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Chapter 7
BPOV
I was trying to put on a brave face for Edward but I feared it wasn't working by the death grip Edward had on my hand. We were sitting in the living room having a face-off with Tanya. Alice and Jasper sat off to the side in the huge chair and a half that we had there, they were here strictly for support so they were remaining silent glarer's. "I'm going to ask you again, Tanya, and I want an answer this time, dammit. I'm not playing with you." Edward growled at her as she sat with her legs crossed and her arms over her stomach on the couch across from us. She was dressed impeccably but the nervous twitch in her constantly bouncing foot betrayed her so called calm demeanor. "Do you know how far along you are?"
She sighed and nodded. "Yes, Edward, I went to the doctor yesterday morning, that's why I missed third period. I am right at fourteen weeks along." She snapped glaring at me as I held Edward's hand firmly in my lap as I curled into his side trying to keep him calm but she was making it hard by being stubborn and not cooperating.
I kept my head held high and faced her head on as Edward tried to have patience with her. "Good, I want a DNA test done to see if I am the father before we go any further with this charade. We can go right after breakfast and get one done." Edward told her quietly.
She shook her head. "I don't care who the father is, Edward, I don't want this baby. It's going to ruin my figure, future plans, and life. I have scheduled an appointment at the abortion clinic for Tuesday afternoon." She said picking at something on her jeans.
Edward roared at her. I tried fruitlessly to hold him still and keep him calm but I didn't really have the strength or desire to do so. "ABSOLUTELY NOT, YOU WHORE! If that is my baby, I want it whether you do or not." He said as he stood from the couch and started pacing and tugging on his hair trying to calm himself down.
Tanya huffed. "There is nothing you can do to stop me, Edward. I don't want this baby and you have no rights to it."
I was shocked when I saw Edward lean over Tanya, placing his hands on either side of her head and leaning in close to whisper in her ear. I have no idea what he said to her but she went white as a sheet and nodded. "Fine, we can go get the test done in two hours. Is that enough time for little miss betty crocker over there to whip up breakfast for the family?"
"At least I'm not the one knocked up and have no idea who the father may be. How many guys was it Tanya?" I asked her staring at her intently.
"Tanya." Edward said as he came to sit back down beside me wrapping an arm around my shoulders.
"Sorry. I will meet you at the hospital in two hours, Edward. Don't be late." She conceded as she got up and walked straight out the front door without another word which made me curious as to what Edward had whispered in her ear.
Alice and Jasper busted out laughing while I just looked at Edward in astonishment. "What did you say to her?" I asked him quietly as I snuggled back into his side draping my legs over his to essentially trap him on the couch.
He just laughed. "Her reputation means everything to her and she knows that I know it. I told her that if she didn't agree to the paternity test today that I would tell everybody in this city and the surrounding cities what a cheating two timing baby murdering whore she really was." He told me which sent Jasper and Alice into more peals of laughter.
I just shook my head. "I know it's admirable but if she aborted it then it would get rid of her altogether. Why are you so against it?" I asked just to get a view on his perspective. Secretly I was ecstatic that he was standing up for what is right and taking full responsibility for his actions because I was anti-abortion myself but I had to know why he was doing it and this is the only way I knew to go about doing it.
He sighed. "This is possibly my parents' legacy that she is trying to murder and I can't stand by and allow her to do that to me or them. If it turns out that the baby is mine, I will take full custody of it so she can go ahead and have the life she wants without ever having to worry about the baby. I know it will be hard but I know it is what my parents would want me to do as well as Carlisle and Esme and I feel deep in my heart of hearts that this is the right thing to do. It's not the baby's fault its mother doesn't want it." He said as he ran a hand through his hair nervously.
I smiled and nodded. "Sounds noble to me and your parents would be so very proud of you, Edward." I told him as I kissed the side of his head gently.
He nodded before standing up sliding my legs off his legs. "You mentioned something about breakfast. Do you know how to make cinnamon rolls?" He asked as he tugged me up from the couch.
I laughed as Alice and Jasper cheered and followed us into the kitchen. "Does she ever! They are the best cinnamon rolls in all of Chicago." Alice said as she began pulling things from the cabinet.
Jasper nodded as he hopped up on the bar stool to watch the action. "Sit down, bro. This is one thing they always do together the day after a game." I heard Jasper tell Edward as I pulled stuff from the refrigerator.
We worked together perfectly as we made our famous cinnamon rolls that Jasper always bragged about. I could hear Jasper and Edward talking quietly as Alice and I worked together on the other side of the kitchen talking amongst ourselves.
"So…are you and Edward a couple now?" Alice asked quietly as she mixed the brown sugar, butter, and cinnamon together in a bowl.
I smiled and nodded. "Yeah, he asked me last night right before you came up and hollered 'times up'. We are supposed to go out on a date next Saturday." I told her quietly.
She squealed a little bit. "I'm so happy for you, Belle. You of all people deserve some happiness and he is such a sweet guy." She said as she pushed that bowl aside and began unwrapping the cream cheese for the topping.
I nodded. "He says his parents used to be all lovey dovey so he comes by it honestly apparently." I told her quietly, certain that Edward wouldn't mind me sharing that bit of info with Alice.
She nodded. "Carlisle and Esme are the same way. Jasper and I walked in on them the other day going at it on the kitchen counter." She said with a visible shudder at the memory.
I had to bite my lip to keep from laughing out loud at her reaction. "That's just insane. I couldn't imagine our parents doing it at all much less on the kitchen counter." I told her as I spread the brown sugar mixture over the rolled out dough I had made up.
Alice nodded in agreement. "Yeah, that's just gross." She said quietly. "What do you think of the Tanya situation?" She asked as I scooted over to let her slice up the rolled up dough as I rolled out the second one.
I shrugged. "I don't know. I think it's noble what Edward is doing but that is a big step for him and I don't know where I stand in the situation." I admitted to her honestly. "I don't know if I'm ready for a baby so soon after I graduate high school if he does want me involved in his babies life."
She nodded in understanding. "You know, Jasper and I had a pregnancy scare a few months ago." She said quietly.
I just quirked my eyebrow at her in disbelief because I knew we were both on the same kind of birth control, her for protection and me to regulate my periods.
She chuckled shaking her head at my silent approach to the shocking news. "Why do we need the parents here when you do their job for them so well."
I just laughed and shook my head but still remained silent to encourage her to finish her story.
She sighed. "My mirena fell out a few months ago and we had sex without even thinking about it and when my period was a few days later I freaked out but it turned out to be a false alarm." She explained as I slipped the cinnamon rolls into the oven to bake.
I nodded. "Please be careful, Tinker. You are too smart and have such a bright future to have it disrupted for any reason even though we would all embrace your baby with open arms." I told her wrapping my arms around her gently giving her a hug. "I love you, Tinker." I whispered against her hair.
"I love you too, Belle." She whispered back.
"Yo, Tinkerbelle, where's breakfast?" Emmett boomed from the back door. He played our mascot at school, which was a big gray bulldog, and was the life of any party he was invited to.
Alice and I both turned to face the huge mammoth of a man who lived through the woods behind us and had a trail right up to the front door. He usually came over for breakfast on Saturday's and dinner a few nights a week because it was easier to cook for four or five instead of two.
"We're in here!" Alice and I both called out to him before walking over to our boyfriends and hopping in their laps.
I had to admit it was nice not being a third of fifth wheel anymore. "You do know Emmett, right?" I asked Edward quietly.
He just laughed and nodded. "Yeah, I just didn't know that you knew him."
I laughed and nodded. "Yeah, we've known each other since we were about ten years old and he wandered into our backyard from his." I explained to him as Emmett and his longtime girlfriend, Rosalie, waltzed into the kitchen.
"Tinkerbelle, you ladies are looking all kinds of…." He trailed off tapping his finger contemplating on what word to use to describe us.
I just shook my head and held in my laughter as Rosalie slapped him upside the head. "Dammit, Rosie, I was going to say beautiful. I was just teasing them, woman." He said as he rubbed the back of his head.
"Morning Em, Rose." We all said between giggles.
It was then that Emmett noticed Edward and where I was sitting exactly. "Yo, Eddie, what are you doing with Belle in your lap?"
Edward just laughed. "I think I'm allowed to have my girlfriend sit in my lap as she cooks us all breakfast." He said nonchalantly with an indifferent shrug.
I groaned and got up as the timer on the oven beeped and Emmett cheered. "Go, Belle! That's one way to show that bitch who's the bigger woman. Take her man and be proud of it." Emmett said clapping me on the back as I squeezed past him on my way to the oven.
I normally hated my big kitchen because it just always felt too big and empty but with all these people hanging around in it, it felt comfortable and full like a family kitchen was supposed to feel. Rose followed me to the oven and reached for the second set of oven mitts hanging on the wall beside the stove. "So you and Masen, huh?" She asked as she pulled the second pan from the oven following me outside with it. It really was the best way to cool them off, natural cool air.
I smiled and nodded. "Yeah it happened last night." I told her as we sat the pans down on the bar-b-que grill.
She wrapped her arms around me after she set her pan down. "Good for you, Bella. Is this going to be enough to feed everybody?" She asked motioning to the two pans of rapidly cooling cinnamon rolls.
I sighed and shook my head. "I doubt it but it's just going to have to be enough." I told her as we walked back inside.
She smiled and nodded. "Emmett's already ate once this morning so he shouldn't eat too much."
I laughed and stirred the thickening icing. "Good. Thanks for that."
She shrugged. "Did you hear that Tanya is pregnant?" She asked as we propped up against the counter watching the guys and Alice as they discussed last nights' football game as usual.
I nodded. "Yeah, she was here this morning and Edward is going to meet her after breakfast." I hedged lightly because I didn't know how much she knew and I didn't want to say anything that could potentially hurt the baby or Edward in the future. I trusted Rose but this was a very serious and delicate situation.
She nodded and leaned closer to me. "I wonder who the father is? Garrett, Edward, or Jacob." She said quietly. "Rumor has it that she was screwing all of them at the same time." I was shocked by the new name thrown into the potential paternity mix.
Jacob? She hadn't mentioned that name to Edward as far as I knew. "Wow! Was she really sleeping with all of them?" I asked quietly.
Rose nodded. "Yeah, she bragged about how she was duping each of them so easily and has apparently been doing it for over six months now."
I groaned. "Wow, they've only been dating for a little over a year. Is this Jacob Black you are talking about? The one from freshman art class?" I asked her as I headed back outside to get the cinnamon rolls from the back deck.
Rose nodded as she followed me. "Yep, one and the same, art nerd, Jacob Black." She said as she scooped up the pan she had carried outside.
I laughed. "I feel sorry for Edward out of all of them because he was dating her and he is the one that has been duped the most." I told Rose.
"Yeah, me too. I don't know if he knows about Jacob but I think he needs to know." She said as she helped me icing the cinnamon rolls.
I nodded. "I will tell him later, he's got enough to deal with right now though." I told her.
"Works for me."
"Let's eat!" I called to them all.
