I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING TWILIGHT

Chapter 29

(Alice)
"How much longer?" I whined.

"Hopefully soon, I am getting tired of waiting." Emmett said.

"You all better be glad that we are waiting out here, this has to be hell on Edward." Rose said.

"I agree, she looks like hell. Knock me out when I have a baby." I said.

"I tell you, it's a good thing that guys don't have to have babies, it would kill us." Jasper said.

"I have so much more respect for women now." We turned to see Edward standing there smiling like a fool. He had been crying.

"Well?" Rose asked.

"He is here. Absolutely perfect." He said.

"Is Bella OK?" Rose asked.

"She is very tired, but doing amazing." He said.

"What's his name? How big is he?" I asked.

"His name is Peter Anthony and he was 5lbs 12oz." He replied.

"Wow bro, you're a dad can you believe it?" Emmett asked.

"I tell you that was amazing." Edward said.

"I don't want details." Jasper said shuddering. We laughed at him.

"I need to get back to Bella and Peter." Edward said.

We all hugged him and watched him walk away.

(Edward)
After telling my family, I walked back to Bella's room. She was holding him close talking to him.

She looked up. "Come hold your son daddy." She whispered. I walked over and took him from her. He had Bella's eyes.

"Hey Peter, I am your daddy. I love you." I whispered. He opened his eyes for a brief moment and yawned. Oh God, he has Emmett's big mouth. I couldn't help but laugh.

"Why is that funny?" Bella asked.

"When he yawns, he looks like Emmett." I replied.

"Poor kid, I was afraid he would get something from him." She laughed.

I walked around the room with him talking to him. I was so happy. Nothing could ruin this moment.

I went back over to the bed with Bella and sat down. I placed him back in her arms and held them both. Bella yawned. "Sleep my love." I whispered kissing her forehead. She placed her head on my shoulder and fell asleep.

Peter was more adorable than I could have ever imagined. My parents had excused themselves, so we could be alone.

(Esme)
We no more than made it to Carlisle's office, when he grabbed me around the waist and kissed me. "Congratulations, grandpa." I whispered.

"Same to you grandma." I hugged him.

"Those two are amazing." I said to my husband.

"They sure are. I was in the hall and heard the nurses say that they had never seen two their age more in tuned to each other. They were impressed by how Edward responded to Bella's needs." Carlisle said.

"I was too, they have both matured so much the last few months." I said. Carlisle nodded in agreement.

Carlisle needed to do some paper work. I sent Alice a text telling them to go get something to eat and they could probably see the baby later on that evening.

I couldn't believe I had just seen my grandson come into the world. That was amazing. Those nurses were right, my son and daughter were amazing. I knew they were young, but they were going to be OK.

I walked into Bella s room. Edward was sitting there with Peter while Bella slept. "Hey mom, would you like to hold your grandson?" He asked. I nodded bending over to take Peter from Edward.

"Hey Peter, I am your grandma. I love you so much." I said kissing his perfect little nose. He was so cute and tiny. Emmett was almost 10lbs at birth, but Alice and Edward were about the size of Peter.

Bella stretched and woke up. "How are you feeling?" Edward asked kissing her.

"Better than I did a few hours ago." She replied.

"You are amazing." He said.

"Thank you, but it hurt so much worse than I would have ever thought." She replied.

"It usually does, however, this little guy was so worth it." I replied stroking his tiny face.

Peter started crying. "I think he is hungry." I said to Bella. She looked scared.

"Honey what's wrong?" I asked placing Peter in her arms.

"How will I ever know what all of his cries mean?" She asked.

"You will and it wont take long." I replied. She nodded.

And besides, look, you have already caught on to nursing him. I said.

(Bella)
I looked down and Peter, as he nursed. He was beautiful and perfect. So tiny. I was almost afraid I would break him. "He looks a lot like you." I said to Edward.

"I don't know Bell's he has your eyes." He said. I leaned over and kissed him.

Around 7:00pm that night, we let everyone come in to meet Peter. "Oh Bella, he is so cute." Alice said running over.

"If you promise not to drop him, you can hold him." I said to her.

"I promise." She said taking him. Jasper came over and wrapped his arms around her.

"Look Jazz, he is so cute." She said.

"He is cute. A lot cuter than Edward." He said rubbing his face. Alice giggled.

"Wow Bella, you got you figure back." Emmett laughed hugging me.

Rose hit him in the head. "Don't whine when Bella wont let you hold him!" She said. He rolled his eyes.

"Ow Rose, I was just trying to be nice. Did you want me to tell her she looked tired?" Emmett asked innocently. Poor Emmett, he couldn't win.

"Alright Alice, pass him on to me." Rose said.

"Well little buddy, Auntie Rose, wants a turn to hold you." Alice whispered to him. She kissed him and passed him to Rose.

(Carlisle)
The day was wearing on Bella. I am pretty sure she hadn't slept in about 48 hours. She hadn't complained about being tired, but I could tell by looking at her, she was about to fall asleep Alice passed Peter to Rosalie.

"Hey Peter, I am auntie Rose, you are so sweet." She cooed. He opened his eyes and looked at her.

"Oh Bella, he is so precious." She said blinking away her own tears.

"Thanks Rose." She replied.

Next it was Emmett's turn. "Hey little Diesel." He said winking at Bella. "I am uncle Emmett." He whispered. Suddenly Peter started crying loudly.

"Great Emmett, you broke my son." Edward said.

"Oh my God! Did I really hurt him?" Emmett asked freaking out a bit.

"No son, he's probably just hungry and wanting to eat." I explained to him.

"Um, may I ask what he eats, the child has no teeth?!?!" Emmett asked totally confused.

"Em, he eats me." Bella laughed as Edward handed Peter to Bella. She began nursing him.

Emmett turned many shades of red. "Breathe Emmett." Jasper said laughing.

I looked over at Esme. "I am so sorry, I tried to raise him better than that." She laughed. Emmett stood there looking everywhere but at Bella.

"Honey, what I am going to do with you?" Rose asked. He walked over, wrapped his arms around her and kissed her on the back of her neck.

"Rose, don t give up on me. I will get better, I promise." He laughed.

"You better." She said playfully elbowing him in the ribs.

"I will I have almost 8 months to adjust to all of this." He replied.

We all stopped and looked at them. "We just found out a couple days ago, the doctor says I am about 6 weeks along." Rose said.

Emmett slipped his hand over her stomach. There were hugs all around. Our family was defiantly going to be expanding with babies, since Alice wasn't the type to be out done either.

(Bella)
I was so glad to get home after 2 days in the hospital. I was still a little sore, but was feeling a lot better. When we got home Carlisle and Esme were the only ones there, as Alice was still at school. Edward was a bit grumpy since he had so to back to school the next day. But Carlisle allowed him to have a couple weeks off from work to be home at night to help me with the baby.

"Welcome home!" Esme squealed running towards us as we got out of the car. She pulled me into a hug. "I am so glad you are home. I cant wait to get the baby inside." She said grinning. I hugged her back tightly.

"You look great." She said as we all walked into the house.

"Thanks." I replied. Edward had taken Peter out of his infant carrier and followed us into the house.

"Give me my grandson." Carlisle said taking Peter from Edward.

"Welcome home little man." He said holding Peter close to him. He gave me a quick hug and went back to being all googly eyed over Peter.

"I am hungry, are you ok watching him?" I asked.

"Go eat, I've got him." He said shooing Edward and I into the kitchen.

Edward fixed us lunch and sat down with me. "Is it nice to be home?"

"You have no idea, I barely slept in that place." I replied eating.

"When you get done, go upstairs and rest." He said. We finished our lunch and I walked over wrapping my arms around his neck and kissing him.

"Go rest, we'll wake you up if we need you." He promised me.

"OK. Love you." I whispered.

"Love you more." He said.

(Edward)
Bella went upstairs to rest, and I went into the living room to check on Peter. "Did Bella go to bed?" Dad asked.

"She did." I replied.

"Good, she needs her rest as bad as your son needs his diaper changed." He said handing me Peter.

"Thanks dad." I laughed.

I took my son over to the couch and proceeded with the diaper change, not knowing my parents were standing there watching me. After getting the diaper on backwards the first time, I finally managed it. "Way to go Edward, it only took you 8min and 12seconds." Mom said holding up a stopwatch.

I groaned, picking up my son and rocking him. "Your grandparents have had more practice than I have." I whispered to him.

"Well, Bella is resting and Alice is staying at Rose's tonight. Your dad and I are going out for dinner and a movie. We will be home late. Enjoy your evening." Mom said.

"What?" I asked.

"Seriously, we helped in the hospital, but now its up to you guys. You have to be able to handle all of this on your own. Your dad will have his cell phone on if you have an emergency. Good luck Peter." Mom said kissing his head. With that they left.

"Well little man, its you and me." I whispered. I snuggled into the couch with his and turned on a baseball game. We hadn't been resting, but 15 minutes when he started to cry. I got up and walked around with him, lightly bouncing him, while singing to him. It didn't work.

Bella honey, I think he's hungry." I said sitting next to her.

"OK, I'm up." She said stretching and yawning. I placed Peter in her arms and sat down next to her.

"God, I cant believe something this small caused me so much pain." Bella laughed kissing his tiny hand.

"It was all worth it wasn't?" I asked.

"You have no idea." She said.

"Hey Edward, I have been thinking, but haven't wanted to do this without talking to you first." She said.

"Shoot."

"I want to contact Charlie and talk to him." I said.

"Why now?" He asked.

"Well, I always wondered what happened to him after he left. Edward, a piece of my life is missing. I want to get to know him." I said tearing up.

He wrapped his arms around me. "Then lets do it. I agree, I think you should go for it and I am with you 100% of the way, as are mom and dad." He said.

Peter was a week old now, Edward and I took him over to the hospital so Carlisle could show him off. "I cant believe we graduate in 3 weeks." I said to Edward.

"We did it baby." He said squeezing my hand.

Seriously after all the school I had missed I was surprised I actually had the credits to graduate. We got to the hospital, I got Peter out of his carrier. Edward and I walked hand in hand into the hospital.

Carlisle met us at the nurses station. "Give me my grandson." He said smiling ear to ear. I handed Peter over to him. "Hey buddy." He whispered to Peter who was sound asleep in his arms.

"Oh my God, Carlisle, he is gorgeous." Nurse Anne said looking at him.

"This is my little buddy Peter. He was named after me." Carlisle bragged to her.

"How sweet, is that your middle name?" She asked.

"Yes." Carlisle replied. We heard a lot of congratulations and had lot of pats on the back. Peter did pretty good up until the last half hour we were there, when he woke up hungry.

"My office is empty, go feed him in there." Carlisle offered.

"Thank you." I said.

The weeks were flying by. The night of graduation, I walked upstairs and picked up the phone. Carlisle and Esme agreed to keep Peter downstairs. Edward came with me and held my hand. I dialed with phone with extremely shaky hands.

"Hello." A woman answered.

"Hi, my name is Bella, I was wondering if Charlie was there?" I asked.

"Yes he is Bella, I will get him." She said.

"Bella?" Charlie answered.

"Y..y..yes its me. I was wondering if we could talk." I stuttered. Edward kissed my cheek.

"How are you Bella?" Charlie asked.

"I am doing ok. Listen, I want to apologize for how I acted that night, I was shocked and confused." I replied.

"Bella, its ok, it has been 13 years. I tried to justify my actions, not thinking about how it would make you feel first. I am sorry too." He said.

"Charlie, its been along time and a lot has happened, but I cant handle the thought of my son not knowing at least one person in my family."

"Thank you Bella. So you had a boy?" He asked.

"I did, his name is Peter Anthony Cullen and I would love for you to meet him. We don't have to talk about the past, lets talk about the present and take it from there." I suggested.

"Why don't you come over to my house tomorrow night, would that be ok?" Charlie asked.

"Sure, I will bring Edward too, is that ok?" I asked.

"Most defiantly." He replied.

I hung up the phone and burst into tears. Edward held me tightly against him. "Honey, you amaze me on a daily basis." He said kissing me.

"How did it go?" Esme asked .

"Edward, Peter and I are going over after supper tomorrow night." I replied.

"Honey that's great." She said coming over to hug me. I looked at them.

"No matter what happens with Charlie, you are my parents." I said tearing up yet again.

"And you are our daughter." Carlisle said.

The next night, I was so nervous. Alice helped me dress and did my make up. I was nervous enough that I just let her have her way with me, she was very excited as that wasn't something I let her do much. "I can't believe how hot you look after just having a baby!" She exclaimed.

I shook my head. "You need to keep up Alice, your next." I hinted.

"Oh no, I don't want kids right now." She replied. I hugged her and laughed.

I gave Edward the directions to Charlie's house. "Are you ok with all of this?" I asked him.

"Yes, I think you need to do this, I think it will help you in the end with everything that happened in your life." He replied pulling into the driveway.

"Can you carry Peter? I am too nervous." I said.

He leaned over and kissed me. "I will get him." He said getting out, running over and opening my car door.

We walked up to the front door and I knocked.

"Hey, you must be Bella, my name is Sue." A woman said answering the door. She was shorter and looked to have some Indian in her.

"Hey." I said shyly.

"Come on in." She said holding the door for us. She shook our hands as we walked in.

"Hey Bella, its good to see you." Charlie said shaking my hand.

"Its good to see you too. This is Edward and our son Peter." I said.

Charlie and Sue walked over to take a look. "He is adorable." Sue said.

"Why don't you all sit down and I will get Jacob and Leah." Sue said.

I was suddenly nervous. I couldn't believe I had a half brother and half sister. I felt Edward glance down at me and smiled.

"So how are things with you and Edward?" Charlie asked a little nervously.

"We are doing good, we graduated yesterday. And are going to start planning a wedding." I said.

"When are you getting married?" Charlie asked.

"We haven't set a date yet. We are also planning on going to college." Edward said.

"Wow, that's a lot." Charlie said.

"It is, but I want the best for my family." Edward replied.

"Good for you." Charlie agreed.

Two teens came down the stairs. "Hey I am Jacob." The boy said shaking my hand. He was good looking and seemed sweet.

"I am Leah." The girl said. She was more standoffish.

"I am Bella, this is my fiancee Edward and our son Peter." I replied.

We all sat around talking. Jacob and Leah talked about school and life. Charlie was very quiet. While Sue was more into staring at Peter.

"Would you like to hold him?" Edward asked.

"Really?" She asked.

"Of course." Edward said handing Peter to her.

"I cant believe how calm he is." She said.

"He really is a calm baby." I agreed.

"Does he sleep good?" Sue asked.

"Pretty good, he sleeps about 4 hours at a time. Edward gets up the first time and then I get up with him the second time." I said.

"Could I hold him?" Charlie asked.

"Of course." I replied. As he took Peter, I couldn't help start crying.

"Are you ok?" Edward asked me.

"Yeah its just overwhelming." I replied.

Around 10:30 we decided it was time to get Peter home and into bed. Jacob and Leah had headed upstairs around 9:00 and let us all talk.

"Bella, I am glad you guys came by tonight." Sue said hugging me.

"I am too." I replied.

I looked over to Charlie, he was still holding Peter. "Bella, I am so sorry about running out on you." He said with tears in his eyes. I walked over and hugged him.

We agreed to try to work things out so he could be involved in Peter's life. I looked at Edward as we drove home. "I finally feel at piece with my life. And the holes are defiantly beginning to fill." I said.

"Honey, I am so glad." He smiled. I knew for the first time ever that my life could be happy and peaceful. I had truly felt as I had stepped out of the darkness.