A/N: Hello readers, welcome to another story involving our favorite clumsy human and mysterious coven of vampires.
This time it's not a new story but rather, another rewrite - years ago an old reader of mine had suggested a new story idea that involved Bella and the Cullens. I had came out with at least three chapters of it before it was postponed and essentially put on hiatus indefintely. I had gotten busy with school and life around that time so I lost the means to try and continue the story. Upon rereading it much like my older works, I once again came to find I detested what I came up with.
Having been a rookie still with my lack of writing skills, failure to use proper grammar and any spelling mistakes that slipped by, as well as coming up with fanatical plots that just didn't add up and to me came across as rather cringey - I feel now that this story is mostly overdue for a rewrite. I have some new ideas for it that might work in being better written but would just have to see how it plays out.
Summary:
AU, OOC, Takes during Eclipse. Bella and the Cullens are progressing through their education before graduation occurs for the teens. Victoria's missing for the time being so while they wish they could relax fully, they still have to keep their guard up. They won't have too much time to worry endlessly about the vengeful redhead since the school's concocted something to keep them busy. When an inevitable lesson leads to a shocking project for the seniors, chaos will ensue in this tiny town that I don't think anyone is ready for. How will Bella and the Cullen siblings react when there's talks of pregnancies, bellies and baby dolls? Who will crack? Just what has come over the populace of Forks High?
Rated between T and M due to language and possible sexual themes (be it hinted at or enacted); currently I will keep it at T as I'm not too sure just what I'll include in the story.
Once this rewrite is posted, I will likely delete the old one. Would have to see.
Original story idea is from amyandricky4ever
Disclaimer: Goes without saying since I'm not Stephenie Meyer, but I do not own the rights to the Twilight Franchise, characters and settings. I just like to play around with them for my own hairbrained concoctions of fan made stories.
You've Got Babies
Chapter One: The Assembly
Bella
Someone was shaking my shoulder of which I tried swatting the hand away so I can enjoy a few more minutes of sleep - but it was futile since they were persistent. "Go away... five more minutes..." I grumbled out, trying to pull myself away from their cool touch and sink further into my bed.
A tinkling laughter sounded above me and I quickly realized who it was trying to wake me. "Silly Bella, sleep time is over for the human! It's dress up time now before we have to head to school." a high pitched, familiar voice rang in my ears and suddenly the blanket was ripped away from me. I yelped in surprise and sat up in a rush to glare at the annoying tiny vampire that stood before me. "Oh lose the scowl, Bella. If I didn't wake you up this minute, we'd be late."
"The ripping of my blankets from me so I'd have to suffer from the sudden cold air is not appreciated, Alice." I muttered, huffing while reaching out to my left in hopes of finding the one vampire I wanted to be with - but I was met with nothing. I looked over and frowned to see he wasn't lying beside me like he usually was. When I turned to look back at Alice, she rolled her golden eyes at me. "Where is Edward? Did you-"
"Yes, I shooed him away. I need him to get his car so he can drive us to school." Alice said with a giggled, folding my blankets back on top of my small bed. "Now, enough stalling, get up and go shower. I've got your outfit already here with me and I want you to be freshened up before I start doing your hair and makeup."
"You know I don't like makeup." I reminded her, heaving myself out of my bed and heading towards my dresser where my underwear would be. Alice scoffed at me, but I paid no mind to her upset at what I had said, focusing on grabbing my toiletries and hurrying to the bathroom so we could get going on with our morning.
It has been at least a week after the Cullens had returned to Forks after they had stayed away for about half a year. They've settled back into their lives and the town's been abuzz with speculation of what caused them to move away before suddenly coming back. People were spreading rumors when they had first left, and everything was sparking up again with new mysteries in their heads as to why they came back - between hearing something happened with Carlisle's "new job" that made him move back (a scandal that would've cost his job that led him to running back here) or something more far-fetched of a lie that was the boys had caused severe damage at their "new school" which led them to be expelled and shamed into coming back here to our small populated town. It was ridiculous hearing every bit of gossip about the family, when I could only wish that they'd leave them be and just mind their own business. But this is Forks we're talking about; any news, big or small, is going to spark chatting and speculation. The addition of making it sound more outlandish than another story, is what keep things interesting for them. I swear I've rolled my eyes more than I count just hearing Jessica's squawking with Lauren about the Cullen kids reeking havoc in their new town and school.
It was a bit harder to hear her gossiping when she was talking about Edward and I suddenly getting back together after the breakup we have. I mean, my human "friends" were around and had to see me go through my catatonic state that I suffered through. And then seeing as how I quickly took him back after he broke things off with me, Jessica didn't exactly keep her words discreet about us. First it was the fact Edward was suicidal and I had saved him (which is honestly the story we were running with for the most part and what I had to tell my dad), then it was the fact Edward and I had "done the deed" and we quickly found out I was pregnant with his child so he was taking me back to make himself look good. Or the worst one, is just that Edward had been bored with the other girls in his new school, and when they chose to move back, had taken pity on me being desperate in begging him to take me back that he agreed. Needless to say, I quickly realized where I stood with her and stopped acknowledging her, much less talking to her. I pretty much ended any form of communication with the majority of the group - Lauren was happy from what I could tell that I'd be not talking to them anymore and that meant she had more time with Tyler for their on again, off again relationship. The boys - Tyler, Mike and Eric - definitely looked like sad puppies once I refused to even say hi to them anymore. Edward made sure that my time was focused on us and his siblings to keep me away; I was fine with it since Edward had told me that they were thinking that "since the Cullens returned that I'd just get pissed at them for playing with my emotions and wouldn't talk to them ever again - namely himself." With that in mind, I was insulted they'd think of me as that shallow. So, it was no skin off my back that I cut my friendship with them if they were all going to be that petty and narrow-minded about my relationship with the Cullens.
The only human friends I remained talking with and felt like they were happy to see the Cullens back, was Angela and Ben. Angela had been there for me more than I realized during my dark period, and Ben followed example albeit more awkwardly - but that was him. At some point during that time, Ben and Angela had gotten together with their own relationship which they seemed to be in perfect harmony between each other - and both did what they could to keep me happy and distracted while I was a zombie. They had expressed happiness when I was spending time with Jacob, seemingly moving past my brief breakup with Edward, and that I had distractions which kept me sane for a short while. But when the Cullens returned and I had told her the lie that we were going with for their story, they expressed concern for Edward's mental health and sympathy at the episode he went through on his own - both to me and to his face. Edward liked them just as much as I did, saying their thoughts spoke nothing but the truth with clear sincerity. So it was a no brainer that I'd keep talking with them over the others.
Speaking briefly of Jacob, well... things had become awkward around him. After having found out his werewolf secret and then realizing the animosity between them and the vampires, Edward had told me many times that he didn't want me around him alone anymore. He claimed it was too risky when Jacob's moods were too erratic and could be a ticking time bomb before he is set off by anything mildly upsetting. He didn't want me getting hurt by him - of which I have said a thousand times Jacob would never hurt me, but it fell on deaf ears. Jacob wasn't better when he found out the Cullens had returned and we had that brief, tense showdown in the woods to which he clearly wanted to rip off Edward's head. But when I protected him, that was a clear sign to my best friend that I was taking him back into my heart - and that hurt Jacob deeply. I knew he probably was thinking that after all the hurt Edward had put me through, I shouldn't be welcoming him back into my arms so quickly and that I should never get back together with him. So, after that encounter that day, I haven't seen or heard from him since. He never tried reaching out to me nor did I make the effort to go see him.
I was more than occupied thanks to Edward so that'd be one reason as to why I haven't tried going down to the reservation to try and see him. Since Edward and I had gotten back together, we were working on mending each other from the heartache we went through. I had deeply missed him during that period, feeling so empty and incomplete. I was a mess when he was gone, only having been temporarily mended and distracted when spending time with my werewolf best friend. But I was never whole in my heart - it belonged to Edward and there'd never be anything changing that. So when I rescued him in Volterra when we first met up with each other under that clock tower, our embrace suddenly filled the void in my heart that I have been missing for months. It felt like I was home again when I was in his arms, and on cloud nine when we shared that passionate kiss. He never stopped loving me and had only left thinking it'd be better for my safety. It would always be him for me, in my eyes. I did love Jacob but it was more like loving a brother than a lover. He was my sun, but Edward was the air that I needed to breath. Any time we were together, he'd usually always be apologizing to me about what he had done when he left me, regretting in putting me through so much pain and agony. I told him that I was tired of hearing it and that I had forgiven him, where he didn't need to keep apologizing it. He wouldn't listen of course so I'd let my human emotions do the talking, and would grab his face and kiss him forcefully to get him to stop talking; I think Edward let me do it every time rather than being a stone statue and stopping me. And it seemed like after we had reunited, he was letting up slowly on his boundaries with me to where he'd be a little bit more reckless in his kissing me - but of course wouldn't ever let it get too far. It was baby steps mind you and all it did was that it continued to frazzle me when I wanted to go further. He wanted to, I know he did - he reminded me that he was indeed a man and I did things to him that I don't ever realize because I'm so innocent and naïve but he was letting his gentleman ways keep the line in place. That and he would remind me that my human fragility mattered a lot to him. But he put it simply that, he was letting up slightly just because at the darkest hour of our relationship when he thought I was dead, he realized that he didn't want to waste a single minute anymore fearing the worst or thinking that I'd disappear before him at any second, so he was treasuring everything about me and us.
To be frank, I wasn't going to complain either way - not yet at least. This was all that I could ever ask for here and now. We'll get there eventually.
To end it though, after they had returned and when I had told them about the message I received from Laurent before he was mauled by the werewolf pack - the family was on edge. Edward was seething realizing that Laurent had basically went back on his word, to go against his path to becoming a vegetarian just to go and kill me because he was keeping a promise to Victoria. He did say he owed so much to the wolves for protecting me when they weren't there to do so, but had wanted nothing more than to go out and search for Victoria to end her obsession in killing me after her James had been killed by the hands of the Cullens. The rest of the family wanted to do something about it as well but chose to wait and bide their time until Alice would get clearer visions about her plans, much less her whereabouts because at this time we honestly don't know where she is or when she'll pop up again. So for now, we were essentially sitting ducks. Between Victoria and the sword over our heads that was the deadline the Volturi had placed on us, we were on edge. I was on a time crunch as is with everything going on - the promise we had made to Aro about my changing to being a vampire, along with graduating high school, and dealing with a nomad coming after me, it was almost crushing me mentally. Topping it off was the deal Edward had made with me that if I wanted him to be the one to transform me, I had to agree to his terms - which would be marrying him.
Now, don't get me wrong - I love Edward. I deeply and truthfully do. But the idea of marriage was unfortunately ruined for me thanks to my mother and father. Their marriage that ended in an awkward divorce is what put the idea off for me. Edward had told me that since did love each other, our marriage would last and that I'd get my forever with him. I realize that he has a point when saying this, but still I feared something. Maybe it was the fear of failing in being a good enough wife for him, or something trivial that I couldn't pinpoint beyond the failed example of my parents' marriage to one another. I told him eventually that I needed time to really think through the engagement and time to accept the concept on my own terms; it wasn't a no which I reassured him on soon as I saw his face was becoming dejected as if I was rejecting the proposal. I told him I loved him with every fiber of my being and that I wanted to spend an eternity with him, but had joked with him with "why couldn't we live in sin?" That had managed to get him to laugh a bit at the teasing, but he told me that he wanted to do things properly and wanted his blushing bride before she is to be 'damned'. (His words, not mine; I'd never view it as eternal damnation as he'd like to scathingly see it.)
I had finished my showering finally after recalling back to everything that's happened in such a short amount of time, and reentered my bedroom with my wet hair down and a towel wrapped around my body which hid my undergarments. Alice was just finishing up heating the curling iron in her hands when I came back and she clapped her hands. "Finally, you finished. Now get these clothes on so I can get working your hair and face." she ordered while pointing to the pile of clothing on my bed. She respectfully turned away so I could get dressed in the outfit she had given me, which after putting it on I already felt a bit self-conscious in. It was a lavender long sleeved shirt that felt lightweight enough for me to not be sweating in the spring weather, which came down to about my midsection before it was met with the black skater skirt that stopped about mid-thigh on my body. Then Alice had given me black knee high socks which were paired with black converse sneakers (I was thankful that she gave me sneakers at least and not high heels today). Once I had turned around and presented the look, she nodded approvingly. "Perfect! Now plant your butt in this chair missy."
I took a seat in front of her and let her get to tugging my hair around. "Alice, why do you insist giving me this skirt today?" I grumbled feeling my cheeks heated while she brushed my hair out.
"Bella, don't try and fight the option; the skirt looks so cute on you, it works wonderfully."
"You know I hate skirts and dresses..." I trailed off and she rolled her eyes.
"Well, I think you look pretty with it and so it stays. Besides, I can already see that Edward will love it." Alice giggled at me, winking and I gaped at her.
"Alice!"
"Well? Look, you and my brother are so in love and I'm so happy that he's loosening up a bit Bella. You know we've told you time and time again that you really bring out the best in him - he was so unbearable before we met you and you became a permanent fixture in our lives. You bring out so many emotions in him, and we love seeing him just being himself around you. And in this case, he's just being a normal fiancé-"
"Not fiancé, yet. I haven't accepted yet." I quipped shortly and she just grinned at me.
"Yet, being the keyword. But I know you will accept eventually - and so I say he's your fiancé when you don't want to call him as such. I will see it happen when you do finally accept, and I know it will happen." she retorted back and I snorted, but smiled up at her anyways. "Anyways, he's just being a normal fiancé and a lovesick boy with you. So please, humor me with the skirt today. I'm pretty sure you will be thanking me later on it." she added, and I sighed, accepting it for now. For the rest of the time being, I let her brush my hair out, curl the ends before pulling it up into a high ponytail, and then she applied a bit of makeup to my face - I did try to fight against it but she promised me that it wouldn't be too overboard. Which thankfully, it wasn't; she brightened up the area under my eyes where the dark circles were concealed and brightened to highlight my eyes. That much I was thankful on because I was still working on fixing my sleep issues after having struggled for as long as I did. Then she added mascara and some eyeliner to my eyes, while adding a little bit of light blush and some light lip color with gloss. "Excellent! All it is, is just a natural makeup look to enhance your natural beauty dear sister. You are going to knock Edward off his feet." she teased me while I fingered the curls and twisted my head around in the mirror to see the touches she put to complete my look.
"Alice I know I complain a lot about my Bella Barbie sessions - but thank you. Truthfully I do appreciate all the work that you do to make me feel better about myself." I said with sincerity, smiling up at her while she made quick work of putting away everything she had brought. She quietly squealed and engulfed me into an "Alice" hug that had me stumbling slightly on my feet.
"Oh you're welcome, Bella. Now, I must leave and officially 'arrive' with my brother. Charlie will be getting up in five minutes so I suggest you go downstairs and get some breakfast in you!" Alice advised, blowing me a kiss before she vanished out my window. I laughed a bit to myself from her hasty leaving, but after making sure I had my bed made I left my bedroom and went downstairs to get a pot of coffee going for my dad and getting myself a bowl of cereal to eat before school. While I was eating, the five minutes had passed and I could hear my dad lumbering down the stairs. I looked up just as he entered the kitchen, wearing a robe over his pajamas and his feet shuffling across the floor.
"Hey dad." I greeted him around my mouth full of food. He looked up when he heard me, and he blushed once he saw how dressed up I was for today.
"Uh... hey Bells. You look um... real pretty today." he complimented me awkwardly in his gruff voice, and I smiled at him. My dad and I were still awkward around each other no matter how many months I have been living here with him. I nodded to him as he got himself a cup of coffee and sat across from me, pulling up the newspaper to begin reading it. "So, you driving yourself to school today?"
I shook my head and said, "No, I'm uh... I'm getting a ride with Alice and Edward."
Charlie immediately grunted and looked up at me with his eyes narrowing. When the Cullens had returned, Charlie was fine and happy to see most of them again - but of course, he was none too pleased in hearing that I had taken Edward back into my life. I know my dad was concerned for me, having a front row seat to the depressed era and facing more than once the wrath of my nightmares as well as me fighting him off in trying to send me away to Florida with my mom. I knew I definitely worried him and hurt him when I left in a hurry to Italy - or what he believes it to be, LA - to go save Edward from his episode. After I had returned, Edward told me that he carried me into the house with Alice but had received the wrath of his fury; Charlie forbade him stepping a foot inside the house, and that he had grounded me for a set time period. It currently was a two week grounding, which I really only had a week left to go - and I was still trying to convince him to let up on his rule of not letting Edward step inside the house (thankfully my father will never find out about his nightly visits.) I had a feeling I'd need to have Alice work her magic on my dad since he never had issues with her.
"Dad..." I trailed off with a sigh, and he grunted again at me.
"You know how I feel about that damn boy and what he did Bells. I can't stop you if he's picking you up today for school - I'm not happy that you took him back like you did, so easily. But, it's your choice and your life. That boy has a lot to work on if he wants to get back on my good side." Charlie muttered angrily and I scowled at him for what he was saying. Yes I knew my dad never fully liked him, and I knew in his eyes Edward was the worst thing to happen to me whereas he still felt like I should work things out with Jacob and that I should give him a chance over the man that I truly loved. It hurt to hear it still. "I'm not going to tell you who you can and can't date, but just know that I'm not happy that after all the hurt he's put you through, you two are together again."
"Dad, we love each other and we realized that breaking up was the biggest mistake of our lives. I'm not going to second guess him anymore, nor would I ever think twice about taking him back. So please, stop." I begged exasperatedly, frowning heavily at him.
"I want you to be happy but I want you to keep your heart safe too, Bells." Charlie countered, returning my frown with one of his own. I sighed and nodded my head to him, at least letting him believe that on the surface I'd consider his words - but internally I knew what I felt.
We sat in silence after that and thankfully I was rescued in the form of a knock on the door. I quickly put my bowl in the sink and raced to the door, ignoring how Charlie grunted again under his breath, muttering, "Well speak of the devil and he shall appear..." I got to the door and pulled it open, my smile wide on my face when I saw him standing there. Edward looked dashing as ever, but this was my personal Adonis I was talking about. Edward can pull off anything. He was running a hand through his messy copper hair when I had gotten the door open, and looked down at me to give me my favorite half smile that sent my heart into overdrive. He was dressed up in a dark blue short sleeved shirt under a dark grey button up shirt that he left open, where dark jeans hugged the muscles on his lithe legs and he was shifting on my tiny porch in black converse sneakers. His amber eyes seemingly sparkled while he smiled at me.
"Hi." I breathed, smiling at him and feeling my cheeks heat up.
"Hello Bella." he greeted me in his silky velvety voice, reaching out to grab my hand in his. Once our skin was touching, the telltale sparks ignited between us and sent a shiver through me.
"Hello, Edward." I jumped and looked over my shoulder to minutely glare at my dad who stood behind me. He paid no mind to my scowling since he was directing his own glare at Edward.
"Hello, Chief Swan." Edward greeted him formally, nodding his head curtly to him.
I reached behind my dad to get my book bag, and kissed his cheek quickly. "Please, stop." I begged him quietly and my dad's cheek reddened after I had kissed it there. He coughed behind his hand and sighed.
"Sorry, honey. But remember our talk. I'll be home late tonight since I'm starting my shift late - remember that you're grounded so you're to come straight home after school." Charlie reminded me and I rolled my eyes at him lightly, and he frowned at me.
"Dad, I promise that I won't go anywhere after school; I know I'm still grounded so don't worry. I love you, be safe at work today." I said to him quickly before letting Edward pull me gently by my hand out from the doorway and down the sidewalk to his Volvo where I could see Alice sitting in the backseat. I could feel Charlie's eyes laser focused on Edward as he pulled open the passenger door for me and closed it behind me after I had gotten inside. Soon Edward was pulling away from my house and we were on our way to school.
"Alice I may need you to work your charms on my dad." I grumbled to her after we were away from my house. Edward chuckled beside me while he raced on the streets to the school, his thumb grazing my knuckles since he had reached over to grab hold of my hand once he had settled into his seat.
"Oh definitely Bella, that's not a problem for me!" Alice chirped from the backseat; briefly I could see that she had changed from what she was wearing when she had stopped by at my house this morning to help me get ready. She was wearing a frilly blouse and some stylish jeans, with pink wedges on her feet that no doubt gave her some height. Her hair was styled perfectly and she gave herself many flashy accessories; everything about her getup just screamed Alice. "Oh, don't forget that we'll be meeting with Emmett, Jasper and Rosalie at the school today too. I'll be riding home with them since we'll fit in her BMW." Alice added happily. Another thing to note is that the Cullens had maneuvered their plans around of how they'd portray themselves - Emmet, Rosalie and Jasper technically didn't graduate yet but rather whatever they had done at the previous school (playing into the rumors that the town wanted to believe), it was severe enough that they got held back from graduating. So that's why they'd still be attending high school with us. To say the least, my relationship with the other Cullen siblings more or less was better, if not the same in the case of Rosalie. Emmett was more than happy to be back and back to being friends with me because he said I was his favorite and loved to joke with me. Jasper was always trying to apologize for the mess he had caused on my birthday - none of which I was having it with him because I didn't want him living with guilt much like I didn't want that for Edward. He said he felt better about me and that he didn't feel like he was as much of a danger to me as before, saying he indeed missed his little human sister - but he was always going to feel guilty for how he acted. As for Rosalie, well things weren't nearly as rough or rocky with her; we didn't suddenly become best of friends once the family returned, nor did I feel like she hated my guts either. She was weirdly withdrawn still from me and I couldn't pinpoint as to why. When I had asked Edward he merely stated that she had a lot on her mind that she didn't want her mind-reading brother prying into, but that with it involving me, she needed time to sort everything out for herself before she wanted to have a private chat with me. Whenever that was, I didn't know but I wasn't going to push her until she was ready to initiate it.
Edward made it to the school in record time, where he slid into an available spot right next to Rosalie's car. They were all standing near it, looking up when he pulled in. I took stock of the fact that the parking lot was slowly filling up with the other students where they were hovering around their cars or their friend groups; others were already heading inside the school. Edward helped me out of the car, whereas Alice had already jumped out and made her way over to her husband who greeted her with a kiss on her lips.
"Have I told you that you look beautiful today?" Edward mused to me, causing me to look up at him through my lashes with a blush. He had me pinned to his car with his arms up on the roof on either side of my head, his eyes smoldering down at me. My heart was racing while I bit my bottom lip to try and hide my smile, but shook my head at him. "Well, you do, my love. I especially love seeing this skirt on you."
"Is that so?" I said softly, feeling like my nerves would betray me with how sensual his voice was becoming. Edward smiled at me and nodded his head, ducking his head down to nuzzle his nose into my neck. I hummed through my nerves and my flushed body, giggling while he skimmed his nose along my skin. He placed kisses up to my ear and gently nibbled on the sensitive spot that drove me wild, where I gasped at the sensation that caused like always. "You're being a cheater doing this right now, Edward." I whispered, feeling my knees grow weak which he snickered at me.
"I may be a cheater but you're such a minx for looking as ravishing as you do today." Edward whispered back, pulling back only to where now he was mere inches from my lips. It didn't take me long to close the distance and I kissed him, sighing happily when our lips touched. He chuckled to himself but let the kiss build up, his hands slinking down to my hips where he pulled me closer to his body, growling briefly when my hands went up into his hair and I ran my finger through it, my finger nails scratching at his scalp. Hmm, that's new; at least now I know that's something he really likes. We were wrapped up in our kiss for a bit and just as my air supply was reaching its limit, we heard a loud wolf whistle behind us that had Edward pulling away from me and he glared murderously over in the direction of his siblings; I buried my overheated face in his chest and heard his growl directed at Emmett. "Is the whistle necessary, you oaf?"
Emmett's booming laughter was heard behind me, and Edward sighed in an annoyed manner before he shifted me around to be pulled closely into his side. There, he led us over to his siblings where we were greeted with two amused smirks from Jasper and Emmett, a bright smile from Alice and a neutral expression from Rosalie who was focused on picking at her perfect manicured nails. "I was about to suggest you two get a room since it's a shock seeing prude Eddie about to get some action with his woman." was the first thing to come out of Emmett's mouth once we were near. Edward's growling increased in volume at him and I could feel myself become more flushed if that was even possible. Emmett only responded with a laugh, not the least be scared of Edward's fury.
"Relax, brother. You know he's only rustling your feathers." Jasper eased out to him snickering while sending me a wave of calm to try and ease my embarrassment; I only knew he sent it to me because suddenly my flushed face let up and I sighed, letting the serenity overtake me. I sent him a thankful nod and he winked at me.
"It's Emmett though; you'll sadly have to get used to his dirty jokes if you're wanting to be with Edward, Bella." Rosalie pointed out, smiling briefly at me. This was probably the nicest bit of emotion and the most noticeable, that I'd be getting out of her for the day. I smiled and shrugged my shoulders while I could see out the corner of my eye, Edward rolling his eyes at this.
"I think I'll get used to it - I plan on enacting my revenge on him at some point when I become like you guys." I said quietly; Emmett snorted loudly at this.
"As if! You'd be too chicken-shit to do anything to me, baby sister." Emmett teased; Alice and Edward snickered to themselves, and Jasper shook his head at him.
"Don't underestimate her when it gets there then, Em. You won't realize just how much stronger she'll be until it's too late to back down."
"Yeah yeah, whatever. I can handle anything." Emmett boasted, blowing off Jasper's warning while flexing his muscles to me in a show-boat way. I laughed at him while Edward, Alice and Jasper all groaned at him annoyed. Rosalie rolled her golden eyes at her husband and proceed to hit him in the arm where he jumped and yelped. "Ow! Rosie..." he whined and she snickered at him, winking.
The bell rang off in the distance then, it was time for us to head to our classes. Alice had pulled Jasper with her where they walked off to the main school building, Emmett and Rosalie following behind her. Edward and I pulled up the rear where he kept his arm securely around my waist, rubbing circles into my hip. We said goodbye to his siblings and headed out to our first class - which I should mention, Edward managed to sweet talk poor Mrs. Cope into changing his schedule when he and his family returned, to have it be identical to mine. So I'd always have him with me in every class now. The rest of the day passed by uneventfully at least. However I could hear light whispering of gossip from other students - nothing that was related to the Cullens for once but rather it was talks about something that'd be happening later for the senior class (aka the year that I and the Cullens were in now.) I was confused as to what was being said and just as the school day was nearing its end, the speaker system that was wired into the school crackled to life while Edward and I sat in our second to last class of the day.
"Attention please. I'd like for the senior class of the school to please be excused from their current classes and please make your way to the gym for the scheduled assembly." Principal Greene's voice came through on the garbled microphone, which the younger students in our class began whispering to one another speculating as to what was going on. Edward and I, along with Angela, Mike, Jessica and Eric who shared this class with us, got up from our seats and with the teacher nodding to us, we left our class room. Several other seniors in the hallway were leaving their classrooms and heading towards the gym like we were.
"Do you have any idea what's going on?" I whispered to Edward, hoping he'd been able to pick up on the thoughts of others who might have heard what's happening today that required all of the Senior students to be going to this assembly like we were.
Edward pursed his lips but nodded his head to me. "It turns out that this assembly is just a... well, a Sex Education assembly." I blushed at hearing this but he continued. "We were supposed to get a lesson of this in our Home Economics class that we had been put into this year, but I keep hearing at least thoughts hinting that it was saved for another time and was to be bundled with some end of the year project our teacher will be doing. Whatever that project is, I'm not able to get a clear reading on as to what it is because none of the other students even know - so it's a mystery to me as to what it could be."
"But why bundle... Sex Ed in with whatever this project?" I grumbled, feeling my cheeks becoming so hot with mortification. I was now walking into a proverbial lion's den full of teens, my vampire lover and his vampire siblings, and we were about to be taught all about the birds and bees of which I know this could either end with everyone making immature jokes and awkwardly laughing through the whole thing, or just in general something was going to happen where someone would be making a fool of themselves. I prayed to god that I would not have to be called upon for anything during this assembly. I'm pretty sure that if I was, I'd be passing out up in the front before I could remotely do anything.
Edward merely shrugged his shoulders, not sure on the answer. "Love there's nothing to be embarrassed about though about this. You know it's a natural thing that should be talked about respectfully and in a healthy manner; I think this is honestly needed in this school with how bad some of these teens are. You don't have to hear what they're thinking and what they're doing in their own private lives. I have so many medical degrees under my belt that each misinformed thought when it comes to sex education just makes me cringe and wish I could school them." Edward muttered to me and I snickered at him, where he playfully tickled my side at my laughing at him.
"I know but still. I'm just dreading that if I get called up to the front to do any activities like wrapping condoms around fruit, I'm likely to pass out before I can take a step." I whispered to him, and he smirked.
"I'd see it before that were to happen, Bella." I jumped a little and whirled around to see Alice was behind me, Jasper at her side.
"But would you tell me beforehand?"
"Nope!" she giggled, tapping her temple. Edward scowled down at her and Jasper snorted at him.
"You can't protect her from everything, brother - not even mortal mortification."
"No, but I will damn try my hardest to do so. I frankly think it should be Emmett that goes up and deals with whatever demonstrations should one happen." Edward muttered to his siblings; this caused Jasper and Alice to smirk wildly at him. "Wait, did you see if Emmett was going to be called upon, sister?" Edward asked her quickly, his eyes lighting up with amusement. She hummed beside me and then while still walking or rather letting Jasper guide her, she closed her eyes and was silent while we continued our trek through the halls to the gym, the other Seniors around us talking loudly and amicably about whatever we were to face. Edward must've been listening to her thoughts or seeing a vision that she had, for he was silent for a moment but then his smirk grew to something devious. "A 50/50 shot of either my Bella or Emmett then?"
"Riveting. Say, Edward - would you like to make it a bet?"
"Bet you say? How dare you not include me in on this!" I jumped with a squeak and we all looked to our left to see now Emmett and Rosalie had joined us. Emmett had heard Jasper's proposition and was scowling at his brothers, whereas Rosalie began talking with Alice something about clothing which bored me instantly so I focused the matter at hand between the boys. Jasper informed Emmett of Alice's split visions of what's to possibly happen at this assembly and Emmett snickered, his eyes glinting about mischievously while he glanced at me. "I want in on this bet then to see if either I or Bells are going to be called up. You on, Eddie?"
Edward scowled at him for using that nickname that he absolutely detested, but his eyes glowed with determination. "It's on. If you're called up, then that means I win - and what I get as a prize is two weeks worth of no teasing to Bella and I, from you." Edward placed his terms on the table, whereas I naturally felt my face heat up. He was putting us up on the table? What?
Emmett huffed, rolling his eyes. "Fine, whatever. But if I win where Bella gets called up, then you have to suffer where you can't touch her for twenty-four hours." he retorted and grinned wildly while I gaped at him and Edward now snarled angrily at him.
"What?!"
"You heard me, brother. Now, do we have a deal?" he asked, smirking widely at him. I scowled up at Emmett, knowing the intensity is no match to Edward's steely gaze. But eventually, Edward nodded begrudgingly to the bet, where Jasper smirked at this. Once they had placed their bet, we soon reached the Gym with most of the Senior class already walking inside. We walked in and I took in the fact that the bleachers were pulled back to the walls and the room was filled with plastic chairs in rows facing in the center part of the basketball court a big enough TV. And standing next to the TV were three people; Coach Clapp, our very own Carlisle (of which when the Cullen siblings saw him they stared at him in surprise), and finally our Home Economics Teacher, Mr. Randall. He was a man in his late 40s, with salt-pepper curly hair, aged olive skin and a crinkly smile. The Seniors began taking seats in the chairs, where I silently begged Edward that we sit in the back. "You know even if you sit in the back, you're probably still going to be called on baby sister?" Emmett teased me quickly, smirking as I frowned heavily up at him. Then, Emmet took Rosalie's hand to where he strutted up to the front, surprising me that he wanted to be so bold and sit up there. But Alice shook her head at me to where I shouldn't question him, and she and her husband joined Edward and in the back. When we sat down, Edward made sure I was close to him and wrapped one arm around my waist where he pulled me into his side. He played with one of my hands in his free hand.
It took a bit before all the seniors had made their way into the Gym and sat down in a chair. They were talking amongst themselves about whatever was going on, watching with careful eyes as Carlisle talked to Mr. Randall while Coach Clapp wandered off towards a whiteboard in the back. He began rolling it to set it next to the TV, and soon as he did, he blew his whistle loudly to get all the Seniors to quiet down. Then he flipped the board around and at the top of it written in bright red whiteboard marker was "Sex Education".
"This is what today's assembly is about, students - Sex Education." Coach Clapp began in his booming voice, standing up straighter. I could heard only a few snickers from some of the students but Coach Clapp clapped his hands to stop the snickering. "Keep your giggles to yourself about this as this is something important you all need to get schooled in, and frankly none of you will be graduating unless you stay here and sit through this whole presentation. Now then," he paused to briefly look out to the senior class sitting before him. "I've had a talk with Principal Greene about this, and this includes Mr. Randall as well because this is all part of a big end of the year project that each of you will be taking part in. Failure to not pay attention to your lesson Sex Ed, and failure to do the project - and you'll not be able to graduate. Both counts toward a decent chunk of your grade that will change where you may end up if you don't follow through. Got it? Good! So, I have the floor today with Dr. Carlisle Cullen and before we go, we will be announcing the project you have with Randall. Let's begin!" Coach Clapp boomed, instilling fear into most of the seniors in the fact this was serious and if someone wanted to goof off or not take this seriously then they wouldn't be graduating. That was enough motivation to them to sit there and pay attention.
Mr. Randall had gotten himself and Carlisle a free chair to which the two of them sat down next to the TV while Coach Clapp began writing bullet points on the whiteboard. Students were silent while he wrote down on the board, "Safe Sex, STDS, Misconceptions on Sex and Pregnancies, Teen Pregnancy" and once he was done, he turned towards us again to begin talking once more. "So, lets begin with safe sex since this is where it all begins so to speak! Now, you are all teenagers with your bodies changing constantly - dealing with an onslaught of emotions, feelings and hormones that to some can feel overwhelming. It's natural for you all to go through this while your body matures into adulthood. And part of these emotions can be lust or love, once you find that special someone that you are ga-ga over. Perhaps as your relationship with this someone progresses, you two start getting handsy and frisky, antsy ready to do the deed with each other." he paused when he heard a couple snickers in the crowd and he frowns. When he mentioned "special someone", I could feel Edward squeeze my side and I giggled next to him, my face feeling overheated still. Nothing about this was helping my embarrassment having to sit here next to my vampire lover where I was feeling these human emotions for him, but I'm in an assembly with hormonally charged teens that were all over the place with their thoughts and feelings. It was no doubt helping Jasper in the least bit to be feeling all of this.
"Anyways, while you all may be feeling these emotions and are about to do something about it, you need to realize that before you go about having sex at all - you should be protecting yourself. Now, you have many means of protection when having sex, things that can help prevent firstly any STDs being transmitted. Some are more effective than others, but any protection is better than no protection. You have your condoms, both male and female, your birth control methods for you ladies - birth control mind you is only going to be as effective as it can be for preventing pregnancies, but it does not protect you against any STDs from your partner. Above all else, what'll help the most is that you and your partner are honest with one another about any possible past partners or flings that have happened because you never know who may be carrying what. Get yourself tested if you are with a new partner frequently so you can keep your own health updated and in check." Clapp continued. Then he smirked to himself. "Now before we let Dr. Carlisle Cullen speak, I have a challenge for some students." Clapp announced deviously; my heart stuttered. Oh no... is this part of Alice's vision? I panicked to myself while Clapp hurried off back towards his office. I heard the other students begin whispering to themselves as to what Coach Clapp was going to be doing now.
"Love?" Edward whispered beside me when he heard me gasping to myself. I looked up at him worriedly and he grabbed onto my hand with his to give it a squeeze. "Love please don't panic. It's a 50/50 shot if you're called. Even if you're called, please don't embarrassed about going up - I'm sure you'll be fine but you'll have other classmates up feeling the exact same way as you do." Edward tried reassuring me, but he was grimacing as he was even sounding nervous about the prospect about me going up possibly to do whatever Clapp would be challenging us seniors to do.
"Bella, please calm down." Jasper murmured to me where Alice smiled sympathetically at me; suddenly I felt a wave of calm wash over me again and I took a deep, stuttering breath, relishing in the feeling where I could feel my panic slowly ebb away.
"Thanks Jazz."
"No problem, Ed. Her panicking would've only made me panic and then that would've been multiplied out to the others - even if she is called, I'm sure she'll do perfectly fine." he murmured to him, giving me a reassuring smile then. I nodded my head to him in thanks just in time to hear a loud clanging noise. Everyone looked up and I could feel my eyes grow wide as I saw Coach Clapp returning.
"No way!"
"He's joking right?!"
"Is that what I think it is?"
"I can't believe he's going to make us do this..."
The other seniors around us began to gasp in shock in what they saw being wheeled back to the group. Clapp had a shit-eating grin on his face while he pushed a wheel barrel full of brightly tin-foiled packages of condoms over to the TV. He came to a halt and set it down before he motioned to Mr. Randall and Carlisle. The two of them stood up and Carlisle went over to the door leading to the locker rooms while Randall went over to the bleachers with Clapp. The two of them had gotten a long foldable table that was leaning against the bleachers and they brought back over to where we were, unfolding it and getting it set up. Then, Carlisle, acting as human as he can be, began walking out from the locker room carrying a box filled with cucumbers and bananas, placing the box on the floor in front of the table. After Mr. Randall and Carlisle sat back down, Clapp clapped his hands loudly to quiet the seniors and looked out to the crowd with a wide smile and a devious glint in his eyes.
"This, will be a quick challenge. Since you all can see them, yes it's going to involve the condoms. I'm going to be picking ten teens to come up here and put on condoms for their fruit. Whoever puts on the most condoms successfully in the allotted time - which will be 2 minutes - they will win. The rules are: you cannot break the condom at all when slipping it on your fruit - so do not tear, rip or puncture any holes into your condoms. And do not break your fruit please. We have a limited stock to hand out, so keep your fruit in tact while you're working the condoms on them." Clapp explained, taking time to set out ten fruit on the table top in a set distance from each other.
Once he was done, he looked out in to the crowd with a smirk, watching as some students squirmed. I gulped and bit my bottom lip hard, praying that he wouldn't call me out to be one of them to go up front; Edward gently squeezed my side again, trying to provide some comfort. Clapp scanned the crowd, tapping his chin to himself while he was contemplating. Finally, he spoke and began calling names.
"Mike Newton." he called first; I glanced over to see Tyler and Eric jeering at him while he heaved himself up and sulked to the front. "Crowley, Yorkie, since you find that so amusing - join Newton up front." Clapp barked then after Mike was called; Tyler's and Eric's grins immediately disappeared while the senior class laughed at their misfortune. They then got up and shoved each other while walking to the front. Clapp again scanned the crowd before speaking up again. "I want Jessica Stanley, Lauren Mallory up there next, as well as Katie Marshall." I heard the girls gasp at this, and with their faces red, they scuttled up to the front. "Next... Angela Weber, and Ben Cheney. Hop to it." I felt immense pity for the two of them, seeing them stand up and shuffle begrudgingly to the front, their faces just nothing but tomato red. That was eight students so only two spots remained. Clapp once again scanned out the crowd before he smirked. "Finally I want... Jasper Hale, and Emmett Cullen to the front. And that'll make it ten."
I felt immense amount of relief and sat back in my seat heavily letting out a gust of air I didn't realize I was holding, while Edward laughed as Jasper stood up from beside us, a frown on his face. "How come I was called? You didn't see this Alice?" he sulked quietly to Alice quickly while I looked up to see Emmett getting up from the front and almost stomping to the front whereas Rosalie shook her head at him.
Alice shrugged and said "Well he was keeping his decisions random until the last minute so I wouldn't have been able to warn you anyways. But take this like a man my love, you'll be fine. Make it your own small bet with Emmett if that pleases you." she had a wicked grin on her face; that was all Jasper needed to hear to perk right up and he nodded his head before he slinked off to the front. Once she had said that, I glanced up to see Emmett minutely glare over in our direction, while Carlisle - obviously being able to hear all of this - glanced between Emmett and Jasper, before looking back at Edward and Alice with furrowed brows. The two beside me chuckled under their breaths while I snuggled closer into Edward.
"Looks like we won the bet." I whispered to Edward cheerly; he grinned crookedly down at me and nodded his head happily.
"See? You had nothing to worry about." he told me and I giggled up at him, loving that he winked at me and began to lower his hand to my hip where he rubbed circles there. I looked back up at the front to see now Clapp distributing the piles of condoms to the students, where each looked completely uncomfortable to be doing this in front of the senior class. All except Emmett and Jasper, who were silently communicating with one another their own competition and glaring down at one another. After Clapp had dropped the piles of condoms there, he stood off to the side and pulled out a stop watch.
"Alrighty students, when I say go, you're going to start slipping condoms on. Remember the rules - and whoever gets the most on in two minutes without any broken condoms or fruit, will win. Are you ready?" he announced while the students grabbed their first condom and got into positions. The other seniors out in the crowd shifted to lean a bit more forward with anticipation. "Alright! 3, 2, 1 - GO!" Clapp shouted, blowing his whistle and pressing down on his stopwatch. Soon as Go was heard, the ten students up front began ripping open their packages and starting to slip them on their fruits that they had in front of them. The Seniors in the crowd began cheering them on, yelling and shouting encouragement up to the students. Mike was aggressively slipping on a condom on his cucumber - doing it a bit too roughly since I could see all the way from the back, the condom ripped.
"Start again Newton, you ripped it!" Clapp barked and Mike groaned but got another condom. I looked over at Emmett and Jasper, seeing them on their second condoms that they were slipping hurriedly onto their cucumbers. They were neck in neck with one another at human speed. Then I looked over and saw Jessica fumble and the condom in her hands fell to the floor. "Stanley new condom, that can't be used!" Clapp shouted at her, and she made a high pitched screeching noise in frustration but listened.
"Who do you think is going to win?" I asked Alice calmly, noticing her watching Jasper intently.
"Can't say for sure. I don't need my powers to at least see that it'll be between Emmett and Jasper, but as for a winner - not sure." Alice told me with a smirk as Edward laughed beside me.
"I'm placing my bet on Jasper." Edward stated with a smirk of his own.
I paid attention back to the competition; Mike was now getting to his second one, as was Tyler, Eric, Lauren and Ben. Poor Angela, Jessica and Katie were still fumbling on their first one, where Angela was red in the face and looked like she was about to pass out; Ben was muttering under his breath to her while he worked on his condoms, where I could only assume he was trying to reassure her that she would be fine and to just keep pressing forward. He's so sweet trying to care for her during this madness. I thought to myself watching him quietly cheer her on. She had taken a few deep breaths finally and nodded to herself before she was able to put her first condom on successfully and began pressing forward. Meanwhile Emmett and Jasper were now working on their fourth one.
"1 minute remaining! Hurry hurry folks!" Clapp barked, and the crowd began to cheer more frantically. The students were hastily ripping packages open in this moment, trying to get more on with the remaining amount of time. I watched as Emmett had suddenly broke a condom in his haste as he was wanting to try and get more aggressive to surpass Jasper who was calmly still tearing open packages and getting condoms on with ease. Clapp blew his whistle when he saw Emmett tear the condom; "Cullen, new condom. You ripped yours!"
"You got this Emmett!" I heard Rosalie shout out to Emmett to try and keep him focused.
"Let's go Jazzy!" Alice had all but shrieked beside us, jumping up and clapping her hands excitedly. Edward gave a whooping holler to him, and I laughed at the two of them egging on Jasper, going against the big teddy bear who was scowling while he worked on another condom.
"20 seconds!" Clapp shouted.
Emmett in his frantic haste when opening the new condom that he was trying to get to be number five, had somehow sling shot the condom when he was trying to slip it onto his fruit. He froze briefly when he saw that it flew through the air, and watched as it managed to fly all the way to the back - and smack Edward right in the face. I jumped and gasped when watching this, staring at him wide-eyed. Edward also jumped when it hit him square in the eye, and when the condom slipped to the floor I could hear him growl lowly under his breath. Alice had stopped in her cheering when seeing this and then burst out loud into a fit of giggles, doubling over. Some seniors had stopped their cheering when they saw this happen, and also began to laugh loudly at the sight of the Edward Cullen getting hit in the face by a stray condom. Emmett began to guffaw loudly when he saw where the condom had landed, not able to keep going in the last few seconds he had, not even seeming to care that Jasper hadn't stopped to laugh at his brother's misfortune.
"I'm going to kill him!" Edward hissed to himself, kicking the offending rubber at his feet away angrily while I covered my mouth to hide my own giggles at what I had witness. Edward glared at me from the corner of his eyes and I turned away to keep giggling to myself. "Thanks love for laughing at my misfortune." he grumbled, pouting and ignoring Alice's teasing when she sat back down.
"Time! Hands down and step back from your fruit!" Clapp barked. I turned back around to cuddled back into Edward's side, quickly kissing his cheek. He relaxed almost immediately when I kissed him, and sighed.
"I'm sorry, Edward but that was honestly hilarious - whether Emmett planned it or it was a freak accident." I murmured to him, smiling and he rolled his eyes at me.
"You'll get it later for laughing at my misfortune." he whispered into my ear and I shivered when he winked at me. "Besides, we won the bet, so you'll really get it then missy." I blushed at how he seemed to imply something more to his threat. Then he nudged me to look back up at the front where I noticed Clapp was going down the line counting how many condoms the students had gotten onto their fruit. Emmett was glaring at Jasper who was calm and smiling slightly beside him. Then Clapp stepped back to his spot and smiled.
"Alright, I counted up how many successful, clean condoms were put on. Mike Newton had 3, Jessica Stanley had 1. Lauren Mallory, Angela Weber, Katie Marshall had 2. Ben Cheney and Emmett Cullen had 4. Tyler Crowley and Eric Yorkie had 3. And the winner for this challenge is Jasper Hale who had an astounding 7 clean condoms put on his fruit!" Clapp announced, and the Seniors cheered and clapped for the students on their numbers, being real loud when they heard Jasper had won. Alice squealed beside us and clapped excitedly while Edward and I cheered for him. Rosalie laughed from up front when Emmett made a whining noise and stuck out his tongue at Jasper who gave his own whopping cheer and pumped a fist into the air. Clapp then ordered all but Jasper to clean up the fallen and broken condoms on the floor while Mr. Randall came in to get the condoms off the fruits to put them back into the box.
"Told you you'd do fine, honey!" Alice quipped teasingly when Jasper had rejoined us in the back to sit down beside us. Jasper chuckled as he sat down beside the pixie, throwing an arm around her dainty shoulders.
"That you did, darlin'." he replied simply, winking at her.
Soon as the students were done cleaning up and had returned to their seats, Clapp crossed off the first two topics on the white board before he brought the seniors attention back to the front. "Alright, that competition was exciting and hilarious to watch but back to the serious topic at hand. I'm going to be handing over the reigns to Dr. Carlisle Cullen soon here but I want to preface this last bit here before I'll step down. It's very serious that while you all may have gotten a laugh at the condom competition, you all need to realize that condoms breaking when having sex with your partner can still be dangerous. They're just a flimsy piece of rubber that has a chance of breaking, or wearing down after some time. STDs are a very serious thing that are sometimes permanent and remain with you for the rest of your life. You all need to remember that you have to practice safe sex, both for your own health and your partners but to also ensure that you don't have a sudden pregnancy to worry about." he paused as the seniors around us shifted uncomfortably at the talk of pregnancy. "Over the years, teen pregnancies - and namely, unwanted pregnancies - have been on the rise due to teens not knowing the safest ways to prevent it. Teen pregnancies as a result, can lead to a multitude of fallout situations; some can work out perfectly fine for some teens. But it's not always the case. Teens may have to drop out of school to take care of their newborns, or miss out on college opportunities. Granted there is always time to go back when they are ready - or heck, they do it while raising their children. However, teen pregnancies made lead to early marriages - and early divorces, due to the pressures that follow. Teens also may face early financial struggles if they do not have a good support system of family members and friends doing what they can to help out their friends who have to learn from just one simple mistake that they cannot take back. And of course, when it comes to pregnancies - especially for you ladies - you are at risk of going through post partum depression as is after giving birth to a baby, should your mental state not be in the right state of mind. Studies show that teens who undergo this are a lot higher in reports for depression than normal as of late." Clapp continued, pausing while I watched Carlisle stand up.
"The main point that Coach Clapp is trying to explain is that this assembly is to inform you all the risks of unprotected sex, where it could lead to STDs or an early pregnancy that some, if not all, may not be ready. This is to prepare you all for the realities that lie ahead of it - and that the school hopes you all take it to heart and really understand the severity of this livelihood." Carlisle helped Clapp along to finish up his speech. Clapp nodded to him and then went to sit down beside Randall.
Carlisle held his hands together while looking out to the senior class. "I decided to come down here and volunteer my time to try and clear the air about some misconceptions about pregnancies and STDs because there's a lot of misinformation out there that will lead to more harm than good while you all are exploring your bodies, and your partners if that suits your fancy. It can be a scary subject to traverse alone, so I'm here to calm any worries you all may have. But first, I have a video that I'd like for you all to watch - and it's a video of the birthing process. So please, sit and watch the video I'm about to put on screen, then I will answer the frequently asked questions about these topics." Carlisle explained with an easy smile. When Carlisle mentioned the word pregnancy, I felt Edward stiffen beside me. I glanced at him to see him watching Rosalie up front, who also stiffened next to her husband.
"What's wrong?" I asked him in a whisper.
"Rosalie's really not happy that now she has to sit through this. Rosalie's always wanted to be able to have children, but since we're immortal and can't have any, this is something that is a sore subject for her. Frankly, my siblings and I are a bit upset that Carlisle never mentioned about coming to present today, and even more so that he did nothing to talk about this to her so she could mentally prepare." Edward explained to me in a rushed whisper, frowning in the direction of the front of the Gym where Carlisle was putting in a video tape to the player below the TV. Coach Clapp had gotten up and went about turning down the lights in the Gym so it was a bit darker in here where everyone could see the TV a bit better. The whispers among the others began again when the lights were turned down.
"Oh... I hope she'll be okay after this." I whispered back, now worried about Rosalie and how she'll react during this. I didn't honestly know that she's wanted a child for as long as she's been immortal but there was a lot to Rosalie that I didn't know. Frankly I don't even know how I'll react to this; I know I'd feel awkward as hell about it too since nothing about the birthing process of a baby sounded exactly exciting (at least from what I recall what my mother decided to tell me as if she was trying to dissuade me from ever having a child - not like that I honestly thought of really wanting one) but I had no doubt poor Rosalie would really feel disheartened about watching this. Edward gave me a small sheepish smile as he found it to be sweet that I was caring for his sister's feelings, and reached over to wrap an arm around my shoulder and gave it a squeeze; the sparks began again between us when he touched me there. I shivered but tried to push past them as Carlisle drew the attention back to the front.
"And now, I give you this video, on the Miracle of Childbirth." he announced and pressed a button.
Let the torture begin. I thought to myself with a grimace on my face.
A/N: And I'll end there! I think this chapter went on long enough. Previously on my last PC, before I upgraded and sadly didn't think to save any of the word documents that were chapters or new stories I had been working on, to then be able to transfer onto this new pc - I had a rewrite of this started up and the first chapter was going to go very much differently. But I think I like this rewrite a bit better than what I did before.
We'll be getting into the project in the next chapter.
I thought about adding in this Sex Education plot just as a quick precursor to the main meat of the story that is the project. Frankly it makes sense to add something Sex Ed related when dealing with this type of project so *shrug*
I'll be adding a quick AN in the original YGB because I think I'm going to be deleting the old story and replacing it with this one, much like I had done previously with the old "Angel of Life" that is now "The Princess of the Volturi" replacements. (Edit as of posting: the old You've Got Babies has since been deleted at this point so please enjoy this rewrite!)
Any feedback is greatly appreciated! Stick around for more!
~Lady Eleanora~