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Alice and I found Rose in the auditorium, standing with our parents and Mr. Brandon, who had evidently shown up for the finale of the ceremonies.

We both stopped and took off our gowns before we approached the group.

Mr. Brandon was the one that noticed us first. "Alice, Bella, where did you two run off to? I get here just in time to see you both get your diplomas and then none of you go back to your seats?"

"Ummmm," Alice sounded as she looked over at me for some explanation that would satisfy all the parents, who seemed to be a little too inquisitive for any one of our likings.

I recovered quickly. I looked right at Rose, wondering if I would get a rise out of her. "We went to make sure that Rose was alright."

Her face stayed calm. "Why wouldn't I be? I just went out to get some air is all. It was a little stuffy in here tonight, wouldn't you say?" she said as she looked at our mother and started to fan her self to emphasize her statement.

I flashed Alice a conflicted look.

What do we do?

Do we tell our parents, now, that we are moving out?

Do I go off on my dad for trying to control my life, yet again?

"Girls," my mother said, pulling me out of my thoughts. "We all thought it would be nice if we went out for a celebratory dinner. What do you think?" Her eyes got huge with the final part. You could see the happiness on her face.

My dad looked over my way and smiled. I wanted nothing more than to smack the crap out of him.

Smug Jerk. He knew what he did.

I kept the lines of my face unyielding and placed a fake smile, for all to witness, on my lips.

I looked back in the direction of where the boys had been sitting and watched as Emmett was talking to them. Jasper and Edward looked in our direction. Rose must have noticed and kept her face poised. I bit my lip and Edward shook his head in understanding. He placed his hand up to his face and made a gesture for me to call him later. I smiled as he mouthed 'I love you'.

"Sure," I said as I looked over to Alice. I basically confirmed that our plans had indeed changed.

"Okay," Alice added, sounding defeated.

It was almost ten by the time that the six of us had finished all eating. Alice told us to come over later and we would celebrate by having a slumber party filled with ice cream, music, makeovers, the usual pre-Cullen boys fare.

By the time that we arrived home, most of the press was gone and my father instructed our security of our possible plans for the evening. I went upstairs and started packing a couple of items for tonight's festivities. There was a knock at my door.

"Yeah," I said with my back to the door.

"Bella," Rose said as she walked into my room, grabbing a teddy bear off my rocker and held it while she started to rock back and forth. "Can you tell Alice that I'm sorry?"

I zipped up my bag and sat down on the corner of my bed. "Sorry for what?" I shrugged my shoulders.

"That I'm not coming over tonight."

"Rose, why?" I said and gave her an dissatisfied look. My eyes slanted and arms crossed my chest in defiance at her words.

She closed her eyes and exhaled, loudly. "I need to be alone," she said and started to shake her head slightly. "I need to think."

I walked over to her side and kneeled next to the rocker. "Rose, what is wrong? You need to talk to me," I said as I forcibly stopped her chair that was still moving back and forth. "What happened with Emmett?"

"You heard. I ended it."

I looked at her to try to understand her intentions. She stared at me and did not flinch one it. "But why?"

She stood up and tried to get past me. She almost knocked me down in her attempt, but I balanced myself against the bed. "Rose, stop."

"Rose, Bella," my mother yelled from downstairs.

I gave Rose a stern look first and then answered, "What?"

"Do you want me or your dad to drive the both of you over to…" she started to say.

"You," I screamed back. There was no way in hell that daddy dearest was getting anywhere near me, unless I wanted to be charged with homicide or something.

"Okay, well we need to get going," she said as her voice crawled closer to my room. She must have rounded the railing and started to head up to where we were.

"We'll be right down," I answered.

"Oh, no we won't," my sister said and settled her derriere on my bed, scooting my bag on to the floor with her left foot.

Comfortable much?

"Don't think so, Sis. Get your ass up now," I threatened and head out into the hall to her room and grab a couple of things for her also.

"Bella, stop," she screamed at me just as I was entering her room.

I went over to her top dresser drawer to retrieve a set of pajamas for tonight and that's when I found an unexpected box right underneath her top pair.

I held up the box when she entered the room and showed her that I was on to her little secret. "Looks like you have some explaining to do."

"Be…" she said before she was interrupted.

"Girls, let's go," our mom said from right outside Rose's room.

"I'm not going," Rose said, whispering.

I placed the item in her overnight bag, but first waved the item back and forth for good measure. "Yes, you are."

I opened a couple more drawers and collected the rest of her things. I threw the bag at her. "Let's go. We don't want to keep Mom waiting, do we?"

Rose groaned in response.

About five minutes later we pulled up in Alice's driveway. There were two security guards walking the perimeter and two in the car behind us.

Looks like we can't get into a whole lot of trouble tonight.

Both Rose and I hurried out of the car. Alice was standing at the open door in a cute pair of Tinker Bell p.j.'s that Rose and I bought for her birthday.

"Bye, girls. Call me in the morning," our mother called out. She started pointing her finger at Rose, Alice and me. "Stay out of trouble, please."

"Yes, Mom," all three of us called out, almost in unison.

"Mwah, love you." She blew us all a kiss and said before putting the car in reverse.

We all waved as we headed inside the house.

Rose and I sat down our bags in the family room that was already prepped for this evenings festivities.

"Where's your dad?" I asked.

"Oh, he'll be home later. He said he had to go see about something, if you get what I mean," she said as she walked into the kitchen.

I looked over at Rose and raised my eyebrows. "I wonder how long that has been going on."

"You and me both," Alice said as she came back into the room, toting a gallon of cookies and cream ice cream, chocolate syrup and three spoons.

"So, I take it, this is something new?" Rose asked and grabbed the chocolate sauce out of Alice's hands.

"Very," Alice answered.

I formed my mouth and made a small 'o' sound escape my lips.

"Yeah," Alice said. She looked pissed about tonight's sudden turn of events. "But enough with my dad's bullshit. What I want to know is what in the hell is your problem, Rose?"

Now I had two options here:

First, I could help my sister out, by stepping in on her account, and make this whole discussion go a whole lot smoother for her.

Or, I could sit back and watch her squirm, sweat it out a little. Watch the show as she tried to talk her way out of this one.

So what did I do?

I grabbed the gallon of unopened ice cream, snatched the syrup form my sister and proceeded to drizzle the sauce all over. Once I was satisfied with what would soon be my caloric intake, I grabbed a spoon and dug in as I sat back on the sofa and watched the events unfold.

As the heavenly, but oh so bad, substance hit my tongue, I closed my eyes and relished in the taste.

I wonder if everything tastes this good with chocolate on it?

Hmmmm, I wonder.

"Bella," Rose shouted at me.

"What?"

"A little help please," she said, with her hands on her hips.

Like this is my problem?

"Help, you want help?"

"Yes. Please," she seethed.

Well the box does explain a lot.

"Okay," I said as I got up and made my way over to her bag and unzipped the top. I grabbed the box, that was at the top of the bag and tossed it to Alice.

She nearly dropped it, since she was not expecting to be playing catch in her family room.

She looked at for a second, and then at Rose. Rose looked elsewhere, so Alice placed her gaze on me. I shook my head and started to smile.

"Uh, huh," I said.

"Rosalie Swan, what are you doing with a pregnancy test? I didn't even know you and Emmett had sex yet," Alice fussed and dropped the item onto the floor like she could catch 'it' just from holding the box.

Rose sat down and put her hands up to cover her face. "What am I going to do?"

"So are you….pregnant?" I asked.

"Um, Bella, the box looks opened to me, so what do you think?" Alice said as she bent over to collect the box that she discarded on the floor.

"I took one test and it said positive. I don't know, I was kinda hoping that I would take the second one and it would say something different," she said now looking up at both Alice and myself.

"Like?" I asked.

"You know….the false negative thingy or something. I was going to wait a couple of days and then take the test again."

"Okay, so when is 'a couple of days'?" Alice asked as she handed the package back to its rightful owner, Rose.

"Yesterday."

"That's it," Alice said as she pulled Rose up to a standing position. "Your coming with me, missy. I want to know, and I want to know now," she finished off saying as she dragged her to the first floor bathroom.

"Alice," Rose said. "I really don't want to do this now, please?"

"What did I just tell you. Now get in there and pee on the damn stick already, or whatever you have to do," Alice answered in response.

"Ugh," Rose said and slammed the door.

"No wonder why she has been such a," Alice started to say. "B-i-t-c-h."

"I heard that," Rose said. The sound reverberating through the door.

"Well it's true," Alice said as Rose opened the door and came out. "So?"

"I don't know yet. It says to wait three minutes," Rose answered.

"Okay then. Well in three minutes we'll know if it will be okay for you to continue to shop for a size four, or if we'll be replacing your whole wardrobe for a while."

"Alice," Rose sighed and went to go over on to the couch to wait.

I looked down at my watch and took note of the time. I had no idea how these things worked. Who knew if you didn't look at it at the precise time what in the hell might happen to it.

Three minutes to go….

"So, I take it, this is the reason that you and Emmett were fighting tonight?" I asked as I came into the room and leaned up against the wall.

Rose had tears coming down her face. She reached up and wiped a couple away and breathed in sharply through her nose, causing it to have a rattling sound. "Yes. But he knows nothing. And he won't know anything. Do you understand?" she said to both Alice and me.

Alice came up right next to her and sat down, as she patted on her back lightly. "What do you mean, like if this is just a scare, don't worry I won't," she said looking over at me for approval for what she was about to say. "We won't say anything. Right, Bella?"

"Right."

"I don't think you understand. Either way. Emmett never finds out," Rose said, her face stern and set.

How would he not find…oh no.

Two minutes to go….

I stepped in a little closer to where the two of them were situated. "Rose, if you are, what are you thinking about doing?" I asked.

She started to sob uncontrollably. "I don't know. I don't know. This is not supposed to be happening. I am only eighteen freaking years old. What in the hell am I going to do with a baby at my age? I'm going to college this fall and ugh," she cried out.

"Rose, honey," Alice said, trying to console her. "It will be fine. It will all work out. You'll see. Emmett will…'

Rose stood up and fisted her hands at her sides. She was crying at full force now. "I told you, Emmett is not to know anything. Do you know what this would do to him, to his career, their image. He'd hate me, and the baby. No, no, I can't and I won't ruin his life. If it is, it is. It will be my mistake and not his. I will not ruin his life too," she cooed.

No wonder why she had been a total basket case the past couple of days. If I was faced with the same problem, I don't know….

One minute……

"Rose, you didn't get into this mess all by yourself," Alice said, challenging.

"Yeah, and when did all 'this' happen anyway? Were you late or I don't know," I said trying to pull some type of consequential thought into this conversation.

"I know that," she said to Alice. "Don't you freaking think I know that, especially now. And I don't know what happened. We were careful."

"When, Rose, when did this all take place?" I said as I went over to calm her down.

"The night of your talent show. Edward went home, and so that just left Emmett and I at his hotel room and yeah," she finished off saying, turning her head not to look at either one of us.

"Rosalie Swan, you little hussy," Alice said and let out a little chuckle for good measure.

"I know. Believe me I know."

I looked down at my watch….Times up.

"Well I don't know about either one of you, but I want to go see if I'm going to be an aunt, so if you'll….." I said but was cut off.

"No you don't. I'm going in first," Alice said, sprinting past me to make it to the bathroom.

Rose followed right after her and pushed both of out of the way. "Excuse me. I think I, of all people should get to look at it first."

Both Alice and I both held up our hands in defeat. Rose went over and picked up the stick. She looked at it for a couple of moments.

"Well?" Alice said, not being able to be patient any longer.

Rose held up the stick for both of us to see two pink lines. "I don't know what I am going to do. Let alone what I am going to say to Mom and Dad."

"I take it that's a yes, you're going to be a mom?" Alice asked, shrugging her shoulders.

I swat at her arm. "Yes, Dummy. Rose is going to be a mom."

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