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Chapter 11: Clock Watching
Edward had his arm around me whilst on the sofa and the other resting on my bump. He was rubbing it in a soothing way. It was only till Alice gasped that the silence broke out. "Alice? What's the matter? Is something wrong?" I asked her panicking. Everyone's face matched hers. Happy, gleaming and smiling. I looked around to see everyone staring at my slightly rounded belly. Edward turned to face me and put both his hands on my bump. The coldness was a little shock but nothing I couldn't handle. "I, I mean we can hear the twins heart beats" It's so strong almost as strong as the wolves! I smiled and stood up
"She's grown" Alice smiled. I saw Carlisle go to the kitchen and come back within the second. He held in his hand a ruler. I understood what he wanted to do straight away. He wanted to see how much I'd grown. I stood up and rolled my top up so my bump was exposed. I had grown and quite a bit.
Carlisle put the wooden ruler on my belly, it measured 25cm. Carlisle said that that was about 10 inches which is the equivalent to week 20 in a normal pregnancy. He also said that, the size of the twins is about the size of a grapefruit. That means they're going to be huge when they're born. "Carlisle, how big will the twins be when they're born and how on earth am I going to give birth to them?" I asked. Before he could answer I put my hand over my mouth and ran to the kitchen sink as I simply wouldn't make it to the bathroom. Edward followed me into the kitchen. He held my hair for me, I told him that he didn't have to see this but he insisted on staying to look after me.
When I was finished Esme, Emmett and Jasper had gone out. I assumed they went to hunt; it must have been ages since they fed themselves. Carlisle and Alice were sat down on the couch. "Carlisle, we have to do something about Bella's vomiting. How will she give birth? Both of us need to know." Edward asked as he walked with me back into the living room with me his arms around my waist and bump.
"Well at this rate, unless you want Bella to lose half a gallon of blood then she'll be pushing the babies out and I will be delivering." Carlisle said. Edward's eyes almost popping out of his head. "Or the other option to get the twins out safely is for Bella to have a caesarean. It'll have to be done with local anaesthetic so Bella will be asleep" Carlisle said with his professional doctors' tone, coming through.
My reaction to the operation news was horrific. I wanted to give birth to the twins like a normal mother would. With Edward at my side, holding my hand whilst our children entered the world. "I don't want to be asleep whilst Renesmee and Edward are born. I want to hear their first irritated cries and see them. So what if I lose blood, I won't be needing it. Edward can change me…. Remember part of our deal" I objected.
"Fine, we'll do it Bella's way." Edward said slowly with a sigh. I smiled and turned my head round to him and kissed him lightly on the cheek. I smiled at him and I was rewarded with one of my favourite crooked smiles. He leaned down to rest his head on my shoulder I heard him whisper to me; are you sure, it doesn't have to be like this. I nodded and replied in a whisper that I knew only Edward would be able to hear; I'm sure darling. You can keep your promise too. It won't be the same if I don't actually "give birth" to them. You know. He chuckled at my response.
The evening passed us by quickly. The three wolves came to see us. They said that it would be safe for the rest of the Cullen's to hunt. Rosalie, Alice and Edward refused as they wanted to be here to watch me and the twins grow. I found that exceptionally nice. Rose and Alice had taken the Aunty thing quite well.
I went to bed early again. About half nine to be exact. Edward always came with me. I woke up at half past one to find Edward not by my side. I heard some talking going on downstairs so I decided I wanted to know what all the commotion was about.
"What are we going to do? We can't just stay here and let them attack us when nothing has been done!" I heard Rosalie cry out. As I was walking down the stairs Edward's shot to me. He was by me before I could even blink. "Bella, go back to bed. You don't need to know any of this." Edward said as he smiled at me. I shook my head and said, so everybody could hear; what's going on? I noticed that the three from La Push were here. Jacob stepped forward with Leah and Seth at his flanks. "The pack thinks that your… egh… children are a threat because they're half vampire. They want to come over here and tear everyone apart, including you! We're doing extra rounds with Emmett and Jasper, they both wanted to help us out." Jacob informed me. My mouth went to a rounded O shape from the shock. What were we meant to do? "What are we going to do then?" I asked Jake. "We're going to meet the pack in the woods. Sam's leading and forcing the rest of them into this, so we're going to reason with them." He replied. Edward told me that he wasn't going with them. He said he would hate for something to happen to me whilst he was out.
"I'll meet you upstairs" I told him. He nodded as I turned around. Alice shouted me as I was climbing the stairs; you've grown again, the twins will be here sooner than anticipated. I had a vision. I saw you like me holding them and cradling them, it was so sweet. I smiled and hugged her. She pecked me on the cheek and wished me good night. I went back to bed and fell into unconsciousness the minute my head hit the pillow.
When I woke it was my normal waking time. I didn't vomit or have vertigo in the morning which was an improvement.
The days started to get into a similar routine- watching TV, drinking blood, vomiting every now and again and finally being with Edward and my family. Before I knew it I was waking up to a Monday morning! Where had the past four days gone?
I was huge now. I couldn't walk around without having to cradle my swollen belly. I couldn't even see my feet. This wasn't very good because being accident prone didn't help. I've fell- well almost- about three times, luckily either Edward, Rosalie, Alice or Esme have been there to catch me. I noticed that I had a few bruises on my bumped belly. They were like a purpley colour, they didn't hurt they were just there. Both me and Edward put them aside as we both knew I only had a few days left of being mortal so we decided to take full advantage of them. We spent them mostly in our bedroom.
Two days passed quickly. After a tiring day I found a patch of water in the bed sheets. Edward hadn't noticed it as he was giving Wuthering Heights a chance so he spent his nights on our bed sat up reading. I woke at ten minutes past three. And told him straight away, my words were quite blurry as I was still tired.
He cradled me to Carlisle and Esme's room where Carlisle was reading an old, tatted book and Esme was drawing some sort of blue prints. Wonder what they were for? Edward barged through the door, almost knocking it out of its hinges. "Carlisle, Bella's water has broke." He said urgency appearing in his voice. He told Edward to put me down because if the contraptions start the position I was in wouldn't help.
I walked carefully to the hospitalized room on the second floor and took my place on the bed. Edward sat beside me. Every single Cullen followed in to see me and Edward. Esme would have been crying by now if she could have.
They all helped out in some way. Edward was in charge of staying with me- obviously. Alice and Rosalie were in charge of getting the pain killers, Emmett and Jasper were there to make sure I was entertained and Esme helped Carlisle with all the medical jargon.
I was 8cm dilated at ten past ten in the morning. I was exhausted and my contraptions were insanely painful. I screamed each time. Squeezing Edwards hand, if I could break his bones he would need serious bone reconstruction in his right hand. At two in the afternoon I hit ten centimetres dilation. This was it.
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