Chapter 6: What if?

Amber's POV

I woke the next morning with a horrible nauseous feeling and when I rolled over to try and get comfortable, I could feel the puke coming up. I jumped out of bed and ran to my bathroom only barely making it to the toilet.

Edward was instantly at my side, holding my hair back. I didn't bother to tell him to go away. I knew he wouldn't.

"Amber, honey, are you okay?" Edward asked me once I finally finished.

"Well, Edward, what does it look like?" I tried to tease him, but it came out more rudely then I meant it to.

"I'm sorry love." He apologized.

"No Edward. I didn't mean for it to come out that way. I feel like crap. I don't know what's wrong." I was shivering and sweating at the same time, and I felt extremely weak.

"I think we should take you to urgent care. I just want to make sure you're going to be okay. I will call Alice for you and tell her you won't be in today." He told me lovingly.

"That sounds like a good idea and thanks for calling Alice."

"It's not problem love," He said. Before he left the room he helped me up and walked me over to my bed.

My mind was racing with ideas.

There isn't anything going around. Besides, if there was, Edward would probably be sick too.

Could I be pregnant? I highly doubt it. I trust my birth control and I wouldn't be getting sick this early…would I?

No. That can't be it. Maybe it was my dinner last night. I thought my chicken tasted okay, but you never know. I bet it was food poisoning. If that's it then I don't need to go to urgent care. I will be fine in a couple of days.

"Edward," I called out weakly, but he heard me all the same.

"Yes love?"

"I think I just have food poisoning from my chicken last night. I don't really need to go to urgent care." I told him.

"Amber, I would feel a lot better if I took you anyway because we don't really know what is wrong." He looked worried as he said this. I wondered if he thought the same thing about me being pregnant.

"Edward, I am sure I will be okay, but if you really want me to go, I will," I tried to reassure him.

"Okay. Why don't I get you some comfy cloths and we will go," he said.

Soon after that, we were sitting in the sitting in the waiting room and we had only been there for twenty minutes and I puked twice in my make-shift trashcan. This caused everyone in the waiting room to slowly move to the other side of the room.

Finally I heard a nurse, "Amber Lynn?" Edward and I got up and headed back to meet with the doctor.

Edward's POV

I had been awake for about 20 minutes now, just admiring Amber and watching her sleep peacefully. She was so adorable when she was sleeping. When I finally felt her start to stir, I went to lean in for a good morning kiss and before I knew it, she had jumped out of bed and ran to the bathroom and I ran after her, not knowing what was wrong.

When I got to the bathroom I saw her there throwing up and I was worried about her. I went over and pulled her hair out of her face so it didn't get in the way. I silently wondered what could be wrong.

Maybe she is sick…Well Duh! Edward. She is throwing up.

Food poisoning? She hadn't said anything about her chicken being bad.

Flu? but wouldn't I be sick too if that were the case?

Pregnant? No!

I quickly dismissed that one.

We had only had sex for the first time at the beginning of the week; even if she was pregnant she wouldn't be having morning sickness yet…would she?

When she was finished I convinced her to go to urgent care to get checked out. When I called Alice to let her know what was going on, she completely understood saying, "Don't worry Edward. Bella and I have everything covered here. Take good care of her."

"Will do Alice," I assured her.

Once we got to urgent care, she had thrown up a few more times and the people in the waiting room weren't being subtle with their disgust. I was so thankful when the nurse came out to call us back.

She took us to a room and Amber sat on the bed while the nurse checked her out.

"The doctor will be right with you," she told us as she walked out.

I stood by Amber and started rubbing her back to try and calm her. She seemed so nervous. It wasn't like her to be nervous of the doctor.

"Amber, are you okay? Besides the obvious. You seem nervous."

"I'm just a little worried about what the doctor will say."

"I thought you said it was probably just food poisoning?" I was suddenly worried about what she could be nervous about.

"Yeah, but what if it's not that? What if it's more serious?" She paused for a second. "Edward…What if I'm pregnant?"

There it was. The thing I had been hoping she had ruled out. She had to know more about pregnancy then me. She was a girl. Didn't girls dream about having kids and know tons of things about pregnancy?

"Say something Edward." She looked worried. I must have been silent for a little too long. However, I knew what I would do if she was pregnant.

"Amber, if you are pregnant, I will stick by you and be here for you and our baby one hundred percent. I love you and I will love that baby with all my heart." I assured her.

"Thank you Edward."

We were silent for a few minutes, just looking at each other with love in our eyes. The doctor finally came in and looked her over.

"Well, you are sick," he said, teasing a bit.

"Obviously," Amber added with a small smile, but then she looked at him a little apprehensively and asked, "Do you think I could be pregnant?"

"It is a possibility. I need to know a few things first to get a better idea," he said.

"Of course," Amber told him.

"I am assuming that this is your boyfriend and you are both sexually active together or else you would not be asking me this question. Am I right?" He asked, pointing at me.

"Yes," I told him.

"How long have you been sexually active?"

Amber blushed a little before answering shyly, "About a week."

He smiled slightly and asked, "Are you using protection or are you on birth control?"

"Birth Control," she answered.

"Then you are most likely not pregnant. Even if you were, morning sickness does not usually begin until between the fourth and eighth week of pregnancy. However, we can run a test if you want to know for sure. But it could take a couple days to get the results back. A home test might be more efficient."

Both Amber and I nodded at his words and he continued.

"I am going to give you an antibiotic to take in case you aren't pregnant so you don't have to come back and get it later. Be careful though, when you take it, it can counteract your birth control."

"Okay. Thank you," Amber said. "We will be careful."

After that, the doctor walked us out, we paid and I took Amber home to rest, stopping at the drug store on the way to pick up a home pregnancy test.

Once we got back to the apartment, we sat together on the couch looking at each other, not exactly sure what to say.

After a solid ten minutes of sitting in silence, Amber spoke first.

"Edward, when I take this test, if comes out positive, we need a plan."

I knew she was right, but I couldn't help but be terrified. I knew that I would want to stand by her and our child, but I didn't know if I was ready to bring a child into this world when I wasn't even married.

"Edward?"

When I looked up at her, she looked worried. Then I realized I had been lost in thought for a while.

"A plan," I said. "That sounds like a good idea. What did you have in mind?"

"Well I don't know about you, but I would want to keep the baby. Abortion is out of the question and I don't think I could give my child up for adoption. I have a good job and I can afford to have a baby if I am pregnant so funds are not as issue. I know at the doctor's office you said you would stick by me. Do you still think that you could do that?"

I thought about all of that for a short moment and I knew what I wanted to do.

"I never once thought about abortion. I agree with you that it is completely out of the question and I also agree with you about adoption. I just couldn't do it. That being said, Amber, I love you with all of my heart. If you are pregnant, I think we should get married. But I want you to know that the baby would not be the only reason I would ask you to marry me. I would marry you because I love you and nothing could take that away from me." I told her.

"Edward, are you…proposing to me?" She asked cautiously.

"If you are pregnant, then yes. If not, I think we should wait a little longer for that step. I do want to marry you…one day." I prayed that she understood what I was trying to tell her and didn't get upset.

"I understand Edward. I feel the same way. I feel like we should be married before we have a child, but if I am not pregnant, I want to wait." Then she kissed me on the cheek and got up, grabbed the test, and went into the bathroom.

Amber's POV

As I sat in the bathroom waiting for the pregnancy test to show me the results, I thought back to the conversation I just had with Edward. He wanted to marry me if we were having a baby, but if we weren't, he still wanted to marry me, just in the future. I loved the idea of that and I couldn't stop smiling, no matter the outcome of that test I knew that I would have Edward forever.

Then I heard the timer on my phone go off and I got up and walked over to look at the test.

Edward's POV

The five minutes that Amber was in the bathroom were the most torturous five minutes of my life. Those five minutes felt like an eternity. Then I heard her phone timer go off and then…

"Edward? Can you come here?" She sounded worried and a little upset. This was it. She was pregnant. I knew it. When I walked into the bathroom, the look on her face confirmed my worries.

"Amber," I said. "We will get through this. Together. I love you." By the time I was finished saying that I had walked over to her and embraced her. She began to shake and at first I thought she was crying, and then I realized she was laughing.

"Amber?" I asked. I was so confused.

"I can't hold it in any longer." She said between laughs. "I'm not pregnant!"

"Wait, what?"

"I was just pulling your leg Edward and man did you fall for that one hard." She was pretty much falling over in a fit of laughter.

"That wasn't very nice," I tried to chastise her, but I had to admit she got me good and I couldn't help but be happy that we weren't having a child right now.

"I love you Edward. That was almost too easy," she said, calming down a bit.

"I am sorry though. That probably wasn't the best way to go about telling you, but I just couldn't pass up the opportunity," she said, still grinning from ear to ear.

"It's okay. I understand." We stood up and I kissed her, but she turned away from me quickly and ran to the toilet and threw up. I had almost forgotten about the food poisoning.

When she finished she flushed and then brushed her teeth.

"Sorry Edward, I got up to fast. I forgot about this stupid food poisoning."

"It's okay love. It's not your fault that you are sick and I kind of forgot to. Do you want me to run to the pharmacy and get your antibiotic?"

"That would be great. Thank you Edward." She said and kissed me goodbye and went to lie down. I sent Alice a quick text.

Hey, Amber has food poisoning. Not sure how long she will be out. Maybe a few days. –E

A few minutes later she responded.

Aww! Tell her that I love her and I hope she gets well and not to even think about setting foot in this store until she is better ;) I don't want to get sick lol plus she needs to get better. -AC

I laughed at that. Only Alice would think of getting sick when food poisoning wasn't contagious.

Haha I will tell her Alice. –E

When I got back to Amber's apartment I took her the medicine and she took it willingly. After that she told me she was tired so we laid down and drifted off into a peaceful nap.