As an apology for the late update, i'm updating again. Lately I've had a really nagging cough that won't go away, so I went to the doctors and I had to have some tests run.
Lucky for you it's not lung cancer, like it could have been, because there is a slight chance that lung cancer is genetic in our family. But back in August, I was really sick, and it turns out I had/have pneumonia. Don't worry, I'm not going to die. And then, the other day I saw my doctor in the supermarket (my doctor also happens to be my best friend's dad) and he told me that my blood tests also showed that I had the flu... So now I'm all drugged up and getting better!
Also, how awesome is my new avatar? lol.
Enough about my personal life, more about WYWSHA!
After we farewelled Marianne, we piled into the car and had a silent trip back to Lewiston. Inside, I was angry at the stupid Lewiston doctors, but on the outside, I looked like I was going to cry.
Jasper reached over and took my hand.
"Don't worry Bella, we'll get through this together. No matter what happens now, I'll stand by you."
It wasn't Jasper I was worried about, it was Charlie and the rumour mill I was more scared about. I'd heard some nasty rumours since I'd come to Lewiston, none of them true, but they were still the vilest things I'd heard.
We didn't exactly speak until we reached Lewiston. We had a brief talk about a few things, but we weren't exactly having a conversation.
Rosalie was waiting at my house when we arrived.
"Did you tell Jasper?" she asked.
"Yeah. I didn't want a replay of what happened last time."
"That's good. I left some stuff for you in your bathroom. Don't rush it. Don't worry if you take a couple of days to do it, just take your time. If you still feel sick in a couple of days, take them."
Charlie's headlights flashed through the window.
"You'd better go Rose, or Charlie will be suspicious." Charlie's footsteps were getting closer.
"It's good that your back Bella. Have a nice night." She passed Charlie as he walked in the door.
"Hey, dad."
"Hey, Bells. Did you have a nice time in Forks?"
"Yeah. Well, except for having to go to the hospital. I didn't even get to see him. But I caught up with Angela and Jasper and I stayed with Marianne last night."
Charlie's eyebrows shot up into his hairline. "Really? I think we sort of lost contact with her after Jasper and Sam moved."
I just nodded and Charlie picked up on my mood straight away.
"You look a bit sad, Bells."
"Forks was just bringing back memories. I think I'll go to bed."
"Alright. Night Bells."
"Night Dad."
I walked to my room and saw three little sticks, unopened and nestled into the folds of my bed covers. Thanks Rosalie I thought internally.
I put the sticks in my bathroom, where tomorrow I'd see whether my destiny was motherhood.
JPOV:
I walked back up to the house, where Jen was cooking roast chicken. I usually thought that it smelt good, but compared to mom's dinner last night, this roast belonged back in the chicken coop.
Jen saw me come through the door.
"Hey Jasper," she called out to me.
"Hey," I called out half-heartedly.
I went straight to my room and lay on my bed, wondering who karma was. I bet it was Lauren.
I get Bella back, she gets pregnant and doesn't tell me, so I get in a car crash. I get out of hospital and back with Bella, then Mike gets himself into hospital and takes all her attention. Then I reunite with mom, who I haven't seen for about four years, then we find out Bella could still be pregnant.
Life sucks.
Rosalie popped her golden head in my door.
"Dinner's ready."
"Not hungry."
She came in the door and sat on my bed.
"What's up?"
"Karma's a slut. It goes around behind my back, fucking everyone I know."
Rosalie looked down at me. "Worried about Bella?"
She knew exactly what was on my mind. "That's what I mean about karma. Your news came in the middle of one of the best things to happen to me in the past few years. We were having dinner with my mom-"
Rosalie cut in sharply. "You were having dinner with your mom?"
"Yeah, we stayed at my old place the night. I'm going to take you to meet her next time. We'll borrow Edward's dad's van and Bella and I will take all of you guys to Forks."
"You stayed at your mom's place?"
"Yes. Bella and I stayed at my mom's house, in my old room, which is next door to Bella's old house. There was an open house at her old place, so we went inside for a look. It looks the exact same as when I last saw it a few years ago."
Jen called out from the kitchen. "Rose! Jasper! Dinner's ready!"
Rose stood up and went out the door, before sticking her head back in.
"Your not the only person worried about Bella. We all are. But your the one who has to make a huge decision."
I went out to the dining room, where Jen was carving up the chicken on plates of steaming hot vegetables.
Dad sat down next to me. "Hey Jasper, how was Forks?"
I gulped. "Good. Well, not the hospital, but the rest of it was good."
"Good. So what else did you and Bella do there?"
I gulped again. "We went and had a look at Bella's old house, because it was open. And last night...we had dinner and stayed at mom's."
Dad's knife and fork banged down on his plate. "WHAT?" he roared.
Jen put her cutlery down gently. "Sam, settle down."
He took no notice. "I thought I told you never to contact her again!"
"She has as much parental authority over me as you and Jen have. I'm not trying to forget her like you are. Infact, we're going back to Forks to see her next week."
"LIKE HELL YOU ARE! I DIDN'T RAISE YOU WITH A LOVING STEPMOTHER AND STEPSISTER TO GO BACK TO THAT DEVIL!"
"She's not the bad one dad!" I yelled back. "She's the only one who could make me happy. Whenever I was sad in Forks, you just told me 'Suck it up son, suck it up'. But mom actually cared for me. If you were anything like her, I would have been happy here in Lewsiton. But I wasn't. And when I went back to see her, I was the happiest I had been in four years! And you're not going to take that away from me now!"
I pushed my chair out and stormed out of the house. I stomped over to Bella's house and knocked on her door loudly.
Bella looked slightly scared when she opened the door, but softened up when she saw it was me. It had started raining when I was walking over, and I was now dripping from head to toe.
"Hey," she started.
"Can I stay here? At least for tonight."
"Um, sure. Come in, I'll get you a towel or something to dry off."
She walked towards the linen cupboard, while I tried to stay on the mat, so that I wouldn't drip water all into the house.
She appeared with a towel and she handed it to me as I dried myself a bit. My clothes were still damp, but being clothes, they wouldn't dry for a while.
When I was dry, we walked into the living room where there was a warm fire burning. I sat down, trying not to get the couch wet.
"Something happened, didn't it?" she asked.
"Dad and I had a fight," I stated.
"What was it about?"
"He didn't like us visiting mom. I don't think that he cared about you seeing her, but he didn't like it when I told him."
"So you ran away," she assumed.
"Well, this is probably where Rosalie will look for me later tonight. I know her well enough for me to know that later tonight she'll come and knock on your window, to try and talk some sense into me," I replied scornfully.
"Don't worry about that, we have other problems."
"I know. What should we do about it?" I asked.
Bella chewed the skin next to her nail. "I don't know. I honestly don't know."
"Well, there's no time like the present."
She looked at me suddenly. "What?"
"Why not do it now? We're both here, and you have the stuff for it, so why not?"
She started chewing again. "I suppose so. I'm scared though. What do we do? I'm not ready to become a teenage mother, and I think Charlie would go ballistic if I told him."
"I'm not ready to be a dad either, but if worse comes to worse, I don't care. I'm not leaving you again."
"Alright then. Let's do it."
She got up and went to her en suite bathroom, where she had the tests in a drawer. She shut me out of her bathroom and a few minutes later, she emerged from the bathroom.
"I only did one, because it should tell me. If it doesn't I'll do the others, just to be sure."
She sat cross-legged on her bed with me, the stick in the middle. After a few minutes, she picked it up and looked at it in the light.
"There it is, that offending little blue strip that tears people apart," she said, her voice quivering with unshed tears.
"But not us," I replied, leaning over and hugging her. I didn't know if she was crying or not. I pulled back and saw she was biting her lip, thinking about something, but not crying.
"But I don't want to have a kid. I haven't finished high school yet, I don't have a job. You're fighting with your dad, and soon I'm bound to be at it with mine because of this."
"I have a job, and I'm sure that we can borrow some money or something. I know that Edward, Alice and Rosalie all work, and it shouldn't be too hard for you to find a job. We could rent a little apartment in town. It'll all work out fine, I promise."
"But where does it leave us? I want to graduate from high school, and go to college and then start a family. I don't want to go through with this."
Her tears started to roll slowly down her cheeks now. I pulled her in again and held her close until she started squirming.
"I want to go to sleep now, I'm really tired and we've had a lot to deal with."
"Okay. Night Bell. See you in the morning."
She got into the bed and I lay down with her. She was faced away from me, so I wrapped my arms around her and she held my arms in place. My hands were resting on her stomach, and I thought about how in a few months, there would be something growing in her, and sooner or later, it would be gone. But not forever, because it would be in our arms and inside her is a child.
Our child.
Yew! Two chapters in less than 24 hours. I'm that awesome...
BUT since I did 2 updates right after one another, I'm expecting about 15 reviews, for this one and the last one, and I won't update until I get them...deal? Plus, I'm running out of pre-prepared chapters. 'Nuff said.