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It's been two weeks, time for test results.
Chapter 12
BPOV
I am sitting on my floor at my computer working when I hear keys in the door. I stop and rest my head on my fist facing the entry way. I know Edward is at work, so it's not him. It has to be one of our mothers, Rosalie, or Alice.
"Beellaa" The pixie sings as she dances in.
"Good morning Alice, how are you today?"
Before she can answer Rosalie walks in with a brown bag. Yup I know what that is. "Alice calm the hell down, I am nerves enough. Shit." Rose chastises Alice like a child then turns to me. "Bella, how are you feeling?" Rosalie asks.
"Honestly, I have felt better, but I'm okay. Clearly you are a ball of nerves though." I smirk. "What's in the bag, Rose?"
"Oh like you don't know. It's been two weeks and two days. Let's see if I get to be a mama bear." She hands me that bag.
I groan and go pee on the damn stick. I set it on the back of the toilet and walk back out and sit back at my computer continuing to work. I have been kicking around working on my book now that I am out of college, but I haven't made a decision yet.
"Bella where is the test?" Rose screeches.
"Shit Rose, it's in the bathroom. I don't need my piss everywhere, damn woman. Wait three minutes then go look at it. It's your kid." I go back to work. I know that might have been mean but her screech annoyed me instantly.
"I drove by the house today," Alice comes and sits by me.
"Mmmhmm" I keep working.
"It's coming along quickly." I nod. "Bella are you listening to me?"
"Yes Alice, but I do have to get this done. I'm sorry." I close my laptop and climb up to the couch, feeling like crap. I have been feeling like this for a few days now, and I'm, starting to think my mother is right.
Rosalie paces the floor for the three minutes that feels like three hours. Out of nowhere, she speed walks to the bathroom. She returns a minute later with tears in her eyes. I hurry off the couch to her side.
"I am so sorry Rose" I hug her.
She pulls back and looks at me, "are you have second thoughts Bella"
"No, I just don't know what else to say. Can we try again?" I offer.
"What? Why?"
"I want you to have a baby."
Leah walks in, "Bella do I need to move out?" she giggles
I am so confused; I spin around and look at Leah. "No, why would you say that? Even the new place has two rooms for you and J.J."
"How about you Rosalie, does your place have any extra rooms?" Leah asks.
"Well considering Bella has my child in her belly now, you know I do." Rosalie grins as a tear falls down her cheek.
I look down at my stomach, and then up at Rosalie. We both squeal and jump up and down. All of a sudden Rose stops us jumping and gasps. "Wait, you shouldn't be jumping like this." her face is covered in panic.
"Rosalie, shut up call Emmett." I roll my eyes and go to sit by Alice again.
I jump when I hear Rosalie's excited voice. "Hello daddy" she squeals. I shake my head and go to the kitchen to get a glass of juice. There is definitely something wrong when Rosalie squeals like a high school cheerleader.
"Bella, are you okay?" Leah comes in speaking softly.
"Mmmhmm" I set my glass in the sink.
"Shopping," Alice sings interrupting anymore conversation, "time for shopping"
I walk back out to the living room. "You guys go on ahead; I think I am just going to stay here." I sit back down and pick up my lap top.
"Bella I read that those are not good for a fet…"
"Rosalie, how many kids have you had?" I don't wait for a response. "That's what I thought, now for the love of all that is holy shut the hell up. If you take everything away from me I swear you will drive me to a nut house. How good do you think that will be for a baby? Huh? Now I get you are worried about your baby, but you said you trusted me. Now, Shut. Up. I have pulled two full term pregnancies off already to losing one, and if you harp anymore I will get a complex so big I will worry myself into hives, and that will not be pretty." She opens her mouth to speak and I hold up a finger. "Don't make me call Edward home from work to get you to shut up. I will do it, you know I will." I warn her.
Edward has really become my knight in shining armor. Anytime anyone pisses me off or makes me feel like shit for our decisions he is right there to stop them and remind me of how wonderful I am. He has been taking the brunt of a lot of things lately. I will be grateful for him until the day I die. When he walks into a room my heart swells, and sometimes I wonder if it will beat right out of my chest.
I open my computer and instead of working I log into my Facebook. I think my friends get the point because they leave. I start to feel guilty for being rude to them but shit I really need Rosalie to back the hell off. I know she is concerned for her child, but damn she is overwhelming me.
Leah walks in with the baby monitor in her hand. She plops down and gives off a deep sigh. We sit in silence for a while Leah looking at a magazine and me on Facebook. After my annoyance is gone I close my laptop and get something to eat. After that I lay down on the couch, putting my feet on Leah's lap.
I am soon woken up but Leah telling me it was time to get the kids. I feel a little dizzy from getting up to fast. I sit right back down, because I don't want to fall. Leah offers to get the kids but I tell her I have it. I get up, slower this time, and head out to get the kids.
EPOV
"So what do you want to do, buddy?" I look over at my son.
"Bowling, then supper" he looks excited, I can't help but follow suit.
"Sounds good to me, pizza?" I raise a brow.
"Oh yeah" I watch his eyes light up.
We walk into the bowling alley and Seth scans the room. I watch him when his eyes reach the other end of the alley his face twitches into a smile but it's gone just as fast. I look where he was looking and there is a pretty little brown haired girl. He looks up at me and I raise my brow at him, making him quickly look away, and blush, like his Mother. I look away as I chuckle at his little crush. I must not have been quiet enough.
"Dad really…" he rolls his eyes and I laugh out loud. He sighs "come on let's get shoes."
I am still chuckling a little while we tell the guy our sizes, and get a lane. As we get to the lane all thoughts of the girl are gone. We bowl the first three rounds in pure silence. I know he is thinking about what he wants to say so, like his mother, I leave him to his thoughts.
I have just lifted my ball to toss down the lane in the sixth frame when he scares the life out of me. "So…you gonna marry Mom or what?"
I gasp, "Shit Seth, you scared me. Yes, I plan on purposing to you Mother. Why do you not want me to?"
"Oh no I think you should have done it before she kicked you out." He says, like it's the simplest thing someone could think of.
"I don't think she was ready then but I do think she is now. I was actually planning it out."
"Oh I know she is" he looks at me pointedly.
"Okay, you win how do you know that?" Yep I bought into it.
"I heard her tell Mandy, a couple of weeks ago, in the kitchen. Mandy's all for it too and Billy said it thinks it would be cool."
"You know all of this for sure?" I ask him.
"Oh, we all talk. You cannot tell me you don't notice us talkin and hangin out. Just like I know Amanda punched a girl for picking on Billy, and I know that Billy needs you too. Like this" he motions between us.
"You mean he wants to go out with us." I ask confused.
"Sometimes, but most of the time he just wants you, think about it man, his Dad is dead to and now he needs you, you promised his Dad you would take care of him. He crawled in my bed that night you left, cuz Mom was crying and he didn't want to bother her. Do you know he is being picked on at school because he is so quiet and he watches everything? I try to be there for him but I have class too and sometimes I just can't be there. I think he needs you to tell him that it's going to be okay. He trusts you."
"Why doesn't he just ask?" I shake my head.
"He sees you are tired and he won't ask he is waiting for you to ask him." he says it like it's so obvious, and now I feel like an ass. I start wondering how I didn't see this before and why I haven't thought of asking him to begin with. Am I playing favorites? If I am I don't mean to be.
"Well, I think we pick him up for pizza. Are you okay with that?"
"I knew that's what you were going to say, when I told you. That's why I told you." He wears his Mother's 'all knowing' smile. It is truly amazing how much of Bella is in our son.
I roll my ball down the lane starting the game back up. As we hit the last round I figure now I will ask a question that has been eating away at me for a while now. "So…uh…I got a question for you."
He rolls the ball for his turn, and looks at me. "You can always ask." He smiles and I laugh, because that's what his mom says. Sometimes it's followed by 'I will choose to answer or not'. Now that she is pregnant, she will answer and sometimes it isn't so nice.
I pick up my ball and walk next to him. "Would you like me to become your Father? Like instead of having your grandpa's last name you will have mine." I huge grin appears on his face.
"You mean like the whole family would have the last name?" he looks at me suspiciously.
I know what he is talking about, "Yes, ALL of us would have the last name."
He finishes out the tenth frame then turns back to me. "I have been wishing for that."
I nod. "Okay let's go get Billy and go for Pizza."
"Hey, Love, where's Billy?"
"She looks up from her book, "You two left and he and Amanda went that way" she points behind her.
"Billy" I call out then look back at her, "we decided to take him with us." She smiles and nods, "I figured that would happen in time."
BOPV
"Hey, Mom, where are they going?" Amanda points to the door.
"Well sweetie, come and sit down." I pat the couch. "There is this thing called testosterone and boys like to throw it around. When they do we aren't allowed to be around."
"I don't get it." She looks confused.
"Well, I imagine it's a lot like the apes we saw on discovery channel. I'm not sure though. I think they pound their chest and speak in a funny language." I scrunch my nose up at her making her laugh.
"Hey can I paint your nails?" she perks up.
"Well if the boys are throwing around testosterone then we can throw around some estrogen, so why not, go get the nail polishes." I smile and raise my hand.
"I got 'em" she sings carrying her whole bag.
Oh this is scary…
"Alright" I giggle at her.
"Hmm I think…" she digs through her bag and holds up a bottle, "purple" and another one "with glitter." Her face is so lit up.
"Ooo, that sounds perfect." I clap excitedly, to keep her happy. "You know what, I think; I have Hot Pockets and ice cream. What do ya say?"
She giggles and I look at her confused. "Dad said you would get funny cravings"
"Well, I didn't think it was that strange but ok, does that mean you pass?" I stand up.
"No! Can we have some music on to? It will be like a real slumber party." She hops up and down. I think about how I need to keep her away from the Ritalin needing pixie.
"Sure, turn it on and I will put the hot pockets in." I put the Hot Pockets in the microwave and grab two plate and forks.
"Amanda foods done, want to eat in the living room with me?"
"Really! Yeah!" she claps then grabs her plate and follows me.
After we are done eating she paints my fingernails that sparkly concoction she came up with. We get up and dance around the house while they guys are gone, only taking a break for me to paint her nails to match mine. Then we get back up and start dancing around the house again. We are half way through 'Single Ladies" by Beyoncé when the guys come home.
"Well, now we know what they do when we aren't around" I hear Edward tell the boys. I stop dancing and look at him waiting for him to yell at me for not taking it easy and gearing up to defend myself.
"We're spreading estrogen." Amanda informs him proudly.
This is not going to end well at all…
I smile and watch confusion roll through Edward's eyes, but Seth is the one to speak up. "What in the world does that mean?"
I giggle and snort at the same time because I know what's coming. "Mom said you guys were out throwing testosterone around," Edward looks at me and raises a brow and I smirk back, "and that you bang on your chests like the apes on discovery channel so we are spreading estrogen around, it was girls give off." She is so proud of her new found knowledge.
"Apes from discovery channel huh" Edward pushes of the frame he was leaning on.
Shit. Don't fall…
I turn and start to run with Edward hot on my ass, he chases me all around the house, finally catching me as I stop from jumping over the couch. Knowing my luck I would fall and hurt Rose's baby. Edward gently catches me around the waste.
"You do realize apes mate for life right?" he whispers in my ear.
"Well they are highly bonded to said mate so I would expect nothing less" I quip back.
"Well then, they will get nothing less, but… maybe a whole lot more." I don't think he is talking about apes anymore.
I smirk playing along, "We shall see in two more weeks." He growls at me, and damn it turns me on. So I tell myself the same thing.
I hear a giggle and we both turn our head to see all three of the children in the room yet. Edward lets me go as Amanda starts to sing. "Mom and Dad sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G, first comes love, then come marriage, then comes the baby in the baby carriage."
Seth takes her hand, "Come on lady sings too much. Let's go." He leads her out of the room with Billy right behind them. He stops at the door way and turns around.
Smiling Billy says, "Thanks Dad," and then jets off.
I turn back to Edward, "Well, she has the right idea, and I think I like it." He says, smirking.
"I bet you do," I grin back. "I think you are more partial to what it takes to put a baby in that baby carriage." I giggle. Yes I know it's a poor attempt at flirting but he seems to like it.
We pick up the house together as we listen to the kids play Halo. The screaming and hollering that comes from that room is insane. It does swell my heart though.
"So, don't bite my head off but how are you feeling?" Edward mumbles.
"If I answer honestly will you freak out?" I retort.
"Is there a reason?" he doesn't miss a beat.
"Touché…" I nod. "I am a little tired if I am being honest, but it's bound to happen"
"I suppose bouncing around the house to spread your 'estrogen'" he air quotes estrogen, "didn't help that." He laughs.
"Did you seriously air quote estrogen…" I laugh doubling over. He attacks me tickling me. "Wait… you… the…baby…stop." I say while trying to breath.
"Bella that baby is just fine," he grins while continuing to tickle me. "It's well protected; you on the other hand are in big trouble."
"Really are you going to spank me?" that does the trick, he is so shocked that he stops tickling me and gets a dazed look on his face. I use that moment to get free. I jog a few steps away but when I look back he still has that dazed look on his face. So I walk back to him.
"Edward, Edward, are you alright." I put my hand on his shoulder.
All of a sudden he grabs me and pins me down. "Two weeks, in two weeks I am going to spank that ass as I fuck you into oblivion." He kisses me semi-hard letting me know he is serious, but also causing me to soak my panties and need a seriously long shower.
Alright you guys have waited long enough, how about a lemon in the next chapter. Leave me a review let me know your thoughts they are all important to me…
