Chapter 21: Baby News

Nessie's POV

Baby. Baby boy. I was going to have a baby. The words rang through my head over and over again on repeat. I was going to have a baby. My little boy. My Edward Jacob.

I caressed my stomach even though I couldn't feel my baby moving yet. Just knowing that I was carrying another life inside of me was a surreal feeling. I'd been pregnant before but somehow it felt different this time around. Maybe because the father is someone I love rather than someone who raped me.

I was suddenly engulfed in hot arms. Jacob held onto me as tightly as he could do so safely. I could tell that he was trying to be extra careful as not to hurt the baby.

"We're going to have a baby," Jacob whispered and just like that I was crying tears of happiness.

"I'm just going to leave you two alone," Carlisle said just before leaving.

"Yes, yes we are," I cried.

"I can't believe it. We're going to have a baby. You're carrying my son,"

"I know I'm shocked as well,"

"Nessie I'm more than shocked. I'm happy. Beyond happy even. You've just made me the happiest man alive. I'm in love with you and you're about to give me a child. I can't even begin to describe how happy I am,"

"I love you too Jake,"

Just like that Jacob picked me and spun me around with happiness.

"Well I may not be the happiest man alive for long. Your father just broke free from your uncles and is on his way up here right now,"

"Uh oh,"

Approximately one second later my father busted through the door and went straight for Jacob. He grabbed Jacob and slammed him against the wall so hard that I even heard something crack. I just wasn't sure if it was the wall or one of Jacob's bones.

"Dad!" I called out to no avail. My dad was too far gone. There was nothing or no one that could stop him now.

Mom appeared again. Make that almost no one. Mom jumped in between both of them and sent my father flying into the wall. If there was one force in this world that could handle my father it was definitely my mother.

"You!" dad yelled as he tried to fight his way to Jacob. "You got MY daughter pregnant! You mutt!"

Dad tried to lunge toward Jacob only to be stopped by mother yet again. Anyone with an ounce of sense would have given up a long time ago. However with my father it appeared that sense fled his mind long ago.

"Jacob! Nessie! Get out of here now!" mom shouted. We didn't hesitate to obey. When your ghost mom tells you to move you better get moving!

Jacob grabbed me quickly, carried me and into the hallway. We passed uncle Jasper, who must've been on his way to calm my father, on the way down the stairs.

I was greeted there by applause and several people congratulating me. Aunt Alice and aunt Rosalie already trying to plan a baby shower and what I'd be wearing at that baby shower.

I shook my head disbelievingly. Upstairs my dad was trying to kill Jacob for getting me pregnant and down here my family is planning already planning a baby shower after knowing I was pregnant for only like five minutes. I must have the most dysfunctional family in the world.

Yet, I wouldn't have it any other way. Dysfunctional or not they all loved each other and me. They were a family in every sense of the word.

I froze when I felt the ground start shaking again. Jacob right grabbed me and held me safely.

"It's okay Ness it's just an aftershock," he said.

I knew aftershocks were to be expected after major earthquakes like the one we just had only a few hours ago but that didn't make them any less scary.

Once the shaking stopped I walked over to the window and surveyed the damage. It was like something out of a movie. There were frightened people everywhere. All trying to find some sort of shelter. Injured people all over the place.

I got extremely nauseous when I saw what was certainly a dead body in the distance.

"Nessie I don't think you should be looking out there anymore," Concern colored Jacob's voice.

"I'm okay," I said but I listened to his advice anyway.

Jacob held me close in comfort. "It'll be okay Nessie. Everything will be okay. We're all alive and we're going to have a baby,"

That alone was enough to make me smile. I looked up when I heard my dad walking down the stairs. His clothes were all torn looking. It looked like my dad had gone into battle with my mom and lost miserably. I shook my head. Dad should know by now that when it comes to my mom there is no winning.

Uncle Emmett bursted out in laughter much to my father's annoyance.

The next few days were hard on everyone. The earthquake was an 8.1 according to all the seismologists. The damage was intense and the loss of life was even more intense.

Grandpa Carlisle had been asked by the hospital if he could work extra shifts to help all the injured people that kept pouring in. Of course my grandfather agreed. He loved using his abilities to help people. Being a vampire also meant that he wouldn't tire out while working.

The rest of my family decided to help by volunteering. They helped the search and rescuers search for survivors. Grandma Esme would cook as much food as she could and serve it to the search and rescuers and whoever else needed food and water.

I stayed behind at the house under my grandfather's orders. I wanted to help but he thought it was best for EJ and I that I stayed home and didn't stress myself out. Besides someone needed to stay with Owen and Rosalin. The two mischievous twin toddlers that the Cullens had also taken in.

About three days after the earthquake I received news from my grandfather that my adoptive mother had been one of the victims. She'd been found crushed to death under a pile of debris and brought to the hospital morgue.

I didn't know how to feel about that. Even though she didn't care about me I still cared about her. The good thing is that now I was free to stay with the Cullens. Dad said that either way I would've have had to come live with them now because of my rapidly progressing pregnancy. Now it was just easier because I didn't need to fake my death or anything.

Dad eventually got used to the idea of me being pregnant. He didn't like it but he was slowly getting used to the idea of "his baby girl having a baby,"

I sighed and shook my head. I was currently alone with the twins while Jacob went out to get water for us. Something that was hard to come by right now.

I was looking out the window when I spotted something that made my blood run cold. It was the same pale, red eyed man I spotted just before the earthquake. The one with the V shaped necklace. The grin he sent me sent a shiver down my spine.

I walked out to say something when suddenly I was struck with a needle from behind. Then my world faded to black.

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