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I DO NOT OWN TWILIGHT!

CHAPTER 26

(EDWARD)
"You aren't pregnant," I told her softly.

"Then why do I have all of the symptoms?" She asked looking at both tests.

"I don't know love, lets see how you feel in the morning and if you are still sick, I'll take you in to the doctor, even if it is just the walk in clinic."

"I need to lie down," She whispered.

I helped her undress and then I picked her up in my arms and carried her into my room sitting her on the edge of the bed. "Can I get a shirt?" She asked softly.

"That's what I'm getting," I said digging through my drawers. I found one of my t-shirts and handed it to her. "Here love."

She smelled it and put it on. "I love wearing your clothes, they smell like you," She said laying down.

I covered her up and kissed her. "Will you hold me?"

"Give me just a minute and I will."

I ran into the bathroom and buried the tests in the bottom of the trash can, I didn't need to answer anyones questions at that point, I just wanted it all to be over with and find out what was wrong with Bella. She was laying on her side staring at the wall. I shed my clothes, leaving only my boxers on and climbed into bed behind her wrapping my arms and body around her.

"You wanted it to be positive didn't you?" She asked softly.

"Yes Bella, I guess I did. I mean, I know we haven't been together long and we have Matt's feeling to consider and Jaycie, but we could do it together. You just can't push me away when you get scared. You could have sent me a text or called me saying you needed to talk to me. I wouldn't have been mad, I would have supported you."

Tears streamed down her cheeks. "I panicked Edward, my pregnancy with Jaycie was really hard and I don't want to lose you."

"Then love, don't push me away," I whispered wiping her eyes.

"I'm sorry," She whispered.

"Don't be sorry."

"I'm not saying I don't want a baby, I'm just...I don't know," She said taking a deep breath. "Once we've been together longer and Jaycie gets older, I really want to have another baby." She looked down.

"What is it?" I asked.

"And I want to be married to you and I want to be Matt's mom, I want him to feel secure and loved before we add a baby."

My heart swelled at the way she talked about Matt, I leaned over to kiss her cheek. "Sleep love, so you can feel better."

Bella rolled over in my arms curling up into a ball against me. I couldn't help but stare at her, as she slept. She was beautiful and all mine. In the short months that we had been dating, I'd decided on a few things, one, I was getting my own place and quickly and two, I was going to propose, I was just waiting a bit longer to get a ring. I wanted to make sure Matt was okay and have him go with me to pick out a ring. I knew that when I did propse, I wanted the kids to be involved. Hell I would even let Matt ask her to marry me for me.

Sometime in the middle of the night Bella stirred waking me up. She raced to the bathroom and I followed her, tripping over my feet and bumping into the wall. I held her hair back and noticed how warm she felt. "Edward," She whimpered.

"I'm right here love," I said softly.

"I'm so hot."

"I know love, does anything hurt?"

"My head and my throat."

"Okay love, I'm going to get you back into bed and I'll get you something to drink."

"Just leave me here," She said weakly.

I went to the kitchen and found some Tylenol and made her some hot tea with honey and lemon. Then went back upstairs to Bella.

She was curled up on the bathroom floor trembling. I set everything down on the night stand and went back into the bathroom gently picking her up. "Take some Tylenol love and drink this."

"I don't know if I can swallow," She whispered.

"Try to drink this," I said handing it to her.

She took a few small sips, wincing as she swallowed it. She managed to take the Tylenol then she curled back into the bed. I wrapped my arms around her. "I don't want you to get sick."

"Hush Bella, and go back to sleep."

Bella was up and down all night long, throwing up. She took a bath a couple different times. She was getting sick, that explained the nausea, but not the missed period. I was exhausted, but knew Bella was worse off, so I settled for sitting there next to her watching her toss and turn. I would make routine trips down to the kitchen to warm up her tea, get her ice, or more Tylenol.

Around 7am, she was curled up on the bathroom floor shaking. "Baby come on, lets go in and get you looked at."

"It's Saturday they're closed," She said softly, her voice hoarse from throwing up and being sore.

"The walk in clinic is open, come on love," I said.

I went in to my room and found a pair of her sweatpants that she had left at my house and one of my hoodies. "Here you go love."

Once she was finally dressed, I gently brushed her hair and put it in a ponytail, it looked horrible, but as sick as she was she didn't care. She was almost to weak to walk, I picked her up and carried her down to the car. "I'm sorry," She whimpered.

"Love, don't be sorry, you can't help getting sick."

Bella sat in the car with her knees pulled up to her chest and head in her knees. I rubbed her back gently as I drove. "Tell me if you need me to pull over."

"Just drive carefully," She muttered.

I pulled into the parking lot, then helped her out. She leaned against me trembling. "We'll get you feeling better," I said wrapping my arms around her.

Luckily the place wasn't busy, Bella curled up against me shivering. "I'm so sleepy," She whispered.

"After we leave here you can go back and go to bed."

"What about Jaycie?" She whispered.

"I'll call Sue and talk to her," I replied.

"Wait, where is Matt?" She asked.

"Yesterday when I was on the phone I told them that you and I had some things to deal with and they took him to Port Angeles to spend time with him."

"Oh," She said.

"Isabella Swan," The nurse called.

"Do you want me to come with you?" I asked.

"Sure," She said.

(Bella)

I sat on the exam table waiting for the doctor while Edward sat in the chair with his head back against the wall. He hadn't slept at all and I felt bad. "You should have slept," I said hoarsly.

"Honey you needed me."

I started feeling dizzy and my stomach churned. "Edward," I gasped. He jumped up grabbing the basin. My stomach was killing me as I threw up.

"Bella, try to relax," He said rubbing my back.

"My stomach hurts," I whimpered. God I was such a baby when I was sick.

"You probably don't have much left to come up," He said.

The door opened and the doctor walked in. "Hello Isabella, I'm doctor Nickles."

"It's Bella," I said softly.

"I see you've been sick. What are your symptoms?" She asked.

"Headache, sore throat, throwing up," I listed them as I thought of them.

I struggled to sit up as she checked me over. "I'd like to order a strep test," She finally said.

I took a deep breath. "Um, I, my period is a few days late. I took a test at home last night and it came back negative, but I haven't had my period."

"Okay, once I get the strep test, I'll send you for a urine test, some times it's better to take those tests first thing in the morning."

"Thanks," I said glancing at Edward.

I reached for Edward's hand as Dr. Nickels put the stick down my throat, I prayed I wouldn't throw up on her. ""All done Bella, now, follow me. "

Edward stayed as I walked down the hall. She handed me a cup and I went into the bathroom. I felt like I was going to pass out from being so sick, but I managed to pee in the cup. I washed my hands and walked out of the bathroom, handing the nurse the cup. "We'll have your results in about ten minutes," The nurse said.

I walked back to the room and sat down next to Edward. He pulled me into his arms. "Are you thinking the tests were wrong?"

"I don't know, I still don't have my period, so maybe."

"I called Sue while you were gone, she said to stay away if you are sick, she doesn't want Jaycie to get it."

"Wonderful, I can't even see my own baby." I'd never been away from her for that long.

"Bella once you get feeling better, you can go home and be with her."

"I don't want to go home, I want her here with me."

He kissed my head. "I'm looking for a place big enough for all of us, then we can be a family."

"I'd like that," I whispered.

"Alright Bella, we have all of the tests results back," Dr. Nickels said coming in.

"What?" I asked.

"You have a pretty severe case of strep throat. However, your pregnancy test came back negative."

"Then why am I late?" I asked.

"Are you on birth control of any kind right now?"

"Yah, the pill, but I haven't missed any," I said.

"Do you have any children?" Dr. Nickels asked.

"A five month old daughter."

"Some times after a woman has a baby, her body takes some time to get back on a normal cycle. Usually it's just your body switching schedules. I would recommend that you call your primary doctor if you still haven't gotten it in a week."

I breathed a sigh of relief. "Okay thank you."

"Now, I'm going to write you a prescription for an antibiotic, but the antibiotic will work against the birth control pill, so you will need to use condoms or the next pregnancy test will probably tell you something different," She said with a soft smile.

We said goodbye to her and left.

I fell asleep in the car on the way home and woke up as Edward carried me up the stairs and put me to bed. He gave me my medicine, refreshed my water, then climbed into bed next to me.

I awoke some time later hearing someone softly crying next to my bed, but it wasn't Jaycie. I opened my eyes realizing that it was dark outside, the small lamp next to Edward's bed was on. I tried to swallow, but my throat felt like it was cracking. I reached for the water and realized it was Matt who was crying, I took a small sip trying not to cry as it stung going down.

"What's wrong Matt?" I croaked out, it hurt so bad to talk.

"Daddy said you were sick," He said softly. "Are you going to die?"

"What?" I asked horrified.

"Mommy got sick and died."

"Matt, no buddy," I winced as I felt a cough coming on. "Come here Matt." He climbed up on the bed next to me, I knew he'd probably end up getting sick to, but I couldn't handle him standing there crying at me. "Buddy, your mom had cancer, I just have strep throat."

"What's that?" He whimpered.

"Just a horrible sore throat."

"Bella, I love you, I don't want you to die." Tears streamed down his cheeks.

I took his hand and pulled him closer to me praying he wouldn't get sick. I couldn't imagine any mother too sick to hold their crying child and though I might not have given birth to him, I looked at him like he was mine. I hugged him tightly as he cried.

"I love you too Matt and I'm not planning on going anywhere for a long time."

"Can I call you mom yet?" He asked.

I smiled at him. For the last several weeks he'd been asking. "Matt, I want you to call me mom, but right now it would be better if we just stuck with Bella."

"Is it because you're my teacher?"

"That's a big part of it, we wouldn't want the other kids to get jealous, so for right now, it would be better if I was just your Bella and someday you will probably be able to call me mom."

"This summer?" He asked.

I smiled. "We'll have to talk to your dad later on. Now, if you want to stay in here you can, but I'm not feeling to good right now, so I'm going to try to go back to sleep."

"Do you need daddy?" He asked handing me my water.

"No buddy," I said taking another drink.

"Feel better my Bella," He said wrapping his arm around me.

(Edward)

Bella was still sleeping, she'd been asleep since about 10am that morning and Matt was in his playroom. So I called Charlie, I knew when she woke up she'd worry about Jaycie. According to Charlie she was pretty fussy, we figured she was wanting her mommy. I offered to go pick her up, but he said they would be fine with her and was glad that Bella was in good hands. I assured him that Bella was fine and we got off the phone.

I walked into the livingroom and collapsed into the recliner as mom and dad had the couch and were watching tv. "Long day?" Dad asked smiling.

"You could say that add to the fact that I didn't get any sleep at all last night."

"So, um, you said you two had somethings to work out, I'm assuming everything is okay between you two?" Mom asked.

"Oh yah, she was just overly emotional and getting sick. The tests were all negative and there was no point in mentioning that."

Mom looked at me for a second. "Good."

"You know son, she's on antibiotics you need to be careful. I know you are both adults, but I'm just telling you so you don't forget."

"Okay dad really, I don't need the sex talk."

"I would hope I didn't have to give you that again, I just didn't know if you knew that about antibiotics or not," Dad said.

"Believe me, we know that."

"Good," Mom said.

"So Charlie said that Jaycie has been pretty fussy. I'm thinking I should go get her tomorrow morning to give them a break."

"Is Bella going to be able to work Monday?" Mom asked.

"I guess it depends on how she feels tomorrow, but I think she should take Monday off."

"Go get Jaycie, I'll take care of both of them while you're working if she can't."

"Thanks mom," I yawned. "I'm going to put Matt to bed and get to bed myself."

"Night son," Dad said.

I went upstairs and realized just how quiet it was up there. I checked the toy room and it was empty, then Matt's room. A part of me panicked when I couldn't find him, but then I went in my room and found Matt curled up against Bella sleeping with their arms around each other. I tried to pick him up, but he gripped her shirt tightly. I gave up, I went and put on my sweat pants and climbed into bed next to Bella.

"Edward," She whispered hoarsly.

"Do you need anything?" I asked.

"No," She whispered stroking Matt's face.

"Sleep love, I've got you."

"So does our son," She mumbled. I smiled, that was the first time she'd referred to him as ours and I loved it.

The next morning Bella was feeling somewhat better, but still had a horrible sorethroat. Dad made her hot tea with honey and lemon and took it up to her. I'd given her the same thing the day before, but he said he had a secret trick to making her feel better. I shook my head and went into the kitchen to get coffee and see if Matt wanted to ride with me to get Jaycie.

"Morning dad, do you want pancakes?"

"No thank you, I'm just going to get some coffee and get ready to go get Jaycie."

"Can I go with you?" He asked.

"Of course, that's what I was coming to ask you, finish eating and get dressed, then we'll go."

"I'm done," He said jumping up from the table and running out of the room.

"He really loves Bella," Mom sighed.

"I know he does, I caught him sleeping with her when I went to bed last night. He was curled up against her."

"I was worried in the beginning, you have both been through a lot, but you both seem to know each others needs and you both care for each others kids."

"That we do."

"Come on dad, I'm ready. Lets go!" Matt exclaimed.

"You didn't wake Bella up did you?"

"No grandpa was talking to her. I just went in to hug her goodbye."

I smiled and shook my head. "Come on Matt."

Matt seemed very thoughtful as we drove to Charlie and Sue's house. "What are you thinking about?"

"When school is over, can I call Bella mommy?"

"Well Matt, I'm not sure. Do you want to?"

"Yes," He said softly.

"Matt, you really like Bella don't you?"

"I love her," He said. "Don't you?"

"Yes," I laughed. "I love her a lot."

"I want her to be my mommy."

"Matt, do you understand that if Bella was your mommy, then I would be Jaycie's daddy?"

"So she would be my sister?"

"Yes Matt."

"That wouldn't be too bad I guess," He said. "When can you do all that?"

I smiled. "First I need to ask Charlie if I can marry her. Then I'd need to get a ring."

"Oh," He said.

I pulled into their driveway and parked the car. "Dad are you and Bella going to have babies?"

I stopped dead. "What?" I asked.

"Well, would you?"

"We, um, we haven't talked about it."

"Hey dad,"

"What?" I gasped.

"Can I knock?"

"Of course," I said.

He knocked loudly on the door. "Now give them a minute."

The door opened and Sue looked down at Matt smiling. "Hi Matt, come on in you guys. How's Bella?"

"She's a little better this morning," I said. "We figured you guys were exhausted, so we came to get Jaycie."

Sue almost looked slightly relieved. "She was up most of the night last night. I think she misses Bella."

"Do you care if I take her?" I asked.

"Not one bit," She said smiling.

"Good morning you two," Charlie said coming into the living room.

"They came to get Jaycie." Sue said.

"How's Bella?" Charlie asked.

"A little better," I replied.

"Charlie, my dad wants to ask you if he can marry Bella." Matt blurted out suddenly.

AN- SO NO SHE'S NOT PREGNANT. AT SOME POINT THERE PROBABLY WILL BE A BABY JOINING THE FAMILY, JUST NOT YET! I HOPE NONE OF YOU ARE DISAPPOINTED WITH THIS CHAPTER.

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