AN: This is to Bdavis.16: I appreciate you informing me about the fact that you cannot feel a baby kick at 10 weeks. I had done my research, and I could have sworn up and down I read it somewhere, I really try to make sure I research everything before I go off spouting stuff. I went to go find the link but now I can not find it anywhere. But thank you very much for pointing that out to me, I will correct my mistake soon. Thanks very much for the lovely things you said!
"Dammit." I said to my reflection.
I am now 16 weeks along, and the only pair of pants I had that were fitting comfortably were my navy blue sweat pants. Only problem with this, is Edward and I were going out to dinner with Jasper and Alice, she will kill me when she see's me in sweat pants. I screamed, and threw my self onto my bed, trying to fight back the tears. Normally, I don't care about what I wear, however seeing as I have gained a few pounds and my belly is expanding it has made me very self conscious. I completely failed in forcing the tears back, they came falling like the Niagara falls.
"Hey babe, we need to leave soon, you almost..." Edward started to ask, "Whats wrong?"
I rolled onto my side and saw Edward staring at me with a perplexed expression.
"I am just.. overwhelmed.." I started to stammer out. "Nothing fits me besides these sweat pants Edward, I am a cow!"
"Awe, love you look beautiful, and I am sure Alice would love to take you shopping for maternity clothes. Plus, those sweat pants make your tush look great" he said as he walked over and sat on the bed, wiping a tear from my face and kissing my forehead.
I sniffled out a little giggle, "You don't think Alice is going to berate me for wearing these?"
"Nah, she will be so excited to take you shopping, she'll forgive you for the pants." He smiled at me a kissed my lips. "Now go finish getting ready, she will be mad if we are late."
We arrived at the small little deli like restaurant, Alice and Jasper had already taken their seats and were waving us over to them. Edward grabbed my hand and trailed me along side of him.
"Bella! Your getting so big! Why on earth are you wearing sweat pants?" Alice started.
"They are the only thing that fit, I was wondering if you wanted to go shopping tomorrow? And you are looking quite big yourself, how are you feeling?" I wanted to get her off my back about the pants before I busted into tears again. I was not offended by her comment, I knew exactly how she meant it.
"Oh Bella, I am doing Great, I have been having some issues with dry eyes, but the doctor informed me this was a possibility with contacts and being pregnant, so I switched to glasses for a bit." She grabbed her glasses nonchalantly and started to clean them with the napkin. "And you know I would love nothing more to go shopping with you, I am rapidly growing now, and I have two of them in me, so I know exactly how you feel. I had a clothing melt down yesterday, poor Jazz looked so scared when I sat on the floor crying. You know he hasn't a clue what to do when it comes to fashion melt downs. He was great though, told me I still looked beautiful."
Jazz reached across the table and grabbed Alice's hand. "You always look beautiful Al, you are bursting with it, especially when you are caring our babies."
"Alright guys, I am glad you are happy, but you're going to make me gag with your mushiness." Edward laughed while mockingly crinkling up his nose.
Dinner went by with a flash, we eventually ended up splitting up conversations and Edward and Jasper sat and talked about the latest in baseball while Alice and I made our arrangements for our maternity shopping day tomorrow. Our conversations died down, and we said our goodbyes. Edward and I got into his shiny silver Volvo and headed home. I had a full stomach, and was emotionally warn out from my breakdown earlier today, and I ended up passing out on the way home. I guess Edward had carried me inside and put me in our bed, because that is where I was when I woke up. I sat up slowly to take in my surroundings, it was 11pm. Edward was not in the bed next to me, this made me wonder where he was. I got up out of bed and started for the bedroom door when I heard the bathroom shower turn on. I smirked to myself and though of going in to the bathroom to delay his shower, but the baby inside of me decided now was a good time for a craving of barbeque chips. I walked out of the bathroom and into the kitchen to find some chips, and open the cabinet to find we had no chips at all.
"Damn." I said as I began to think of other options. I grabbed a packet of Ritz crackers and got a bottle of BBQ sauce, and put it in a bowl. "Not too bad." I said to myself while I tested my snack out. I walked over to the couch and plopped down, turning the television on, flipping through the channels looking for something to watch. I settled on watching the second Harry Potter movie on HBO. I continued snacking, grateful that this was satisfying the craving.
"There you are." Edward said as he walked over to the couch and sat down, pulling me to cuddle with him.
"Watch it, your going to spill my food!" I playfully snapped at him.
"What on earth are you eating?" He looked grossed out.
"BBQ sauce on Ritz crackers. We were out of BBQ chips, I made do." I explained, shoving another sauce covered cracker in my mouth.
"Well then, you have BBQ sauce on your cheek." he pointed out, while laughing.
I wiped my cheek with my palm, feeling my face turn a little red. Edward adjusted us so we were cuddling with my food, on the couch in a comfortable way. He grabbed a chip and dipped it into the sauce, and put it in his mouth. Edward chewed and looked off into the corner of the room as if he was assessing how the snack tasted. He shrugged his shoulders.
"Not bad." He concluded.
Halfway through the movie I started feeling really exhausted thinking about going shopping with Alice tomorrow. "Edward, I am going to go to bed" I kissed him on the cheek
"Oh, okay then." He said as he looked back to the movie blankly.
I wasn't exactly sure what he was expecting for our evening. I rolled my eyes and got off of the couch, I didn't feel like dealing with a moody Edward tonight. I just wanted to go to bed and rest. I am thankful that the morning sickness is gone, I am in my second trimester now, and have started feeling a lot more active, but I still get worn out easily. I was walking towards my bedroom, when I tripped over nothing and caught myself with my shoulder on the wall with a bang.
"ouch." I muttered.
Lately, I have been epically clumsy. I was pretty clumsy on my own, but I have felt off balance even more so since my belly started showing. I was having to work extra hard to not fall flat on my belly, cause that would be bad. I regained some sense of balance and continued my walk to the bedroom. I made it there safely and went to the bathroom to shower. I undressed and sat at judged my naked body in the floor length mirror. My boobs had started to get a little swollen looking, nothing noticeable to anyone else but me, and maybe Edward. My belly was showing just enough to make me feel large. I was already a curvy girl, not skinny but not over weight, just average this already made me self conscious. My hand coasted up and down my slightly protruding belly and I gave a final sigh and hopped into the shower to clean up for bed. Once I was done, I toweled dried my hair, walked into the bedroom and dressed in some pj shorts and a tank top. I got into bed and realized Edward was already there. I assumed he was asleep, and curled up on my side. Edward wrapped one of his arms over me, and kissed my cheek.
"Goodnight Bells, love you." he said groggily.
I was already to sleepy to open my mouth and reply. I just relaxed into Edward and fell into a deep, much appreciated sleep.
"Okay Bells, go try these on." Alice said as she shoved me into the dressing room with what felt like 50 different items.
I had a number of pants, dresses and shirts to try on. It felt like I spent hours trying things on, and so did Alice, we got almost everything we tried on. I let Alice make all the decisions for me, she is the fashion guru of the two of us. We purchased 200 dollars of clothes for the both of us.
"Okay, Bells, now we have to go get shoes to match out outfits." Alice chirped as she was nearly skipping her way into the shoe store
"Alice, I don't want shoes, all of mine are already preggo approved, please. I want food! My baby wants food! I want to have food in my belly, Alice." I called after her as I grabbed my belly, and dragged my feet.
"Oh Bells, don't be silly, your shoes may be preggo approved, but the aren't Alice approved.. Your baby and your belly can friggen wait! now go try on these flats." Alice ordered as she shoved a pair of very cute metallic silver zebra flats.
"Well, if nothing else Mrs. Hale, I will be buying these." I approved as I slid the flats on and checked them out in the mirror adjacent to my feet.
"AHH! Oh Bella, those shoes are so cute, I am even getting myself a pair, if nothing else this baby is making you a bit more open to fashion." Alice gushed on the shoes she picked out.
We spent the next 30 min trying on shoes, I bough the pair of zebra flats, then I bought a pair puma tennis shoes. I have not spent money in so long, so I have plenty saved up. Now I had no need to spend any more money on myself, and the rest can go to my little sweet baby. We walked out of the stores with our many bags in hand.
"Alice, I need food now or I am going to start gnawing on the side of the mall." I mocked chewed on the side of a pillar while I looked up at her.
"Ew Bella, don't put your mouth on that, I will feed you before you get that desperate." she teased.
"Alice, I am that desperate!" I retorted.
"Oh Bella, don't be so dramatic, lets go to Panera bread and get some soup bread bowls!" Alice said as she grabbed my hand and pulled me along side her.
We got soup, I got the broccoli and cheddar bread bowl, and Alice got the baked potato bread bowel. We ate and talked about how we hadn't really heard from Rosalie lately, and we figured it was because she felt left out. I missed having Rose around, she was my cousin and one of my best friends, but I couldn't really blame her for distancing herself from Alice and I. I think I would feel a little left out if I were her. Alice told me how Emmett and Rose were looking into adoption, I was really hoping that they were able to adopt.
The rest of the day went by in a blur. A lot of browsing and baby shopping had been done, I had bought a very neutral sex crib, and some very neutral sex onesies. I still had no idea what I was having. I was hoping for something fairly easy, and to me easy would be a baby girl. I know Edward was wanting a boy, and to be honest, I am perfectly happy having whatever God gives me, as long as I have my Edward by my side.
By the time we got home, lunch had settled a lot, and I was very ready for dinner at 4pm. I walked into the house and smelled the lovely smells of Edward's famous shrimp anti pasta, which I had mentioned to him I had been craving it. I made my way slowly into the kitchen to find my handsome sexy Edward dressed in a kiss the cook apron, slaving over the stove.
"MMM!" I hummed as I got closer to him, " Edward this smells fantastic!"
He then whirled around, wearing his famous, melting crooked grin. He then swooped down, gabbing my face into his large hands and placed a very passionate kiss on my lips, which I eagerly responded to. Edward then turned around and dropped his long wooden spoon into the pasta, and then swooped me up, rushed me to the counter, lifting me up onto the counter. We began taking turns being the dominate kisser, and Edward eventually pulled away, finishing the moment by kissing my forhead and then turning back to cooking.
"Hello love. How was shopping?" He asked lifting one eye brow towards me over his shoulder, in a very sexy manner.
"Oh, it was very productive, I ended up getting a plethra of clothes, enough to fit my ever growing state for the next six months." I started, smiling happily at him. " I was also forced to buy new flats, but I really like them so I am okay with that. I also purchased a very rich wooden crib, and some uni-sex baby clothes. I am most excited about that part, even if it is way too early to be buying those, I just couldn't help it."
"That is awesome love, I cannot wait to see everything you bought today, I'll thank Alice for taking you out, saved me the trouble of facing the mall with my preggo girl friend." Edward chuckled in a teasing manner.
Edward placed the pasta on the pale wooden dining room table, and we stuffed our faces. Then After words Edward pulled me along into the living room, to spoon and watch an episode of The Big Bang Theory. I ended up only watching Edwards face as he laughed along with the funny parts of the show, I noticed every single detail of his face. Every curve, every sharp jaw line, and all the laugh lines he had developed in his twenty five years. Edward noticed me watching him, and leaned down to kiss me. Edward tried to pull away, and I had none of that, I spent the whole day away from him, and I had an uncontrollable urge to spend some incredible alone time with Edward, he noticed my want to spend some passionate time with him. Edward quickened the passion of our kiss, and ended up laying ontop of me, slightly moving his hips to a passionate rhythm. He pulled away from the kiss to look at me.
"Bedroom?" He asked hopefully, I knew what head he was thinking with.
"Bedroom." I blankly stated with the urge to satisfy my hormones.
Edward picked me up, apparently, my new weight had no effect on his manly muscles. We made it to the bedroom and Edward was eagerly tearing my clothes off, and slowly but surely, we were both naked.
"Isabella, you are so beautiful." Edward chanted to me as he kissed almost every ounce of my body.
We made the most fantastic love we have since we have been together. I steadily fell asleep in the bare arms of my love.
Sometime between the tight the obnoxious beeping of my phone woke me up alerting me I had a text message. I rolled over rubbing my groggy eyes, to glance at my phone noticing that Jacob had texted me. I finally decided my eyes were awake enough to glance at the text to see what he had said.
"We should eat lunch and talk. Soon."
I sighed and rolled over and cuddled into the heavy arms of my lover. I made the conscious effort to text Jacob back when I awoke.
AN:
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