A/N: Stephenie Meyer owns all things Twilight. I just borrow the characters. I promise to give them back. :)

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Chapter 10 – Uh, say what now?

BPOV

"Hey, babe?" I called to Edward from the kitchen as I chopped up a tomato for a salad. "Do you want chicken or pasta for dinner?"

There was a few seconds of silence before Edward answered "Chicken!" his voice floating in from the living room.

I walked over to the fridge and rummaged around for the chicken I bought at the market the other day. About six months ago, after New Years, Edward and I found an open-air market in Union Square Park while we were walking to our favorite restaurant for lunch one day. That was also the same day we found our apartment.

After we found the market that day and ate lunch, we were walking back to my apartment in the West Village when we saw an open house a few blocks from my apartment. Edward's lease was almost up so he dragged me up to the top floor of the six-story building and into a beautiful loft.

It takes up the entire top floor. It has hardwood floors and huge floor to ceiling windows in the living room with three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a study which we're using as the music room. One look at it and Edward bought it on the spot. Once the realtor handed him the keys, Edward turned to me and asked me to move in with him. Despite the fact we'd been dating for a little over a year, I immediately said yes.

I brought the Styrofoam tray holding the chicken breasts over to the counter and ripped open the plastic around the chicken. The smell of the raw chicken wafted up and hit me in the face hard, causing my stomach to lurch and churn.

I clapped my hand over my mouth and sped out of the kitchen, through the living room and into the closest bathroom. I ran over the toilet and emptied the contents of my stomach into the bowl. I suddenly felt hands pull my hair back and rub my back soothingly.

"Are you okay, love?" Edward asked softly after he handed me a glass of water and a washcloth.

I cleaned myself up and rinsed out my mouth before answering. "Either I'm coming down with something or that chicken has gone bad."

Edward chuckled and kissed my head. "Okay, love, we'll have pasta for dinner tonight and throw the chicken away. Promise me you'll tell me if you start feeling worse, okay?"

I nodded and let Edward help me up and help me fix dinner.

By the end of the week, things had not gotten better. I was throwing up every day and was always tired and emotionally wrung out.

"That's it," Edward said as he walked into our bedroom one afternoon. "You've been in bed for two days, I'm taking you to the doctor."

"No!" I whined as I buried my face in my pillow.

Despite my avid protests that I was fine, Edward managed to get me up, showered, and dressed in an hour. He threw on his baseball cap and sunglasses and practically carried me down to the car. When we got to the doctors a half an hour later, I was already dead on my feet.

"Can we go home, Edward?" I asked him as we sat in the waiting room, my head resting on his shoulder. "I'm so tired."

Edward chuckled and kissed my temple. "Sorry, love. But since we're here, we might as well see what's wrong."

"Isabella Swan?" A nurse in light green scrubs called out my name from the reception desk across the room.

Everyone in the waiting room spun around to gawk at me and Edward. Why the hell did the magazines have to tell everyone my name?

Edward and I slowly stood and followed the nurse down a short hallway and into an exam room. She took my temperature, weight, and blood and asked me a ton of questions before she left to test the blood.

Edward and I waited for twenty minutes before the doctor came in.

"Good afternoon, Isabella, I'm Dr. Dalton."

I shook her hand. "Please, call me Bella and this is my boyfriend Edward." She and Edward shook hands before she sat down at her computer. "It's nice to meet you both." She said with a kind smile. "So the nurse tells me you're complaining of flu-like symptoms? Headache, nausea, vomiting, fatigue, loss of appetite?"

I nodded.

"And when did the symptoms start?" Dr. Dalton asked, making notes on her computer.

"About a week ago," I answered.

Someone knocked on the door and the nurse came back in carrying a piece of paper. "The blood work results, Doctor." She said before handing Dr. Dalton the paper and leaving.

Dr. Dalton looked over the paper before making a note on her computer and turning completely to face us. "Bella, your blood work showed high levels of hCG or human Chorionic Gonadotrophin, progesterone, and estrogen."

"What does that mean?" I asked her, completely bewildered by her medical talk.

Dr. Dalton sighed. "It means that you are pregnant."

Um, say what now?

Neither Edward nor I said a word. We just stared at Dr. Dalton in complete disbelief.

She cleared her throat. "Uh, I'll give you two a few minutes to digest this and talk and I'll be back in to talk about your options." She stood silently and quickly left the room.

Neither of us said a word. The silence was becoming deafening, choking me into silence. All possible scenarios were running through my head a lightning speed. Only one seemed plausible.

Oh my god. He's going to hate me. He's going to break up with me and make me move out and then I'll be pregnant and alone.

I couldn't help the sobs that escaped me after that last thought. I clamped my hand over my mouth to try to keep them inside but to no avail. They burst out of my chest, muffled by the hand over my mouth.

"Bella? Love, don't cry." Edward stood from the chair he was sitting in and pulled me into his arms. "It's okay, sweetheart. It's okay." He soothed me, holding my head to his chest with one hand and stroking my back with the other.

"I – I'm sor – sorry!" I choked out.

"Hey, none of that," Edward pulled back to looked me. He cradled my face in his hands and brushed my tears away with his thumbs. "It takes two, you know?"

I hiccupped and nodded. "I shouldn't have been so careless. I should have noticed before now."

"It's not your fault, love. You know I'll support you in whatever decision you make right?" Edward murmured.

I nodded again. "This is just as much your decision as it is mine." I said, my voice rough from crying. Edward dropped my gaze. "What are you thinking?" I asked him softly, touching his cheek.

He cleared his throat. "I don't know about you, Bella, but I know I'm going to spend the rest of my life with you." He looked up to meet my eyes. "I love you so much and you know how much I love kids. It would make me so happy to have this baby with you." He rested his large hand on my stomach, softly stroking it with his thumb.

I covered his hand with both of mine. "You want to spend the rest of your life with me?" he nodded. "And you want a baby with me?" He nodded again. "Me too." I whispered back, meeting his piercing green eyes with my brown ones.

Edward smiled his breathtakingly crooked smile. "I guess we're having a baby."

"I guess we are!" I giggled. "I love you."

"Love you, too." Edward murmured an inch away from my lips. He pulled my face to his and captured my lips with his in a passionate kiss. We were so engrossed in each other that we didn't hear Dr. Dalton knock and come back in.

"Oh! I'm sorry to interrupt." Edward and I immediately broke apart. Dr. Dalton looked embarrassed as she sat back down at her desk. "So I take it that we're all good?" She asked hopefully.

I nodded. "Yes, we're fine. We're going to keep the baby." I smiled up at Edward who was already smiling down at me.

"Congratulations," Dr. Dalton smiled. "Would you like me to call someone from OB/GYN to come down here to do an ultrasound? That way you'll be able to be sure everything is 100 percent healthy."

"Yes, please." Edward and I answered in unison.

Thirty minutes later, an older woman who introduced herself as Dr. Smith, came in the exam room pushing a cart with ultrasound equipment in front of her.

"It's nice to meet you two." Dr. Smith said with a wide smile. "Now, I'm here to do an ultrasound to confirm a pregnancy, correct?"

"Yes," I answered.

Dr. Smith set up the equipment and explained to us what she was going to be looking for. When the machine was up and running a few minutes later, it only took her a minute to find the baby.

"Ah," Dr. Smith sighed. "Just as I suspected."

"What? What's wrong?" I asked worriedly and gripped Edward's hand tighter.

Dr. Smith smiled. "Absolutely nothing. Your babies are perfectly healthy."

"Babies?" Edward asked. "How many babies?"

"Two," She answered.

"Twins?" I asked breathlessly.

She nodded and turned the monitor so Edward and I could see. She pointed to two distinctive blob-like shapes in the middle of the screen. They each had a little with squiggly line that I knew from the ultrasound I went to with Alice were their heartbeats. I could just make out their little arms and legs.

I brushed away the tears that had escaped my eyes. "How far along?"

"Ten weeks." Dr. Smith answered. "I estimate your due date to be March 31st, but twins are always born a bit early so they will probably be born around the 24th."

Dr. Smith explained the to dos and the not to dos of pregnancy, wrote a prescription for a prenatal vitamin, gave us a few copies of the ultrasound picture and sent us on our way after making an appointment with us in a few weeks.

Edward and I were quiet as we drove home, holding hands on the center console. As soon as we got up to our apartment, Edward lifted me into his arms and carried me to our bed where he worshipped me for hours on end. I was the luckiest woman on earth.

"How do you think we should tell everyone?" I asked Edward quietly later that night as we lay in bed.

Edward's hand, that hadn't left the skin of my stomach in the past hour, was drawing lazy circles on the bump that neither of us had stupidly ever noticed before today. "Why don't we have them all over for dinner tomorrow?"

"Okay but we have to tell Charlie and Sue first. They would be so upset if they were the last to know."

So the next morning, after I was through with morning sickness, we called Charlie and Sue on Skype.

"How the hell does this piece of crap –?" Charlie grumbled as his face filled the screen. "Oh, hi Bella, Edward. How's it going, you two?"

"Uh, good Dad. We're really good." I squeezed Edward's hand and smiled at him. "Where's Sue?" I asked Dad.

"Right here," Sue slid into the chair next to Charlie and smiled. "Hi guys!"

"Hi, Sue!" Edward and I greeted her in unison.

"Wow, you look happy Bella, glowing even." Sue said with a knowing smile.

Edward and I glanced at each other. Oh my god, she knows!

"Well, we have some news." Edward said with a smile.

Charlie groaned. "Alright, let me have it."

I took a deep breath. "Well, I haven't been feeling well all week so Edward took me to the doctors yesterday."

"And…?" Charlie asked impatiently.

I glared at him. "And they took my blood and figured out that I'm pregnant."

Sue squealed while Charlie sat there looking too shocked for words. "How far along are you?" Sue asked excitedly.

"Well, we had an ultrasound done and they determined that I'm due on March 24th, so ten weeks along… with twins."

"Twins?" Charlie boomed.

Sue smacked Charlie in the back of his head and scowled at him. "Shush, Charlie. Be happy for your daughter."

"Daddy? I want you to know that Edward and I are really excited about the babies." I said softly.

"Yeah, Chief, I want you to know that I will always be there for Bella and the twins. I love kids and I'm really excited to have them with your daughter."

Charlie smiled slowly. "I'm gonna be a grandpa?"

"Well, technically you already…" I started to remind him of Owen but stopped myself. "Yes, Daddy, you're going to be a grandpa."

"So you gonna tell us what this is all about, bitch?" Rose asked as she poured three glasses of wine. The gang had come over for dinner tonight at mine and Edward's insistence. We were standing in the kitchen while the guys were watching some sporting event in the living room.

"Nope," I crossed my arms across my chest and leaned against the counter. Alice tried to hand me a glass of wine but I held out my hand. "None for me thanks." Oh crap. They know I can't resist a nice glass of wine!

Rose and Alice glanced at each other and then at me before breaking out in extremely girly shrieks. "OH MY GOD!"

"Oh fuck," I mumbled. Edward and I were supposed to tell everyone together. Alice and Rose are so damn perceptive!

I was suddenly pulled into a big group hug as Alice and Rose jumped up and down, still shrieking.

"They figured it out?" I leaned out of the hug to see the boys standing in the doorway. Edward was smirking while Jake, Jasper, and Emmett looked confused.

"They know I could never resist a glass of wine!" I pouted. Edward laughed loudly.

"Oh my god, when did you find out?" Alice asked excitedly, clapping her hands together.

"Yesterday," Edward grinned as he walked over and wrapped his arms around me from behind. I grinned up at him as I leaned back against his chest.

"What the hell is going on?" Jasper demanded as he crossed his arms across his chest and arched his eyebrow in question. Uh oh, big scary older brother laying down the law. I rolled my eyes at him.

Edward gestured for me to tell the story. "We went to the doctors yesterday because I've been feeling sick all week and found out that I'm ten weeks pregnant with twins." I said in one breath.

There was a beat of silence before the room erupted in noise.

Jake started shrieking along with the girls and Jasper and Emmett clapped Edward on the back before pulling me into a crushing group hug.

"Careful!" I laughed. "Don't squish the babies."

Emmett and Jasper immediately let me go in fear and thrust me back in Edward's arms. Edward laughed and pressed a kiss to my temple.

"I'm so happy for you guys!" Alice said tearfully as she grasped both of my hands in hers. "You guys are going to be great parents."

I grinned up at Edward. "Thank you, Ali. I think so too."

"Let's see that bump, Bells!" Rose boomed. For such a skinny person, Rose can be just as loud if not louder than her boisterous husband sometimes.

I rolled my eyes and pulled the t-shirt that I was wearing tight and turned to the side to show everyone the small bump in between my hipbones.

"Awww yeah!"

"Hot mama!"

"Look at you, Bells!"

I rolled my eyes at Rose, Jake, and Emmett and fluffed my shirt out to its original position. "Alright, alright!" I waved them off. "Let's eat, shall we?"

We all sat down to dinner a few minutes later and dug in. "Damn, Bells," Jake whistled as everyone turned to look at me. "Hungry much?"

I looked down at my plate and realized that I'd been savagely shoveling food in my mouth. "What?" I said through a mouthful of food and blushed as I looked around at everyone's amused faces. "I'm eating for three remember?"

Everyone laughed and went back to their own meals.

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Next up: Our couple deals with the press and prepare for their new arrivals!

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- NIKKI