Chapter 10: Delay the March

Chapter 10: Delay the March

Authors Note: So who was Jonathon?!

Disclaimer: Jonathon is the only creation I can name as my own, everyone else is Stephanie Meyer's!!

Bella POV

Turning to look for Alice I saw someone that I had only ever had photos of. Before considering that it could be someone else I launched myself at him, screaming out his name.

"Jonathon!!"

He looked surprised. Then again who wouldn't, after the bride has just thrown herself at him.

Alice scuttled after me, looking from one of us to the other.

"You know him?" She queried and suddenly it clicked. Alice had seen this but when she asked if I knew him I said no, because…well…I've never met him.

"I don't know him, but I don't not know him," I said releasing my grip from around his neck. Jonathon looked at me as if he was trying to fit something into a puzzle.

"You…What?!" Alice looked the most confused I have ever seen her.

I laughed, "Renee used to be sent these pictures of a by every Christmas and I asked her who he was. She told me he was called Jonathon and that's all I ever knew about him but I always saw the pictures. This Christmas they stopped and Renee was really hurt. I never knew the connection between the two though. Can you tell me Jonathon?" I flashed my most pleading look, causing Emmett to burst into laughter.

"I will," Jonathon said, honestly I believe, "But after the wedding, I can't have you delaying your wedded bliss."

"No, you're going to tell me know," I was suddenly insistent, "Emmett can you explain to Edward that there is going to be a short delay and Alice can you ask the band to resume the wedding march in…ten minutes please?"

"But…Bella, Edward isn't going to be happy," Alice whined.

I glared at her, "I know but I'm going to spend the rest of…my life with him, but not very long trying to understand why Jonathon is here. Oh, can someone get Renee for me as well?"

"Okay Bella, but you owe big time," Emmett smiled at me and disappeared from the house, dragging a fighting Alice with him.

"So spill," Jonathon, Renee and I were all sitting around Edward's grand piano.

"I think I had better start," Renee said, looking sheepish, "Jonathon, was...is...my son. Your older brother Bella, I...Well, I was young and it was before I met Charlie. I was still in high school, in Los Angeles though, before I came to Forks. One night I went too far and I ended up pregnant, with it being inappropriate to even think about sex until you were married, back then, I was a social disgrace. My mother decided it would be best if I were to withdraw from school until i had given birth to the baby, it was also decided that as soon as it had been brought ino the world it would be given up fro adoption and I would resume my education elsewhere. I was about four months pregnant when I found the perfect couple for my baby, Jean and Murray..."

"They're my mum and dad!" Jonathon butted in.

"...they were up for an open adoption, where they would take the child and look after it, but I could visit and send presents and cards. I didn't want that though. All I wanted was for my baby to be safe, and for him or her to be brought up in a loving family, I wanted to see it grow but never to interfere or ruin the family life. Jonathon was born, and I had Jean and Murray alongside me during his birth, I never even held him, Jean was the first to do that, but it was the last i ever saw of him in person. Jean sent me photos every Christmas telling me all about Jonathon but I never wanted to meet him. I had moved to Forks and met Charlie, I began a new life and had you Bella, my wonderful daughter. I could never tell you that you had a half brother called Jonathon, it wasn't fair on Jean or Murray. Charlie knew all about Jonathon, but he was never happy about it. But...more to the point is, why are you here Jonathon?"

"Jean...she's been going through a rough patch in her health...and she was taken into hospital, about a month ago. She had no choice but to tell me that I was adopted, that was about two weeks ago. She gave me your phone number and address, but you weren't there when I went, your partner, Phil told me that you were here, and well, the reason I'm looking for you is bacuase... Jean...she...she passed away...last week." Jonathon broke down crying and Renee pulled him close to her.

"There, there, I'm here. Let it all out," she patted his back as he cried on her shoulder. I couldn't hlp feeling envious. It had always been the other way around with me and Renee. Me holding her, whilst she cried into my shoulder.

"Murray...he was killed...in a car crash...last year...Jean was all...I had left. When she told me...that I was adopted...I just had to find...you." Jonathon sobbed into my mothers jacket.

"If you'll excuse me..." I gathered up my skirts and left them alone, joining Alice and Emmett in the corridor, where they had quite obviously been listening in, they were vampires for crying out loud - of course they would eavesdrop.

"Well?" Alice asked me, accusingly. Emmet's face was crossed between concern and confusion.

"He's...he's...my brother," I muttered, reeling from the shock.

But what else could go wrong, on this supposedly perfect day?

Wahey!! So that's who Jonathon is P Strange thing is, I actually planned for him to be a forgotten lover of Bella's...but that all changed after I re-read Twilight for the gazillionth time!!