The update chapter has been replaced. This is the second new chapter so please go read the one before this so you do not lose out on the story line at all.
Peace to you all,
Maye
Live It Up –Brantley Gilbert
I stopped where I was and waited for him to come around the car. I knew his eyes would shoot to my stomach which was now sticking out so far I was surprised my shirts still fit. And I was right his eyes did just that. I looked to the ground after that. I didn't want to face him being angry with me even thought I was thirty four years old.
Only Charlie wasn't angry when he saw it at least I didn't think he was. He had walked over to me and hugged me tight. I could not help but start crying. And once the tears started flowing they didn't stop for a good twenty minutes it seemed like.
I vaguely remember Charlie yelling for Emmet to get my bags and to shut my car doors. I just looked to the ground when Charlie led me into the house. Sue had walked in behind us muttering something about making tea and food. Charlie and I had sat down on the couch.
I only notice that I had fallen asleep when I woke up and I was lying on the couch. I could hear hushed whispers coming from the kitchen. I sat up and waited a few moments before trying to stand. I knocked something off the coffee table because I heard a crash.
"Bella are you okay?" Charlie asked.
"I fine I just needed the bathroom." I said.
Charlie had Rosalie help me to the bathroom because my legs seemed too weak to hold me up by themselves. I sat down on the floor because I felt like getting sick. A few minutes later I heard a knock on the door.
"Bells are you all right in there?" Charlie asks.
I mumbled something incoherent to him.
"Rosalie call Edward and have him come over and see if she need to go to a hospital." Charlie yelled trying to get the door open.
"Charlie do not knock that door down." Sue hollered at him. "Have Emmet take it off the hinges."
"Emmet."
"Where is the hammer with the claw on the back." he asked.
The must have spent the next few minutes looking for that hammer because when Emmet got the door off the hinges and opened. A man I assumed to be Edward appeared in the doorway. He rushed over to me. I had been lying on the cool floor near the toilet because I felt like I was going to get sick.
"Bella nice to see you again even if it's under these circumstances," Edward said.
"You have met her before?" Charlie asked him.
"Yes. I was filling in for a doctor in New York when Bella here came in for an appointment. She was fine then but she's high risk because she's so small and her weight keeps on fluctuating." Edward explained. "And not that I know the patient in question is her you should go call 911 now. She could be going into labor or any other number of things and it would be best if she was in the hospital for any of those."
I nor Edward or Charlie knew it but once Sue heard I was high risk had rushed out of the hallway and called 911. The sirens shocked us all when the blared loudly coming onto the street. It probably shocked all the neighbors when the ambulance stopped in front of the chief's home.
Everyone moved to let the paramedic's through. Edward gave them all the information he knew about me. They strapped me to a gurney and hooked me up to an IV after taking all my vitals. I started to panic because of everything.
"Don't worry Bella we'll follow you to the hospital." Charlie called after me.
I blacked out after that and I knew I had blacked out because when I woke up again Jasper was standing there with a baby in his arms only it wasn't our baby. It had almond shaped brown eyes and a pointed nose that neither of us had. Just than a woman of Latino dissent walked up to him and kissed him. I started screaming but no one paid attention to me.
My vision had gone black again. I slowly blinked away the blackness and this time I didn't see Jasper and some woman. I saw the plain white walls of Forks General Hospital. I was hooked up to several machines and an IV. I could hear arguing out in the hallway. Someone was very angry I could only hope that it had nothing to do with me but knowing my luck it was all about me. I mentally cringed as the yelling reached a higher pitch.
I knew I must have been worried when a nurse rushed in to see what was wrong with me. When she saw that I was fine she rushed back out of the room. I then heard her yelling back at the people who were arguing.
"You two need to shut up. Your arguing will do nothing but cause our patients harm if you keep on causing them distress if it continues."
The two people that had been arguing had shut up quickly after that. I fell back a sleep before I could learn who the two people were.
Charlie walked into my room just after I woke up again.
"Hey Bells." He greeted.
"What dad?" I asked.
"I know who the farther of your Baby is or at least suspect is the father of your baby." He said.
I looked down.
"Bella I'm not mad at you, disappointed yes like any father would be if his daughter wasn't married when she had a baby." He told me.
"What about the guy you assume is the father?" I asked.
"It's Jasper. Rosalie's brother and he seems like a pretty good guy."
"Then why didn't he answer my e-mails?" I asked bitterly.
"Because he didn't get them. Did you hear any yelling earlier?" he replied.
"Yes."
"That was him yelling at the person who kept him from contacting you. He almost got escorted out of here by security because he was scaring the other patients." Charlie said. "Bells at least talk to him and let him be involved in the baby's life. He really seems like he wants to be there."
"Maybe." I replied knowing that I would forgive him anyway because I would have acted the same way if someone had kept my kid from me.
"He should be here in a few moments. I'm going to go sit with Rose and Emmet in the waiting room."
Charlie left my room after that. A few minutes later I heard a knock on my door.
"Come in." I called turning on the TV.
There was a small pause before the door opened. Good sign I hope. I didn't look at the door because I was afraid about how angry I still might be. I looked at the TV and watched the Anderson Cooper program that was playing. I kept calm as Jasper sat down in the chair Charlie had just vacated. He didn't say anything to me. He kept quiet and looked at the TV like I did. I finally got the nerve to speak and turned off the TV before turning toward him.
"I tried to tell you but you never responded."I spoke. I had no idea what to say and that's what popped into my head first.
"I know you did now but I didn't get the messages when you sent them because my crazy girl –well now- ex girlfriend deleted them because she didn't want me to leave her."
"But you left her anyway." I said.
"Yes not because I wanted to date you –which I do but that's up to you- but because she invaded my privacy and deleted my messages from you and because of that I could have missed out on that little guys entire life and that just—" he said almost tripping over his words.
"You don't have to finish. I get it." I said knowing that I would have felt the same way. "It would have made me mad if it happened to me."
We had lapse into a comfortable silence after that. Neither of us knowing what to say to the other.
"I'm not looking to date or get married Jasper. I wasn't looking to trap you or whatever when I told you in those e-mails. I just thought you should know." I said. Any good man had the right to know if he helped bring a child into this world.
"Bella I understand that and I wasn't saying you had to date me but to allow me the opportunity to try and get you to open up about it." He told me grabbing my hand and holding it.
"I agree but you have to make it interesting considering we have already skipped a step." I said squeezing his hand slightly.
"How about we at least go to dinner whether we make it ourselves or go out after you get sprung from this place." He suggested.
"That sounds like a good idea." I said just as the baby decided to practice his or her kicking. "Ooh."
"Are you alright do I need to get the nurse?" He asked looking worried.
"No the baby was kicking." I said smiling.
"You don't know the sex?" He asked.
"Nope. They didn't want to show their privets to anyone." I told him.
"Oh. Well that sucks can't buy anything now." He said.
"You can buy yellow or pastel green because those are the colors I'm using for the nursery whenever I get my own place." I said.
"That's good to know." He said. "Where are you staying if you don't have a place?"
"A motel in Texas before I could find an apartment and Charlie's if I can't get back to Texas."
"You were in Texas."
"Yes and one of my last night's there I had to listen to a couple go at it with country music playing in the background." I said.
"Country music isn't that bad." He said.
"Yes and I know that but when it's an amateur trying to sound like Eric Church and or Jason Aldean it sucks." I said. "And the people getting busy in the room the music was coming from didn't help the situation all that much."
"I give you that point but it is so much worse when it is Britney Spears."
"When did you suffer through that?" I asked him.
"College." He replied. "So how is your book going?"
"It should be on shelves at least next year." I told him. "But several things keep on hindering it so I am not so sure right now."
"What is the title?" he asked.
"Willows Whisper." I told him. "The cover has a really eerie looking picture of a group of Willow trees."
"I'll look for it." He said.
"You don't have to do that." I said.
"I don't have to but I want to. In fact I stopped at a book store on my way here just to see if they had it because I couldn't for the life of me remember when the release date was." He explained.
"You still don't half too. I get a couple of copies of it for free. Well not free but it comes out of my advance or my royalties; I can't remember which one."
"Ms. Swan I would like to on another exam on you now. Your friend would have to leave though." A pompous doctor said.
"He's not a friend he's the father." I snapped.
"He will still have to leave it's against hospital policy." The doctor said.
"No it's not. I looked up all the hospital policy's on my route from New York to Texas and from Texas to here and not a single one including this one had a policy like that." I snapped. Dam hormones. I thought before I started to cry.
"I think it would be best if you leave and send in another doctor." Jasper said. "She's stressed as it is and you don't need to be adding anymore to it."
"You are not her husband you can't tell me what to do." The doctor said.
"But she and her father can and I think I can safely assume that they would want a different doctor."
"The young man is right I would like you to leave my daughters room now." Charlie said from the door way.
The doctor then left in a huff.
"Jasper do you think you could have Edward come and be my doctor?" I asked. "He has already been there for me twice and he doesn't look down on me like that doctor did."
"I'll go call him now." Jasper said excusing himself.
"That boy cares about you or at least seems to care anyway." Charlie said.
"I'm guessing that's the way his mom raised him." I said.
"So what are you two going to do?" Charlie asked.
"Try to date but not right now because he has to make it interesting because we kind of already skipped a step or two." I explained.
"And Marriage?" he asked.
"Not on my mind at least I couldn't tell you what he thinks."
"Good. I don't want you to end up like Re –your mother and I." he said.
"Dad go ahead and call her Renee Emmet and I already do." I said.
"Oh." He said.
Jasper walked back in.
"What did Edward say?" I asked.
"He will be here in an hour after Alice get's back from the store because they had to watch the grandkids." He told us.
"That is perfectly fine as long as that creepy doctor doesn't come in here again."
"Bella you have Emmet out there like a junk yard dog guarding you. I don't think that will happen." Jasper said.
"Are you telling the truth?" I asked.
"It's true. I'm even tempted to buy those studded collars you see Rottweiler's wearing."
"Oh please; please don't. People might think he was one of those weird gay guys that dress up like biker dudes." I begged.
"Fine I'll give the collar to Rose and she can use it."
"TMI. Jasper." I shouted.
"Okay why is my newest patient screaming?" Edward asked walking into the room.
"They were just talking about buying dog collars and well you really don't want to know." Charlie said leaving the room.
"Now Jasper told me that you were having problems with another doctor."
"Yes he wanted Jasper to leave the room because he said it was against hospital policy and I know it's not but he still tried to push for it until Charlie made him leave." I explained.
"Well you won't have that with me. I'm going to start by drawing blood and after that we will do an ultrasound and see how the baby is doing."
I watched as they prepared my arm to draw blood and looked away when they brought out the needle. I flinched a little when it first entered my skin but I was completely fine after that.
"I'll just have these sent off to the lab we should have the results sometime in the next few days depending on how back logged they are." He said. "I will be back in a few for the ultrasound."
"Okay," I replied.
"Do you want to find out what sex the baby is?"
"I go through periods of wanting to know and periods of not wanting to know. Right now I do because it's something I can share with you. It will be a memory that we have that nobody can take from us." I said. "I have pictures for you and your mom from all my other ultrasounds or sonograms including one that Edward did."
"Where are they?" Jasper asked.
"In my bag over there." I said.
Jasper grabbed my purse. "Which pocket?" he asked.
"Front." I replied.
I watched as Jasper unzipped the pocket and pulled out the small stack of ultrasound pictures sonogram pictures whatever you want to call them. I have heard both. Jasper gulped as he looked at the grainy black and white pictures.
"Bella are you having twins because this one picture looks like you are." Jasper said.
"What? Hand it to me." I demanded.
He handed over the picture in question. I looked at it.
"Look at the bottom of it near what would be the baby's but." He said. "It's either a boy and that's his junk or there are two babies in there."
"We should keep this to ourselves and see what the news ultrasound says." I tell him.
"Of course."
"You want to know the funny thing is?" I asked.
"What?"
"This is from the first ultra sound your brother did." I said.
"Are you two ready to see your baby?" Edward asked upon returning to the room.
I pulled up my shirt. I felt the now familiar goop fall on to my stomach. Edward put the wand on to my stomach and started to move it around. After a few minutes that seemed to go on forever Jasper and I saw what we would having in a few short weeks.
I smile because I was so happy. I had Jasper by my side weather we dated or not; weather we got married or not. I could always tell that he would be there for his son or his daughter no matter what we had because once again the privet area of the baby was blocked by the baby's legs.
"I guess we won't find out this time." I told Jasper squeezing his hand. I then turned to Edward and asked "Can I go home today?"
"You can but you will have to be on bed rest for the remainder of your pregnancy." He said.
"Seriously bed rest is going to suck."I groaned.
"You don't have to stay in one room you just can't be up and around like you are used to doing and if you do have to move around a lot then try using a wheel chair." Edward said. "I'll go get the paperwork."