A/N:
Wow, once again the response is overwhelming. Thank you all so much.
Second of all: I'm sorry that it is taking me longer to update now; I swore that I would never try to write two stories at one time, but I guess I lied.
I had an idea that wouldn't let me go further on this story until I got that one started. So I'm sorry about delays.
However, if there are any Spike/ Buffy shippers reading this one, you may want to check it out, but be warned it won't be everyone's cup of tea, in fact it may and probably should offend many. It's quite twisted and will probably become very dark. In other words it's the opposite of this story.
And just in case I haven't mentioned it before, nope still don't own any of this, nada, zilch.
Chapter 29
BPOV
I can't believe it, I'm engaged. If you had asked me three months ago, I would have told you that I really didn't believe in marriage.
I really didn't have a great set of role models to help change my mind.
Not only had Charlie never remarried after Renee left him, I don't think he's even had a date since then; Maybe that's what his problem is.
Renee drifted from man to man always on the lookout for someone to take care of her. She finally found that in minor league baseball player Phil Dwyer.
Phil is a good guy, but I don't expect their marriage to last, there's only so much that a guy should have to put up with.
So I was completely shocked that when Edward got down on one knee and presented me with an amazing ring, in that magnificent restaurant, there was not even a seconds' hesitation.
I can't imagine my life without him in it, I felt that way even before I found out about the baby.
Once the limo dropped us off at the hotel, we quickly made our way back to our room. I really wanted to thank him properly for the most perfect day ever.
We walked into the room and I was shocked, the bed was turned down and a fire was roaring in the fireplace.
There was a bottle of sparkling grape juice and a gorgeous arrangement of cut flowers; I had told him once before that I prefer them to roses.
Wow someone had been busy, how did he have time to do all of this? I was just in the bathroom for a couple of minutes.
I would have to guess with the promise of a very generous tip.
"Edward" "Oh my god this is amazing."
"Do you like it love?" He asked with his sideways smirk.
"You know I do, it's perfect."
"No, it's nice, you're perfect." His gorgeous green eyes were smoldering.
He took me in his arms and began kissing me, soft, slow, deep kisses.
A fire began burning deep inside of me and I could feel the moisture pooling between my legs already.
I fisted my hands in his hair, I needed more of him, I needed to get lost in him.
"Bella, sweetheart" He said after pulling his mouth gently from mine.
"Slow down angel." "I want to make love to my fiance, there is no need to hurry."
He knelt down in front of me, slipping my shoes off for me; He began running his hands up and down my legs, raising the skirt of my dress a little higher with each pass.
On and on this continued until his hands landed on ass, he was eye level with my throbbing core now and he pulled me tightly against him so that he could kiss me through my panties.
"Ohh baby you're so wet already" , he began to tease me softly with his tongue. His hands made their way to my waist in order to help me maintain my balance.
He stood up and picked me up to carry me to the bed;
He helped me remove the dress saying "As sexy as that is I want to see you wearing nothing but my ring."
His words sent another rush of fluids pouring from me and I knew that the gorgeous thong that I was wearing was completely ruined.
I began rubbing my thighs together; I wanted him to touch me so badly but he seemed to be in no hurry.
"Patience love, I'll take care of you I promise."
He then unclasped my bra and began lowering the straps very slowly; one a time until finally his arm was the only thing holding it in place.
He let fall and began kissing my neck, biting softly all the way down.
He was holding his body far away from mine and he had my arms trapped at my chest.
"Edward, baby, I need to touch you please."
"You will sweet girl, but you are way too over dressed still." He grinned at me mischievously.
If possible he arched his body even further away from mine.
"Bella, I want you to put your hands behind your back and don't move them." He said with a tone of authority to his voice.
Oh God, dominant Edward was coming out to play, hell yeah.
He began sliding down my body taking my panties off with his teeth.
"Fuck" Was all I could say, it appeared that my brain had officially melted.
Once I had kicked them off, he was back on his knees; "Yes much better".
He used his thumbs to spread my folds open and firmly bit down on my clit.
"Ung, so wet, you taste so fucking sweet, I want to devour you baby."
He gently laid me back on to the bed for he threw his suit jacket on to a chair that was loosened his tie and just stood there watching me; I had begun touching myself now.
My right hand was massaging my erect nipples, I wanted his touch so badly; my left was teasing my clit. I expected him to jump in to stop me at any moment, instead he kept watching while stroking his erect cock through his thin suit pants.
I barely noticed him take out his phone and snap a picture of my left hand.
I started to panic when he said "for me only Bella, I will delete it once we get home." "You have no idea how beautiful you are when you are pleasuring yourself, please don't stop." He begged.
He began to undress himself more quickly now, the next thing that I knew he was undressed except for his silk boxers and was next to me on the bed.
"I want you to stop right before you cum Bella, do you understand me?"
I guess I didn't answer fast enough to please him because all of a sudden he grabbed my hand and said "Answer me now Bella."
"Yes" I whimpered
He placed my hand back down and began guiding my fingers to continue.
"I'm really glad that you took that long nap today Bella, because I'm in the mood to play, I have a feeling it's going to be a long night." His smirk was back.
He could tell that I was close now and suddenly he grabbed my wrist again and pulled my hand away.
"I said not to, Bella."
"I didn't" I cried.
"I know but you were close." "I didn't think that you were going to stop, was I wrong?" He arched an eyebrow and waited for my answer.
"No, you weren't wrong." I said suddenly ashamed.
He saw the look on my face and he pulled me onto his lap "Hey, stop, sweetheart" he began caressing my face and kissing me. My tears were falling now. "I didn't mean to disappoint you." I sobbed.
"Hey look at me, baby it's just a game, you should know by now, if something is too much, or you need me to stop, or if your too close to stop, baby it's not a problem." "You know I would never deprive you, don't you?He looked hurt now.
"I know Edward, it's just been such a weird few days, I guess my emotions are getting the best of me."
"Baby you have every right to everything that you're feeling, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have pushed you the way that I did, it was thoughtless and cruel."
"Christ, I'm a monster" He said running his hands through his hair.
"You made me the happiest man alive tonight by agreeing to marry me and I pulled this stunt instead of worshiping you the way that you deserve, please forgive me."
"Edward" I said snapping him out of his self flagellating.
"What love?"
"Could you help me finish, please make love to me."
"With pleasure love" and he did.
He spent so much time worshipping every part of my body, easily causing me to have three orgasms before he even entered me.
When he finally did it was the sweetest sensation that I had ever experienced. Our fingers were intertwined resting by my head, if he wasn't kissing me he was whispering words of love and adoration.
The tempo was slow and gentle, every so often he would shift slightly to hit a new spot deep within me.
I had never felt so loved or so satisfied in my life;
Finally we came together and collapsed into each others' arms; Neither of us moved all night.
When I awoke the next morning, I was instantly drawn to a pair of emerald green eyes, beaming at me. "Good morning beautiful." He said before kissing me on the forehead.
"Did you sleep?" I asked.
"I did, remarkably well in fact." He handed me a glass of 7-up and some saltines. We had finally learned that if I had some of that before I got up, the nausea usually wouldn't be too bad.
"How do you feel this morning?" He asked.
"So far so good." Was the best that I could answer.
"Well as much as I hate to leave here, I think that we need to get back to Forks." "I want to go ahead and get you withdrawn from school and I can't wait to introduce my family to the future Mrs. Cullen."
"Are they going to be ok with it?"
"Bella Seriously?" "Are you kidding me?"
"What if they think that I'm after your money?"
"Sweetheart nobody would ever think that about you." "I'm pretty sure that mom and Alice have been planning our wedding since they met you."
"Is this about what Charlie said?" he asked.
"I'll sign a pre-nupt if you want one Edward, I would totally understand." Shit he looks like he's getting angry now.
"Bella, no, there will be no pre-nupt." "Nobody thinks that you're after money."
"Charlie is just a dick and used his insecurities to hurt you." "Don't you get that sweetheart?"
"I'm sorry Edward, I just want to make sure you knew that what he said wasn't true."
"Baby, I know that and my family knows that, we all love you and you are part of our family already, even without the wedding."
"You don't have to marry me you know." I muttered.
"Bella where is this coming from?" "Have you changed your mind?"
"Oh God no Edward, it's just my insecurity I guess."
"Bella, I do have to marry you, not because of the baby, but because I can't stand the thought of living without you, come on baby, let Charlie go."
"I'll try."
We quickly packed up our things and I grabbed the most comfortable outfit that we bought yesterday, Edward and I jumped in the shower and made love one more time. I hope that we are able to stay this way forever, not being able to get enough of each other.
We checked out of the hotel and were soon on the road back to Forks.
About half way home, Edward stopped at an adorable little café for lunch.
I hadn't finished that delicious meal last night and now I was starved.
I napped the rest of the way home, and Edward had to wake me when we arrived at the high school.
I felt myself starting to get sick now, but this time it was due to nerves and not the baby.
Edward grabbed my hand and started leading me inside. "Bella, it's going to be ok, I'm here and nobody is going to give you a hard time." "Let's get this over with and go home ok?"
We walked into the registration office and were instantly greeted by the kind Mrs. Cope.
"Bella dear, we've been very worried about you, we've tried calling Chief Swan, but he just said that you don't live there anymore."
"No, I don't." "I just came by to clean out my locker, return my books and withdraw." I said.
"Bella, is there anything that we can do? You don't have to drop out you know, I'm not sure what the problem is but I'm sure that we can make things easier for you."
"Thank you but that won't be necessary." Edward spoke now.
"She is living with my family now, we've already hired a tutor and she is going to be home schooled." "She is hoping for an early graduation."
I saw her staring at the ring on my finger before she asked "Are you sure that this is what you want Bella?" "You know that you're not the first girl in this condition that we've had here."
"I'm sure Mrs. Cope, but thanks."
"Well we have some forms for you that you will need to sign, let me get them."
Fifteen minutes later I was officially withdrawn from school and after receiving well wishes from Mrs. Cope was on my way to my new home.
"That wasn't too bad was it?" Edward asked.
"She's such a sweet woman." I told him.
"We'll invite her to the wedding." "She was positively drooling over your ring." He laughed.
"Now that you mentioned the subject, what kind of wedding are we talking and when?" I asked, really nervous about the answer.
"Well love, if I had my way I'd drag you off to Vegas today, but I have a feeling that if my mom and sister have anything to say about it, that's not going to happen."
"Oh God" I moaned.
He laughed, "Bella, do you remember the Halloween party?"
I just groaned in response, "Love that was a small intimate affair."
"Wait until you see the Christmas party, and then double the number and that will probably be our wedding." "As far as to when, how much do you object to a quick engagement, like in as quickly as they can throw this thing together?"
"Please tell me you're kidding, I wouldn't mind getting on a plane to Vegas now." "Vegas sounds good, I'll marry you tonight, but does it have to be a three ring circus?"
"Don't worry love, I'm sure that it will be big and over the top, but I'm positive that it will pale in comparison to Alice's, if she and Jasper ever decide to do it, that is."
"There's something else I want to ask you about the wedding though?"
"What is it Edward?" I could see that he was wearing a serious expression.
"Bella, when do intend to tell your mom?"
"I don't know Edward, I'm so afraid of how she's going to react."
"Well, at least it will be over the phone, it can't be any worse than telling Charlie can it?"
"No, I guess not, just give me a little more time please."
"Of course sweetheart, whatever you need."
We arrived home and were met by a pissed off pixie; "Why do either one of you have phones if you don't turn them on?"
"We wanted privacy Alice, what is your problem?" Edward demanded.
"Renee has called here like three times, apparently Charlie called her and gave her our number to use to contact Bella."
"What did she say Alice?" Edward asked calmly. However, I was about to freak out.
"Mom and dad talked to her for quite a while, she and your stepfather are coming up for Christmas, to meet everyone, she asked that you please call her when you can and oh to tell you that she loves you."
"Really?" I could barely believe it.
"Yeah, she's ok Bella, she was shocked of course, but she seems to be handling things pretty well, except for the fact that she wants to murder Charlie for throwing you out, she offered to bring you home with her if you want." Alice said.
"No, no, I won't leave Edward."
"It's ok love, you're not going to." "How can you we're getting married and having a baby.""Oh man you proposed already, I thought that you were going to do it on Christmas, so that we could witness it." Alice whined.
"I decided it should be a little more intimate than Christmas morning chaos, Alice." "Plus what if she had turned me down?"
"I would never have done that." I said.
"Well let me see the ring then, Edward hasn't let me look." "He said he was afraid that I would start designing your wardrobe to coordinate with it."
I held my hand out to let Alice get her first glance at my ring.
She whistled between her teeth and said "Damn big brother, good choice, it's stunning, how many 4?"
"5" He said simply.
Wait, is that carets? No way.
"Do you want me to call the insurance…."
"Already done." He said.
How do they do this, it's maddening the way that they can finish each others thoughts.
"Mom, get in here, they're home." Alice yelled.
I swear to God what is she four?
"Alice, try to tone it down a little please." Edward scolded her.
"Alice, what is it dear… oh you're home, did you two have a good time?" Esme asked.
"He proposed." Alice pouted.
"I accepted" I needed to add something.
"Oh this is so wonderful, congratulations Edward, Bella welcome to the family officially." She said and hugged us both."Oh Edward, the ring is beautiful, you did an amazing job picking it out."
"I had some help" He smirked.
"Bella, do you love it?" She asked me.
"I really do, it's so beautiful, I wish that he hadn't gone to that expense, I would have been happy with just anything or no ring at all."
"Like that would have happened" He growled.
"I assume that you want to get married before the baby comes, am I correct?" She asked.
Edward just looked at me to let me know that it was completely up to me.
"Uh, yes please."
"And do you have any ideas about what kind of wedding you want kids?"
"Understated." I suggested, Edward just arched his eyebrow at me. Alice snorted, "yeah right."
"Bella, I'm sorry, really I am, but Edward is the first to get married, this is going to be the event of the year." Alice said.
"Great" I muttered "I'm going to be waddling down the isle to here comes the bride and everyone is going to be substituting the words beached whale instead."
"Oh sweetie, no they won't, there are all kinds of designs for maternity wedding gowns now, they're very flattering and a lot of the times, you're not able to tell the bride is pregnant. We'll find the right one, I promise."
"You're going to be the most beautiful bride ever." Edward said with a smile.
"I'm going to call the event planner and make an appointment, so that we can see how quickly we can put this together, the sooner we do it, the less obvious it will be honey. " Esme said. "Do you have any preferences to when we go see them?" She asked Edward and I, trying to include us in all of the decision making.
"We withdrew Bella from school today, so any day but the 12th is good." Edward said.
"Bella, I assume Alice told you about our talks with Renee." Esme said.
"She did, thanks for talking to her, I really appreciate it, I will call her tonight."
"Any time sweetheart, she seems like a very nice person, she even apologized for apparently having forgotten to tell you about antibiotics and birth control."
I didn't know what to say to that, typical Renee I guess.
Later that evening Edward and I called Renee, the conversation went a whole lot better that I had expected it to, She even promised that she was going to have a talk with Charlie when she and Phil came to town.
Of course Edward was quick to tell her that we were engaged and planning our wedding now, so that there would be no need to plan on taking me back to Florida. Surprisingly she understood, she said that she knew after talking to Esme, that there was no way I would be going back with her. She even agreed to give Esme and Carlisle temporary guardianship of me in case of any problems, until Edward and I were married.
I promised that I would talk to her soon and give her updates of wedding planning and my doctor's appointment until she arrived right before Christmas. I was actually excited to see her.
There was so much occupying our minds right now that time began to fly; My doctor's appointment was later today and tomorrow we have an appointment with the wedding planner.
I'm actually very relieved that I wasn't dealing with school right now, there is no way that I would have been able to deal with it all.
Finally after a wonderful lunch that Esme prepared for me it was time to leave for the doctor's office. I was a little excited and a whole lot nervous, I knew that they would be drawing blood and I don't do real well with that or needles.
Once we reached the office, that was conveniently located in the of the medical towers at the hospital, we were given a bunch of paperwork to fill our. When I gave them my insurance card, they called me back and said that my medical coverage had been canceled.
Damn it dad struck again, now what am I going to do?
"Relax Bella, dad had already warned that Charlie would probably do this." He quickly pulled out a matching card to my newly acquired black Amex.
"Edward, there's got to be a cheaper way to do this,…" I started to say.
"Bella, stop now," He said firmly "You and our baby are my responsibility and I will cover every expense, and no expense will be spared, so please don't start."
"Good man you've got there" The receptionist said sweetly, "must be like father like son."
"You know Carlisle?" I asked.
"Sure, everyone around here loves him." Edward just beamed his megawatt smile at her.
"Do you want us to keep this card on file and run it for all procedures and treatment?" She asked.
"Please." Edward volunteered.
"Well now that's taken care of, would you two like to follow me back?" She offered.
"Well there are a bunch of other women waiting, don't they come first?" I asked.
"Not before a Cullen" She whispered.
We were lead to one area where they took my blood pressure, my weight, oh my god I'm almost 130 lbs already, and asked me for a urine sample. Once all of that was taken care of they led me to a treatment room; The nurse gave me a hospital gown and asked me to completely undress and put it on; She told me that she and Alec would be back in a couple of minutes.
"You call him Alec" I asked shocked. "Sure everyone does, you will too." She answered before walking out.
I changed and climbed up onto the table, Edward still wasn't saying much, maybe he's as nervous as I am.
There was a knock on the door before the nurse who said that her name was Becky and a handsome man who I could only assume was Alec walked in.
"Isabella Swan" He said, "Call me Alec, please." "And you must be Edward Cullen, nice to meet you finally, I've heard a lot about both of you."
He made me feel at ease immediately, Edward didn't look so comfortable.
"OK, your file here tells me that yes, in case there was any doubt, you are most definitely pregnant, it also says that you believe that conception was around 10/31 is that correct?"
"Yes" We told him.
"I was at that party, you two looked amazing that night."
"Uh, thanks" Was all that I could say, inside I was dying of embarrassment.
"Well if that's the case, then your due date will be July 23rd, I need to do a pelvic exam to make sure that everything looks ok, I assume it's ok if he stays." He said to me.
Edward was staring daggers at him, I just nodded that yes Edward should stay.
Ok, so Edward was still dealing with Jealousy issues.
I hated this part and it was really weird for Edward to be in the room, but I wouldn't have sent him out for all of the money in the world.
A couple of minutes later he was through, and Edward relaxed.
"Ok so everything looks fine and right on target, would you like to try to hear the heartbeat? He asked kindly.
"Yes please." Edward said softly.
"Just one second, I need to get something out of my office, I'll be right back and we'll see if we can hear it yet."
A couple of minutes later he was back and following him was Carlisle.
"Hey kids, is it ok? I would love to hear my grandchild's heartbeat."
That was so sweet, I thought I would cry, I really couldn't say anything, but thankfully Edward came through for me.
"Of course dad, come on in"
"How are holding up Bella?" He asked before he bent down and kissed me on the forehead.
"It's weird, but I'm ok."
"Are you ready guys?" Alec asked.
"Yes, we all said together."
Alec pulled my gown up to expose my stomach, fortunately I had a sheet to cover the lower regions. He squirted some cold goo on my stomach and placed this electronic device on top of it. He adjusted the volume and at first I didn't hear anything, but all of a sudden, I could just make the sound out, it was almost like a horse's gallop. Strange sound.
Edward looked mesmerized and Carlisle looked like he could cry. Then I started hearing something that sounded like an echo of the heartbeat.
"Carlisle, do you hear that?" Alec asked.
"Yes, but, no way it couldn't be."
Edward and I looked at each other and the panic on his face probably reflected my own.
"Carlisle what is it?" Edward asked.
"Hold on Edward."
"Good strong heartbeats" "Becky could you go get the ultrasound machine please." Alec asked.
"Is there something wrong with my baby?" I asked, I didn't care who answered, just somebody please answer.
"No, I don't think so Bella, but there's something that we need to see, please don't worry, it should only take a couple of minutes" Alec said soothingly.
"Carlisle" Edward was pleading now.
Finally after an eternity Becky was back with a huge machine in tow.
Alec squirted more goo on my stomach and promised that this wouldn't hurt. He placed the wand on my stomach and started rolling it around until he found what he was looking for.
"Carlisle, look" he said with a smile. Carlisle looked and let out a huge laugh.
Ok they were laughing and smiling so it couldn't be that bad right?
"Dad, you want to clue us in please." He was getting irritated.
"Come here and look, I want to show you something."
Once Edward was by the machine, Carlisle started pointing things out to him, "Do you see this?" He asked, Edward just nodded "That is your baby" Carlisle said, then he pointed to another spot and simply said "see it?"
Something had completely stunned Edward speechless, he couldn't form words.
"Hello, I'm still here, could somebody please tell me what's going on?"
"I think that you should tell her son." Carlisle said
"Edward?"
"Bella, can you see the machine?"
"Not very well with all of you standing around it" I snapped.
Becky pulled the machine over closer to me so that I could get a better look.
Edward pointed out a little spot, there was a letter A above it.
"Bella, love, that's our baby." I was about to cry, but it didn't make any sense that everyone was so stunned by this, but then he pointed out another spot where right above it there was a letter B.
"Bella, that is its' brother or sister, we're having twins baby."