No pictures until Chapter 9 but there are two from last chapter that I forgot to mention, Bella's comforter and pajamas.
Just so you are aware, I finished writing the story tonight and it ends up being a total of 39 chapters. Now, read, enjoy, and review!
Chapter 6
EPOV
I just thought going to sleep with Bella in my arms was a dream come true but waking up with her wrapped around me like we were one person was really the dream come true. I kissed the side of her head gently as I brushed her hair off of her face and tucked it behind her head. I saw a small smile appear on her face and instantly knew she was awake. "Good morning, beautiful." I whispered against the top of her head which was resting on my shoulder.
The smile on her face spread until it stretched across her face as she stretched and blinked open her beautiful brown eyes. "Good morning, I guess last night wasn't a dream afterall." She croaked in a sleep roughened voice.
I tugged her back into my arms and tucked the blankets around us in a cocoon like existence. "No, it wasn't a dream. Want me to prove it?" I asked her saucily with my signature smirk firmly planted on my face.
She shook her head but her smile and eyes said something different so I leant forward to kiss her good morning when I encountered her hand. When I pulled back she was looking at me with wide eyes and when I quirked my eyebrow she explained. "Morning breath."
I smiled and tugged her hand away. "I don't care, I just want a little kiss, that's all I promise." I told her trying to get her to give in to me.
She smiled and nodded as she relaxed her arm in my grip. "Okay." That was all the green light that I need. I quickly took her bottom lip in between my teeth nibbling lightly causing her to groan and spear her hands through my hair tugging me closer.
I slanted my lips across her as our simple good morning kiss turned passionate. When we broke for a breather I whispered into her neck. "Can we stay here all day?"
She laughed and shook her head. "Nope, I have to use the bathroom and I have breakfast to cook. I'm sure Alice and Jasper will be calling for food soon enough." She said quietly.
I sighed and nodded kissing her gently on the forehead before tossing the blankets off of us. "Freedom awaits you, woman." I said gallantly.
She laughed and rolled from the bed heading for the bathroom. I sighed and flopped back on the pillows for a few minutes to reflect on all that had happened since yesterday morning. I groaned at the knocking on the bedroom door. "Eddie you in here?" Jasper asked quietly.
I groaned and tugged the blankets over my head. "Yeah, Jazz, I'm in here. What's up?" I called back to him.
He opened the door. "Is it safe to come in?" He asked quietly.
I laughed and pulled the blankets off my head pushing myself up in the bed to settle against the plush headboard. "Yes, we are still fully dressed and awake." I told him when I saw that he was standing there with his hands over his eyes bare chested with his snoopy pajama pants on. "You know if Esme or Carlisle find out you have Alice's name tattooed on your chest they are going to murder you." I told him just as Bella walked in from the bathroom with her hairbrush in her hand.
"Morning Jasper, breakfast will be in about an hour or so." She said as she gently ran the brush through her tangled mess.
"That's not what I came in here for but you might want to sit down, Belle." Jasper said as he leaned against the wall just inside the door.
I patted the spot in front of me and pointed to the brush and held my hand out for it to keep my promise from last night. "I promised." I told her when she seemed hesitant.
She blushed instantly but sat between my legs on top of the blanket with me underneath it, handing me the brush as we faced my brother. "What's up, Jasper?" I asked him as I gently ran the brush through Bella's hair. I had caught my dad standing behind my mother doing this on several occasions and never knew the point of the gesture until just now.
"Tanya is downstairs refusing to leave, she showed up about twenty minutes ago and Ali is about ready to kill her." He said quietly as he fiddled with his fingers with his head hung down, like he was afraid of my reaction.
I tensed up just as Bella's back straightened and stiffened in front of my eyes. "Call the cops on her. I have nothing to say to that lying cheating whore. I will get my lawyer or Carlisle to talk to her father. I want nothing to do with her." I snapped as I tightened my grip on Bella's hairbrush.
Jasper sighed and finally looked up at us. "I told her that because I figured that is what you would say but she said she has to talk to you. She said she's not leaving until the cops come get her or you come down and talk to her."
I sighed and shook my head. "I've got nothing to say to her, Jasper. Call the damn cops already." I snapped at him but Bella shook her head adamantly.
"No please don't have the cops out here, I don't want to have to explain to my parents why they were called even though none of us are at fault. They don't know Jasper stays here and I don't want to have to explain to them why you were here either." She begged wringing her hands together in what I have come to notice is her nervous 'tick' so to speak.
I sighed again. "Okay, baby, calm down please, I will go down and talk to her. I'm sure she just wants to talk about yesterday since she couldn't find me last night." I conceded quietly because I didn't want to bring Bella any undue stress.
She shook her head again. "No, that's not right of me to make you do that either when you have gone to such great lengths to avoid her."
I laid the brush down and pulled her back against my chest. "I will protect you from her. How about we go speak to her together? Present a united front. She won't go too far because Carlisle and her father, Eleazar are friends and golf together every Sunday." I suggested against her ear.
She sighed and shrugged her shoulders. "Okay. Why would she show up here though? She's never been here before and how would she know you were even here?" She asked quietly.
I sighed and then it dawned on me. "She must have stopped by to talk to Jasper and saw my car sitting in the driveway. My car is in the driveway, not the garage." I told her and saw Jasper nod.
"We will all be there, Edward. You won't have to do this alone. That is if you want us there?" Jasper said firmly.
I nodded. "Okay, Jazz, thanks for that. I'm not sure what you have heard about what happened yesterday but Tanya is pregnant and it may be my baby." I told him and his face registered both shock and anger.
"Edward if you hurt-" I held my hand up before he could protect the beautiful girl in my arms right now.
"But it may be Garrett's also. They have been hooking up for the past few months." I finished before he could go on in his protective friend mode he had seamlessly transformed into.
Jasper gasped and shook his head. "I never did like that girl, Edward, you know that. You need to demand a paternity test, immediately." He told me.
I sighed and nodded. "I know, Jasper, I need to call Esme and Carlisle to tell them the truth also and get their opinions on the situation. Give us a few minutes and then we will be down. Please don't kill her before we get down there." I begged him.
He nodded and left without another word, shutting the door behind him.
I picked up Bella's brush again and began silently running it through her silken locks. "I'm not going back to her, Isabella, I wouldn't have told you everything I told you last night if that was my intentions. I promise you that but I need to take responsibility of that baby if it turns out to be mine. It's only right, it's what my parents would expect me to do." I told her as ran both my fingers and the brush through her strands gently.
She nodded but remained silent.
"I won't let her hurt you anymore, baby, I promise. We are together now and that is what matters to me. I don't even have to speak to her until we can get a DNA test done, I'm doing it to keep the cops from coming out here and I need to protect that baby if it turns out to be mine." I rambled on out of fear that this would send her running for the hills where she avoided me at all costs and never spoke to me again.
She nodded again but still remained silent. Her silence was scaring me a little bit and I decided to be honest with her.
"Bella, baby, please talk to me. Tell me what you are thinking. You are scaring me." I begged her as I sat the brush on her night table.
She turned around and faced me. I was astonished to see tears in her eyes and her biting her bottom lip, it was obvious that she was scared of what facing Tanya with me would bring on.
"Oh, baby, I promise I won't let her or her harpies touch you ever again. Tell me what to do and I promise I will try with everything I have to do it, if it means I get to keep you by my side, baby, please talk to me." I continued to beg her as I cupped her face in my hands.
She shook her head as her tears spilled over her cheeks causing me to groan out loud.
"Come on, Isabella, please talk to me. I know this situation is unfair but there is nothing I can do about it but hang on for the ride. I know it is not right to ask you to hang on with me but I can't imagine letting you go when I just got you." I pleaded with her.
She nodded and smiled reassuringly at me, cupping my own face in her hands. "I'm not going anywhere, Edward. I'm just scared of what the situation can evolve into." She whispered quietly.
I groaned and pulled her lips to mine to kiss her passionately to reassure both of us a little bit more that our relationship was still intact even though it was less than 24 hours old. She twined her hands in my hair tilting my head backwards as she got to her knees in between my legs deepening our kiss. Our tongues met in a passionate twist causing us both to groan as I wrapped my arms around her waist pulling her flush to my chest. "Oh God, baby, you are killing me." I whispered to her when we broke away for a few breaths.
She tucked her head into the crook of my neck wrapping her arms tightly around my neck hanging on for dear life.
We remained that way until another knock sounded on the door. "Come in." We both called without moving from our embrace.
It was Alice this time. "Edward, so help me to God, if you do NOT get down there and get that trashy whore out of my house I won't be held responsible for my actions." The tiny pixie said with her hands planted firmly on her pink pajama clad hips. "Jazz told me the truth."
I had to bite my lip to keep from laughing at her. She really was hilarious looking in her bright pink cupcake covered pajama bottoms with a tank top that said 'I may be small but I sure am sweet!' with a huge cupcake below it. "Okay, Alice, we are coming. Just give us a few more minutes please."
She nodded and retreated from the room but purposely left the door open. "You ready to face the two timing pregnant whore?" I asked Bella quietly.
She nodded and pulled away from me with a slight smile on her face. "You need a different shirt on though, I don't want her getting any ideas." She said as she climbed from the bed.
I chuckled and followed her. "You go find one while I use the bathroom then we will head down there together." I told her as I pulled her to me for another quick kiss. This is not the way I pictured our first morning together going.
A few minutes later, I walked out of the bathroom to see Bella standing in front of her window with her arms crossed. She was still in her sleep shorts and tank top and I liked that she was comfortable enough to stay in her pajamas. I walked up behind her quietly wrapping my arms around her waist. "I can't believe all of this sexiness is now mine." I whispered into her neck as I bit her gently causing her to groan.
She pushed away from me before turning around and handing me a dark blue t-shirt that was most likely Jasper's. "Jasper's?" I asked as I tugged it on over my head.
She nodded as she handed me my phone. "Apparently Alice or Jasper one plugged it in for you last night and turned it on. It was going off in the closet." She said quietly.
I groaned and unlocked my new iPhone that I had just gotten two weeks ago when Tanya had thrown my other one against a tree in our back yard during one of our fights. "I need to call Carlisle and Esme to let them know where I'm at and also to ask a few questions before we go down there." I told her as I skipped over all the voicemail and text message notifications and dialed Carlisle's cell phone number before putting it on speakerphone.
"Edward?" Esme's voice came over the phone causing me to double check to make sure I had dialed the right number. I had.
"Yes, it's me. I'm okay, spent the night at a very special friend's house. I'm sorry to have worried you guys." I quickly spit out trying to cover all of my bases right off.
She sighed. "It's okay, Jasper called last night and said you guys were staying at Alice and Bella's house. We need to talk about this Tanya situation, son." She said quietly.
I groaned and pulled Bella into my lap as I sank into the chair in front of her windows. "I know, she's here at Bella's now. I need to talk to Carlisle really quick before I go talk to her." I told her.
She sighed. "We are going to talk about this, Edward, you can't avoid this type of situation." She said firmly letting me know that she knew at least that Tanya was pregnant and it was possibly my baby.
"I'm not trying to avoid it. I'm trying to hit it head on. I need to talk to Carlisle before Alice ends up in jail." I snapped at her. Bella ran her fingers through my hair gently calming me down instantly. "I'm sorry, Ma. I will be home in a little bit. Can I please talk to Carlisle right now, I need some medical advice." I told her in a gentler voice.
She sighed. "Okay, son. We love you. Here's Carlisle." She said before some rustling came over the phone.
"Everything okay, son?" He asked instantly.
I groaned. "I don't know, Pops, I don't know what to do or what to suggest in this situation. How soon can a paternity test be done?" I asked him quickly because I knew Alice and Jasper were probably getting anxious downstairs.
"A non-invasive paternity test can be done as early as nine weeks, Edward. It draws the baby's DNA from the mother's blood with no harm to the child. But first, you need to find out how far along she is Edward. If she's far enough along I will be happy to take the samples today and put a rush on it. We should have answers by tomorrow at the latest."
I sighed and nodded even though he couldn't see me. "Thanks, pops, I will be home in a little bit with an update and accurate explanation." I told him trying to end the phone call.
"Okay, son, good luck." He said before ending the call.
I groaned and laid my head against Bella's shoulder. "This is going to be a nightmare. I can already tell." I told her quietly.
She nodded and raked her nails against my scalp soothingly. "You don't have to answer this if you don't want to. But, when was the last time you guys had unprotected sex?"
I groaned and took a deep breath before answering. "Around three or four months ago. I didn't have any on me and she wouldn't take no for an answer. So to avoid a fight I just pulled out." I told her quietly.
She nodded and stood up. "Then the good news is that if it is yours then she is probably far enough along to get the test your father suggested done today or tomorrow." She said as she grabbed my hands tugging me from the chair. "Now, let's go get that bimbo out of my house so I can cook us an awesome breakfast."