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CHAPTER 17

Clear things up

The Secret Life Of Bella Swan:

"Tanya? I need to talk to you."

"Bella, don't listen to him," Tanya said after she heard everything I'd have to say. She didn't even have the chance to say a think before I started explaining my issues to her.

"He's right, Tanya. I'm destroying Edward." I ran a hand through my hair in frustration. "I have to let him go."

"Bella, Edward isn't a child. He knows what he's doing. He wants to stay with you and the baby and you should let him."

I looked up at the darkening sky, which was about to get dark. My head was about to burst from all the thinking I'd been doing. I was caught in the middle. Should I make him go or I let him stay?

"What if in a couple of years later he realizes that the baby and I have been holding him back from his dreams and he resents me for it? I won't be able to take it if he blames me and the baby."

"What makes you think that Edward doesn't want to settle and why is it so hard to believe that he genuinely want to stay with you? Why do you always assume that you're holding him back?" Tanya asked. "Bella, do you feel that you're being held back? Is that why you think Edward is too?"

I frowned. Did I think that? Did I feel like I was held back by the baby? And if I did, what kind of a mother did that make me?

"I don't know. I don't know what to do, or think, anymore," I sighed. "I'm so confused."

"I know what you have to do. You have to talk to Edward. That's the only way the two of you are going to make it. The ingredients to make a relationship work are communication and trust. Talk to Edward," she said.

"Who would have thought that after everything that's happened you're the first person I would call for anything." I chuckled.

Tanya let out a laugh. "Things are completely thrown upside down, huh?"

"Yeah, they are. Thank you for everything."

"No, thank you. Now go talk to Edward," she said, ending the call.

Tanya was right. I had talked to everyone about what I'd been thinking and feeling lately, but somehow excluded Edward, the person I should've consulted from the beginning of all this. I shouldn't have believed Carlisle – I shouldn't have agreed to meet him in the first place. If I had talked to him first a lot of this heartache could've been avoided.

What was wrong with me? I wasn't usually like this. I used to be strong and I wouldn't believe someone so easily. I blamed it on the hormones!

I dialed Edward's phone number and waited.

"Hey, baby. Where are you?" Edward said as he answered his phone.

"I'm at the school. Can you come get me?" I started walking towards the street to wait for him.

"Yeah. What are you doing there?" he asked, confused.

"I'm going to tell you everything once you get here." I wanted our relationship to work so badly, so I wasn't fooling around anymore. I was going to put it out in the open.

When we ended the call, I texted Renesmee to tell her that Edward was picking me up, so she wouldn't worry.

Five minutes later Edward's car pulled up. I opened the door and sat inside, putting on my seatbelt.

"What pregnant woman, in her right state of mind, would go to her school when it's not even open, by herself?" he asked, his voice edgy. He was mad.

"I wasn't alone. I met someone," I whispered.

"What do you mean? Who did you meet?" Edward asked, turning on his seat to look at me fully.

"I don't think we should have this conversation in the car"

Edward huffed and turned the engine on. "Where to?"

"What about the diner? I'm starving." I rubbed my belly, which growled.

Edward laughed a little and started driving. The entire drive to the diner I tried to think of a way to tell him everything in the best possible way. By the time he pulled in at the dinner, I had still come up with nothing. All I knew was that I was going to tell him that his father was trying to make me leave him. No matter how I told him, it was going to sound bad.

"What are you going to eat?" Edward asked me once we were seated.

"Um, a strawberry milkshake, fries and a cheeseburger." I closed my not so needed menu and smiled at Edward.

"Okay, I'll have a coke." he gave the menu to the waitress and turned to look at me.

"You want to tell me now?" He crossed his hands on top of the table, staring at me with his emerald green eyes.

"We should wait for the food first." I tried to stall.

"No, Bella. Tell me."

I looked down at the table and took a deep breath, like I was going to dive into the sea.

"Your father called me earlier later today,asking me to meet upwith him. At first I didn't want to go, but he convinced me. We met up at the school. I had Renesmee drive me so don't worry," I said quickly. I knew how overprotective he was with me now that I was close to my due date.

"What did he say to you?"

"He started telling me that I was holding you back and that you wanted to go to Harvard really badly and that you weren't applying because of me," I said in one breath.

Edward sighed and hung his head. "And you believed him?" he said and lookimg at me right in the eye.

I lowered my gaze, ashamed. "At first, yes. I was going to leave you, so you could live the life you wanted to. Then I called Tanya and she said that I should talk to you and that you really want to stay with me and the baby."

He shook his head and huffed. "So, you don't trust me? You didn't believe me when I said I loved you and the baby, when I told you so many times that I want, truly want, to stay here with you, when I told you that I don't want to go to Harvard. You didn't believe me, but you believed Tanya? Why don't you trust me, dammit?" He slammed his fist against the table and I flinched in response. Everyone in the diner turned and looked at us, but Edward was far from noticing.

"Edward, please calm down," I mumbled. Tears starting to well in my eyes.

"No, I won't calm down!" Edward hissed. "I'm tired of you questioning me over and over. I love you, Bella. Get that in your head."

I nodded and wiped the tears that had fallen.

"I love you too, and you have every right to be mad at me. I hadn't realized that I was questioning you all the time. I'm just so confused and scared right now. I'm sorry," I whispered the last part.

Edward sighed and sat next to me in the booth. "I'm sorry I scared you," he murmured in my ear. "I didn't mean to. I was just taking out the anger I feel towards my father out on you."

I wrapped my arms around him and buried my face in his neck when the waitress came with the food.

"Thank you," I heard Edward mumble.

"Come on, eat something." He pushed me gently away and put the plate in front of me.

I picked up a fry and started munching on it. After all the crying, I still had the desire to eat. I was so messed up!

"I don't want to go to Harvard, okay? I want to stay with you and the baby. I'm here to stay. Get that in that tiny head of yours." He tickled my side and sipped his coke.

After that things went back to normal, well as normal as things could get. Edward had a huge fight with his father and they weren't speaking to each other. Angela and Ben got a divorce and she moved out of their house and into one with Nathan in the same neighborhood as ours. I was getting bigger and bigger as I was in the 9th month.

School was finished and it was mere days until my due date. I was both excited and scared. Edward and I both got accepted at The University of Seattle and we had rented a small apartment since they didn't allow kids in the dorms. Everything was running smoothly and I was happy about that.

Renesmee had gone to New York already to begin her career as a journalist and Alice was going to come with us to Seattle after the baby's birth. She and Jasper had broken up before the finals. Alice was going to Seattle and he was staying here, so they decided to break up now, in order to remember their relationship as something good and not something destroyed by distance. I was certain they were going to be together again.

Emmett and Rosalie had finished college and decided to stay in Seattle now that we were going to be there too. I was glad to find out that they would be there too. I needed more people to help out so I wouldn't go insane.

"Dad, I'm going to take out the trash, okay?" I yelled so he could hear me from the living room where he was sitting.

"Okay!"

I smiled and took the bag and got out of the house. When I put the bag down in order to open the trashcan, the bag opened and the garbage spilled onto the street.

"Fuck!" I mumbled and bent over to gather the trash. When I bent over an intense pain made me kneel on the floor.

"Dad!" I yelled, clutching my belly. I was curled up ike a ball in the middle of the street, trying to stay calm. I kept telling myself that it was a false alarm, like so many others before, but the liquid running down my legs said otherwise.

"Bella, watch out!" Charlie screamed from behind me.

I looked up just in time to see a truck coming my way.

Oh no! Is Bella going to get hit over or...? You just have to read the next chapter to find out. :)

What did you think? Was it good? I hope it was because it's the last chapter is going to be the Epilogue. I was oprignally going to write 20 chapters, but my exams start soon and I don't want to have the story keep going. I want to focus on my exams. So, I'm ending it here.

Thank you for reading! :)