Hey, guys! I'm back. Guess what, one more chapter, and I really should write that epilouge, guess that's two more chapters, it's just that Bella and Edward aren't speaking at the moment, so I don't know what to do, I guess give it time. So, who thinks we will hit two-hundred reviews? I am working on an outtake in EPOV, maybe I can make something of that and post it when I get i-net at home, which will be very soon. As always, Enjoy!
"Trick or treat," I heard from the door, Edward had gotten up to see who the trick or treaters were. I heard some giggling and it sounded familier.
I struggled to get out of the chair, to see who it was, when I got there, Edward was talking to Jessica Stanley, the same girl who had flirted with Edward at my father's funeral.
"I think I'm going to start music up next year," Jessica was saying, she was only a junior, but she ran with the seniors because she'd been held back a year in elementary school from what I was told. "What instrument is easy."
"Do you want wind, percussion, string, brass? There are a number of easy instruments. Bella plays the violin and picked it up really easily years ago. Clarinet is fun to learn, if you have a big lung capacity."
"Okay. Oh, hi Bella," Jessica smiled as I walked into view. "I didn't realize you were here."
"Yea, I'm staying here, baby daddy and all, I'm sleeping in the nursery. I didn't feel like intruding on Jazz and Alice, they are trying to start a family."
"I didn't realize your brother was married," Jessica said.
"Yea, for a year now," I smiled. "He and Alice actually meet here, and she hates when women come on to her man."
I wasn't above dropping subtle hints that I didn't want my own man messed with, but Jessica is sort of dense.
"Hey, I just think he's cute, I don't hit on married men," Jessica smiled and batted her eyelashes at Edward. "Anyways, maybe I'll see you next semester."
"Okay," Edward gulped, my hand was out of sight of Jessica and firmly on his ass.
"Bye, Jess," I smiled, showing my teeth because in some cultures it's considered a threat to show your teeth, not in ours but I could dream.
Edward shut the door and I flipped the light switch off, it was getting late and not to many children would continue to come to the house.
We headed back to the couch and surfed through Netflix, trying to find a movie to watch, finally settling on Tangled, because we both needed to get into the mind frame of a kid since we'd both be attending these types of movies once Charlie was a bit older.
Ten minutes into it, I think we were both begging for something more, I mean it's a good movie, but we are both into action and adventure.
We were quiet as we found an action movie and watched the new movie, Edward's arm was thrown over my shoulder, I was leaning into his shoulder, watching the action.
"I'm gonna miss this," Edward sighed and sent me into a panic.
"Wh…why?" I stuttered.
"Just when the baby comes, you'll be back sleeping in the nursery," Edward said and I knew that he was eluding to an annulment, this was over, we'd failed.
"Is this what you want?" I asked. "I'm sure if you need space, Alice and Jazz can keep Charlie and I."
"What do you mean, I want nothing more than you and Charlie to stay here, god, Bells," he started just as his cell phone started to ring. He glanced down then back to me. "Carlisle."
"Take it," I said, getting up and heading up to our room, where I started to take stock of my things so I could move them back to the nursery.
"Hey, babe," Edward came in some time later, as I was moving my things to the nursery. "I have to go to Seattle, mom and dad had a bad car wreck. Dad's okay but mom is hurt pretty bad, she's got broken bones galore, dad has a broken leg. I'll be gone for a few days, are you going to be okay here alone?"
"Yea," I said, Edward was in the closet grabbing his clothes and throwing them into a duffle bag. "Why don't you go in the morning?"
"That was my plan, did I not say that?" Edward looked at me confused. I shook my head. "God, I'm sorry, I guess I'm just worried."
I noticed that he hadn't said anything about my clothes not being in the closet, I guess he was ready to chalk this up as a failed experiment.
"Are you going to be okay?" I asked, worried he be a nervous wreck driving to the city tomorrow.
"Yea, I'm worried, that's all, mom has always been the heart of our family and with her out of commission, this close to your due date, I'm not sure what to do," Edward said, tears falling down his face and I moved close to him, encasing him in a hug. "Bells, I'm so scared, dad was using these big medical words that I didn't understand. He said she was in surgery now, what if she doesn't make it. What am I going to do? I've already lost one parent in the last seven weeks."
"You move on," I said, my voice thick with tears. "You mourn the loss then move on."
We held on as he laid us down and we just laid there, crying together, over everything, the loss of my father, his mother being sick, and I cried because it seemed our marriage was dissolving.
I didn't feel like going to school the next day, but I did and it was so boring that Rosalie and I finally dragged Angela with us and we skipped, going back to Edward's to hang out, watch television and do absolutely nothing.
I was starting to feel that I was going into early labor, I knew my Braxton Hicks were slowly turning into real contractions, I just hoped that it would wait until Edward got back.
That brought me to a new set of questions. Since the marriage wasn't working out, did I even want him in the delivery room, I knew Rosalie was going to be in there and so was Angela, Alice would be my third if I choose not to have Edward in there or if Edward couldn't make it.
"Guys," I said. "I think Edward wants an annulment."
"What? He loves you," Angela said. "I mean the way he looks at you, it's like he can finally see after being in the dark for so long. His eyes light up when you enter the room."
I told them about what we'd talked about before he'd left to go to Seattle to help his parents.
"He's being stupid," Rosalie said. "I mean, Emmett is stupid like that, he does things all the time. Men are stupid when it comes to love. Did you maybe think about the fact that you aren't going to want to be away from the baby? Maybe he thinks you want to be in there with the baby."
"I had thought that the baby would sleep in our room, then he started saying that stuff."
"Look," Rosalie said. "I swear if this doesn't work out, I won't have sex with Emmett until I graduate. That's how sure I am of the two of you. Your mom's saw it when you were fifteen and he was twenty one."
"Bells, things will work out, we promise," Angela smiled as they stood up.
They helped me up, gave me hugs and we headed to the door, where they left with byes thrown over their shoulders, both of them had dates tonight with their respective others.
Had I become so boring that I no longer had date nights and sex with my other, had I become boring. I knew that Friday was my party, my baby shower, but I almost wanted to cancel and have a real party, but I couldn't not with Edward out of town and with my due date so close, I just couldn't risk it.
I went to classes the next day, I made it through the whole day, then headed to my doctors, where I was informed that I was three centimeters dilated, I was moving closer to having Charlie on time and possible even earlier.
I fixed dinner that night for myself, I made a steak, a craving I was having and had just set down in front of the television and the doorbell rang.
I struggled to get up, the person at the door started pounding on the door.
"Hold on," I yelled and waddled to the door, throwing it open.
I took a sharp breath when I saw strawberry blond hair, tall, a very sexy woman. Tanya Denali was standing in our doorway.
"Yes," I sqeaked out.
"Edward called me, asked me to come over, said he wanted to talk. You look familiar, do I know you?"
"We've meet a few times, I'm Bella, Jasper's kid sister."
"Of course, it's so nice to see you again," Tanya had a fake smile on her face, her eyes taking me in. "Eddie didn't say you were pregnant, congrats."
"Thanks, Edward isn't here, he's in Seattle," I said, cautiously.
"Then why are you here?"
"I live here."
"Damn, I just saw him the other day, he didn't tell me that."
"Yea, I didn't want to live with my brother and sister in law. Let me call Edward," I said, grinning though the pain in my lower back that suddenly seemed to be coming more frequently. Almost like I'd gone into labor.
I headed upstairs and started to dial Edward when I felt a gush of fluid between my legs, I went to the restroom and saw that my water had broke.
I chewed on my lip for a second, wondering who I should call, Edward was out, he was four hours away, Jasper was supposed to have a date night with Alice, she'd kill me if I called, granted I was in labor and she'd only be mad for so long.
Angela, Ben and Rosalie were at Heather's party, they would never hear their phones, I was in desperate need to call my brother, fuck the wrath that Alice would surly come down on me with, I really wanted my brother at that moment.
"What Bella," Jasper sounded out of breath and I realized that I'd probably interrupted sex. "Speak now or hang up."
"I don't know what to do," I cried. "Tanya is here, I think Edward has been seeing her, that's why the sudden change of heart."
"Damn, Bells, you called me for this, Edward loves you, he loves Charlie, get that around your head. Tell Tanya to leave, Edward hasn't seen her since he left Arizona, since he came to Forks. He's been faithful. Now is that all you needed?"
"No," I grunted as a contraction came, I checked my watch, seven minutes. "I'm in labor."
"Alice, get off, we need to get to the hospital," Jasper said. "Do you need a ride?"
"Duh, plus Tanya is still here."
"Kick her out," Jasper said, I could hear Alice pouting in the back ground, I knew the feeling, because pregnant sex was the best.
"Fine," I said, hanging up. I traipsed back downstairs and she was sitting on the leather couch, surfing through the channels of our flat screen.
"Did you call him?"
"No, and I really need you to leave," I said.
"Look, I know that we have been quietly seeing each other again, but I'm sick of it, I'm a girl that's suppose to be on the arm, not in the background."
"How long have you been seeing each other?" I asked, trying not to get upset, but this was frustrating.
"Since I moved to Port Angeles, two months ago."
I hadn't noticed Edward acting differently, I knew Jasper wouldn't lie to me, but still, this women was so much prettier than me, I had always wondered why anybody would choose me over a girl like Tanya.
"Look, we've been screwing around, I know that he's been seeing somebody from here, but I'm the one he always come's crawling back to. I haven't told him, but we're pregnant. I had to clean my act up but he came around and we're expecting. I plan to move in here with him, that means you will be moving out, you're nothing but a charity to him, he's always taken pity on you, Isabella. This time is no different. You'll always be his little sister, so pack your stuff because I'm moving into his room, tonight."
I gritted though another contraction as she threw all the verbal vomit on me, I wanted to ignore her, but it was the truth, why would Edward see me as anything other than a little sister, that's all I'd ever been, he'd held me when I was hours old, I wasn't anybody special. I tried not to cry but a tear slipped down my eye.
There had been the times he'd been gone without explination, the events on his cell phone simply two letters long, PA, Port Angeles? My heart was breaking, could the man I love, love another?
"Oh, my, god, you have a crush on him. How cute," Tanya laughed at me. "What did he do, play daddy to your bastard child?"
"Bastard child," I heard from the front door, I was happy that my savior was here, I wasn't sure how much more I could take, not when I was in labor. "Get the fuck out of this house, bitch!"
