Tragedy

JasperPOVShe bore it pretty well. Charlie took her back, apologizing profusely for his stupid reaction, even though the fact that she wouldn't tell him who the father was filled him with suspicion. He eyed me a few times, because Bella and I have finally become properly close. I don't mind that she won't let me do anything but hug her when she cries for unexplained reasons, although she is pregnant. Carlisle said it would be hormone city inside her head. I still remember Jacob's reaction when he was told. Edward told him - Bella said she was too scared.

JacobPOV

Edward snuggled closer. I just lay back, lazy half smile on my face. Where does this boy come from? He's incredible - in more ways than one. It takes me a while to realise Edward is trying to attract my attention.

"Jacob!"

"Oh, sorry…Yes, my love?" He shakes his head at me.

"How did I end up with somebody so inattentive?" He smiles at me, and I put one finger on his chin, and bring his lips to mine.

"Because nobody else would have you." He kisses me, smiling. I pull him to lie on top of me, trailing my finger tips up and down his side, resting at his hip, tracing little patterns there. I know how ticklish he is, and sure enough he wriggles away, sitting up and grabbing my hands to stop them wandering. He frowns at me.

"You have a one track mind," he complains, looking serious.

"You love it, don't pretend like it isn't fun having a boyfriend who won't let you walk through the door without kissing you."

"That isn't the point," he retorts, trying to look irritated. It doesn't work. "No, but really, can you focus on me, and not my body for a minute. I have some rather…interesting news."

"Sounds ominous," I say, pulling him down to lie next to me. He rests his bronze head on my chest and flings one arm across my stomach.

"It's about Bella…" He sounds like he is choosing his words very carefully.

"Just spit it out Edward." He traces little circles on my abs.

"You have to promise that you will remain calm."

"Oh-oh."

"Jacob!"

"Alright, I promise I won't get mad."

"She's pregnant."

"Repeat that, slowly and clearly."

"She's going to have a baby." He rests his chin on my chest and looks up at me with those endless green eyes. "And if you get mad and go all unreasonable, I'll impose another sex ban." I had been puffing myself up to scream a stream of expletives, but as he says that I visibly deflate. That isn't fair. But effective.

"Who's the father?"

"Don't know."

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T KNOW?!"

"I told you not to get mad!" He snaps at me, glaring. " I mean, I don't know, and she won't say!"

"Right."

"You're taking this remarkably well."

"No, I'm really not you know." I roll out of his bed, and he sits up, sufficiently tousled and flushed to take some of the edge of his glare. "Tell me where she is Edward."

"Probably with Jasper, playing cards. That's where she spends all her time." He gets up too, pulling on sweatpants and my tee. I just yank on my jeans. Edward's shirts don't fit me. We go downstairs, and he holds my hand. Probably trying to keep me as calm as possible. Hell, I'm tring to stay calm, really I am.

JPOVJacob glared when he and Edward walked into the room. The steam is practically coming out his nostrils.

"You scumbag," he snarled at me. Well, that was unusual. "You've barely known her for six months, and she's pregnant!" Whoa.

"Jacob," Bella says, calmly.

"I'll handle this Bella. What the hell were you thinking? She's in a vulnerable position and you take advantage of her!"

"Jacob," she says again, this time joined by Edward. She glares at him, he looks bloody murder. If looks could kill.

"What kind of person are you?"

"Jacob, I admit, that if I was the father of Bella's child, I would happily submit myself to you for the beating I would undoubtedly deserve. But I am not the father of her child, and as such, I feel your accusation is unfounded."

"I said we didn't KNOW who the father was and Bella wasn't saying anything!" Edward snarls at Jacob. Bella doesn't look up from her house of cards.

"Bella?" Jacob says quietly.

"You heard Edward Jake. You wanna tell me why you're attacking my boyfriend?" I sense she wants me to go and I get up and go into the kitchen. I can only hear low mumbles. But Jake looks suitably shame-faced and says sorry when I go back in, and then Edward hauls him off upstairs.

People stare openly at Bella in the school halls. She becomes ore and more hunched as the day goes on. I keep telling her to straighten, but then somebody makes another comment and she slumps over again.

The cafeteria is crowded. Suddenly, loud catcalls, and cheers of "fight, fight!" break out near us, and we look up to see Mike Newton and Eric Yorkie squaring up to each other. They launch themselves at each other. Bella walks past with her tray, eyes on the ground not the fight. And then everything happened so fast, I wasn't sure what had happened. Mike got caught off balance, and fell against the table at the same moment somebody going to get a teacher knocked the tray from Bella's hands. She turned to pick it up, putting herself directly in the path of the table. It smashed into her stomach - Mike is no light weight and he'd caught the table a good one. Bella's hands flew to her stomach, and her scream of pain stopped the entire lunchroom in their tracks. Mike and Eric looked towards her with quiet dread. I was at her side, holding her head, trying to get her to talk to me. She was still on her feet, but she was staring at the floor - watching the blood pool around her feet.

A/N: Now, that is what I call a cliff-hanger. I'm SO SORRY, but that is probably the last update for a bit, there's no way I'm going to finish the next one by the end of today - it's nearly nine pm here, and I have college tomorrow. I will try and get you the next chapter, but I doubt it's going to happen until probably Wednesday…hang in there, it will be up by Wednesday night at the absolute latest!