Chapter 15. (Thank you Greenie 101!)
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The next seven days went on without much happening in the school; no one knew that I was pregnant yet (the pack had sworn not to tell anyone) so I
just did my usual things like going from classroom to classroom and taking my lessons, being a good example to others, stop every bloody time a
demon born sneaked in on my school and threw themselves at my feet (they were smart enough to do this when the humans didn't see, it was
disrespectful for them if they made a human suspicious regarding me.) and I had a lot of work with being fair and enduring an endless stream of
fellow students needing my help or asking me for my opinion in various cases (a few of the teachers did that too!). In the demon world I was busy
with finding my dress for the party that was supposed to be hosted next Friday evening and finding the clothes for the whole pack, their imprints and
Sara. Finding the right clothes meant something all the boys hated and all we girls liked (to a certain point, an Alice Cullen shopping trip is suicide.)
Jacob being his usual happy self, found a happy thing in this situation; he could spend the whole day with me and Sara and have a great time enjoying
it. I smiled at the thought; Jacob was a real family man. He love being a father, I don't understand why I was so nervous about telling him about me
being pregnant. This led my thoughts to another person I had been frightened to tell the news to; my father, Charlie Swan. His reaction was
unpredictable to me so I felt slightly scared when I stood in front of him.
Flashback:
Charlie closed the door carefully behind him and walked into the kitchen, he seemed tired and a bit sad about something. "Dad what's wrong? You
look like you have had a rough day at work." I asked him concerned and then he looked into my eyes; his eyes were full of sorrow and pain. They were
the eyes of a man who suffered from a horrible experience that had altered him and made him look like an old man who had seen his family die slowly
while he, himself was alive and just longed to join them. When I looked into them I gasped and rushed over to him, putting a hand on his back trying to
comfort him. After a second he did something I had never thought I would experience in this world; he leaned into me and cried. For a long time we
just sat there, but in the main time the pack members came into the kitchen. Seth was the first; he looked confusedly at us silently mouthing `what's
wrong? ´ I just shook my head as to indicate that I didn't know, quietly Seth made his way over to us and put his hand on Charlie's back. It was a
simple, but heartfelt gesture. The rest of the pack glided through the door, pausing for a second in the doorway and then walked over to us putting a
hand on his back or the shoulder. The most touching of all was when Sara came in as the last one along with Joshua. The two children stood in the
door and took in the whole scene, they looked at each other and moved at the same time towards us and held his hand with their own; Sara was
holding his left, while Joshua held the right. Both of them were so compassionate children, so full of love to the whole world. That touched my heart for
good and I felt my eyes get misty as I looked at them. After a little longer, Charlie stopped crying and looked at Sara with a soft smile, which is not so
weird; she is like a little sunbeam in the dark, so fragile yet strong. The others said she must have inherited this from me; I was in their eyes a kind soul
that would stop even if I was busy to help another person. I had sometimes pulled people out of their dark times and made them see the happiness in
the world again (Leah had suffered from a broken heart and a killing hate to Sam and Emily, but I had helped her). "Bella I need to talk about what
happened yesterday in Port Angeles before anything else happens. It's killing me slowly and every second counts so please listen, but Sara and Joshua
go to your room and play, please." The two children nodded and ran off after giving him a hug. Then he started; "I had been called to assist in an
attack in Port Angeles. As usual I presumed that it was two young men who had fought and now they needed a hand from Forks as they didn't have
enough policemen to take care of such a little thing in this busy period, so I drove like usual down to there. This was a real attack though and it was
gruesome; a family had been slaughtered by a heartless killer. I have seen a lot of `bear attacks´ in the last years, but this wasn't a normal vampire
attack; this was murder. There were bloodstains all over the place and they were fresh. A woman had been killed while sitting on the couch watching a
movie. In the office a dead man was sitting with his throat slashed, he was still sitting in his office chair, hands on the keyboard in front of him. There
was supposed to be a child too, but it seem like the killer have taken her away, there was signs of child clothes being hastily packed and a few toys
have probably been removed too, but there was no signs of the child being hurt at all. In the very last room there was an old man; he was obviously
blind, but for some reason he could sense us. "She is gone, they took her away, away with them." He kept saying that, I was the cop who stayed with
him while the other one called for some ambulances and some assistance. While my partner was making the phone call, the old man suddenly stared
at me with his milk white eyes and said; "now it's all up to your family, if they make the right decision the human race will live, if they make the wrong
the humans will all die." Then the ambulance came and took the old man to the hospital. An hour later we received a phone call, the old man had died
after writing an explanation down to the police, he knew he was about to die soon." Charlie looked up at me with a painful glance; he showed more
feelings than he had ever done before; right now he was totally exposing his feelings, his mind, his fears, his dreams. In this very moment he was so
vulnerable; he had showed us trust and let us sees him with all walls down. It's usually quite rare to see a person with all their walls down at once; we
all have walls on the inside, we use them to protect ourselves from the most hurt from the outside, a person often let one wall fall down, but still have
some of the others up to protect them. Otherwise a simple phrase would easily crush us and destroy our world for a long time. That is why we have
these walls; we need them to protect us from the world and ourselves. But now we stood there comforting a broken, defenseless person. I just hugged
him close and said that we would be here for him forever, that he must never forget that we would stay together as a family "Dad, alone we will
become weak, but together we're stronger than any obstacle on our way. You are a part of this family and we will all defend each other from pain." I
ended the phrase. Charlie broke into tears again; he needed to get it out of his system before he could come over the experience.
After a while the tear stream had come to an end and Charlie pulled himself together a little bit, he sat up and looked at me "well after these sad
events it would be great if I could get some good news from here." He smiled at me "Uh yeah… I don't know how you will take this but I have a thing I
sort of need to tell you… uh dad I'm pregnant with twins. I just found out yesterday, Jacob and me have decided to have them and raise them as
siblings to Sara." I said this with a wavering voice fearing his reaction. For a long time he just stared at us and then he spoke; "Bella honey, where are
the babies going to have a room? So I'm going to be a grandfather for the second time in a half year, wow…" he seemed to be slightly surprised, but he
didn't freak out at all. It almost seem like he had been expecting that message for a while, the true meaning of it just dawned upon him and surprised
him a bit. Charlie smiled softly to us and said; "well this is actually good news." The pain in his eyes was slowly replaced with joy, happiness and the
feeling of being safe here with his family; the pack, Jacob, Sara and me. I laughed and hugged him; happy that he didn't became mad at me. After a
second he asked about the genders "well dad it's a boy AND a girl." I answered him, a mischievous glimpse came in his eyes "anything else that I might
need to know before the kids come?" he looked at us suspecting that we hadn't told him the whole story, Jacob answered his question. He could sense
that I needed a break. "Well yes there is. You see… uh how you say it… the kid's sort of have… supernatural powers." Charlie's first reaction was this;
he lifted his eyebrows slightly and said; "oh like Sara, it seem like all my grandchildren have some kind of magic in their life." He had a slight thoughtful
expression on his face. Now the second reaction; he began to smile, then it widened to a grin "well at least they can protect themselves in the future."
He laughed. Soon we were all laughing and got in a great mood again.
End of Flashback.
I shook my head and smiled. Looking through the window I realized that Sam finally had found a parking spot, which is a thing you from time to time
can have severe difficulties finding. An angry man came stomping out of his car right behind us and yelled that he had seen that parking spot first, well
he yelled until he came over and looked at Sam. It seems like he quickly changed his mind; his face dropped when he saw Sam's size. A Quileute wolf
is usually very tall and really muscular, Sam was a big guy even for a Quileute and he didn't look like a guy who would go into a fight and loose it. The
angry man stopped shouting and said "you know what? I think I will find another parking spot." Then he quickly turned and walked back to his car like
he was afraid that Sam might come out and beat him up. As for Sam's reaction I can tell you that he just shrugged and laughed. We all got out of the
car and walked into the mall.
After an hour we had found all our clothes and had on our way back to the car bought an ice cream for each of us. We ate the ice and stored all the
bags in the car and drove home again. In the car we didn't really do much except for listening to music until Leah asked me why my stomach was
glowing I looked down and surely enough it glowed "I guess it's time to pay Kayla another visit." I just said and looked at Jacob.
We drove home with the others and while Jacob held Sara in his arms Jacob, Sara and I took off to Kayla's house. In the driveway stood the pack and
unloaded the car for bags. They had stuff to do and they knew we would tell them when we got back home.
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