First and foremost this is the original story before I started to rewrite it... and got stuck in the writing of the rewrite. If you are following the rewrite you will notice quite glaring differences between this and the one you have already started following. I do not intend on giving up with the rewritten version, however I think you guys waiting for me to get over my blank slate of a muse isn't going to happen any times soon. So I am re-posting the original. This was my first completed story and it is very different to how my last stories flow.
Secondly, this is not beta'ed. NOT AT ALL. There will be mistakes in spelling (I'm Australian and some words we spell differently). The layout will honestly have you wondering what the hell I was thinking. I wasn't; well that's not true. What I was thinking was that I knew what I was doing and screw anyone else... yes I was a conceited little shit even at the age of 31.
Thirdly, there is 68 chapters to this story, including the epilogue and two out takes. All of which have been uploaded to my profile so I should be able to update daily. Please understand that I have a busy life in the real world. This includes two children, one grown and the other with disabilities. So while I should be able to update wherever I am, if something happens please understand that I will miss updating.
Last but not lease. I am not SM. Not even close. I do not own the franchise, work in any capacity with the publishing houses or studios. I merely escaped from reality to play with some characters that I fell in love with while reading four books in the matter of days.
So we've seen what's going on with Jasper, time to catch up with Bella. Please note that I am basing her hospital/doctor visits on my own here in Australia. We don't see the inside of a hospital before three months unless there are medical reasons for either mom or bub. Also same with the heart rate and scans.
Bella's POV
Damn, I don't know whether to be happy, excited, nervous, or petrified right now. It's been 3 months since I moved in with Char and Peter and while everything took its toll on me as well as them I'm glad that they and Edward have been there for me. Morning sickness; or as we came to know it hell on earth has finally said good bye after 4 months of multiple trips to the bathroom every day, which we were all so glad was over. I think poor Peter was more affected by this than the rest of us.
Now all he had to worry about were the unexpected cravings that came at all times during the night. But at least Edward was there when he could help out on those... especially when he was working and had time between shifts to come over. He came loaded with Choc Peppermint Swirl ice-cream every time he could and as this was became one of my dietary necessities everyone was glad; they just didn't need to know what I ate it with. I had been booked into the same hospital that Edward was doing his residency, something I'm sure Carlisle had a hand in.
This is where you would find me and Char sitting right at this moment. I was booked for an ultrasound to see the progression of the pregnancy and if I decided to find out the sex of little peanut. Char's all for it, mainly cause she's dying to start the baby shopping and wants to outfit the peanut in all the latest baby fashions. Why I have no clue, buts she's determined that her niece or nephew will be decked out with everything. I'd rather get value for my money, and lets face it peanut will be going through so many clothes, and then growing so fast that it's just not worth it.
"Bella..." she drawls out, and I know what's coming. "When can I throw the baby shower? Come on you gotta let me, Peter already started on the renovations of your room, and I need something to do." She's been on my case about this since we moved into the house that she and Peter moved us all in once I got back on my feet.
That plus both her and Rose, who I've come to find as a great friend by the way; have been wanting to do this for about a month. I'd argued that I wanted to be through the first trimester before there was any talk about any kind of party.
"Char... I'll think about it okay." I replied exhausted.
It's not that she was getting on my nerves, but I hadn't been sleeping well lately. I still have this pain where my heart is meant to be, but what can I do? I've slowly come to realize that I don't think I'll never see Jasper again. I keep dreaming what it would be like to have him with me while I'm going through all this, what it would be like to be a family with him, and growing old with him. Yep those hormones have driven me into the sorority of girly girls. I keep dreaming of a little girl with his blond hair, but wavy like mine, his blue eyes, and my creamy complexion. Little button nose and cute little lips. I've been caught waking up crying a few times and I've been able to pass it off on peanut playing games with my hormones.
"Hi Isabella, you want to follow me?" A very petite woman in a lab coat wakes me from my little day dreams. Charlotte squeezes my hand as we get up and follow the woman.
"Hi, I'm Alice; I'm the student doctor that works with Dr. Denali. I'm going to be performing the actual sonogram while Dr. Denali instructs me and explains to you what is going on. I hope you don't mind." Smiling I take a better look at this young woman. She reminds me of one of those fairy characters that you know all little girls have heard about at onetime in their lives.
Short shoulder length hair spiked up in different angles, startling blue eyes (what is it with Texas and blue eyes), full pink lips, and a slight sun kissed complexion. I couldn't help the little hit that I took with her near me. Slim little wood nymph walking beside me while I have this little peanut bump sitting just below my belly button.
"Bella, how are you today?" Tanya asked as Char and I walked into the room. Yeah we learnt on the first appointment that if I call her Dr. Denali that she'd kick my butt once peanut is out of me.
"Doing well the morning sickness is gone so that's a plus. And I think that Char's not in a rush in having one herself right now after the last few months." I laughed at Char's mock sick face.
She found out she had morning sickness by association. Something that Tanya said was normal when around pregnant women for long periods of time, and as we live together it's pretty normal that she would have it from the beginning.
"Okay, so what are we doing? You want to find out if it's a boy or girl?" She asked, gaining a yes from Char and a shrug from me.
"How about we do this. You take a picture of what it is and put it in an envelope and if I decide to find out I can always look later." Smiling at Char's sparkling eyes, she knows that if I have the sonogram at home she'll snoop and go looking. But that's why I love her I guess.
I didn't know what was worse the overly full bladder or the freezing cold jell that they put on my belly to move the little scanner thingy. Either way I was going to be glad to find a bathroom and a shower as soon as I could. It didn't take long for Alice to pick my peanut up on the sonogram but what brought me undone was hearing the heartbeat. It was so strong, and powerful that the tears flew from everyone's eyes in the room. How could something that was the size of my peanut brings four grown ass women to tears was beyond me.
"Okay Alice why don't you start pointing out the different body parts while I set up the next one so she can have a 3D picture of her peanut." Tanya commented as she made her way to another room to bring in some other machine.
"Wow, this is amazing. Sorry but this is my first time being able to do this without having a room full of doctors giving me critics every five seconds." Alice seemed in awe of herself or the faith that Tanya had placed in her.
If Tanya trusted her to do this than so did I, I hoped that she wouldn't blurt out anything that I wasn't ready for. It took another 10 minutes before Tanya came into the room once more with another machine. And while she quickly did the scan for me she made sure that she had one that showed the sex of my peanut, and one that didn't.
Alice quickly showed me a bathroom once the scans were over, I don't think I would have been able to hold on much longer. I took the pictures with me to make sure that Char didn't find out before me. I was still unsure that I wanted to find out. I liked the idea of a surprise when he or she was born. After relieving myself and let me tell you I was probably one of the happiest women in that hospital at that time, I met Char standing outside the bathroom.
Grinning like she just won the lotto or something. Turing around to find out what had made her day, other than seeing peanut on the screen, I scanned the area. Noticing that I hadn't found what she was so happy about she physically turned me in the right direction. It was no wonder that I didn't find what she was looking at, they were in a little corridor to the side; and if you weren't looking for that particular place you wouldn't find it. There was Edward and little Alice standing with their arms wrapped around each other. The smile that crept on my face seeing Edward happy after everything I had done to him was just making my day even better.
"Edward; get your hands of my doctor in training." I called making them both jump like they'd seen a snake or something and this just made me and Charlotte crack up. Scaring Edward was something that we always tried, but he was just too prepared for our little stunts.
"Bella what the hell are you doing here? You didn't tell me you had an appointment today." He retaliated when he finally got control of himself.
"You know Isabella?" Alice's little voice chirped from behind him, looking between us and the little bump of my belly. Seeing this I had to put that little observing fairy to rest.
"Yeah, he's like one of my best friends. Don't worry I won't bite you or anything." Edward and Char looked at me like I'd lost my mind, until she pointed to my stomach. This of course made them catch up on what was going on.
"Nothing like that Alice." Edward reassured her.
"How about we go get some lunch? I know you're hungry Bella." He continued turning to me.
"Maybe we could catch little Alice up on the strange and wonderful world that's called my life." I answered ignoring his little jab at my hunger. I wasn't always hungry but I couldn't help that he came around when it was lunch or dinner time at the house.
We made our way to the cafeteria as neither had much time before they had to go back to work. "Well Alice since you seem to be have stumbled into the insanity that we call Bella's World. You should know it's a little twisted and confusing. We'll give you the cliff notes version and when Edward here brings you around to the house we'll give you a more detailed version. Sound good to you?" Char's all sparkles and smiles.
When Alice nods her head it takes to the count of 3 before Charlotte launches into the story. Edward and I know everything that we don't really pay much attention.
"So what brought you here, and how is Alice your Doctor in training? I thought that was me?" joking around with Edward always made it easy after the unusual breakup that we had. That plus he realized that we weren't going to last helped.
"If you must know, I did tell you, but I didn't tell you what I was doing here. Alice here is assigned to Tanya it seems and she was with me for the ultrasound or sonogram or whatever you want to call it. So she's now my doctor in training, you've been replaced. By your girl it would seem. Oh burn." Laughing we quickly turned our attention on what Char and Alice were now discussing. That would be the sex of little peanut.
"But I was in the room that should cancel it all out." Charlotte's pleading to find out the information was classic Charlotte.
"Nope, sorry unless Bella here gives the Okay I can't tell you a thing. Even if you were in the room." Oh, I liked Alice even more now.
"Wait you found out the sex of little peanut and you're not telling anyone?" Edward pipes in, giving me that look he always gave when he wanted something.
"Yes I did, and no I didn't." I got up before he could question me some more and headed to the bin, my food not really touched. Well it looks like I didn't move fast enough.
"What do you mean by that?" he continued as he walked Char and me to the car. My tuck was deemed unfit for a pregnant woman by everyone.
"Simple, I found out; but I don't know." Still confused Char put him out of his misery.
"She got a picture that shows what it is, but no-one knows because it's in an envelope but she got one that doesn't show what little peanut is so everyone can see." He finally clicked to the insanity that was falling out of my mouth. I was tired so sue me. I'd been up working on the column for the past couple of nights.
I was lucky in a way that the meeting with Rosalie went so well. The idea of me being pregnant was at first somewhat daunting to her, more specifically when peanut was born she though that I would be leaving, but once we got through the weirdness we were fine. She even told me that maybe it would be better if I worked from home. Yeah not happening, I needed to get out of that house every now and then. So we came to an agreement, I would work from home but come into the office at least twice a week to get her approval and to collect the letters that would be used in the column each week. And the column was going great; apparently I was also getting fan letters and gifts from those who I had helped out. Who'd a thunk that I would be able to help so many out with their craziness when my life was constant crazy?
We arrived home to find Peter crashed out on the lounge, with the hammer resting on the floor. I shuttered as to what he was doing with that hammer and my room. When we noticed that he had a little plaster board under his nails we both got worried and ran to the room. Amazingly there was no change in the room. That meant that he was either working on the spare room or he was doing some remodeling in the master bedroom. Yeah either of those wasn't a good thing. Char had those set up just how she wanted them to be. Well the guest room was fine so that left Char's and Peter's room. Not a good sign. At first we didn't notice anything and both took a breath. Who knows maybe he had cleaned up in my room? He hated to leave the room a mess in case it caused problems for little peanut.
He'd grown very fond of the bundle of arms and legs in the last few months. Relative calm had taken over until Char opened her walk in. Then the squeal of delight hit everyone's ears that were in a five mile radius. It would seem that Pete was finishing something that he'd been working on. Char' now had more storage spaces than the local Wal-Mart. While Peter came rushing into the room I made a quick exit.
Mum and dad had asked me to call them when I was ready to see them, and after today think it might be time to do that. I had called them once a week just to let them know I was okay, but nothing more than that. With that thought in mind I grabbed my cell and headed out the back, I heard what those two were starting and let's just say I didn't want any part of that, or the images that it might bring up later. I love those two but hearing them was too much for me right now.
As I waited for the phone to be picked up I couldn't help but wonder how they were handling everything, father particularly. Mother was always easy going and never let anything get to her, but after father's reaction I couldn't help but wonder what it was like back there. Esme and Carlisle kept in regular contact with me but my parents were not pushing the boundaries I had set for them. I couldn't help but feel both grateful and guilty. I was their only child and I was keeping them at a distance.
"Hello, Swan residence." I heard the very familiar voice of my best friend from school the tall mechanical friend that always felt like a brother than a friend.
"Jake, what are you doing answering the phone at my parents place? Nothing's happened has did it?" I asked with a very uncomfortable feeling in the pit of my stomach that had nothing to do with peanut.
"Bell's is that you? Geez I haven't heard from you in a few weeks. Nothing's wrong, I was just helping you mother put some shelves up in the kitchen while your father was at work." He replied and bringing my uneasy stomach back to normal.
"Jacob Black if that is my daughter on the phone? You had better give that to me now." Ah yes the sound of Jake getting chewed out by my mother was always music to my ears. As I said we were more like brother and sister than anything else. We did try, even losing our virginity to one another; it was too uncomfortable after that.
"Hi mother, how is everything?" I asked, knowing that it was not going to be one of my check in calls. I was really starting to miss both my parents. And father was finally accepting me and my situation, even offering to teach peanut how to fish.
Something that he didn't do with me thank god.
"Bella, its good here, we miss you here. Everyone's taking bets on the baby, from sex, when it's born, and the weight of little peanut." She started on her update.
She was her own personal Facebook. Or should I say the town's Facebook. When she had finished with all the news I knew it was time to let her know that I was ready.
"Sounds like it's going good back there. So I was wondering since I know I am not allowed to drive all the way back there, if you guys would like to come here for a visit. Bring that big man that's making a mess with putting up shelves and that with you. Billy too if he wants." The excitement that came from that woman was beyond crazy. She was like the ever-ready bunny only overdosed on Red Bull or something. With that little nugget she was off making plans for the visit, looking at hotel costs, flights, everything. I knew it was the right thing to do. We planned for her to call me when everything was set up; only they needed to give me some warning before just turning up. We don't need to scare the hell out of the pregnant woman.
