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Chapter 12

Saturday, March 17, 2012

BPOV

We both looked to the doctor anxiously. "I have found out why you are getting sick, Mrs. Cullen. You are…"

"I am what?" I asked quickly when he paused.

"She is what? Edward demanded in a gruff tone.

"Mrs. Cullen, you are slightly dehydrated and about 5 weeks pregnant…." He continued talking but I don't think either of us heard anything other than that we were pregnant. Before we left we got to listen to the baby's heartbeat which was surreal and very strong.

Once we were released from the hospital with strict instructions to drink plenty of water or fruit juice and make an appointment as soon as we returned home and a sample of prenatal vitamins, we were on our way to the place we would call home for the next 6 days.

"Edward, you have to close your eyes." I told him as I parked the Jeep that we had rented when we left the hospital.

"Bella." He complained.

"Don't you start. The doctor told you I would be fine and that there were no dangers to the baby. This is our honeymoon and I expect you to act like it." I told him forcefully as I held out the scarf I wanted him to tie around his eyes.

"Fine, I am just worried." He said as he snatched the scarf and quickly tied it around his eyes compliantly. "Now what?"

I laughed and ran around the Jeep, opened his door, and grabbed his hand tugging him from the Jeep. "I love you, daddy to be." I told him as I led him through the hotel and to the front desk.

I changed our reservations to Mr. and Mrs. Cullen, picked up our keycards as he stood beside me silently, looking silly with the scarf tied around his eyes. Once I had everything squared away I led him out the private side entrance that led to the private bungalows that were situated along the beach.

He remained silent through it all and followed my instructions until we were standing in the middle of the main living area of the beach front bungalow. "Stay here, but keep the scarf on, please." I told him as I leaned forward and kissed him quickly.

He smiled and nodded as he stood there taking a big whiff of the air. "We're right on the beach because I can smell the salt in the water and I can also hear waves crashing in." He said observantly.

I chuckled. "Score 1 for my observant husband." I told him as I stripped out of my clothes before I grabbed his hand leading him to the bedroom.

I positioned him again. "Just a few more minutes, Barman, I promise." I told him as I danced away from him and placed my naked self on the bed in a provocative pose that he wouldn't be able to resist.

"Now, Edward. Take the blindfold off now." I told him huskily.

He quickly ripped off the scarf and smiled wickedly as he looked at me displayed on the bed for his taking.

"Wow, Mrs. Cullen, is this all for me?" he asked as he stalked towards the bed slowly like a lion stalking his prey.

The sun was setting before we exited the private oasis of our bedroom. We looked around the small bungalow and were amazed at the serinity and privacy that our bungalow offered us before we strolled the beach hand in hand. He had on a pair of blue/white Hawaiian print board shorts and I had on a blue/green trim bikini with a white sarong tied around my hips. Every time the waves rolled in, the water would lap over our feet and wash away our footprints as we strolled the beach and watched the sun set over the ocean.

***Picuture of Bungalows below***

When we found a secluded spot on the beach, Edward tugged me down into his lap and we watched the sunrise in silence. My stomach grumbling broke the peaceful mood we had created and caused us to laugh. "I guess it's time to feed you and munchkin, huh?" Edward joked as he stood up and dusted the sand off his but the best he could.

I just laughed with him and grabbed the hand he offered allowing him to tug me from the sand playfully. I love this playful carefree side of him and hoped he would always be this way, especially with me and our children. "I guess so, Husband."

He tugged me to his side as we walked back towards our bungalow. "Just imagine how they are going to take this news. You and Rosie will have your babies just a few weeks apart." He said as we slowly walked back through the surf.

"I know should I send the picture now?" I asked him anxiously. "I can't wait to share this with Rosalie because we can go baby shopping together; I think this will bring us closer together." I told him as we approached our home away from home.

"I don't see why not? Might as well." He said as he opened the door for me to enter before him. "Do you want to order room service or should I?"

"You order the food and I will shock the living daylights out of our friends back on the mainland." I told him as I dug my phone out of my purse and turned it back on for the first time since we landed. It immediately went to dinging.

I scanned through the messages and laughed at some of them. Bree had sent me requests to not 'burn my beautiful body' and 'don't mess with perfection'. Angela had sent me tips on how to get sand out of 'unique places that sand has no business going'. Alice gave me tips on how to master the art of seduction. Rose sent me sex tips on how to 'rock your man's world'.

I laughed as I pulled out our marriage license, laid it on the coffee table and put my hand that displayed my ring on top of it and snapped a picture. I put the picture in a message and sent it to all of them with the message 'decided to have a little fun while on vacay' attached to the photo. As soon as it was sent I turned my phone back off, blocking out the real world.

I went on the hunt for Edward and found him out on the lanai with his hands stretched out behind his head as he stared up at the stars. "You get the food ordered?" I asked him as I snuggled in beside him.

He nodded. "Did you take your medicine and get the picture sent?"

I nodded and stared up at the sky with him. "Yeah, I didn't tell them about the baby yet. I want to see how they take the news of our impromptu marriage first." I explained to him as I threw a leg and an arm across his body. It was nice to be able to just enjoy the quiet with him and not find it awkward at all.

There was a knock at the door and I jumped up to go get it, knowing that it was our dinner. We ate quickly and voraciously before we went and crawled into bed exhausted from all the traveling and the impromptu hospital visit.

EPOV

I had been awake for a little bit and was content to just sit here and admire my wife's beauty. Except now she wasn't just my wife, she was my future. This woman held my reason for existing anymore in the palm of her tiny hands and she didn't even realize it.

I wander how our family was dealing with the shock of seeing that photo and then not being able to get a hold of either of us because our phones were turned off. I knew that as soon as Bella and I got up and around, we needed to call them and explain before they started freaking out, especially Rosie because she was pregnant. I smiled as I felt Bella stirring beside me.

When she flashed those big brown eyes up at me, I smiled down at her. "Good morning, Mrs. Cullen."

She groaned and rolled over burying her head in my chest. "Good morning, Mr. Cullen." She croaked out.

I smoothed a hand down her naked back and cupped her butt in my hands. "How's your stomach doing this morning?" I asked her in concern before I went any further.

"It's fine right now. I really hope it was just the flying and not the first of morning sickness." She grumbled into my chest.

"If there was something I could do baby I would. I hope this pregnancy is easy on you." I told her as I pulled on top of me, straddling my hips.

She sat up with her hands against my chest. "I see someone is happy about something this morning." She commented as she rolled her hips on top of mine, spreading her wetness over my hardness.

"I'd be even happier if my wife would take care of me." I told her as I rubbed against her suggestively.

And take care of me she did.

The outdoor rainfall shower was a unique experience; thank God it was secluded and surrounded by ten foot high rock walls because we got carried away under the warm water.

After our too long joint shower, we settled out on the lanai in separate chairs and called our friends. I let Bella do the calling. She called Rosalie first, because she was concerned about the stress and the baby.

In typical Rosie fashion, she answered the phone with a harsh "You better get to splainin' missy."

Bella and I just laughed. "Hello to you too, Rosie." I told her since Bella had her on speakerphone.

"Don't you talk to me right now, Edward Anthony. How could you do this to me? Huh? Tell me you are married through a text message? I thought we were closer than that, Bella." She snapped at Bella.

I motioned for the phone and Bella handed it to me with tears in her eyes. I took the phone off speakerphone and pulled it my ear. "Rosalie Lillian Hale McCarty, what has gotten into you? You can't blame this on pregnancy hormones since this is your seventh pregnancy." I chastised her as I saw Bella get up from her chair and go back inside the bungalow.

"I'm sorry, Edward. I didn't mean to snap like that. I'm just shocked that you would do all of this without any of us." She said in a pitiful little whiny voice.

"It won't work this time, Rosie. You need to find a way to make this up to my wife and quick. I will not spend the rest of my vacation and honeymoon listening to any of you snap or chastise my wife. Got it?" I growled at her.

"Yes, Edward, I got it. I will find some way to make it up to her. Do you think she will talk to me again?" She asked quietly.

"If I know my wife as well as I think I do, I think she may be open to listening to an apology because y'all have become like family to her too." I told her honestly as I stood and went in search of my wife.

I found her out on the private lanai from our bedroom curled up in a cushioned chair crying quietly. "Baby, it's going to be okay." I told her as I sat down in front of her.

She launched herself at me and began crying into my shoulder as sobs racked her body. "Your friends hate what I've done." She cried.

I pulled her back, my hands gripping her arms lightly. "I am only going to say this once, Isabella Cullen, so you best listen really closely." I told her sternly. When she nodded I continued. "You are the one I chose; you are my wife, the mother of my unborn child, and my future. I don't give a flying fuck what they think. If they don't approve of my decisions then they weren't really friends or family to begin with. Okay?" I asked her as I wiped the tears from her cheeks.

She nodded and gave me a small smile. "Good, now one of OUR friends has something she needs to say to you, will you hear her out?" I asked her, putting emphasis on the word OUR so she knew that I considered my friends her friends also.

She nodded and took the phone with a little bit of trepidation. "Good, I'm gonna go get mine and call Jazz and Alice while you talk it out with Rosie. Okay?" I asked her as I stood up from the chaise chair.

She smiled and crooked a finger at me. I smiled back and leaned down to her. She placed a scorching kiss against my lips and whispered "I love you, Mr. Cullen." She then leaned back and put the phone to her ear.

I shook my head and made my way back out to the main lanai giving Rosie and Bella some space.

BPOV

When I called Rose, the last thing I had expected was for her to be angry and upset with the decisions that we had made. I couldn't handle her being angry at me so when Edward asked for the phone I had easily turned it over to him and left him to his conversations with his good friend.

I knew how close Rose and Edward were; sometimes I thought they were closer than he and Emmett. I didn't know what he would do or say if she didn't accept what we had done. I had gotten up and left the outside area when he began to chastise her for talking to me that way and found myself on our private lanai off our master bedroom.

After a few minutes Edward found me out there and after a little speech where he made his intentions clear to unfortunately both me and Rosalie he handed me the phone saying that Rosie wanted to apologize.

"What, Rose?" I snapped once Edward had left the area.

"I'm so sorry Bella. I didn't mean to snap at you, it is all me. Lilly came down with the stomach bug yesterday and it has been hell here because she passed it on rather quickly to Maggie and Tori." She explained breathlessly.

"It's okay, Rosie. I just want you to know that we didn't plan this, it just happened. We had a layover in Vegas and were standing in front of the Bellagio fountains and were talking about how life couldn't get any more perfect than it was at that moment. He proposed with his Mama's ring and within an hour we had secured our marriage license and were legally married." I told her eager to share some of the details with one of my good friends.

"Aww. How romantic, that idiot has always had a romantic side to him. I know this because Emmett goes to him for romance advice when he is in the doghouse." Rosalie chuckled.

I just laughed. "He really is sweet and romantic, Rosie. You have no idea how sweet he can be sometimes, I am surprised that he hasn't been swept up before now."

She just laughed. "He was waiting on you obviously. Congratulations on your nuptials, I wish you both all the happiness in the world." She said sincerely.

"Thanks, Rosie that means a lot coming from you because you are a very important part of both our lives." I told her honestly.

"Ah, geez, you're gonna make me cry. I will be glad when the hormones hit you and we can cry sporadically together." She commented with a few sniffles.

I gasped. "How did you know?" I asked her with a whisper.

She just laughed. "I heard the little speech Edward gave you and he said that you are 'the mother of his unborn child' and that can only mean one thing. You're pregnant. Now I just want to say congratulations on the wedding, marriage, and baby."

"Thanks, Rosie. I have a bunch of questions and concerns about the baby and being pregnant in general, but I will wait until we get home." I told her on a chuckle.

She just laughed. "I am no expert by any means but I can recommend my OB/GYN and answer a lot of questions since this is my eighth baby."

"Can you give me the number to your doctor so I can set up an appointment for next week?"

"Sure thing, B! It's…"

We chatted for a few more minutes before the girls started crying in the background and she had to go. I settled into the chaise chair just enjoying the beautiful water for a little bit when my phone started ringing Angela's ringtone.

I answered it immediately. "Hey, Angie, how's the vacay going?" I asked her.

"Un uh, Mrs. Cullen, You don't get to ask about my vacation when yours seems to have been so much more exciting. Married, huh?"

"Yep, in Vegas Friday night, and that's not all either. We found out about our little surprise when we got to Hawaii and I couldn't stop throwing up." I told her suspiciously.

"You're pregnant?" She whispered.

I giggled into the phone confirming her suspicions.

"Congrats on all of it. We will have to have lunch on Monday so you can update me and Bree on everything. She's gonna have a conniption fit when she finds out about baby Cullen. She went hysterical when she got your pic of ring and license." Angela laughed.

I knew that Bree would take it hard but I had never given her any reason to think that something would actually happen between us. I thought it was just a fantasy of hers and definitely not one of mine. "Should I call her or give her a few days?"

"I would just give her a few days to process the marriage before calling her but maybe send her a text letting her know that you are pregnant that way she's not the last one to find out." Angela suggested like the brainiac that she is.

"Okay, Ang. I will see you Monday at school and we will definitely do lunch, too!"

"Have fun, B!"

I hung up the phone and jumped up from my chair to go search out my husband and baby's daddy.

I found him standing on the beach in his swim trunks staring out at the surf with his phone pressed to his ear talking to who I presumed to be Alice or Jasper. I slipped on one of my new bikinis and cover up before making my way to his side.

As soon as my feet hit the sand I could hear his voice carry to me. "Absolutely not, Mary Alice. We had our wedding and we will not be having another one unless Bella wants it. End of story."

I chuckled and walked up behind him and wrapped my arms around his waist and ducked my head underneath his arm allowing him to tug me into his side pressing a kiss against my head.

I held out my hand for the phone. He grumbled but handed it to me anyways as we stood and stared at the ocean. "Mary Alice Brandon soon to be Whitlock, you listen and listen good. He is my husband and I married him in a perfect moment, perfect setting, and at the perfect time. Nobody and I mean nobody can recreate that." I told her sternly.

"Okay." She conceded. "Have it your way then. Can I at least throw you guys a congratulations party?" She asked getting excited again.

I looked to Edward. "Ali wants to know if she can throw us a congratulations party?" He smiled and nodded.

"Sure thing, Ali. But you will be congratulating us on more than just our nuptial's." I told her and laughed silently into Edward's side as she practically screeched into the phone.

"What else is there, B?" She asked once she figured out she didn't exactly know what we would be celebrating.

"A baby." I told her quietly.

"I'm not including Rose and Em's news in with yours. I will throw them their own party." She said, not catching on.

"I'm not talking about Rose and Em's baby, Ali. I'm talking about mine and Edward's baby." I told her and then had to hold the phone away from my ear to keep from going deaf by her squeals and screams.

We eventually got her calmed down and off the phone as we agreed to have the party the weekend after we came home.

We spent the rest of the day relaxing on the beach and playing in the surf just doing whatever tickled our fancy at the moment, which wasn't much of anything specific.

We were once against sitting in the sand, me between Edward's spread legs, his arms wrapped around my waist and resting on the nonexistent baby bump where our child resided.

"Are you excited about the baby?" I asked quietly as we watched the sky change colors with the sun setting slowly into the ocean.

EPOV

Hmm, was I excited about the baby? I was nervous, worried, scared, and excited. "Hmm, yeah among other things." I whispered against her ear.

"Me, too, I think I'm more worried that this is all happening so quick than I am about the actual baby or our marriage." Bella admitted as she leaned back into my chest.

"I know what you mean, but I am confident in us. This is a long time compared to my parents. They met, moved in together, and were married within two weeks." I told her remembering when how my parents acted around each other all the time.

"How long were they married when they passed away?" She asked quietly.

"Thirty years and were just as blissfully happy and in love as if they were newlyweds." I told her wistfully.

"Tell me about them, Husband."

"Hmmm… I don't talk about them anymore to anybody. Not even Rose, Em and Jazz know much about them except that they died before I graduated high school." I told her honestly, tightening my arms around her slightly.

"You can tell me, Babe. You can tell me anything, you know that, Edward." She told me hugging me closer to her.

I nodded and took a deep breath. "My dad was a pediatric surgeon, one of the best in Chicago, and was well sought out, but he always put me and my mom first. He never missed a game or piano recital, ever." I told her as I stared out at the horizon with my future cradled in my arms.

"You play the piano?"

I chuckled. "I don't know if I can anymore, I haven't touched a piano since the day they died. Before that, I had been playing the piano since I was old enough to sit by myself on the piano bench without falling off." I chuckled as memories of my mom and I sitting practicing for hours on the piano.

She remained quiet, but rubbed her hands up and down my arms soothingly. I continued with my stories and memories. "I remember my dad and I tossing the baseball back and forth in our backyard when I was younger. My mom was an interior designer and was constantly changing our house around to whatever new trend was in style at the moment." I chuckled as I remembered my dad arguing with my mom playfully as she would send perfectly good furniture and decorations to the good will store and buy whatever was 'in style' for the moment.

"They sound amazing. I hope we are good parents so that our child has good memories like that after we are gone." She said quietly.

"I hope so too, Baby, I hope so too. Tell me a little bit more about your parents now." I asked her after a few quiet moments.

She sighed and wiggled around until she was face to face with me with her legs draped over either side of my hips. "I didn't have near the amazing home life that you did. My dad, Charlie, was the chief of police in our small town of Forks, Washington and worked all the time. He loved my mom but she didn't love him as much back, so he worked all the time to avoid having to deal with that. The time he wasn't at work, he was out on the lake fishing. I went with him a lot of the time because he allowed me to be the child that I was." She paused as she blinked rapidly.

"It's okay, baby, I am sure they both loved you dearly." I tried to reassure her.

She nodded and smiled at me. "They did love me. They stayed together for me so that my home life wouldn't be disrupted while I was going through school. But my mom was like a child most of the time; she would go off for weeks at a time without a second thought about me or my dad. By the time I was fourteen, I was cooking most of the meals, paying the bills, and cleaning the house as well as making straight A's in school." She admitted with a sad smile.

"Really?" I asked her in shock, she never showed that she held any resentment for either of her parents.

She nodded again. "Yeah, I loved them both but sometimes I think it would have been easier if they hadn't stayed together just for me. My mom had been having an affair for years with a guy that lived in Seattle named Phil. She always complained about the non-stop drizzle that seemed to be ever present in Washington and about the lack of social life that was available in Forks."

I shook my head in amazement that she had turned out so wonderful having had to deal with all of that growing up. "Having dealt with all of that during your childhood, are you scared about this baby?"

She smiled broadly and shook her head. "Not at all. I know that I will be a better mother than my own and she has taught me what not to be. Even in all her child-like flightiness and actions she always came back to me and I know that she loved me deep down." She explained.

"I think we will make amazing parents. Do you still want to move to College Station knowing that we are expecting a baby sometime towards the end of this year?" I asked her questioningly.

"What would you think about me taking a year or two off from teaching? Just until the baby is a little bit older?" She asked me as she ducked her head.

I tucked a finger under her chin and tipped her head up until I could look into her shining brown eyes. "I think you need to do what you feel is best. I think it's kind of crazy to start a school year when you are going to have to go on maternity leave halfway through."

She nodded. "Can we afford for me to take off work for a few years?" She whispered.

I smiled at her because she really had no idea how well off she was. "Baby, you don't have to work ever again if you don't really want to. We have more than enough to live well off for the rest of our lives as well as our children's lives." I told her honestly.

She groaned. "How did I not know this? You don't flaunt your monetary status at all and you work your ass off like you have to work to make ends meet."

I chuckled and pulled her further into my lap. "Think about it logically Bella. I just told you my father was a well sought out pediatric surgeon and my mom was an interior designer. They are both dead and I inherited all of their money, their joint life insurance policies and my trust fund when I turned 21. They taught me to be humble and that money didn't grow on trees, it was earned through hard work." I explained to her.

She nodded. "My parents weren't very well off at all; we usually scraped pennies together to make ends meet but I did inherit my father's life insurance policy when he died. He had taken one out the day I was born but my mom thought she would live forever and chose not to take one out. I think they had sixty fiver dollars in their bank account when they died."

I shook my head. "I'm sorry, Baby, that you had to go through all of that but at least I know that our child will have a similar attitude towards our money that my parents instilled in me." I told her honestly.

She nodded and buried her head in my neck and wrapped her arms tight around me. "I love you, Edward. More than I've ever loved anybody before." She whispered in my neck.

I stood up in one smooth motion and hitched her higher around my waist and trudged the short distance back to our bungalow. "I love you too, Baby, and I'm about to show you just how much."

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