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Chapter 7: Shock

"Bella please try to smile." Emily said shaking her head.

"Sorry, I'm happy for you I really am but I'm just...not very comfortable when I'm all dressed up." I replied.

"We all ready to go?" Emily's dad asked, poking his head in the door.

"Yes, daddy." She smiled.

"You look beautiful honey..." he smiled back, reaching out to hug her. "Sam's one lucky lad."

She really did look beautiful, especially from the side I was looking where there was no scar. Her hair was pinned up and she wore a white dress with simple long skirt attached to a ruffled bodice with pearl like beads stitched onto it for detail and short sleeves that covered her shoulders. My bridesmaid dress was a simple knee length deep blue dress with matching blue satin shoes.

"Hear that music, that's our queue." I said, putting on my best smile for Emily's big moment.

They were getting married in a small wooden chapel with chipped white paint and a small garden outside. It was a small event with the pack and some of their parents. Emily's dad was here to give her away but her mum had passed away when she was younger. I followed Emily and her dad up the aisle where Sam and Paul stood waiting with the minister.

The look on Sam's face, it was like he was staring at a deity, a goddess, a siren. He was smitten. I felt tears sting my eyes as Emily's dad passed her hand to Sam; my dad would never do that for me. I stood awkwardly next to Paul as the service began and quickly wiped my eyes.

"You OK?" Paul mouthed at me.

"Everyone cries at weddings." I whispered back annoyed that he had caught me. I felt him take my hand in his and hold it tightly.

"Not buying it." He breathed in my ear. I didn't reply, it would be rude to whisper the whole way through the service and I didn't want to lie anymore than I already had...

I glanced at Paul a few times during the ceremony, I had to stop ignoring him...he had proven time and time again that even if we don't get along all the time he's a good guy when it counts. Now I felt guilty...great.

Paul POV

It wasn't long before the service was over and everyone headed to the big gazebo on the beach for the party.

"Getting cosy?" Embry asked, nudging me in the side and nodding to Bella stood over by Kim.

"Don't start." I replied. I was just glad I hadn't had any reason to phase since mine and Bella's little incident or everyone would be crawling all over this news.

"Isn't it tradition for the best man to sleep with the bridesmaid?" he asked.

"Somehow I don't see that one happening today do you?" I rolled my eyes.

"I wouldn't be so sure." Leah said. I looked up and sure enough Bella was heading straight towards us.

"Hey." She said quietly.

"Hey." I replied.

"Sam wants you; something about a speech." She told me. I nodded and she turned to leave again.

"I need to talk to you for a minute." I said, quickly reaching out and catching her arm. Leah and Embry raised their eyebrows but took the hint and left us. I opened my mouth to speak but Bella beat me to it.

"I took the morning after pill so you don't need to worry." She said quietly.

"That's a relief to know but that wasn't what I wanted to talk about." I told her, tugging her closer to me.

"A-and I'm sorry I ran off like that, it was stupid you didn't deserve that." She whispered nervously.

"That wasn't it either." I whispered back, my hand releasing her arm and running up to her neck and then to catch her chin.

"What are you doing?" she asked, looking around her nervously.

"Don't make me chase you again." I told her. "Why were you so upset the other day?"

"How would you feel if you just realised you'd lost so much control of yourself that you ended up losing your virginity to someone who hates you?" she hissed.

"I thought we covered that one already." I bit back, dragging her away from the party where it was quieter.

"OK, maybe hate was the wrong word." She replied, stepping back from me. "I just wanted someone who cared about me."

"I do care about you, you stupid girl! Can't you see that?" I said, I was getting frustrated now. I know she's had a rough time and that asshole really did a number on her self-confidence but I just didn't have the patience or romantic ability to think of a better way to put it. She looked pretty mad and I could tell she was ready to shout back.

"What?" was the small single word that I heard her say instead.

"Bella...you're more important to me than anyone. And don't tell me you don't care about me because I'm not buying it." I told her, pulling her back to me.

"You care about me?" she asked, looking up at me with those gorgeous brown eyes.

"Yes." I gulped.

"Then why do you act like such a jerk all the time?" she frowned. I chuckled at the adorable look on her face.

"Because I am a jerk. It's just me but-" The rest of my words were cut off by her lips pressed against mine and I was more than happy to reciprocate. I had no resistance against her kisses. If she wanted to; I had no doubt she could have me wrapped around her little finger but I wouldn't let her know that of course.

Bella POV

I sighed in relief as I felt the cramping in my stomach early this morning. Thank god I got my period! I mean I took the morning after pill but it's not one-hundred percent effective so I still had the odd niggling in the back of my head. At least this was one worry gone. Whilst Paul and I weren't either avoiding each other or ripping one another's throats out anymore we still had some way to go before we were even a serious item let alone in a situation that would be good to have children.

The pack now knew all the details about Paul and I thanks to their little bond. Sam, Jake and Paul had all been phased at the same time; I knew they knew when they came into the kitchen unable to stop grinning at me in that annoying way that they do. It was alright though...although we were now sort of an item publicly; we weren't taking anything too seriously and didn't really talk about the whole emotional side of things much. To be honest we still fought with each other almost as much as we did before as well.

Now I sat in Emily and Sam's kitchen talking about their honeymoon trip with her and Leah. I took a nice big gulp of my coffee and then looked back up at them...they were positively miserable.

"Seriously guys, what gives?" I asked.

"I got my period today." Emily sighed, "I'm just a little disappointed that's all." I nodded and smiled at her reassuringly knowing how much she and Sam had been wanting to get pregnant in the past few months.

"I got mine too." I replied. "Although I'm relieved not disappointed."

"I didn't." Leah said. We both looked at her in surprise. Did she mean didn't as in she wasn't due on or that she was due on but hadn't gotten her period?

"Are you sure?" Emily asked.

"Pretty damn sure, I'm nearly a week late." She laughed, although her voice held no trace of humour. "And last time I checked I couldn't get pregnant."

"Have you done a test?" Emily asked. I just stared in surprise and let Emily do that talking, I had the feeling I was missing something pretty important.

"No, to start with I thought I was just doing the maths wrong and then I just couldn't believe it." Leah sighed.

"I've got one in the bathroom if you want to know for sure." Emily offered. "Do you know who the could be father would be?"

"If I'm pregnant there is only one possible father." She snorted.

"Who?" I couldn't help it, it just came out my lips.

"Embry." Leah said. "He's my imprint."

"Our Embry?" Emily gasped. "How the hell did that stay a secret?"

"An extreme lack of phasing." Leah laughed. "Let's get this show over with." With that Leah disappeared into the bathroom leaving Emily and I to look at each other in shock.

"I guess you and Paul weren't the only one's with secret rendezvous." Emily murmured. "It's amazing that they've actually learned to keep secrets at all."

A few minutes later Leah returned to the kitchen and dropped two white sticks on the table.

"Have you got anymore?" she asked.

"No Leah." Emily said picking one up. "You're pregnant."

"I need another test." Leah snapped.

"That one says pregnant too." Emily said, checking the other one.

"They're wrong. I need another one." Leah replied.

"Leah, you can get a false negative but I've never heard of a false positive. You're pregnant." Emily told her calmly.

"How?" Leah snapped.

"I think you know how." Emily smiled.

"But I'm not supposed to be able to get pregnant." Leah protested.

"Well apparently there was a mix up because you are." Emily sighed.

"Maybe it's a wolf thing." I added. "That you can get pregnant with a wolf but not a human?"

"What are you going to do?" Emily asked softly, placing a hand on Leah's shoulder.

"Do? Nothing. I'm going to have a baby obviously." She replied, walking away from us and slamming the door behind her.

Right...that was definitely unexpected...I glanced over at Emily as if she had some kind of explanation but obviously she didn't and we both just looked helplessly towards the door Leah had just stormed out of.