The next day, we decided to let the pack know about the genders of the babies (and their accelerated growth) at the pack meeting early in the day.
When we got over to Sam's, Emily immediately walked up to me and gave me a hug.
"I'm so excited to finally know what you're having! You look great by the way!" Emily told me excitedly.
"Thanks, Emily. I already feel like I'm the size of a whale though." I replied with a laugh as Jared walked up to me, placing his hands on the sides of my belly and leaning down to kiss me.
"More beautiful now than ever, babe." Jared whispered to me.
"Hey Bella, can I talk to you for a minute upstairs?" Emily asked me and I looked at her curiously before nodding. Jared gave me one last kiss and I followed Emily upstairs to her bedroom.
"What is it, Em?" I asked her, wondering where this was going.
She put her finger to her lips to tell me to keep quiet, knowing that the entire pack was downstairs and could hear.
Then she opened her drawer and pulled out something that I knew all to well.
A pregnancy test.
She handed it to me and I looked down at what it said on the small screen.
Pregnant
Emily was pregnant?!
I got so excited for her and Sam I couldn't even hardly find the words. I looked up at her and she was smiling brightly.
I mouthed 'Does Sam know?' to her and she nodded. I then mouthed 'how far?'
She held up her fingers to indicate 6 weeks.
I reached over and hugged her tightly. Not only did that mean there would be another pack baby, but it also meant that my children would have another child to grow up with.
Apparently my babies liked that thought too because they both decided to start kicking me at the same time, causing me to jump slightly.
"You okay?" Emily asked me after I'd jumped.
"Yeah, both of them just decided to kick at the same time and it surprised me." I replied with a laugh. "Do you want to feel?"
She nodded enthusiastically and reached out. I placed her hand where I could feel the most activity and her eyes lit up with joy.
After just a few moments, I heard Paul yell up from downstairs. "Yo, Em, bring my girl back or I'm gonna spill the news without you both!"
We giggled and made our way back downstairs. As soon as I was at the bottom step, Paul lifted me up and spun me around before putting me down again. My head spun for a second.
"You brought the pictures, right?" He asked me as I regained my bearings. I nodded.
We all gathered in the living room where I sat next to Paul, and Jared sat between my legs on the floor.
"Alright, tell us already!" Quil said excitedly.
Jared looked back at me and I nodded to him, telling him he could relay the information.
"Looks like the wolf gods have decided to give us the best of both worlds. It's a boy and a girl. The boy is the older of the two." Jared told them proudly. Everyone cheered excitedly for us.
"There's something else, too." Paul began, making the cheering die down a bit.
"Is it something bad?" Sam asked us quickly.
"No, it's not bad… just different. Definitely of the supernatural persuasion." I muttered as a placed a hand on my belly.
"What's going on?" Jake asked seriously, clearly worried.
"The babies are growing a bit too fast." Paul finished.
"How 'too fast' are we talking?" Sam questioned.
"I'm supposed to be 18 weeks pregnant… Our boy, the older twin, is measuring 22 weeks. Our little girl is measuring only 10 days shy of that. So they're a full month ahead of what they should be right now." I replied.
All of their eyes went wide, including Emily's.
"We think it's connected with all of the wolf-traits Bella has been exhibiting. We don't know how or why, but we all agree that it probably is. What's your thoughts on it, Sam?" Jared asked him.
"I think I agree with your assumption. Are the three of you all healthy? Like the accelerated growth isn't causing any secondary problems, is it?" Sam asked me directly.
"The babies are healthy and I am too, as long as I have a higher food intake. That shouldn't be a problem though, considering my appetite is nearly like the boys these days." I replied honestly.
"Wait, is that because of the babies or is it another wolf trait?" Seth asked, making all of us turn to look at him.
I didn't know, to be honest. Was it? If so, then why?
"Damn, I hadn't thought about that." Paul mentioned.
"Me either, bro." Jared told him.
"Either way, there's nothing we can do about it other than just monitor all of it. I have to go back to Sue every two weeks to keep track of the babies and I'm sure my imprints can keep track of anything else wolfy that happens to me." I responded to all of them.
They all nodded in agreement.
"Emily and I have an announcement as well." Sam told us all and I smiled at Emily, who was sitting on Sam's lap.
"I'm pregnant, too." Emily said happily.
"Three pack pups! Heck yes!" Quil replied with excitement.
"Congratulations!" Jacob said to them.
Jared stood up and walked over to Sam, shaking his hand in a sort of 'guy-shake-fist bump' sort of way.
"Congrats, brother. I'm telling you, it's something else." Jared told him.
"He's not wrong. Just wait 'til you can feel the baby move." Paul responded, placing his hand on my stomach. "Our little girl might be younger, but she's got a feisty side."
I secretly thought that the girl was Paul's and the boy was Jared's. Call it motherly intuition, but she always went wild when Paul was close by and our boy did the same with Jared.
We finished the pack meeting and decided to invite Charlie down to tell him as well.
When he arrived at our house for lunch, I'd cooked a huge pot of spaghetti and had filled three plates with wolf-sized portions and one with a normal sized portion for Charlie.
"Wow, Bells, that's a lot of food. Are you sure you can eat that much?" Charlie said as he looked at my plate, then up at me. I had an entire mouthful of food already in my mouth and I just stopped chewing and looked back at him.
"Let's just say that B's had a wolf-sized appetite for the couple weeks." Paul said laughing as Charlie just watched me in a mix of horror and fascination.
"Any particular reason why?" Charlie asked, confused.
"Actually there is. First of all, would you like to know the genders of your grandchildren?" Jared suggested.
"Well go on, son." Charlie replied, waiting impatiently.
"It's a boy and a girl, dad." I told him, having swallowed my gigantic bite.
"Both? That's great, Bells." Charlie responded happily. "Now what's the reason behind this appetite?"
"The babies are growing faster than normal, Pops. They're measuring a month ahead of what they should be, which means we'll be parents a lot sooner than we planned." Paul told him truthfully. Charlie's eyebrows rose.
"I'm assuming this is more wolf business?" He asked us and we all nodded. "Well as long as my girl and her babies are healthy."
"That's why she's eating like us. The babies need extra food for their accelerated growth." Jared told him as I shoveled in another mouthful.
"Right." Charlie said with a chuckle.
Overall, I was pleased with how the day had gone and I was so excited for Emily and Sam. I couldn't wait all of our children to be born.
A/N- Just really a filler chapter, but it did move the needle a little with the revelation of Emily's pregnancy. What did you guys think?