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Chapter 11

BPOV

"Are you nervous about tonight?" Rose asked as I folded the load of towels I had just pulled from the dryer.

I shook my head. "Not really. If we had done this before getting to know one another then I would probably be nervous but with everything we have been through in just a week of dating I know I have no reason to be nervous with him." I told her honestly.

She nodded as she swung her legs as she sat atop the washer watching me fold the laundry. "I couldn't imagine dealing with all the drama that you have had to deal with since you guys hooked up last Friday night."

I laughed. "There was a whole lot of talking but no 'hooking up' as you call it." I told her shaking my head.

She huffed. "I didn't mean sex, Belle, I know you value your virginity more than to just give it up so quickly. I meant you guys started going out, dating, hooked up, hanging out, whatever terminology you want to put with it." She said grumpily.

"Are you feeling okay, Rose?" I asked her quietly.

She nodded as she turned around on the washer to sit back against the wall. "Yeah, I feel fine. I'm sorry for snapping at you." She apologized.

"It's okay, Rosie. And to get this conversation back on track, yes Edward and I have had to deal with an enormous amount of stuff since getting together but we talk and deal with it together." I told her honestly.

She nodded. "That's great, Belle, honesty and depending on each other will get you a long way. Tanya was a bitch and a whore and Edward deserves so much than her and he seems to have found that in you.

"Thanks, Rosie." I told her as I finished folding the towels before taking them upstairs to distribute between mine and Alice's bathrooms with her following after me.

"So what are you guys going to do about the baby? It is Edward's isn't it?" She asked as she settled on my bed while I put my towels away in my bathroom. I absolutely loved my bathroom. It had a huge silver painted claw foot bath tub that was the centerpiece of the bathroom. It was surrounded by tiny lime green glass tiles that ran from floor to ceiling along the whole wall. I had a walk in shower surrounded by the same glass tiles on two sides and solid glass walls on the other two walls. The rest of my walls had a pale gray damask wallpaper to tone down the brightness of the green tiles. My bathroom vanity was a dark cherry wood floating vanity with two square sinks sitting on top of it.

"It is his, but you can't say anything to anybody. We have to keep this on the down low because Tanya is threatening to abort or cause harm to the baby and this is the only way we can keep it safe." I had told her because she knew we had gone Saturday to get a paternity test and had helped later that afternoon to come up with a list of potential baby daddy's.

She sat up with a serious look on her face. "She's really threatening that? I thought she was visiting her family in Alaska to deal with her broken heart over Edward."

I laughed and flopped down beside her on the bed. "Rose, you can't say anything to anybody. Her dad has her locked up in Tennessee until the baby is born when Edward will immediately take custody of it." I told her the tentative plans for the future.

She nodded. "I promise, I won't say anything to anybody. This is y'all's secret and can have disastrous results if the wrong person found out."

I nodded. "True. Thanks, Rosie."

She hugged me to her side. "No problem, Belle, but are you ready to help raise a baby so soon after high school?"

I shrugged. "I don't know but I know I don't want to lose Edward and he comes with a baby so I guess I will take the packaged deal."

We talked about colleges that we had all applied to. She and Emmett wanted to get out of Chicago for college also so that they could get away from the scrutiny her parents kept her under. We quickly came to realize that we had all, and I mean all six of us, had applied to several of the same colleges. UCLA in California, Savannah State University in Georgia, Baylor University in Texas, University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska, and also University of Florida.

"I hope we all end up at the same college." Rose said quietly as she sat on the stool in the middle of our closet while I vetoed outfits that Alice was picking out.

I nodded as I watched my pixie of a sister peruse my side of the closet looking for apparently the perfect outfit. "Yeah, me too, the next few months should let us know where we are all accepted or not." I told her as I smiled at the shirt Alice had picked out.

A few hours later I paced the length of my bedroom floor as the time for my date with Edward neared closer and closer. Rose had left when Emmett had called her about an hour ago. Edward had reassured me late last night as he was resting in the recovery room that our date was still on but I would have to drive since he couldn't at the moment. I had my reservations that this was a good idea, as much as I had looked forward to this all week I didn't want him harming himself worse just for my sake. It seemed like it was one thing or another working against us and our plan to go on a first date. First, it was Tanya and her shenanigans then it was him getting hurt last night. Thankfully the Tanya ordeal had died down to almost nothing in the week since she was shipped off to Nashville. It seemed like with her being gone for the duration of the pregnancy was going to be a blessing in disguise.

"Bella will you quit pacing, Jasper just texted and said they are on their way here. You look beautiful and tonight will be perfect for the both of you." Alice said as she stood smirking in the doorway to my bedroom.

I sighed and stopped in front of my mirror. "It's not too much or too little?" I asked running my fingers through my softly curled hair that Alice had pinned back out of my face but otherwise had left hanging down my back. Edward seemed to like my hair down almost to the point of it becoming a fetish. I was wearing dark wash jeans with a short sleeve almost sleeveless dark pink silk shirt that had a scooped neck exposing a little bit of cleavage but not too much and black stiletto boots that peeked out the bottom of my jeans. Alice had paired it with a light pink simple jewel bracelet that she had slipped on my left wrist and my silver watch onto my right wrist with my class ring on my hand.

Alice popped up beside me. "Get your hands out of your hair, you look perfect. I know where you guys are going and you look absolutely stunning." She said as she swatted my hands away from my hair that she had spent almost an hour meticulously curling each individual strand, which seemed ridiculous to me but she had deemed necessary.

I sighed just as the doorbell sounded throughout the house. "It's time!" Alice squealed as she handed me my black jacket and shoved me for the stairs.

"Jeez Alice, I'm going." I told her harshly as I gripped onto the railing of the stairs with a death grip which just caused her to give me one good shove before dancing ahead of me down the stairs and to the door. My balance was iffy before you add my nerves to the situation and she knew that.

I concentrated on not falling down the stairs when I heard his voice. "Isabella, you look absolutely amazing, beautiful."

I glanced up and saw Edward standing there in dark wash jeans similar to mine, a white button up shirt untucked with the top few buttons unfastened, and a black dinner jacket to tie the entire outfit together. He looked comfortable and young yet sophisticated and older than his age all at the same time. "You don't look so bad yourself, Casanova. How are the crutches treating you?" I asked as I spotted Jasper holding them with a smirk as Edward held onto the bottom of the stairs balancing on his one good foot.

He just shook his stylish yet unruly head. "I don't like them because I can't hold your hand or tug you close when someone is eying you." He said as I came to a standstill directly in front of him. He smelled amazing like he always did. I didn't know what cologne or body wash he used but I had quickly gotten addicted to it. My pillows and blankets smelled like him from the few nights that he had spent here and I held them close on the nights he wasn't here. It was amazing how quickly I had become used to him being in the bed beside me and missed him when he was gone.

"You poor baby, I will stay close anyways, you don't have to tug. I promise." I told him stepping up against his warm form wrapping my arms around his waist to prove my point.

He leaned down and pecked my lips gently. "Good. You ready to go?" He asked quietly once we had pulled apart.

I nodded and slipped into my jacket, buttoning it before fastening the belt to ward off the cold evening air. "Are we taking my car?" I asked him as he took his crutches back from Jasper with a glare.

He nodded and I led the way to the garage through the kitchen but realized my mistake when I quickly hopped down the two steps that led down to the garage floor. "Can you go down steps easily without hurting yourself?" I asked quickly as I spun around to see the silly smirk on his face.

He nodded and quickly hopped down the steps. "It's not my first time on crutches, baby. I had this same injury last year remember?"

I chuckled and nodded. "Okay. Are you in very much pain?" I asked as he opened my door for me to slide in the drivers' seat.

He shook his head before hobbling around the car to the passenger side. "Not too much, I took a pain pill right before we left so I should be good for a few hours. We are not going to be able to do everything I had planned but we are at least going to dinner." He said as he slowly lowered himself into the passenger seat before easing his crutches over his head and into the backseat and resting between us. "The bruises are starting to come out on the back of my leg though." He said as I backed out of the garage.

I cringed. "How bad does it look?" I asked curiously.

"It's not too bad right now but it will probably cover the whole back of my thigh and knee. Do you know where 'Tavern at the Park' is at?" He asked as I rolled to a stop at the end of the driveway waiting for further instructions because I didn't have any idea where we were going or what his plans were.

I looked at him with a huge grin on my face. "You had help from Alice didn't you?" I asked as I turned right heading into town because I did indeed know where that particular restaurant was located at. I had passed by it several times but could never bring myself to go inside to eat but I had told Alice several times over the past few years how I had heard such amazing things about their food and that I wanted to try it.

He shook his head. "Nope but I figured it was a good choice when she started bouncing around the other day when I told her my plans for the night."

I laughed and drove the late evening Chicago traffic.