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Chapter Eleven: Shattering Hearts

The boundaries for the fight were marked with wooden stakes that had been driven into the ground. We had all agreed that I should be the commentator/ referee for the fight. I mentally agreed with them; I didn't want to endanger my baby by falling flat on the ground. And besides, my stomach was still a little on the weak side. I didn't want to push it any further past the limits. Now how in the world was I supposed to make

The fight started and the Cullen's positioned themselves inside the boundaries. Edward, Emmett, Jasper, and Carlisle were on one side, while Rosalie, Alice, and Esme were on the other side.

"Alright, Bella. Shout go whenever you think is a good time," Carlisle called over to me.

"Alight," I called back, feeling absolutely ridiculous. "Ready… set…" – the two opposing sides picked up a handful of snow – "…GO!"

And then all pandemonium broke loose. Everybody started throwing snowballs at each other. It was quite interesting to see Carlisle, the good doctor who was calm and collected, be so wild with excitement and joyfulness. And Esme, who was always the motherly figure, be excited and joyful as well. The others were just the same. Just as they had been when I had left almost nine years ago.

Emmett through a snowball straight at Alice's face, and she received it with a smack. She glared at him and made an even bigger snowball, adding some ice in the middle. She ran after him with an evil look on her face, and Emmett started to run away with a look of terror on his face.

"Alice is throwing a snowball at Emmett, and it looks like Emmett is running away in terror," I called out, feeling absolutely foolish about commentating a snowball fight. The next one that we were able to have, I was going to make Alice commentate with me. Either that, or I would join them.

Alice reached within a foot of Emmett; Emmett tripped just then, and Alice was able to put the snowball down Emmett's shirt. She ran away before Emmett could react and jump up screaming from the cold. Grabbing another snowball, she hurled it straight at Jasper. Jasper received it on his shoulder, and he started to charge after her with a grin on his face.

"Now Jasper is after Ali-" I was cut off by a snowball hitting the side of my face. I turned to look and saw Edward standing there with a crooked smile on his face that I loved. Before I could be dazzled, and without thinking, I bolted from my chair that I was sitting on and grabbed a snowball. Realizing that he was now a target, he ran away. I ran after him, and threw the snowball at him. I was glad that my stomach was feeling better with each passing moment, and now, I could probably join in the game.

The snowball smacked Edward in the back of the head. He turned around. A mischievous grin was spread across his face. And then cold, wet snow was in my face.

"You are so dead, Edward!" I cried and Edward laughed, running in the opposite way from me.

I felt a hand grab my arm and I turned around, expecting it to be Carlisle ordering me back to my seat, but instead, it was Alice.

"Joining in the fun, Bella? Because you were missing a great deal of fun!" she said. Her eyes were full of excitement.

"I guess," I said.

Before Alice could respond, we both got whacked in the side of the face with snowballs. We turned to the direction of our attacker. It was Jasper and Edward. They both had evil looking grins on their faces, and they were laughing hysterically.

Alice and I looked at each other, and we both had grins on our faces, though Alice's was much more evil looking than mine. "Want to do some revenge?" Alice asked, mischief in her eyes and an excited grin on her face.

I nodded excitedly.

We both started to make snowballs with rapidity, and by the time two minutes were up, we had both made five snowballs. We stood up and looked around for Jasper and Edward. They were running to the other end of the boundary.

"You can't get away from us, boys!" Alice shouted, and we heard them laugh.

We started running to the place where Jasper and Edward stood. On the way there, we passed Carlisle, who was proceeding to throw snowballs at Esme, who was shrieking with laughter. Rosalie was hurling snowballs at Emmett who was trying to throw even more snowballs at her, but to no avail. All of them were roaring with laughter. Well, in Rosalie's case, shrieking with terror.

Alice and I began throwing snowballs at Edward and Jasper. They cowered from the cold, their cheeks red from the cold and from laughing.

Each snowball hit their faces, and by the time we were done throwing our snowballs, Alice and I were almost on the ground laughing. I had to stop laughing, as my stomach was trying to decide whether or not to be nauseous again.

The snowball fight continued from there. Carlisle and Esme threw snowballs at each other. Emmett threw snowballs at Rosalie to keep from her throwing snowballs at him, while Rosalie was doing the same thing, but was succeeding at the task more than Emmett was. Alice and I teamed up against Jasper and Edward, and we managed to do the same thing that Emmett and Rosalie were doing.

An hour after the snowball fight began, Esme, Rosalie, Alice, and I resigned and headed inside to make hot chocolate for everyone. It was now one person teams: Edward, Jasper, Emmett, and Carlisle. May God be with them all; they all threw snowballs really hard. It was up to them to battle it out and see who was the snowball throwing champion.

Once we got inside, we took off our boots and coats and headed into the kitchen.

Alice and I sat down at the Island, all teetered out.

"Man, those boys throw wicked hard," Alice said, shaking her spiky black hair. Water sprayed everywhere.

"Hey!" I said, leaning away.

"So, Bella," Rosalie said, sitting down at the Island. "You're really pregnant?"

I looked at Rosalie, a blush coming to my face. Why did I always have to blush? "Yes."

"Cool," Rosalie said. "Congratulations." I could tell that she really meant it.

"Thanks," I said sheepishly, looking down at my arms which were folded on the Island top.

As Alice and Rosalie began talking about who they thought would win the snowball fight outside, I went over to Esme to see if I could do anything to help with the hot chocolate. She told me that I could get the mugs from the cupboard. I grabbed seven mugs from the cupboard and set them down on the counter next to the stove.

The boys came back in fifteen minutes later, claiming that they were freezing. They were all dripping with melted snow, and Esme ordered them to go change before coming back downstairs to have hot chocolate. They reluctantly followed her orders and trudged upstairs to change.

By the time they came back downstairs five minutes later, Esme, Alice, and Rosalie were drinking mugs of hot chocolate; I had backed out from drinking the hot chocolate. We were in the living room setting up a game of LIFE.

"Hey, starting the game without us? How could you?" asked Emmett good-naturedly, walking into the living room.

"Well, we were going to wait, but you were gone too long," Rosalie said.

"Are you going to let us join?" Jasper asked.

"Of course, you silly. What did you think we were going to do? Have you watch us?" Alice asked, pulling Jasper down next to her.

As Edward sat down next to me, I felt my cheeks flame. Emmett sat down next to Rosalie, who was next to Esme, who was next to Carlisle. We managed to sit around the game board and sit comfortably.

We all claimed a car and put our little pin people in the cars. And then the game began.

An hour later, my back started to hurt from sitting on hard ground of the living room for so long. Finally, I knew that it was time I was getting home, as it was three in the afternoon. Though it was amusing – and entertaining – playing LIFE with the Cullen's, I could feel my body in desperate need of a nap.

"Alright, I forfeit. I'm out. I'm generously donating my money to the bank," I said, scooping up my paper money and handing it to Carlisle, who was playing banker.

"Oh, come on. Don't you want to play with us anymore?" Emmett asked.

"Well, I need to be heading home. Charlie's going to be home for work soon, and I said I would make dinner," I said, pulling the pin people from my car. I had managed to get married and get one "kid."

"Glad you could come, Bella," Esme said, smiling at me with a knowing smile.

I smiled back at her as I stood up. "Bye, guys."

"Bye, Bella!" called everyone.

The next day, late Friday afternoon, I was lying on the couch reading Wuthering Heights, when there was a knock on the door.

Groaning silently, I got myself up off the couch and I walked to the door, expecting Alice to be standing there with a proposition of another shopping trip. Opening the door, I was surprised to see Edward standing there. He smiled his crooked smile when I opened the door.

"Hey, Bella," he said.

"Hi, Edward, what are you doing here?" I asked curiously, tilting my head to the side slightly.

"I was wondering if I could ask you a question. May I?" He looked nervous about something, and for a moment, I thought he had figured it out. Oh, great, if he had figured it out, what was I going to do? I felt my cheeks flame up again, and I held the door open and stood aside to let him in.

He came through the door. We stood there awkwardly for a few seconds before I walked toward the kitchen, calling behind me, "Do you want something to drink, Edward?"

"Uh, water?" he asked, following behind me.

I grabbed a glass from the cupboard and said, "So, what question do you have that brings you here in the late afternoon?" I filled the glass with water and handed it to Edward, who was sitting in one of the kitchen chairs. I sat down across from him, folding my arms on the table top.

"I was just wondering if you wanted to go out with me this weekend?" he asked.

I sat there, too stunned to say anything. I looked down at my folded arms, my mouth open as if I was going to say something, which I was. But I couldn't find my voice to say anything. Edward had just asked me out! Edward Cullen, who was popular with all the girls at school and was inhumanly gorgeous, was asking me, Bella Swan, who was not at all popular and wasn't exactly pretty, out on a date! A date! I couldn't believe it. I was pregnant with another man's child, and he didn't even know!

"Edward," I began, but he cut me off.

"You don't have to answer me right away. But I like you and I think that it would be fun to date," Edward said.

My head snapped up. Fun to date? "Fun to date?" My voice came out slightly snappish, and I didn't mean to do that, but the pregnancy issue sort of controlled my emotions and the way I spoke to people quite often. "Edward… boys don't ask girls out just because they think that it would be fun to date."

Edward looked only a tiny bit shocked and surprised, but I could not detect any anger at all on his face. "That came out wrong. What I meant was that I want to go out with you. We could go see a movie or something and go to dinner."

I looked at him. "Edward, I don't think that it would be such a good idea if we… you know… dated," I said in a quiet voice. I could feel tears starting to well up unwillingly in my eyes. Darn those stupid hormones!

"Why?" he asked. Confusion was settling in his face at that moment, and I really wanted him to understand what was happening.

I looked down at my arms again and said, "I wish I could tell you, but I don't know how to tell you."

"Then just tell me straight out," he said. My eye caught with his and I could see in his eyes that he cared for me.

"Edward, I can't. It's not simple to just tell anyone. You don't know how hard it was telling anyone else," I said. I looked at him when I said this, and I made up my mind that I would at least try to tell him before he stepped out of the house.

Edward looked at me. "Why isn't it simple? Is it something that I did that your dad didn't approve of? Do you not like me or something?"

I had gotten up from my chair and was now leaning against the kitchen counter, facing Edward. When he said those words, I knew that hurt was flashing through my eyes. I cared for him, how dare he think that I didn't like him? I had liked him for years, ever since kindergarten. Had it really taken me this long to realize that I really did like him?

"Edward, don't think that. I like you. I really, really, and truly do. But I don't think that this whole...us dating thing would work. And I don't think I want something to happen," I said.

"Why wouldn't it work? Could you just tell me, please?" His voice was full of pleading and I knew that I couldn't keep him in the dark for too much longer.

"Listen, Edward. I can't date you." My voice was quiet and sounded like I was going to cry. "It probably won't work out, and I don't think that if we broke up or something happened, I don't think I would be able to show my face to your family. Especially since Alice is way too excited about…." I trailed off, catching myself in time.

"Excited about what?" Edward asked.

I looked at him. Would I be able to tell him without him freaking out?

I took a deep breath and sat back down at the table. "How would I be able to say this without you flipping out and disconnecting me from your life completely?" I asked.

"I don't know. Just tell me. I promise I won't freak out."

Yeah, right. I took a deep breath and motioned him to follow me. It was the only way I could think of telling him without him having a freak out session. I walked up to my bedroom, where I opened the door and walked in. Edward came in behind me, shutting the door behind him. I went to my dresser, where I pulled out from the top drawer a book that I had purchased a couple days ago. I handed it to him, not saying anything.

He took the book and read the title, his eyes growing wide with surprise. I had handed him a book about what to expect when you're pregnant. "You're pregnant?" he asked, his voice just above a whisper. I could hear shock and anger in his voice. I couldn't blame him. If I had found out that my best friend had gotten pregnant and had hid it from me, I would have been angry as well.

I nodded slowly, my eyes trained on my feet, which had suddenly become very interesting.

He growled and said, "That's why you don't want to go out with me? Because you're pregnant?" Anger was really evident in his voice now. I nodded once again. "Is it one of the boy's at school? Are you dating one of them and you're pregnant with their baby?"

I continued to look at my shoes. I didn't answer because I was thinking of a way to tell him that the baby wasn't one of the boy's at school. It was a guy's that had probably been out of high school for a very long time.

Edward took the silence for a 'yes'. Well guess what, Edward, it isn't. He growled in frustration and ran a hand through his auburn hair. I could tell that he wanted to swear really badly and really loudly, but he resisted the urge. He probably would on the way home, though.

I continued to stand there, not saying anything.

A couple minutes later, Edward finally broke the silence. His voice held a lot of anger, I could tell from the look of anger on his face. When he spoke, his was louder than necessary. "How could you do this, Bella? How could you come here to Forks and get pregnant? You know what, don't answer that. Have a nice life, Bella." With that, he stormed out of my bedroom. I heard him stomp down the stairs and I heard the front door bang loudly.

I just stood in the middle of my bedroom, shocked at Edward's outburst. After a few seconds, I fell to my knees and sat on my feet, shoulders shaking and tears pouring down my face.

I had just lost my life-long best friend. The best friend that I had immense feeling for, and now, he made my heart shatter into a million pieces.

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Author's Note: Isn't that sad? I tried to make it a happy ending chapter, but that would mean ending the chapter where Bella started to play LIFE with the Cullens. But, unfortunately, I knew that I coulnd't put off Edward finding out much longer.

I hope everybody enjoyed reading the chapter. I know I had fun writing it! I had never written a snowball fight scene before, and I asked my mom and dad both if they knew how to write a snowball fight scene. My mom was some help, but my dad didn't even help at all. Anyways, remember to review and remember to tell me what you thought of the chapter. Until Next Time: NerdyGuRu2