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Chapter 1: Decisions
"You want me to do what?" I said to Edward, completely dumbfounded.
Edward Cullen is my best friend—and my only love—who I met in third grade when I moved to Forks, Washington from Phoenix, Arizona. Ever since we met we had been attached to one another. All until Tanya Denali came into the picture in senior year of high school.
I've always found it difficult to convince myself that I actually like Tanya. But I found ways to cope when Tanya and Edward had first started going out. I just found it more problematic when they had announced that they were engaged in college. That was four years ago. Currently, we're all twenty-four years old, and I'm the only single one. Edward and Tanya Cullen are apparently a happily married couple who are trying for children.
And now, after everything that Edward has put me through, all of the pain he put me through—even though he doesn't even realize that he put me through it—he has the nerve to call me, and ask me the one question I never expected and never wanted to be asked.
"Please, Bella. You may be our only chance. It was Tanya's idea, if that makes you feel any better," he begged me with those big, sparkling emerald eyes of his.
"Why would that make me feel any better?"
Edward sighed and spoke again after a moment of silence, "Bella....you're my best friend," I put an odd grimace on my face but covered it up the best to my abilities, "and I know you don't exactly want to do this. But Tanya and I don't want to adopt. We want to go through the pregnancy, and we just found out that Tanya is infertile. So, we want you to have our baby. All three of us—and maybe even Alice, Jasper, Emmett, and Rosalie—can come with us to the sperm bank and the hospital."
Alice was Edward's twin sister, even though they didn't even look anything like each other. While Edward had shiny bronze hair, Alice had spiky black hair. While Edward was six feet tall, Alice was only five feet. While Edward was sometimes gloomy, Alice was always bouncy and excited about everything.
Jasper was Alice's husband. Six foot two inches, the emotional and completely gorgeous kind of guy with semi-long blond hair. Light blue eyes and the southern accent to top it all off. I may sound like I'm in love with Jasper instead of Edward, but I'm just being honest with myself. If I could pick someone to be with that isn't Edward, I would pick Jasper—if he was ever into me, and if Alice wasn't in the picture.
I looked down at the floor and became immersed in the cracks of the tile as I thought through everything.
Emmett was Alice and Edward's big brother. He was the teddy bear of the family. Bulky, muscular, smart—sometimes—and of course, handsome. Dimples when he smiles, making jokes about everyone all the time, and short brown hair that no one else could pull it off.
Rosalie was Jasper's twin sister, and Emmett's wife. Long, blond hair, piercing blue eyes, and tall slender hair along with the still slender figure. I say still slender, because for not much longer, it'll be getting quite bigger. Emmett and Rosalie announced that she was two months pregnant about one week ago.
I got pulled out of my sanctuary of thoughts when Edward began to speak again, "Look, Bella, I don't want to pressure you into anything that you don't want to do. It's just.....that Tanya and I really want a baby. We've tried for months and we never conceived, and if she ever did become pregnant, that we would probably lose the baby before it was born."
I tore my eyes from the tiles of Edward's kitchen and gazed into his bright green eyes.
Replying, I smiled slightly, "So, all I would have to do is have the baby? You know, take care of it while I'm pregnant and then...hand it off to you and Tanya?"
"Well.....yeah, but it's more complicated than that. You'd have to eat certain foods, no heavy lifting, try not to fall. Then we have to do a whole bunch of legal stuff for it. But other than that, yes, having the baby is all you have to do."
When I was about to respond and tell Edward that I'd be willing to go through with it, the front door of his house opened and then slammed close.
I heard the clicking of shoes and then the annoying, high-pitched voice that belonged to my own personal demon.
"Ugh. Hey, Eddie. Hi, Bella," Tanya said sounding shocked to find that I was here.
I gave her a slight nod of my head, and then once again took a strange fascination in the tiles as Tanya and Edward kissed each other. I blushed, wishing that I were Tanya.
When they finally stopped making out right in front of me, I looked back to them.
Edward wrapped his arms around Tanya's waist from behind and spoke, "Honey, I was just explaining to Bella how we want her to have our child."
Tanya squealed, scrambled out of Edward's arms, and sat down on the stool next to mine.
She began to speak, "So, I was thinking that maybe if it were a boy, we could name him Adam John Cullen. And if it were a girl, we could name the baby April Jessica Cullen. If it were twins, we could have the same names if they were different genders. Everyone could just call both of them A.J. What do you think?"
I raised an eyebrow at her and responded, "I think that I didn't even say if I would do it yet."
Tanya pouted and I looked away automatically.
I just came face to face with Edward, who was begging me with his deep, emerald eyes.
After seconds of thinking about it, I finally gave in, "Fine."
I crossed my arms in front of my chest while Tanya squealed like a little pig again and jumped into Edward's willing arms.
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