A/N:

Aww you guys overwhelm me, the response to the last chapter was more than I could have ever hoped for. Thanks again for the support and feedback, I do appreciate it all.

No matter how much I beg, S.M still won't let me borrow Edward, it's not like she's using him anymore, but I digress.

Chapter 33

BPOV

"What time is it now?" I asked for about the fifth time.

"It's only been an hour love, please try to relax, Phil's not going to let anything happen to her."

"I know, but I won't relax until she's here" "Mom can have a pretty ugly temper, it's takes a lot to trigger it, but once you have, she can be brutal."

"I'm sure that everything's fine, hopefully she has been able to get him to sit down and talk about this like a reasonable adult." Esme said.

We all were sitting in the kitchen, waiting for mom and Phil to return, Esme was busy making last minute preparations for the "little get together" as she called it, that she was hosting that night.

"Can I help you with anything, Esme?" I offered, thinking that maybe if I could keep busy, then I wouldn't be so on edge.

Just as she was about to answer me, we heard the front door open and close, I rushed out to the living room to meet them, instantly I saw the tears on her face and the fact that she was using one hand to brace the other wrist.

Edward was right on my heels, and was calling for Carlisle before I could say "You hit him?"

"Oh God mom, what did you do?"

"Relax Bella, I'm sure that I did more damage to my wrist than I did to his face."

Phil was helping her to the couch when Carlisle came in looking at me, with the way that Edward sounded when he called for him, I'm positive that he thought that something was wrong with me.

"Not me, her." I pointed to my mom.

"Here let me take a look at that?" He told her gently, "I guess there's no need to ask how the meeting went,"

"God, that man, I would never have thought that he was capable of saying the things that he did."

Her face was so red that for a moment, I thought that she was going to have a stroke. I think that Carlisle was on the same page, because before he even looked at her wrist he began taking her blood pressure.

"Renee, I know that it's easier said than done, but your pressure is very high, please try to calm down."

Edward immediately went to the kitchen and before I knew it he was back with a glass of red wine for mom.

"Here Renee, drink this." He offered.

She grabbed the glass with her good hand and with one gulp it was gone.

I could see her begin to relax before she even finished it.

"Well, I don't think that it's broken, it just seems to be badly sprained" Carlisle said. "I'm going to wrap it for you, so that you don't injure yourself any further, but you should be fine in a couple of days."

After he finished wrapping her wrist, Edward refilled her glass and within a few minutes, she was almost calm.

"Thank you, very much, all of you, for everything."

"So do I even need to ask what he said?" I asked her.

"Oh baby, don't worry about him, it's not worth repeating, you just concentrate on taking care of yourself and my grandchildren, don't let yourself get torn up over him, he's not worth it Bella."

A few minutes later, Emmett, Alice, Jasper and Rose came into the house.

Introductions were made and Emmett and Phil hit it off immediately.

Alice and Rose began dragging mom into a discussion about wedding plans and baby showers.

It was then that Emmett noticed the bandage on mom's wrist and in typical Emmett fashion said "Oh, now I see where Bella get's her grace."

"Emmett" Edward warned.

"No," I told him "She decked Charlie." I told him.

"Really, way to go" and he tried to give her a high five, but Edward pulled him away. "Hell, if I had known that was going to happen, I would have gone with you, I would have loved to do it for you, dude seriously needs his ass kicked."

"Emmett" Esme and Carlisle scolded him.

"What?" "I'm just saying, I could have done it and she wouldn't have hurt her wrist."

After a quick lunch of soup and sandwiches, I decided that I was going to go take a nap, hoping that my spirits would be brighter for the festivities later on that evening.

"Guys, I think that I'm going to lay down for a little while." I told everyone, and mom added that she thought that a nap was in order for her too, it seems that the wine had gone to her head.

"Love, I've got to go out to take care of a couple of things, I won't be gone long, but why don't you two go use our room, that way the activities going on down here won't disturb either of you." Edward suggested.

"We'll wake you in plenty of time for you both to get ready." Alice promised.

After giving Edward a kiss goodbye, I led mom upstairs, it felt a little weird taking her into our room, occasionally Alice and Rose would come by to hang with us, but pretty much everyone avoided the floor altogether, I'm not sure if it was just habit, or as Emmett would say they were afraid of what they would hear.

Like he can talk, I don't know how many times that I have had to run away from the second floor, because of the sounds coming from his room.

I showed mom the room that was currently Edward's library and was going to become the nursery.

"Wow, all of these books, I bet you love this room don't you." Mom asked.

"I really do, he has some amazing books."

"Why don't you guys turn another room into the nursery?"

"No way, we don't want them on another floor, he and I both agree that this is for the best."

"So since we're on the subject of the babies, have you two talked about what you want? Boys, girls, one of each?"

We walked into the bedroom and she looked around in awe, I knew how she felt, it was the same for me the first time I saw it.

"Wow, this is amazing."

"It has everything we need, there are some days that I hate to leave it." I told her honestly.

"So about the babies?"

"Emmett wants boys, Alice wants girls, Carlisle, Esme, Edward and I, just want healthy."

We curled up together on the bed and mom told me how happy she was for me, and how excited that she is about her grandchildren.

I was moved to tears, I knew that she was going to be ok with this, but for her to be excited about everything was more than I could have hoped for.

I had no idea how long we had been asleep, it seemed that it was no time at all, before I heard a soft knock at the door.

"Bella, it's time to get up" I heard Alice saying.

"Alice, how long have we been asleep?" I asked.

"About three hours, I hated to wake you up, but the guests will be here in a couple of hours.""Where's Edward?" I asked her.

"He's downstairs playing, he said that he had something that he wants to work on. "

I instantly felt horrible, it seems like he never plays anymore, he tries to be by my side always, and he never makes time for himself anymore.

That would have to stop today.

I guess that Alice could tell what I was thinking, "You know he'd rather be with you" She stated.

"Well, let me let you get Renee up, go see Edward for a few minutes and after you have your showers, you two meet us in my room."

Mom was already beginning to stir, so after getting up to get a 7-up out of the mini-fridge that Edward had delivered last week, I relayed Alice's message and made my way downstairs, to hopefully listen to Edward for a little while.

He had the door to his music room open, and I slipped in without him noticing me, or at least I thought so; He continued to play a beautiful melody that I had never heard him play before, once the last note had faded, he turned to me.

"Do you like it?" He asked.

"It's wonderful, what is it?"

"Just something that's been going through my head for a while, I don't know, maybe something for the babies."

"You don't play much anymore, I want you to promise me that you will start making more time for your music."

He stood up from the bench and took me in his arms, "Bella, I'm doing what I want to be doing, but you're right, I promise to try to make more time for it, I don't miss it much, but I think that I remember talking to you about balance, and it's still something that we need to work on."

"Did you two have a good nap?"

"I can't speak for her, but I slept like the dead."

"I came up after I got back and checked on you, you both seemed to be sleeping very well." "How are you feeling?"

"Actually, really good, for a change."

"So about this thing tonight, how bad is it going to be?"

"Not too bad, mostly cocktails and dinner, I usually play a few songs and that's it. Everyone usually leaves fairly early so that they can continue on with their family festivities."

"That's a relief, I was afraid that it was going to be a lot like Halloween, and I'm not really up for that."

He kissed the top of my head and said "well love, we'd better start getting ready or Alice will have our heads, do you feel up to a shower?"

After our shower, which turned out to be just a shower, Edward feels that it is just too dangerous for me to try anything else, I found myself being drug by my mom and Rosalie to Alice's room of horrors.

She already had my dress and shoes, my jewelry and everything else that I would be needing that night.

"It's about time, what happened did you and Edward take longer than expected in the shower?" Rose asked.

"Rosalie" I said in horror, my mom was in the room.

"Oh Bella, get over it, let's see you're pregnant and living with your fiance' I'm pretty sure that your mom has figured out that you two have sex."

"Maybe so Rose, but she doesn't need announcements and for the record, all that we did was shower."

"Bella, it's ok honey, I'm coming to terms with the fact that you're not a little girl anymore, as long as you know that you'll always be my baby."

"No matter what mom, I promise."

In no time at all, Alice had my hair and make up done to perfection, I wish that I had a knack for it like she does and was working on my mom, while I finished dressing.

My dress was emerald green, with spaghetti straps and an empire waist line, just in case.

I wore my black Laboutins, even though, every time that I wear them I am convinced that I am going to wind up on my ass.

By the time that I had my jewelry on, mom was ready to go and we all walked out together and joined the men who were already waiting by the door.

"You look amazing." Edward smiled and kissed me, with a warning by Alice not to mess up my make-up.

"Me, what about you?" "I'm pretty sure that every woman in this place is going to have her eyes on you." I told him.

God this man in a suit, is something to see.

"Well, I think that you both look pretty amazing." Mom said, always the diplomat.

"As do you, Renee." He told her.

It seemed that the whole town had shown up for this dinner, the house was packed, but it seemed that everyone was having a great time.

Even Ben and Angela were there, and I was thrilled because I hadn't seen either of them in a while.

Angela and I spent time catching up, she told me that Lauren and Jessica had been expelled; they were caught breaking into the school computers trying to change grades. She said that they probably would have probably gotten away with it, except Jessica used her student id number to log on to the system.

After dinner, Edward sat at the piano and began playing Christmas carols. You could have heard a pin drop, everyone was so engrossed in his playing.

Mom came and sat down next to me, I couldn't take my eyes off of him.

"He's very talented" Mom said.

"Yeah, wait huh?" I asked.

Mom just laughed at me, and said " Yeah, I would probably be like that too."

"I hope that the kids have his talent and looks for that matter." I told her.

"Well personally, I would like at least one of them to look like their mother." She said.

"Please, I'm nothing special, mom I don't even know what he sees in me, I feel so plain in comparison."

"Remind me to tell you later, everything that I see in you" I hadn't even seen him approaching us.

"Bella, you don't see yourself very clearly, you're absolutely beautiful." He continued.

"You have to say that, you love me and I'm having your kids." I teased.

"Yes I do love you, but that's not why I'm saying it, I say it because it's true."

The people were beginning to leave, I hugged Ben and Angela goodbye, promising that we would get together soon. Mentally kicking myself for forgetting to get them Christmas gifts.

Finally, there was only family left; Unfortunately the Denali's weren't able to make it, I wanted mom to meet them, but they swore that they would be at the wedding, so she can meet them then.

We were all gathered in the living room in front of the Christmas tree, Emmett was begging to open his presents.

"Aww, come on just one" He begged.

"How old are you?" Rose asked him.

"Rosie, you know that you're never too old for presents." "I know that you like them too."

"Yes, but I don't act like a five year old, when I don't get my way, you know that you have to wait until morning."

"Come on Rosie, I'll give you one of yours, if you give me one of mine."

"Forget it, you have to wait just like everyone else, now come on let's go to bed, the sooner you go to sleep, the sooner Santa will come."

"Yes, maybe I'll get something after all." He grinned deviously.

"Emmett" Esme and Carlisle yelled.

"Sorry" He at looked ashamed, even more so after Rosalie slapped his head.

I began yawning and Edward chuckled, "Come on baby, let's get you to bed too, Emmett will have everyone up by the crack of dawn."

We wished everyone a good night and headed to our room. Once we were alone I felt that I could really relax.

I walked over to the window and noticed that it had begun to snow; usually I hate snow, but for tonight it was perfect.

The fact that it was the first snow of the season made this night even magical.

"What are you thinking about love?" Edward asked as he approached me and wrapped his arms around my waist.

"Just how perfect this is, you, me, my family, your family, all here together; how if someone had told me last Christmas that this one would be like this, I would have laughed at them."

"I know what you mean" He then rested his chin on my shoulder, " I had always hoped but never dared to dream, that one day I would have all of this, a beautiful woman that is going to be my wife, not one but two children on the way."

"I can't wait to marry you" I told him.

"Me too love." He began to unzip my dress and lowered it for me to step out of.

He finished undressing me and picked me up and carried me to the bed, laying me down gently. He threw off his jacket and loosened his tie, kissing me gently the whole time.

"Edward" I whispered.

He began kissing down my body, stopping to take one of my breasts into his mouth, while massaging the other with his hand.

"So beautiful" he moaned.

After paying plenty of attention to my breasts, he began placing open mouthed kissed on the rest of my body, down my rib cage, over to my stomach, stopping only to place a feather light kiss on my little bump that was already developing.

I heard him whisper "daddy loves you." and it brought tears to my eyes, it was jus so sweet, how much he adored the babies already.

It's funny, it had only been a month since we had found out that I was pregnant, but it felt like a lifetime, the babies couldn't be more loved if they were already here.

Suddenly as if he remembered something that he had forgotten, he began kissing me again, lower and lower until he was positioned between my thighs.

He stood up to finish undressing, he touched me lightly before plunging one finger gently inside of me.

"God, so wet already," "I've got to taste you."

He pulled me down to the end of the bed and knelt down on the floor; propping my feet on his shoulders and began kissing my clit softly;

"Yes, I moaned, more please."

"Patience love, I want to worship you, now hold still." He smirked.

"Now where was I?" "Oh yes, right about here," and gave my swollen bundle a flick with his tongue, before taking it between his teeth and biting gently.

"Shit Edward"

"Shh Bella, before I lose my place again." He then plunged his tongue inside my aching hole.

"Oh God, I'm going to come."

"Come gorgeous, I want you to." He began massaging my clit lightly while his tongue was inside of me, with a shudder and a pull of his hair, I completely came undone.

After my breathing evened out we climbed under the covers where he held me against him. I was beginning to fight sleep, but didn't want to leave him like this.

"Edward, please make love to me." I begged him.

"Baby, you're too tired, don't worry about me, I'm fine." He said while placing kisses on my forehead.

"No, please."

"Bella, it's ok sweetheart."

"No, in a few months, we're going to have a hard time finding time to be together, I don't want to waste any time now."Reluctantly he rolled me over and entered me slowly, his forehead was resting on mine and I could tell that he was having a hard time restraining himself as we fell into a slow, steady tempo.

"So fucking good Bella, you feel so good." He said before giving me a very passionate kiss, I could feel his muscles trembling and I could tell that he was trying to wait for me.

He hooked his arms under my shoulder and pulled me into his chest, I felt him shudder and heard him groan "Bella, I'm so sorry." and with that he let go, pushing me over into my own orgasm.

"Wow, that was amazing" I sighed.

A kiss was his simple response.

"I love you Bella" He said while fingering a strand of my hair.

"I love you too" I told him while rolling over so that I could cuddle up against him. The last thing that I remember was him saying "Merry Christmas baby."

It seemed no time at all had passed when I was awakened by a knock at the door; I just groaned in complaint.

"Yeah" Edward said.

The door opened and it was my mom, I was awake now and suddenly very aware of mine and Edward's nudity

"Uh, oh I'm sorry, Emmett has been driving everyone crazy, they nominated me to come up here and get you."

Edward immediately saw where I get my blush from, "It's ok Renee, I'm sorry that you had to see this."

"No this is your room, and you're both adults, I just thought when you said Yeah, it meant that it was safe to come in."

"Mom, we were only sleeping, I promise, you didn't interrupt anything."

"Tonight, we wear clothes to sleep in" he whispered in my ear.

"Definitely."

"Mom, just ask them to give me a few minutes, we'll be right down."

"That's fine honey, take your time."

"Oh and Bella, you should pick your dress up off of the floor and put it back on a hanger, before it's ruined."

"Got it mom."

A few minutes later we were in the living room with the rest of the family giving us knowing looks.

Even Jacob and Nessie were here, I made introductions, of course mom remembered Jacob, but it had been such a long time since she had seen him last, she was flabbergasted by how big he had gotten.

"Wow Jacob" "You've grown a little."

"Yeah, I think that I was four the last time I saw you, so I guess I did." He chuckled.

Merry Christmas's we wished all around and we decided to cut Emmett some slack, he was just too cute.

"Here Emmett" I handed him a package, I had found the perfect thing for him and it was from both Edward and I. It was a framed print of Bear Bryant and Nick Saban, with the national championship trophy centered between them.

Edward informed me that Bear Bryant had passed away in the early 80's but Emmett, still saw him as a hero.

After he opened it, all that he could say was "Dude!" I guess that meant that he liked it.

Alice was the official gift distributor, as soon as she came to the two little boxes, that Edward had purchased for Jake to give to Nessie, she handed them to Jacob and told him that he had left his bag in the car, the last time that we had gone shopping together and that she hoped that he didn't mind, but she went ahead and wrapped them for him.

Poor Jake, he looked thoroughly confused, but played it off the best he could.

"Uh thanks Alice, but I bought so much that day, who were these for again?"

"They are Nessie's I assume."

"Oh right, how could I have forgotten."

He handed the packages to her and was as anxious as she was to see what "he" had gotten for her.

She opened the box with the necklace that he had wanted so badly for her first, she squealed excitedly, and began to open the other box, the matching earrings.

"Oh my God, Jacob, how did you manage this?" "They're from Tiffany's, Oh I love them, thank you." She planted a big kiss on him and asked him to help put it on her. He was speechless.

Have I mentioned how amazing Edward is?

Other gifts were passed around, and everyone loved what they received. Edward had told me that he had already taken care of Alice and for me not to worry about her.

He simply handed her an envelope, when she pulled out the paper, for the first time Alice was speechless.

"What is it?" I asked.

"Oh Edward" She cried.

"Well, I felt like I owed you big time."

Alice handed me a copy of her American Express bill, with a zero balance.

"Whoa That must have been huge, I said.

"She helped me get you, she deserved it."

The pile of gifts seemed to be never ending, Edward handed Jake and Nessie identical packages, the laptops that he had told me were gifts, were meant for them.

Mom and Phil also loved their laptop and couldn't thank Edward enough.

Finally there were only a couple of packages left under the tree and after the things that I had seen today, all of a sudden I didn't want to give Edward his.

Esme and Carlisle, gave me an envelope with a blank check in it, with a letter saying that all of my college expenses were being paid for in full by them. I didn't know what to say. Instead the water works started and it wasn't just me, my mom joined in too.

"Bella, I have a present for you too, I just hope that you will not hate me for it and please don't get mad."

"UH-oh, I was scared."

He grabbed my hand and asked me to follow him, the rest of the family were right behind us.

We walked outside and there in the driveway was a brand new Audi Q7.

"You bought me a car?" I asked incredulously

"Well in my defense you need one and second of all, we need something bigger because of the babies and this is a great car."

All around me, I could hear the ooo's and ahh's, I didn't know what to say, he bought me a luxury car and I have a scrapbook and a dvd for him.

"Edward, I don't know what to say."

"Say that you like it, say that you're not mad."

"Edward it's beautiful," it was ice blue in color and was the most beautiful car that I had ever seen.

"Of course I love it, but it's so much."

He leaned down and kissed me, "Nothing is too much where you're concerned." He said.

We walked back inside and I knew that it was my turn.

I grabbed the two small packages and everyone was watching, all that I wanted to do was to hide in shame.

"Are these for me?" He asked.

"Uh, yeah, but I think that I've changed my mind." I said while biting my lip.

"Bella, what's the matter love?" "I know that no matter what it is, I'm going to love it."

"Bella, remember what we told you" Alice said.

"Well, this was really Alice's idea" I told him before handing him the first box.

He opened the box and saw the book, he slowly opened the cover and began going through the pages at an excruciatingly slow pace.

First were his pictures, going back all the way to his baby pictures and up to now, the second section were pictures of me and mom had brought a few more of my childhood photos to contribute.

The third section was for pictures of us together, I had intentionally left one page blank, I knew that he had one picture in his possession that he would probably want to add, but it was for our eyes only. It was the one that he had taken of us together, Halloween night after the party.

When I added that page, fortunately Alice didn't ask any questions.

The final section of the book was for the babies, I had included pictures that Alice had taken of me right after we found out, and included one that we had taken yesterday. We left blank pages so that I could add another one every month, until they were born.

I included the babies ultrasound photos and one that Alice had taken when he didn't know she was even there, with his head laying on my stomach.

I was beginning to get nervous, he was almost to the end of the book and he still hadn't said a word.

I was afraid that he was disappointed that it wasn't something expensive and I vowed to run out tomorrow and find him something truly worthy of him.

Finally he looked up at me and I could see tears in his emerald eyes, "You did this?" He asked.

"Well, I had a lot of help." I told him.

"This is the greatest gift, I've ever been given, I couldn't love anything more."

I released the breath that I had been holding, I could see the truth in his eyes, he loved it.

"I have one more for you, Carlisle helped me with this one." I told him.

He looked at his dad questioningly and I handed him the tiny box.

He opened it and on the cover it said simply 12-18-11.

He opened up the plastic case and pulled the DVD out"

"What is it?" He asked. "

"Just play it." I told him

Everyone followed us into the family room, where he popped it in the player.

Mom, Esme, Alice and Rose had been begging me to see it, but I wanted Edward to be the first and so this would be their first time also.

He turned on the t.v. and hit play with the remote.

You could hear it before you could see it, it was a video of the babies.

Carlisle had recorded several minutes of them, you could see them pretty clearly, you could watch them move around and you could hear their heartbeats.

He was captivated and kept playing it over and over.

I looked at mom and she was dabbing tears from her eyes.

"He made a copy for you too." I whispered to her.

After watching it several times, mom and Esme went to begin dinner, I offered to help, but they suggested that I go take a nap.

Edward picked up all of our boxes, including the ones that mom had given us.

There were two, mom and Phil didn't have a lot of money either, but their gifts were special.

The first was a quilt that she had made for the baby, when she thought that it was only one. It was made with pinks and blues, yellows and greens and purples. It was beautiful and gender neutral.

The other was a silver picture frame, with a place to engrave a name and birthdate.

They were perfect and we let her know that, she promised that she would make another quilt before the babies were born.

Once we were upstairs, Edward laid everything down and took me in his arms, and held me tightly.

We talked about the book and I told him what the extra page was for, he jumped up immediately went to a box in the back of the closet and pulled the picture out and added it to the pages.

We both knew that was the night our babies were created and felt that it deserved its' own space.

He crawled back into the bed and curled up beside me and held me until we both fell asleep.