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I do not own twilight or any of the characters :D :D :DBPOV
"Uhhhhhh." I groaned as I rolled onto my back. I tried to blink back the light that was flooding the room. "What's wrong? What happened?" I tried to raise myself onto my elbow but gave up and fell back onto the warm, extremely comfortable bed. Alice, Jasper, Rose and Emmett all piled into the room with huge grins on their faces. "Edward? What's going on?" I asked turning my head and seeing him led next to me.
"Now Bella, we don't want to alarm you but …" Rosalie started before she was interrupted.
"The babies are coming, the babies are coming!" Alice was bouncing up and down.
"What do you mean?" I sat up slowly and looked around the room. "Aaaah!" I cried and my hands flew to my bump. It felt like the kicking I had felt before but it was like ten times harder. "What the -?"
"Come on, Bella, I'm going to drive you to the hospital." Edward smiled reassuringly at me and slowly pulled me up. I was confused. How come everyone seemed to know what was happening except me?
"But I'm not really having a baby. You do know that right?" I asked tentatively. Sleep was clouding my thinking, so I thought it was a totally valid question. Apparently though, everyone else found it hilarious.
"Yes, love, I know. But Carlisle is working late tonight and he is at the hospital. Since the dolls are at the hospital, we need to go there." Edward was fighting back a smile, I could tell.
"Oh." I said quietly. "Can't we wait 'till the morning? I'm really tired." For the second time that minute I sent everyone into hysterics.
"Carlisle also is the only one that can turn off the sympathy bellies. So until he shows up, that think is gonna keep on vibrating or whatever the hell it's doing." Jasper piped up from beside a very excitable Alice.
"Okay then." I shrugged. I stood up slowly and gathered up my dressing gown and slippers and made my way towards the front door. "Let's go then." The still laughing crowd of Cullen's followed me.
By the time we got to the hospital it was almost three in the morning. The sleepiness had worn off, and now I was just tired and grumpy. The swinging weight in my stomach was making me feel sick. I was not in a good mood. We parked up in the car park then Edward helped me inside where a bored looking reception lady sat at the desk. I hobbled over to the receptionist and waited until I caught her attention.
"I'd like to see Doctor Cullen please. As soon as possible." I demanded in my best no-nonsense voice.
Still clicking away on her computer she answered me. "He's busy now."
"But this is really important." I continued, determined to see Carlisle right now. I wasn't sure how much more of this 'labor' I could take!
"I said he's busy."
"Tell him it's urgent." I almost growled.
"I said he is busy." She was obviously not scared.
"Well, when can I see him?" I threw my hands in the air in frustration. This woman couldn't really care less.
"He's not due a break for half an hour." She said, not even bothering to look at me. Well thanks for the help!
"Fine then, but I'm taking a wheelchair!" I declared, stomping over to an empty one and plonking myself down onto it hard. I crossed my arms over my chest and turned to Edward. "Where is everyone else?"
"Well, I think they've gone to the maternity ward. We should be able to hear exactly where they are when we get up there." He came up behind me and wheeled me to the lift.
The lift doors opened to the sounds of crying newborns and screaming women who sounded like they were in extreme pain. I winced as we passed each room. I am so glad that this pregnancy is only pretend. Edward, sensing my tension, pushing me slightly faster as we continued up the ward.
"Your here!" Alice bounced out of the bed she was laying in to hug me tightly.
"How long until Carlisle get's here?" I asked, without even saying 'hi'.
"Twenty-five minutes and six seconds." She answered me, sounding extremely excited. Alice skipped back over to the bed and perched on the end of it. There was four beds in total, all covered in white sheets.
"Why is there a weird foot rest thing at the bottom of the beds?" Emmett said lying in the spare bed, playing with the foot rest.
"The girls put their feet on them so the doctor can get a good look at their ... errrm ... lady bits when the baby comes." Jasper said quietly to his brother. Not quietly enough though, because the entire room heard it.
"Ewwwww! That's gross!" Emmett wrinkled his nose in disgust.
"Time check?" I asked.
"Twenty one minutes and thirty seven seconds." Alice answered.
I climbed onto the bed closest to me and closed my eyes. This was going to be a long wait.
Fifteen minutes later we had played six games of eye-spy, watched Emmett and Jasper reenact the film Titanic (all the 'good' bits anyway), played a very unsuccessful game of hide and seek and done all the breathing exercises we were taught. For the first time since I arrived in this room, no one spoke.
"I'm soooo bored!" Emmett sighed, wheeling himself around in circles in my chair.
"You and me both!" I snapped back. This vibrating baby bump had left me feeling nauseous and my patience wearing thin."Time check?"
"Five minutes, nine seconds and counting." Alice replied. Even she was getting bored. "Oh my God!" She suddenly perked up. "I totally know what we haven't done yet!"
"Striptease?" Emmett offered. I shot him a dirty look. "Okay, okay, I'm only making a suggestion."
"What, oh dear sister of mine, are you thinking about?" Edward asked, looking at Alice from the foot of my bed.
"Name picking!" Alice squealed and looked at everyone, expecting an exited reaction from us.
"Whoop-de-doo." I said, sarcastically.
"Okay, there's no need for that. I know you're cranky but you don't have to take it out on me."
"Juliette." Rosalie spoke softly from the corner bed. "If I had a daughter I would have called her Juliette." She was staring off into space with a small smile playing on her lips. "Or Louisa. I've always liked that name."
"What about boys names sweetheart?" Emmett asked kindly, giving her his full attention.
"Thomas or Timothy." Her smile grew wider. "Perhaps Jeremiah."
"I like Jeremiah. I had a friend called Jerry when I was six, but he moved away the next year. I was gutted." Emmett trailed off by himself.
"I've always liked William, " Jasper smiles at his wife. You could almost see the love flowing between them. ", and Marcus."
"Cynthia." Alice admitted. "I promised myself if I ever had a daughter, I'd name her after my sister."
"Elizabeth." Edward said, "After my mother." I reached for his hand across the bed.
"I love it." I squeezed his hand and smiled.
"What about you Bella?" Edward asked, squeezing back.
"To be honest, I hadn't really thought about it." I bit my lip.
"Well you'd better think quickly, Carlisle is on his way up now." Alice joked.
"Errm..." I really had no idea at all. Just then, Carlisle knocked on the door and entered.
"I heard you wanted to see me." he smiled at each of us in turn. "And at this time in the morning it can only mean one thing."
"Baby Time!" Emmett shouted, showing off his jazz hands at the same time.
"Please tell me that you brought the dolls." I almost pleaded with him. I really wasn't feeling too well.
"Of course I do. Here they are." Carlisle left the room for a few seconds and came back in with the massive cardboard box that he had brought into the lounge earlier this week.
"Ooooooooh!" Alice practically leapt off the bed and threw herself at a rather scared looking Carlisle and his box. "Let me see, let me see!"
"Woooah there! Calm down babe." Jasper tried yet again to calm down his rather exited wife.
"First of all, I want each of you to pick one piece of paper from this hand.." Carlisle pulled a handful of paper from his pocket and held a hand out, to us, three small balls of paper resting in the middle. "You first Bella."
I gingerly hopped off the bed and took the ball of paper that was closest to myself. "Can I open it?" I asked, looking up into the doctor's eyes.
"Wait until everyone gets theirs, then you can all open them together. Rose, you next." Rose sauntered up to Carlisle and picked one of the two remaining choices. The last scrunched up bit of paper was tossed to Alice. "Okay, open them." A smile spread across Carlisle's face.
"What does it say love?" Edward grinned from the bottom of the bed. I opened the little note carefully, so I didn't rip it. When I saw what was written on it my eyes widened and my mouth hung open. I hoped to God this wasn't what I thought it was.
"It says triplets." I said, my voice unsteadily.
So, the babies are finally coming - about time too! Please review/comment and tell me what you think! Also let me know about any ideas you have for future chapters ^_^ Thanks