Chapter 39: News
Bella's POV
"What?" I asked in shock.
"I mean that you're pregnant with twin girls!" Alice said excitedly.
I felt a mixture of both extreme excitement and embarrassment at the same time. Excited and filled with happiness at the thought of having two more babies with Edward. Embarassed because she, and probably the whole family, knew what Edward and I did.
"Twin girls?" Edward choked out. "More girls?" Edward sounded just as shocked and happy that I was.
"Yes more girls," Alice said. "Our family will grow nicely in the coming months if we all survive anyway,"
"You don't know for sure?" I asked.
"No," Alice answered. "There is still a lot of uncertainty. Many things can go wrong still. But if we all come out of this alive there will technically be four new additions to the family,"
"Four? How if I'm only having two?"
"Sorry but I'm keeping as many details as I can to myself. Sometimes surprises are good. Oh and Edward if you even think about mentioning something to Rose or Em I will personally make sure that you regret it. Do you understand?" How can Alice be so small and sound so threatening at the same time?
"Yes ma'am," Edward replied a bit nervously.
"Twin girls," I muttered as I rubbed my stomach soothingly. Edward suddenly placed his hands on my stomach. I flinched at his cold touch.
"Our girls," he said. "I'm going to have three daughters," his voice was in awe.
"I guess that makes you a girl dad doesn't it?" I said.
He smiled. "Yeah I guess it does. But don't forget your boys are my kids as well. I may not be their biological father but I will be the father they never had,"
His words filled me with happiness. Once we got Nessie back, and of we all survived this, we could all be a family again. One big happy family. That was the only thing that I ever wanted. Our lives would never be the same again now that the whole world knew our secret.
But what if we didn't survive? I sighed in despair. "What's wrong Bella?" Edward asked.
"What if we don't survive? What if everything that can go wrong does?"
"We can't think that way Bella," Edward sounded as worried as I did. Even though he tried to hide it. "We are going to get our daughter back safe and sound. Everything will be fine. Right Alice,"
"Actually there is a lot of uncertainty but-" Edward glared at Alice. "Well do you want me to lie to her? Or tell her the truth? She deserves to know the truth. There is a lot of uncertainty right now. But if everything does turn out well our family will be happy,"
"So then what is our next plan of action? Just sit around until we can get to Germany? Sit around while my daughter is out there with Alec of all people. How in the hell did that happen anyway? What is he planning on doing with her?" Edward voiced all the questions that had been on my mind all day.
"Believe it or not Alec is not a threat to Nessie. I have been watching his decisions since we found out they left together. Although I can't see the reasons behind his descions he is doing what he can to protect her,"
"Protect her? Alec is protecting her?" I could not wrap my head around the idea that a prominent member of the Volturi guard was helping my daughter. The thought of them two being together for any length of time made me shudder. As much as I knew not to question Alice's visions I just could not help myself.
Edward's hand grasped my shoulder. Releasing the tension that I didn't even know I had built up in the last few minutes. I took a deep breath. I had to try not to get stressed out. I was pregnant, or going to be pregnant, with twins and I had to protect them.
I had to hold onto the belief that we would all be okay in the end. We would all live and be happy. Just as Alice said.
"What are the rest of the Volturi doing?"
Alice's face suddenly turned grim. "They know Alec and Nessie escaped together. They allowed it to happen. But they don't know where they've gone. So far the two of them have done a pretty good job of covering up their tracks,"
"But it's not enough," Edward said.
"There can be no happy ending as long as the Volturi are around. The only way to stop this will be to end the Volturi once and for all,"
"End the Volturi? What will happen if that happens,"
"Can't say for sure," Alice said. "But it seems very likely that if we do end the Volturi it will be our family that ends up as the leaders of the vampire world,"
"As the leader of what?" I questioned.
"It's only one possibility. I have seen many different versions of the future,"
"I feel like this is something we should all be discussing as a family," Edward said.
"I agree with Edward," I added. "There has to be some kind of plan B that we can come up with,"
"Do you at least have any idea when we will be able to fly out of here?" Edward asked Alice.
"Unfortunately the next flight isn't for four more days,"
"Four days?"
"Yes Bella. Four days. But I do not see anything big happening. It will give us time to to come up with a plan. Bella please try not to stress out too much. It's not good for my nieces,"
"Okay,"
"and I mean it Edward. If you breathe a word to Rosalie and Emmett about what's coming their way you will regret it,"
"What's going on here?" I aksed feeling very confused. I was ignored.
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