I parked in the lot of a pharmacy. Edwards's eyes were frozen on mine. He began to speak frantically, spitting while he spoke.
"What are we doing here?" a part of me knew he knew but just didn't want to accept it.
"I'm late." I said. "I haven't gotten my period on the last three months" as I said it out loud, it made me freak out. I couldn't believe that this was happening to me.
"How could you not have told me that you weren't getting your period? "He asked anxiously.
"I didn't even remember not getting it. Until this morning a little while ago it popped into my head." I said. It was true. These past three months with Edward had been great, so great that things like late periods never even crossed my mind. Periods in general never crossed my mind.
"What does this mean?" he asked again.
"You know what it might mean." I annunciated the might part because it might not even be happening. It could be another reason why I haven't gotten my period.
"So you're saying you might be pregnant with James's baby?
"Can we just go get a test before we start an argument?" he gets out of the car and before I can even put my hand on the handle my door is opened and he is pulling me out of the truck and walking towards the pharmacy.
We enter the store and I suddenly feel so embarrassed. The store is filled with people that I know and who know my father. What if they tell them what I'm buying? I decide to get a basket and fill it with a couple of chips some tampons and pads so people won't think I'm getting a pregnancy test. Edward is eyeing me asking me why I'm getting what time getting. Then I gave him a look that said because of who was in the store. He gave me another look as if he understood what I was saying. Then as we went to the pregnancy tests I randomly grabbed one of the boxes that had three tests in there and I put it under the chips in the basket then went to go pay.
As the cashier charged my items, Edward started to talk to her and get her preoccupied from even paying attention to what she was charging. She just read out my total while Edward flirted things up with her. This annoyed me yet made me feel so much better that she wasn't paying attention to the pregnancy tests. She said my total was fifty dollars, as I looked on the screen I noticed that the pregnancy tests were thirty dollars, what freaking pregnancy tests are thirty dollars. As a shocked noise escaped my mouth Edward swiftly pulled out his wallet, all the while keeping eye contact with the cashier and swiped him card. Then she gave him the receipt and I grabbed the bags and we left.
"What was that about?" I asked him annoyingly.
"I was trying to make sure she wasn't paying attention to what you were buying, honestly Bella you looked like a deer in headlights in there. I read her mind and she was thinking about me, she wasn't even paying attention to anything else. I thought you might like that no one noticed what we bought." He replied.
"I do thanks I guess. Just don't do that again. I hated seeing that. It hurt me." I said
"I understand." This time he drove my tuck to his house. He had texted jasper to drive his car back so he didn't have to worry about going and getting it from the school parking lot. About five minutes after arriving to his house I got enough courage to actually open the box.
He went into the bathroom with me and looked away while I peed on the first stick. Apparently these pregnancy tests were the best money could buy, or so it said so on the box. They better be freaking accurate.
I tell him he could turn around and he does. I place the little stick on the counter and wait for it to start turning pink. After about a minutes, the first pink line pops up, then the second one.
I was pregnant, according to this test that is. So I quickly grab the other two sticks and without even warning Edward I sit down and pee again. He is still starting at the first test blankly, as if in shock. I stand and put the next two on the counter next to the first. After a couple of minutes they both reveal a positive pregnancy. Edward held me tightly as I clutched onto him and cried. After about twenty minutes of crying Alice storms in without even knocking.
"I saw it Edward. I know. But you need to take her to Carlisle and fast" she said.
Edward nodded his head once. Then picked me up and drove me to the hospital where his father worked. Slice went with us. When we arrived we went straight into his office. Dr. Cullen was in there with a patient. Thankfully they were done and he was just saying good bye, but he was surprised to see us there. He told us to sit down.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"Bella is…" Edward managed to say, but couldn't finish.
"Carlisle, Bella took three home pregnancy tests and they all registered positive." Alice said. So sure of herself.
"oh." Carlisle said. "I didn't know you two were having relations" he told Edward
"We aren't" Edward answered.
"Oh" Carlisle's voice was deeper this time. "Well Bella if you can please step over here with me. Put on that gown on the bed the lie down and I will be in a moment."
I did as he said. I could see Edward and Alice's silhouettes as I changed behind the curtain in Carlisle office which hid the little checking room. I opened the curtain and cleared my through. I then layer down on the bed and waited for Carlisle to come in.
"First thing is first. I am going to draw some blood for a pregnancy test. This will tell us if you really are pregnant." I nodded and let him extract the vile of red blood from me. Edward and Alice were watching yet staying distant. I guess it was the blood that made them hesitant. Then Carlisle called a nurse in who took the blood. Then he started to get a sonogram machine ready just in case I was pregnant.
"How long ago were your last period and your last sexual experience?"
"Both were three months ago" I replied.
"Okay, since the time is still early and its going to be your first sonogram we have to do an internal sonogram." He said
"What is that" I asked.
"I am going to take this" he said as he lifted a silver looking pole. "And insert it into your uterus."
"Okay" I said, even though I was not okay with my boyfriends' dad seeing my vagina. This could not get any more awkward.
"Edward, can you hold my hand." I asked him. He quickly came to my side and held to my hand as tightly as he could.
The nurse returned with the results from the blood test. Carlisle flipped through the clip board then turn and whispered something to nurse who looked at me then at him and nodded. Then she left.
"Okay are you ready?" he asked
I nodded. The pole was cold as in entered me. I let out a small gasp and it went further and further in until something popped up on the monitor. Then I waited for Carlisle to explain what we were seeing.
"Okay as you see here, this is the small child. So you are pregnant. But the blood test revealed a mixed answer. What this means is that you might not be pregnant anymore. As you can see from the screen, your uterus is very small. You have not reached your full level of growth yet which is normal. Bella, what this means is that you are currently have a miscarriage."
My face went white. I didn't know if this was good or bad. If I should be relieved or sad. Edward was just as confused. His face was whiter than normal, and Alice stood far away as if she knew this is what was happening. She turned and looked at Edward who then eased up very much. She must have told him something. Carlisle spoke again.
"We can let it finish naturally, or I can help it by using the same instrument as they would in an abortion." He said
"No, no abortion. Natural will be okay." Is all I said?
"Great" he said. "The only time we use those are when the mothers cannot have a natural miscarriage then we have to go in and help them, other than that we never use them. Abortion is a horrible thing. Threes no need to help you. You are young and should be able to do it within the next couple of hours." He said. Then he got up and left. Alice followed.
"I'm sorry" Edward said. "How do you feel?"
"I'm not exactly sure" I said. "I'm sad that its dead, but I'm relieved that I'm not pregnant. How was I going to raise a child, her father would've have been James, but I'm in love with you, would I have had to get back with James. Would I have told him? Would you and I still be together? A part of me is happy that I don't have to worry about those things but the other part is still sad. And freaked out. This morning I was a normal girl and now I am having a miscarriage in my boyfriend's dad's office. What is wrong with me?"
"Nothing is wrong with you my Bella. And to answer your worries, I would have raised that child with you. I would have never left your side and I would've said that child was mine." he said "I love you and I feel stronger about that now than ever before."
"I love you too" I said, as tears streamed down my face. "But what did Alice tell you."
He looked at me then nodded as if he understood that I understood their private conversation. "She said that she saw this and this is why she told me to bring you. And she also saw that you and I would continue in a loving relationship and would leave this behind us." He said. I could tell he was leaving something out but I didn't want to push it further, so I accepted his answer. He and I stayed there for the next couple of hours until Carlisle came in and told me that I had finished and he cleaned me up then told me I could leave. He gave me some medication and then we were on our way home. Edward lay in bed with me all night. He never left his embrace.
I still don't understand how crazy my life had gotten. But I believed in Alice's vision in that this would stay behind. And I believed that Edward and I would stay in love, at least I hoped we did.
