Chapter Twenty
I was sitting with Rosalie and Alice in Alice's room, we were having a girl day because Alice complained that we hadn't had one in a while. I didn't want to participate, my back was in pain and my ankles swollen all I wanted to do was lay down and read a good book. But Alice being Alice insisted on doing make over's to each other. So here I was seven months pregnant getting my toe nails painted whatever horrible colour Rosalie and Alice decided because I couldn't see my god damn feet anymore. Me and Rosalie were now on speaking terms. She came to me a few months ago and told me we would never be best friends but she would really like someone to talk to who was going through the same thing.
"Rose how do you do it? You're 8 months pregnant and you make it look easy. Don't you get back pains or anything?" Rosalie managed to lift herself off the floor coming to sit next to me on the bed.
"Of course I do I just don't dwell on it like you do. Plus I just keep thinking one more month and then it's out of me." Me and Rosalie both laid back on the bed rubbing our stomachs. We noticed Alice standing up with her hands on her hip and pout on her face.
"What's wrong Pixie it looks like someone just told you that Gucci no longer makes handbags?" Rosalie said looking up at Alice.
"It's not fair I want to be pregnant to. I feel like the odd one out. I can't talk about back pains or swollen ankles or needing to pee every 5 minutes. You two have something in common and I don't." Alice crossed her arms over her chest looking like a little girl about to throw a tantrum.
"Trust me Alice you don't want to be pregnant. If anything I would say you're the smart one. You're smart enough not to get pregnant." I said trying to sit up but failing.
"Alice you seriously want to be pregnant. This might look like fun but just wait until we have these babies we're going have stretch marks, our boobs are going to leak milk and we have to push them out of our girly parts. It's not going to be fun at all." Alice nodded and crawled in between me and Rosalie, luckily she was small because there wasn't much room between the both of us.
"You're right I just see you rubbing your stomachs and feel jealous that I don't get that." I stroked Alice's hair, trying to comfort her.
"You will one day just when you're ready, not like us who don't get a choice." Rosalie managed to lift herself up of the bed.
"Right if Alice is going to go all emotional on us we need ice cream." Rosalie walked out of the room to get ice cream while me and Alice sat and talked.
"I can't believe you're having a little boy Bella and Rosalie's going to have a little girl. If they weren't going to be cousins I would so totally start planning their wedding together. Bella can I ask something?" Alice looked at me with her puppy dog eyes and I knew I wouldn't be able to say no even though I might want to. I nodded my head telling her to continue.
"Can I pretty please with a cherry on top decorate the baby's nursery? Rosalie let me do hers." I let out a sigh at least it wasn't anything major and if she decorated the nursery it meant it would be one less thing for me to worry about.
"Fine but on one condition. You have to let your mum and Sue help because if they don't you'll go over the top I know you to well." She nodded her head up and down fast and held out her pinkie to me which I took. We were silent for a few second until Alice spoke.
"Have you and Edward decided on a name for the baby?" I nodded my head.
"Yes but I'm not going to tell you it's a surprise." She pouted and went to argue but was cut off by a scream. We looked at each other figuring out it was Rose, no one else was here. Alice helped me up off the bed so we could race downstairs well in my case waddle. We came into the kitchen to see the ice cream all over the floor with Rosalie gripping the kitchen bench. Alice and myself went over to Rosalie.
"Rose what happened?" Alice asked while Rosalie tried to breath.
"My water broke, I think the baby's coming." Me and Alice looked at each other in panic. What do we do? We were home by ourselves the boys had gone to play baseball at the local field while Esme was out with Sue having coffee and both of our dads were at work. I grabbed Alice's keys of the bench where she had left them this morning.
"Alice run and get her bag while I put her in the car. We have to take her to the hospital." Alice nodded her head running up the stairs. I grabbed Rosalie's arm and put in over my shoulder so we could walk to the car.
"Come on Rose we're going to the hospital so we can get your baby out and you can meet her." Rosalie was bitting her lip trying not to scream from a contraction. I had managed to get her in the back seat by the time Alice came back with the bag. I jumped in the back with Rosalie holding her hand while Alice got in the driver's seat and speed down the road towards the hospital.
"Bella it can't come it's too early I'm not due for another month. What if something's wrong with the baby?" Rosalie cried to me on the way to the hospital.
"It'll be fine Rose, I promise. Babies come early all the time and they are perfectly healthy nothing is going to happen to your baby." When we pulled up to the hospital Alice ran inside while I helped Rosalie get out of the car.
"Bella you have to ring Emmett I don't want to do this without him, please." With all the worry about getting Rose to the hospital I had forgot to call the boys to tell them. I pulled out my phone calling Emmett's number, I got no answer from him. By this time Alice had come back with Carlisle and a wheel chair to take Rosalie into the hospital. I walked in behind them trying to ring Edward seen as I knew him and Jasper were with Emmett. Edward's phone rang out and I was starting to get annoyed that no one was answering. I tried Jasper's number last and just as it was about to go to voice mail he picked up.
"Hello"
"Jasper, it's Bella. Rosalie's water just broke can you get Emmett here. He didn't answer the phone when I rang." I was walking around outside of Rosalie's room trying not to get in the way.
"Shit Bella we'll get there straight away." After that he hung up and I walked into the room they were setting Rosalie up in. Alice was standing over on Rosalie's right side holding her hand while Carlisle was checking Rosalie's progress. I walked over to her grabbing her other hand.
"I got hold of Jasper, he's bringing Emmett here straight away." Rosalie nodded while trying to breathe through her contractions.
"God Carlisle can you hurry up down there? Having you down there just makes everything worst you're my boyfriend's father for crying out loud." Carlisle snapped his gloves off chuckling at Rosalie's temper.
"Rosalie dear it is nothing I haven't seen before, plus I wouldn't trust anyone else to deliver my granddaughter." That just got him a glare from Rosalie.
"You're only 2 cm dilated so it's going to be a while before you're ready to push. Just sit tight and I'll check again in an hour." Carlisle said while patting her knee.
"Just sit tight! Where the hell am I going to go with a thing coming out of me?" Rosalie shouted. Carlisle once again chuckled while leaving the room and Rosalie's angry tirade. Not long after Carlisle left Emmet came running into the room.
"Rosie baby I'm so sorry I wasn't here sooner." Emmett grabbed Rosalie's hand as me and Alice walked over to Edward and Jasper.
"Are you two ok?" Edward asked wrapping his arm around me while Jasper did the same to Alice.
"We're fine your dad was getting a lot of the yelling, but I think now that Emmett's here that will soon changed." I laughed when I saw Rosalie get a contraction and squeezed Emmett's hand telling him he was going to die for doing this to her.
Carlisle came in the following hour like he said he would but told us that there was no change and that they would just have to sit and wait. It was now 12 hours later and Rosalie was only just hitting 8 cms. We had all found chairs to sit and sleep in waiting for Rosalie. The whole time we could here Rosalie yelling at Emmett that she was going to cut his man parts off and feed them to a dog. I started growing nervous. What if my labour lasted this long or worst longer? How could I deal with the pain because the way Rosalie was yelling it sound like it hurt a lot? Edward pulled me into his arms seeing the concern look on my face.
"It will be fine love everyone's different yours might only last a few hours but even if it did last longer than this just think about how you get to hold our son in your arms after it all." He kissed the top of my head as I rested my head on his chest. Edward was right I was different to Rosalie mine might not take as long, at least I was hoping it wouldn't.
2 hours later and Rosalie was ready to push she demanded that Edward and Jasper leave but as soon as me and Alice tried to walk out Rosalie turned into a crying mess begging us to stay. So me and Alice were on either side of Rosalie holding her hands while she pushed. Emmett was down near Carlisle watching his daughter come into the world. After a lot of encouraging comments on Emmett's part and a lot of swearing on Rosalie's we heard the sound of a baby's cry.
"It's a perfectly healthy baby girl." Carlisle said as he placed the infant on top of Rosalie. Rosalie started crying looking down at her baby girl, stroking her dark brown hair she got from her daddy. Carlisle offered Emmett to cut the cord, which he did gladly. The nurses took the baby away to clean her up while me, Alice and Carlisle walked out of the room to give the new parents some privacy. When we walked into the waiting room Edward and Jasper rushed up to us both pulling us into their arms, while Esme walked over to Carlisle. I noticed my dad and Sue standing at the back looking a little out of place. Carlisle cleared his throat so he could get everyone's attention.
"She had a healthy baby girl who weighed 7lb 2oz. She has her daddy's dark hair." Esme, Edward, Jasper, Sue and my dad all looked happy at the news. After a while everyone was allowed to go back and see Rosalie and her new baby. Rosalie was sitting up with her baby in her arms with Emmett standing next to her beaming down on them. Esme rushed over to her son to see her new granddaughter.
"What have you decided to call her?" Esme asked running a finger along the baby's cheek. Rosalie looked up at Emmett telling him to tell everyone.
"We've named her Emily Lily Cullen." Emmett said proudly.
"Emily so we can call her Em for short just like her daddy and Lily for my middle name." Rose said looking down at her new daughter. Everyone gushed over how gorgeous she was and made fun of how Emmett would have to get up in the middle of the night to change the dirty diapers so Rosalie could sleep. Not long after Emily started crying telling everyone that she was hungry we all said goodbye to the new family so they could feed her and made our way out of the room.
As we were walking out towards the parking lot with the rest of the family in front of us Edward grabbed my hand and pulled me to a stop.
"What's wrong Bella?" I looked up at him and shook my head.
"Nothing's wrong why would you think that something's wrong?" I asked.
"Because when something's wrong you frown and bite you lip." He put his finger up to my lip pulling on my bottom one so I wasn't biting it anymore. I sighed knowing that he could read me like book.
"I'm just jealous of Emmett and Rosalie is all. They're going to have it easy compared to us. They live together so it won't always be one parent doing everything and in the first few months it's not as if I can leave the baby with you without being there. I just wish that everything was different." I said shrugging my shoulders.
"What you wished we lived together so it would be easier to raise the baby?"
"I don't know it doesn't matter anyway." I waddled over to where my father was standing with Sue so we could go home. Edward came over to me and gave me a kiss before going over to his own parents to go home. The car ride home was filled with talk about Rosalie's new baby between my dad and Sue while I sat in the back falling asleep.