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Chapter 19 - Full House

It was two days before moving day. Bella was still not pregnant. The morning alarm went off and she reached over, turning it off. She kissed my cheek lightly, making me smile. "It's test day," she whispered and I was suddenly wide awake.

"Do you want me to go to the bathroom with you?" I asked her just like every time before, but her answer was the same as always.

She rolled her eyes, "I'm not peeing in front of you, Edward, just wait here."

I nodded okay and watched her walk into our bathroom. I was silently praying that it had worked, that she would be pregnant this time.

I heard the water from the bathroom sink come on and I considered meeting her at the bathroom door. I didn't have time for that because she suddenly bound out and flopped on the bed. I pulled her into my arms, wondering what the test said. She was smiling.

"Well?" I asked.

"Were pregnant!" She was grinning so widely I thought her face would explode. Mine was doing the same. I practically flipped off the bed jumping over her, running to the bathroom to see for myself. I had to see it with my own eyes before I believed that I'd done it.

The little pink lines shined bright against the white back ground. "Were pregnant!" I shouted and came running back in the room waving the test. She giggled at me, pulling me down to kiss me.

"You are going to be a father, Edward. Well, you already are, but you're going to get to experience the baby stages," she said kissing me softly. "I'm so excited for you. You're going to be great."

"Only with you," I said kissing her softly and then kissed down to her tummy. "Hello in there, you hang on tight and grow up strong. We can't wait to meet you." I kissed her tummy again, snuggling it a little. "I love you."

"Me or the baby?" Bella teased.

"Both," I said smiling. I turned my face to her tummy, "I love you both," I whispered to our baby. Our baby, I couldn't believe it. We were having a baby. I'd finally done it. I knew it was cliché, but I felt like a man. I wanted to strut like a lion and nod at all the males, saying, 'Yeah, that's right, my mate is pregnant because I knocked her up.' I knew it was very primal of me, but I just couldn't help it. I wanted to claim her again and she was ready to be claimed by the way she kissed and grabbed me in return, but the phone ringing interrupted us.

"Just ignore it," she begged.

"It's the construction workers' ring tone. They were doing the final fixes we pointed out in our walkthrough today."

She groaned, knowing I had to take it. "Fine."

"Dr. Cullen," I answered briefly, hoping they would get to the point and let me get back to my wife.

"Yeah, um, okay, Doc, I know you're not going to believe this, and I swear I'm not drink or nothing. I've been sober six years."

"Congratulations, what's the problem?"

"You tell him, George," I heard the guy say.

"No way, he's gonna think we're loony. Jesus, I don't fucking believe it," I heard the man say in the background.

"Would you get to the point?" I asked a little sharply. I was getting tired of this run-around.

"Jesus, just, um, we ain't nuts, but there's a fucking lion on our truck," I heard George in the background shout.

"He ain't lying!" the guy on the phone said and then he started laughing at his pun.

I heard the lion roar then and the men screamed like little girls. "Oh, my god! Jesus, save me, please!" the man started praying.

I turned to Bella, "Uncle Bernard is at the house. The workers can't get out of their truck."

She started giggling, as she could overhear the men praying and screaming as Bernard roared.

"Hey!" I shouted a few times and finally got their attention. "It's Uncle Bernard. I'll be there shortly and get him off your truck."

"You know this fucking lion?" the man cried.

"Yup, hang tight, I'm on my way."

Over the past several months, the Vaulting Volturi Family Circus had decided to stay in Chicago. I helped them find a venue and they did some fund-raising for the children's hospital. The kids spent every weekend with them while Bella and I focused on making a baby. Much to Bella's pleasure, her dad, Charlie, had been staying with the circus and was learning to eat, throw, and juggle fire. Yes, my new family was insane, but it made life exciting…and Charlie looked hilarious without a mustache or eyebrows.

I had gotten friendly with all of the animals and we even built a barn-like structure for them to stay in. Turned out the Volturi's had numerous animals, but they traded them out regularly, letting them take it easy. Bella volunteered our new place as their new home base. We were supposed to come over in a couple of days, but I guess they had arrived early.

When we arrived at the house, I couldn't help but chuckle at the lion resting on the work truck.

"Bernard!" I shouted and he sat up looking at me. "What are you doing?"

He pawed the truck and shook his head. I knew this meant he wanted to go somewhere.

"Where do you want to go?" I asked.

He licked his chops.

"You want breakfast? Where's Marcus?"

He looked up at the guest room balcony.

"He's still sleeping? Well, wake him up." I gave him the sign to roar loudly. When he did, the men in the truck screamed in a pitch that would make dogs go deaf as they clung to each other. I walked across our freshly-laid lawn and shouted, "Marcus!" There was no answer so I turned to Uncle Bernard. "Bernard, go and get him already, I want some breakfast, too."

Bernard jumped down from the truck and easily jumped up to the second story balcony, making his way over to the doors. He roared loudly and I could hear them rattle from here. Bella and the kids had already gotten out. We kept the kids away from the lions just because both kids and animals could be unpredictable, but Bella herself was old friends with Uncle Bernard. "Go see if you can wake up Uncle Marcus," I told her and the kids as she giggled at the cowering workmen.

They had just stepped inside when the balcony doors opened and Bernard turned and jumped off the balcony and went back to the work truck, claiming a spot in the back.

"What are you doing there, Bernard?" Marcus yelled.

He gave the sign that he was ready to go.

"That's not our truck. We parked it in the garage, remember? It's inside," he said pointing down below him where the garage was. "It was inside and you didn't like it."

Bernard let out a whiny growl and covered one eye with a paw. It would be adorable if he wasn't such a massive animal.

"Edward, you mind opening your garage for Bernard? I promised him hamburgers this morning. He wants to go through a drive-thru."

"You got it," I said walking back to my car, hitting the button on my garage remote. Bernard hopped down and then licked the window of the worker's truck to say sorry, but I think they thought he was trying to eat them. He wandered over to the garage sniffing around and finally made his way into the back of Marcus's truck. It did look just like a normal work truck. I could see why Bernard had mixed them up.

I walked over to the workers and knocked on the glass. "It's cool, you can come out now," I said.

They just shook their heads no at me like I was nuts.

Marcus finally came out and I asked him to pick up some breakfast for my family, too. The workers watched in terror and amazement as Marcus hopped in his truck and drove off with a smiling lion in the back.

"Are you coming?" I asked.

"Are there any more lions around here?" one of the guys asked.

"No, but there are a couple of chimps and a zebra. The zebra is harmless, but, well, the chimps are perverts so just watch yourselves."

They looked at me wide-eyed and started laughing, thinking I was joking. I figured it was probably best not to correct them. I wanted this house finished so we could finish moving in.

I walked in to find a few circus folk milling around. We'd had most of our new furniture delivered after our walkthrough last week. The house was pretty much finished, but it needed a few little touch-ups here and there. It was totally livable and we had the utilities on to make it easier for the workers to finish up.

Bella was talking with her mother in the kitchen and the kids were playing out back with the peacock and peahens. Aunty and Chester were missing and I hoped they were sleeping in so the workers could finish up.

"Morning, Edward," Renee sang, "Bella tells me you both have some news to share once my Charred Charlie is up?"

I couldn't help but giggle at his circus name. For some reason, Renee loved it and insisted on constantly calling him that. It wasn't long before he emerged and I held back my chuckle when I saw he had drawn some eyebrows on his face.

"Morning, Daddy," Bella rushed over hugging her dad, giving him a hug. He kissed the top of her head lightly and her mother took her place in his arms as soon and Bella stepped back into mine.

"Well, for heaven sakes, tell us!" Renee squealed.

Before Charlie could ask what she was talking about, Bella spilled the beans. "We're pregnant!"

I half expected Charlie to set me on fire for knocking up his little girl, but he just smiled widely and pulled us both in for hugs. "Good work," he said squeezing my shoulder. He looked at his beaming daughter and nodded at me and I understood then why he wasn't upset. I had given his daughter what she wanted. She was happy and that was all he asked of me.

The celebration that night was huge and done totally circus-style. A few of the neighbors came by to meet us, thinking we had officially moved in, and we introduced our family to them as Aro loudly belted out for all the world to hear that Bella was pregnant. There were a lot more animal there than I had ever met at once. There was an elephant that was just casually walking around stealing people's drinks, and a couple of ponies that were wandering to the far edges of the yard. I was guessing they were looking for some peace and quiet. There were two other chimps I met, Uncle Boo and Ms. Maddy. They were not as "affectionate" as Chester and Aunty, thank heavens. We had built a huge barn to Bella and Aro's specifications and I realized why it needed to be so large now. There was a female lion that was perched in a tree, her tail swinging to the music that was being played by the clown group.

The neighbors hesitantly joined us for the barbeque at Aro's insistence. I overheard one asking Marcus if the lions would eat their dog and he laughed at them. "They don't like hairy things. They much rather have a burger or a steak than a dog," he said and tossed the lioness a burger to drive home the point. She seemed to catch it with her paw and batted it up to her mouth. "They're well fed and happy, we don't treat them like the standard circus folk might. They perform when they want and do what they want. I just stand around and act like I'm telling them to do stuff. Isn't that right?" he nodded behind the couple and Bernard came up, leaning against Marcus's side. The couple took several steps back in shock and fear. Bernard looked up at Marcus as if asking what their problem was and Marcus just shrugged, slipping him a steak off the grill.

I felt bad that several houses in the neighborhood were put on the market after that night.

Our move was smooth and fast. It was propagated by circus folk of course who were official movers and packers. They were fast and efficient in a way that was scary. They could easily start a second business doing that if they wanted. In the end, our forty-five hundred square foot home was fully furnished and unpacked in one day. Yeah, like I said, amazing. I was also pleased that since we had announced Bella's pregnancy, no one would let her lift a finger. The most she was allowed to do was direct from Aro's shoulder.

Bella was sad to see them go, but thrilled they were leaving Tally with her and taking the ponies. It was time to trade out the animals so they could get a rest from traveling, so we were left with Aunty, Chester, Bernard, a few peacocks that were apparently part of a dance number, and Bella's zebra, Tally.

I insisted that I feed Bernard, not wanting the kids or my pregnant wife to accidently get hurt. I didn't believe he would hurt us on purpose, but he was a huge animal and a misstep on his part could be painful for us.

Chester and Aunty claimed the upstairs guest room as soon as Marcus vacated it. I was pleased to find they were potty trained and actually helpful around the house. There was a large jungle gym for them to play on in the back yard, but they very seldom went to it until they were told to go play. Bella said it was because Chester was older and would rather just lie around the house than sit in the sun. I guess their counterparts, Maddy and Boo, were the younger ones and would get more use of the gym once they traded out again.

I realized one morning on my long drive to work that if Bella went into labor, it would take way too long for me to get to her. I quickly put in for a transfer to a closer hospital, sad to leave, but happy that I would literally just be down the road. It also made it easier for me to slip out during my lunch breaks to go to her appointments.

At our first appointment, we couldn't hear the heartbeat because it was too early, but they assured us that it was normal. That was when my girl was just ten weeks along. She was at fourteen weeks now and already looking huge. I worried that maybe our dates were off, but I couldn't understand how that could be. We had been testing every month.

I helped my girl up the clinic steps and kissed her softly. "You're worried," she said snuggling into my side.

There were a lot of things that could go wrong with her and the baby. Her being this large was a sign of a few things that could be wrong. I suddenly hated that I was an informed doctor. "You're going to be fine."

She squeezed my arm, "I know I am, but do you know it?" she asked. She could always read me so perfectly.

Her name was called and the doctor did a double-take, looking at his chart twice to check her dates. "You're fourteen weeks?" he asked as if he didn't believe it.

"Yes," Bella answered firmly.

"Okay, why don't you lay back and I'm going to do an ultrasound on you to see what we have going on."

I let out a sigh of relief, "Thank you."

He gave me a tight smile and nodded in my direction. I stood next to my girl, too nervous to sit as I held her hand tightly. I kissed her head softly as loud whooshing sounds filled the room. I looked over at the screen confused.

"Well, that explains everything," the doctor said relieved and started making measurement marks on the screen and I watched as he typed in fetus one, fetus two, and fetus three.

The dark room suddenly went black.

My nose was filled with a sickening ammonia scent and I knew I had passed out. "Edward?" Bella called worried.

"I'm fine, sorry." I looked over at the doctor who was helping me up off the floor and helped me into the seat next to my wife.

"As I was telling your wife, there are only two placentas, meaning that she was having fraternal twins, but then one split, giving you a set of identical twins."

"Do twins run in your family?" I asked.

She just laughed. "My mom's twin is Aunt Rachel, Trevor's is Tyler, then there's Jed and Jack as well. Then there are all the fraternal ones as well, Mandy and Michael, Betty and Ben, Candace and Cody. Honestly, when I was born a singleton, they thought I was an anomaly. And then when Ara was born single as well, I just assumed I didn't get the twinning gene."

"Fraternal twins are genetic, but identical twins are less understood. We aren't quite sure what causes the split, just that it can happen to any embryo, and in any family. You have several identical twins in your family?" he asked a little excited.

"Yeah, we just assumed it was hereditary as well," Bella said with a shrug.

"Where does your family live?"

"Well, they're in a circus, so they're everywhere I guess."

"Circus?" he asked surprised.

"We have a lion to prove it," I added.

"That is very…" he wrote something down and then finally said, "interesting." He finally looked back up at us smiling. "You'll need to take in extra calories to support the babies. There's always the option of aborting one of the babies to lower the risk to the other two," he said with a furrowed brow.

"Absolutely not," Bella shook her head frowning.

I agreed with her, even though it scared me.

"Alright then, just take it easy and I want to see you every two weeks to keep an eye on these three," he said pointing to the screen. He printed out some pictures for us and we drove home in silence.

"So, three, huh?" I said breaking the silence.

She looked over at me worried. "Edward, are you okay?"

I swallowed hard. "You think Chester and Aunty would mind moving to the downstairs guest room when the time comes?"

"I'm sure they'll be fine with it."

"We need to get a maid."

I saw her start to protest, but I cut her off. "You heard the doctor. He said to take it easy."

"You put an elevator in the house, Edward."

"Well, thank heavens I did, and you're going to start using it now," I insisted.

She leaned back in her seat and looked over at me upset. "Please?" I begged. "Just do this for me. I'll be a worried mess otherwise."

She leaned over and kissed my cheek. "Fine, but I'm picking the maid."

I nodded alright. Turned out her maid was a great aunt named Melody. She was in her late sixties, but in great shape. She had wanted to retire from the circus and I guess being a maid was considered easy work. It also helped that she had a great report with Bernard and the other animals already. She was a perfect match for our family, and thankfully, she was very experienced with multiple births and was great at telling Bella what she could and couldn't do. She was driving my girl up the wall, but I had to love Aunt Melody for it.

I knew my love was in good hands.

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