Disclaimer: Same as chapter 1.

Chapter 24

The tall, thin man stood in front of the television in the living room; his arms crossed over his chest as he told his oldest daughter to take a seat on the couch. Rian's blood ran cold, her father was never there in the mornings. He had to have taken off work to talk to her about something and she had an inkling of what that 'something' was. Rian's stomach jumped into her chest, her throat was closing in on itself; but she did as he asked.

This was not how she planned for this to go. She wanted to be at the hospital or something, then that way he'd have some sympathy or something. He wouldn't be so angry if she were taken to the hospital before he found out. "Did I do something wrong?" Rian tried to act innocent when all she wanted to do was run to her room and cry.

"Save it, you know what you did." He spat at her angrily.

"Daddy, it's not what you think." She pleaded with him.

"I thought you were smarter than this, Rian." He began. "I didn't even know you had a boyfriend!"

Rian could see the anger in his eyes and she began to tear up. "Daddy." She said, her voice breaking.

As if the universe had thought this wasn't funny enough, Emmett's jeep pulled up the driveway. Rian watched as her father looked out the window and the anger in his face exploded into his very being, causing his body to shake with anger. His anger was redirected now as he stomped to the door. Rian jumped up from her spot on the couch. "Wait!" She screamed. She didn't want her father to hit Emmett and expose his status of vampire. She didn't need any more drama. So she followed after her father out the door and down the steps. Emmett was closing the door when Rian's father finally reached him. Rian was still running down the steps, she was too far away to try to stop him. "Don't hit him!"

Her father's hands were in fists, itching to slug the boy (man) in front of him. Rian almost tripped from how quickly she was forcing her body to get down the steps. "Is this him?" Her father asked through clinched teeth, never taking his eyes off Emmett.

"Dad." Rian stood behind her father finally caught up to the man.

"Is he the father?!"

His anger and his voice shocked Rian and she jumped back slightly.

"Yes, I'm sorry sir." Emmett answered for Rian. He knew 'I'm sorry' was not going to help anything, but it was all he could do. The vampire saw the muscles tighten before her father in rather surprising speed for a human sung his arm at Emmett and if Emmett hadn't had the advantage of vampire speed, the swing that Rian's father made at him would have put Emmett on his ass. But because of the speed, Emmett was able to dodge the punch at the last minute, if he hadn't the 'older' man's hand would have shattered against Emmett's stone-like skin.

Rian jumped forward and grabbed her father's arm. "Stop this!" She screamed directly at her father, her anger was boiling over now. "This will not solve anything." She said calmer.

"You're right." Her father was beginning to calm down. "Let's go talk inside." He said to both of the teenagers before he turned on his heel.

Once inside, Rian's father resumed his 'angry' stance in front of the T.V. while Rian and Emmett sat on the couch. The older man was currently giving the young couple a lecture on 'what were they thinking?' and 'what were they going to do now that they had officially ruined their lives?' Rian found it hard to keep her emotions in check as her father continued his tirade until he asked about the details of her pregnancy.

Suddenly she found herself unable to speak; partly due to her uncontrollable emotions and partly because she realized she couldn't lie to him as easily as she could everyone else.

"She's about four months." Emmett answered when all she did was squeeze said man's hand tighter.

"Four months?" Her father asked in disbelief. "And you haven't seen a doctor or taken care of yourself?"

"She's been going to Carlisle." Emmett admitted truthfully.

"Who's that?"

"My father, well adopted father. He's a doctor at the hospital."

"So your father knew about this and didn't think to tell me?"

"He couldn't," Rian finally spoke up, slightly angry. "He's officially my doctor, it's against the law since I told him he couldn't talk to you about it." Her father was mad to say the least. He mumbled something about having to cool down but that he would talk to her in the afternoon before he stormed out of the house.

Rian let the tears fall as Emmett held her. This was going to be harder than she originally.

Afternoon

Going to school was hard. She was supposed to execute part 2, but she just didn't feel up to it that morning. Emmett had told Alice about her father's reaction that morning, and Alice had seemed to keep a watchful eye on the girl.

Rian was just finishing her drink when she and Alice left their class for lunch. "The cat's out of the back, right?"

"What?"

"I was thinking about taking off my sweater, I'm melting under here." But Rian didn't wait for Alice to confirm; everyone important knew about her condition now anyway.

She quickly threw the sweater in her backpack before they headed towards the cafeteria once again.

Emmett had already met up with Jasper and the two boys were sitting at their usual table waiting on the girls. The boys were submersed in a deep conversation about one of the many wars that they had personally seen.

But Emmet lost all train of thought as the girls walked into the cafeteria, and the usually loud place went instantly quiet as everyone saw Rian. The redheaded girl now stood in her tight black dress that clearly showed how much her stomach had grown in the last couple of weeks (not that anyone else by the Cullen's knew how long it had truly been). Emmett knew his eyes darkened as he watched her walk over to the table, her arm locked around Alice's. She looked beautiful, and he couldn't help but feel a strange (but good) feeling when he saw her practically parading her stomach around like she was.

Rian sat down beside Emmett and smiled at him. "I'm going to start the next part of the plan in my last class." Rian suddenly changed her mind about proceeding with the plan, she couldn't stand the idea of talking to her father about this anymore. She wanted to hurry up and get the plan over with. Besides she wouldn't be able to stay into school much longer without everyone noticing how quickly the babies were developing.