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A/N- Capricorn75 has bullied me into posting the rest of it. Thanks.


I didn't want to, but I had to keep my pregnancy a secret for as long as I could. I couldn't gain too much weight, which wasn't so hard with the morning sickness. Charlie began to suspect something. I kept busy at the store as much as possible.

Jeannie was getting better. She was singing and laughing and playing more and more. She was trying to stand on her own, too. I dreaded the day she started walking on her own- I'd have to put up baby gates everywhere.

I was so busy I never saw Edward anymore. A part of me couldn't see him because of the guilt I was carrying for what I had done. Soon, everybody would see what an unfaithful hypocrite I was to my late husband.

It was in March that Jeannie took her first steps in the store. She was holding onto the basketballs bin when she walked in a wobby line towards the cash register while I was ringing somebody up. I cried out in shock, abandoning the transaction, and ran to her. She giggled and grinned at me. I picked her up and kissed her and cried. My baby was now a toddler. Well, I had another one on the way.

Rosalie, Angela, Esme and I planned the baby shower for Alice for late June- she'd need something big, with her baby as the Hollywood star. My heart broke- my baby might be shunned if people found out the truth.

Charlie noticed I was gaining weight. I planned on hiding this until I could get by. I was starting to show. I wore giant t-shirts to work and jeans all the time.

I was putting the fishing reels up when I heard the front door chime. I turned around, "It's a great day at Newton's Outfitter's…" I saw Edward standing there. Jeannie ran to him for a hug.

"Edward?" I cried.

He stared at me, taking me in- my body was changing. He could see it. He picked up Jeannie and hugged had kissed her. "I missed you, Figgy," he said. He looked at me. "I missed your Mommy, too." He looked at me. I could have sworn he was blinking back tears. "Bella, you're beginning to show."

"I know," I whispered, holding a finger to my mouth.

"You still haven't…"

"Can we go to a more private place?" I asked, thinking of Emmett, being somewhere in this store.

"My car?" he asked.

I followed him out to his Volvo. "So, it's still a secret?" he asked.

"Yes. My friends just think I'm getting fat," I said as he turned the heater in the engine on.

"Why are you doing this to me?" he asked. "I didn't want to push you. I know it's difficult for you to have other people judge our relationship. I know. It's OK. I was willing for you to be ready. But why are you cutting me out of our babies' life? It's pretty obvious, now."

"Our child can't ruin your life," I said. "You've got a reputation to uphold."

"You misunderstood me," he said. "Our babies. Jeannie and this one."

I hated doing this to Edward. "Jeannie isn't yours," I said. "She's Mike's."

I watched as tears flowed down his cheeks. "Bella, you're breaking my heart," he said.

"Edward, I have to go," I said, getting out of the car, taking Figgy with me.

A part of me died inside. I didn't want to run from Edward, but he couldn't afford the scandal of what was going to happen to me. I loved him too much to do that to him.


I worried about Rosalie's baby shower. My dress was cut empire-waist. It masked my growing baby gut and looked pretty. At the last minute, Rosalie and Alice decided that men should be allowed to come to this baby shower. I didn't know what they were going to do. Most men sat together and drank beer at baby showers. Emmett was so involved, he wanted to see everything his baby got. Then, Rose discovered she was having a boy.

Rosalie was gaining weight like crazy- she had gained 20 pounds since New Year's. She loved being pregnant- it was an excuse to eat however she wanted. I felt better about the weight I had gained.

My milk had dried up, too. I wasn't nursing Jeannie at all any more. Jeannie did not like it one bit. She was on formula and baby foods and first foods, now.

The day of Rose's baby shower, I came up to the McCarty's house, where Angela was getting Jacob to hang some Japanese lanterns outside. "So, Bella, how's it going?" Angela asked. Jacob looked at me with a pained expression.

"Bella, when are you and Edward going to announce it?" Jacob asked. Jacob was closer to his friends on the Reservation, he only hung out with my friends in Forks because of Angela and I when we asked him to.

"It's not Edward's," I said, quickly, trying to fight the urge to rub my stomach.

"I know it's Edward's," Jacob snapped. "I saw the two of you together."

"He's a friend," I said. "He took very good care of Jeannie in the hospital."

"We saw you, Bella," Angela said. There was an edge of grief in her voice.

"We saw you servicing him," Jake said. "In a hot tub. We couldn't believe it was you," he said, disgustedly. My whole body flamed. "It was disgusting. I didn't expect you to be having sex in public like that. You'd think a doctor would know how to use birth control."

"Leave them alone," Angela said. "Jake, let's not get into this. I'll explain a lot more of this later."

Jake hopped down from the front stoop and stomped off to his rebuilt SUV.

"He got pretty upset that night," Angela explained. "We were out walking on the beach. I told him to keep it quiet after that. He really doesn't like Edward, you've known that for a while."

"Make sure he doesn't tell everyone," I said. "About who the father is."

"I won't let him," she said. "Bella, I'm so proud of you- for keeping it. But it's time to let go of your grief and let Edward in."

"Thanks," I said. "But, I just can't let go of Mike."

"I love you," she said. She hugged me. "I don't care. You made the right choice."

"Am I really showing that much?"

"I'm afraid so," she said. "You're not going to be able to keep it a secret for much longer."


As Alice, Jasper, Carlisle and Esme came in with the brunch foods, assisted with the set up.

Emmett was so hyper he wasn't much help. Rose was better about putting out the decorations. She didn't want to be around the food because she was so bad about eating everything.

Alice's Breakfast at Tiffany's Baby Shower for Rosalie was a raging success. Rose got lots of nice presents. I purposely got a green baby blanket for her. Most of her expensive baby items had been purchased and assembled by her parents and by Emmett already. I tried to get them to pay as little attention to me as possible. I worried that I was showing.

As everyone left, I began the clean up. While I was washing dishes, I saw Edward enter- late, with a present for Rosalie.

"Hi, Rose."

"Hi, Edward!" she cried, hugging him.

"Sorry I didn't make it. I thought I'd bring you something," he said, handing her the present.

"Alice, can you add this to my list?" Rosalie asked. She tore the wrapping paper and opened the box. "Oh, thank you, Edward, this is so cute!" Edward had gotten the babies leather bomber jackets. "It'll be perfect for fall!"

"Is Bella here?" Edward asked.

I ducked behind the kitchen door. "Yeah, I think she's in the kitchen," Rosalie said.

Damnit. If he could make it any more obvious.

"Bella?" Edward asked, entering the kitchen.

"Hi," I said. He came behind the kitchen counter.

"Bella, you aren't having money problems, are you?" he asked, softly. "Because if you need anything- anything at all, I'm here."

"Edward, really, I'm just fine," I lied, although I knew that money was going to get really terrible, soon. He rested a hand on my growing stomach. It made me tremble to feel his hand on me.

"You're starting to show," he whispered.

"Bella? Edward?"

I turned to see Alice in the doorway. She looked angry. "I suspected- but- I tried to be wrong! No, Edward, not- no!" she sputtered, clutching her pregnant belly. "No! Bella, how could you do this to us? To our family? We love you so much! How could you?"

"It's not what you think!"

"Edward didn't knock you up? You haven't been hiding a pregnancy? How! Why didn't you- forget it! I can't look at you!" she cried. She grabbed her purse and coat. "Jasper! I'm leaving! Now!"

It was no use lying to her about it. That simple gesture from Edward and our cover was blown. Neither of us had to say anything. I burst into tears. Edward took me into his chest, where I sobbed.

"Bella, it's not going to be that bad," he said.

"Alice is my best friend," I said. "She's never going to want to talk to me ever again!"

"I'll be on the shitlist with Carlisle and Esme," Edward admitted. "We both will be."

"Damnit," I muttered.

"I know," he said. "At least it's out in the open, now."

"No, I will never openly tell anybody that this is yours," I hissed.

"It's pretty obvious, Bella."

"No," I said. I rung myself away from him. "I can't. I can't ruin you like that."

"Alice already knows," he said. "That's who you were most worried about knowing. It's too late, now. Let's not worry about."

"I have to worry about it."


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