I DO NOT OWN TWILIGHT!

Chapter 37

(Edward)

I was a nervous wreck sitting in the waiting room with my dad. I couldn't stop the shaking in my knee. "Calm down, Edward, you are going to have a heart attack at sixteen," He said gently pushing on my knee.

"Sorry," I said.

"Carlisle Cullen," A woman in a doctors coat called. We stood up and walked over there together. "Bella is asking for you. She started cramping again and I'm going to bring in an ultrasound machine and preform the ultrasound in the room."

I thought I was going to pass out. Her and dad seemed to be carrying on a conversation with their eyes. "Dad," I whispered.

"Are you her boyfriend?" The doctor asked me.

"Yes ma'am," I answered.

"I'm Dr. Smith. I assure you that we will take good care of Bella," She said to me.

"Thank you," I said shaking her hand.

She lead dad and I down the hall. "She is right in here. I will be back with the ultrasound machine," Dr. Smith said.

I lead dad into the room and found Bella on lying down, she was crying. Mom and a nurse were trying to comfort her. "Go to her," Dad said.

"Bella," I whispered cupping her face.

"I'm so scared, it hurts so bad!" She cried.

"I'm right here." I wiped her tears away with my thumbs. "I love you."

"I love you, too," She said tearfully.

Dr. Smith came in and got Bella ready for the ultrasound. She lifted Bella's gown. "Bella, this is going to be cold," She told her. Bella squeezed my hand, while mom and dad stood with their hands on her shoulder.

Dr. Smith started moving a wand around on Bella's stomach. "There we arem" She finally said. "There is your baby. If you look right here, you will see the baby's heart beating." A small smile crossed her lips, it had been the first one since she found out she was pregnant.

"Is everything ok?" Bella asked.

"For right now, the baby looks great, kind of small, but the heart beat is right on," She explained smiling at Bella.

"Then why all of this cramping?" Mom asked.

"Cramping in the early stages of pregnancy is normal, but I am concerned with the pain of the cramping and the size of the baby, even though the heart beat is good. I'm diagnosing this as a threatened miscarriage," She told us.

"What does that mean? Am I going to lose the baby?" Bella asked beginning to panic.

"Not as of right now. I just want to keep a very close eye on the baby as I have said the baby is smaller than what it should be. I'm ordering bed rest and in two weeks I want you to come back in for an ultrasound. If you have any bleeding or the cramping gets any worse, you are to come back in immediately," Dr. Smith said.

"What am I going to do about school?" She whispered.

"Bella, you mo...Esme and I will take care of that, our first priority is this baby."

The doctor gave my parents more instructions, a script of prenatal vitamins, and a picture of the baby and sent us on our way. Bella didn't say much, she just looked helpless.

"Edward, we are going to take you to school and get Bella home," Dad said to me.

"No dad, I want to stay with Bella," I argued.

"Don't argue with him, please go. I'm just going to go home and get some sleep," Bella said looking at me.

I sighed. "Alright, just please call me if something happens."

"We will, Edward," Mom said.

(Esme)

Bella had fallen asleep right after Edward got out of the car. I looked back at her and saw a fifteen year old girl. Bella seemed old for her age, but in the moment, she was fifteen and her world was close to crashing down around her. Carlisle reached over and took my hand. "I don't know if she's strong enough," I whispered.

"Esme, I don't know either, she has been through so much," He said pulling up in the driveway. He got out and opened my door. "Get the couch ready for her," He opened up her door and gently picked her up.

I ran in ahead of them and cleared the couch. Bella had snuggled into Carlisle. He laid her down on the couch and kissed her forehead. "I'm going to call Victoria, she needs to know about Bella," I said going into my room. I picked up the phone and dialed Victoria. After Bella was raped we put each other on speed dial.

"Hey Esme, how are things going?" She asked when she answered the phone.

"Well, we are doing ok," I told her trying to keep my voice steady.

"Esme, what's going on? Is something wrong with Bella?" She asked. I knew I couldn't cover the shaking in my voice.

"It's complicated and a long story. The long as short of it is, she is pregnant. Seven weeks to be exact. The father is either Edward or James, she isn't sure. I took her to the doctor today, she has been pretty sick and experiencing cramping. They have diagnosed her with threatened miscarriage and have put her on bed rest."

"Jesus," Victoria sighed. "When she does something she sure does it, doesn't she?"

"She sure does," I replied.

"How is she doing with the news of the baby?"

"Well, not good at first she wasn't wanting the baby, but now she has seen the baby on an ultrasound and knows how serious this is, she is starting to freak out and is terrified," I explained.

"Esme, do I need to come get her? Please be honest, I will understand."

"No, she is staying here. Carlisle and I agreed in the beginning that she was going to be part of our family, we won't turn our backs on her," I told her.

"But a baby, this is going to effect the whole family," She said.

"My daughter Rose had an abortion last year. We didn't know about it until after she had done it. We would have supported her all the way if she would have kept the baby, but she never gave us the chance. We didn't even know she was pregnant. I have told Bella that we will be there 100% of the way if she chooses to keep this baby."

"Wow, you and Carlisle are one of a kind. Listen Esme, I need to get off here. Have Bella call me. I would love to talk to her," Victoria said.

"I will do that. Bye," I said hanging up the phone.

I walked out of my room to go check on Bella and go find Carlisle. Bella was curled up in a ball on the couch still asleep. She looked peaceful and like she would be out for awhile so I went to Carlisle's office, where I knew he would be.

Sure enough, he was at his desk hanging up his phone, and rubbing that back of his face. I walked behind him and started rubbing his shoulders. "That was the hospital, I'm cutting way back on my hours for awhile. I want to be home more," He said pulling me around onto his lap. "I need to be here more, right now family is more important. If something happens to this baby, Bella and Edward are going to be devastated, I just don't feel right about leaving you here to deal with everything while I'm stuck at a hospital," He said.

"You really don't think the baby is going to make it, do you?" I asked him.

"Esme, I want this baby to be ok just as bad as you do, but the doctor in me sees real concerns. The baby is half the size of what it should be, the chances are slim."

"Why do you think it's so small?" I asked.

"A number of things. It could be under developed, Bella being fifteen, her body isn't fully ready for a baby, she has been through trauma and a lot of stress since the rape. Those can all factor in," He explained.

"Is there anything that we can do to help or she can do?"

"She needs to stay off her feet, stay relaxed, rest as much as possible and eat right, but even doing all of those things, it could still end badly." I couldn't stop the tears, I buried my face in his chest and soaked his shirt. "I'm scared too, Esme," He whispered.

"I just wish there was hope, but having a husband who is a doctor sucks sometimes," I said honestly.

"Esme, being a doctor sucks sometimes. I have been trained to lose compassion, it's to keep us from getting emotionally involved, but I forget when it's family, that I already am emotionally involved," He sighed.

"I'm really sorry to bother you, but I'm kind of hungry and I was wondering if I could get something to eat?" I looked over and saw Bella standing in the door way.

"You go lay down and rest, I'll get you something," I said climbing off of Carlisle's lap.

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