Human Desires
Chapter Five
"Come on, Bella!" Alice cheered her on even though she wasn't in the mood. Alice was forcing her to go with her to Port Angeles for shopping. Bella hated shopping as it was, but with her intense depression, she didn't want to do anything other than sit around and sleep.
Plus, she felt terrible. She was suffering from a massive headache and she had to force herself to eat a bowl of cereal that morning.
"Alice, I'm not going. I don't feel good." The vampire quickly rolled her eyes before letting out a small laugh.
"Don't be silly! Today, we have to go! There are some things I need to get for you and that little someone." Bella was instantly confused and that feeling was followed by a wave of nausea.
Her being sick didn't make any sense. She hadn't been around anyone. She was surprised that Charlie hadn't noticed that she had been skipping school for the past week or that she hadn't been cooking or cleaning at all.
Bella jumped from her seat and sprinted for the bathroom. She dropped to her knees in front of the toilet before throwing up the cereal she had eaten that morning. The stomach acid burned her throat which made her cough after she threw up. She looked to the door and saw Alice grinning from ear to ear while clapping.
"What is with you? I told you I was sick." Alice rolled her eyes.
"Come on, Bella! Like you don't know about the little guy in your belly." Bella gasped before placing her hand on her stomach.
"What?" She said, shocked, scared, and anxious. Alice instantly realized that Bella was oblivious to her state.
"I thought you knew?" Alice asked and Bella had tears come to her eyes.
"I'm pregnant?" She asked and Alice nodded, a joyful look in her eyes, as Bella panicked. "No!" Alice was shocked by her reaction, which was hard for someone to do, and Bella rushed to her feet before washing out her mouth. She reached under the sink for the care package Renee had sent her when her and Edward first started dating.
If it wasn't for her, she wouldn't have what she needed then. Two simple things.
She grabbed the pregnancy test and the other small package before running to the toilet and peeing on the stick. She didn't know if she could believe Alice.
This couldn't be happening.
She put the cap back on the pregnancy test and, in a matter of minutes, it came back with a very thick plus sign which made her break into a heavy sob, anxiety filling her.
"This can't be happening!" She cried out before hugging her torso.
"What is the matter, Bella? You and Jacob are going to be parents together." Bella looked to her with an intense hurt on her face and shook her head.
"I will not be having this baby. I will be taking this pill and it will force me to miscarry. Jacob will never know of this baby's existence." Alice gasped and used her vampire speed to snatch the box from Bella. She grabbed the pill out of the box before Bella could reach her.
"I can't let you do that, Bella. You don't know how important that child is, but I do. Aborting your pregnancy is the worst mistake you could make. Not just for you, but Jacob, too." Bella sobbed while she argued with Alice.
"I can't be a mother when Jacob is the father, Alice! I will end up having so much resentment towards this child because of what he did to me! My only shot at ever being a good mother is aborting this pregnancy. I can't have this baby!" Bella yelled and Alice shook her head, still holding the pill in her hand.
"This is for your own good, Bella. You, Jacob, and your children will thank me later." And, like that, Alice put the pill in her mouth and swallowed it before Bella could stop her.
"Get out, Alice! If I want to end my own pregnancy, it's my choice to do so!" Bella yelled at her and Alice disappeared.
Even though it was something she had been fighting against all week, she decided it was time to go see Emily.
Before she got ready to do so or even call Emily to check that Jacob wasn't there, she made a much more important call in her mind.
She called to set up an appointment with Planned Parenthood. She was irritated with them because they said she had to have two appointments for them to give her an abortion. The first was for a wellness check and consultation and the second would be her abortion appointment.
Bella climbed out of her truck at Emily's house before closing her door, stuffing her hands in her jacket pocket.
To be able to handle being around people without breaking down, she had to put up the mask she had put away for so long. She hoped she would never need it after the Cullen's came back, but Jacob made her need it with how he broke her.
She walked up the porch and softly knocked on the door. After a few moments, the door opened, a cheery Emily greeting her.
"Bella!" She threw her arms around her friend, not having seen her since the day she had been so heartbroken. She could see she was still upset, but she would let her bring it up. "Come in." Emily grabbed her hand when Bella didn't hug her back and dragged her into the house that was lacking of any member of the pack.
"Sorry for such short notice." Emily shook her head before shutting the front door.
"Don't be silly. It's been too long. I'm glad to see you. I made some coffee. Would you like some?" Bella frowned and shook her head. Normally, she would have loved to have some of Emily's coffee because she made the best she had ever tasted, but subconsciously, she said no to protect the baby she was carrying. She would not admit it out loud, though.
"No." Emily nodded before guiding her to the couch.
"Well, how are you holding up?" She asked calmly and in her normal friend matter.
"Not good as you can probably tell." Emily nodded and gently rubbed her back.
"What happened when Jacob went to see you? No one tells me anything anymore." Bella's eyes widened in surprise.
"What are you talking about? I haven't talked to him or seen him since he left me that terrible note." Emily's eyes widened.
"But, that's not possible. I saw him go into your house a couple minutes after you did the last time I saw you. He was going to talk to you." Bella gulped and nodded.
"Whether he did or not, I didn't see him or talk to him." Emily nodded.
"That is just so strange because all he has said when I've asked about you is that he was waiting for you to come around." Bella frowned and squinted from how it hurt to talk about him after how he abandoned her, shattering his promise to never hurt her. "Bella, talk to me. I'm your friend. What's the matter?" As soon as she said those sweet words, Bella broke into tears, sobbing heavily. "Oh, Bella!" She exclaimed from her friend's broken heart.
"I don't know what I did that was so terrible to deserve this. Maybe it was because I ever took Edward back or because I went to save him!" Bella exclaimed in defeat before she spoke again. "Or maybe it was just because I was too stupid and too lovesick to think to make Jacob use protection." Emily gasped as she heard the last four words come out of her mouth.
"Hold the phone for a second." Bella stopped talking and just cried in her hands. "Make Jacob use protection?" Bella nodded before she looked at Emily, reining in her tears. "Bella, are you... pregnant?" She looked Emily in the eye before another sob broke out. "Oh, my god. Jacob got you pregnant." Bella nodded before wiping her tears.
"Alice and a pregnancy test confirms it. She said she has seen the baby in her visions and she thought I already knew or she would have told me." Emily smiled at her before she hugged her.
"Bella, I'm so happy for you." She was shocked by this reaction. "Sure, you and Jake are really young, but I know the two of you could make it work. Plus, this right here is all Jake ever wanted with you, to have a family together." Bella squinted before pulling back.
"Jacob doesn't care about me and he wouldn't care about this baby if by some miracle he ever found out about it." Emily was shocked when she noticed that Bella was talking in the past tense when it came to her unborn child.
"Bella, what did you do?" Bella sobbed before shaking her head.
"I haven't done it yet, but I have an appointment to have an abortion at Planned Parenthood." She explained and Emily gasped.
"What? No!" She exclaimed and Bella was shocked by this reaction. "Bella, you can't do that. Trust me. I've had an abortion and, for someone as compassionate as you are, it's overly traumatizing. You won't come out of it the same person. You need to trust me on this." Bella shook her head before looking away.
"I don't know what else to do. Jacob broke me and, having a baby that is also his, that would be the worst thing I could possibly put myself through." Emily went to protest, but Bella continued. "After Edward came back, my mom sent me this package of stuff she thought I would need if I was seriously dating someone. In it was a pregnancy test and an abortion pill. Alice was there and I was about to take the pill, but she stole it from me, saying some bullshit about how this baby is important." She hated calling it a baby since all it did was make her being pregnant so real.
"Bella, I know it hurts what happened, but I can see that you care about your baby." She shook her head, denying it. "Bella, you refused my coffee for the first time since we met and you just so happen to be pregnant. Everyone knows coffee is bad for an unborn baby. If you didn't care and really wanted to end your pregnancy, you would have taken the coffee, but you didn't. You love your baby no matter how much you don't want to. That child isn't just Jacob's. it's yours, too. That baby is a part of you." Bella groaned aloud.
"Stop calling it a baby! It's just a bunch of cells, goddamnit!" Tears spilled down her face as she struggled to wipe them away.
"It is a baby, Bella. It's your baby. It's growing in your stomach every single second you think about killing it. You are just scared and I don't blame you. You are eighteen and Jake is sixteen. You are both very young to be having a baby, but I know both of you will love that baby unconditionally and, one day, you will hate the fact that you ever contemplated ending your pregnancy because that baby will bring you so much joy. I know it, Bella. I don't need to see the future to know you will be a great mom and Jacob a great dad." Bella shook her head before standing up.
"I thought you might actually understand because you have always been neutral on all issues, but you are just making it worse." Bella walked towards the door as she heard laughter before she ran into a hard chest.
"Bells? Hey!" She met the eyes of the man who got her pregnant as he smirked at her until he saw the broken soul inside her. "What are you doing here?" She looked back to Emily, seeing her coming towards her, before she moved between the wolves blocking the door.
"Excuse me." She went to her truck with Emily on her heals.
"Bella, wait, please!" Bella got in her truck as Emily made it to her. "You can't do this, Bella. You will regret it every day for the rest of your life. Please, listen to me." Bella shook her head, shutting her truck door, before speeding off. "Bella!" Emily had tears down her face as all of the pack looked at her confused, Sam running to his imprint.
"Em, what is it?" A sob escaped her lips before she approached Jacob.
"Em, what was that all about?" Jacob asked right before she slapped him across the face.
"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!" Emily yelled in Jacob's face as Sam pulled her back, restraining her from hurting herself.
"Wooh, Em, calm down, honey." Sam tried to soothe her, but there was nothing he could say to take away her anguish.
"Emily, what the hell?" Jacob responded as he rubbed his cheek. "What did I do?" Emily let out another sob as she yanked her arms out of Sam's grasp.
"I thought you were going to talk to her! That day, you said you were going to try to fix things! She said she hasn't talked to you since before you left her that note at the cabin! Now, you have made a hell of a mess that can't be cleaned up!" He wasn't sure what to make of what she had said.
"What are you talking about? Bella was asleep so I left her a note to let me know when she was ready to talk." Emily's eyes widened and all of the pack nodded, confirming what Jacob had said.
"She's never found any note, Jake." He gasped in response to this. "She still thinks you want nothing to do with her and that is just making this new development all that much harder for her." She turned to Sam for help. "She won't listen to me! She's being so stubborn and she's about to make the worst mistake she ever will make!" Sam knew exactly what she was talking about. She had referred to her abortion when she was in high school as "the worst mistake of her life" and Sam gasped, taking a step back.
"Are you sure?" Sam questioned and she nodded vigorously, tears falling.
"Yes, but she doesn't want to do that. She just won't admit it! I offered her coffee for crying out loud and she refused it, Sam! If that doesn't say she doesn't want to do this, I don't know what does!" She nodded while he hugged her sighing.
"Would someone like to let me in on what exactly is going on?" Jacob asked as Sam looked to him sorrowful.
"Jake…" Sam tried to figure out the right words to say it, but he came up empty. What is a good way to break to someone that they got the love of their life pregnant, at sixteen? Emily released herself from Sam before moving over to Jacob, taking a deep breath.
"Bella's...pregnant." Jacob gasped as he heard the words slip from Emily's lips and his breath was taken away.
"What?" All of the other wolves gasped along with him as they stayed silent.
"She found out this morning. Alice Cullen told her and she took a test to confirm it. She's pregnant with your baby." A small smirk rose on his face as he looked away. He knew it was stupid and immature not to be upset about her being pregnant, but he couldn't help being over the moon. He loved her and he knew they could make this work.
"Wow. Okay. So, what does that have to do with why you hit me and you crying?" He asked calmly and Emily wiped her tears.
"Everything." Sam placed his hand on Emily's shoulder.
"Em, it's okay." Emily nodded before wiping away her tears again.
"She won't listen to me or to any kind of reason, Jake. I tried to dissuade her, but she won't listen to any of it." Jacob's eyes narrowed as he stepped forward.
"What the hell is going on, Em?" Jacob pled with her for the truth and she took a deep breath, finally having the strength to tell him the completely honest truth.
"Bella is going to a clinic to have an abortion." He gasped aloud as shock filled him.
"An abortion?" He asked and she nodded.
"I tried to get her to listen to reason because I may not know her as well as you do, but I know her well enough that to know that she would never, ever be the same after going through something like that. The Bella you know would be dead and gone and never coming back. I know she really doesn't want to do it, but she is scared and doesn't want to know what to do. She thinks she can't handle it because it's your child she is pregnant with." He gasped before he scowled, a light tremble in his hands.
"She is having an abortion because it's mine? Is this crap just out of spite?" He growled and Emily shook her head.
"No, Jake! It's not out of spite!" Emily sighed as more tears fell. "She is still so hurt from what happened that she doesn't think she could possible be a good mom to a baby that you're the father of. That's her issue." He sighed before he looked to the woods, groaning.
He had to stop her.
"What clinic is she going to?" He asked and Emily instantly knew that he was planning to stop her.
"She said Planned Parenthood, but she didn't say which one. I doubt there is one in Forks, so I guess, Port Angeles would be the closest." He nodded before he sprinted into the woods, running as fast as he could back to his house. He quickly threw on real clothes before he jumped on his bike, speeding off towards the highway.
He knew his bike could go twice as fast as her truck and he highly doubted she would be having that abortion before he got there.
Bella sat from across the waiting room as she saw a young woman with a small toddler, waddling around the room, while the woman rubbed her swollen stomach.
"Isn't he adorable?" The woman asked her kindly and Bella smirked, nodding, as the little boy spoke his little gibberish while he walked towards her, a big bright smile on his face.
"How old is he?" Bella asked nicely and the woman giggled.
"Thirteen months. He likes to pretend he can't talk, but he talks all the time." Bella nodded as the little boy patted her knees. "He doesn't bite, promise." She giggled and she leaned over, more to his level.
"Hey, little one." He giggled before he shrieked and she snickered. "Can you clap, like this?" Bella clapped in front of his face and he placed his hands over hers, a happy smile gracing his face. "Good!" She giggled herself while smiling at the happy toddler. "You are one handsome little man." She kindly rubbed his curly, blonde hair.
"Thank you." His mother said as she rubbed her stomach.
"What's his name?" Bella asked and the pregnant woman giggled.
"Frederick. I named him after my father. We just call him Freddy though." Bella nodded as she stared at the happy toddler, playing with her hands, a perplexed expression on his face. "You know, when I found out I was pregnant with him, I came here to have an abortion." Bella gasped, surprised by how amazing and beautiful this child was.
"Why?" She wasn't sure why she was asking this, but the pregnant woman knew from Bella's behavior that she was there for the same thing and that she wasn't completely sure if she wanted to have an abortion.
"Because he was conceived through rape." Bella gasped at this while the woman smiled at her son. "I wasn't sure I could raise a child that I could possibly feel a distaste for because of their father…" Bella felt like she was listening to herself from the way this woman worded it, even when she continued. "I didn't really want to have an abortion. I loved him already, but I thought it would be for the best. That changed pretty quickly. This place gave me the whole line about having to have a consultation first before I went ahead with the abortion. Once I saw my son on the ultrasound and heard his heart, I couldn't do it and I couldn't be happier that I changed my mind. I don't see any of his father in him. All there is in that little guy is me and my family." Bella nodded before she sighed.
"My situation is a little different." The woman nodded before walking over, taking a seat next to Bella.
"Let me guess. Bad break up?" She asked and Bella nodded.
"You could say that." She nodded before she extended her hand to Bella.
"Melanie." Bella nodded before shaking her hand.
"Bella." Melanie nodded before smirking at her.
"Bella, why are you really here? You don't look like you actually want to do this. Is it revenge? Regret? Fear? Hate? Or is it out of love?" Bella sighed as Freddy turned and crawled off.
"Fear, I guess. I want to be a mother under the right circumstances and these aren't them." Melanie nodded before clutching Bella's hand.
"Are you sure they aren't? Or you just don't want them to be?" She nodded in response.
"My ex-best friend, who is the one who got me pregnant, he used me for sex and then wanted nothing to do with me anymore. If I told him about this, he would probably just encourage me having an abortion so yeah I really think having an abortion is for the best." Melanie nodded with a smirk.
"Okay, then. I am the treatment consultant here as well as a patient." Bella's eyes widened before she giggled.
"Are you serious?" Melanie nodded happily.
"I am here to make sure this is really the right decision for you because, once you have an abortion, it can't be undone and you can't turn back time to stop it." Bella nodded, her nerves getting to her.
"Okay." Then, the bell to the door rang and the door opened, a person walking in that Bella wasn't expecting.
There Jacob stood, covered from head to toe in light mist from the rain, in a black t-shirt, blue jeans, and his steel toed boots, a concentrated look on his face. He looked to her and she saw the relief wash over him.
"Great, just what I needed." Bella rolled her eyes as she ran her fingers through her hair and Jacob approached, confusing Melanie.
"We need to talk, right now." She groaned as he grabbed her hand, guiding her out the front door. They stood under the awning to stay shielded from the rain as she crossed her arms at him.
"How did you find me?" He raised an eyebrow at her and she nodded. "Emily told you, didn't she?" He nodded and she groaned. "You really don't need to be here at all. She shouldn't have said anything to you." She tried to stay calm, but her nerves were shot.
"I have every right to know about this, Bella, unless you are denying that the baby is mine, and I have every right to be here." She gulped and nodded before looking into his eyes.
"Honestly, I didn't think you would care at all about this. Your note was pretty adamant that you don't want me or any part of me in your life." Her daggers sent a pain through his heart and his eyes softened.
"Bells, that's not true. I love you." She rolled her eyes before looking away from him.
"Yeah, like I haven't heard that before." He cupped her face in his hands.
"Listen to me, please. I love you even if you don't want to believe that. That note was for your benefit, not mine. The hardest thing I have ever done is leave you that note. After everything that happened at the cabin, I just thought that you were going to go back to Cullen on Sunday morning so I tried to make it easier for you." She pushed his hand away before scoffing at him.
"Do you really think I would believe that load of bull crap? I didn't give you any reason to think I was going to go back to Edward. If I did, I'm sorry that I came off to you as such a slut." She shot venom at him through her words before she tried to go back inside, but he stopped her, pulling her back to him.
"Bella, I don't think you're a slut or anything like that. Please, just hear me out here." She groaned and scowled.
"It's not like you are actually going to let me go back in there without listening to your lies." He knew he had hurt her bad so he took all the cuts she would throw at him. He deserved them for his stupidity.
"Bells, I'm not lying. It just subconscious things, like that nightmare you had." She groaned before she yanked her arm away from him.
"How the hell would a nightmare make you think I wanted to get back with Edward, after you and I had sex? Answer me that, Jacob." He frowned as he remembered how she had cried into his chest after that terrible nightmare.
"It was because of the pattern of it. The only times I have heard of you having nightmares to that magnitude was when him and his coven were gone." She rolled her eyes as tears filled them.
"You are an idiot. I wasn't having a nightmare about Edward, alright?" He nodded with a sigh. "I was having a nightmare that Victoria killed you." He gasped.
This explained a lot to him. Any other time she had a nightmare and he was nearby, she didn't want him to touch her, but that time, she needed him to hold her and make love to her. Then, there were the words she spoke when he was trying to soothe her.
I couldn't take it if that happened…
Now, he knew, he was an idiot.
"I was torn up over it because I care about you." She said honestly, heartbreak clear in her eyes. "Obviously, you never cared about me." He gasped before he took her hand.
"You're wrong. I care about you so much. I love you with all my heart, honey." She took her hand back and shook her head.
"If that were true, you never would have dumped me through a damn note. At least Edward did it face to face." He shook his head.
"Bella, my other note explained it. I had left you a note in your room because, when I came to talk to you, you had fallen asleep on the floor. I picked you up and laid you in your bed." She had remembered that she fell asleep on the floor, but woke up in bed. She thought Charlie had put her there, but he just proved her wrong and there was no way for him to know that had happened unless it was him.
"You left me a note? I didn't find no any note." He shrugged.
"I don't know what happened to it, but I left it. When the pack told me that you thought I used you for sex, I had to go and talk to you, but when I got there, you were asleep. I tried to wake you so we could talk, but you wouldn't wake.
"Sam saw your conversation with Alice Cullen that day, how you told her that I was the one you wanted, and I felt terrible for leaving you that note because of how wrong I was. I put both of us through pain that wasn't necessary and I'm so sorry about that, Bells, but please…" He trailed off, intense pleading in his eyes, before he pressed her hands to his chest. "Please, don't do this. I don't want you to have an abortion." She gasped from what he said. "I want us to have our baby and raise it together, as a family. I want us to be a family. I want this." He pressed his hand to her lower abdomen as her heart fluttered at his words. "I know you want this baby so, please, just leave with me and we can have this wonderful, amazing blessing. Don't destroy this, please." He begged her and her hands slipped out of his before she took a step back.
"Jacob, I'm not having an abortion right now." She needed him to realize that this appointment wasn't for her procedure and he sighed in relief.
"Thank god! Let's go, honey." She shook her head while crossing her arms.
"I'm not leaving. I'm having a consultation done." He nodded before taking her hand back in his.
"Please, don't have the abortion." She sighed before she looked into his eyes.
"This isn't up to you, Jake. It's my body so it's my choice and I'm still having the abortion. I'm sorry, but nothing you can say can change my mind. I don't want to have this baby." She tried to get him to understand, but he was just as stubborn as her. Quickly, without any warning, he kissed her, passionately and she was caught off guard, subconsciously gripped his shirt as he held her close, working lovingly against her mouth.
"Please?" He pleaded one last time before pressing his forehead to hers. "You don't have to give me a final answer right now. Just, please, don't make a fast and rash decision like this without being completely positive." She nodded and he kissed her one last time before he ran back to his bike. After running her fingers through her hair, she went back inside, seeing Melanie waiting patiently for her.
"Let me guess. The father trying to stop you?" Bella nodded and noticed Freddy wasn't there anymore.
"Where did your son go?" Melanie giggled.
"In the back where he can play and we can do our work together." She nodded before sitting next to Melanie who patted her hand. "Was he success at dissuading you?" Bella shook her head and Melanie nodded. "Well, first on the list of things to do is your ultrasound." Bella nodded and both stood up before Melanie guided her towards the ultrasound room. "There is a gown on the bed for you to change into. Take off everything from the waist down and just open up the door when you are ready. I'm going to grab the ultrasound technician real quick." Bella nodded before she went into the room, closing the door. She slipped off her shoes, underwear, and jeans before she put on the gown over her camisole.
She reopened the door and Melanie and a woman in black scrubs came in, welcoming smiles on their faces.
"Bella, this is Denise. She is your technician for today." Bella shook her hand before laying down on the squishy doctors office bed. Denise powered up the machine and Bella noticed that a screen in front of her lit up also. She watched carefully as Denise got out the ultrasound gel and what looked like a condom to her.
This just really confused her. In the movies, didn't they always do it over the belly? Why would they need that stuff?
She watched as Denise attached a wand to the machine, put gel on it, put the condom looking thing on it before putting gel on the outside of it.
"Alright, Miss Bella, spread your legs and relax. It can be a little uncomfortable, but it doesn't hurt, trust me." Bella nodded and spread her legs before taking a deep breath. She watched the wand disappear between her legs before she gasped from the cold and the wand slipped inside of her with ease.
The screen darkened to black before a bubble popped up on the screen with what looked like a ball next to something that made her gasp.
The screen was pretty big so she could see great detail of the fetus inside of her. She saw the two tiny hands, two small feet, long legs, long arms, skinny torso, and a head the same size as the body. She saw the baby's feet jerk on the screen and she felt tears glisten her eyes from the sight.
"Okay. Let's just zoom in a little more so I can measure the heartbeat." Bella's heart was pounding a mile a minute from seeing her unborn child, growing inside her flat belly. They zoomed in until she could see her child's chest, a small, rapid twitching in its torso. Denise moved her cursor over the heart and the room instantly filled with the sound of a loud, quick gushing noise, Bella's heart speeding up at the sound.
That was her unborn son's heartbeat and she wanted to cry from how beautiful it was.
"The fetus has a good heart rate. 80 beats per minute. Normally, we wouldn't be able to get the heartbeat this early, but we have really good, high tech machines here. Let me just take measurements." Denise spoke softly and Bella nodded, watching her baby closely.
Bella stayed silent while Denise did the measurements before giggling.
"Well, Miss Bella, your baby is the seventy-five percentile for their gestation." Bella gasped before looking at Denise.
"Is there something wrong with him?" She asked, panicked, and Melanie chuckled.
"No, Bella. That's good. Fifty percent is completely average. The percentile is how ahead they are in growth. Below fifty is below average and above that number is above average. There is nothing wrong with being a little bigger. You are exactly six weeks from conception, right?" Bella nodded quickly.
"Or a day above that. The first day of my last period was eight weeks ago today." Melanie nodded as Denise put that in the ultrasound machine.
"The brain is a perfect size, too. Yup, your baby is as healthy as a horse, Miss Bella." Her tears finally fell with joy.
Her baby was okay.
"Thank you, Denise. I can take things from here." Denise nodded before smiling at Bella, retracting the wand from her. Denise took the wand with her and Melanie took her seat, placing her hand on Bella's shoulder. "Are you still sure this is what you want?" Bella wiped away her tears before she took a deep breath, shaking her head.
"No, I want my baby." Melanie smirked before rubbing Bella's shoulder.
"Good. Do you want to get a doctor with our office or would you like a list of specialists in this area?" Bella shook her head before sitting up.
"I live pretty far away so I'll just get a doctor out there." Melanie nodded before squeezing Bella's hand.
"I'm glad you are making the right choice for you. Your baby will have a good mother and, I'm sure, a good father to raise them." Bella nodded with a small smirk.
"Thank you." She nodded silently in response.
"I will leave you to get dressed. Have a good and happy pregnancy, Bella." She nodded as Melanie left and a sigh of relief left her lips before she pressed her hand to her abdomen, a happy smile gracing her lips.
"I love you, my son."