You guys are ssssooooo awesome! :D I am completely flabbergasted by the amount of reviews I have already received for this fic. I absolutely love you guys! Because y'all made me so freakin ecstatic I decided to gift you another chapter today. That's two days in a row! Enjoy! :)

-RiniBell


Bella steps out of the shower and grabs the towel that she had place on top of the toilet seat lid. She lightly pats down her body and then wraps the towel around herself.

Bella takes a deep breath and then lets it out. Her hand wipes across the bathroom mirror, leaving a small window of a reflection; mist covering the rest of the glass.

"It's going to be okay." She tells herself. This had become her personal mantra since before Matt had been born. Even if she didn't believe she would still say it aloud, hoping maybe by repeating it over and over it might start to come true. But unfortunately, like wishes, mantras don't always see the light of day.

Bella walks out of the bathroom and into her connecting closet. She grabs a pair of capris and a button up blouse. She pairs her ensemble with a pair of flats and some bangles. The weather was starting to warm up outside but you could still feel a few breezes now and then. Even though it's the beginning of spring, Bella still decides to take a cardigan with her. You never know when the wind might turn cool again.

Bella walks out of her room, after having brushed her hair and fixed her make-up, and yells out to Matt, whom is still downstairs watching cartoons.

"Matty! It's time to get dressed!"

"Kay, Mommy!" Her little angel replies in is sweet innocent voice. Have you ever felt that all-consuming love before? That as long as you have that one person in your life than nothing or none can ever make your life bad again? As long as you have this one person, your life is complete. That is how Bella feels about her son. He is the only thing that keeps her life from a downwards spiral. He is her reason for everything. There isn't one thing Bella wouldn't do for her son. And if that means that she has to sit in a small doctor's office with her son and let the man she despises most in this world examine him, then so be it.

"I wants spider man, Mommy!" Her little man's voice breaks Bella out of her mental tirade.

"Of course, baby."

"I wanna go home Mommy!" Matt begs Bella as he tries to pull her out of the building that they had just walked into.

"I know, baby." She tells him gently as she hoist him up onto her hip; pretty soon her baby bot will be too big for her to carry him.

"But you need your check-up so I know you're all healthy. I don't want my Mattie to be sick. Do you?" She told him.

"But I's not sick, Mama! See! I's all good." He smiles at her; his dimples and green eyes reminding her of why she didn't want to come today either.


"Why didn't you tell me Alice!?" Bella screams at her friend from across her living room. "You could have at least warned me that he is working at the clinic! How am I supposed to be okay with that bastard examining my baby!?"

"I know…and I'm really sorry…but I didn't know how to tell you. Every time I bring him up you change the subject!" Alice screams back.

"You're supposed to be my friend Allie…." Bella sighs; no energy left to fight.

"I am Bee…but he's also my brother." Alice move to sit next to Bella on the couch and envelops her in a hug.

Bella burrows her head into Alice shoulder and cries.


"Matthew Cullen!" Bella stands up quickly, her thoughts interrupted by the nurse calling out her son's name.

"That's me, Mommy!" Matt giggles as he tugs on Bella's pants leg.

"Yes it is, baby." She smiles softly at him and picks him. For now Bella just needs him close, more for her comfort than his.

"What's wrong with this little guy today?" Nurse Cope asks kindly as she checks Matt's weight and height. Everyone in town has had Nurse Cope treat them at one point or another in their life. She's been a nurse since Bella's own father was a boy.

"Matt just needs a check-up and his S-H-O-T-S up to date." Bella whispers the last part behind her hand to the elderly woman.

Nurse Cope chuckles and bends down to Matts level, "If you're a good boy for the doctor today I'll give you two lollipops when you leave." She tells him as she holds up two fingers.

"Okay! Okay! I's be good!" Matt nods his head, up and down, really fast in excitement over the thought of not only receiving one, but two pieces of candy.

"Okay then, follow me, you guys are in the blue room today." Nurse Cope shows them to a room painted blue with suns and clouds painted as a backdrop behind the examination table.

"The doctor will be with you shortly." She tells them both kindly, "And Bella…."

"Yes?" Bella replies.

"It's going to be okay." The older woman gives her a small smile and then leaves, closing the door behind her.

Bella feels as if her knees might give out on her at any given moment, so she quickly places Matt on top of the examination table and takes a seat in the parent's chair in the corner of the room.

Bella breathes deeply in and out, trying her best to calm down her racing heart. Finally when she has herself under control she hears a knock on the door and the handle turns. Her heart completely stops and lodges in her throat as two green eyes stare at her from across the room, and they're not her son's.


Dun…Dun…Dun…. I am so evil! Sorry :( But I thought this would be the best place to end this chapter today. Hopefully I can give you the second part of the doctor's visit tomorrow :) I hope you enjoyed it! Don't forget to leave me some love ;)

-RiniBell