I was currently sitting at the island in the Cullen's kitchen with Rose while Esme was baking some cookies. They had gotten back late afternoon yesterday. Rose and I kept stealing bites of cookie dough causing Esme to glare at us. Alice and Jasper were sleeping, Emmett was out on a run and I had no idea where Edward was. I got distracted by the cookies before I had the chance to find him.

"You know you girls have done me such a huge favor by grocery shopping. You saved me hours at the grocery store," Esme thanked us.

"It was really no problem. We had to shop too," Rose explained.

"I know but still."

Carlisle came downstairs as we finished that little conversation and looked in the bowl that Esme had just emptied. "You didn't save me and cookie dough," he complained. "Don't complain to me. Those two had more than their fair share."

Carlisle turned to us, sad and shocked. Rose and I turned on our innocent faces. I heard noise coming from upstairs so I figured Jazz and Alice were up until a few minutes later when Edward came down.

"Oh hey, I didn't know you were here," he said and come over, giving me a chaste kiss on the lips.

"Yeah, and they ate all the excess cookie dough," Carlisle pouted from the other side of the counter. I giggled and Rose rolled her eyes.

"So I have to go to the sports store to get some new cleats for football season, either of you want to come?"

"Ugh, Mike's store?" I groaned. Edward nodded solemnly. None of us wanted to see him after the grocery store thing but I agreed to go.

"I need to go. I need some new running shoes," Rose said, getting up so she could go put on make-up so we could leave. We sat around the kitchen chatting with Esme and Carlisle as we waited for Rose.

Eventually she came downstairs. As we walked out the door Esme told us that dinner should be ready by the time we got back. We got into Edward's car and made the short 10 minute drive to the sports store hoping that Mike wasn't working. No one was in the parking lot which meant that there was probably only one person working and chances were it was Mrs. Newton so we lucked out.

We walked into the store and were greeted my Mike's mom who is one of the sweetest women I have ever met. It was hard to believe that she was his mom. I knew this would be a fairly long process because both Rose and Edward were picky and knew what they wanted and did not like to settle. They would probably spend a lot of time trying on shoes until they found what they wanted. My job was to get the shoes they pointed at on the shelves and give the box to them.

Mrs. Newton was putting the shoes that had been ruled out away.

We spent two hours there and I was the only one who walked out with a pair of shoes that I didn't plan on buying but I saw them and they were on sale.

We walked into the house just as Esme was setting the food onto the table.

"Just in time. Did you get everything you needed?" she asked us.

"I'm the only one that got shoes."

"You weren't even looking were you?" She chuckled. I shook my head. "Those two are just so stubborn."

I saw that Alice and Jasper were sitting at the table. "I see you two are finally awake," I teased. Alice just grunted. She was so big and uncomfortable and tired all the time now. We all sat down and started the nice dinner Esme had prepared. I kept noticing Alice every once in a while would set her fork down, clench her teeth, and rub her stomach. I was watching her fairly closely. No one else seemed to notice except Carlisle who hadn't taken his eyes off of her since she did it the first time.

"Alice, are you okay?" I decided to ask her when she did it again. Everyone quieted down and turned to look at her, concerned.

"Yes," she whimpered.

"Alice, are you having contractions?" Carlisle asked seriously. When he asked that everyone freaked out.

"WHAT? The baby is coming now?" Rose screamed.

"Oh my God. What do we do?" Jasper panicked.

"CALL 911! THIS IS AN EMERGENCY!" Emmett yelled.

"We have to go the hospital! Where is the hospital?" Edward was losing his mind.

With all of that happening at once, Alice started to cry. I rushed over to her and pulled her up and led her out of the room with Carlisle and Esme following me. I left her with them and went back to the dining room where everyone was still freaking out.

"EVERYONE CALM DOWN!" I screamed and they all stopped and turned to me. "Edward and Emmett go get your car keys. Edward, you're driving your dad, Alice and Jasper to the hospital. Emmett you're driving everyone else." They both nodded and ran upstairs to grab their keys.

I went back to Alice and told them the car plan. They nodded and helped Alice stand up and led her to Edward's car. I pushed Jasper in with them and told Edward to go.

Rose was basically having a panic attack in the back seat of Emmett's car, where Esme was trying to comfort her. I tried to calm Emmett down enough so he could drive but I ended having to take the keys from him. I drove to the hospital and found a parking spot and everyone basically jumped out the car and raced into the hospital. Emmett got inside first and went to the desk and just screamed "Where's Alice?!"

Esme pushed him out of the way and calmly told them what was happening. They directed us to a waiting room in the maternity ward. Edward was there waiting by the time we got there.

"Dad said he would come get us when Alice was all settled in." We nodded and all sat down. Rose and Emmett were still on edge and worried so they took turns pacing.

After about 30 minutes Carlisle came and led us to Alice's room. As we walked down the hallway we could heard Alice's screams. When we got close a particularly painful contraction must of hit.

"Jasper I swear to God if we weren't married I would break up with you right now," she said through gritted teeth.

Jasper just laughed uncomfortably unsure if that was a joke.

And so began the long and painful waiting game.