Chapter 2 already?! I couldn't just publish one this first time! So here is the second. I already have a couple more written but I don't want to publish them until I have atleast one more written so I don't get behind! I hope you enjoy!

Chapter 2

I was curled up in a ball on the bed sobbing when Edward walked in. My back was facing the door and didn't know he had walked into the room until I felt the weight on the bed shift.

"Bella, sweetie, tell me what happened." He told me as he laid down next to me and wrapped his arms around me, pulling me to him. I sniffed and took a minute to compose myself before I turned in his arms to face him. I was pretty sure that I looked awful but he gave me a weak smile and brushed the hair out of my face. He patiently waited for me to be ready to tell him about it, just holding me in his arms and rubbing my back.

Finally I took a deep breath and looked him in the eye. "Jasper told me he wants to have our marriage annulled." I told him meekly, needing to gage his reaction before I continued to tell him the rest of the story. His eyes widened and he suddenly looked furious.

"He did what?!" He yelled. I simply nodded and he looked like he knew that that wasn't all that I had to tell him. "What happened then?" He asked more gently, trying to give me time to form my thoughts.

"I…um…I told him that I wasn't going to trap him in this marriage and that if he wanted out I would let him out. Then I told him that there was no way anyone would grant him an annulment." I told him, not quite ready to tell him the last part.

He looked at me with a confused expression on his face. "Why would you tell him he couldn't have an annulment?" Edward asked, clearly not following where I was going with this. Not that I could blame him, it was my life and I could barely follow where I was going with this.

"I told him that no one would grant him an annulment with a child involved." I told him with my face buried in his chest. As he registered what I said, his hands that had been rubbing my back suddenly stilled.

"I'm sorry, did you just say there was a child involved?" He asked and I slowly nodded. "Bella, are you trying to tell me you're pregnant?" He asked he and I could feel his heart beating faster. Slowly, I nodded my head again. "How far along are you? Is the baby healthy? How are you feeling? Is there anything I can get you?" The questions ran out of his mouth as they popped into his head, his filter obviously broken. I could not help myself and I chuckled a little bit.

"I just entered my second trimester. We are both fine, I just had an internal ultrasound this afternoon and I got to hear the heartbeat and see the fingers. It was pretty great and I was planning on telling Jasper tonight. I was feeling great but he didn't come home until late and I fell asleep. He woke me up to tell me he didn't want to be married to me anymore. I told him I was pregnant, and he told me maybe he could rethink things." I told him, needing a break as the emotions started to well again.

"So what did you tell him? When he said he could rethink things?" Edward asked me. I think he was still trying to grasp what I was telling him and trying to be a supportive friend instead of finding Jasper to rip his head off.

"I told him no, that this is what he wanted and that I would allow him the divorce but that I would get full custody and he would support us. Then I told him that I would give him his freedom so he could be with Alice." I said the last part quietly, almost hoping he wouldn't hear it.

"You what?!" He yelled. So much for that plan. "Wait, how does Alice get involved in this whole thing?" He asked me as confusion set in.

"Apparently Alice helped him to see that this was what he wanted. I have been suspecting something was going on between them for a while. Then when I told him that he was free to be with her he asked me how I knew about him and Alice. I told him that he just told me." I explained to him as a slow numb was beginning to settle over my shattered heart.

"Oh my God, Bella. I am so sorry sweetheart. Then what did you do?" He asked me, knowing that the story was coming to an end.

"I told him to find somewhere else to sleep and that I would pack up my things and move out tomorrow." I told him calmly. Then the flood gates broke and I started sobbing uncontrollably. "What am I going to do Edward? Where am I going to go? How am I going to raise a baby on my own?" I asked as I cried, wrapping my arms around my growing bulge. Even if I didn't know how to raise a baby on my own, I loved this baby and I would give her all I had.

"Bella, look at me." He ordered me as he framed my face with his hands and tilted my head so that I could look him in the eye. "Do you really think that I would let you do this on your own? You will move in with me and we will do this together." He told me as though that answer made perfect sense.

"Edward, I can't do that to you. It's not fair to you. It's not your job to take care of me or my baby." I told him as my mind was wishing that what he was telling me was not too good to be true. I wanted it to be true.

"You are not doing anything to me, you are doing something with me. I will be there for you as long as you want me there. Let me be there. Please Bella. Let me help you." He begged me not only with his words but also with his eyes.

"Edward, are you sure about this? You know what people will say when they see a pregnant girl hanging around your house, hanging out with you? Think about your reputation. I don't want this to ruin your life." I told him, trying to talk some reason into him. I wanted to give him the opportunity to find happiness, not hang out with the fat soon to be single mom whose loser husband ditched her for someone else.

"Bella, that won't happen. What good is a life if there is no one to share it with? And about people talking, let them. Hell, I will just tell them the baby is mine and we will avoid the whole issue." He told me and I stared at him like he had grown a second head. Did he just say he wanted to say the baby was his?

"Why would you do that, Edward?" I asked him in confusion.

"To protect your reputation, of course. You and Jasper never announced your marriage and the last thing the media will be looking at is the divorce blog in Canada. As far as they are concerned, he was your friend and cover up as you dated me. It will all work out fine. I will be beside you every step of the way and I will love this baby as if it were my own." Edward explained to me and I still stared at him with confusion in my eyes. Then he reached a hand down to rub my belly. I couldn't help but start crying again.

This time I wasn't just crying for my broken heart. I was crying because I didn't know how I could possibly be blessed with such an amazing friend. I was crying for the father that my baby wouldn't have. I was crying for the possible dad my baby might have. I was crying because there was too much going through me brain to comprehend all at once. Edward thought he said something wrong and pulled me to him to try and shush me.

"Hey, sorry. I didn't mean to make you cry. It was just an idea, if you don't want to its okay. We will figure something out." He told me, trying to hide the hurt in his voice but I knew him better than that. I shook my head.

"It's not that, Edward. I just don't know how I could be so lucky to have someone who would want to do that for me and my baby. Are you sure you want to do this? You don't have to you know?" I told him, desperately hoping he wouldn't change his mind.

"I want to do this, Bella. I love you, you are my best friend. And I love this baby already, whether you want the role I play in its life to be as dad or uncle." He told me with a small smile.

"Before you got here my life was shattered in a million pieces and then you showed up with the duct tape. I would love it if you would act as my baby's dad. I cannot picture anyone who would love this little one as much as I do, but I think that you just might be able to come close. I love you too Edward. Thank you." I said as I snuggled into him and quickly fell asleep.

The next morning I woke with a start as Jasper shouted, "What the hell, Bella?!" I sat up slightly disoriented and wondering why he was yelling at me. Then I realized that I had slept in Edward's arms and I rolled my eyes. The man that is having an affair is angry at his soon to be ex-wife for sleeping in the same bed as her best friend? Get over it.

"What do you want, Jasper?" I asked him as Edward was beginning to stir next to me.

"So is the baby really mine, Bella? Or did you just say that to try and trap me?" He spat at me and before I knew what I was doing I had climbed over Edward and punched, not slapped, punched Jasper in the face. "What the hell?!" He yelled as he grabbed his face and I cradled my hand in my other hand. Edward woke up just in time to see me punch his former best friend and was checking my hand for me, asking me something about my thumb but I didn't hear him because I was fuming.

"How could you ask me that? You know that you are the only man I have ever had sex with. Edward is my best friend and he was here to help pick up the pieces after you left me shattered last night. He is going to be there for me and this baby, where as some people will be off screwing their costars!" I screamed at him. I knew that raising my blood pressure was not good for the baby and I tried to calm myself down but I was too worked up. "What did you come here to do, Jasper?" I asked grudgingly.

"I just came to tell you that we have an appointment with a lawyer this afternoon at 3. Are you going to be able to make it? I would like to get this over with quickly." He told me in an uninterested tone.

"That's fine, lets 'get this over with quickly' as you said. And just for being an ass, I hope you know that I am going to demand a good settlement and high child support." I told him half to spite him and half to warn him. The whole time Edward just sat there holding my hand and glaring at his former friend. As soon as Jasper left the room I turned to Edward and told him I was going to get a shower. As I let the hot water run over my body I let the song clouding my brain run out of my lips.

"She says I don't know if I've ever been good enough,

I'm a little bit rusty and I think my head is caving in

And I don't know if I've ever been really loved

By a hand that's touched me and I feel like something's going to give

And I'm a little bit angry

Well this ain't over no not here

Not while I still need you around

You don't own me we're not changing…"

I was just about to break out the melancholy chorus when Edward knocked on the door to check on me and I told him I would be out in a minute as I sighed and finished showering. It was for the best, who was I to sing Push by Matchbox Twenty in my current mental state? I quickly dried and wrapped a towel around me as I left the bathroom in search for clothing. Edward was laying on the bed and asked me if I was okay. I sadly nodded my head. As heart broken as I was, I was in fact going to be okay. I had an amazing best friend who would take good care of me and my baby. Things could be worse I suppose.

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