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Stained Glass Windows

Chapter 8

"Bella, wake up. It's almost time for school." Edward said nudging me lightly.

"Ugh, I don't want to go back." I said as my eyes opened, taking in his face just a few niches from my own.

"If you think it's going to be bad, wait and see if you don't go today, then people will talk even more." He said reassuringly. I just rolled over and covered my head with the blanket. Edward sighed.

"Bella, I'm sorry if you didn't get the chance to tell people the way that you wanted to; but Bella, they would have found out eventually, this is just a little bit sooner then we anticipated. Don't let everyone upset you, Bella; your not one of those girls who just 'got pregnant' by their boyfriend because you weren't thinking. We were thinking Bella; we knew what we were doing." The mattress lifted lightly as he got off the chair and walked to the side of the room that I could see. He was pacing, running his fingers through his already disheveled hair. He always paced when he was thinking about something important. Finally he looked at me his eyes both pleading and wary.

"Please, tell me that you wanted this Bella. Tell me that you didn't just do it because you knew I wanted it." He walked over to the bed, lifting the covers back and revealing my entire face. He looked so lost, so uncertain that I nearly started to cry. How could he think that I didn't want this after everything that had happened in the last four and a half months? I didn't respond right away. I simply threw the covers back and hoped out of bed, throwing myself into his arms.

"Of course I wanted this, I still do." I assured him. I kissed him lightly on the lips and proceeded to get ready for school.

"I set y stuff on the counter in the bathroom and looked at my reflection in the mirror. I was pale still, but somehow I was giving off this glow, a radiance of light from my skin. My hair was messy but it somehow looked shinier, stronger than I had ever seen it. I looked……good, better than I had in a while. As I looked at my reflection in the mirror a wave of nauseousness rolled over me, followed by a flash of heat curling through my body. I collapsed to the floor softly holding my stomach as the heat and the pain rolled through me. What was happening? What was wrong? When the pain ebbed away to a bearable amount and I rose to my feet and looked back at my reflection. A sheen of sweat coated my body. I felt weak, drained like every movement was talking far too much energy. I turned the shower on and jumped in, still dazed. Then it hit me. I knew that pain, that fire. I had felt it once before. I looked down at my hand, the small crescent shape scar was still there, just a few degrees cooler then the rest of my skin, and just a shade lighter. Was the baby doing this to me? Was the baby going to be okay? Was the new questions that were circling my mind like a hamster on a wheel. But the question most prominent was whether or mot I should tell Edward. I knew that if I did tell him, he would take me directly to Carlisle. What if they found out that something was going to happened to me if the baby stayed. What if they decided that it was too dangerous to keep. I placed my hand on my stomach. I was carrying a life beneath my hand. A miracle. I sighed, picking up the blow dryer that seemed heavier somehow. I could not tell Edward, I couldn't tell anyone. At least not now, if it got worse maybe, if I felt that it was a dire emergency. But for now it would be my secret to keep, I couldn't risk them deciding to terminate. I walked out of the bathroom, after looking in the mirror once more to compose myself. Hopefully Alice hadn't seen it already.

"Are you ready?" Edward asked as he pulled on a grey sweater.

"Yes." I answered. He took my hand in his and led the way down the stairs. The pain I had felt in the bathroom was not gone completely. It felt as if there were hot coals in the pit of my stomach, and the heat was slowly working it's was through my system. I realize when we reached the living room, that there was something I had not factored into my plan to keep this a secret. Jasper eyed me as we walked past, raising his eyebrow in question. I would have to avoid him now.

We drove to school in silence, Edwards hand running calming circles on the back of my hand. He pulled into him usual stop and got out, opening my door for me. I got out hesitantly, not looking at the crowds of students. Edward growled low in his throat, probably as a result of someone's thoughts, as we walked through the lot to our first block.

"Edward wait." I said stopping dead in my tracks.

"What? What's wrong." he said his gaze darting around checking me.

"We have to go the main office, to get the picture back." I said, I had been so caught up in what had happened that I nearly forgot the picture of our baby.

I started to walk quickly to the main office building, Edward in tow. A blast of warm air hit us as we walked in and the receptionist turned around to greet us. When she realized who we were her smile faltered slightly.

"Can I help you?" she asked politely, even thought she already knew why we were here.

"Yes we needed to pick up something, and ultrasound photograph." Edward said when I just stared at her. She reached under the counter and came up with the photo in her hand. She held it out to me, but when I tried to take it from her she held on and I looked her in the eye.

"You know Bella, I had my daughter when I was your age, don't let anyone get you down, be proud of your baby. Don't worry what everyone else thinks of you, it only matters what you think if yourself." She said assuring. She let the paper go and turned away. I stood there in stunned silence until the bell rang signaling that I was late for first block. Edward tapped my shoulder and we walked to class together.

When we walked in, Lauren was sitting in the back talking to Mike. She looked at us then looked away quickly, her face flushing slightly.

My muscles clenched and my hands baled into fists.

"Bella." Edward warned having had to have noticed my sudden tension. I took a step forward and the noise in the room quieted. Everyone turning towards me, waiting to see what would happen next.

"Bella, lets just sit." Edward said calmly, how was it that he was being the reasonable one now. I remember when I had to distract him so he didn't kill the men when we weren't even dating and he found us in Seattle. Now, I was the one who wanted to hurt someone. I realized he was right and I worked on letting the tension wash away as I took my seat in the back with Edward. I sat down in my seat realizing what had almost just happened. I was never one for confrontation of any kind, but I knew that without Edward there I would have fought her, and a part of me knew I would have won. The burning in my stomach, in my blood was still there ever present from this morning. Maybe that was what was causing me to be so nasty, the pain having an effect on my temperament. Yeah, that was it I told myself. I would be better when I got rid of this bug. A bug, yeah that's what it is. How could I be so silly to think that a simple stomach bug was something caused by the baby. I told myself that I was just being paranoid; there was nothing wrong it was just a bug, nothing wrong. I was fine.

"I'm fine." I whispered, as the world went black.

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I looked over to my right, where Bella sat, a panicked look on her face. Her heartbeat sped up slightly and she murmured to herself

"I'm fine." Then she slouched forward her eyes rolling back.

"Bella." I said, my voice a panicked whisper.

"Bella!" I screamed, jumping out of my chair to kneel beside her, everyone in the class turned around in their seats, a girl in the corner screamed. If I had a heartbeat at all in that moment, it surly would have stopped. I picked Bella up and ran her to the door of the classroom, everyone staring at us stunned. As soon as the metal door closed behind us, I took off, running as fast as I could. I was out of the school in seconds, completely bypassing my car, I would run quicker. Then, I was bursting through the doors of the emergency room, cradling Bella's limp form in my arms. I was scared, terrified actually; Bella has passed out before but now was different, her heartbeat was sluggish, her skin clammy and cold and I knew that something was wrong.

"I need to see Dr. Carlisle Cullen, NOW." I said to the receptionist who shrunk back, away from me, I didn't even want to know what my eyes looked like right now, the nurse looked terrified.

"I'll go g-get him, sir." She choked out, before turning to run out of the room. Within moments I was being ushered into a private room, the white lights buzzing softly overhead.

"Set her down on the bed." The doctor who had brought me into to the room said. Where was Carlisle? The man, no older then Emmett, was checking her pulse, her blood pressure.

"Can you tell me what happened." He asked in a calm voice.

"She fainted." I said, I had thought that that was fairly obvious. He checked both of her arms.

"Any drugs?"

"No." I said impatient.

"Has she been sick lately?"

'No."

He hooked her up to an I.V. the needle piercing her skin, ushering no response from her. The doctor moved down to her abdomen, and I stiffened. He lifted her shirt up and pressed down once on her slightly rounded stomach.

I was on the bed in a second, crouching over Bella, a low, deep growl tearing from my throat. The doctors eyes widened, and he stepped away from me.

"Sir I'm going to have to ask you to leave the room." He said, the calmness of his voice was erased, replaced by a nervosa choked sound.

"You can leave now, Dr.Evans. I'll take over." Carlisle said, suddenly appearing in the doorway. He was staring at me, his tone disapproving of the way he had found us. The man, Dr. Evans turned and bolted from the room.

"Where were you,?" I said as he walked towards Bella.

"I was removing a tumor from a four year old." He said curtly, looking at me out of the scorner of his eye, as he focused on Bella.

"She just passed out?" he asked

"Yeah, she just murmured 'I'm fine' and passed out cold, she normally responds when I call her name but there was nothing, then her heart started to slow, so I brought her here."

"Anything unusual happen at all today?"

"Well," I said smirking.

"she almost hit, Lauren."

"Has Bella, ever been violent before?"

"No, why?" I asked suspicious.

"It might be the pregnancy, she's going to be moody because of all of the hormones, and she probably just passed out because her blood vessels are still expanding, I also noticed that she didn't eat breakfast this morning, again, Edward." He said accusingly.

My eyes widened.

"We didn't- I mean we weren't-" I stuttered, Carlisle smiled.

"I know Edward, she didn't got out of bed until late, I can hear you know." He said.

"She has to stay here until she wakes up, when she does have the nurse page me. Don't kill anyone while your here, please." Carlisle said, closing the door behind him. I took my place by Bella's side and sat, waiting for her eyes to open.

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