Chapter Nine

Angel's POV

"When are Mommy and Daddy coming back?" Bex whined, glancing at the front door for the millionth time since the newlyweds left for their separate honeymoons two weeks ago.

Max and Fang had flown via wings to the Treetop Resort in Canada as a way of being incredibly ironic while paying a thousand bucks a night to sleep in tree beds. Max had actually picked the place when she found it accidentally online.

Jacob and Renesme chose to continue with the long tradition of honeymooning on Esme Island. All of her relatives had honeymooned there at one point or another in the last hundred years.

Nessie thought it was romantic to stay at the place where she was conceived. I know from her mind that she secretly hoped that she would be just as lucky in the baby making department if they stayed there.

"They'll be back before you know it." I answered again. This was getting repetitive and I was starting to get annoyed.

"Why don't you go play with Gazzy and Dolly?" I asked and her face lit up. My brother seemed to be the only one who tolerated her all day games with her animated paper doll.

Once she scurried out of the room, her four year old body nearly tripping on the carpet, I rolled my eyes at Seth. "That girl will be the death of me." I muttered and he laughed.

"What's so funny?" I asked, not really angry anymore. Something about my Seth's laughter always calmed me from one of my moods.

"You." He said with another laugh. "Eleven years old and yet so old. Pretty soon, I'll have to visit you at a nursing home, Grandma." He teased and I spit my tongue out at him.

"Ha, ha. Such a comedian, Sethy. Really, you should go into stand up." I teased back. "Besides, you'd be right beside me in the nursing home, Gramps."

"I'd like that." Seth said with a blush. Imprinting was something that I was still trying to figure out. I knew that my Seth didn't think anything about me other than sisterly love, yet I couldn't stop the butterflies in my stomach as he talked about our future.

"Guys!" I heard Nudge yell from the first floor even though everyone could hear her if she whispered. "They're back!"

That got my attention, I flew (literally) down the stairs while Seth took the stairs three at a time with his massively long legs. Gasman and Bex were right behind us and I could see that the rest of the Cullen's were already downstairs. Stupid vampire speed.

"Actually, Alice told us a minute ago that she was starting to lose her vision." Edward spoke up and I frowned. I still wasn't comfortable with someone in my head when I wasn't projecting to them. "Sorry."

"Its okay. We're all here now. Who's outside?" I asked to no one in particular.

"Max and Fang…but they're in a rented car. That's odd, don't you think? I mean, they flew so why would they want to drive. I guess they got bored or tired. I get tired easily when I fly sometimes so that's probably what happened and…" Iggy cut Nudge off from her rant by covering her mouth with his hand.

"Ow!" Iggy yelped and withdrew his hand. He shook it out as he glared at his girlfriend. "You didn't have to bite me. You could have just told me to remove my hand."

"You were covering my mouth, so I couldn't talk." Nudge replied smugly.

"Yeah, yeah." Iggy mumbled.

Edward and I had the privilege to get in the couple's minds so we knew the secret before any of us reached the front door. But Max put a stop to our enjoyment of the secret when she threatened us in our minds.

Angel, Edward, if either of you tells the others, I'll personally kick your butts 'til next Thursday. Max threatened in her mind.

Yeah, like she could in her condition. And I highly doubt Fang would beat me up. I thought to myself but held my tongue nonetheless.

We had reached the front lawn and were watching as Fang jumped out of the driver's side and walked around to open the door for his wife like a gentleman. The second he stepped out of the way and everyone could get a clear view of Max, a chorus of gasps were heard around me.

Max was huge. She had a rounded belly that would have shot out from under her comfortable outfit that she had packed. Instead, she was covered by one of Fang's black t-shirts that fit snuggly around her stomach and swelling breasts. She was obviously not going to have a normal nine month pregnancy, but really, who was expecting that anyway? We're 2% bird and we healed insanely fast.

Emmett chuckled as he stared at Max's belly. "Well that explains the extra heartbeat."

Rosalie looked blissfully happy as well as Nudge, Bella, and Esme. Alice had a frown on her face but that was probably because she couldn't see the new baby's future.

"Max…Max, you're pregnant." Nudge stuttered and our fearless leader blushed. "Like, really pregnant. Are you sure you're only two weeks along? Well, two weeks would mean you got pregnant immediately. Did you? But then why are you so huge? Are you gonna be like Nessie?"

"Congratulations, guys." Edward said with a vampire sob. From his mind, I knew he was comparing Max's pregnancy size to Bella's rapid growth. He was scared for my sister as well as most of the other vampires.

The Flock seemed less scared. They had only seen Nessie's easy, mostly normal human birth. They didn't even jump to where my mind was taking me. This baby was going to be more than just 2% avian and less than 98% human like we were. The odds that the kid was going to be even slightly normal were so slim that I didn't even want to bother and do the math.

I didn't let anyone know these facts though. Wouldn't want to ruin the happy announcement with the terrifying future that was surely to come.