Disclaimer: Same as chapter 1.

Chapter 31: Christmas

Day 25

The pain shot throw her stomach, she cried out. Panic began to ripple through her system as another wave of pain cascaded in the middle of her body. It couldn't be, it was too early; the babies wouldn't survive. She called for Carlisle as blood began trickling down her thighs. She called again, whatever name came to mind. The pain was unbearable and the blood loss was making her weak and lightheaded quickly. She looked on the bed, it was almost completely red from soaking up all the blood that was escaping her body. "HELP!"

The door opened as she attempted to get off the bed, only to fall face down on the bloody floor. The person was so fast, she didn't see if it was Carlisle or Emmett or someone else. But when she felt the familiar burning venom rushing into her veins, she looked into the half golden, half blood red eyes of Emmett Cullen. She screamed as loud as she could as she felt her life drain from her body quickly.

The scream shocked Rian awake, her scream in the dream had woken her up. She sighed as she realized she had had another crazy pregnancy dream. In the last week she had three of these dreams. Though this was the first one where she was bitten by anyone let alone Emmett.

Rian looked around the room and quickly realized that the scream must not have just been inside her dream, she had attracted the attention of everyone in the house. Emmett was sitting up on the bed with a worried expression on his face. Carlisle was standing right by Rian and reaching for her shoulder while asking if she was okay. Esme was standing right outside the door with Alice and Jasper. Bella, Edward, and Renesmee must have been hunting because they were nowhere to be seen, or maybe Edward and Bella were trying to comfort a terrified Renesmee.

"Yes, sorry. Bad dream." She tried to explain, she hadn't told Carlisle about her new pregnancy dreams because they hadn't been that bad yet. This one, though, seemed to be a twisted pregnancy dream morphed with her usual hallucinations which just happened to star Emmett. This dream was far beyond messed up. "Merry Christmas." Rian joked pathetically, to which Carlisle relaxed some.

Emmett was obviously holding back a laugh, "That was a terrible Christmas gift."

Finally everyone relaxed, Esme motioned for everyone to come downstairs and said something about Christmas breakfast being ready for those who actually eat something. Rian pulled on one of her new robes before following everyone downstairs, where she eat bacon, eggs, and toast and had her usual drink with breakfast.

By the end of breakfast, Rian was itching to give out her gifts. She had managed to buy a little something for each of the members of the Cullen family and she couldn't wait to see their reaction. She wasn't sure if they exchanged gifts on Christmas, they had enough money to just buy whatever they wanted whenever. But Christmas, to her, was more than just the things one would give to another person. Each present she buys represents the bond she feels with whoever she gives the present too. A few years back, she bought a friendship necklace for Winter, but it wasn't the usual friendship necklace. It had a little bit of her personality in it and a little bit of Rian's personality. There was a little charm of a butterfly resting on a tulip on it, Rian was obsessed with butterflies while Rian had a love for tulips. Rian had spent ages looking for the perfect gift for Winter's birthday that year until she stumbled across that necklace.

"Can we give out presents now?" Renesmee asked as soon as Rian finished her last bite.

Esme laughed as she picked the little girl up from her chair and suddenly everyone was moving towards the living room. Rian sat on the couch beside Emmett while the little girl began passing out some of the presents that were now placed under the tree.

Rian watched everyone take their turn opening their presents, they only received a few presents each besides Renesmee. It seemed this holiday was mostly celebrated for Renesmee's sake than anything else.

The little girl opened gift after gift; clothes and toys galore. Everyone else received mostly clothes, books, or movies from each other.

Edward jumped up from his place on the ground, behind Bella and Renesmee, and headed upstairs while declaring there were some more presents for everyone. Quicker than humanly possible, Edward was back with four large but thin wrapped presents. He handed them out to Bella, Carlisle and Esme, Alice and Jasper, and Emmett. On the presents was a tag saying, "From Rian, Merry Christmas. Hope you like it."

"You have to open them at the same time, because they are pretty much the same thing."

Of course no one wasted time, all the wrapping paper was on the ground to reveal four 12" by 16" canvas with different paintings. Esme and Carlisle's painting was of their entire family, smiling and laughing in the living room. Edward and Bella's was of a baby Renesmee and her parents, a memory that Renesmee had shared with Rian a few weeks ago. Alice and Jaspers was a little different. Whenever she went to paint their canvas, she had been stuck for ages. What finally came out was a picture of a dress with tiny knickknacks, but the most focal point on the painting was a magic eight ball and a mood ring side by side. It had made Rian laugh when she finally realized that the items represented Alice and Jasper, it also made her question her sanity (not for the first time).

Emmett's paint was of the one she had done in Art class several months back. It was the most difficult one to get since she is supposed to be on bed rest now. So she had enlisted the help of Edwards, seeing as he already knew everyone's present anyway. He broke into the school and took it for her a short while ago when everyone was home on Christmas vacation.

Of course since Emmett didn't know the significance of the very monochromatic and slightly abstract painting, she explained it. "It was an accident that happened while I was determined to stay away from you. It took me a while to see it." She hadn't expected the kiss that he placed on her lips.

When everyone was finished unwrapping Rian's presents, Alice bounded over to Rian and handed her a small, book size wrapped package. Rian knew they might get her presents and since she did get them each a present (well a couple's present) she didn't feel guilty taking the presented gift. "Thank you."

She didn't feel guilty, that is, until she opened the present. Inside the box was a small iPod and a mini iPad. Her first thought was, 'MUSIC!' She did feel a tiny ping of guilt but not enough to cause her to reject the present or even just say, 'you shouldn't have.'

The one thing she had missed since 'moving' out of her house was her music. Rian almost instantly jumped up from the couch to hug Alice while excitedly saying, "Thank you."

"Thanks Alice." Emmett began joking sarcastically, "Now, how am I supposed to top your present."