Ch12 A Surprise for Rose
Bpov
Rose just stood there looking at me in shock.
"But….they told me I couldn't get pregnant."
"Well hon. doctors have been known to be wrong. In my bathroom, I keep a stash of them for my cousins. Go take one, by then I'll have dessert passed out and can join you."
"K," she said still in a daze.
We left the kitchen; her taking the backstairs to my room. I plated pieces of cake and took them out to everyone.
"Where's Rose," asked Emmett
"She had to use the restroom. I'm going to go check on her, she wasn't feeling well."
I took off up the stairs as fast as I could without falling. When I reached my room, I found Rose sitting on the foot of my bed staring off blankly.
"The three minute mark is up. Rose, you want to look or should I?"
"I'll do it," she whispered.
She slowly got up and went to the restroom to look at the test.
"Bella," she whispered to me as she turned the test in my direction.
"Do you want me to get Emmett?"
She just nodded her head. I went back downstairs and grabbed Emmett's arm in a vice like grip, dragging him to the kitchen. I took his plate and put it on the counter before dragging him upstairs, him cursing the whole way.
"Damn it Bella, why are you dragging me around the house?"
I took him to my bedroom and pointed Rose out to him. She was lying on my bed in the fetal position with tear tracks on her face.
Rpov
"Oh my God, Rose?"
I felt him lumbering over to me and knew when his hulk of a body sat on the bed. I looked up at him as his hand cupped my check, his thumb wiping away my tear tracks. Looking up in his eyes I could see he was worried about me.
"Tell me what's wrong honey. Why are you crying?"
I pointed at the test on the side table. He took it in his giant hands. After a few minutes, he looked at me.
"Is this true?"
"It's the first test I've taken but I want you with me when I to the doctor to get it confirmed. If you want to of course," I tacked on to the end.
"Oh course I'll go with you! I just…you know I want kids with you, and I was, and still am all for adoption. I just don't want to get your hopes up if it's a false positive."
"I know that Em."
He pulled me into his strong arms and rocked me for a while.
"So happy tears or no?"
"Happy, but scared. It would be a miracle if we were pregnant but I'm scared that if I am pregnant how the pregnancy will go."
"Whatever it is, we'll get through it together. We should wait till after the doctor visit to tell everyone don't you think?"
"Yeah, Bella knows. She was going to get us an appointment for tomorrow."
"How did she get involved? Why did you even think you were pregnant?"
"I didn't. Bella pulled me aside when I went for the pickles."
"But you don't like pickles," he said, his face all scrunched up in confusion.
"Exactly, that's what tipped her off. She said I was glowing and that I hate pickles, which is true, but right now I'm craving them."
"And cravings are a part of pregnancy, right?"
"Yep."
"Do you want to go back downstairs or do you want to go to our room?"
"I'm going to lie back down in our room. Will you tell everyone that I'm going to lay down, try to sleep my 'sickness' off?"
"Sure babe. Let me help you to our room first.
Bpov
After a few minutes, Em finally came back down.
"Is Rose okay Emmett," I asked.
"Yea she's just going to try and sleep it off."
"Oh, well I got her an appointment for eleven tomorrow. Unfortunately that was the earliest time they had."
"That's fine, thank you Bella."
"No problem Em."
Around nine everyone went on up to bed. After a shower, I joined Edward in his bed. Just like last night Edward wrapped his arms around my waist pulling my back to his chest. I lay my hands on top of his and drifted to sleep with Edward humming in my ear.
The next morning I got everyone fed. Before Rose and Em left I whispered they should send me a smiley face text if she was pregnant.
I was with Edward in the kitchen eating lunch when my phone vibrated.
From Rose
From Bella: Eep! I'm so happy for you! When are you telling everyone?
From Rose: We were wondering if you could cook an Italian dinner tonight for us to tell everyone over. You could serve wine with dessert again and I can turn it down.
From Bella: That sounds perfect. I can't wait for tonight!
"What are you smiling about over there?"
"Huh," I said jerking my head up to look at Edward who I admittedly had forgotten was there.
"I was wondering what you were smiling at?"
"Oh, just got some good news from a friend."
"Mmk, well what are you doing the rest of the day?"
"More work trying to get ready for the summer camp."
"Oh, yeah, I meant to ask about that. How is that going to work with your family reunion?"
"The reunion is always the last two weeks of May and the cam would start in July."
"Gotcha, and how is everyone for this reunion going to fit here?"
"Well, by then your family should be in their homes so that will open up some rooms. Some tent camp or show up in their campers. Others still have property in the area that they keep in shape for visits. To eat though, that's the fun part. Basically I cook big, I mean huge, meals then we do a buffet line."
"So you cook all the meals?"
"Lunch and dinner yes, breakfast is a fend for yourself unless your living under my roof and then I cook theirs be we do a family breakfast every Saturday."
"Where does everyone sit?"
"Outside in lawn chairs. I swear for two weeks it almost looks like a trailer park around here.
"Weddings for this family are almost like a circus. Most of the family tries to get married her on the homestead, especially since most churches can't hold a family our size."
"So did the Italian and German and Mexican and everyone else come here to the meadow to propose?"
"Yep, they all came here to meet the parents and that same week took them out to the meadow. Any family I a serious relationship in this family knows of the meadow and what happened the one and only time the tradition wasn't' followed."
"Wow."
"Yeah, the energy in that place is phenomenal. Anyways, I better get back to work so I can cook dinner tonight."
"You work too much."
"Nah, I love keeping busy, helps keep my mind off the past."
"Do you think I could steal you away for the weekend?"
"I don't know; let me check my schedule," pretend flipping through an agenda I looked back up with a smirk, "looks like I'm free."
"So…is that a yes?"
"Yes, that's a yes."
"Good," he said with a smirk before walking away.
Around four o'clock I went back downstairs to start dinner. About five o'clock I felt Edwards arms wrap around my waist.
Epov
The two of us were starting to get friskier with each other. I'm not going to lie. I was enjoying myself immensely. However, I was hoping to move things along without having Bella freak out on me.
Coming down the stairs and into the kitchen, I found Bella stirring at the stove. Unable to help myself I wrapped my arms around her waist. Moving the hair on the right side of her neck out of the way I began to plant light kisses on her neck.
"Mmm," she mumbled before leaning her head back on my shoulder, giving me more room to kiss her neck.
"Whatcha cooking," I whispered in her ear, while nibbling on her ear lobe.
"Italian," she whispered, "Rose called and requested it for supper."
"I didn't hear the phone."
"Yeah," she whispered, "she called my cell instead of the house phone."
"Ok," I mumbled as I continued to suck on her neck to her lickable collarbone.
"I have to finish cooking Edward."
"Mmk, but tonight your mine."
"Babe, I'm always yours."
"Mmm, shouldn't have said that Honeybunches, but I'll get you back after dinner tonight."
"Sounds like a plan to me."
I sat down on one of the bar chairs, just watching Bella as she moved around the kitchen. She always claimed to be clumsy unless she was on a horse but to me she was much more graceful in the kitchen. While on the horse, she let her body lose control, going with the flow of the horse. However, here in the kitchen she took control of her surroundings. The kitchen almost seemed to bow to her presence, her demand. She was master of her domain in the kitchen; the glow around her body proved it.
