on road trips pissed everyone off. He would gripe about every single thing he could. "You're not going fast enough", "We need gas", "I fuckin' hate this song", "I'm hungry". It was honestly like driving with a child, but if you let him drive you were sure to have a heart attack. He was a speed demon. Thankfully I only had about three hours in the car with him. Unfortunately, some of that time was spent on a damn ferry and that meant he was going to be bored.

"Oh hey man, I got you a little gift for the ride." Jasper said pointing at Edward. He ran into his room and came back with a Wal-Mart bag. "I figured it would keep you distracted and Bella wouldn't want to kill you by the time we got to the hotel."

Edward pulled a black box out and grinned. "Dude… this is awesome." He immediately opened the box and pulled out what looked like a small computer. When he lifted the screen, I noticed it was a portable DVD player.

I ran to Jasper and jumped on him in a tight hug. "Jasper, I owe you so big. I'll throw Alice a sex toy party for her bachelorette party and make sure she gets lots of stuff!"

Edward pretended to gag while he and Emmett checked out his new toy and Alice clapped. "Yay! I've always wanted a sex toy party!" Jasper smiled lazily.

"I've got the name of a great consultant!" Rosalie chimed in.

"Ooh! Rose you should help me plan it!" I said. She smiled and nodded.

Thirty minutes later we were getting in the cars. Edward brought fifteen fucking DVDs, I rolled my eyes and he claimed that he wanted a good selection. I told him to shut up and put his ear buds in as I set my iPod up with the tape deck adapter.

The ride was much better than I expected thanks to Jasper. When we got on the ferry everyone got out of the cars to head to the restaurant on deck. We were all sitting at a table when Edward started hounding me about my fucking car.

"Bella, you need to let me buy you a new car."

"No I don't."

"Doll Face, I love you dearly, but you can't drive a baby around in that thing." Alice chimed in.

"We've got Edward's car. It's fine." I grumbled. "We can just drive the baby in that."

"Sweetie, Edward's car doesn't have back doors. Isn't that going to be a pain in the ass?" Rose said.

"Oh my God! Lets just all gang up on Bella and her awesome car, because we just want to see a pregnant woman cry apparently." I threw my hands in the air and stormed off to the bathroom.

I was splashing my face with water when my cell rang. I immediately recognized the name on the screen.

"Hey Alec." I sighed.

"Mm, hey Fetus. You sound all annoyed and shit. Is that gorgeous arm candy you carry around pissing you off?" I smiled.

Alec was one of my closest friends and confidant's. We had met in hair school, and he had been laid off with Alice and me when the salon chain we were working for got bought out.

Alec was one of those gay guys that you just knew, the second you saw him on the street, was a queen. I loved him to pieces. He had jet black hair with a few blue chunks that was spiky in the back and a bit on the left side; the front pushed forward and towards the right and was longer than the rest. I can honestly say it was the most interesting hair cut I'd ever given. He had impeccable taste, and usually wore things that were tighter fitting. He was the average girl's height, only a few inches taller than me, and rail thin. Always dieting. He had started calling me fetus when we met, saying that I looked way to young to be my actual age.

"So tell me what's up, ya whore. I haven't heard anything from you in a while."

"Well, we decided not to tell anyone until we told family on Thursday but everyone just jumped all over me about Wanda so I'm gonna tell someone."

"Oooh I love vengeful gossip." I could hear his eyes widen.

"EJ knocked me up."

There was a loud clank and a squeal in the background. I waited a minute, smiling to myself. "Back up Fetus. Did you just tell me you're pregs? Like there's a baby taking up residence in your uterus?"

I laughed, only Alec would word shit that way. "Yep."

"Holy shit! That is so… cool! Sooo," his tone went higher as he finished drawing out the word, "when's your vadge spitting it out?"

"Well, I'm due June twentieth, if that's what you're asking." I rolled my eyes.

"Of course that's what I'm asking. Jesus Fetus. Oh, so hey. I applied at this really amazing spa down town. Apparently, they're like, super desperate for stylists and asked me to have any stylist friends come in and apply, so you and that little spazzy sister of yours should totally come in."

"Yeah I'll think about it Alec. I mean… I'm not really sure what I'm going to do as far as work in concerned. EJ has such a shitty schedule and we're going to have a kid in daycare and shit, so I'll probably need to get some lame ass job at a bank or something, just so I can have normal hours." I cringed. A bank job was so not what I wanted.

"Okaaaay," he sang out the word, "if that's what you think you want. Oh, hey my mother is calling me so I'll have to talk to you later." He laughed, "fucking pregnant. God damn breeder." Before hanging up.

I turned into one of the stalls to pee and when I came out there was another woman at the sink. I could always tell exactly which piercing people were staring at based on what part of my face they couldn't tear their eyes away from, and I always took inventory.

If they were looking around my right eye, I knew it was the anti-eyebrow. The middle of my face, I knew it was the two small hoops in my left nostril. My mouth, the vertical labret. My favorite thing to do was to smile when I saw these people blatantly staring at me. They'd cringe at the sight of a barbell in my gums between my two front teeth. I have to admit, that piercing was one hell of a bitch to do, seeing as I didn't have any space at all between my teeth. I rarely got stares at the twenty or so piercings in my ears.

Edward and I had gotten used to the stares when we walked together out in public. Both of his arms were heavily tattooed as was his neck. He even had "Snow" tattooed across the knuckles of his left hand for me. I liked to watch people scan his face and take inventory just like I watched them with mine. Right eye, double eye brow piercing; either side of his face, cheek piercings (or "dimples", whatever) middle of his face, septum. His ears were just as heavily pierced as mine, and people definitely took notice. Of course, people also stared because he was just so fucking hot. I always knew those bright green eyes and reddish brown sex hair would get stares. It probably didn't help much that he was well over six feet tall with the most beautifully built body I'd ever seen.

The woman surveyed the extensive tattoo work on my arm and shuddered a bit. Maybe it was the hormones, but I couldn't stop myself.

"My God, I'm not some deviant who's gonna make you hand over your purse. Jesus." I grumbled before I stomped out of the bathroom.

When I got back to the table, everyone apologized except Edward. He just shoved half a hot dog in his mouth. Edward and his brother Emmett both still ate like teenagers, only Emmett was worse. I started calling Edward "Emmett Junior" or EJ as a result of this. So fucking gross. They weren't messy eaters, they just ate a ton all at one meal.

I knew he wouldn't apologize though. He hated Wanda The Honda and I knew he was going to use the baby as an excuse to buy me some new vehicle that I didn't want. Eventually, it was time to get back to our cars to get off the ferry. Yay… time to tell the parental units about our out-of-wedlock child. Wahoo. I'm so effing excited.

So... funny story. Alec is based off of two great queens that I know and love. He looks like my friend Mattie, but talks like my friend Ed. Ed called me Fetus all thru highschool because at sixteen years old, I still looked twelve. Even now at almost 25 I look sixteen. Maybe I'll love it when I'm fifty but right now it's a bitch to buy fucking smokes. And Bella's experience at the OB's office... TOTALLY mine. Everything down to the pleasure enhanced condom on the damn probe. I still don't get that, the only enjoyable part was seeing little man on the screen.