A Year of New Beginnings

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Chapter 3

Bella POV

10:00pm

Alice made the announcement that Esme and Carlisle would be leaving for their trip and for all of us to bundle up and head outside. Everyone donned their coats, scarves and gloves and crowded outside on the porch and overflowing down towards the driveway. Snow was lightly falling and covering the grassy areas, but not covering the road yet. As Carlisle helped Esme down the front porch steps, Jacob pulled up in a Midnight Blue 1939 Bugatti T-57C.

"Jake…how… what… it's…" Carlisle stumbles over his own words trying to figure out what to say. He looks up at his kids, trying to figure out why there was this beautiful piece of machinery in his driveway. Finally he finds Alice with his eyes and when he finds his voice he questions, "you guys rented us a Bugatti to travel to the airport in? How much did that cost?" He turns back to the car and stares, "it's so pretty."

"Wow, I've never seen this side of dad before, he's always so calm and collective, holy crap, dad has finally lost it, and over a car no less." Emmett joked until Rose elbowed him in the side.

"Here you go Dr. C," Jake walks over to him and places the key in Carlisle's hand. "Be careful with her."

"Whoa… um, Esme, darling, can I touch the car?" Carlisle begged, the whole crowd laughed.

"Yes Carlisle, you can touch your car, but I hope you intend on driving it as well, or else it'd be a waste of my money and Jake's time having restored it for you."

"My car? Did you just say you bought me this car?" Carlisle asks while trailing his hand along the frame of the vehicle.

"Happy Anniversary darling, you always put the needs of me and our family first, so I wanted to put you first this time." Carlisle runs over to his wife, who is still standing on the stairs of the porch, picks her up and kisses her while spinning around, receiving a collective "awww" from everyone gathered around. After setting Esme back on the ground, Carlisle notices the snow. "Esme get in, lets take it for a drive before we leave." Carlisle opens Esme's door and waits for her to seat herself before proceeding to his side of the car. The engine comes to life with a roar, and the crowd backed up towards the house to give the happy couple room to drive. Carlisle makes a quick drive around the circular driveway before entering the garage.

Waiting for the Cullen parents to return I stare up at the stars, wishing for a love like they have. I mean they still act like lovebirds after thirty years. Will I have that one day? A voice comes from behind me, "a penny for your thoughts?"

"No, I sell them for a dollar, they're gonna be worth something one day."

"It's cheesy stealing lines from a song you know." Edward walks around in front of me and places his hands on either side of my face, making me look at him, making sure he knows he has my full attention, "they are already priceless to me." He drops his hands from my face and grabs my hand in his, looking toward the garage from where his parents are exiting.

When they both emerge from inside the garage, everybody wonders why they aren't diving the car anymore. "Umm, Dad, aren't you gonna drive your new car?" Alice asked the question that everyone is thinking.

"Are you crazy? It's snowing outside! I don't want my baby to get ruined the first day I get her! Esme, let's take the Mercedes. Boys, will you put the bags in the trunk of the Mercedes for me?"

"Sure thing Dad." Edward replied, grabbing the suitcases with the help of Jasper, while Emmett ran inside the garage to retrieve the car for his parents.

When everything is settled, Esme and Carlisle say their goodbyes and climb into their everyday car in hopes of making it to the airport in time for their flight. As they drive away, some of the older guests decide that it was time to leave as well since they were already in their coats and the snow had started to come down a little bit heavier. The younger crowd returns inside, used to the snow lightly piling up.

10:50pm

"Who's brilliant idea was it to get a sound system?" I question Rose as we watch Emmett and Jacob sing on their makeshift stage another verse of "Me and My Gang" by Rascal Flatts. This has to be at least their third song tonight.

"Do I really need to answer that? I think he had this planned out from the moment he rented it."

"At least he's not so drunk that he's strip dancing again like he did at his Graduation party."

"You'd think that after graduating from the police academy you'd have a more respective party, but that's just not Emmett." Rose smiled. "He knows how to be mature when the situation calls for it. You know that he wants to be a daddy?"

"Wow, ya'll are trying for kids? That's awesome! Good luck! Don't have too much fun trying." I giggle and elbow Rose gently.

She giggles too, "We won't , besides I'm…"

"What are we not doing?" Jasper asks, coming to sit on the arm of the couch we are sitting on.

"We are not letting Jake and Em live this moment down, where's your phone at Jazzy? We gotta catch this on video." Alice shrieked coming to sit beside me on the couch.

Edward walks into the room as Jazz starts to film the boys singing act. "Hold up man, if we're gonna use this against them, lets make it good." Edward walks over to the sound system and changes the song to "Bye, Bye, Bye" by *Nsync. "I bet Emmett still remembers all the dance moves, he used to have this video memorized back in high school."

"Are you serious?" Leah asks, coming to sit with us to get a better view of the show.

Rose stands up for Emmett, "in his defense, Alice, Bella and myself were obsessed with them and he was just trying to show his support."

"Rose, that doesn't explain why he learned all the steps to the song, I think there's some underlying issues here." Jasper teased his sister. Her response was throwing a pillow at his head.

Most of the people that were still left at the party came to stand around and watch the show; we give the boys a standing ovation when they finish the song. Jake and Emmett take a bow before coming to sit on the floor in front of the couch.

"Shorty, when are all these people supposed to be leaving? What time did your invitations say?" Edward questions.

"First off, I'm not short, you're just abnormally tall." Everyone laughs at Alice's response. "Secondly, the invites said until 11 o'clock and thirdly, I'm disowning you for joking on me."

Edward rebuttals, "First off, you can't disown your twin, secondly, I'm not abnormally tall and thirdly, it's now 11:10pm and I'm getting tired."

"That just means your getting old little brother," Emmett states.

"I'm not going to even comment on how wrong that comment is man," Jasper laughs.

Standing up, I voice my opinion. "Let's just get these people out of here, I'm tired too and knowing Alice, we won't be able to sleep until after we clean, so let's get moving."

"Why do all the comments imply I'm some sort of party dictator?" Alice sheepishly asks.

"Darling, you know it's true." Jasper kisses Alice's forehead before helping her up from her seat.

There were only a handful of people left and we walked them out to their cars. The cold air seemed to wake Emmett up from his buzz, because he went into police mood when he noticed all the snow on the ground. He hollers out to the leaving crowd, "be extra careful going through the turns on the driveway, there could be black ice" and as if Mother Nature wanted to help him prove his point, he slipped on some slush on the sidewalk. We watched our friends carefully leave the front of the house. I took note that there was already a good 6 to 8 inches on the ground. I started to shiver, when a pair of warm arms encircled about me. I leaned into him and felt at home. My heart and my mind were at a war over what to do, but I wouldn't leave his warm embrace for anything at this moment.

When the last car was out of view, our little group returned inside to clean the disaster waiting for us.

Midnight

The guys were disassembling all the toys in the living room, while us girls were finishing up the few dishes that we had used. Thankfully, most people had enough consideration to throw their trash away. So there wasn't as much cleaning to do in that department.

I finished putting the last of the wine glasses away in their cabinet and made my way over to the breakfast bar in the kitchen to sit down with Leah and Rosalie who had already finished their Alice ordained jobs.

"I'm super thirsty." Alice announced as she came to join us at the bar.

"Me too." Rose and I simultaneously said.

Alice went to get some leftover cups and I went to the refrigerator to retrieve some orange juice for our group. I started pouring juice for each us when Rose started talking.

"So…umm… did you guys get your monthly friend already? I know that we are all within a few days of each other and we have been are whole lives… so… umm… just wondering…

Leah unphased by Rosalie's implications was the only one to respond. "Yes, unfortunately it ruined the last week of my vacation in Hawaii! So wasn't cool."

"Rose are you trying to tell us that you think you're pregnant?" Alice whisper shouted.

"I don't know, I mean, I'm late by like 2 weeks, but that happens sometimes right?"

Alice stares at her like she has two heads, "have you bought a test yet?"

"I mentioned something to Emmett this morning, I think he bought every test in the store. I just don't wanna get my hopes up. We want a child and I don't want to be disappointed if I'm not pregnant."

Alice came and wrapped her arms around Rose, kissing the side of her head. "We'll be here for you, no matter what the results are. Positive or negative, we'll ne right behind you."

I felt tears start to slowly fall down my face, I kept trying to do the math in my head, I always start about 3 days before Rose. Always, I mean, hell we all got our period in the same year, and it's always been the same pattern, me, Rose, Alice, Leah, with each of us starting 2 to 3 days after the other. I guess with all the drama going on in my life I hadn't noticed that Aunt Flow hadn't visited this month. I tried to inconspicuously wipe my eyes. I guess I wasn't that smooth about it because Leah caught on.

"Bells, what's wrong?"

I look over at my friends and realization hits Rosalie first, "Bella, you've been under a lot of stress, maybe that's why it hasn't come yet. I mean look at all that's happened in the last month." Rose tried to comfort me, but something inside me clicked at the information, like I had been missing a piece of puzzle. I was pregnant.

"Oh shit…" we all turn our attention to Alice. She looks like she's trying to work out a math problem in her head.

Leah is the first to speak while Alice is staring off into space. "Shit is right, all three of you are pregnant at the same time. Esme is going to go crazy. There is going to be three new little Cullen's running around this big house."

Alice's face lit up at the thought, granted it wasn't perfect timing with her and Jasper having only been married for about six months, but hey, she saw this as a blessing. "Technically, mine is a Whitlock." Alice smiled.

I finally found my voice enough to whisper, " Can we keep this our little secret for now? At least until we all decide on an acceptable time to tell the guys? Please?"

"Of course we can, Bells, besides, we need to take the tests first before we go getting anyone's hopes up." Rose spoke up. " So how about tomorrow morning after breakfast, we meet in my room and we will all take tests?"

"We know I'm not pregnant, why do I need to take one?" Leash looks at us warily.

In the most duh like voice Alice replies, "because we need a control test to make sure the ones were using are broken."

"Whatever," Leah moans.

Alice pulled us all in for a group hug, her giddiness rubbing off on all of us. When the boys finally descend upon us, we are all super sleepy, but giggling at everything.

Emmett and Rosalie soon disappear to his old room.

"Jake, Leah you two can use the downstairs guest room," Alice instructed. "That's where you put their stuff earlier right Jazz?"

"Yes ma'am." Jasper answered.

Alice turns towards me, "I will leave the decision up to you two, just play nice Bells," she warned before letting Jasper pull her upstairs to her old room.

It's just Edward and I standing in the kitchen now. "It's your room, you should get to sleep in it." I debate with Edward, but I know he's too much of a gentleman to allow it.

"Isabella Swan, you know me better than that. I'll get my stuff from in there and sleep downstairs on the couch."

"That's stupid, it's your room and that couch sucks, I should know all the times I had to lay on it growing up whenever I would hurt myself." Edward cracks a smile at the last statement.

"How about a compromise, I sleep on the floor and you take the bed?"

"Again, that's stupid… hmm…" as I'm trying to come up with a solution, I notice that I'm fiddling with my engagement ring. I start to pull it off, when Edward catches my fingers.

"Please baby, leave it on for me. Give me another chance. Please hear me out."

That melting feeling is in my heart again, I swear, I think that it's trying to overtake my mind. "Alright, but it's too late tonight, tomorrow you have some explaining to do."

We walk upstairs to his old room, I run into the bathroom to change clothes before getting into bed. I stop at the window by the bed, there has to be over a foot of snow on the ground out there. "Wow, the snow is coming down really fast now." I comment as I get under the covers.

"Crazy how wrong the weather man can be," Edward smirked as he made himself a pallet on the floor. " He called for only a light dusting tonight, guess he got more than he bargained for."

Internally I was thinking if her only knew how right he was. Edward was about to get way more than he bargained for. I laid there thinking about the unborn child growing inside of me, even if it hadn't been confirmed yet, it felt right. I love Edward, but would it be enough to forgive him of the wrongs he's committed? Would it be worth it?

"New compromise, why don't we share the bed. I'll stay under the covers and you sleep on top of them, using your blankets from the pallet the cover up with?" I suggested.

"You sure?"

"Yes, so hurry your ass up before I change my mind." I whisper shouted.

Even in this weird situation, it felt right laying next to Edward. Like this is where I'm supposed to be. Wow… what a day.

A/N: I also do not own *Nsync or The Band Perry, I was just inspired by music today. I can honestly say back in the day, I was a true fan of boy bands. LOL... anyways, ya"ll are awesome!

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