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Chapter 14
Thursday, May 3, 2012
BPOV
I was currently standing in the closet debating on what to wear. I had given up weeks ago on trying to conceal my pregnancy; there was no hiding that basketball. I was still floating on cloud nine because we had found out yesterday that we wouldn't be having just one baby, we were going to be having two for the price of one. I was pregnant with twins.
I glared at the clothes that I could fit into just a few weeks ago but could no longer get over my stomach. I yanked down my new light blue/white thick striped v-neck tunic top that tied gently above my bump along with a pair of my maternity jeans and walked back into the bedroom.
Edward was lounging in the bed propped up against the headboard with his laptop open on his lap. "Working already, barman?" I asked him as I tossed my clothes on the bed.
He groaned. "I don't remember opening a club to be this complicated." He complained as he shut the lid of the computer to watch me get dressed for school.
"What's wrong?" I asked him as I pulled a pair of panties and a bra from my drawer and tossed them on top of my other clothes.
"I can't seem to find a building big enough to accommodate the kind of crowds I'm anticipating for a college town. I want to avoid the long wait lines like we have here." He told me as he folded his arms behind his head, preparing to enjoy the show I was about to give him.
"Why don't you make a trip down there before school is out and scope out the place?" I asked him as I grabbed my lotion off my nightstand and went to his side of the bed.
He took the bottle of cocoa butter from me and threw off the blankets as I took the computer and sat it on his nightstand. "I may do that, baby. Did you know this has become a favorite morning ritual for me?" He asked me as he helped me straddle his thighs.
I shook my head as I flung off my towel and sat there unabashedly naked as the day I was born. "I didn't know that but I am glad that I get to share all of this with you." I told him as he began rubbing the lotion into the stretched skin of my stomach.
I moaned when he touched my breasts in his rubbing. "Those need some too?" He asked with a wicked grin on his face.
I rolled my eyes and decided to indulge him. "Sure, you ask every morning and every night; just know that I don't have a whole lot of time before I have to be at school." I told him as I let him massage my body down in the cocoa butter.
I groaned and ground my hips into his as he massaged and tweaked my nipples in his smooth palms. "Edward…"
He leaned forward and sucked a nipple deep in his mouth causing me to gasp and grip his hair in my hands. I wasn't sure whether I was trying to tug him closer or push him away from me. I felt his hardness twitch beneath my wetness and rotated until I felt him slip through my wetness. I rose up slightly before slamming back down, effectively slamming him deep inside my wetness.
This was why I didn't wait until the last minute to get up anymore and why normally I made him avoid my breasts at all costs since they were so sensitive now that I was pregnant.
Needless to say, I was just walking into my classroom as the bell was ringing and I had the telltale blush gracing my cheeks.
This was our last day of classes and all of us were feeling the anxiousness for summer to begin. "Mrs. B, how did your doctors' appointment turn out yesterday?" Alec asked just as the second bell rang.
I chuckled as I remembered our shock from yesterday. "It went great, Alec. Thanks for asking. We actually found out that we are expecting twins around Halloween." I told my class as they settled down and cleared their desks as they prepared to take their final test of the semester.
I heard a chorus of 'congratulations' and 'good lucks' from my students as I passed out the tests, all the same one this time. So much had changed in just a few short months.
My back was killing me by the time my final class rolled around so I had my students come and get their own tests before going back to their seats. After the last student had turned in his test I stood up to address them since they were graduating next week and I wouldn't see them anymore after today.
"Okay guys, I know that this has been a tough year, but I feel confident that you all passed with flying colors and I just want you all to know that I am extremely proud of you.." I told them and had to pause as I suddenly became choked up. I took a deep breath before continuing. "I couldn't be more proud of you and I wish each and every one of you the best of luck on your journey into adulthood. I will personally email each and every one of you your final grades by Saturday. I can grade tests while I'm sitting down." I told them and they all laughed because it had become sort of common to find me sitting down in this class as I taught from my desk at the front of the room. "Go on, get out of here and enjoy life. Be safe and smart in all of your decisions and journey's." I told them as they all came to give me a hug before leaving my classroom for the last time.
I sat down at my desk and stuffed all of my paperwork into my bag and packed what few belongings I had into the box that sat beside my desk. I would not be coming back to this school after today and I was kind of sad over it.
"Mrs. C? Can I speak to you for a minute?" I heard from the doorway of my classroom. I tensed my spine a little bit just from past encounters with that voice.
I turned and faced my student as they stood in the doorway. "Sure, Jane, come on in." I told her as I hopped up on my desk so I could get off of my feet for a few minutes. "What did you want to talk about?" I asked her when stood fidgeting beside my desk.
"I just wanted to apologize again for treating you so horribly the first half of the year. You didn't deserve any of that and I am truly sorry for my actions." She said as she twisted her hands together nervously.
"Apology accepted sweetheart. But if you don't mind me asking, what brought about this change?" I asked her curiously.
She dropped her head ashamed. "My parents threatened to cut me off and kick me out if I didn't graduate this year." She admitted shyly.
I shook my head. "Just think, Jane, you could have passed my class with an A if you would have tried earlier on in the semester. Your work since spring break has been amazing and insightful. You can do anything you want with a head like yours." I told her encouragingly.
"Thank you. Do you need help carrying out your box?" She asked as she eyed my box.
Before I could respond to her there was a knock on the doorframe that alerted us to another visitor. I smiled when I saw who it was and I think Jane shuddered at his handsomeness.
EPOV
I decided to surprise Bella at school today. It was her last day for a little while. When I walked into her school, I was bombarded by students as they rushed out the doors, itching to get out of school. I stopped a young guy and asked him where Mrs. Cullen's English classroom was.
"Yeah, Mrs. C's class is down this hall, take a left at the third doorway, then climb the stairs, take a right at the top then another left at the second hallway, then her room is the third door on the right." He told me, then laughed at the expression on my face.
"Um...okay." I told him and scratched at my chin.
"Never mind, come on I will show you the way. My name is Alec by the way, you must be Mr. Edward." He said as he stuck a hand out towards me.
I chuckled and shook his hand. "It is nice to meet you Alec, Bella has told me a lot about you." I told him as we turned and began the trek up to her room.
I groaned when we got just outside her door, no wander she was exhausted every afternoon when she came home from school if she had to walk all that every day. "Thank you, Alec, but I can handle it from here." I told him and patted him on the back as he nodded and walked away.
I stepped into the doorway and noticed my love sitting on top of her desk swinging her feet back and forth rubbing her stomach talking to one of her students, so I stopped and knocked on the doorframe catching both of their attentions.
"Am I interrupting anything?" I asked them quietly and they both shook their heads 'no'.
"Jane, this is my husband that I told you guys about, Mr. Edward. Edward this is Miss Jane Volturi." My lovely wife made the introductions and waved me into her classroom. I walked over to her desk and shook the hand that Jane had held out to me.
"It's a pleasure to meet you finally, Mr. Edward." Jane said quietly.
"It's nice to meet you too, Jane." I told her as I shook her hand quickly and dropped it making my way on over to Bella's side. "Hi, love. I was just coming to pick you up for your last day of school." I told her as I kissed her on top of her head and rested my hand on her stomach.
"Thanks, barman." She said flashing a smile my way before addressing Jane. "Jane, I wish you the best of luck in the future; like I said earlier you can do whatever you set your amazing mind to." Bella told her and Jane nodded before turning and making her way out of the building.
"Rough day, love?" I asked her when she sighed heavily against me.
She nodded before scooting off her desk to stand in front of me. "Yes, but I am officially free. Since I taught all senior classes, I am finished for the year. All I have to do is grade the final semester tests and turn them all in before we leave for Forks." She explained to me as I grabbed her messenger bag and the box of her stuff.
"That's great, Bella. I have news to share too." I told her as we began to walk out of her classroom.
"What's that, barman?" She asked as she led me down a different hallway. "There's a teacher's elevator down this way, off limits to students because of crowding issues." She explained to why we were going a different way.
"I am going to be leaving in a few hours to head to College Station and I am going to stay through until Monday afternoon. I have a meeting with the city council member's tomorrow afternoon and the fire marshal on Monday. Em, Jazz, and I are going to scope out possible places and the existing nightlife this weekend." I told her quickly as we boarded the small elevator.
"Great!" She told me quickly. "I'm glad you're not goin' alone. I will call Rosie and see if she wants to have a girl's weekend at her place this weekend." She told me as the elevator descended to the first floor.
"You don't have to call her; she was planning on coming to kidnap you tonight when she drops Em off at our place." I told her as we walked out to the parking lot. I followed behind her since I didn't have any way home since Alice had dropped me off so I could ride home with my lovely wife.
"Sounds like a plan. Are you riding' with me, handsome?" She asked as she fished her keys out of her messenger bag side pocket.
"Yes, ma'am."
About 2 hours later, Bella and I were cuddled up on the couch with take-out Chinese containers in our hands and The Notebook playing on the TV when Rose and Em walked through the front door.
"Don't you ever knock, you idiot?" I questioned Emmett when he collapsed on the chair opposite our couch.
"Nope, not when you're expecting' me! Are you ready to hit the road? It's getting' late and we still gotta pick Jazz up." Emmett asked as Rose came in rolling a suitcase behind her.
"You big ass oaf, leave my suitcase outside, why don't you!" Rose griped at him as she sat down in the other chair.
"Sorry, Rosie. I love you." He told her softly.
"No shit, Sherlock!" She said as she crossed both her arms and legs and continued to glare at him. Her stomach was even more pronounced than mine and she was only carrying one baby.
"What's with the suitcase, Rosie?" My Bella asked her.
She huffed an annoyed glance at Emmett before answering Bella. "My oaf here sent all our kids to his parent's house for the duration of their time away and I figured that you had tests that needed grading, so I am invading your house instead of you invading mine. Alice is going to join us in a few hours." Rose explained.
"That's sounds like a fantastic plan, Rosie. Plus we are closer to town if anything happens." Bella said.
Edward kissed me on the cheek before he disentangled us. "We really do need to hit the road, baby." I told her quietly.
"Okay, Edward. Be safe and call me when you get to the hotel." She told me as she sat up on the sofa, with my help since she was a little off center these days.
"I will, love. I love you." I told her before I bent down and kissed her stomach whispering to our babies. "I love you guys too. Be good for your mama but don't you move until I get back. You hear me?"
Bella, Rose, and Em all laughed at my silliness. I turned to glare at them. "Hey, this is the first time I'm going to be separated from my wife and kids overnight. Cut me a break. Emmett, I remember the first time you had to leave Rosie and Skye." Edward threatened Emmett which caused him to 'zip' his lips shut and Rose to bust out laughing.
An hour later, we girls were sitting around chowing down on ice cream, watching Titanic when I got a funny feeling in the pit of my stomach. I tried to ignore it but it seemed to be persistent and obviously I wasn't the only one feeling it.
Alice stood up and began pacing. "Something isn't right, you guys. I have a bad feeling." Rosalie, obviously having experienced this before snatched up her phone dialed Emmett's phone which went straight to voicemail. "No answer, Ali. You guys try." She begged with tears in her eyes.
"What is going on, y'all? Y'all are scaring me shitless over here." I told them as I wrapped my arms around my babies and began whimpering at the feeling in the pit of my stomach.
Rosalie scooted over and wrapped her arms around me. "Ali has this sick sort of way of predicting when something bad has happened to our guys. She's never been wrong. Never." Rosalie told me as she kept repeatedly dialing Emmett's phone.
I began bawling in earnest then until Alice screamed out. "OH JAZZY!" before she collapsed in a heap on the floor.
Rose and I scrambled off the couch and to her side as quickly as our pregnant bellies would allow us to. "Ali, what's wrong sweetheart? Wake up and talk to me." Rose whispered to Alice as she repeatedly slapped Alice on the cheeks.
I heard Jasper screaming through Alice's phone. "Mary Alice! Talk to me, baby! Please!" I picked up the phone and put it to my ear.
"Jasper what's wrong? Alice fainted." I whispered into the phone.
He went silent which made me even that much more worried. "Jazz, what's going on? Please tell me!" I pleaded with him.
"Bells I'm so sorry. I tried to miss it. I promise I tried." He cried into the phone.
I crumbled onto the floor as tears poured down my cheeks but I kept a grip on Alice's phone. "Jasper, please just tell me what's going on. I'm begging you, please tell me something." I begged him quietly as I saw Rose sit a teary eyed Alice up against one of my chairs.
I gathered a few things between Jaspers gasps and cries. "Tried to miss" "couldn't avoid it" "on our way to hospital" "Edward and Em's hurt" "Volvo totaled" before the line crackled and dropped the call.
"Oh my God!" I cried as I curled into a ball on the floor as the reality of the situation settled in that my husband and friends had been in a car wreck and were on their way to the hospital and that Em and Edward were hurt badly.
"Bella, you gotta breathe, baby. Think of the babies, you gotta take deep breaths and calm yourself down before we end up in the hospital ourselves." Rosalie told me as she stroked my hair calmly in a motherly touch.
I cried a little more before doing just as she instructed. "Rosie, they're hurt. Em and Edward are hurt." I cried to her and she just tugged me into her side.
"I know sweetheart, as soon as we know a little more we will go to them." She told me softly.
We all settled back onto the couch, curled together in a tangle of arms and legs while Alice diligently dialed Jaspers number. It was almost 20 minutes later before he finally picked up again.
"Oh Jazzy, how are they? Where are they? How bad is it? Are you okay? What happened?" Alice fired at him as soon as he answered the phone. She had him on speakerphone so we heard him as he growled out for her to calm down.
"Mary Alice, how in the hell am I supposed to answer your questions if you don't give me time to?" He barked at her.
She smiled and took a deep calming breath while he answered what he could. "I was driving and a deer jumped out in front of us and I swerved trying to miss it. The roads are slick up here because it rained today and I lost traction and ultimately flipped the Volvo several times and smacked a tree. Hard." He told us before taking a deep breath.
The feeling in my stomach got only worse. "Jasper, this isn't your fault. Please just tell us how bad they are." I begged him quietly as Rose squeezed my shoulders in support.
"Edward took the brunt of it since he didn't have his seatbelt on and was in the backseat. I'm sorry Bella, God, I'm so sorry Baby Bell."
"Jasper Nathanial Whitlock, you listen to me good." I told him in my teacher's voice.
"Yes ma'am." He said in his southern charm.
"This is not your fault, at all. I just need you to tell me if he's still alive and where you guys are at so we can come to you." I told him firmly.
"They are both alive. Em has a broken arm and a broken leg where we smacked the tree. Edward was unconscious and is all banged up. We are at College Station Medical Center. You ladies, please get Angela or Bree or someone to drive you up here and please be careful and don't go Highway 6." He informed us.
We all agreed and quickly got our shit together while we waited on Bree and Angela both to show up and transport us to CSMC to be with our husbands/fiancée.
Three hours after that horrific phone call from Jasper, all of us women were walking into the lobby of CSMC and were a force to be reckoned with.
We approached the front desk and a bubble gum popping blonde haired candy striper sat there playing on her iPhone. "Excuse me, but I need to be directed to wherever Emmett McCarty is." Rose told her as she rubbed her baby bump in soothing motions.
The girl just rolled her eyes before putting down her phone and punching a few buttons on the computer screen. "He's not in our system." She said as she popped a bubble and picked her phone back up.
I could practically feel Rosalie seething beside me and I laid a calming hand on her shoulder. "Excuse me, Lauren, is it?" She nodded so I continued. "My friend's husband along with mine came in about three hours ago from a bad accident out on Highway 6. Could you please look again to see if he is in there?" I asked her nicely.
She rolled her eyes again. "Look lady, I done told your friend that he's not in here. Obviously she's just looking for someone to take the responsibility of her brat." She said with a final eye roll.
Before any of us could react, Bree had reached across the counter and gripped the front of Lauren's uniform and was whispering something into her ear that none of us could make out. But by the sight of Lauren's trembling lower lip and bulging eyes, I was gonna take a gamble and say that we didn't necessarily want to know.
When Bree released Lauren she tapped quickly on the computer. "Mr. McCarty is in surgery to repair the multiple fractures in his right leg. Mr. Cullen is in surgery also. You can go wait in the surgical waiting room and their doctors will be notified of your arrival and will be out shortly to speak to you on your husband's statuses. Mr. Whitlock is currently in the ER getting a few stitches. Ladies, good luck and god bless." She stammered out before darting around the desk and down the hall.
Rose and I looked at Bree in astonishment. She just shrugged her shoulders in indifference, "I just threatened to reach up her vajayjay so far that her natural hair color would have no choice but to make an appearance."
We all just chuckled. "Guys, I'm gonna go find Jazzy and as soon as he's fixed we will come find you." Alice said as she hugged both of us tightly.
Rose, Angela, Bree, and I made our way up to the surgical waiting room and began the long wait on the surgeons to come out. After almost an hour of waiting, a doctor came out wearing green scrubs and pulled a surgical cap off his head. "McCarty family?" He asked loudly.
We all stood up and we all gripped Rose's hands in ours. "I'm his wife, Rosalie McCarty." She said as the doctor approached us and we all sat down.
"It's nice to meet you, Rosalie. Mr. McCarty was worried about his girls before we put him under. My name is Dr. Paul Whitewolf and I am the one that repaired your husband's leg. He broke both his tibia and fibula as well as his ulna. I had to put a couple of screws and plates in his leg and he will need therapy once the cast come off. He was very fortunate. He also has three broken ribs on his right side as well as a cut behind his ear where the window shattered." The doctor told us and we all heaved a sigh of relief that the big oaf was going to be okay, a little grumpy, but okay.
"How long until I can see him?" Rose asked quietly.
"He's in recovery now, he should be moved to a regular room within the hour and then you can all go see him." He said as he stood up to leave.
"Thank you, Doc." We all said to him and he nodded to us as he left.
We all sat back down, I turned to Rose and cupped her face. "He's okay, Rosie. I'm so glad he's okay." I told her before collapsing onto her shoulder.
"Edward's gonna be okay too, B!" She reassured me.
An hour later, Rose was visiting Emmett in his room as Angela, Bree, and I sat waiting patiently on Edward's doctor to come out and see us.
"Bella!" I heard Jasper practically yell from the doorway.
I jumped to my feet and went to his and Alice's side. I collapsed as soon as he wrapped his arms around me.
Just as Jasper wrapped his arms around me I heard a doctor holler out "Cullen family?" from the other side of the waiting room.
"Come on, B! That's us." Alice said as she tugged on me and Jasper.
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