BPOV

After getting the clean bill of health and going back home I was officially living with Edward and it wasn't long before I realized that it was better to start that before the baby was here, because the adjustment was going to take a while.

It wasn't that Edward was hard to live with, but that I was so damn hormonal that every little thing got on my nerves. Like this morning, when I got up to go to the bathroom and found his shaving mess in the sink. I tried calling him, but the phone just went to voicemail, so I hung up, not wanting to chew him out on a message. Then I went into throw in some laundry and he had left his in the washer and the dryer, forcing me to fold his clothes and finish the last load so I could do mine.

Now thoroughly annoyed, I changed into my "Unless you're the man who put this baby in, or the doctor who will take it out, DON'T TOUCH MY BELLY!" shirt and a pair of jeans with a belly band and sat on the couch. I was surprised when Jasper showed up around lunchtime to hang out with me, but it was nice to have a calming influence around. Having a mother who was a massage therapist came in handy because Jasper not only listened to me bitch about his best friend, but he massaged my feet and calves so I could walk without wincing as my feet were really swollen.

After my therapy session, Jasper put in a movie for me to watch and sat down with one of his books. I was about halfway through with The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood when my phone rang and I saw that it was Alice. "Hey Alice, what's-"

"Bella, can you come get me, my car died on the highway, I had to pull over on the shoulder two exits from your place. I tried calling Rose but she isn't answering. I'm not going to wait for the tow, they guy said it could be a few hours."

"Al, I'd love to come get you but Edward has my car because his is in the shop-"

"I can get her. Where is she?" I looked up and smiled at Jasper.

"Alice, Jasper's here, he'll come get you."

I could hear her groan on the other end. "Bells, I don't want Jasper to come."

"Alice Brandon, you stop this shit and listen to me. Jasper's a great guy and he's been nothing but patient with your crap, so you're going to sit there and when he shows up you're going to say, 'Thank you Jasper, it was nice of you to come and pick me up.' Do you understand?"

"You're bitchy when you're pregnant."

"Yeah, then what's your excuse?" The snort on the other end let me know she was willing to be good so I laughed with her and then told her I'd see her soon.

"Come on, Bella, I'll drop you off on the way to her."

"Where are you dropping me?" I looked at him confused and he laughed this time.

"Edward has a surprise for you."

I smiled and grabbed my ballet slippers and my purse as we headed out to his car. Jasper drove me to the music department where Edward was waiting outside for me. "Hi baby, how are you feeling?"

"Don't baby her; you left your laundry undone and your shaving gunk in the sink." Jasper beat me to thegripe and I couldn't help but laugh at him. He helped me out of the car and Edward led me up the stairs.

Edward walked me into the small conservatory off to the side and then sat me on a comfortable chair and walked over to the grand piano on the stage next to the chair. Edward grabbed a package and handed it to me. "The CD's are from me, the other part is from my Mom."

I opened it and saw two CD's one labeled classical music and the other simply labeled 'My Girls.' There was also an I-Pod shuffle in the box, which I'm assuming had the music already uploaded on it. I smiled down at the box as Edward went to sit at the piano bench. "What's on the other CD?"

Edward smiled and placed his hands on the keys. "They're the two compositions that are my project for the semester. 'Mother' and 'Child' you might say." And with that, he began playing.

The tears started before I had even sensed that I was crying as the hauntingly beautiful melody that he had created, he played for what felt like hours, in the best possible way, until it morphed and turned into something different and it took a minute before I picked out what was so familiar about the song. It was our daughter's heartbeat. He used the rhythm of her heart as the backbone of the melody that was one of the most beautiful lullabies I had ever heard, including the one he had just completed for me.

When he finished, I was a sobbing mess as he wrapped me up in his arms and kissed me over and over. "Edward, those were beautiful. I can't believe you wrote us both lullabies."

"You were able to figure out what the assignment that inspired them was?"

"Of course, they were perfect. Thank you."

He kissed me once more and then lifted me from my seat and carried me out to the car. When we got home, Edward and I made love and then I put on the CD with the lullabies so I could fall asleep to the most beautiful profession of love I'd ever been a witness to and it was dedicated to me.

The next morning, Edward and I sat around and had a nice breakfast as he was out of class for the day. Edward's classes would be done in a few weeks and then his finals would be finished by the end of May. It was hard to believe that it had been about seven months since we'd met and now I was about to enter my seventh month of this pregnancy and he was still sitting across from me, looking on with the same love that I had seen the first night.

"What are you doing next year as far as school goes?" I asked, trying to figure out how we going to get this to work once our daughter came.

"I'll be working on my final composition, it will be the major assignment for the year, but I only have one more elective to complete each semester, so that won't be bad. A lot of it will be spent in the lab or the practice rooms. But that kind of thing I could do here with my laptop and computer if I wanted to. The three electives have this summer are easy, so that won't be bad and they only meet twice a week so I'll be finishing them off before you've even realized that they were started."

"Good, I'm glad you've got everything signed up already, that way we don't have to worry about it later. You know, Leah is moving to Seattle, she's going to be working at one of the day care centers I visited for the article, so I'll have an extra set of hands if we need them."

Edward smiled and I was about to as well when a tap caused me to wince as our daughter kicked a soft spot. "We have to name her soon, otherwise I'm just going to be yelling 'hey girlie' when she starts bruising me from the inside out."

Edward came over to my side and knelt on my left. "She's kicking, where?" I placed his hand on the spot he would feel her in a moment. When she kicked, I thought his face would break from the smile that stretched across it. "Oh my God. That's the most amazing thing I've ever felt." He knelt down further and spoke to my belly. "Hi baby, I can't wait to meet you, sweetheart."

"Billie."

"What, Bella?" Edward looked up and I smiled.

"Billie, for her name. I've always liked those names that could be for either, and my great aunt Wilhelmina was always my favorite relative, I don't remember my dad's parents. Would you mind if we named her after her?"

"No, I think it's a nice thing to do."

He got this look in his eye and I knew he had thought of a possible middle name. "What are you thinking?"

"My grandma Mae, I thought it would be nice to use her name too."

"Billie Mae Cullen, I like it."

His smile reappeared as we felt Billie kick as I said her name. "She likes it too."

"It's settled then, Billie, quit kicking so hard, you're hurting Mama."

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Edward had left for class a few days later when there was an excited knock on my door. I went to answer it and found Esme on the other side. "Bella, have you seen it?"

"Seen what, Esme?"

"The new issue of The Pulse! Your 'Preggo ladies Guide' article is on the cover and it's flying off the shelves; I managed to find these two at a newsstand."

"Really?"

Esme nodded and handed me a copy as she read the article out loud, laughing and commenting along the way at how much she liked it. When Edward got home an hour later, she brought us out to lunch where we met Carlisle and spent a lovely hour together talking and catching up. It had been a long time since I'd felt this apart of something, but once again, Edward had a way of making me feel loved.