Disclaimers to Stephenie Meyer and Tomoko Hayakawa.
Okay, I lied. I didn't know how held up I became during the events leading up to New Year. So here's a long chapter for you. I hope you'd be happy with the outcome (don't spoil it for yourself! Read through it patiently!)
And Happy New Year to everyone (even though it's a few days gone since New Year.)
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"What's up?" Rosalie said, as soon as she was let in through the door, Bella closed it and bowed lowly as she took Rosalie's coat. For some odd reason, she was dressed as a maid.
"Um, Miss Hale," Bella started in a British accent, again which was for an odd reason.
"Rosalie," Rosalie corrected.
"Miss Rosalie," Bella said softly, "it is customary for visitors to give a urine sample, before meeting the person whom they are visiting."
"Why?" Rosalie asked, her expression was sceptical and her eyebrows were raised.
"First of all, it's to ensure you don't go to the bathroom unexpectedly during your visit. Secondly, it's for research for the mistresses' uncle-in-law, who is researching whether urine can determine race and gender of a person, for forensic science. He's collecting as many samples as possible," Bella lied smoothly, not giving a hint that the idea sounded stupid. Rosalie stared at her in shock. Rosalie snapped out of her reverie and followed Bella. She gave the sample. She then was escorted by Bella to Emmett.
As soon as Rosalie and Emmett's eyes met they fell literally into each other's arms. Rosalie kissed Emmett, who pulled away to look at Rosalie. Rosalie was suddenly filled with hurt, and she was unable to look at Emmett. Tears threatened to pour out.
"What's wrong?" Emmett asked immediately.
"It's ok. If you found someone else, its fine, I mean, you're obviously going to go off me at some point, you always seem to do that," Rosalie said, focusing her gaze on something behind Emmett. Her hands tousled his hair.
"There are other fish in the sea, I get it."
Emmett laughed. A tear fell down Rosalie's cheek. Emmett laughed even harder.
"What's wrong with you?" Rosalie sobbed.
"For someone as educated as you are, you sure are dumb," Emmett smiled. Rosalie stared at Emmett.
"Rosalie Hale, why would I go fishing, when I have the most perfect fish, ever?" Emmett said with a massive grin.
Bella strode into the room and cleared her throat. She threw something at Emmett. Emmett caught it with one hand. His other hand was around Rosalie.
"Oh, Emmett, did I mention there was a strange maid in the mansion?" Rosalie whispered, staring at Bella. Bella smiled and took off her costume, which underneath was the clothes she wore when Emmett rang Rosalie. Rosalie's jaw dropped.
"You're the niece! The weird one!" She exclaimed whilst pointing at Bella, "My dad was talking about you! Your family is like mega rich, and he said that I should make friends with you and it was a way to know Emmett better as well."
Bella smiled at Emmett, wondering what to say. Emmett cleared his throat and then looked at the thing that was in his hand. It had two pink lines.
"Am I supposed to know what that means?" Emmett said holding the test up. Rosalie's eyes widened.
"Whose test is that?" she asked, horror colouring her tone.
"Yours," Bella said shamefacedly. Rosalie grabbed the test.
"The urine sample thing was just a trick? Wasn't it?" Rosalie said angrily.
"No, my uncle-in-law really does need urine samples," Bella said seriously. Rosalie stared at her.
"What's with the two pink lines?" Emmett said with a confused smile. Rosalie's blue eyes met with Emmett's brown ones.
"I'm pregnant."
The two words sent chills down Emmett's spine. Carlisle, Jasper and Edward who were listening (and fighting over) a keyhole, fell out of the door. With Edward compressed onto the floor with Jasper and Carlisle on top of him would have been funny if the situation wasn't so humourless at that moment. Bella ran towards Edward, who looked in pain, and tried to fake as if he was going to lose consciousness.
Jasper and Carlisle jumped to their feet whilst Bella cradled Edward's head. Everyone was staring at them. They didn't care.
"Ugh. Bella, I don't feel so good," Edward groaned. Bella looked at Edward softly. Edward added another moan for good measure. Bella kissed Edward's forehead.
"It's going to be alright."
Edward jumped to his feet.
"Well, now that's over and done with," he said with a big goofy grin. Bella glared at Edward but smiled. Kissing Edward felt so good after all.
"Are they going out?" Rosalie asked disbelievingly.
"That's still a mystery to all of us here," Emmett said, stroking Rosalie's arm. He looked at Rosalie's stomach. "So you're pregnant?"
"Well according to this pregnancy test," Rosalie replied, "Are you sure?"
"I had to buy it," Edward answered whilst blushing, "Bella didn't want people to see her buying it because people would think that she was pregnant and her reputation would be at stake, but my reputation as a frivolous, horny playboy wasn't at stake at all." Edward said the last part full of sarcasm.
"And he did not waste 20 bucks on a test that would lie," Bella told them whilst blushing.
"Well, if that's the case," Rosalie spoke softly. She looked at Emmett, "then let's elope."
And then those words froze Emmett's blood.
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"We could go to Vegas, a little Chapel, with your friends as a witness, Bella as a bridesmaid, and then say we could have consummated the marriage and then no one can say anything. And then I could just happen to be pregnant," Rosalie articulated with a sparkle in her eye. Jasper and Carlisle nodded. Bella and Edward just happened to walk out of the room.
"I can't elope with you," Emmett said blankly. Rosalie stood up and stared at Emmett.
"What? You can't elope with me? You get me pregnant and you intend me to be a single mother?" Rosalie said through gritted teeth.
"No. Not that." Emmett stood up as well.
"Then what? What other option is there?"
"Rosalie Hale, you deserve more than an elopement. You deserve a marriage, a big, white, glamorous, unique wedding. I can't elope with you. You mean more to me that that, for crying out loud, you're the mother of my child! You didn't let the fact I got you pregnant get to you. You are really, really way out of my league. You have to have a wedding, or I'm not getting married to you. " Emmett explained. Rosalie burst into tears and buried her head into Emmett's chest.
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"EDWARD! YOU MORON!"
There was sounds of running and the door slamming. Edward walked into the room.
"What was that?" Carlisle asked Edward.
"Well, that test that I bought?" Edward started, "Wasn't a pregnancy test. It was a random test for human protein test."
Emmett and Rosalie fell onto the sofa.
"I can still have the big wedding, no matter what, can't I?" Rosalie asked. Emmett laughed and nodded.
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Everyone sat in the living room in a silence. Rosalie had long calmed down. Emmett had a 'dead arm' around her. Jasper felt he could cut the tension with a knife. Edward cleared his throat but made no attempt to break the silence. Carlisle sat staring into space. The door opened and everyone stared in the direction of the door. Instead of Bella coming into the room there were footsteps on the stairs. Everyone's interest peaked.
It was the hardest three minutes everyone had ever sat.
Emmett wondered what he would do if Rosalie was pregnant. He had no ring, no proposal speech. The wedding that they had to get married with wasn't due until at least 3 more months. Well, Rosalie was 18 in May, so the wedding would probably be in May, so would Rosalie be showing? His mind was full of 'if only' theories.
Rosalie thought about what her mother in particular said about teenage pregnancy. She knew her mother would have wanted a grandchild later on in Rosalie's life. She would love to be pregnant.
There was a soft knock on the door. Jasper opened it and two girls were at the door. One was Alice and the other was Esme. Jasper held Alice in his arms. Esme walked into the house.
"I heard," Alice said softly, "Poor Bella."
"What?" Jasper asked, pulling away.
"Bella's pregnant? My mom works on the counter in the pharmacist downtown. She said she saw Bella buy a pregnancy test but she said it was for a friend."
"It was for a friend. Come in," Jasper said.
In the living room, Esme and Rosalie were holding each other with care and they were sobbing into each other's arms. Esme finally pulled away and Emmett held Rosalie in his arms, who continued sobbing. Esme searched around the room and found Carlisle staring at her. As soon as their eyes met, Carlisle looked away. Esme sat on the floor beside Carlisle.
Edward was the only person in the room without another person. He felt kind of lonely.
Bella finally came downstairs. Each step was longer than needed. It made Rosalie and Emmett feel more panicked.
When Bella finally appeared into the room, she looked grave.
Everyone waited.
"Rosalie, you're..."
Everyone waited. The tension increased. Butterflies flew in everyone's stomach.
"Not pregnant."
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