Chapter 4

"Why can't I see you Bella?"

Alice's words rang out inside her head over and over again. This was not good. As Bella sat inside her old truck and stared out the window facing Jacob's house she ran it over through her head again and again. Bella thought she knew why. Alice thought she knew why as well.

Alice couldn't see werewolves. She couldn't see Jacob and his packs future, nor could she see Bella when she was with him. Now, Alice couldn't see Bella period. Before Bella left the Cullen's house that night Alice had conducted an experiment. After her outburst she had told Bella to choose to get up off the couch and call Charlie and ask him what he wanted for dinner. When Bella made the conscious decision to call Charlie Alice could see it if she looked for it. She could have a vision and see Bella and Charlie having whatever he chose for dinner because that was the logical purpose of her sights.

However, even when Bella did as she was asked and Alice tried to look for it she saw nothing. Mist, she said. It was disturbing and worrisome. For the first time since Bella had known the Cullen's, Alice had been all too eager to shoo her out of the house. "I need some time to work over this information…" she said.

Now Bella was sitting outside of Jacob's house like a stalker trying to come up with a plan. She didn't care too much for plans herself, but at this moment she needed a plan.

"Are you going to sit there and stare at my house all day?" Jacob called to her as he walked around the side of the house coming from his garage. He was dressed in dirty work jeans with a smeared red t-shirt with the sleeves ripped off. As he stood in front of her truck he waved to her again to pull her from the stare zone.

Bella rolled down the window as he approached the side of her door. "Jacob will you take a ride with me please?"

"Uh, sure?" He moved around to the other side of the truck and opened the door hopping up onto the seat. Fastening his seat belt he shot her a sideways glance. "Can I ask you where were going?"

"Not now." Bella put the truck into drive and headed towards town.

She stopped the truck outside of the convenience store and looked over at Jacob who was staring at her with an odd quizzical expression. "I need you to get something for me."

This time he laughed. "Okay sure?"

When she leaned over and whispered in his ear, the amused expression vanished from his face. "What?"

"Go Jake. Hurry." Bella said looking away from him and out the front of the truck again.

Moments later he returned from the store, a brown bag in his hand as he got back into the truck and she headed to Charlie's.

Bella got out of the truck and was already up the walk when she turned around to motion for Jacob to follow her. He obliged and quickly followed her up into the house. She went straight up to her room. And shut the door behind him and closed the window, pulling down the shade.

"Bella, what's going on?" Jacob asked softly as he set the bag from the store down.

"I don't know!" she shouted, taking him off guard. "Jacob something happened…"

"Yeah I'd say…" he said holding the bag up in the air again.

"No, you don't get it! I was with Alice and she told me that she can't see my future anymore. That really only leaves on thing…" she sent Jacob an exasperated look, begging him to follow her logic.

"We were only together once Bella…" he said back sitting on the edge of her bed.

"Yeah and how do you think people who have one night stands end up with a baby nine months later?" Bella moved across the room and flung herself down onto the chair in front of her desk. "I'm just thinking that this might be the issue here…"

Jacob sat in silence on the bed for a few minutes, letting all the information absorb into him. This was surreal what was happening. It wasn't that he couldn't take care of a baby; he just never imagined this would happen to him. "Aren't you taking something? Like a birth control? No offense but obviously I wasn't the only guy you slept with…" he stared at the pattern of her floor boards as the crimson stain spread across his face.

Tipping her head back Bella chewed her lips nervously. "Well I had been, but it just didn't make sense considering I'm dating a vampire you know? What are the odds are of actually having a baby with someone who isn't even technically alive?"

(I'm completely pretending that Breaking Dawn never happened, so pretend away with me and vampires can't have babies!)

"Well let's get this over with alright?" he said changing the subject from her sexual relationship with a blood sucker. Reaching over he grabbed the brown bag and tossed it lightly to her. Naturally she wasn't quite aware of what was happening and the bag glanced off her lap to fall onto the floor, the pink box inside slipping out.

"Okay, okay." Bella stood up slowly and reached down to pick it up. She moved past Jacob and opened the door and went into the bathroom and shut the door. With clumsy fingers she pried open the seal and opened the box to reveal two white individually wrapped packages. Taking the first one out she set the box on the counter and stared at the little package.

After a doing her required business and reading the instructions a million times Bella replaced the little plastic cap and set the test on the sink. "What have I gotten myself into?" she asked herself before opening the bathroom door.

Jacob was waiting outside the door for her, leaning against the wall with a guarded expression on his face. "Well?"

We have to wait two minutes. Bella declared leaning against the wall with him. Jacob was so naturally warm now that she couldn't help but lean against him for support. He answered by placing his arm over her shoulders and hugging her closer to him.

After two agonizing minutes past he prodded her slightly. "Are you going to go look?"

Bella continued to stare into the bathroom like a frozen statue, and she only moved when Jacob brushed past her and went into the bathroom. He picked up the little stick and took a deep breath, turning it over in his hands he squinted at it. "A blue line I think."

Bella's heart sank and soared at the same moment. "Negative."

For the oddest moment Jacob had a feeling of sadness. As much trouble as it would have been, having a baby with Bella wasn't a repulsive idea. He turned to face her and anger replaced that feeling. Bella had a joyous look on her face, and it hurt Jacob's feelings. Since when had he become such a mushy cry baby?

"I've got to go okay Belles?" Jacob said with a harsh note in his voice. He set down the little stick and walked quickly past her to the stairs. "Oh yeah, and if you really are willing to prove how much you love me, break up with that leech boyfriend of yours."

He was gone then, out the door for Bella heard it slam from where she was standing still outside the bathroom. She sighed heavily and went into the bathroom, flipping the toilet seat down and sitting on it. She reached out and grabbed the little stick and looked at it again. Jacob was wrong.

She stared at the little stick again, again and again. Two blue lines, not one. Bella quickly reached for the box, and re read the instructions. One blue line is negative two blue lines is positive. The test had one solid blue line, the one that Jacob saw, but right next to it was a slightly faded blue line.

Bella was pregnant.

Alice couldn't see Bella because Bella was pregnant with Jacob Black's baby.

"Oh shit…"