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Embry groaned in to his pillow as he reached blindly for his phone on his bedside table. He rarely put his phone on silent but after yesterdays events and having to put jacob to sleep on his couch he felt he could get away with it for the day. Wrong again...he grunted to himself. Replaying the events from yesterday he flipped his phone over so he could see who was calling.
"Unknown number" flashed on his screen, sitting up with a lurch he answered the phone barely louder than a whisper, but more forceful than a yell.
"BELLA!" he caught himself before he woke jacob; if he's even asleep he thought to himself.
"Where are you!? Are you ok?! What's going on!?..."it was like a flood of questions filling the empty response on the other side of the phone.
"Bella?" he whispered, throwing his legs over the side of the bed, sitting up straight.
"Embry, I'm sorry. I cant tell you much but..."the other line started to go fuzzy.
"Bella, wait! Wha-" he was cut off.
" I only have a few minutes. I'm safe. But I need to tell you. But you have to promise not to tell him." her voice sounded tired, had she gotten any sleep? She looked like hell the day before, but that was normal for her in the early morning...hell, even he had rough mornings with all the work, patrols and studying he'd been doing.
"Um...why don't you tell me whats going on?"
"Look, I didn't know what to do. Im scared, I'm alone and he doesnt need my problems anymore"
"Bella-" He was cut off again, that, he thought, is going to bug me.
"Look, just tell him its for the best. But I figured someone needed to know and theres no way I'm telling him or my parents, or the rest of the pack. I trust you. Your his best friend and you'll be able to break the news to him when he's ready."
"Wait...you want me to tell him or not? I'm confused..."
"Shut up..." he could hear her frustration in her voice, obviously it had been in a while since she had sleep and probably something to eat, only bella would get grumpy from lack of sleep or food, or both, rarely was she grumpy otherwise.
"Look...tell him when he's ready but for now dont say a word."
Embry raised an eyebrow...I smell trouble. Getting up from the bed he slowly stepped to the door, barely opening it to look out into the living room. Opening the door more he slithered out of the doorway and walked quietly over to Jacob, who was curled into the couch hugging himself tightly. He couldnt tell if he was asleep or just out of it since it seemed like he would be frozen since he had to be pulled off Bella's bed and forced him back into Embry's truck. Starting to lift his foot to poke jacob in the back; he tended to swing if someone other than bella tried to wake him.
"Dont wake him up if he's sleeping!" he could hear bella squeak, flipping around embry tried to find her.
"Bella are you here!?" he started.
"No...but I know you well enough to know that you'd be at his place or he's at yours."
"Yeah...well...he's kinda...hmmm...let's go with out of it, thats a nice way of putting it. Are you going to explain whats going on or.."his voice trailed off and he lowered his foot. Taking a few steps back embry leaned against the white, cool wall and slid down. "Are you ok?"
"I'm fine...well as fine as I can be. Look, just please...promise you'll look after him." she barely got the words out before the operator's voice came on asking for another change deposit. "Dammit...look. I'm...well...I'm pregnant." -click- The line went dead and embry staring into space...jaw on the floor...
Dammit! Why me?! Why does everyone come to me...Embry continued to grunt to himself as he got dressed and headed to the kitchen to make some breakfast. How am I supposed to tell him when he's ready?! He's already a shell of himself and its only been 24 hours...How the hell am I going to do this? Oh hey jake, sorry bout bella, by the way she called from a pay phone, told me not to wake you but said to tell you when your ready that she's pregnant, want some coffee? Barely paying attention to the eggs in the pan embry heard a thud and walked to see jacob on the floor.
"Really? Are you ok dude?" he stared at his friend who was sitting up shaking his head.
"ung..."was all jacob was able to get out. "my head hurts..."
"Yeah well...you fell off my couch and last night you nursed like to vodka bottles..." glad he left that out of the conversation with bella. "Want something to eat?" he turned and pulled the eggs off the stove and slid them onto a platter. "Coffee? Nah...you probably need water..." mumbling to himself he poured a cup of coffee for himself, made toast for jacob and placed a water next to his friend. "We need to talk"
Jacob stared at the water, desperately thirsty but not wanting to move, thirst won out and he sipped slowly so as to not get himself sick. After a moment he pulled himself up and onto the couch. "Yeah...well..." he hadnt said much else since he'd busted through Bella's apartment and couldnt find her. He couldn't understand why she left, why she brought embry into all of this. If they had problems they always talked it out, they were honest with each other. What had he done to screw it up?! Staring into the water glass he glanced up at embry who was babying his coffee. He didn't look right, he looked like he had been sucker punched, but without the pain, it was emotion, an emotional punch.
"What?" jacob finally asked. Embry had been trying to get his attention, well...he had been mumbling about something. Jacob raised his eyebrow. "Embry...?" he questioned.
"I dont know how to tell you this..."
Jacob jumped up at his words, water spilling all over the floor and rushed up to embry, pushing him against the wall "you know where she is!"
Embry watched as his coffee was dropped to the ground...sighing, he pushed at jacob's large hands, "She called a little bit ago.."
"Where is she!?" Jacob pressed. He looked more alive than he had for the last couple of hours.
"She didnt say where she was, just to take care of you, something about her problems and somethingaboutbeingpregnant.."the words whooshed out of his mouth like a flood breaking through a dam.
"WHAT!?" jacob looked like he had been struck, smacked in the face with a sledgehammer. "Wait...what? Take care of...problems..." his face scrunched up before he whispered, "pregnant?" letting embry go he stumbled back to the couch, put his head in his hands and for the second time ever, if front of his best friend, he wept, great heaping sobs. The only thing embry could do now was call the rest of the pack and tell them what was going on.