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OK, answering review questions aqui (here in Spanish, I'm weird like that). First off, I know Emmett, Carlisle, and Alice were being quite…unreasonable last chapter. But imagine if your best friend got pregnant by some kid who looks like he can't even handle himself, you would probably be less polite than usual. And if your nerdy rich son/brother has some girl you don't really know saying she has his baby, wouldn't you be a little suspicious?
Song for the chapter is Make You Mine by The Secret Handshake. It's kinda techno-y and very slow and mellow. : ) Midnight Movie and Gamegirl are also excellent but have no relevance to this chapter. All The Small Things by Blink-182 is actually relevant to the chapter. So yeah…on with the geekiness.
Mid-January 2010:
The cold winds made my breath come in sharply as I ran around the recently shoveled track with my track team but it was nice to be able to actually focus on something. I had been unusually off track in all my classes since the B-bomb dropped like it had put a fog on my entire life. Perhaps that was because this kid, my baby, was already changing my entire life.
Bella technically lived across the hall from me but she never actually slept there. When I went to school, she would go into my room and play video games. When she went to sleep, she would first go to her room and like clockwork, an hour after she went to her room, she would crawl into my side and sleep. At first, it was incredibly awkward for me because I had zero experience snuggling it up with gorgeous girls. But it seemed to make her happy and I figured the poor girl had already lost her chance to finish college so I needed to do everything in my power to make Bella smile.
I was brought back from my musings by my one and only friend at school, Benjamin Cheney, running along my side. He was panting as he looked at me like he had something to ask me.
"Hey, Weeble, did you hear that you're having a baby?" I almost died laughing there on the track.
"Uh yeah, I'm pretty sure I knew that, seeing how I was there for conception." Cheney, also known as Bob, looked at me as I had just killed a dragon or something as wickedly awesome as that.
"Dude, you're like a Nerd God now. You're the first one of us to actually you know get your sword in a girl's holy grail."
"Yeah, I guess", I mumbled. I really didn't want to talk about said profound moment of conception. That would probably lead to dangerous pork sword situations in these stupid moss green shorts. We ran in silence for a while until Ben turned his head to me again.
"So what's it like? Sex I mean", he asked thoughtfully. I tipped my head and thought about for a little while.
"Pretty incredible. It's like getting the actual lightsaber Mark Hamill used in A New Hope."
"Do you love her?" That question threw me back. Did I really love Bella? I certainly was physically attracted to her with the crazy pheromones but did I really love her?
"I dunno mate."
"So what are you doing about the baby and all?" I scrunched my eyebrows up. All these questions were making me seem retarded because I had no clue about my future for the first time in my life.
"No clue. I mean I'm 90% sure we're keeping the little bugger but my parents aren't that happy about it, Bella's dad kicked her out, and I have no job to support a kid with." I ran my fingers through my hair; this shit was confusing. I swore as soon as I got home tonight that Bella and I would sit down and have a real discussion about us and the baby.
"Wow, Cullen….Hey anytime you just wanna chill from all the drama you can come over to my place you know." He put his hand on my shoulder as we started walking back to the school so I could grab my things and go home.
"Thanks." I checked my watch and saw that lunch was over and unfortunately on my way to my locker I saw Newton's stupid blonde head and he pushed me face first into the cold gray steel.
"Loser, I heard you knocked some chick up. I didn't even know your little dick was big enough to get it in a girl", he sneered. I wiped the blood away from my deeply cut lip.
"How the fuck do you even know about it?" He gave me this sad look.
"My mom works at the clinic your mom took your baby mama to, you dumbfuck. She listed you as the father on the paperwork." I stood there transfixed. Newton had gotten wiser with the ways of the Force, I had better up my game. Newton cleared his stupid pompous throat.
"I feel sorry for that poor girl. Why she should have to pay for some drunken mistake with a loser like you. I bet that night was the first night a girl even looked you in the eyes, freak." I tried to man up and not let the tears come out of my eyes so I just took a deep breath and went to my car.
I had calmed down by the time I got to my door and just marched on into my room like I should be able to. But no, what my eyes were greeted with as soon as I got through the threshold was something that I had fantasized about having in my room and never thought I would see. Bella's mid-back length, mahogany brown hair lay damp on her back as she stood naked in front of my mirror with her hands over her flat stomach. I just couldn't take my eyes away from her; she looked so beautiful and peaceful, in fact she looked the most at rest I had ever seen her at in our short acquaintance.
She finally realized I was standing there like a freaking pedophile and shrieked just out of pure surprise. I flushed a dark crimson and ran out of the room. I slumped against my wood door and sat there in shock until Emmett walked coolly up the stairs with a can of Mountain Dew.
"You do know that's your room, right?"
"Umm yeah, Bella's in there." He ruffled my hair up.
"Aww Eddie, it's OK. I'm sure she doesn't have cooties, you can go in there."
"Haha, very funny. I walked in there five minutes ago and she was naked so yeah…I'm not going in there right now."
"What is your problem with nudity? You're not a virgin anymore, you've seen that naked. Hell son, you've hit that."
"Emmett, it's not like that. I'm just respecting her privacy. She has a right to get dressed without me sporting a freaking boner at her like a fucking weirdo." Emmett sighed.
"C'mon kid, we're going for a drive." I got up from my perch and followed Emmett into his Jeep for what was bound to be an embarrassing conversation.
"Listen son," he started as we drove down the forest highway near our house, "she doesn't seem be too shy around you if she's naked in your bedroom. I'm pretty sure that you know sex during pregnancy is perfectly safe and perhaps even healthy so if you're feeling uncomfortable like this, why don't you just have sex with her?"
I huffed. "Emmett, I don't even know her that well. I'm not just going to say 'Oi hey Bella, as you may have noticed, my dick is harder than a rock and I've already jacked it so many times I may have broken the Guinness World Record. Most other guys are getting it and I think I should too. Maybe you should dress up as Princess Leia as I fuck you from behind.' Yeah, real classy, Em."
He started chuckling as he turned on his stereo. "See Ed, you're saying it completely wrong. You gotta say stuff like this." I finally recognized the song that was playing on the stereo. It was Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo by Bloodhound Gang. Emmett clapped his hands and started shouting the lyrics out-key.
Vulcanize the whoopee stick in the ham wallet,
cattle prod the oyster ditch with the lap rocket,
batter dip the cranny ax in the gut locker,
retrofit the pudding hatch ooh la la with the boink swatter.
"Boink swatter?", I raised my eyebrows at Emmett. He listened to the weirdest songs and the sad thing was that Rosalie probably loved it.
"Hey, you go around talking about your pork sword so I don't want to hear, Ed bro." The innuendoes started up again and so did the cacophony of Emmett's "singing".
Marinate the nether rod in the squish mitten,
power drill the yippee bog with the dude piston,
pressure wash the quiver bone in the bitch wrinkle,
cannonball the fiddle cove ooh la la with the pork steeple.
"Emmett, this is serious. This is actually really serious. Just a couple months ago, I was just some freak with no social life and no girlfriends and no drama. Now, I'm going to be a fucking father and I have this unbelievably beautiful girl living in my house who I think I might actually have feelings for and…", I paused here, putting my fingers all through my hair. I lowered my voice to a whisper before I continued again, "everything is so different now. I don't think I even have enough room in my head to think about all of this."
Emmett clapped his big hand down on my shoulder securely. "Edward, I know things have been beyond crazy for you lately and that your entire life is changing but don't you dare for one second believe that you're alone in this. Of course, you're Bella's main support right now, but Mom, Dad, me, Rose, and Ben are here for you. I'm not going to lie, Ed, this path you're on is a harder one, but it's not impossible to live happily with your choices. I'm here for you."
"Thanks, Em. I just don't know how to act around her. I get these feelings in the pit of my stomach whenever she's around that turns me into an even clumsier, socially awkward kid and when she falls asleep at night, sometimes I just look at her for a little bit, just amazed that I have her here. But I have no clue how to make things comfortable between us, you know?"
Emmett grinned. "I think I understand. I wasn't always so confident you know. I used to be as shy as you are but then I realized that nothing was ever going to go my way unless I went out and tried to get myself heard. Even though I knew I wasn't always going to succeed but I had to at least try even though I was scared. I think the best approach to Bella is to just let her know how you're feeling and just take things slowly from there."
"That makes sense", I offered to Emmett.
"Thanks. You know one sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes." That made me chuckle.
"You know, I might have applauded your philosophical nature just then if I didn't know that was a quote from the Little Prince by Antoine de-St Exúpery." We drove back home after that and I took a deep breath, mentally preparing myself to talk to Bella.
I know it's short but Georgia agreed that it was long enough for now. We have some things to address tonight kiddies. First, do you guys ever want to hear Bella's point of view on this because Georgia and I thought that we would just make it a whole new story once this one nears completion whenever that may be.
Second, I might update by Wednesday next week but don't expect anything next weekend because I have the dreaded SATs. Third, my beta is the shit. : ) Fourth, Shane Dawson is beautiful. Aaaaannnnndddd……review please. I have lots of lurkers out there who don't review and I really would like to here your thoughts about what you like, what you hate, what you want to see happen. Just ask Georgia, I put your ideas in my stories. You can even call me a knob head. Really.
Love, Amanda.