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…TEC…
"Eww!" Ellie squealed as she stood behind me holding my hair as I wretched violently. "What did you eat?" She gasped as she leaned over my head to examine the contents.
"Ellie. I told you-" Oh my god, was it even possible for something that big to come out of my throat like that? "To go to your room or something…"
"No, cause I want you to be okay, Mommy." She said in a no nonsense tone. I felt her little hand slip into my back pocket and grab my cell phone. The buttons clacked as she thumped roughly on them.
"What are you-?" This was fucking disgusting.
"Hello?" She paused, "Mommy is throwing up really hard. And-" She waited a second. "I don't think she's drunk." She leaned over my shoulder. "No." She paused again before whimpering. "When are you coming home?" She took a pause and I made a grab for the phone. I really didn't want her worrying Edward while he was so far away. She stepped over to the other side of the bathroom so that I couldn't reach her. "I miss you, Daddy." She sighed sadly, I ran my hand through my hair and tugged on the roots gently.
I hated that my little girl was so heartbroken over Edward's leaving. She asked me every morning when we woke up how soon it would be until he came back. He still had more than a week plus to get back from Chicago and they aren't able to find the CEO or anyone that would have had contact with Mr. Volturi from Santino Inc. it seemed that they had all gone M.I.A.
"I love you too, Daddy… Who?" She huffed and her eyes widened incredulously. "Why would I call her? I have no need for her here." Edward spoke a little bit more and Ellie stared at me while he spoke. "She does look like crap." She sighed. I slumped over and rested my head on my folded arms, which lie on the toilet seat. "Okay, Daddy. But watch out, her breath stinks." I frowned as Ellie moved closer to me; I snatched the phone from her hand and childishly breathed on her. She grimaced and kicked my leg softly in retaliation before running out of the bathroom.
Yeah, that was gross… shouldn't have done that.
"Don't run!" I screamed after her before holding the phone up to my ear. Edwards laugh filtered through the speakers and I smiled, I missed the hell out of him.
"Hi, Baby." I sighed, my voice had been scratchy sounding since he left and the first day I started getting sick. I sounded like a hard core chain smoker.
"Bella, Bella, Bella…" He tsk'ed, "And you say I'm the lightweight."
"I'm not drunk, Jackass." I huffed. Rose and Alice assumed that with all of the Monkey sex, as she had put it, that we'd been having it would be shocking if I wasn't pregnant. I used the pill though and our sex life wasn't as rampant as everyone assumed. Ellie reentered the room with her cheeks flushed and her lip curled up.
"Didn't I tell you to take care of yourself?"
"Sorry my immune system doesn't take well to commands." I rolled my eyes and I could almost hear him smiling. "But anyway, how's Chicago?"
"It's okay. But don't change the subject. Where is Alice?"
Ellie screamed into the phone, across the room. "I don't want you here either. But it looks like you're going to have to woman up and get here and help me!" I assumed that she was speaking with Alice.
"Alice is at her house, she isn't my caretaker, Edward."
"She told me that she'd watch after you. Are you taking anything?"
"No. But I just need to clear my system… which I'm doing." There was an annoying wail at his end of the line and my eyes narrowed into the toilet.
There was a bit of fumbling and Edwards words were muffled, he had the speaker covered.
"Will you please come over Ali?" Ellie rolled her eyes as Alice babbled. "I know she yelled at you but she needs help and she won't let Riley do it. Please?" I tuned her out and listened back to Edward, he was still talking even though I couldn't make out words. Yeah I had yelled at Alice but, if you were hunched over a toilet throwing up the last years' worth of food would you be interested in getting new baby furniture?
Didn't think so.
"Edward? Where are you?" My stomach finally settled out and I stood shakily from my spot at the toilet before flushing and dragging myself over the sink turning on the water and splashing it on my face and brushing my teeth.
"What?" He covered the speaker and whispered loudly again, I sighed before sloppily plopping onto the covered seat.
"Where are you?"
"Oh, in my hotel room."
The fuck was Tanya doing in there?
"The fuck is Tanya doing in there?" I said angrily.
Ellie patted my shoulder, "I know you're sick. So I'll get my dollar from your wallet later."
I ignored her and she started screaming into the phone again. "Edward? Why is Tanya in your hotel room?" I grinded my teeth as I waited for an answer.
"Um… okay well you're not going to like this, Baby… Maybe I should tell you when I get back."
"Tell me right the hell now!" I demanded as I felt tears well in my eyes, he gulped on his end and Ellie's hand shot out and she held up two fingers.
"Well Tanya and I ended up rooming together." I hung up the phone after his words, before throwing it across the room sending it crashing into the tub. Ellie screamed at the loud noise before dropping the home phone and darting out of the bathroom. I slid off of the toilet and crossed my arms over my knees before burying my face in them. A few minutes later I felt a large hand on my heaving back.
I looked up to see Alec looking concerned, "What are you doing here? Get out! I look like shit!" I screamed, he shrunk away.
"Bella, calm down it's okay. What happened?" He rubbed my back and I couldn't stop crying long enough to tell him. "Take deep breaths…" And now he was telling me what to do? I just couldn't stop. My chest burned with the sensation as I gasped for air. "Come on Bella, calm down. The kids are here." He said in an attempt to soothe me? The fuck. How did that help?
I opened my blurry eyes to see Ellie and Seth at me feet, they both cried with me, Seth more so than Ellie, and the home phone rang at Ellie's feet. I turned and threw myself into Alec's arms, burying my head into his shoulder and soaking his green t-shirt.
It was so pretty.
I fisted his pretty shirt tightly as my sobs intensified. I wanted Edward here so that he could hold me, while I flipped the fuck out. I wanted Alice here so she could tell me to Block. What would be even better is if I had Edward covered in chocolate singing Please Don't Go Girl. And now I missed Edward again.
Heels clanked across the linoleum of the kid's bathroom. That sound was so fucking annoying.
"Hey." Alice stood above Riley and I with a stern look on her face. "Get up, Bella. Don't be a baby. Wipe your eyes." Her eyes widened at me menacingly and my cries started to subside. I held out my hand and she pulled me up to my feet, before promptly pushing me down onto the covered toilet. I gasped for breath while she picked up the discarded landline and answered it, all the while kicking Alec and the kids out. She crouched down in front of me and gripped my hands, cradling the home phone and speaking rapidly into it. I let the last few of my tears leak out as my parched throat screamed in protest.
"Eh she's-" She was going to say pregnant. Which I wasn't. I panicked and popped her in the side of the face. You see, it sounded like a slap but it wasn't hard! I promise. She gawked at me. "She's being a bitch right now." She directed her attention to me. "Don't fucking slap me." She growled before speaking into the phone again. "Okay Edward." She pressed a button. "You're on speaker." She set the phone on the counter and Edwards worried voice echoed in the bathroom.
"Bella? Let me explain, Baby." He begged.
"I miss you so much…" I started crying while I stared at the phone.
"I miss you too, Bella. What's going on?" Something clicked in me and my face heated as I started growling.
"You fuck-face! You're rooming with Tanya! You-" Alice covered my mouth with her hand and she quickly took the phone off of speaker and put it to her ear.
"What'd you do?" She was quiet for a while and I collapsed back into tears, because I was a fucking terrible mother. I had broken down in front of them, and then sent them off with this guy who has a mark and possibly a price on his head. Alice sat in my lap and I put my head on her shoulder letting her comfort me with her bony little arm. "Oh well that's a comfort. Well no… I guess not for her, but if it were Jasper. I would kick his ass." She shrugged and I let my tears soak her shirt. She handed me the phone and I held it to my ear.
"Bella, honey, calm down…" I sniffled into the phone as he spoke rapidly. "I was put in a room with Tanya because they didn't feel that putting her in a room with one of the single men was proactive. I know you're thinking why me? Emmett insisted that his 'pure unadulterated sexy' would be too much for her to handle. So he roomed with Jasper."
"What about your pure unadulterated sexy?" I cried softly.
I could almost hear his big ass head growing, "Odd man out, baby." He snickered.
"It's not funny." I groaned, he sobered up and Alice patted my head. I heard Charlie's voice before Edward said quietly, "I have to go... Call you later. Feel better, I love you."
"I love you too, Bye." Alice snatched the phone from my hand before pulling a little box out of her bag and standing to pitch the trash. She handed me a stick and I frowned at it.
"I'm not pregnant." I said. Why the hell would I be pregnant? I was on fucking birth control. It's not one hundred percent effective but come on.
"Take the test, Masen." She forced it under my nose and I frowned.
"Fine but you have to leave the room." She rolled her eyes before stomping out of the room. I glared at the fucking stick for about ten minutes before Alice came knocking.
"Yes or no?"
"I'm sorry I missed the question." I said as I gripped the stick tightly.
"Bella!"
"I haven't taken it yet!"
"Don't make me-" I stayed quiet, I mean, what is she going to do? "Never mind… Bella, the test won't make you pregnant, it just tells you. Also, if you aren't pregnant, I'm going to punch you in the fucking face for being so moody." She pounded on the door and I pulled down my pants and pulled up the toilet cover before peeing on the little white stick. I set it on the sink before washing up and letting Alice in. Ellie followed after her and glanced curiously at the stick on the sink.
"Sad face, sad face, sad face…" I chanted with my eyes tightly shut.
Sad face, babyless.
Smiley face, sad Bella.
"What you don't want the joy of new life?"
"I'm good with two lives and one count of hard ass labor. Thank you very much." I started to feel light headed and rested my head against the tub.
"Mommy?" I hummed and she crawled towards me. "You need a hug?" I nodded and she wrapped her arms around my neck.
"Aww, Baby." I kissed her soft cheek and hugged her little body to mine. "I love you." I kissed her cheek and buried my nose in her hair. Alice stood as her phone let out a soft beep.
"It's time." I nodded and stood, propping Ellie up on my hip. The three of us approached the stick as if it were a bomb about to detonate. "Are you going to look or can I?" Ellie leaned over in my arms.
"Mommy! It says be happy. Don't worry." She patted my shoulder and hugged me again. My eyes widened and I froze.
"Congrats, Momma." Alice hugged me tightly before jumping away happily. "Oh! Can I call Edward?" I shook my head and she sighed before producing another box.
Fifteen minutes later we were all standing around two smiling bastard sticks. Most women loved being pregnant… or the reward of their pregnancy or some shit like that. To be honest, I love Seth with all my heart but my pregnancy had to be the worst experience I've had. I was sick for most of the time, and when I wasn't I was screaming or crying.
That shit ain't cute.
"Can I call him now?" I shook my head once again. "I don't have any more tests."
"He'll freak out and want to come back home."
"Yeah, as he very well should! He should be here with his pregnant wife and kids. While I'm at it he can bring my Jazzy pie with him too." She sighed.
"Oh fucking hell, don't you realize how much this will mess up the case? What if everything starts getting serious when I look like a freaking whale? I can't fight anyone while I'm pregnant! And how am I going to protect Riley, if I can't even see my own shoes?" I frowned and she shrugged. "I don't want to get in his way."
"You wouldn't get in his way, Bella." Riley snorted next to me. "He'd probably be overjoyed and want to be at home." Alice nodded and rubbed my arm soothingly.
"So Bella what are you going to do? About the baby I mean." She had a worried look in her eyes.
"The same thing I did with my other two babies." I answered obviously. I couldn't even consider getting rid of my baby, terrible pregnancy or not. I was married had a stable income and plenty of my fucked up Bella love to go around. A new baby won't be the worst thing in the world.
"I'm not a baby anymore." Ellie protested.
"No you aren't. Let's get out of here my back hurts." I put Ellie down and led the ladies into my bedroom, calling for Riley on the way. He showed up soon after we all entered the room. I laid down in the bed, letting Ellie curl up next to me. When Alec came in sans my youngest I panicked.
"He's in the nursery, asleep. Calm down." He sat on the Ellie-less side of the bed while laid across the bottom of the bed. "Bella, what's going on?" I shrugged, not knowing if I should tell him or not.
Alice's cell phone rang and I hugged Ellie to me, as soon as her head hit the pillow she was out like a light. "Hello?" There was talking on the other end of the line and she started getting all lovey dovey with Jasper, I assumed. Ellie awoke from her peaceful sleeping to shoot up and tell Alice to stop kissing Jaspers butt, and that he went away for a reason. She quickly fell back asleep after a scolding, accompanied by tears, on my part.
I swatted away the arising tears as I started to think of Edward."Bella? Bella?" Alec snapped his fingers in my face. "What's wrong with you?"
"Oh the usual, wallowing in my own angst." I laid my head on his shoulder. "I miss Edward and chocolate… will you get me some chocolate, Riley?" The front door banged open and I immediately reached into my nightstand grabbing my gun and tucking it into my waistband. Alec's eyes widened comically as I pulled the nine out of the drawer quickly.
"Stay here." I told the two of them, they nodded and I crept through the hallway, until I had a good view of the front door, and Mike stomping the snow into the rug.
"Why hello, beautiful!" He greeted before blowing me a kiss. He took off his coat and made himself at home.
Fucker.
"How did you get in my house, Newton?"
"I got a new key from your boy toy!" He said before shaking Edwards key chain at me. "You know, since I'm going to be staying around here twenty four seven, until you Masen get's back." He shrugged. "I can be like his replacement. Don't worry though, babe. I'll be much better than he ever was."
…TEC…
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Also! Yeah, Bella's moods are high and low… she's pregnant…
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