Hey guys! Again I'm really sorry that I haven't been updating. To those who read the author's note, I thought it would take me a while to finish the ending, not the next day... so the author's note seems a little pointless. Oh well. And 23 reviews! That's great! Thank you guys for all that. Really, you guys are wonderful. But not to keep you waiting here's the next chapter!
" Jake," I whined, "you are so gross! Go put on some pants, before you scar me for life!" I put a pillow over my eyes.
He rolled his eyes. " That's just great Bella. I save your life and your babies' lives-which you did not tell me about- and that's the thanks I get?"
" Yes. Now put on some pants."
" Yeah you really should dude. Your making Taylor feel all insecure about his body," Emmett said seriously.
" Don't try me Emmy-boy. Now come on let's give wolf boy here some pants, before Bella here dies of embarrassment, " Taylor said leading them to his guest room.
That left Jessica, Alice, and I. There was a silence in the room, until Jess and I broke it.
" I missed you so much! Are you okay? What happened since I've been gone?" we said at the same time. We giggled.
Before we left Forks I gave Jessica and Angela my contact information. But she was the only one who kept in touch. I freakin' love her to death. I mean, she is my BFFAA. She's Alice's and I other sister. She knew about Heiress, Emmett and everything else, except the vampire thing or the pregnant thing. Which is why I thought she would be a little more freaked about the fight the just happened. I have a feeling she knew before she got here what Emmett and Alice are. But from who?
" You first. And I know about vampires so don't hold anything back. I'll explain later," she smiled. Though a little shocked, I shook it off and told her everything. The twins, the dream, and about Edward, Rosalie, and the other Cullens who were most likely going to meet us.
" Wow Bella. Trouble follows you everywhere," she teased, " My tale isn't as exciting." She sighed dreamily.
" Well a couple days after we talked last March, I missed you. So I decided to get you a present and you know me, I hate waiting, so I would have to see you immediately. Anyways, I went to that small bookstore in Port Angeles, and saw a brand new copy of your favorite book. I knew your copy was close to ripping apart, and that you wouldn't replace it because you hate spending money. So I decided to get you a new one, so you could keep your old one as, idk a trophy or something.
" So as I reached for the book, some one else did too. It was obviously a guy's hand 'cause it was wide thick, and kinda greasy. I told him to let go, and he said no. I got annoyed and said I had to give it to my best friend, and he said the same thing! By now I was getting pissed. I looked up at him to curse him out, but I couldn't. I looked into his beautiful brown eyes, and felt something. It felt like I found my purpose my life, my other half. We both dropped the book, and exchanged names. He told me his name was Jacob Black. Then we left the bookstore-sorry, I forgot to get you the book- and we talked about random meaningless things.
" He asked me if I felt anything towards him. I said yes. I said that I felt an undeniable pull to him. He said he felt the same. There was a word he called it. It was-"
" Imprinting," Alice and I gasped. Jessica and Jacob imprinted. Shut the fucking front door.
She nodded. " Yup, that's the word. Anyway he asked who the book was for. I told him it was for you. His eyes boggled.
"'Bella? Bella Swan?' " he said. I said yes. Then we started talking about you, nothing bad I promise. And the we got to the Cullens. Ugh. I always knew there was something wrong with those …things. No offence to you or Emmett, Ali," Jess said bashfully to Alice. She waved it off.
" Don't worry about it Jess. Emmett aren't Cullens anymore. I'm Alice Brandon, and he's Emmett McCarty. So he told you what we were. What did you say?" Alice questioned.
" I asked him what he was smoking. But what he said made sense. Like how you guys would always leave when it was sunny, or that you guys never ate food at lunch. I asked him how he knew, and he told me it was because he's a werewolf. I thought he was crazy and told him so, until he dragged me into his car, drove me down to his town, La Push, dragged me out of the car, then carried me over to his house. Then I thought he was a kidnapper or predator, and told him so.
" Then he got his look on his face. He looked so freakin' crazy, then his clothes went all over the place, and boom! next thing I knew, there was a huge russet colored wolf. And me being me, spazzed out screaming bloody murder, then he changed back to his human form. We stood there for a couple seconds, just looking at each other. Then I realized he was naked blushed, turned away, and told him to go put on some jeans.
" Yeah, but now she's used to my nakedness. Which is good since we're usually in that state," Jake teased coming down the stairs.
" Jakey!" Jess cried running into his arms. He laughed then carried her to the couch. Taylor and Em came soon after.
" Thanks for that image Jake," I scolded.
" Hey, I aim to please." He smirked then started stoking Jessica's hair. " Did you finish telling them the story?"
" No, but I'll sum it up. Basically, we've been dating since then so about six months."
" Wow, Jess. That's some story. Why didn't you tell me sooner though?" I asked.
They exchanged looks, then Jess said," Don't worry about it." I gave her a look, then she gave me a hair flip nod. That was our signal for 'later'.
" Hey Alice," I asked turning to her, " why couldn't you see Rosalie coming in? It couldn't have been Jacob, 'cause he came a while later."
She sighed. " Bella, I've been so focused on the twins, that I can't see anything else. It's like either I can see them and nothing else, or I can see everything and one else, but I can't see them. I was focused on your stomach. I don't know if you noticed, but you're getting slightly bigger. I predict that by tomorrow you'll look about three to four months pregnant. And your little miracles are pissing me off, since I have no idea what they want to be called."
Huh, I didn't think I was getting that big. I looked down. My stomach bulged but just barely. Emmett put his arms around my belly, and kissed my for head. "Don't worry, you look fine baby."
" I got an idea! Why don't you name them after us! Jacob and Jessica!" Jess squealed. Em answered before I could.
" There's no way in hell I'll name my kids after you two. I love you guys but, no." Jess pouted. "Fine then. What baby names have you guys thought of?"
I answered, " Um, we really haven't thought of anything yet. I was thinking of Emmett Jr. and Elisa."
" Ugh, please tell me you're joking Bella. Don't name one of them Jr! Be orginal!" Alice fumed.
" Yeah baby, lets call them something else. I was thinking since I'm Irish and you have an Italian name, that the names should be either Irish or Italian. You ok with that?" he asked. I nodded. " Great. What about Aidan and Amy? Or Kieran and Katherine? Susan and Shane? Or Thomas and Teagan?"
" I like Aidan and Amy and Thomas and Tegan. They're cute." I smiled. " Really cute. What do their names mean? I always match a name by its meaning."
" Um hold on let me check." Alice rushed upstairs and grabbed her laptop. " Ah, okay. So Aidan means born of fire, while Amy means beloved. Thomas means twin,while Teagan means beautiful."
" Hey if we're naming them by meanings, name them Felan and Fiona," Jacob suggested.
" What do they mean?" I questioned. He grinned. " Little wolf and warrior. This way they both get a little piece of uncle Jacob."
" Jake, no," Jess said. " What about Michael and Mia. I don't know what Michael means, but Mia means mine. Like she's your little princess."
" I like that. She's my little girl. I'll loving the name Mia!" Emmett agreed. I shook my head. "Emmett, I know where you're going with this. You can't stop her from dating. Sooner or later, she's going to date."
He guwaffed. " Not when they see me. They take one look at me, then turn the other way. Man I hope her brother is as big as me."
" Emmy baby, what if its two boys? What will we call them?"
Taylor said, " Maybe Antonio and Aidan? Or maybe Brendan and Bryan? Antonio means priceless, prasie worthy, and Brendan and Byran mean little raven and honorable." I yawned. I feel so exhausted, and not just physically. It was mentally too. These last few days have just gotten me drained.
"Can we finish this talk tomorrow please? I'm tired. Alice can you fix-"
" I'm already on it. The new furniture should be here by tomorrow afternoon. Tay and I will fix this place up after you go to sleep. Jess, Jake do you guys want to stay? You guys can use your guest rooms."
" Well, um, would it be okay if we used just one of our rooms? I mean, we won't do anything if it'll bother you, we'd just prefer to sleep in the same room," Jessica asked timidly. I rolled my eyes. Of course she chooses this moment to be shy.
" Feel free to do whatever you want. Stay in one room , two, seven, I don't care. Cause I know you guys aren't going to sleep. Really, I don't care what you guys do in there. In fact I don't want to know. I'm a heavy sleeper so you won't bother me and Alice and Taylor will probably be doing the same thing. Good night to all." Emmett chuckled quietly, while Jessica blushed. He carried me off to our bedroom and set me down. I changed into my pajamas, brushed my teeth, and jumped into bed and sighed. I felt Emmett's eyes on me, and blushed. I rolled over to look at him, but he looked worried.
I stroked his cheek. " What's wrong Em? Are you okay?"
He sighed. " I'm good, but how are you? Don't say you're fine, because there is no way you are. You're quieter then usual today. And so many things have happened in a matter of days. So far you've found out that you're at least a month, month and a half pregnant with twins, your first love tried to get you back, my ex- wife tried kill you-and the babies-, and most likely the rest of the Cullens are going to try and win us back. My mind spinning and I'm a vampire. Oh and Jess and Jake are together! "
" Baby, I know a lot has happened but Em, I am fine-"
" No you aren't! Bella stop it! Stop trying to protect me. I know you're hurting. I know that in some way you're going to blame yourself! I saw you downstairs, you looked terrified. There's no way you could see all that, and still be fine ten minutes later thinking of baby names! I know that you're a strong woman, but please for my sanity, tell me what's wrong!" he boomed. To say he scared me was an understatement. I was hiccupping trying to hold back my tears. Emmett has never yelled at me, ever. His voice was loud already, and he knew how loud sounds bothered me. Emmett calmed down, and sighed. He tried to give me a hug, but I cringed away him. I saw that I hurt him in his eyes, but I couldn't bring myself to care. Yes, it was true that I was affected by what happened, and yes maybe I should have told Emmett how I felt about it, but I don't want to bother him with my feelings. I know that he'd want to know them, but that would just bring him down or it might cause him to be just as protective as Edward was.
"Bella," he said quietly. "Are you okay? I'm sorry, I'm sorry I didn't mean to make you cry. It's just… I know you been through a lot. And I've noticed that you'll keep everything all in until one day you just burst. Remember, the day Taylor called you a baby, and you blew up, and we found out it was because of something he said weeks ago? I don't want that to happen again. I don't want you to keep something in, and for me to find out about weeks later, because you blew up. Bella, that's not healthy, for you or the babies. So please just tell me what's on your mind." By now I was crying softly, cradling my legs to my stomach. He tried again to comfort me, and this time I let him. He wiped away my tears, and kissed me on the forehead. I sniffled.
" I'm sorry- no don't shh me, let me talk- I am sorry Emmett. I didn't mean to make you worry. I just didn't want to bother you with me feelings. I know what you're going to say. That I could never bother you with my thoughts, that you want to know what's going on with me. But sometimes I just can't tell you. I feel like…like, like a child, with petty thoughts and unimportant feelings. And sometimes I feel like if I tell you what's up, then I'll never have a moments peace." He gave me a confused look. "Now I don't mean that I don't love my alone time with you, but I don't want to feel isolated. When I was with Edward, now that I can look back, I realized he had cut me off from everyone. Not only that, he knew me better than I knew myself at times. Sure I talked too Jessica, Angela, Mike, and everyone else, but really I just talked to your family. So when you guys left, it hit hard. I couldn't really talk to anyone, 'cause they couldn't understand what I was going through. I don't want to feel like that again. I don't want to tell you everything that's wrong with me, then have you just leave. Not that I mean you would do what he did, or that I don't trust you with my life, its just I don't want you to know everything that's going on in my head."
He stared at me. " See? Now I've upset you."
" No, you didn't," he said firmly. " I didn't know all that. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to probe, I just wanted you to know that I care, that I'm there for you. I understand, you need your space."
" No, no, no! That's not what I meant-"
" I know what you mean. Its your mind. I should let you tell me what you want to tell me. But I want you to know that I'd never leave you. I couldn't bear it. I'm too selfish, I couldn't leave you even if it was for the best. I can't live without you. I love you."
" I love you too. I promise I'll tell you about it. I'll do it right now." I yawned and my eyelids drooped a bit.
" Bella you can tell me, tomorrow."
" No, I'll tell you now, before I lose my nerve," I took a deep breath. " I'm scared shitless. This whole thing is bothering me immensely. When I found out I was pregnant, I flipped. You saw me I was on the floor shaking. I didn't think you'd want it. I didn't know what I would do if it was true. I couldn't be a single parent. Especially if the baby looked like you. I wouldn't be able to bear looking at my own child. But you were fine, ecstatic. You didn't question anything like that vampires couldn't have kids or question if I have been sleeping around. You just knew. And while I was happy, I was a little shocked. Shocked that you trusted me enough to just believe that this was your child."
" Bella I trust you with my life. I know you wouldn't do anything to hurt me. But Bella even if the babies weren't mine, I still wouldn't have left you. I need you too much to leave. I would have known anyway if you had cheated on me. I would have smelled his scent. Or Alice would have told me," he said.
" Yeah, yeah. That's not the point. I know you trust me. So I got over it. The thing is right after that, Edward came. That really scared me. As messed up as this is going to sound, I wasn't sure if I'd still be in love with him. I thought that I would look into his eyes and feel the need to forgive him, like I always did when we were together. Emmy you know I love you with all my heart, it's just he was my first love. At a point I thought he was my true love. He was that guy that I thought I might marry. The guy I thought I'd spend eternity with. And I haven't seen him in so long. I wasn't sure if I'd still feel that way towards him."
He frowned. "So… you thought that you'd still be in love with Edward?" he said slowly.
"Yeah. But I looked into his eyes and all I saw was the face of the man who kidnapped me. I saw a creature who killed my father out of selfishness. Then I felt nothing but revulsion. I was upset that he ruined the best day of my life so far. This was supposed to be the day where we found out the greatest news ever. This was going to change our lives for the better. But the bliss I was feeling was cut short. Same thing kinda for Rosalie. The only difference was I was scared, frightened already, then Bam! There she is! Trying to collect my best friend and love. Trying to ruin my little family. Thinking she could just get what she wanted because she wants it. She's just so full of herself. She puts herself on such a high fucking pedestal, but at the same time you had always put up with her. I thought that you would go back to her. Especially when you were just…staring blankly at her. I thought you were remembering what you had, and could get back.
" Is that what you thought?" he asked.
" Yeah," I said quietly, " I thought that you'd only stay for the kids. And if it weren't for them, you'd be gone. Because c'mon we all know I don't hold a candle to Rosalie. I know I'm pretty but she's Rosalie. "
" And you're Bella the amazing, caring, sexy, and most selfless person I know. Bella I love you. I would never leave you for that tramp. I honestly don't know why I put up with her for as long as I did. I guess I thought she was the best I could get. That is until I met you. Babe, you are amazing. I want you stop your doubts please. Nothing will get between us. Not Rosalie or Edward or anyone else."
" Emmy, its not that easy. I know Edward and Rosalie, and they're not going to stop until they get what they want. I'm afraid. I just want them to go away." I mumbled drowsy.
" Bella, I promise you that nothing will happen to you. It'll be okay. I won't let you get hurt."
"Okay," I sighed, " I trust you. Love you baby," I yawned.
" Night sweetie. Love you too," He cooed.
Just be for I drifted into sleep, I heard Jess giggle:
" Jaaaakke, come on, at least let… us… make it… to the room. I don't… want… to… wake…up… ohhh Jake!"
Edward POV
I laughed at my brother's terrible reassurance at my love's worries. Poor Emmett. You should never make promises you can't keep.
Okayy... so I really don't like the way it ended. But I thought Bella and Emmett needed a talk, because a lot of things have happened in a short amount of time. They needed a little heart to heart. But still...I don't know with this chapter. It isn't my best. Review please. Even if you hate it, I can take the pain =}