Worth It

"Dad please calm down," I told him shakily.

"Charlie," Jake said with a tone of authority. "Take a deep breath."

Charlie took a deep breath and began to turn a healthy colour again. Slowly he returned to a normal red colour.

"I'm so sorry dad," I said softly.

"Charlie look there is no point in trying to kill Edward Cullen. First of all he is in LA. Second he is kinda big for a teenager and you are old...er….I mean then you used to be. So don't do anything stupid. You don't want to end up in jail, then what would Bella do."

"You think I'm old," Charlie said with a hint of a smile.

"No way old man," Jake told him grinning.

Charlie smiled back before looking towards me.

"How could you do this to yourself Bella," Charlie said, his face mirroring his anger and disappointment. I felt so guilty.

"I'm sorry dad" I told him again.

"I didn't think that I had to worry about this with you yet. And I thought you would have known to be careful."

I cast my head downward feeling so guilty.

"I just need some time to think about this, okay Bells."

"Yeah okay dad."

"Bella can stay at my place tonight Charlie if that'd be better," Jake told him.

Charlie nodded and told me okay. Jake turned to me and smiled.

"Go get your stuff."

I raced upstairs and put my things into a bag before returning to the living room again.

I don't know what Jake said to Charlie but he looked a lot calmer then he had 5 minutes before.

"When I walked into the room Jake smiled at me.

"Come on lets go" he said.

I followed Jake outside to his car. The drive to La Push was a silent one, each of us wrapped up in our own thoughts.

"Bella?" Jake asked breaking the silence. "Are you sure that it's worth all this trouble?"

"Yes Jake, my baby is definitely worth the trouble," I told him slightly annoyed.

We arrived outside Jake's house and we both got out. I went to pick up my bag but Jake reached it first.

"Here let me."

"Okay thanks Jake," I smiled.

Billy was sitting on the couch watching TV when we went inside.

"Hey Bella, it's good to see you," Billy told me warmly.

"It's good to see you too Billy," I told him smiling.

"Dad is it okay if Bella stays here tonight?" Jake asked him.

"Sure thing, one of you can sleep on the couch and just…..you know…..stay there," Billy said turning a slight shade of pink.

"Dad," Jake groaned. "Stop being stupid."

"Okay, okay," Billy said smiling. "I just had to say it or Charlie would have killed me. Well I'm off to bed. Night Bella, Jake."

"Night dad."

"Night Billy."

Billy rolled off into his bedroom and Jake and I sat on the couch. Jake leaned forward and whispered in my ear.

"Because if I was going to sleep with you I would do it while my dad is in the house," he said rolling his eyes and laughing.

I began to giggle too and after a few minutes neither of us could breathe and we had tears rolling down our faces. With all of the stress I had been putting myself under about telling Charlie it felt so good to just be able to laugh.

We settled down after a while and started watching TV before Jake began talking again.

"Bella are you sure about this? It is a really big decision."

I knew straight away that he was talking about the baby.

"Yeah I'm 100% positive," I told him.

"But Bella you don't even know if you will have a normal baby or not."

"Jake! That's a horrible thing to say." I began tearing up thanks to my damn hormones.

"No I didn't mean it like that I just meant that you know…..what the father is. How do you know how this pregnancy is going to go? And the birth? And then the baby, what if the baby takes after his father appetite wise? What will you do then?"

"I don't know Jake but this is my baby and I wouldn't give that up for anything no matter what."

I could see that Jake was angry but was doing his best to control it. I leaned in and gave him a hug. He hugged me back and we sat like that for a few moments.

"I'm sorry that I get so angry," he told me. "It's just that when I think about what he did with you, and then he left and left you like…..well not in a great state of mind I just get so angry."

"Jake," I said softly. "Edward didn't force me into anything that I didn't want to do. When he left he didn't realise what a mess I would be. It's not his fault that he doesn't love me." I whispered that last sentence and left a familiar tug in my heart.

"See that is why he was never good enough for you. He didn't realise what he had. He had you and he didn't love you. He didn't realise just how amazing you are."

I looked into Jake's eyes and we both leaned forward inch by inch…..

Meanwhile somewhere in Alaska….

APOV

"Okay everyone Edward will be here in about 5 minutes," I told my family.

They all assembled just inside the front door.

"Okay we'll go so and let us know when we can come back," Carlisle told me.

We had decided that all of the family but me would be gone hunting when Edward got here. That way he wouldn't hear anyone thinking about Bella before I got a chance to talk to him. Also it would give him some privacy once I told him. I sighed as I thought about the pain that Edward must be in and how I would increase that by telling him about Bella.

I heard a car pull up to the house. Edward got out of the car and walked up the gravel path to the house. When he came inside I greeted him and I could clearly read the pain in his eyes.

I announced that the rest of the family had gone out hunting and would be back soon. I concentrated hard on not thinking about anything that I was about to tell him.

"Edward I have to tell you something," I told him. "Let's go into my bedroom."

"Okay," he replied simply.

We went up two flights of stairs until we reached the room that I shared with Jasper. I sat on my bed and Edward stood in front of me.

"Edward last week I had a vision about Bella. I wasn't keeping tabs on her I swear, it just happened."

"Okay Alice," he said. "How is she coping?" his eyes revealed more of the pain he was in for leaving Bella.

"Well my vision was of her future disappearing."

"What?" his eyes nearly bulged out of his head. "Why Alice what's wrong?"

I could see that he was beginning to panic.

"Edward calm down, I was worried so I went to Forks but I doesn't let anybody see me. She doesn't know I was there."

"Oh and you're sure that she didn't see you?"

"No she definitely didn't see me. But when I was there I saw her with a boy. They were holding hands and they seemed very close."

"Oh," he said in a flat tone. "Thanks for telling me."

He turned away from me and left the house, running at vampire speed. He disappeared into the forest, headed in a different direction to the rest of the family. I couldn't even imagine the kind of paint hat he was in now that he had left Bella. I was grateful that I had Jasper and that we would never be separated.