After Paul cleaned up, together they walked to Sam's house, where the cook out was going to be held for the first few hours.
As they made their way towards the small house, there was already a handful of people there. Paul said it was mostly going to be family that attended and some friends. Bella sort of guessed that Paul didn't mean blood-related family, as he didn't even have pictures of any of them in his office. Bella understood what that was like. Angela and her weren't blood-related, but they were really close. Outside of the house, there were a few children running about. Playing kick ball.
When Bella and Paul stepped inside the house, she heard two men yell out Paul's name and she was soon led to where the cooking was taking place. Jacob stood against the counter, a bottle of beer in his hand.
"Hey, I see you two didn't kill each other yet." Sam acknowledged, making Jacob laugh.
"So Paul, how does it feel knowing that you are going to be a dad?" Jacob questioned.
Bella looked up at Paul. How did Jacob already know that she was pregnant? Paul must have texted him or called him while she was in the bathroom.
"It feels good knowing that I'm going to have two kids looking up to me." Paul replied, popping the little tin cap off of the beer bottle.
"What?" Jacob and Sam exclaimed.
Paul stepped behind Bella and wrapped his arms around her slightly swollen waist and stomach. "Yeah, she's having twins!"
Jacob and Sam stood there wide-eyed, as if all four walls around them disintegrated.
"Oh fuck! There goes the entire world!" Someone from the yard shouted.
"Shut up, Embry!" Paul yelled.
"So it's true? Two little Pauls running around on the face of the Earth? How are you going to stop them from taking over the world?" Embry queried humorously, as he stepped into the house. Embry held his hand out and Bella shook it, immediately pulling Bella from Paul's embrace and wrapping her in his own.
"Get your hands off my girl, you fucktard!" Paul growled.
Embry smirked and let Bella go. "My name's Embry, and I'm guessing you're Bella. And these," Embry touched Bella's stomach. "Are our two new family members!"
"Yes, all three of them are." Sam emphasized. Embry's eyebrows quirking up at Sam.
"Wait...did he?" Embry spun around and faced Paul. "Did you do that on her?"
"Yes I did. Now can you shut the fuck up and go away before I kick your ass?"
Embry smiled widely. "I would like to see you try." He hollered, and was out the door within seconds.
"Well, it's never boring with you guys, is it?" Jacob, Paul and Sam laughed. "What did he mean 'did you do that on her'?"
Paul pressed his lips and discretely stared at Sam and Jacob. What was he supposed to say?
"You're on your own there, bro." Jacob shrugged.
"He's just being a dumbass, that's all. Don't worry about it, okay? Let's get you some food. I can hear your stomach from here." He said, taking Bella's hand and walking out the door where two little girls dressed like princesses ran over to Paul.
"Uncle Paul! Daddy said that you were going to have a baby!"
"Yes we are. This is Bella, and Bella, these two little princesses are Lilly and Madison. That's Jared's girl and Sam's girl." Paul introduced them.
"Hi! Nice to meet you two." Bella smiled. Lilly and Madison smiled at her and ran back out the other side, retreating into the backyard where five women were carrying trays of food.
"Guys!" Paul shouted to them. "This is Bella; she's my babies' mama."
"Paul, this is not The Maury Show." One of the women said.
"Sorry Kim, I'm just teasing. You talk to them and I'll get you some food." He whispered, kissing her on the side of the head and going back into the house.
"I'm Kim," The woman said. "and this is Emily, Kelly, Liz and Ava."
Everyone was extraordinarily beautiful. Even Emily, who had three long scars from her hair line that teased down to her neck and continued passed her collarbone and hid under her shirt. They all had long, black hair unlike Bella, who had light brown hair that stopped just passed her shoulders.
"Hi. It's nice to meet you all." Bella greeted them, feeling a little bit of an outcast.
"So you and Paul are going to have twins?" Emily asked, a soft smile on her face.
"Yeah, I just found out a little while ago." Bella said.
"I would hate to have twins! I told Jake that when we have kids, they're going to be four year apart." Kelly said, her free hand holding a can of beer and she swigged some.
"It's not that bad having their age differences only a couple years apart. Look at Jared and I. One of ours are only a year apart from the eldest." Bella stared at Kim's stomach, noticing that she was seven months along her own pregnancy. "And this one," Kim continued. "Will be four years apart from the middle child."
"When are you due?" Bella asked Kim.
"September tenth. When are you?" Kim ask Bella
"March fourth, but it might be sooner."
"That would be so funny if they came on Paul's birthday." Ava laughed.
"When is his birthday?" Bella asked, and regretted it immediately once they all gave her incredulous expressions.
Oh god, they didn't know that I just met Paul at a bar a month ago...they probably don't even know that I just figured out who he is four hours ago! Bella thought.
"February twenty-ninth, a leap year. He didn't tell you?" Liz asked. "You guys have been dating for three months and-"
Emily cut her off by harshly jabbing her in the ribs. Wait...does that mean that he was dating someone else when he had sex with me? Bella asked herself. She felt so stupid for thinking that he was single. I mean, he's built like a God. Fuck, she shouldn't have had sex with him today.
"I'm sorry, I think I need to go now. I'm going to be sick." Bella ran back into the house to grab her bag and her cell phone. She was lucky to have grabbed them and made it outside, but someone stopped her by putting their hand on her shoulder, and whoever it was growling. She turned around and saw Paul, who looked worried and angry at the same time.
"Where are you going?" He hissed.
"First off," Bella began, hoping that her voice wouldn't crack. "let go of me!" She shrugged out of his grasp. "And secondly, why didn't you tell me you had a fucking girlfriend! And lastly, and I swear to god this is the least of our problems, did you just growl? What are you, a dog?" Bella shouted, walked towards the sidewalk.
Paul followed after her. "What girlfriend? I've never had a girlfriend in my entire life! Only fuck buddies."
"Oh, that makes me feel so much better." Bella seethed, turning to face him.
"You're different to me!" Paul admitted.
"Why, because I'm having your babies? That doesn't mean I'm different! To you, I was just some drunken, easy girl you took advantage of!" Bella yelled, tears springing to her eyes.
Paul's hands were shaking, ad his bottom lip was quivering. He breathed in deeply.
"Look, I was a player; a manwhore, but I want this to work for you, me, and our babies. Please, just give me a chance and I can show you that I'm not really like that." He pleaded.
Bella studied him for a while, biting her bottom lip as she contemplated all the possible outcomes if she let him show her what he could be like.
"Fine." Bella spat between her teeth. "But we're playing by baseball's rules, three strikes and you're out."
He faintly smiled. "Good, thing that I'm good at baseball. Come on," He started. The shaking stopped. "let's get you and our babies some food." He suggested, taking her hand and leading her back towards the house until someone yelled his name yet again. We turned around, seeing two guys walking out of the woods, fixing their shirts and slipping their runners on.
What the fuck were they doing in the forest? Some gay sex? Huh, maybe they're gay. They're pretty got gays.
"Paul, is that the Bar Girl?" The corner of Paul's lip turned upwards.
"We'll see how long that smile lasts." Bella muttered, mostly to herself.
"Yeah, this is Bella. Babe, this is Jared and Seth. Jared's one of my best friends; we've been through a lot of shit together. Seth's another one of my best friends that I've just come to known." Paul explained. They both seemed like pretty decent guys.
Jared and Seth quietly stood by as Bell and Paul stared at each other. The next thing Bella knew, both Jared and Seth were hovering over her stomach, putting their oversized hands on it lightly and cooing at the babies.
"Hey, little one. This is Uncle Jared and Seth. Don't worry, we're the fun uncles." Jared whispered.
Bella grinned. It was adorable to see two grown men coo and giggle at the unborn children.
"Don't you mean, little ones?" Bella queried, looking down at the men.
Both of them stared up at Paul questioningly. "We're having twins." Paul said, a sly smile on his lips.
"Wow, when you do something, you really do it." Seth smirked, giving Paul a high five. Bella rolled her eyes.
"Have you met my wife, Kim? And Seth's girlfriend, Ava?" Jared asked me.
Okay, so they're not gay...but why were they in the woods? She thought
Bella nodded. "Yeah, they were nice."
Bella's stomach growled, which made the three men laugh.
"I need to feed my babies' momma." Paul teased, and Bella slapped his arm. "I mean, the beautiful mother of my children." Paul smiled, amusingly.
They went back into the house. It was nice to see everybody talking to each other - it was like one big family! Everyone welcomes Bella like she was already part of the family. Even by the end of the night, Embry and Bella became good friends.
When it was getting late, Paul escorted Bella out of the house.
"Could you give me a ride to my truck?" Bella asked.
Paul frowned. "Where are you going?" He asked, sounding worried.
"To a hotel. It's late." Bella replied matter-of-factly.
"You're not going to a hotel, you're staying with me." Paul said.
"But-"
"No! You're staying with me. I'll meet you over at my house. I need to talk to Jake for a little bit. I'll meet you in a bit, okay?" He suggested. Bella nodded, and then Paul gave her a kiss and ran back to Jake's house.
Bella began walking to his house, whipping out her cell phone. She had a few missed calls and text messages from her sister. Bella called her back; something must be going on if she had to call over a dozen times.
"You slut! You better have a really good excuse for not calling me back. I had been trying to get a hold of you!" Angela squealed.
"I was at a cook out with Paul and his friends. What's up?"
"So how did he take the news?"
"Well, he and all his friends want us to be in their life."
"Are they okay with everything?"
"Yeah, they said I'm part of the family and some said they like me better than Paul himself."
"That's great!"
"Okay, Ang, cut to the chase, what's really going on?" Bella sighed. She could hear the anticipation in her voice.
"Mike found out that you're pregnant." Angela said in a small voice.
Bella felt the blood drain from her face. "How?"
"I don't know, but there's more..." Angela sighed.
"What?" Bella winced, preparing her brain for the bad news.
"His Uncle kicked us out. Bella, we have a month to get out of here. I talked to Jessica and she said I can move in with her, but I don't know about you and the babies." Angela said worriedly.
Bella ran a hand through her hair. "I'll figure something out."
"I love you, Bella. If everything goes wrong, I'll persuade Jessica to take you in. The thing is, there isn't that much room and that's what she's worried about. But otherwise..."
"It's okay." Bella said, cutting her off. "I'm pretty sure I'll find some place. Love you, Ang, I'll talk to you later."
Bella hung up the phone just as soon as the tears started to build up in her eyes. What the hell was she going to do? There was no way she could be able to find a place in time. She only managed to survive because of her sister. Bella absentmindedly made it to Paul's house. Throughout that journey, she grew angrier and angrier at Mike. How immature could he be? He was the one to dump her! And now he made his uncle kick them out? What did he think was going to happen to him? He probably doesn't even care!
Bella picked up a rock from his front yard and threw it to the forest. She hit something - and whatever it was started to howl.
Oh fuck, what did I hit? Is it a bear? No, it didn't sound like a growl...ugh, yeah, it's probably a bear. I better get inside. Bella though as she start to freak.
Bella walked into Paul's house, slamming the door behind her.
Hey guys, I hope this new one. Let know what you think of it.
I just want to say thanks for all the comments some made me laugh so hard.
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