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Chapter 6

I immediately sat up, running my eyes around my room frantically, making sure that everything was neat and tidy. I stopped for a minute, then shook my head. Bella was on the phone, not standing at my door, she couldn't see whether or not I had left my underwear in a pile in front of my closet door or if I had made my bed. Just for the record, no underwear on the floor, but the bed was a mess.

"Edward? Are you there?" She asked and my mind shot back to her, on the other end of the phone.

"Yeah, yeah I'm here," I replied quickly. "Uhm, hi." I sounded stilted, like I had no idea what to say, even without the added pressure of being face to face.

I heard a little laugh from the other end, then her voice. "Hi back."

I waited for her to continue, but the silence just grew between us to the point where it was making me uncomfortable. "So?" I prompted, hoping Bella would get the hint. She did.

"Oh, sorry, I am so sorry," she apologized quickly. "I wanted to talk to you, uh, to apologize."

"Apologize? For what?" I asked, not really understanding.

"For the way I treated you while you were here. I was so emotional and distraught and I took it all out on you and for that I am sorry," she told me.

I hadn't really thought too much about her reaction while I had been there. I wasn't happy with myself over the entire incident, why would I have thought Bella would be?

"It's okay," I said.

"No, it really isn't, but you are sweet to dismiss it like that," she replied. "I'll make it up to you, I promise."

"Uh, okay. How are you feeling?" I asked, switching topics. My heart had beat a little harder at Bella calling me sweet and I refused to dwell on that, at least while she was on the phone.

"Better, the raging bitch seems to have run away and now I'm hungry all the time. Emmett keeps teasing that I eat more than he does at meals," she said. I could hear the amusement in her voice and I was glad that something was making her happy.

"I seriously doubt that. Emmett has quite a bit on you size-wise," I stated.

Her giggle filled my ear and unconsciously I smiled in response.

"Are you calling me fat, Cullen?" She asked, her tone turning serious and the grin fell from my lips. Fuck, I had pissed her off.

"No, no, how would I know? It's not like I've seen you or I have Em sending me pictures or anything," I said quickly, hoping to diffuse the situation before it turned ugly.

"Relax, Edward, I'm just teasing you. It's hard to know what people are thinking when all you get is their voice, isn't it?" Bella observed.

"At least a voice can convey emotion, email is worse," I said, relaxing at her assurance that I hadn't fucked this up.

"True, which is why I had Emmett give me your number," she stated.

I nodded silently, then remembered Bella couldn't see me response. "Oh, okay," I said out loud and things got quiet between us again.

"Are you busy this weekend?" Bella asked out of the blue.

"I have a paper due on Thursday, then I don't have class again until Monday night, why?" I asked.

"I have a doctor's appointment to find out the sex of the baby on Friday and I was hoping you might be able to be there," she explained.

She wanted me to fly to Seattle to see if we were having a boy or a girl? She wanted me with her? I was in shock and my mind scrambled.

"I mean, I was hoping, but if you can't, I could ask your mom, she's stopped by a couple of times to take me to lunch," Bella said in my silence.

"No, I can, I want to, I, I," I sputtered, still in shock and unable to get out what I wanted to. "What time Friday?"

"The appointment is at 3," she told me.

"Let me get a flight, uh, hold on," I said quickly. I pulled up a browser window, my paper all but forgotten in the background and searched for flights from me to her.

"I can leave here at 6 Friday morning and be in Seattle by 12:30, will that work?" I told her once my search had generated results.

"Sure, the airport isn't far from campus, I can pick you up, if you like," Bella responded.

"Sounds good, let me book this and then, I'll see you on Friday," I said, pushing a button to purchase my ticket. The computer did its magic and a confirmation screen popped up, letting me know that my credit card was now considerably lighter, but I would get to see the baby that Bella and I had made first hand. I was pretty sure I could convince Mom and Dad of that when my bill came in at the end of the month.

"Okay, all done," I told her and gave her my flight information.

"Okay, great," she replied. "Well, let me let you get back to whatever you were doing before I called."

"Yeah, gotta finish that paper before I can fly out," I said.

"Well, I'll see you on Friday, she said softly.

"Yeah, see you then," I said in the same tone of voice.

She disconnected the call and I held the phone to my ear until it started beeping, letting me know the call had ended. I pushed the end button, then tossed the phone onto my desk and ran my hands through my hair. I was flying to Seattle to see Bella, because Bella had asked me to. I had just dropped everything because she wanted me at her side. Was it fucked up? Yeah. Would I do it again? Probably. I needed some sanity and I knew I wasn't going to get it from myself so I called the one person I could count on to tell me straight: Alice.

"You are interrupting my special time with the Gossip Girl bunch," she said as she answered.

"Tell Blair and Serena that I apologize," I responded with a chuckle.

"You know that Blair, she'll never forgive you Eddie," Alice giggled. I heard rustling in the background, then she was back on the line. "I love my DVR, pause is a wonderful thing. So, what's up buttercup?"

"Tell me I'm not crazy," I said quickly.

"No can do Edward, I am convinced the world is crazy and you right along with them," Alice replied.

"Well, tell me I'm doing the right thing," I revised.

"Depends, what is the thing you are doing?" She asked.

"Flying to Seattle so I can be at the ultrasound appointment with Bella this Friday," I blurted out.

Alice got quiet, then she started laughing, hard. I let you get it out, knowing that once she started, you just needed to let it come to a natural end. I heard her take a deep breath, which was my signal that the laughter was over and I started talking again.

"It is insane to do that? I mean, I am spending a shitload of time and money just so I can see whether I am shooting X's or Y's," I sighed.

"Do you want to be there?" Alice asked quietly. "At any point did you think that you didn't want to go?"

"No, not at all," I said.

"Then you have your answer," Alice stated. "It's not crazy or insane or foolish if it means something to you and obviously, it means something to her as well to ask for it."

"See, I knew you could put it into perspective for me," I said, finally feeling the anxiousness leaving my body. I just needed someone else to tell me what I was thinking wasn't silly and Alice had done that.

We discussed my trip for a few minutes, then I let her go, since she had given up her precious time with her TV to talk me down.

"Have a safe flight and call me when you find out! Auntie Alice needs to know if I am returning the pink or blue outfits I've already bought," she told me with a laugh.

I rolled my eyes and hung up. It didn't surprise me that Alice already had things purchased for the baby, she loved to shop and her best friend's baby was the perfect excuse.

I shut down my computer, telling myself that finishing the paper in the morning would still give me time to edit and revise before it was due on Thursday. I climbed into bed, wondering who our baby would look like and if I could convince Bella into getting on of those 3D ultrasounds so we could really see what it would look like.