My Renesmee/The Choice
Chapter 25: A night full of surprises! (Renesmee's POV)
Three days passed since that morning with my mom. I had decided to wait until the moment was right to tell Jake about the baby. He had been working so hard over the past few months, and with the wedding now moved up to next week, I didn't want to stress him out even further.
I still needed to hunt like crazy to pacify my hunger, and my mom even took me out to lunch in Forks —she just sat there with a soda as a prop—to quench my desire for another chili dog. However, before it had even settled in my stomach, I cupped my hands over my mouth and flew into the diner's restroom. This was all getting just a little annoying! But it was all worth it for my little Jake.
Earlier that day, I felt pressure in my abdomen, and upon placing my hand steadily on it, I felt the baby nudge me. Numerous thoughts began racing through my head at that moment. It was all becoming real. It wasn't much long ago that I was child myself. Everything in my life had flown by in a blur. I went from infant, to child, to adolescent, to adult in only seven years. Now, I was going to be Jake's wife and a mother. Was I ready for all of this? Any normal person would have had a brain aneurysm, taking it all in.
And then a sudden calm came over me. Was Uncle Jasper close by? Maybe. Maybe not. But I was so overcome with joy; I collapsed into tears on the floor in my room. I remembered that I had once noted that I was the luckiest woman alive, and I now knew it was true. And I also knew I couldn't keep this from Jake very much longer.
That same night, I was lounging on the couch in my grandparents' house, assisting Aunt Alice in tying white, satin ribbons into bows that would decorate the entrance way to the house on my wedding day. Jake was working late again at the garage in La Push.
"You seem different." Alice remarked, snipping the excess ribbon with her scissors. "You look different, too."
"I don't know what you're talking about, Alice." I laughed quietly to myself and returned to the task at hand. "I'm still plain ole Nessie."
"Okay, well, if you're not going tell me why you've been so jovial the past few days, I'm going to scream!" Alice screeched into my face, snatching a finished bow out my hand. "You know you're all fuzzy to me! It's driving me utterly insane!"
"You know why I'm so happy, Alice. I'm marrying Jake in a few days. I've never been happier in my life." I said, not telling the complete and honest truth. I relished in the fact that she couldn't see my future—my future as a mother. It was a secret that only my mom and I shared.
Then, suddenly, our heads both snapped up. A familiar humming was coming from down the driveway in front of the house.
"Jake!" I jumped from the couch, the contents of my lap spilling to the floor, and hurried out the front door to meet him. He was seated on his black Harley Davidson in his leather jacket, his massive body shaking with the purring of the engine.
"Hey, there, my beautiful bride! I've come to steal you away for the night. Get on!" Jake called, holding a helmet out to me. I blushed and immediately hopped on the bike behind him.
"Nessie, you can't leave now! We've got so much more to do if we're going to make it in time!" Alice was now on the steps of the front porch, her hands on her hips. "You'll have plenty of time to be together after the wedding!"
"I think you can manage on your own for a few hours!" Jake smirked at her, revving the engine loudly. I buckled the helmet straps under my chin and held on tightly to his chest. And we left Alice angrily stamping her feet on the porch.
"I've got a surprise for you, Nessie!" Jake exclaimed as we rode on his bike toward La Push. I grinned from ear to ear and thought, I do, too, Jake.
"You do, too, huh?" Crap! I had let my thoughts go freely to him as I grasped his body from behind. But nevertheless, he didn't press the issue further, and we continued to steadily burn the pavement toward his home.
"Here we are." Jake guided the bike into the parking lot of a newly-built apartment building and cut off the engine.
"Where are we, Jake?" I was puzzled; I thought he was taking me to Billy's house.
"Our apartment." His white teeth gleamed in the moonlight, and his eyebrows lifted.
"Our apartment?" I dismounted the bike and took off my helmet. Helmet hair, great.
"Yeah, I moved in today, and after the wedding, you can move in, too. The landlady let me lease it for the next three months, you know, until we go to New Hampshire." Jake's eyes were dancing with excitement. "Dad almost cried when I told him I was moving out."
"Really?" I chuckled and filled with elation at Jake's surprise.
"Yeah." Jake turned to look at the apartment building and then back to me. "So . . . you want to see it or not?"
"Yes! Which one is it?" I cried out, starting to skip toward the apartments.
"And just where do you think you're going, Miss Cullen?" Jake cut me off and stood right in front of me. "I'm an old-fashioned kinda guy!" And with that he had scooped me into his arms, carrying me towards our new home.
"Since when?" I teased him and started to kiss his lips. His laughter vibrated against my body as he carried me to apartment 7A, across the threshold, and into the living room. I was smitten with him once again. He had set this all up for me—for us.
Once inside, Jake placed my feet down on the beige carpet and turned on the lights. "I know it doesn't look like much now, but we won't be needing it for long."
The two-bedroom apartment was pretty barren, and I could instantly smell the scent of fresh paint. The only furniture in the living room was an old, worn recliner I recognized from Billy's house and an earlier model of a flat-screen TV. The tiny kitchen was equipped with a refrigerator and stove, and I closed my eyes and imagined myself preparing dinner for him and our children. I would in fact have to get my food elsewhere. Judging from my recent discovery, we wouldn't be heading off to Dartmouth any time soon.
"I like it a lot, Jake." I told him as we walked into the larger bedroom, his hand now grasping mine.
"It's no Hilton, but we can call it home for a little while." Jake sighed, squeezing my hand gently. I noticed his huge bed in the center of the room, and a sudden urge came over me like a sweeping wave.
"What?" He searchingly glanced at my face.
"You know what." I pulled him to me with all of my strength, and I knew my surprise would have to wait a little longer . . .
"Wow, that was amazing!" Jake exhaustedly collapsed on top of me and kissed my chest. "What came over you just then? I've never seen you so passionate! Not even during that night in the tent."
My vampire desires had overcome me a moment ago, and I could hardly contain myself. But then again it could be the pregnancy hormones. I felt a little smug.
But I was distracted by thoughts of my earlier intentions, and my heart began to thrum like it did the night he proposed to me. I couldn't hold it in much longer, and the moment was perfect. We were in each other's arms in the bed of our soon-to-be home.
"Jake, thank you for bringing me here." I slid out from under his body drenched in sweat.
"No, thank you for that wonderful surprise!" He leaned over to show his appreciation with his lips.
"That wasn't the surprise I was talking about."
"You mean there's more?" Jake's hair hung down in his eyes as he anxiously awaited my next statement. "You want to forget all this wedding crap and run off to Vegas tonight?"
"That's tempting, but no." I paused. "Jake, um, well, let me show you." His eyebrows furrowed as if he was confused, and I took his right hand into mine, placing it tenderly atop my belly.
As if our baby instinctively knew the touch of his father, he vigorously kicked right at that moment.
"Whoa, what was that? Indigestion?" Jake practically leapt out the bed in reflex.
"No, silly, it's our baby." I smiled at him with my eyes.
"Our baby?" Jake looked even more baffled and returned his hand to my waist. The baby in turn nudged his hand again. "Wow, are you freaking kidding me? Nessie . . ."
He smiled with a brilliance more vast than the morning horizon, laying his head down on my belly. "Whoa, this is amazing! I can hear him!"
"What makes you so sure it's a boy?" I laughed at his reaction, running my fingers through his black hair.
"I don't know, but a boy—he'd be a wolf like me, right?" My mom was dead on—Jake was ecstatic. "But a girl—I hope she has your eyes."
Jake elatedly pulled me to him, and we rolled over on the bed. He began kissing me with the most vigor I had ever seen him display. Our thumping hearts beat in tune at the life-changing thought of becoming parents. He stopped after a few seconds and took my face into his palms. His beautiful eyes were blurred with tears. "This is the happiest night of my life, Nessie."
"Mine, too. I'm so glad you're happy about this." I deeply inhaled and then exhaled, gazing into his eyes.
"What did you think I would be? Mad? I've been waiting to become a dad since I was a little kid!" His smiling face turned to concerned.
"You know the whole deal with my birth. How completely horrible it was." I frowned.
"Yeah, don't remind me. I was there. Your mother almost—she died in my arms. If your dad hadn't been there-" He sat up and put his head into his hands. After a few minutes of taking in all that I said, he added, "Have you told your mother yet? What about Carlisle?"
I raised my weakened body up and kissed his back from behind. "I've told Mom. That's why we moved the wedding up."
"You haven't told Carlisle?" Jake turned and pulled me into his lap. "I'm not taking any risks with your life or the baby's. We have to tell him, so he can help us through this."
"My mom told me to wait until after the wedding to tell everyone, so that my dad won't murder you on the way down the aisle." I laughed just a little bit at how ridiculous it sounded. "But she told me if I felt any pain at all to tell her at once and we would go to my grandpa."
"And I would die before I got to see my little wolf, huh?" He gave in, clutching me securely to his bare chest. I could tell he was trying to mask his uneasiness about the pregnancy. But he seemed to relax. "Wow, I can't believe we're having a baby! This is certainly going to change a lot of things!"
"I know what you mean." I grinned up at him. "Embry's really going to be jealous now!"
Attn: This is probably my favorite chapter of this fan fic. For one, it shows Jake on a motorcycle, grrrrrrr! And two, it shows Jake's excitement of becoming a father. Another favorite is coming soon. I think you know what it may be. Thank you for reading and please review!