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A/N- I got two requests in a row tonight to repost this, so it looks like I'm going to have to.


I was surrounded by a mountain of blue. Half of my fellow female teachers from work had shown up and were cooing over the baby clothes. Rose and Emmett bought a crib, Angela and Jacob had brought a beautiful rocking chair, which Jacob had actually built himself. Alice and Jasper gave us a changing table. Charlie had bought a nice jog stroller, and Dave and Rebecca, Mike's parents, had bought a car seat. Esme and Carlisle, Alice's parent's, had bought a glider for the baby, which was going to be delivered. Most of my friends from work had brought baby clothes and towels. Jessica Stanley had brought an entire case of baby wipes, and Lauren Mallory, who had actually become quite sweet and friendly since college, had a bought a cute little blue hoodie towel and wash cloth set with a whale on it. Renée hadn't been able to come, but she was sending a mobile and the crib padding. There had been no boys allowed, so Jacob, Emmett, Carlisle and Jasper were kicking back and enjoying a few beers at Carlisle's house.

"Speech, speech!" Alice cried, tapping her fork on her champagne flute. She always went all out with every party. Rose and Angela got in on the glass-tapping until everybody shut up and all eyes were on me.

"Of course, you're going to do this to me," I said, flushing. I felt the baby kick. "This is the biggest party I've ever had in my entire life, asides from my wedding. I'm so grateful for every single one of you. Thank you all so much for everything, this all is so beautiful. I feel so lucky, and very loved right now, and I know this baby is coming into this world surrounded by love. Mike and I are so happy and feel truly blessed."

There was a chorus of awwww's in the room.

I did feel so incredibly blessed.

Alice, Rosalie, Angela and I were snuggled into my bed, giggling at Ghostbusters over a bowl of popcorn. We had had a full day with the baby shower and tonight was a girl's night.

Angela had left her son, Will, with Jacob. Alice and Rosalie didn't have kids, yet, but Alice was hoping to get pregnant, soon. I couldn't sit on the couch for a long period of time, so we all ended up piling into the bed, like we did when we were in high school at slumber parties. I half-heartedly worked on thank-you notes from the party. I could actually write them on my tummy, which made my friends all laugh. We had gotten all the streamers, food and stuff from the games cleaned up, but the baby's presents hadn't been moved, yet. There was so much of it.

"Do you think you'll have another one?" Alice asked.

"Yeah, in a few years," I said. "We need a bigger house before then. Mike and I are looking to buy one."

"Have you seen the Nicholson place? They might be selling, soon," Rose said. She and Emmett were Real Estate Agents. Real Estate was getting hotter and hotter in the Olympic Peninsula, especially since people wanted to be close to the water without the party situation. "They contacted our office. God, I have to pee again." She had been on a new diet, and she had been drinking water nonstop all day. She got up and went to the bathroom.

"I think it would be a good idea to start saving for a house, too," Alice said. "For you, of course. It's going to be a buyer's market, soon."

"I told you that, Alice!" Rosalie yelled through the door. "Hey, look, it's snowing!"

"Oh!" Ang cried, hopping out of the bed. She ran to the window. "It is!"

I heard the toilet flush and the sink came on. Alice helped me to sit up and I got out of the bed to see the snow. "It's so pretty!" I cried. "Our first snow of the new year!"

"Do you want to make crank calls to the guys?" Rosalie asked, coming out of the bathroom.

"Oh, we did that last time," I said. "They know it's us anyways."

"Let's play sound bytes from the movie! That'll confuse the hell of 'em!" Alice cried.

"Good idea!" Rose cried.

Ang and I exchanged glances, we had lost the war. When Alice and Rosalie decided they wanted to do something, that was it. Our votes didn't count.

We spent a few hours pausing and fast-forwarding to the best one-liners of the movie and then 67-ing the boy's cell phones, not saying anything, just playing the movie. Jasper finally answered the phone, saying, "Alice, I know it's you. Cut it out!" We'd hold off our giggles until we hung up, normally, but we lost it. Jasper called right back.

"I know it's you," he said.

"You know what?" Alice asked.

"You've been calling our phones under caller ID block and playing scenes from Ghostbusters," he said. We all cracked up. "I know you think it's funny, but it's not."

"It is!" Alice cried. "I don't know who's doing it-"

"I know you're doing it because Bella and Mike own a copy of it on DVD," he said.

"Jazz, I gotta go," Alice said, hanging up. We all burst out laughing.

The doorbell rang. "I'll get it," Angela said. They had ordered pizza, although I had been getting heartburn. She darted downstairs, grabbing the twenty on the dresser.

Jasper called back and we heard nothing but Adam Sander singing, "Suntan lotion is good for me, You protect me, tee-hee-hee…" We could hear him and Emmett laughing in the background. Rose, Alice and I started giggling.

"BELLA!" Angela's voice sounded frantic. All the laughter in the room stopped. "Bella, get down here, now!" My heart suddenly pounded.

Alice and Rose helped me up and we ran downstairs.

I saw Mark Hetsler at the front step, his hat in his hand. He was one of the deputies on the police force. The look on his face was grave. "Hi, Bella," he said. He was like a little brother to Charlie.

"Oh, God no," I muttered, feeling faint, my stomach drop out from under me. My knees wobbled underneath me and then buckled. I almost lost control of my bladder. Rose caught me.

"Is it Dave? Charlie? Please, no, God, no it couldn't be my Michael, no not Mike-"

"No, Bella," Mark said. "There's been an accident. They were driving home because of the snow. Dave didn't... survive, and Charlie and Mike are in the ER."

"They're alive?" I asked, in a tiny voice.

"Yes, they survived," he said. "Charlie's got a broken sternum, several bones, a collapsed lung, and they're pretty sure he's got a concussion and maybe some internal bleeding. Mike's in critical condition, though."

I shivered and saw spots in my vision.

"Come on, Bella," Angela appeared beside me with my coat. Alice and Rosalie put my arms through the arm holes, I couldn't quite remember how to do it myself. "We'll drive you." Angela wrapped an arm around me and guided me out to the garage.