Nine Months OF Waiting

I was laughing so hard that I couldn't breathe. I stood there clutching my stomach and couldn't stop laughing. Jake was laughing nearly as hard as me until he looked down and saw a small puddle at my feel.

"Bells did you just pee yourself or is that…"

I froze and looked down.

"Jake I did not just pee myself…I think my waters just broke," I told him, my face frozen in a mask of shock and fear.

I saw that Jake had a similar expression on his face. We both just stood there for a moment, both scared and unsure of what to do now. Then all of a sudden Jake snapped to attention.

"Okay Bella, you stay here, I'll sun up and get your bag, you have it packed don't you? Is there anything else that I need to get that isn't in there?" Jake asked me in one breath.

"Yeah my bag is packed, just grab my handbag and my jacket," I told him. I was still in shock. I couldn't believe that I had actually just gone into labour.

Jake raced up the stairs and grabbed my stuff. He returned to the sitting room, where I had not moved an inch, and helped me put on my jacket. He then grabbed his cell phone and called Charlie.

"Hey Charlie, I don't want you to freak out or anything but we think Bella is gone into labour, her waters just broke so I'm gonna drive her over to the hospital now."

I couldn't hear what Charlie was saying to Jake.

"Yes sir I sure will. Okay see you soon Chief."

Jake turned to me, "okay let's go Bells."

He helped me out to the car and then raced back in to grab my hospital bag and to lock up. He raced back out to the car, threw the bag into the trunk and got into the driver's seat. He looked over at me and smiled, probably reading the worried expression on my face.

"Don't worry Bells it'll all be okay, we're finally gonna get to meet the baby."

The moment he said that, I started to smile. I would finally see my baby….mine and Edwards's baby. I had been waiting nine months for this moment and now it was finally almost time to meet my beby.

"Okay come on then Jake let's get to the hospital and get this over with."

Jake knew that I was scared to give birth. He took my hand and squeezed it.

"It'll be fine Bells. Don't worry."

He let go and gave me another reassuring smile. He then proceeded to drive me to the hospital. Once we got there he helped me into the reception where we checked in and were brought into a delivery room. I called Renee and told her. She was over the moon and so excited. She was only sorry that she wouldn't be here. She was on the road with Phil when I rang her but promised that she would get a flight as soon as possible to get out to see me but that it probably would be after the baby had been born.

Charlie arrived not long after Jake and I had and was now pacing around the room nervously, unsure of what he should do. I texted Jessica and Angela to tell them and Angela came to the hospital to see me. Angela said that she wanted to stay for the birth and right then I realised how lucky I was to have her as a friend. She stayed with me all during the birth and held one of my hands while Jake held the other. Charlie was slightly squeamish and decided that he would rather wait out in the waiting room. I was glad because no matter how much I loved him, I didn't want my dad to see me give birth. It was just one of those things that are so much more awkward when it's your dad. Renee rang me that night and told me she had a flight for the following evening and would need to be collected from the airport when her flight got into Port Angeles at 7:15. I was excited for my mom to come but most excited to actually be able to hold my baby in my arms.

I had thought about names but I hadn't decided on anything for definite. I wanted to name the baby Edward Jacob if it was a boy or EJ for short or Renesmee Carlie if it was a girl. I hadn't talked to anyone about the names I was thinking about. I was mostly afraid of what Jacob would say if I told him I wanted to name the baby after Edward. Jake had accepted my pregnancy and had fallen in love with the baby already. He didn't consider the baby Edwards though since he wasn't here and saw the baby as mine and mine alone. I knew that bringing up Edward just made him angry so I didn't mention him during my pregnancy although I thought of him all the time. I couldn't stop my heart from hurting because he wasn't here. And it wasn't just hurting for just myself anymore, but for my baby too who would never know his or her father.

Jake had seemed to step into the fatherhood role easily and it made me think that things would be so much easier if I could love Jacob. We could be together and raise this baby together. It would be perfect. He was the little boy I had played with in the mud growing up. Our dads were best friends and so were we. The Blacks were already family and if me and Jake were together and got married someday it would make us official family. It seemed like fate. But Jake is not where my heart lay. My heart was still with Edward wherever he was and no matter how easy and perfect it would seem if I was with Jake, I couldn't do that to him when my heart wasn't really in it.

Either way though, Jake was there for me one hundred per cent and after spending hours in labour my baby was finally born just after seven o'clock the following morning.