A/N: OK so this is the last chapter because I have decided to do a sequel, due to some awesome suggestions from Shortbritches85. I am going to work on Pride for a little bit before so give me a week or two to get the first chapter up. It is going to be called, "Around the World in 80 Days," that's right the band is going on a world tour! It will be roughly two-three years after this story so keep an eye out for it. OK well last chapter, finally. Thank you to everyone who has suck with me on this one, I know it has taken awhile to get out. I would really love to hear some feed back about what everyone thought. Also one last big and wonderful thanks to my super awesome beta KND3116. Sorry so long.
EPOV
Bella was officially seven and a half month along and she looked beautiful. She would tell you she looked like a small barn but she was wrong. Her stomach was about the size of a basketball. Iris was going to be a very big girl, we could already tell. Bella could not wait to finally meet her, she talks to her nonstop.
I looked down at my phone and saw that it was almost 3. We would have to rush home to get Bella home on time for her baby shower. It was a surprise. Alice and I have been planning it for about a month now. Bella knows that it is coming, she just doesn't know when.
"Sweetheart you can not buy everything you want. We have friends to do that for us," I joked and pulled Bella away from the cribs at Babies R Us.
"Yeah well I do not see that happening since we have not had a shower yet. The girl from accounting that I hate gave me a present the other day at work. She is the only one so far," Bella complained.
Bella's hormones were in full swing anymore. She tried to keep them in line but I know it must be really hard. The other night she got so mad at me because I forgot to take the dishes out of the dishwasher. She actually threw a plate on the floor. She then cried about it for about a half an hour. Then there was finally laughter at the end.
"Sweet Bella if no one buys us anything by next weekend then we will go out and get our stuff. OK?"
She looked over at me and nodded. I know she wanted to get the baby's room done. We had spent two days two weekends ago painting it. Bella was in full nesting mode. She picked out all of the furniture she wanted when Alice and I had first start to plan this.
Bella grabbed my head and we left to hopefully head home finally. I did not want Bella to be too late to her own party, even though I knew she would hate it. Every first time mother should always have a surprise baby shower though. I mean she has to know that.
"Can we stop and get a burrito?"
"Bella we ate before we started to go shopping."
"I know how Iris and I are hungry."
"How about when we get home I will make you burrito. Whatever you want on it I will put?" I asked. Alice had a lot of food at the house waiting for us.
"OK but I am going to hold you to it Sir," she joked looking out the window.
I flipped my phone open and quickly texted Alice letting her know that we where close.
"How do you think Beast is going to act toward Iris?"
"Most dogs are very protective over babies so I think we will be fine. He seems excited. He is always looking at your belly. He is also very good with you mood swing," I joked.
Bella looked over and gave me the death stare, "You know I can not help them." she told be folding her arms over her chest. She did not speak again. Whoops.
When we pulled into our parking lot I quickly got out of the car to try and open the door for Bella. I had to make this better. I grabbed Bella's wrist and pulled her to me. I wrapped my arms around her shoulders and she wrapped her around my waist.
"I am so sorry Love. You know I am only joking. I know you can not help what is going on right now. I am only joking."
"I know you are. I am sorry I keep on blowing up. I do not mean to act like this. It is just how it comes out," she said hitching her breath.
"Shhhh, do not cry. It is fine. Let's go inside and get some food."
Bella pulled back and I whipped away her two tears that escaped her eyes. I gave her a soft kiss and then lead her to the door. Once inside I started to talk a little bit louder so that everyone could hear us.
When we got to the top floor I let Bella lead the way. She came around the corner and about 50 people jumped out and screamed surprise at her. She let out a startled scream at first. Then she realized who was there and what was going on and jumped up and down clapping her hands. Well that was not the response I would expect from her.
BPOV
I was so happy to see everyone in my living room. I started to think that I would never get my baby shower. I know that it was a little wrong for me to assume that I should get a shower, but I know Alice. She never passes up the chance for a party. I ran over to her and wrapped my arms around her.
"I love you so much Alice. Thank you."
"Edward is half of the brains behind this, so thank him also."
I turned around and looked at him. He gave me his wonderful crooked smile and his green eyes lit up like light bulbs. He was been so good to me during this whole pregnancy thing. I have had really bad mood swings over the past month or so. I try to keep them inside but sometimes I just can not help it. I am surprise he has not called off the wedding and moved out. I actually threw a plate the other night because he didn't take the dished out of the dish washer. That was the worst thing I had done.
The next half and hour I walked around thanking everyone for coming. I was so glad to see all of the guys there. They have been staying with us and Alice a lot because they are working on their new album. Esme bought all of the kids. Out of her triplet's she had two boys and a girl, Jane, Alec, and Amun (it is a family name).
When I finally made it to the food table I noticed Alice's decorations. I was so busy making sure I saw everyone that I did not notice my surroundings. My walls where covered with all kids of, "It's a Girl" paper decorations. There where white and pink balloons all over the house. Also there was a ton and a half of streamers hanging from my ceiling. She made it look like your typical tacky baby shower and I loved it. There was also a hint of Alice with the flowers on every table.
I sat down on the couch with a pile of food and looked around at everyone who was buzzing around. I was thankful to have this many people who cared about me enough to come to my party. Rosalie came and sat down next to me.
"Are you excited to meet her?"
"I can not wait till March."
"You look great Bella. Pregnancy really agrees with you," Rose told me eating some chicken.
"Thank you. So how are you and Emmett doing?"
"Really well. I love him so much Bella and I always have. I can not bear to think of loosing him again."
"If it is meant to be then you two will make things work."
Rose nodded and smiled. "Let me get you something to drink," she offered and got up.
Rosalie and I had become really close over the last few months. She was the only person I knew who was pregnant so I called her all the time asking her all kinds of questions. She was more then happy to help me out with them.
I did not get to sit for much longer before it was time for a game. It was a very embarrassing game for me also. It turns out that all the woman there had to guess how large around I was. I had to stand in front of everyone and Alice wrapped the measuring tape around me. I was 38 cm around. I officially felt like a balloon. Esme won.
Alice was setting something up so there was more down time for conversations. I walked around and talked to a few women from the magazine. I had told my boss the other day that I was not going to return after I gave birth. I wanted to stay home with Iris, so I was gonna try and be a stay at home mom. I was thinking about writing a book, so we still had some income.
Over the next hour Alice had a play all kinds of games. They where cute little games that all dealt with the baby. My favorite was what the baby was going to look like. I figured that she would have her dad's eyes, maybe my hair, and good mixture of our paler skin tone. I hoped her would have Edward's lips and my nose.
Before I knew it, it was present time. Emmett, Seth, Jasper, Jake, and Edward all brought in my gifts. It felt surreal for a moment having all of those handsome men place presents in front of me. Once they were done we all sat down, Alice to my left with a note pad and pen in hand, and Edward to my right.
Slowly I started to open up all of my presents and found out that I had gotten everything on my registry. At the very end Edward pulled me into Iris's room and showed me what my father and brother's had bought, the whole bedroom set. Each one of them paid for a different piece of furniture, my father of coarse buying the crib.
After another hour or so it was time to say good bye to all of my guest and start to clean up. Once everyone left, including Alice I sat down on the couch and turned on the TV rubbing my belly. Edward came and sat down next to me.
"What do you think you are doing?" I asked.
"Watching TV with the woman I love."
"Nope. You promised to make me a burrito, chicken, ground meat, cheese, rice, lettuces, and onions." I smiled at Edward.
He gave me a blank stair and then got up and went to the kitchen. I blew him a kiss as he walked away. Beauty came and sat on my lap and started to purr.
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BPOV
I was dreaming about swimming. That was all I remembered and then I was woken up by a crack of thunder. I looked out our window and the rain was coming down in sheets. Then I looked down at the bed. It was all wet. I felt between my legs and I realized my water broke. I quickly got out of bed and went into the shower. I was not going to go to the hospital covered in that nasty stuff.
Once my shower was done and I was in comfortable clothes I shook Edward, "Honey." He remained unmoving. I shook him again, "Edward my water broke we have to go." Again nothing. With all of my might I shook him back and forth, "The baby is coming!" I screamed.
His eyes shot open and I felt my first contractions. It was a quick pain, gone before I could really register it. Edward rolled out of the bed and fell on the floor. "Are you sure?" he asked.
"Yes the bed is covered in the water breaking stuff. Come on; help me get the sheets off the bed."
"Shouldn't we go to the hospital?" he asked stunned."
"Yes we will, after you help me change the sheets," I insisted.
"We will put the sheet into the washer but that is it. Come one Bella," Edward said ripping off the covers. I went around and grabbed my bag that we packed at the beginning of the month.
"I will call Alice when we get there to make sure that she is able to take Beast out to go to the bathroom in the morning," I told Edward and headed down the steps.
He came barreling down the steps five minutes later, dressed and arms full of sheets. I heard Beast barking but he was not getting up from his bed. Once Edward had placed the sheets into the washer and dryer we went to the door. I finally looked at a clock and noticed that it was 3 AM.
When we got outside Edward hailed a cab. He did not want to drive in the rain. It is very easy to get a cab at 3 in the morning. The cabbie got us there quickly and I started to feel my next contraction. This one was a lot more powerful and longer then the last one.
Once we got to the Mount Sinai hospital Edward paid the cabbie and we where taken into the ER. Edward ran to the nurse and told her I was in labor. She looked at me with a questing eye. I nodded my head yes and she called a nurse to show us to the delivery wing.
Once we got in and settled in I started to make calls to let everyone know what was going on. I called my father first. It rang three times and then his husky voice answered, "Hello?"
"Hi Daddy."
I could hear rustling, "Bella?! What's wrong?"
"Nothing Daddy. I just went into labor so I wanted to let you know."
"OK we will head to the airport right now."
"Dad, sleep, come in the morning if you want to come out."
"No Bells we want to be there. I will let you know what time we will be in at."
"OK Dad. I love you," I told him and hung up the phone.
Then I started to call Alice, Esme, Rosalie, and anyone else who I know would wanna be there with me, including Jake and Seth. I begged them to not show up now but none of them listed, except Esme. Because of all of the children they would not be able to come up.
Over the next hour I could feel the contractions and they where starting to become a lot more painful. Unfortunately I was only 2 centimeters dilated so I had a long way to go. Alice and Jasper were the first to show up. Alice brought a whole bunch of flowers and I had no idea how she got them at this time in the morning.
The four of us where talking when I got a practically violent contraction. I sat up and screamed. Edward came flying to my side and held my hand. I squeeze it and tried to focus on breathing like with yoga, but it did not help. Once it was done I looked over at Edward. He was looking at the monitors and kissed my forehead and left.
"What's wrong?" I asked Alice sounding upset.
Alice gave me a fake smile, "Iris's heart rate just got a little high so Edward probably went to go and talk to a nurse."
Edward came back a moment later with a nurse. She looked at everything and then felt around on my stomach. She nodded and left.
I looked over at Edward scared, "What's wrong?"
"Nothing, the baby's heart rate just got a little right. It will be fine."
I nodded and Jasper blurted out, "Did you see how fat that nurse's ass was?" he asked changing the mood. He is good at that.
We went back to talking and my contractions went back to normal. Rose and Emmett showed up a half an hour later with Jake and Seth. They also had flowers, balloons, and stuffed animals. Jake and Seth gave me a stuffed wolf while Emmett and Rose gave me a bear. I thanked them all.
"How long where you in labor Rose?"
"Four hours."
"Ugh. I do not want to be stuck up in this bed for that long."
Over the next five hours was full of contractions, dull conversations, and my father mad cause he can not get in NYC until 11AM. Edward was by my side the whole time. My cup was always filled with ice chips and all I wanted was a cheese burger. By 9 AM I was only 5 centimeters dilated. I was starting to get mad.
"I do not want to do this anymore. Just cut her our Edward," I pled after a very long contraction.
"She is slowly working her way out. She is a slow mover. Don't worry we will get to meet her soon enough."
I nodded and closed my eyes for a moment. I wanted to go to sleep. The last two weeks I had not slept well. I was just glad that her heart rate dropped down after a little bit. I was able to sleep for a few minutes then another contraction came and I let out another scream. She was going to be big, I could tell.
After another hour I wanted to pass out and never wake up. It felt like I had the worst cramps in the world. The labor pains where so deep and so sharp that at first they could take my breath away if I was not ready for it. I turned and joked to Edward, "With the way she is moving, my Dad and brothers will be here and I will still be in labor."
The nurse came in at this moment and said gratefully, "Congratulation Bella you are officially ten centimeters lets get ready for delivery."
Well that must have been why the contractions where almost on top of each other. A few minutes later Dr. Young came in all dressed in her scrubs that Edward had put on too. Everyone was cleared out of the room except for Edward. I did not want everyone to see me in such a state.
"Let's have a baby?" Dr. Young joked and pulled up the bottom of my blanket to get a good look. "Looks like it is going to be a quick delivery, so I want you to push like you have to poo Bella. OK?"
I mustered up all of my strength, grabbed Edward hands and pushed. It was a long and hard push. I held onto Edward's hand tight. Dr. Young kept on coaching me to keep on pushing and it was long. Then she let me take a break. "Very good Bella. We are not going to be able to take a lot of breaks because she wants to come out."
I nodded and Dr. Young coached me to start pushing again. Over the next half an hour I spent more time pushing then I was able to breath. I was covered in sweat and I could not push anymore it felt like. "Bella she is able to crown so I need about three really good pushes, OK?"
I got the end of my strength and I started to push. Edward was holding my hand cheering me on the best he could. After the first push her head came out. I breathed for two moments and Dr. Young called for me to push so I pushed. I let out another long scream and push and most of her body came out. I did not take a moment to rest, I wanted her out. So I muster up the end of my strength and I pushed one last time. Iris was out. Two seconds later I heard crying and I felt relief.
She was placed in my arms for two seconds and I noticed a sprinkling of copper hair on her head. Then she was taken away to get cleaned up and tested. I laid my head back down being thankful that it was all over and she seemed health. Edward leaned down and kissed my face all over and told me how much he loved me.
EPOV
Bella passed out almost as soon as she gave birth. She was tiered. She had a long morning. They took Bella to her new room and I went to go and tell everyone the good news. I had a beautiful baby girl who was 8lbs and 4 ounces and 28 inches long, Bella was right, she was a big girl.
I let Bella rest and went to go and show off Iris. She was sleeping in her little clear tub when I took everyone to the window. I immediately took pictures with my phone and sent them to her. I fell in love when the nurse placed her in my arms after she was born. I had never seen someone so beautiful, besides Bella.
She looked like her mother a lot. She had her mother's nose and skin color. I could see that she had my hair color, but that might change, I hoped so for her. She looked so delicate sleeping. I could not wait to see what color eyes she had, I hope they where her mother's brown.
I went back to Bella's room to see that her father had finally gotten here. He and the boys where sitting in the room waiting for her to get up. I went over and held my hand to him, "Hey grandpa," I joked.
I had never seen a man's face light up like his did. I asked the nurse to bring little Iris in to meet everyone in person. Once she was rolled in Bella's eyes fluttered open. It was as if she knew she was in there. I reached into the bucket and pulled out my little angel. I kissed her forehead and placed her into Bella's arms. She had her arms held out for her. Charlie would have to wait a moment.
The look on Bella's face when she held little Iris was amazing. Her held her close and kissed her. Little Iris opened up her eyes; she had her mother's eyes. Bella frowned.
"What's wrong?"
"She is the opposite of what I pictured. I had her with your eyes and my hair, not the other way around."
"She is beautiful Bella."
She looked down and smiled at her. "I know she is. We make beautiful babies," she said. I leaned down and kissed her. I loved Bella just as much as I loved Iris. I was truly happy. I looked up and I saw Alice taking our first family photo.