We walked back into the school hand-in-hand. I tried to ignore all the beady eyes in the cafeteria. Most of them were girls that were jealous of me. I wanted to stick my tongue out at the bitches, but I decided to take the high road.

"Well, don't you two look happy," Alice said dryly when we sat back down.

Emmett smirked. "They banged, so what?"

"Emmett!" I gasped. "I am appalled that you would say something like that. I mean, so what if we did? We are dating."

Emmett, Rosalie, and Jasper snickered. Edward's ears turned red. Alice rolled her eyes and then stood up.

"Hey, everyone, Edward is dating Bella Swan!" she announced to our entire class.

"Holy fuck, holy fuck, holy fuck," I chanted as the people in the room began staring at Edward and I. I thought they were gunna frickin' stone me to death with their eyes!

"Alice!" Edward exclaimed. "What the hell was that for?"

"Clearly neither of you two was going to announce it, so I did it for you," Alice said. "I just sped up the process." She grabbed her tray and left the table. Jasper reluctantly followed her.

I laid my head down on the table with a groan. "Fuck my life."

Edward rubbed my back. "Come on, babe. It's not that big of a deal. Everyone probably knew anyway."

I peaked at him from underneath my hair. He smiled at me reassuringly.

The week continued with more staring, more whispering when I was standing right beside them and could clearly hear them. I learned to get used to it. It wasn't that hard. I mean, I'd ignored everyone for most of my high school career. This wasn't anything new to me.

People caught onto the baby bump around a week later. Everyone still remembered that Edward and I had got together at Homecoming. They put two and two together, and bam. Forks High School knew I was pregnant.

"How's the bun in the oven, Swan?"

"Fine, thank you."

"Well, if it isn't slutty Swan."

"Well, if it isn't crunt sack Crowley."

"Hey, Bella. I heard you're pregnant."

"Oh! I heard the same thing about you! Oh mah goodness! Crazy!"

That was my life for the next few days. Finally people calmed down. A little, at least. They stopped talking to me because I wouldn't give them a straight answer. Rose started answering questions for me, but she wasn't much better.

"Hey, Rose. Is Bella really pregnant?"

"Uh, nah, man. I think it's a food baby. We crushed, like, a case of pop and two bowls of popcorn last night." She laughed. "It was sorta disgusting."

The mob finally resorted to asking Edward about it.

"Hey, big guy! I heard you got Swan knocked up. Congrats."

Edward would mumble something incoherent and walk away.

Yeah, that's how we roll.

By Christmas, everyone in town knew I was pregnant. Big frickin' deal. They would have figured it out eventually anyway. People seemed to be more appalled that Edward was actually dating me instead of, I don't know, kicking me to the curb, shoving me down a flight of stairs. Something along those lines.

My Nonna came down for Christmas. She was an old, Italian woman that barely brushed five feet. Charlie was worried that she'd flip shit when she found out that I was pregnant, since she was all moral and crap, but she was even more excited than Carlisle and Esme. Like, she was scary stoked.

"Oh, my beautiful Bella!" she exclaimed in her thick accent. "You're going to give your old Nonna a little baby." She hugged me tightly and kissed me. "Thank you, thank you."

"Uh, Nonna, this baby's peacin' out," I told her. "Like, I'm giving it up for adoption."

"Is okay," she assured me with a confident nod. "We'll still see the precious baby, right?"

"Yeah, I guess we could go visit it," I mumbled. "Um, I'm glad you like the fact that I'm pregnant, Nonna. The baby daddy is coming over later if you want to meet him."

"Oh!" Nonna clapped her hands together. "That would be lovely. I'll start making lasagne."

She waddled into the kitchen, kicking Sue out of the room, and began slaving away over the oven.

"Holy balls," I murmured under my breath. How bizarre. My Nonna, a pure, angelic old woman, was absolutely ecstatic that I was pregnant. I could barely wrap my hand around it.

I texted Edward soon after the incident.

"Dude, my nonna is stoked to meet u. She's excited that im pregnant."

"R u serious?"

"Im dead serious."

"Im on my way over now."

I went upstairs and changed into some UW sweats and started helping Nonna with supper. That was one thing I inherited from the Swans: the ability to cook damn good food without even trying. Sue didn't have anything on me. I was just too lazy to cook every damn night.

Edward's family was coming down on Christmas Eve and not leaving again until after New Years, and he wasn't sure when we'd be able to chillax again, so I invited him over on Christmas Eve Eve, just in case I couldn't see him again until the New Year.

There was a knock at the door soon after.

"Dad, will you get that?" I called as I pulled the lasagne out of the oven and put the garlic toast in.

Charlie let Edward into the house. Edward smiled and shook his hand. Charlie didn't look very impressed. Edward walked into the kitchen and kissed me on the cheek.

"Nonna, this is Edward, my, uh, boyfriend," I introduced.

"Oh! Edward!" Nonna exclaimed, opening up her arms and engulfing Edward in a hug. "Thank you, thank you for giving me a grandchild."

"Um, you're welcome?" Edward said as he hugged my nonna back. He glanced at me with confused eyes.

When Nonna let go of him, I whispered in his ear, "She's a little crazy."

Edward nodded with a smile. "I can see where you get it from now."

I smacked his arm with the oven mitt and continued cooking supper with Nonna.

"I hope you like Italian, Edward," I said as I washed lettuce. "Nonna's an Italian to the bone."

"Oh, I love Italian," Edward assured me. "Is there anything I can help with?"

"No, no, get out of my kitchen!" Nonna cried, waving the dish cloth at him, shooing him out of the room. "Out, out, out!"

Edward smiled as he left the room. Thankfully Seth started talking to Edward. Charlie would have been an ass.

Soon, all the food was done. Edward and I sat across from Nonna and Seth, with Sue and Charlie on the ends of the tables.

"We say grace," Nonna announced solemnly. She bowed her head. "Dio, thank you for my son, Charlie, and my grandchildren, Bella and Seth. And thank you for giving me a great-grandchild before I come to you, Dio. Amen."

"Amen," everyone murmured.

We ate the lasagne, Caesar salad, and garlic toast in the usual Swan fashion. I wasn't sure if Edward was comfortable around my loud, inappropriate family.

"Seth! Stop feeding Jacob," Sue snapped. "You know he gets bunged up when you feed him hamburger."

"Sue, stop pushin' the poor kid around," Charlie mumbled. "You know he'll just do it more if you get mad at him."

Sue huffed before turning back to her plate. "This is very good, Marie."

"Thank you," Nonna replied. "Bella made the garlic toast and the salad. She's a very good cook." She winked at Edward.

"Um," Edward said, looking down at his plate.

"Thanks, Nonna," I replied with a smile. "Now if I weren't so damn lazy, maybe we could eat real food more often."

"Bella, don't say that," Charlie warned.

Sue flew off the wall. "Bella! I'm trying my hardest. I work six days a week at the reserve, the least you could do is cook and clean while I'm gone."

I rolled my eyes. "Whatevs, Sue. You know that's not my bag."

Sue turned red in the face with effort. She wanted to scream at me, but Nonna would flip shit if Sue yelled at me. And she would embarrass herself in front of the mayor's son.

Edward and I finished eating quickly.

"We're gunna go chill upstairs," I told Charlie as I stood up. "Dibs out on doing dishes."

Edward followed me upstairs to my room. I fell on top of the covers with a sigh.

"So, what'd you think of my crazy family?" I asked with a grin.

"Not crazy, eccentric," Edward reworded with a gentle smile. He laid down beside me. "They're alright. Overwhelming, but I think I could get used to it."

"Even Sue?" I asked with raised eyebrows. "Hell, I'm not even used to her yet, and she's been around for nine years."

Edward laughed a little. "I think she's alright."

I shrugged and yawned. "All that cooking tired me out."

"It was very good," Edward complimented. "I didn't know you could cook."

"It's a talent," I murmured with a smile. "I don't cook a lot, but I should. Sue makes shitty food."

"Why don't you?"

"Busy." I yawned again. "Frick, I'm tired. Shall we nap, good sir?"

Edward wrapped an arm around my baby bump. "Sure."

I fell asleep almost immediately, curled into Edward.

Sorry for not posting yesterday! I didn't even realize what day of the week it was until I woke up this morning! Ugh, total fail on my behalf, hah. AND. Since I managed to fail for another week, I'll be posting another chapter on Wednesday. I'm gunna be gone from Wednesday 'til Monday this week, so I'll be posting when I leave, and when I get home. :) That okay? 'Kay good. (I'm going to Craven. It's the drunkest weekend in Saskatchewan. It's also the number one place in Canada to get an STI and the number three place in Canada to get laid. Eep. Scar-y.)

There'll be a teaser Monday on A Different Forest!

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Recc'age:
Paper CutOuts by twistedcoincidence and astilbe13. This story owns me. Seriously. I'm definitely re-reading it when it's complete. This Edward is amazing, even if I do want to shake him 90% of the time, and this Bella is way too cute. Think The Beautiful Letdown Bella, just a little less...out there. And Finn. Oh, Finn. I'm not telling you who he is, but you'll love him when you meet him.