Finals week had finally arrived, along with my twenty week appointment. Everything was coming along nicely and I was still amazed by the development of the baby. Now that it was summer, I had decided to let everyone see the ultrasounds as they happened. While Edward held one of my hands, Rosalie always had the other. I could see the joy radiating off of her face every time. She was so anxious and I had to remind myself that only three people knew of my decision. I didn't know if I was going to be able to wait until her birthday to tell her. I kept all of the printouts that Carlisle handed to me and put them in the book that Alice had made for me to give to Rosalie. Everyone knew about it, but her, and they all contributed. Alice already had baby supplies waiting in the garage for me to voice my decision. There were two possible rooms to use as a nursery. One was across the hall from my room and the other was in the basement. I could break the news on Emmet's human birthday in August, but it wouldn't mean the same to her. I didn't worry about that; Edward's human birthday and our original wedding date were both next week. I had to figure out something to do for him. Suddenly, I knew just the thing and Alice burst into my room.

"It's perfect and I'd be glad to help. I'll get everyone to help me." I smiled, glad that I hadn't had to say a word. I was also glad that Edward was hunting. Mike was coming over to spend time with Tanya so I walked to the top of the stairs.

"I need a ride." I said and Jasper arrived to carry me. I didn't bother trying to fight with any of them on this decision, though I thought it was completely ridiculous.

"What about the stairs at graduation tomorrow? No one will be able to carry me there and there was no hand rail for me to hang onto." He smirked and I looked at him curiously.

"Edward took care of it." I groaned.

"What did he do?"

"He simply asked for one to be put in. He explained your precarious balance and said it was safer for you and the baby. There will be hand rails for you tomorrow." I groaned. He let me down and I was surprised to see my dad.

"Finally tear yourself out of bed?" I asked, trying desperately hard not to cringe. I could tell he was too.

"Laugh now, but you just wait until it's you who can't get out of bed." Kate taunted.

"Oh, I'm not laughing Kate; I'm trying not to cringe. He's my dad and that makes you a mother figure of sorts."

"You're right; great now you've got me thinking of you and Edward doing that."

"Well, we don't yet, so you've got nothing to worry about." Her eyes widened.

"What?"

"We haven't. We're waiting for the wedding night."

"How in the hell has he lasted for over a year without claiming you?" She asked me, already moving closer to my dad; if that was possible. I could tell they were itching to be alone again.

"It's been difficult and getting more so every day." Edward breezed into the room, wrapping his arms around me.

"Well, you've certainly got more control than I was giving you credit for." He nodded and looked to the door just as Tanya and Mike strolled through.

"Really Edward? Is what I heard true?" She asked in a teasing manner.

"Yes. I'm still a virgin. It's important to me to keep the values I was raised with and Bella is honoring them." I knew he was focused on Mike's thoughts and I hid my smile when Mike realized that Edward was listening. Once again I was terribly glad that he couldn't hear my thoughts.

"Bella, you are so lucky he can't hear you." Mike said.

"I know." I started to move to the kitchen when I was called back.

"Bella, I just remembered something."

"Yeah?"

"One of the first days I was here, you were playing chess. Is that why everyone was gathered around you?"

"Yes, Mike. Since he can't read my mind, it was a true contest. It was also the first time I beat him." I smiled and headed for the kitchen again. Edward trailed behind me.

"Want to go out?"

"Sure, just let me eat first." He chuckled and took my hand.

"No, I meant, would you like to go out to eat?"

"No, I'll just eat here. I don't like seeing you eat when you don't have to." I continued my search for food. He stopped me again.

"Bella, I don't mind. I'm offering. Would you like to go out?" He seemed to really want to so I agreed and he led me down to the car. He drove me to a familiar Italian restaurant in Port Angeles. I ordered something new and Edward ordered the other dish I had been contemplating. I shared both of them. They were both equally good. He walked me along the beach.

"Bella, I wanted to spend time alone with you today. I know that our original wedding date is tomorrow. I don't really feel like being around anyone right now because the day now fills me with sadness. I am so filled with anger about what happened to us because of Victoria's vindictiveness. It wasn't chance that she attacked when she did because your scent told her that you were ovulating." I flushed with embarrassment.

"I generally ignore it and if you hadn't noticed, I usually hunt more frequently on those days. Your body calls to me on a primal level as nature intended. I mourn that we could not be together in the way we want to be next week and that we must wait for six more months. I crave your body more and more every day. The need to claim my mate is getting increasingly difficult to ignore. Also, Mike and Tanya have consummated their relationship."

"What?" I am infuriated that everyone around me is getting lucky while I am not. He must have picked up the anger in my voice.

"I have come up with two solutions for you to choose from. Although my family is respectful enough not to do anything while you're awake, it is simply torture at night. I can either ask them to leave the house when they feel the urge or we can go disregard our promise to each other."

"No." I said immediately. I will not let him cave in so close to our wedding.

"You've waited so long. It's only a few more months. I'd rather you ask the family to leave the house for your sanity. Explain to them that your control is waning and you don't want to have to listen to everyone else enjoy their mates around you. Either that or we can stay at my house at night and ask my dad and Kate to go to yours."

"I hadn't thought of that. Let's do that and then ask my family to vacate." He took my hand and kissed it before leading me back to the car. We went straight to my house. Edward cringed which told me my dad and Kate were here and also what they were doing.

"Kate, we need to talk to you when you're done. We'll be in the forest behind the house." He said from the front door. He led me, as quick as I could walk, around the house. As soon as we were clear, he ran me into the trees. We went about fifty feet in where it must have been much quieter for him. He sat on the ground and pulled me into his lap.

"I have been replaying that day in the meadow in my head over and over again." He said. He didn't have to elaborate, because I knew exactly which day he was talking about.

"I think about that day a lot too. I think it's kind of funny that as much as I have been alone with you, we haven't had a chance to do that again."

"I was thinking the same thing. I don't want to have to always go to the meadow to get time alone with you in that manner."

"I agree."

"Hold on, Kate's coming this way." He said and I looked in the same direction as he was.

"Hey guys what's up?"

"We need to talk to you both. Is Charlie dressed?" I let Edward do all the talking.

"He's getting there. He knows that I'm out here with you, so he figured out that you wanted to talk." She started walking back and Edward carried me back to the house. Once inside, I was set on my feet again. I stopped at the fridge for a bottle of water on my way to the living room. My dad was waiting there and Kate moved to sit next to him.

"No, please, if you love me at all you will separate." I demanded and proceeded to sit next to Edward.

"That's hardly fair." My dad complained.

"Yes, well I can keep my hands to myself in front of others." I shot back.

"Actually Charlie, we have a huge favor to ask of you and Kate. Seeing as how everyone around me is mated and able to act on it, I was hoping that you and Kate might relocate to our house for the time being and allow me and Bella to stay here. I am losing control having to listen to it every night and it is important to the both of us to wait until our wedding night. I don't want to get carried away with Bella and either have to live with regret that I couldn't hold out for a few more months or hurt her because I allowed all of the lust around me to influence me." Edward explained. My dad and Kate looked at each other and shrugged.

"Mine and Edward's room is off limits." I said firmly. They nodded and would be using the guest room across the hall from our room. I suppressed my shiver. I wondered where Mike would be sleeping when he spent the night. Edward told me that he was leaning more and more toward joining Tanya and foregoing his family. I hoped he knew that his tie was running short. After the wedding, he would be expected to give an answer. Dad and Kate took their leave of us shortly after and Edward and I enjoyed having an entire house to ourselves where no one else could even hear us whisper. It made me want to scream in joy. I, as much as I could with my protruding belly, launched myself at him. He cradled me gently and positioned us so I wasn't bearing any additional weight and none of it was resting on my back. I touched one button and he shed his shirt for me. Mine came off soon after, though my bra remained on, as it always did. I rubbed wherever my hands could reach and felt his reciprocation. It felt so good. That's when the baby decided to kick; I was getting tired of interruptions. Edward palmed my stomach, waiting for it to happen again. I was impatient.

"No, you are here with me." I said firmly and tugged on his face. He kissed me again and I felt all of the love he had for me. I felt his thigh slip in between mine and I pounced on the opportunity presented to me. Of their own accord, more than my choice, my hips started a rhythmic movement that made me wish my pants were not in the way. But, oh, did it feel good.

"Bella, what are you doing?" He groaned against my neck.

"I don't exactly know, but it feels good." I arched my neck and blindly searched for his lips. He found me and stuck is tongue in my mouth; I moaned greedily taking more. My body was not my own at the moment; it was being wrapping around Edward's, seeking as much pleasure as he could provide. My hips had picked up s much speed as they could with my belly in the way. I grasped and clutched at him, reaching, searching for the pleasure peak I knew was coming. Edward started a deep purr, pushing me closer. He tilted his thigh at just the right angle and I sucked in a huge breath, letting it out on a moan of his name. I dimly felt his hips moving against my own when he leapt off of me and growled at the door.

"GO AWAY! We came here for some privacy!" He moved to protect my decency. It didn't stop the intruder. Edward pulled me up and wrapped me in his arms, reaching for is shirt when Rosalie and Emmet turned the corner.

"Sorry man, Alice told us to. Do you think we like seeing you like this?"

"I'm starting to think that you are, considering how much all of you like to interrupt us." I shot back.

"She said that you were going to go too far and break your promise and then you'd be resentful of one another."

"No, we weren't. We have a strict rule that we've been abiding by." He said and I buried my face in his sweet smelling chest.

"Yeah, she said she saw you both decide it wasn't worth waiting another few months. There is a reason that we are here instead of her or Jasper.

"Your house is the house of sex, isn't it?" I asked.

"Well, duh, with all the newly mated couples hanging around over there; it's a wonder we see anyone at all. Even Carlisle and Esme are a little busier, if you know what I mean. Jasper can't even send out the sex vibe because of the humans in the house either." Emmet complained.

"Sorry to inconvenience you." I said bitterly.

"Nah, I didn't mean that little sister, I just meant that the rest of us can't feel the energy projected onto us from Jasper because people can get hurt when the house is destroyed; not that humans can't handle that much of a love dose, but Esme gets angry when crap is broken in her house." Yeah, he was still insulting humans and everyone knew it, but I chose not to comment. It's not I was going to be a human for much longer.

"Fine, we're stopping, now get out and leave us alone." I was angry for many reasons and I had the bonus of hormones to back me up. I would apologize later; it was always my downfall that I could never stay mad at anyone for any length of time. I flopped on the couch after they left and let the tears roll down. Edward was at my side in an instant.

"Bella, what's wrong?"

"I'm frustrated. I want to keep going with you, but I want us to keep our promise at the same time. I'm conflicted and I'm so angry with Victoria for ruining this for us. Because of her, we've had to put our lives on hold. I love you so much and all I want to do is show you, but the Interruption Squad takes their job too seriously." I saw his lips quirk at my nickname for his family.

"Interruption Squad?" He was still fighting to keep a straight face.

"Yes, what else would you call them when they keep showing up uninvited, ruining the mood?"

"Family. They care about us, Bella and, it's six more months. We can do it." He flinched at his choice of words.

"I know, but I've wanted this with you for so long. I'm starting to think that you're an illusion at times." He cuddled me closer, but the scent of his skin wasn't providing comfort; quite the opposite, in fact. He groaned when he smelled the air around me.

"Get used to it pal, it seems to be a constant state for me these days and it doesn't help that everyone around me is doing it and we aren't."

"I know, baby, that's why we're here and they aren't. We can reach our goal and then it will be wonderful." What sucked even more was my belly was in the way and it was difficult to please myself. I knew Edward wouldn't do it either, because that was something he effused to do until we were married; which, if it wasn't for Victoria, would've been today. GRRR! I sat there and just let the tears roll down my face. Neither of us bothered to wipe them away.

A/N: I know that Bella is being a little emo, but it's mostly due to pregnancy hormones. It's very common. Reviews are wanted and appreciated. Have a great day! Kelly