Bella

Edward said that Carlisle wanted to see me this morning so we walked to his parents' house this morning where Edward was accosted by Esme. I headed up to Carlisle's spacious office filled with medical paraphernalia and down opposite him. He had his 'work voice' on putting me on edge instantaneously.

'Bella, Edward said that you've been really tired recently and he wanted me to try and find out why that was. I have an idea but I'll ask you a few questions to give me more to work on. So, have you felt different in any other way?'

'Could you specify a bit more?' I replied, my brain wasn't quite in gear that morning, it must have been the jet lag .

'Well have you been getting any aches and pains?'

'I had quite a lot of headaches recently. They're not bad, just irritating.'

'Okay. When was your last period?' This question caught me by surprise.

'I...I don't know.' Now I saw what he was getting at.

'Bella you might be pregnant. I have a pregnancy test somewhere around. Here you go.' My mind was still processing his last words when he ushered me out of the room and into the bathroom.

I walked back to Carlisle's office in a daze where he sat smiling at me from behind his desk.

'So? 'He asked 'What does it say' wordlessly I showed him and he stood up and hugged me after realising the emotions I was going through, after all he had three children.

'I guess you're a bit surprised at the least Bella. It'll be okay, you just didn't expect it. Shall I get Edward?' I nodded and slowly released my grip on Carlisle. I loved children but I just wasn't expecting this to be the cause of my tiredness. It had seemed so insignificant.

Edward walked into the room and Carlisle discreetly closed the door leaving us alone. Silently I showed Edward the pregnancy test and smiled at him. He smiled back and then hugged me still grinning. Now I was over the shock I couldn't wait to tell the others but first I had to talk to Edward.

'Are you happy?' I asked.

'Yes. Are you?' he replied.

'Of course I am I was just a bit shocked at first. It took me by surprise!'

'I'm sure it did.' I've always wanted kids, I know we've spoken about this but I didn't imagine it happening like this.

We kissed and then headed down stairs to see Esme. She'd always said that she wanted grandchildren. However she immediately congratulated us and then said something completely unexpected.

'Bella you've been pregnant for a lot longer than you think. Remember when you were being sick pretty much every morning?'

I gasped and realised what she meant. 'Three months at the least! Why haven't I noticed?'

Carlisle replied instead of Esme, 'Some people just don't show until very late but at a guess I'd say you have some sort of bump that you just haven't noticed. If you're that far along you really should have a scan as soon as possible.'

I asked Carlisle to ring the hospital and book an appointment as he was one of the leading doctors at the small hospital he would be able to get me a much earlier appointment than I would otherwise had. Within minutes he had arranged it for two days time.

Today I was going in with Edward to have my first scan. Of course he wanted to be there, what parent wouldn't?

I practically skipped into the hospital. Although I had only found out I was pregnant a couple of days ago I was ecstatically happy and as I was happy so was Edward. We hadn't told anyone else but of course Esme and Carlisle already knew. However I was slightly apprehensive. What if there was a reason for me not noticing I was pregnant? What if there was a problem with the baby? When I voiced my fears to Edward he said that it would all be fine and we would just have to wait for the scan. He was right as usual.

As we waited we talked about genders and names. We had decided not to find out the gender until the baby was born. We wanted it to be a surprise. At last my name was called: 'Isabella Cullen' I still wasn't used to my new surname.

After all the routine tests the scan finally arrived, now I would see my almost invisible baby, well from the outside anyway. I gasped as the freezing jelly was smeared over my only just apparent bump and the nurse doing the scan found a clear picture.

'Well the heartbeat is fine; it looks like a perfectly healthy baby.' She said and I smiled up at Edward.

'Now do you know how far along you are?' When we shook our heads she said 'I'd say your about three to four months but you blood tests will tell you more.'

A week later the blood test results came through and Edward went to get them during work. He rang and said that everything was clear and I had been pregnant for the last four months! I'd missed nearly half the full term of a normal pregnancy. Esme was there at the time and said:

'You seem to be having a fairly easy time. When I was pregnant with Rosalie, my first baby, it was hell. I was sick all the time, could barely walk some days and you don't even have a real bump...yet!'

'Maybe. It's my first time round so I wouldn't know. I just keep worrying that the baby's not okay. I haven't been careful or anything because I didn't know.' Stupidly I began to cry and Esme pulled me into a hug.

'You don't drink, you don't smoke and you've been keeping active. You haven't done any of the things that they say not to do so what could go wrong. It's probably just you hormones starting to kick in belatedly.'

'Thanks Esme' I sniffed.

'Now onto more cheerful things, you need to tell Alice, Rosalie, Emmett and Jasper. They all know you're hiding something because you've hardly seen them since you got back. How about tomorrow night? I'll make whatever you fancy.'

'Esme, you're wonderful. Could we have chicken in mushroom sauce?'

'Of course, that used to be Edward's favourite when he was little, he was never fussy like some of the other children at school.'

Just then Edward walked in shaking the rain of his bronze-brown hair. He noticed that I had been crying and rushed over before wrapping me up in his arms.

'What's wrong? 'He murmured. Esme replied for me,

'Her hormones are catching up with her at last. You wait another couple of months this will be a frequent occurrence.'

Edward led me out into the hallway before kissing his mom goodbye and arranging a time for dinner tomorrow and we drove away in his flashy silver Volvo.