Chapter 21

BPOV

The pain that speared across my stomach while I was puking into the bushes was excruciating and only got worse with every breath and miniscule movement I made. "Hold on, baby." Edward said as he stroked my hair away from my face as I lay on the bed curled up in the fetal position trying not to move.

"I'm scared, Edward." I whined softly.

Before he could reassure me the privacy door slid open to reveal the doctor. "I have your test results back, Mrs. Cullen."

"What's wrong with her?" Edward asked nervously as he twirled my wedding ring round and round on my finger.

The doctor leaned back against the counter laying Bella's file beside him. "Your blood work shows that you are pregnant and by your expressions this was not planned."

"Wow." I said softly as I looked at Edward with wide eyes to gauge his reaction.

He looked from my eyes to my stomach and back again before turning to look at the doctor. "That explains the nausea but what about her stomach pains?" He asked as he twirled my ring round and round on my finger displaying his nervousness to me.

"I believe that the pain you are experiencing is the ligaments in your stomach stretching to make room for your growing uterus. With the extreme nausea you described I believe you have strained one of your stomach muscles. I need to perform an ultrasound to make sure."

I was confused by everything that had just come out of the doctor's mouth. "Laymen terms?" Edward asked in a confused voice. Thank God I wasn't the only one confused.

"Your stomach is stretching to make room for the baby and the throwing up could have caused you to pull or strain a muscle in your abdomen." He said with a smile as he picked the file back up.

All I could do was nod in understanding because honestly I was reeling from the news that I was going to have a baby. I quickly realized that I would start my senior year of high school not only married but pregnant also and that I would have the baby some time during the school year. "Will we be able to find out how far along she is with the ultrasound?" Edward asked the doctor softly.

"We should be able to determine how far along your wife is but I still recommend scheduling an appointment with an OB immediately." The doctor said as he pushed off the counter. "I will send in an ultrasound tech to perform the ultrasound. Congratulations and have a good day." He said as he stepped through the door pulling it shut behind him.

Edward looked at me with a small smile on his face. "We're gonna have a baby." He said wistfully as he stroked his hand through my now dry hair. I was still in my bikini because I couldn't bear to move enough to slip my shorts and tank top back on.

"You're happy?" I asked searching his face to make sure I got his honest reaction.

He nodded. "Yeah, the timing could have been better but we haven't exactly been careful since we first started making love." He said with a wink because I was the one that told him no to the condoms after we had used one a few nights after Esme's memorial service. I hadn't liked the feel of it and he hadn't liked the mess it made on him so we had said that whatever happened just happened. A baby is what happened.

"I'm going to have to figure out something with school because it will come sometime during the school year." I told him just as a lady pushed open the door to my room pulling a machine behind her.

She smiled at us as she closed the door back after the machine was in the room. "I hear we get to have a first look at your little one today."

"Yes ma'am, we just found out about it." Edward said and I wrinkled my nose at my baby being called an it but I would tackle that battle after we got out of the hospital.

"Oh, how exciting." She said turning the machine on. "I need you to strip out of your bikini bottoms for this sweetheart and lay on your back with your knees bent. Need some help?" She said handing Edward the blanket that was laying at the foot of the bed.

"I've got it." Edward told her spreading the thin blanket out over my legs before untying my bottoms before helping me to roll over

I gasped as I lay flat on my back with my knees bent. "Oh God, that hurts." I cried out as I batted my eyes to keep the tears from falling.

"I thought ultrasounds were done through the stomach?" Edward asked as he brushed a few tears from my cheeks.

The nurse turned to look at us. "This is going to be a transvaginal ultrasound because you are still early on in your pregnancy according to your blood test."

"Oh okay." I said as Edward wrinkled his eyebrow in confusion but I wasn't much better off since I had never even been to the gynecologist before.

"This may be a bit uncomfortable but it shouldn't hurt." The nurse said showing me a wand looking thing with what looked like a condom over it.

"That's going inside me?" I asked confused and a little apprehensive.

She nodded as she lifted the blanket up to my knees. "It is but I promise it won't hurt and this will give us a clear shot of your little one."

"Okay."

I have to admit that it was a bit weird having the wand thing up inside me but the moment that a black bubble appeared in the middle of all the snow on the screen it was all okay. "Is that the baby?" I asked pointing to the little white thing in the middle of the black bubble.

"It is." She said pushing some buttons on the machines keyboard. "Well lookey here." She said pointing to the screen.

"What's wrong?" Edward asked taking my hand in his own.

The nurse smiled at us over her shoulder. "How do you feel about being around eight weeks pregnant with two babies?"

Edward's grip went slack on my hand and I watched in slow motion as he slumped to the chair in a clumsy heap. "Edward!" I called out as I automatically tried to reach for him but was stopped by the pain in my stomach and the wand inside me.

The nurse just chuckled as she pushed the red button on the side of my bed alerting others that we needed help. "It happens all the time. At least he landed in the chair, he should come to in just a minute or two." She said pulling the wand from between my legs handing me a moist wipe. "Use this to clean up, sweetheart."

I had just slipped my bikini bottoms back on when I heard Edward groan from the chair. "Welcome back, husband." I teased him as I took the strip of pictures the nurse handed me before leaving the room quietly.

"Please tell me that was some weird dream or something." He said as he leaned over with his head in his hands.

I simply handed him the pictures. "Unfortunately it's no dream."

"Two babies." He said looking at the pictures I had handed him.

"Do twins run in your family anywhere?" I asked him while we waited on the doctor to come back and discharge us.

After getting a prescription for prenatal vitamins and some mild pain relievers I was being pushed in the wheelchair towards the exit with Edward walking beside me holding the pictures in his hands. "Bella! What did they say?" Alice called out as soon as she saw us.

Edward simply handed her the pictures.

"You're pregnant?" She asked as she studied the pictures with a furrowed brow.

I nodded as I was pushed through the double doors of the exit.

News of my pregnancy spread quicker than the news of mine and Edward's marriage did. In the following weeks we hashed out a lot of details of our future and I did it all from our apartment since I was taking it easy to let my muscles relax. It was determined that our babies were conceived on the night that Esme passed, also the night we made love for the very first time. The babies were due January 29th but would most likely come early since I was so young and carrying two babies at once. With that being said Edward and I both were going to finish up the last of our credits we needed to graduate in the fall semester so we wouldn't need to attend classes after Christmas break but could still walk with our graduating class in May. I had quit work at the library since I was supposed to take it easy for two weeks after being discharged from the hospital, they had understood once I explained the situation to them.

I was finally succumbing to a shopping spree to buy maternity clothes since I couldn't fit into any of my clothes anymore. It was a triple duty shopping trip since we started back to school in just a few days. We were shopping for me, Alice, and Edward. "Alice, hurry up!" I called up the stairs of my old house. I had come over to get her so I could drive so when I got ready to leave I could just hop in my truck and leave.

"Jeesh, chill out Mama to be." She said with an exaggerated eye roll as she skipped down the stairs.

"I want to get this show on the road before it gets hot hot outside." I told her as I scratched my stomach that drove me crazy with all the itching my growing stomach caused.

"You girls have fun today." Our mom called from the kitchen where she was icing cupcakes she had made earlier.

"We will Mom!" Alice and I both called out as we headed out the front door.

Alice didn't wait five minutes into the drive to start with her questions. "When do you find out what you are going to have?"

"We're not finding out. We want to be surprised." I told her which I knew would lead to a whole other set of questions. Edward and I had found out two weeks ago that we were having fraternal twins so it could be two girls, two boys, or a boy and a girl. We had decided that we wanted to be surprised because there were very few true surprises left in the world.

Alice turned sideways in her seat gawking at me with her mouth hanging open. "What!? How are we going to know what colors to buy or how to paint the nursery or decorate the nursery?"

I just shrugged my shoulders. "You're not going to and as far as the nursery goes Edward and I have that under control."

"Bella!"

I just shook my head and continued on down the street hoping to get this shopping trip over with before the heat of the day settled in. I was currently fourteen weeks pregnant and looked like I had a volleyball stuck under my shirt. My OB, Dr. Carmen, said it was because of my small stature that I was showing so early on. Edward was absolutely fascinated by my growing stomach and made me stand in front of the blank wall in the nursery with only my panties and bra on so he could snap side view pictures. "Don't Bella me." I told her firmly.

"Well at least you already have the mom voice down pat." She said folding her arms across her chest in irritation.

"That's because I'm going to be a mom, Alice. Even though I will only be seventeen years old I am going to be a mom to two innocent little babies next year." I told her as I pulled into a shopping center that I had a stylish maternity store that I had found online. I would be turning 17 in just a few weeks but Edward had turned 17 a few weeks ago and we celebrated by going out to dinner with just us.

Alice nodded. "I know, trust me I know. That is all Dad talks about anymore." She said with a roll of her eyes. My father was not happy to say the least when Edward and I showed them the first pictures of our babies just a few days after finding out about them. He had been furious at both Edward and myself for getting 'knocked up' before getting out of high school or starting college. That had enraged my father even more when I told my parents that I was planning to put off college for a few years so I could raise my babies the way my mom had raised me and my sisters. While I was still on speaking terms with my Mom and sisters my dad hasn't spoken a word to me since he blew up on Edward and myself the day we revealed our news. It didn't help that Rosalie had moved out of their house and in with Emmett the day after graduation. They were renting an apartment in town because Emmett said he 'can't disrespect Ma like that'.

"Sorry, Ali." I told her as we climbed from the truck. "At least Dad is speaking to you."