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Chapter 34

EPOV

The sororities and fraternities done a great job at making the old barn look scary and festive all at the same time. They had hay bales with burlap sacks tossed over them for seats and the old wooden wheels for tables. We mainly stayed at the table talking amongst ourselves and a few friends from our classes but didn't really get into the festivities. Alice and Jasper won the couple's costume competition as well as the best dressed competition and best body shot competition and they were overjoyed by it.

"Babe, are you ready to go? I'm tired and don't feel real good." Bella asked as she leaned into my side.

I wrapped my arm around her shoulders and tugged her firmly into my side. "Yeah, let's just find the others to see if they are ready to go. If they're not we can just call a cab." I told her as we stood up to go find our friends. "You still feeling sick to your stomach?" I asked her as we walked around the old barn.

She nodded. "Yeah, and I'm just really tired all of a sudden. I hope I haven't caught that stomach bug that's been going around campus." She said as she pointed to where Alice was grinding against Jasper on the edge of the 'dance floor'. "I've been feeling a little nauseous and tired for the past few days."

"I hope not either." I told her as I reached out and tapped Jasper on the shoulder. "Hey, we're ready to go. Bella's feeling sick." I told them honestly.

They both nodded. "That's fine. You okay, sissy?" Alice asked as she linked arms with my pale looking Bella.

Bella shook her head as she leaned into Alice's side as we went looking for Rose and Emmett. We found them outside sitting on a stack of extra hay bales. "Hey there you guys are. We've been looking for you for ten minutes." Jasper said as we walked up to them.

"We've been out here for the past hour. For some reason these college parties don't seem like fun to us when we could be at home with our daughter." Rose said quietly.

Bella jerked away from Alice and ran around the hay bales. "Bella, you okay baby?" I asked her as I went to follow her but stopped when I heard her puking.

I hurried my steps up and pulled her ribbon bound hair back just as she bent over again to finish relieving the contents of her stomach. "I wanna go home and crawl in bed." She whined when she was finished.

Everybody nodded in agreement and off we went. We made a pit stop at Esme and Carlisle's to pick up the babies. I helped Bella into the front seat of the Volvo before sprinting up the steps to go get Gavyn.

The next few days proceeded with Bella just lying around snacking on dry toast and water as she battled whatever it was she had caught. "Are you going to be able to make it to class tomorrow?" I asked her as I helped her into a bathtub full of warm water and bubbles hoping to make her feel a little better.

She nodded. "I have to, I have a test in English Lit." she said as she settled back against my chest.

"Maybe we need to get you to the doctor tomorrow after we get out of class." I told her as I grabbed her sponge and squirted some of her body wash onto it.

She nodded as she curled into my chest and I washed her gently. "I'm scared of what they are going to say." She mumbled quietly as I dried her off gently.

"Do you not think it's the stomach virus?" I asked her quietly.

She shook her head. "I don't know but I may be pregnant, we've not done anything to prevent it from happening." She whispered softly.

I smiled broadly as I dropped the towel to cup her face in my hands. "Baby, that would be wonderful but no matter what we need to find out what is wrong with you." I told her as I placed a gentle kiss to her lips.

She smiled and nodded as we finished getting ready for bed.

The next morning I woke up to Bella puking in our bathroom and Gavyn whimpering through the baby monitor. "You okay?" I called to her as I got out of bed slipping into my pajama pants.

"Yeah, go get Gavyn please." She croaked as I heard the toilet flush.

I walked across the hall to see my baby boy rolled on his back, a fist in his mouth and his monkey in his other hand. "Good morning, buddy." I called to him as I turned off his baby monitor before scooping him up into my arms. I felt his bottom and while his diaper was obviously full his pajamas were dry thankfully. "I'm glad to see those new diapers are keeping your clothes dry, monkey." I told him as I laid him on his changing table tugging his pajama pants down so I could take off his diaper.

He whimpered as I wiped him clean before sprinkling powder all over his bottom and closing it all up with a fresh diaper. "Are you hungry, monkey?" I asked him as he chewed on his fist slobbering all over the place.

I scooped him up and headed downstairs so that we could get his breakfast ready. We had started him on baby food a few weeks ago and only gave it to him three times a day; breakfast, before naptime and before bedtime. I settled him into his high chair as I went to the fridge and pulled out one of his made up bottles taking off the cap and handing it to him. He couldn't quite hold up a big bottle yet when it was full but he could manage the little four ounce bottle we gave him in the mornings now and it bought me some time to get his cereal and baby food ready. We learned months ago that he didn't like his milk warm, he accepted it easier when it was straight from the fridge. I quickly put a small amount of cereal into his little plastic bowl before squirting some of his formula from another bottle onto it to mix it up before looking in the cabinet and pulling out a jar of his breakfast foods.

"You want peaches, pears, or bananas this morning, monkey?" I asked him as I sifted through the jars before settling on the peaches. He offered no advice as he sucked on his bottle greedily while watching me intently. Once I made my way to the table I saw that he was almost finished with his bottle. I shook my head as I waited patiently for him to drink the last few drops of his bottle because at the rate he was going he was going to eat me out of house and home by the time he was five.

When he was finished with his bottle he tossed it onto his try and pouted at me. I smiled at him as I stirred some of his peaches into his cereal before scooping a small spoonful and 'flying' it towards his mouth. "Edward Anthony if you don't have a bib on that baby I am going to throw something at you!" Bella called from upstairs.

I groaned and sat the spoonful of food back down in his bowl much to his chagrin. "Sorry buddy, I forgot your bib. Again." I muttered as I opened the drawer that contained his eating bibs and pulled one out and fastened it around his neck before resuming his feeding.

He quickly gobbled down the small jar of baby food and bowl of cereal like it was going out of style. "Come on, buddy, we got to get ready for the day. Momma doesn't feel good again." I told him as I wiped his face and hands clean before unbuckling him from his high chair, grabbing his other four ounce bottle and heading upstairs.

The rest of the morning and day dragged on seeming to last forever. Bella called at lunch and got an appointment at the local clinic for thirty minutes after our last class because while she wasn't throwing up she was still feeling queasy and I couldn't wait to find out what was wrong with her because she was looking paler and paler as the day wore on. Luckily Cheyenne wasn't in College Algebra because I think Bella may have very well snapped her head off at the slightest peep from her with the way she was feeling today.

"Isabella Masen." The nurse called from the doorway leading to the back of the clinic.

Bella groaned as I stood up holding my hands out to pull her up. "Come on, baby, maybe the doctor can give you something to make you feel better." I told her as we walked towards the smiling nurse.

"I can't believe it." Bella mumbled still in shock as I guided us out of the clinic and to the Volvo so we could go pick up her prescription and Gavyn.

We had found out some very interesting news while we in the doctors' office. We were indeed pregnant, which we were elated about. We were shocked because Bella was six months pregnant with our little girl. "I can't either. Where are we going to put her? Every room in our house is full." I thought aloud as we climbed in the car. I didn't crank it, instead turning to face Bella who was sitting there with her head bent staring at her still flat stomach. We had chalked her little 15 pound weight gain to the snacking we all did while we were studying but apparently it was a baby all along.

She shrugged. "I don't know, I am still trying to wrap my head around that we have three months to get ready for another baby. Most women have seven or eight months to prepare. I only have three." She rambled.

I reached out and laid my hand on her stomach. "We can take my desk and couch and stuff and put it downstairs in the basement and turn the office into her bedroom for the time being. It's still right beside our bedroom."

She nodded and a smile graced her face. "It's just such a shock. We weren't even really trying."

I chuckled as I cupped her face kissing her lips gently. "I know but she's on her way now and there's nothing we can do about it but get prepared. Let's go get your prenatal vitamins." I told her as I cranked the car.

"Guys! We need to have a family chat!" Bella and I called as we walked into the house a few hours later.

I headed to the music/play room with Gavyn to get his butt changed while we waited on everybody to congregate downstairs. "Good, Emmett and I need to talk to you guys too." Rose said as she plopped down with Blakely in her arms.

Everybody filtered in within the next few minutes and settled around the living room. "What's up?" Alice chirped as she flitted in plopping down in Jasprer's lap. "Good timing on the meeting too, we have news." She chirped.

Bella looked at me with wide eyes and a small smile. "Okay, well we will go first. I went to the clinic today after class and got some very shocking news." Bella said without spilling the actual news.

Alice looked at her with a raised eyebrow. "You're not dying are you?"

"Are you contagious?" Rose asked as she hugged Blakely a little closer.

I had to hold in my laughter at their ridiculous questions. Bella smiled at them before spilling the beans. "Not dying and not contagious unless you can catch or die from being pregnant." She said quietly, almost under her breath.

"You're pregnant?" Alice squealed as she bounced in Jasper's lap excitedly.

"How far along are you?" Rose asked curiously.

It was Bella's turn to smile because this was going to be the biggest shocker of all. "Six months." She said with a brilliant smile.

"With our daughter." I told them as I held Bella tightly to my side.

"But you're not showing at all. That's so not fair." Rose said pointing to Bella's flat stomach.

I just laughed. "We said the same exact thing. Apparently she is growing right on schedule and appears to be healthy. She's due at the end of January."

We all chatted and discussed the baby before I remembered that the others had something important to say too.

"What did you guys want to talk to us about?" I asked them as I went to get a bottle of water from the fridge.

"We set a date and found an apartment!" Alice said bouncing again causing Jasper to groan and scoot her to sit beside him instead of on top of him.

I saw Bella sit up straighter in curiosity since they just got engaged this past weekend. "When? Where? Why?" she asked quietly.

"New Year's Eve at midnight at the Ballastone Inn. Now, Belle I'm almost certain the where and why of your questions was about our apartment." Alice chirped happily.

Bella nodded with tears in her eyes. "Yeah." She whispered quietly.

Alice climbed off the couch and knelt in front of my still shocked wife cupping her face in her tiny hands. "It's time, sissy, it's time. We are just a few minutes down the road and our house doesn't close for another three weeks. We just signed the paperwork on it the other day." Alice explained as Bella nodded.

Bella sniffled and nodded. "We've never been apart, Tinker." Bella whispered as she wrapped Alice up in a bone crushing hug.

Alice sniffled and nodded. "I know, but it's time, Bella. We're going to try to start our own family and want to make our own memories also."

Bella nodded and they hugged it out for a few minutes before they gained their composure and returned to their seats. "Okay, Rose, what was your news?" Bella asked as she wiped her cheeks dry.

Rose just held up her hand in explanation as she began to explain. "Emmett and I got married this morning before class!" She said in an excited voice.

"You guys what?" I asked stunned by their news.

"We got married at the courthouse this morning before my first class. It is actually really easy to do like you guys said it was." Emmett said as he shrugged his shoulders.

We spent the rest of the afternoon gushing over everybody's news.

The next few weeks flew by as we prepared for Thanksgiving, decorated the house for Christmas, and prepared for finals. Before we realized it, Thanksgiving had passed with a huge family dinner and extreme shopping the next day. Now we were helping Alice and Jasper get things ready for their big move into their new house. We were all out of school for the winter break and were enjoying being able to chill out in our routine. Rose had also decided to stay at home with Blakely instead of going to school, she said the same thing Bella and I did. Raising our kids to be great human beings was more important than going to school right now and she could always go back later. Rose and Bella both had decided to go ahead and only take a few online classes and stay home with the babies.

We all shuffled around in our house with Alice and Jasper moving out with Rose and Emmett offering to move downstairs into that bedroom and letting us turn their bedroom into a nursery for our daughter who was still nameless. Even though Blakely wasn't sleeping through the night, Rose said it was no big deal to come up the stairs and get her and the baby monitor worked perfectly while downstairs.

One of the big changes for all of us was that we weren't having to battle all the snow that we were all used to in Chicago which was a huge relief. Bella had really started to show once she started taking her prenatal vitamins, she was now in her seventh month and was still tiny compared to some women we saw that were five and six months pregnant. We had felt her kick for the first time a few days after we had found out about her but Bella though it was because she was aware that she was pregnant but the doctor said that was normal in a first time pregnancy to not feel the baby kick until week 25 or 26.

"Are we doing a real tree or a fake tree for Christmas?" I asked everybody as we sat around the dinner table eating chicken enchiladas that Alice and Jasper had cooked since they were sleeping in their new house tonight for the first time.

"Real." Rose said.

"Fake." Emmett said.

"Fake cause Gavyn's crawling everywhere now and I don't want him eating the needles." Bella said which caused Rose to change her tune.

"I forgot about that. Fake it is." Rose said as she wiped Blakely's chin as she sucked on her bottle.

She was such a chubby baby at three and a half months old with bright blue eyes and curly blonde hair with matching dimples in each cheek. Both her and Gavyn had grown so much since they were born. Gavyn was almost seven months old and in my opinion was adorable as could be. He still had brown hair that was getting a little on the long side and big brown eyes that were very expressive and the cutest chubbiest cheeks I have ever seen before. He was so long though that he was close to outgrowing the 6-9 month old clothes we had had him in for almost two months now. He was going to be a big boy but I would love him no matter what he turned out like.

I nodded as I fed Gavyn a spoonful of his chicken rice baby food that he was devouring. If there was one thing the boy liked to do beside cuddling with his momma it was eating. He would eat 3-4 jars of baby food a day along with his 36 ounces of formula and his half a cup of cereal every morning.

"Is that good monkey? It's a new one." Bella asked him as she rubbed a hand over the top of his head, ruffling his slightly curly hair.

He just smiled around another mouthful of the yellowish brownish looking goop I was shoveling into his mouth as quick as I could.

I just chuckled at him as I scraped the bottom of the container. "Last bite, monkey." I told him as I 'flew' the food to his face causing him to slap his tray and squeal.

"That's a good boy!" Bella cheered as she wiped his mouth and hands off before unfastening him from his high chair and pulling him onto her lap. He almost didn't fit because of her baby bump but he just patted it entertainingly as she finished her dinner.

"Who knew that having a seven month old at Christmas could be so exhausting?" Bella asked as she collapsed against me on the rocker in Gavyn's room.

I chuckled and kissed the top of her head. "You know, you didn't have to put all of his presents up tonight. It could have waited until tomorrow." I told her as I looked around the room that was growing from a newborn's room to an active toddler's room slowly but surely. He had toys that were beneficial to him now, they taught him shapes, colors, numbers, letters, animals, and so on. But he also had toys that would help him start standing up and walking when he was ready.

She smiled and nodded. "I know, but I didn't want to have think about it over the next few days as we get ready for Alice and Jasper's wedding." She said as she rubbed Gavyn's stomach gently.

Christmas Day with a baby had been an eye opener that is for sure. Gavyn and Blakely had gotten enough presents to fill both Emmett's Jeep, my Volvo, and half of the back of Jasper's truck. "Are you excited about the wedding?" I asked her as I stood up to go lay Gavyn down in his crib.

I heard Bella groan. "Yes and no. I am excited for her because she has been looking forward to this day for years now but I am not looking forward to being on display with this huge baby bump I got going on.." She said as she stood up to come give Gavyn his goodnight kiss and make sure he was covered up good enough even though he would kick the blankets off during the night. "Goodnight monkey, momma loves you."

"You know, soon enough we are going to have two babies to say goodnight to." I told her as we walked into our bedroom.