Me: Hello everyone, sorry to be away for so long. Packing and stuff really takes up a lot of time.

Edward: that and you started to work on another story

Emmett: yeah, one that doesn't star me in it!

Me:…it was a one shot based on actual events!

Emmett: that isn't the one I'm talking about…it's the one about Alice and Jasper

Me:…I didn't even post it yet, how did you find out about that?

Edward: Alice…duh

Me: …oh…that makes sense…I do not own anything twilight, it all belongs to the fabulous Stephenie Meyer!

Emmett: she is ignoring us now isn't she?

Edward: yep

Chapter 23: Dinner

EPOV

Dinner so far tonight has been an awkward affair.

Sam dropped Bella, Seth and I off in front of Leah's house, telling us to give everyone his apologies at not being able to join everyone for "Family Diner Fun Night" as Leah put it. I almost didn't notice that Bella's face paled a little and mumbled something about us all being lucky if we all made it out alive. I made a mental note to ask her about that, a part of me was hoping that it had something to do with her and Rose's disappearing act that they pulled earlier today.

I had never been so scarred in my life.

After waiting for half an hour Emmett went to see if they were still in the gym while Alice tried messaging Rose's phone again, granted Rose hadn't been answering her messages for the past week either. When we couldn't find them after school I felt like I was going to have a panic attack since the truck and our car were still in the parking lot. Emmett was going crazy until he remembered that his dad had gotten them phones with tracking systems. It helped me to realize that I didn't want to lose her…

I was pulled from the workings of my mind by a smack on the back of my head. "Ouch Bella what was that for?" turning to my right to address her.

She gave me a confused expression, "Um…I didn't do anything."

That leaves…"Leah, is there a reason you tried to make my face meet my diner?"

"A- You hurt my sister, and B- I was bored, no one is really talking." She answered with a grin that the Cheshire cat would be proud of. I looked to Bella for some help, "It's your own fault for zoning out like that." She had a point there.

"Why are we having dinner together with our parents?" I whispered to Bella, trying to keep the others from hearing but I guess it wasn't quiet enough, shortly after my question there was the sound of a small crash.

At the end of the table, Rose had apparently dropped her glass as she was bringing it to her mouth. Not even a heart beat later Emmett was out of his chair picking up the pieces of glass "I got it Rosie, don't worry about it. Everything will be alright." He went to give a kiss on her forehead but she quickly shot out of her seat as though something bit her ass.

"You don't know that Emmett! You don't know that everything will work itself out and be fine! We are only eighteen for fuck's sake!" Is it just me or does this seem to be about more than just the broken glass.

Rose took one look around the table, her gaze lingering on my parents' shocked faces before she ran out of the room and though the kitchen doors. Emmett was hot on her heels, placing the broken glass on a napkin so no one else would get hurt. Alice went to follow her sister, but Jasper grabbed her arm and forced her back into the chair giving her a look that meant she should wait for things to cool down.

Sue sighed as she rubbed her temples as though she had one hell of a headache. "Um…Carlisle, is there something going on here that we should know about? Leah had called Charlie and I earlier saying that there was something we had to discuss."

"I have absolutely no idea what is going on, Leah told us the same thing." Everyone turned to look at the only person at the table still eating, besides Seth and Cabby.

"What? Why is everyone looking at me? Can't we all just get together for dinner every once and a while?" Charlie gave her a look that meant cut the crap and get to the point. "Fine, Bella, will you and Alice go put Cabby down for the night while the boys go to the play room with Seth?"

"Yep, no problem. Let's go guys." Bella grabbed the baby as the rest of us walked up the stairs to the play room. "Oh and Kids, it might get a little loud so make sure the doors are closed." What the hell is going on?

After Jasper and I started to play action figures with Seth we were joined by Bella and Alice, by that time the questions had been building and I needed a few answers. "Does this have anything to do with what happened today?"

"Yes." Bella answered, looking extremely uncomfortable.

Alice placed her hand on Bella's arm, "It's okay if you can't tell us everything. It isn't anything bad, is it?"

"Um….no?" this was getting us nowhere.

"You guys are weird, if you want to know what they are talking about, just use the baby monitor." For a six year old, the kid is pretty sharp. "For a fee of five dollars I will gladly hand the baby monitor over." And he is also a thrifty little tike.

Jasper dug through his pocket, "You know, you could start your own intelligence agency."

"If I do that you know my prices will go up."

"What do you do with all the money you get from everyone?" Jasper asked as he handed the kid the money. "I put it into a safe that is hidden in my room, oh and that was five dollars per person by the way." After everyone coughed up the dough, Seth brought over one of the many monitors that Jacob had set up throughout the house…Leah kept misplacing them. Before turning the monitor on Seth reminded us that we had to stay quiet.

Bella was the only one to voice a problem with eves dropping. "Guys I don't think we should be invading on their privacy like this, it might be better to wait-" Alice had her hand over Bella's mouth so quick, none of us even saw her move. "Shhhhhhh! Turn it on Seth."

At first there wasn't anything other than white noise coming from the machine and I started to think that maybe the thing was broken…that was until I heard my mother's voice.

"Rose, are you sure?"

"yes." Came my sister's sobbing voice. "I took two tests today, and they came out positive."

"How could this have happened, if anything I thought you two were being careful." I had never heard my dad sound so disappointed.

"Daddy, we were, we used a condom each time."

"Carlisle, you're a doctor you know that those things aren't one hundred percent effective." Leave it to Sue to try and smooth things over.

"Sue's right, what's done is done. The important thing now is what these two plan on doing. If they keep it you bet your ass they will have to get jobs to help support the kid."

"Charlie, they are about to graduate from high school, they can barely take care of themselves. Let's be reasonable, they have their lives a head of them for this sort of thing."

"Now wait a damn minute Carlisle Christopher Cullen!"

"Esme…"

"Don't you Esme me! Rosalie is still our daughter and Emmett is just as important to me as our own son. If they keep the baby they will be responsible for most expenses and we will help. That is if they really are pregnant, they still need to do a blood test."

"Esme is right, they are not alone in this, I wasn't alone and I will be damned to hell and back if I allow my son and Rosalie to do this all on their own."

"Mama Sue…" Wow I had never heard Emmett cry before.

That was all we heard because Bella snatched the monitor out of Jasper's hands and shut it off. My mind was going a mile a minute, my sister was knocked up…by one of my best friends…what the fuck! I glanced over to see that Alice was thinking very hard about something.

Trying to lighten the mood, I throw a pillow at her head. "Alice, if you think any harder your brain is going to explode." She didn't even blink.

"Ali baby, talk to us…you're not normally quiet."

"I was just thinking…if they are having a baby…it might help if they lived at the same house…"

"Okay…" we had no idea where she was going with this.

"If Emmett moves in to be closer to Rose…I GET TO MOVE IN AND BE CLOSER TO BELLA! We can turn my room into the nursery! But wait what about my closet? Oh I know I can share Bella's room and then we can turn Emmett's room into our closet! Oh the fun we can have together!"

During her rant Bella moved to hide behind me as Seth moved to hide behind Bella. "Edward?"

"Yes Bells?"

"…save me…"