JUNE 20th 2010
I looked up from where I had been sat watching my wife where she was stood making dinner. I had repeatedly said, god knows how many times that this wasn't a good idea, and had repeatedly been ignored. It had got to the point, where Charlie decided to play referee. He had put a hand on my back and steered me out of the kitchen towards the porch.
"She needs to rest." I moaned and Charlie handed me a beer, me declining politely. He rolled his eyes as I folded my arms and leant over the porch fencing, him standing beside me. I put my head in my hands and sighed.
"God knows what she gets up to when I'm at work... she's probably cleaning the guttering or mowing the lawn or..." I groaned at the thought and slumped forwards, smacking my forehead against the heel of my hands.
Charlie laughed and raised his beer to his lips, "Yeh she's like her mother for that. Stubborn as an ox."
I chuckled and looked down at me hands, "Well I guess I can't really make comment on the particular human trait."
My father in law rolled his eyes, "You're happy together, that's all that matters."
I smiled and nodded, "That we are sir."
He chuckled, "You really need to start calling me Charlie."
I laughed to, "I guess I'm hoping if I butter you up long enough you'll be my strongest ally in the war against my daughter's future boyfriends." I shuddered and he laughed.
"Yeh I remember when Bella first brought you home, if I'm honest I was ready to shoot you there and then, and I'm a cop, I could have made it happen."
I swallowed and shook my head, "I never doubted you sir."
Charlie clapped me on the back and we looked out over the front lawn, where me and Bella had first had taken part in the most difficult conversation and Charlie, as I didn't know at the time... watched.
July 21st 2005
I had followed Bella home, me skidding to a stop in my car just a few metres behind her truck. She climbed out of the cab of the vehicle as I flew out of mine, taking her books and throwing them into the back of her truck as she looked at me with red raw eyes.
"Edward go home." She whispered and I shook my head.
Tears poured down my face and hers did to, "Bella what are we going to do?" I begged.
She shook her head and hopped out of the cab, me catching her elbow as she slipped. Se tumbled into my chest and I held her there until she pushed away with both hands and my own palms dropped to cup her face.
"We aren't going to do anything." She whispered and I frowned.
She swallowed and lowered my hands, kissing the inside of my palm.
"I' m going for a termination in two hours at the clinic at the hospital." She breathed and I felt like I'd been slapped, my breathing became erratic, and I don't think I could see properly.
"Tomorrow, this will all be over, and in three weeks we'll have graduated, you'll be off to med school, and will have forgotten all about me." She breathed and wiped her face of tears.
I shook my head, "Bella please..."
She stretched dup on her toes to kiss me gently and my eyes slid shut, my arms tightening around her in weak hold.
She pulled away and swallowed, "Goodbye Edward."
My eyes snapped open as she ran away from me, into her house as I stood on her lawn, crying and hurling abuse at my car when it wouldn't start. I sat in my seat and sobbed, head resting on the steering wheel.
It must have been hours later, when it started to get dark that I realised that Bella hadn't gone to the clinic.
I sat up in my seat and blinking my stinging yes. I climbed out of the car and walked over to the house, where as I neared the porch steps, Bella flung open the door and dove at me.
I caught her in my arms as she ran at me, sobbing into my chest.
"I'm sorry, I'm so so sorry." She cried and I shushed her.
New tears fell from my own stinging eyes as I kissed her hair and hugged her tighter to me.
"I couldn't go through with it... Edward I couldn't I'm sorry..." She sobbed and I pulled back cupping her face in my hands and beaming at her though my tears. I sucked slightly to her level and she swallowed, laughing thickly.
"I'm going to be a dad." I whispered, beaming wider at the sound of it.
She nodded and sniffed, "But what about college, and money... and what are people going to say."
"I don't care." I breathed, and it was true, right then all the practical things couldn't have seemed less important.
"Bella I don't care, all I want is for you and our baby to be happy and healthy." I laughed and pulled her back to me. She shook her head as her hands rested in fists on my chest, her head tipping back to look at me as my own hands wrapped around her waist.
"We can't love off happiness Edward... and how are we going to tell everyone..." she was going to cry again so I hushed her.
"We only need to tell the people we want to, and tell them to keep it quiet. As for our school friends, they need never know. In three weeks we are leaving school for good, and even in a few months before we go to college you won't be showing that much. We can still go to college but we can be a family, my parents managed it with Emmet, why should it be any different for us." I whispered and she smiled, stretching up to kiss me hard.
"I love you so much Edward." She whispered.
I beamed and picked her up under her arms, spinning her arms causing is both to laugh as I set her on the floor and kissed her.
"I love you to Bella." I whispered.
She giggled and hooked her arms around my neck, leaning in for a kiss just as the porch light flickered on and a silhouette appeared at the door.
"You two, inside, now." My father in law had shouted.
I had swallowed, and Bella had gripped me tighter.