Author's note: Thanks for still reading this story. It's been forever since I've updated and you can blame me along with the bad case of writer's block I had. I'm sooo sorry for the amount of time it's been. I hope to update again sooner. I'm hoping to update sometime next week. I will defiantly not post anymore this weekend and I'm leaving in 9 days for a short time. So I've decided to update on Saturdays excluded the 5th of September. Thanks again for all the reviews and support! R&R!

CHAPTER 17

EDWARD'S POV

I was in the bathroom cleaning up the many cuts and bruises I got from being dragged down the stairs. There were 3 cuts on my face (not including the one from earlier), 2 on my right arm, 1 on my left arm, and 2 on my wrist, not to mention the bruises. I had finally finished bandaging the last cut and stepped out into my room. To my surprise Bella wasn't there anymore.

"Bella?" I asked looking around the room and stepping into the hallway.

"Jasper?!" I called going down the stairs.

"Mom Dad?!" I yelled once I got to the living room.

It wasn't like them to leave and not tell me knowing I was still here. I quickly walked into the kitchen where I noticed a bowl of brownie mix sitting on the counter. Mom would never leave any type of mix on a counter unsupervised with any of us running around. I was about to take a taste when I jumped out of my skin.

BAM!!!

BAM!!!!

BAM!!!!

What the hell was that?! I jumped and the bowl in my hand went flying. Shit Mom's so going to ground me when she gets home from wherever she is. I grabbed a frying pan that was sitting on the stove left over from breakfast this morning. I quietly walked over to the door where the noise came from and looked out the peep hole.

I saw a HUGE GIANT MAN standing at the door. Damn I'm gonna need a bigger frying pan. I held on tight to the frying pan and started backing away from the door. I heard a bang on the window and I flew up the stairs. Holy shit were being robbed and I'm going to die all alone.

I ran straight into my room and into the deepest part of my closet. I thought I was safe, I didn't hear anymore noises, and I still had the frying pan with me. I was about to sneak out and into the hallway when I heard huge footsteps on the stairs. Damn it he got in, I'm dead meat. I decided to stay quiet and in the closet, and it was all going as planned until my phone went off.

So how

Do you expect me

To live alone with just me?

Cause my world revolves around you

It's so hard for me to breathe

Tell me how

I'm supposed to breathe

With no air

Can't live can't breathe

With no air

That's how I feel whenever

You ain't there

It's no air

No air

Damn it Bella now you call. I was about to hit the silence button when I heard a voice.

"…Cause my world revolves around you it's so hard for me to breathe."

Damn why did the asshole have to know this song? Wait! Was that…Emmett? I was about to come out when I heard a pixie like voice.

"Emmett come on! We need to find more sugar!!!" She said running her words together.

Was that…Alice? Were they…hyper? Oh shit! My phone kept going off playing No air and the pixie voice joined the bear's. They made an awful duet. Finally the ringtone stopped along with the voices. But not for long.

BELLA'S POV

I called Edward's phone as soon as we got off the plane. Of course he didn't answer which made me freak out. I mean what if Emmett and Alice already got to him?! I was pulled out of my thoughts by Jasper.

"Bella? Beeellllllaaaaa? Earth to Bella come in Bella?" Jasper said waving his hand in my face and snapping his fingers in my ear.

"Huh?! Oh right were in California… and still in the airport?" I asked not realizing that I must have been deep in thought for at least 10 minutes.

"Yeah Bella were still in the airport. We've been waiting for you to come back to earth for ohhhh I don't know 20 minutes now." Rosalie said annoyed but yet laughing.

I just laughed it off and we grabbed our luggage and hailed a cab. Much to our displeasure the cab was filthy and smelled like barf. There was also a stain on the ripped seat that I pointed out to Jasper. He made the funniest face ever! First his eyes bugged out, then his nose scrunched up, then his tongue came out.

"Hey driver!? What's this stain back here from?" Rosalie shouted to the front of the cab. Like he couldn't hear her if she spoke quietly.

"Oh that one next to the blond headed boy?" He asked and Rosalie nodded. "Some lady's dog had puppies this morning."

All of our eyes widened and Rosalie and I burst out laughing. Jasper looked like he could be sick or even cry. Even Carlisle and Esme were laughing, which made me laugh even harder. I wondered how long Jasper would have to sit there before we got to the car rental store. I looked at the tiny map I had gotten at the airport, and laughed. It looks as if Jasper will be sitting there for at least 45 minutes.

After sitting an hour and a half in traffic we finally got to the rental shop. We walked into the rental shop and after an hour of trying to agree on a car we finally decided on the 2010 Ford Fusion in sangria red, with charcoal black leather interior. It had 2 seats in front and 3 in the back. It really was a great car; I wouldn't mind getting one when we get back to Forks.

"Bella you're in the middle since you're the shortest." Jasper said to me. Frankly I'm sick of being told where to sit because of my size.

"What if I don't want to sit in the middle?" I asked determined to get a window seat for once.

"Well I can't sit there because of my height and Rosalie's too tall also so you're stuck." He said and stuck his tongue out at me. That set me flying, and I snapped like a twig.

"WELL I DON'T WANT TO SIT THERE! I'M SICK OF BEING TOLD WHERE TO SIT BECAUSE OF MY HEIGHT! JUST BECAUSE I'M SHORTER THAN EVERYONE BUT ALICE DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING!!!!" I spat back. "AND FOR THE RECORD I'M NOT SITTING THERE! AND NEITHER IS ROSE!!! YOU ARE, EMO BOY!!!!!"

"So stick that in your juice box and suck it…Emo boy." I heard Rose laugh and I gave her a high-five.

We all crammed into the car, Carlisle drove while Esme rode shot gun. In the backseat I had the window seat behind Carlisle and Rose had the one behind Esme. Jasper rode in the middle and was mumbling something names for the car. The last I checked he had narrowed the list down to Nicole, Samantha, Alison, and Esmeralda.

JASPER'S POV

This day is turning out to be a lovely day. Stupid cab ride, stupid Bella, stupid car, I ranted in my head non-stop. Eventually I decided to come up with a name for the car, which was my specialty. I had it narrowed down between four choices. Nicole, Samantha, Alison, and Esmeralda but no matter how hard I tried I couldn't choose just one name.

I tried giving it a full name but that was no help. I came up with Samantha Alison Cullen, Alison Samantha Cullen, Nicole Esmeralda Cullen, Esmeralda Nicole Cullen, Alison Esmeralda Cullen, Esmeralda Alison Cullen, Samantha Esmeralda Cullen, Esmeralda Samantha Cullen, Samantha Nicole Cullen, Nicole Samantha Cullen, Alison Nicole Cullen, and Nicole Alison Cullen. It seemed like the list went on and on so I decided to ask the others what they thought we should name it.

"Jasper why do you insist on naming every car that we ride in?" Rosalie complained. Well I hated to tell her but I also named the bus we rode on last week. It was actually a good looking clean bus so I named it Abigail.

"Jasper it's not like we're keeping the car so why don't we just leave it nameless for once?" Esme asked. Do these people not understand me at all? My whole life is about naming things.

"Because guys my whole life is about naming things okay!?" I was highly irritated by my family that I just wanted to scream. Why can't they just understand me for once in my life?

"Well then you should have no trouble naming the baby you and Alice are expecting should you?" Rosalie snapped and just as quickly as the words left her mouth she covered it.

Bella's head snapped towards me, my father slammed on the breaks, my mother looked in horror, Rosalie looked guilty, and all I could do was sit here stuck in the middle and wait for things to be thrown at me and watch their expressions as my mother was bound to cry.

"YOU'RE WHAT NOW?!?!?!" Bella screeched drowning out the sound of the squealing breaks on the car. She looked horrified and as if she could crack any second and start beating the living hell out of me like Emmett before. She thought she was horrified; I was more terrified for my life.

"I thought they were getting married." I heard my mother mumble to my father. I couldn't help but think 'Not too much longer mom, knowing Alice she's going to either want to get married before she gets fat or after she has the baby and looses the fat.'

Soon enough my poor mother was crying, Bella was beating the shit out of me, Rosalie was crying for what reason I have yet to learn, and my father was just shaking his head back and forth looking more disappointed than ever. I felt helpless, guilty, and mad. I was feeling helpless from Bella who kept hitting me and scratching me. I felt guilty for this whole thing happening, and I felt anger towards Rosalie for blurting it out. Wait a minute I could always tell them that Rose is pregnant, that should take the spotlight off of me.

"Rosalie's pregnant." I blurted out not thinking twice before deciding to say it. I would most likely regret this, but it was too late now, what's said has been said and there's no turning back.

Rosalie starred at me with sadness in her eyes along with anger. I immediately felt guilty for saying anything. I wasn't expecting the reactions I got from the rest of my family though. In fact they were rather odd to say the least. Bella was even angrier at me than before.

I was elbowed in the side…hardly by Bella. "You moron, why would you even think about saying that? It was obviously an accident that she told us that Alice was." She kept ranting more and more anger flaring in her chocolate brown eyes. This was something I had learned to stay away from, or at least run when I caused it. But I couldn't because I was stuck in the middle seat of the car that sadly remained nameless.

I looked for my parents' reactions. They were both equally shocking. Instead of slamming on the breaks and shaking his head back and forth my father was smiling. I'm guessing only because my mother was. Why was she smiling when she was just crying about mine and Alice's baby?

"Congratulations Rose!" She cooed. Have I missed something here? She was suddenly happy that her 18 year old practically daughter was having a baby? Yet when she found out her 18 almost 19 year old son was having a baby with his girlfriend she cried. Why is this?

"I guess when we get blessed with miracles they come in twos." My father chuckled. Then he frowned yet again. "Bella you and Edward aren't keeping something from us are you?" He asked raising his eyebrows.

She shook her head. "No of course not Carlisle! And if we are we're pretty good at keeping secrets from ourselves." She laughed. Everyone joined in on the laughter. It seemed as if the mood had been lifted and everyone was ecstatic.

"So is this a yes for Esmeralda?" I asked. Everyone groaned and faced me. Bella smacked me in the head, Rosalie elbowed my gut, and my mother threw an empty bottle at me. "I'll take that as a yes!" I smiled as everyone else rolled their eyes. We were soon back on our way to the hotel.