Edward

Christmas day dawned and I woke in my old bedroom in my parents' house to see Bella lying awake with her hands over her ever expanding stomach. Gently I reached over and put my hand on top of hers and she gasped.

'Did you feel that?' she whispered

'No. What was it? Did the baby kick? Are you okay?' I fired at her.

'The baby kicked and I am fine'.

As I leant over to kiss her our bedroom door burst open to reveal my siblings and their boyfriends looking impatiently on the landing. Emmett spoke:

'It's Christmas and all you can think of is kissing. Christmas means presents, c'mon.' He raced off down the stairs with Rosalie in tow and began to shout back up the stairs at the rest of us as Bella looked amusedly at me.

'I suppose we might as well get up now. With Emmett awake we won't get any rest.'

I jumped up onto the floor and whizzed around to Bella's side of the bed to help her up. Before we had even put any clothes on Emmett had returned and carefully picked Bella up before sprinting away with her and depositing on the sofa beside Esme who also looked half asleep. Emmett was practically panting in his eagerness to open presents while the rest of looked on wearily.

We'd just finished lunch and Jasper and Carlisle were deep in discussion about a 'secret subject' as were Esme, Rosalie and Alice. Bella was curled up at my side as I played absentmindedly with her glossy hair. In just two weeks I would have to go away.

'Edward?' Bella questioned.

'Mmm' I replied

'What do you think the baby will be?' Automatically her hands strayed to her stomach.

'Human, I hope and Edward's child!' interjected Emmett. 'Are you sure about that?'

I tried not to react but my protectiveness for Bella overtook me and I threw three cushions at him in quick succession. He tumbled backward into Rosalie who grabbed hold of him and kissed him ardently.

'If you don't mind big sister, you are corrupting Bella's innocence.' I joked.

'Well if she's so innocent how come she's pregnant?' The retort came back and Bella blushed as Carlisle intervened.

'Hello! Your parents are in the room standing right by you. I don't think we really want to go there. Who wants to play a round of cards?'

Later that night Bella and I had returned to our cottage and we finally began to talk about names for the baby. Recently time has been passing in huge chunks and we realised that I would be away in two weeks time and Bella would be seven and a half months pregnant or there about.

'I don't really know. I like loads of names.' Bella said

'Okay, let's make a list of names for girls and boys and then rule out the ones that we don't really want.'

We thought about names for hours. When you rule out all the names of people you dislike and any others there are actually very few left.

Girls' Names

Evie

Lily

Rosa

Grace

Penny

Boys' Names

Kit

James

Finn

Thomas

Matt

It seemed like we both preferred the traditional names rather than those which were too different. We kept the shortlist of names and decided to ask our family for their opinion, it might help us to make the choice.