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


With the final draft of the prenup signed and locked away in a lockbox in a bank in Seattle, Edward and I had the task of getting married, now. Getting to Vegas was going to be difficult, seeing as few airlines would let me on a plane in my pregnant state, despite the fact that I was traveling with a doctor. Edward finally got a private plane and private pilot. We weren't able to tell any one- not even our parents.

I had never been on a private plane before. We had our own flight attendant, who saw to our every need. It was spacious and enjoyable, unlike every other plane ride I had ever been on. Jeannie slept most of the way, although the flight attendant cooed nonstop about how cute she was. The baby went to sleep inside me due to the vibrations of the plane.

We spent the night in the Palms in a hotel Suite with a private pool and a balcony that overlooked the Vegas strip. I put Jeannie in a little life jacket and she went swimming with Edward, but still wouldn't put her head under the water. Edward was trying to teach her how to swim on his days off since we were so close to the water. Since it was just Edward, Jeannie and me, I put on my bikini, letting my six-month pregnant belly hang out, and joined them. "Hope you don't mind," I said, getting in the water.

"It's cute," Edward said. "I love you pregnant. I'll have to get you pregnant again just to see you like this."

"Let's just take this one baby at a time," I said.

"Bath!" Jeannie cried. She was speaking little words and phrases. She had started calling Edward 'Daddy' and me 'Momma.' I hated that Charlie had missed her talking so far.

We played with Jeannie in the water- it was fun. She enjoyed herself, but tired herself out. By the time that room service came up with our dinner, she was worn out. She barely got some green beans and cut up chicken in before her eye lids started to droop.

We had ordered a special baby crib in the bedroom for her and she cuddled up in there and slept soundly after a bath.

I found Edward on the couch with the TV on.

"So, have we put any thought towards naming the baby?" he asked. "I have a few names."

"OK, let's hear 'em," I said. I had insisted on not knowing what sex the baby was this time.

"Connor Forrest," he said. "Connor is a really good friend of mine from medical school, and Forrest after where I grew up- Lake Forrest."

"I don't like Forrest, people might think we support Nathan Bedford Forrest's KKK," I said.

"It's different, it's unique," Edward offered.

"What about Connor Edward?" I asked.

"Are you really that opposed to Forrest?" he asked.

"Yes," I said. "What about for a girl?"

"Kathleen Elizabeth. After my Dad's mom and my mom. How does that sound?" he asked.

"Kathleen is your grandma's name?" I asked.

"Yeah. We can call her Kate," he said. "Or Katie."

"OK, Katie Cullen. It works," I said. "It's cute."

"I can't wait to get married," he sighed. "We're going to be so happy together. My mom and dad are so excited about meeting you, Bella. Both of you."

"I can't wait to meet them, either," I said.

We went to bed that night because we were expecting an early morning.


Jeannie, as always, woke us up. After feeding her, I dressed her in a nice little dress and combed her hair out and put a hair band on her. I had bought a nice little sleeveless maternity sundress in white that would do for a wedding. Edward, Jeannie and I went downstairs, where a limo was waiting for us.

"This is it, we're getting married," Edward said, taking my hand. Jeannie wanted to punch all the buttons and annoy the driver. The limo pulled up to the wedding chapel. I sighed- we were kind of repeating what Renée and Charlie did, but not really. Edward and Jeannie helped me out.

"Are you sad we're not having a big, white wedding?" I asked Edward.

"You've already had one. They're a big deal and over rated with rich people," Edward said. "Did you want one?"

"No, they're a lot of stress," I assured him. "Do you really want to stress me out right now?"


We checked out after the wedding. Edward had to be back in the ER tomorrow morning in Forks. As a new family, we loaded up onto the private plane and went home.

We were gone for such a short period of time, everyone assumed that we were just gone a trip to Seattle for another draft of our prenup. Two days later, Rosalie and Emmett met Jeannie and me and Edward at the store with a carton of ice cream (since she and I were both getting really bad heart burn) and a few pizzas and the books. It was July 31st.

Edward, Emmett, Rosalie and I counted inventory, and then Rose cooked the books.

We made use of the blow-up mattresses and tried to sleep. In the morning, Rose had come in with two decaff coffees and two regulars. "Congratulations, Bella. We've saved the store. Just barely. We can start taking on help, too, so you don't have to work so hard and Emmett can go to part-time as a manager," she said. "Em, I'm going home and getting some rest. These kids have been kicking all night." Right as she turned around, she cried out and a water stain formed down the front of her maternity jeans.

Her water broke.

"Rose, your water just broke!" Emmett shouted. "You're going into labor!"

"No shit, Sherlock!" she cried, clutching her stomach. "Contraction!" she howled.

"No sit!" Jeannie repeated. "No sit! No sit!"

"No, Bean!" Rose cried. "Don't say what I just said-"

"Too late," Edward said. "Don't worry, Rosalie, let's just get you to a hospital."

In the car, Rosalie began to tell us about what she had been going through. "I've been getting these tight sensations all week long," she said. "I wasn't sure if they were actually contractions or not, but since they weren't like what Bella or Angela described, I decided they weren't."

"Were you having them last night?" I asked.

"Yes, but not this bad, they were like spasms," she said. "Oh, sh- another one!" I timed it, again. They were almost five and a half minutes apart.

"Mine felt like hot knives slicing through my insides," I said. "Is that what it feels like?"

"Just about," Rose said. "Oh my God! Why am I having twins? Emmett, you are never touching me again!"

"I know, I know," Emmett grumbled.

In the hospital, Edward and I took Jeannie to the waiting room while Emmett got Rosalie into a wheelchair and they checked her in. I called Angela and Jacob. My hand paused over Alice's number. This was about Rose, not me. I called. Alice didn't answer. Obviously, she still wasn't talking to me. I called the coffee shop.

"Fork in the Road Coffee, how may I help you?" an unfamiliar voice answered.

"Hi, is Alice Whitlock available?" I asked.

"May I ask who's calling?"

"Um… this is a friend of Rosalie McCarty's," I said. "It's highly important that I speak with her."

"Just a minute." There was a scuffling and I heard a muffled conversation. Alice finally picked up.

"Hello?" Alice's familiar soprano answered.

"Alice?"

"Oh, Bella," she said, sounding almost sour, but not quite. Rose and I had talked about it- it was really best that I didn't come to Rosalie's baby shower, because Alice was in charge of it, and Alice hadn't wanted me there. She was so hurt by the entire situation- that I had lied about being pregnant by Edward and that her cousin and best friend had been sneaking aorund. She still wasn't talking to Edward, although her parents had forgiven and forgotten. It wasn't like Alice to hold a grudge.

Before she could hang up, I spoke quickly. "Rose went into labor," I said. "We're at the hospital, waiting."

"Oh- oh!" she cried. "I'll be right there!"

She hung up.

It was only about fifteen minutes before she and Jasper showed up- about the same time as Angela and Jacob. Alice's stomach proceeded her she was so big. Her baby had nowhere to go but out.

"I called Mom and Dad. They're on their way, too," she said.

"It's good to see you, Alice," I said, my chest getting tight. I had seen her around town, but never up close. She avoided me like the plague. I never went to her coffee shop- ever.

She paused for a moment. "It's good to see you, too, Bella," she finally answered.

"I've missed you," I said.

"Yeah, I've missed you, too," she admitted, finally sitting down beside me, her eyes filling with tears. We were both so pregnant and hormonal, I started crying, too. I tried to hug her, but our baby bumps got in the way. "So, long do you have before you're due?"

"About four weeks," I said.

"They're talking about inducing me next week," she said. "Maybe even C-section, since I'm so tiny."

"Oh, wow," I said. "How did your baby shower go?"

"It went great," she said. "I'm so sorry I didn't have you there."

"I've got a present for you," I said.

"Oh, Bella, can you ever forgive me?" she asked.

"For what?" I asked.

"For being so offended," she said. "And taking it so personally. I tried so hard to understand, and I think I get it, now, why you did what you did. I was just hurt that you didn't tell me that you were seeing Edward. Then, Angela told me about… about what you almost did in the first trimester- I'm so glad you didn't do that. I didn't know how to talk to you- I'm so sorry! And Dad told me about how you passed out when you found out about Edward's… family. Did you really?"

"Yes," I said. I tried to suppress a laugh. I realized we were alone in the waiting room. Everyone had vacated to get some breakfast and to give us some privacy. Alice started to giggle, too, and we both started laughing through our tears. "After hearing that, I thought who are you to talk to me about keeping secrets? I don't know how you managed to keep a secret like that about Edward for almost ten years!"

"Well, they're just relatives," Alice said, shrugging. "Have you met them, yet? Tony and Liz?"

"Over the phone, yes. They're coming out to meet me and help out with the birth," I said. "So is Renée. Charlie isn't talking to me. His retirement party is this afternoon. I need to be there, just to show him that I still love him."

"Oh," she said. "I hope their kids are born, soon, then. Did Edward really propose to you before you found out about the money?"

"Yes," I said. "And he's adopting Jeannie."

"Mom told me about that," she said. "I'm so happy about that!"

"She's already calling him 'Daddy,'" I said.

"Aw!" Alice cried, wiping her eyes with the back of her wrist. "How sweet! And I've missed her talking! She's gotten so big! She's changed so much!"

"I know," I replied. "I don't want you missing anything else."

"Oh, me either- with you!" she cried, patting her stomach. "When is your wedding going to be?"

"About that, Alice… um…"

"What?" she cried. "When?"

"Last week," I said. "In Vegas. You're first to know."

"Really?" she cried, bursting into fresh tears. "Oh, Bella, I can't believe it! We're really related, now!"


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