Chapter 8
As we reached the house where all our little secrets would be reviled, Edward started stroking my hand he was holding.
"If your this nervous just telling your family, what are you going to do when you tell the nation that you are taking some time off?" Shauna asked.
"It's not that Shauna, it's the fact that this marriage was suppose to be annulled, and it wasn't, everybody but Rose is going to be upset." I said. "Hell, I think Rose is even going to yell about me being with child. She and Emmett have been trying for years."
My hand left Edwards, and started stroking my stomach, where our baby grew, safe and sound from the outside world for another six months, where than it would be thrust into a life in the light.
"Everything is going to be okay, sweetheart," Edward murmured to me. He held my hand that was over my stomach. "I won't let anybody hurt you. The family is going to be excited, after the initial shock. Yes, they are going to be mad, but they love you. I'm another story. They might not be speaking to me at the end of the day."
"It's not the family I'm worried about. I am currently 'married' to Mike Newton," I air quoted, "the world want the girl next door star to be with the handsome stranger making his way in the biz. Not her high school enemy."
"Honey, we where never enemies. We just had a weird way of showing how we loved each other. The thing is, I do love you, the clumsy, shy, girl next door you, and if I have to start work in Hollywood, than so be it, as long as I am next to you. By the way, who is Shauna talking to back there."
"She is probably releasing a press statement about how I am married, but not to who the world thinks I am."
"Don't stress, it's not good."
"Ok, E! will be retracting the earlier interview, and if they do that, I promised them the inclusive to who you are married to, Bella, you are a lot of trouble." Shauna chuckled from the backseat.
"Bells, we have to get out, the family is watching out the window."
"You want to do this in our um… normal fashion?"
"Arguing?" I nodded and he laughed.
"Shauna, your about to see us in our prime."
"Joy. Let's just get this over, I want to give the official statement as soon as this is over."
"Didn't you just give it?" Edward asked.
"No, I was chewing E! a new one. They went on word of mouth, and forgot to check with the other party."
"Let's go in." I didn't want to be in the middle of a stress day. Edward got out, and walked around the car.
He opened the door for Shauna, and helped her out of the car, and walked towards the house, that caused Alice to come out the door with a sour look on her face. He turned back to car, and opened my door.
"I just got chewed out by the pixie. Sorry, I forgot you Swan." He was trying to hold a laugh in, and Alice was looking murderous. "I love you," he added in undertones, which nobody but me could hear.
"Whatever Cullen," his name rolled off my tongue with hatred. I walked inside, ready to get the news out, in the air. I sat down on the sofa next to Shauna, and Edward came and set down beside me.
"Who said you could sit by me?"
"Feisty much?"
"Go to hell, and stay there."
"I'm already there, anywhere you are is hell."
"Then leave. I have news to tell the family."
"Bella, what is your news, your not really married are you?" Alice asked all excited.
"Alice, chill, you'll learn the secret in due time. Please tell the dumb ass to leave me alone, he is poking me in the ribs."
"Jeez sorry." Edward said.
"Okay, so the news that was said this morning, was falsified, so don't believe anything. E! has been informed of the situation, and they will be issuing a retraction, but that isn't the news that I came to tell you."
"It's always about you. You, you and you."
"Me, I never get to tell my secrets first, remember, you kind of beat me to the punch three years ago about the whole 'we're married' thing. Hell, we where still in front of the judge when you said it. Besides the two witness, it was just you and me, I knew we had gotten married, everybody in the damn room already knew it, than you just blurt it out."
"Dude, she is going to hit you again" Emmett muttered, causing Rose to elbow him in the side, "ouch, what."
"I was excited, I had never done something so spontaneous with somebody I care so deeply about. I just wanted to let the world know that you where and still are mine. Forever." Ha, he just said it, but nobody registered it, if they did, they didn't let on.
"What do you mean, I am still yours?" That did it, shocked and confused faces turned our way. The only two who didn't look surprised where Carlisle, who had just came in, and Rose, who was doing her best to keep Emmett pinned to the floor where they where sitting.
"We never annulled it, you knew that though. We have been keeping our marriage a secret for three years." No sound came for the audience.
"Really, I never knew that, I knew about the nights of intense love-making, and the fact that I wear your rings around my neck, but never about the fact that we where still married, oh wait, it does ring a bell now." I pulled him into a deep and satisfying kiss.
"Oh, are you really still married? Oh my god," Alice was screeching.
"There's more, we're pregnant." Edward said.
"I'm going to be an aunt and a mom?" Alice screeched.
"Mom?" I yelled.
"Yea, I found out a few day's ago."
"I'm pregnant as well." Rose spoke up, and a struggling Emmett looked at her.
"Is it the water around here, because I don't want any," Shauna said, as she had asked for a glass just a few moments prior, but Carlisle had stopped to look at Rose.
"Shauna, I don't think you are going to get any, All the boys are speech less for once." I laughed, and looked at my sisters who where both pregnant. "I say when we get bigger, we have a sleep-over, and make the boys go for stupid food that we are craving."
Rose, and Alice laughed, while the boys looked sour.
"How far along are you, Bells?" Jasper spoke for the first time since we had gotten there.
"Three months."
"Good, so I have six months to do bodily harm to Edward."
"No you don't Jazz, because if you do that, I will come after you."
The bickering didn't stop until early morning.