Edward rushed in the house like it was already wide opened. All of us froze when we saw Bella crouched the slightest as if she was lame giving Edward a look like he was being melodramatic and Edward's look of concern,worry,stress...written all over his face.I was the first to break the ice created by the tenuous silence.
"Hey Edward,Bells." Bella looked up at me kind of tiredly though Edward didn't even give me that.His eyes were locked on Carlisle and he was determined for...something.I wasn't quite sure yet.
"Carlisle.Office.Now." he spat every syllable into a one-word sentence and I figured out what the most dominant emotion he was tiring very hard to hide.Carlisle sucked in a large amount of air and followed Edward as he stiffly moved with Bella upstairs. Rosalie was the first to follow and pretty soon we were all trailing behind.
Carlisle didin't go to his office though,he just went into the vacant room where Edward's grand piano stood in the corner and where the floors absorbed all of the sunlight streaming in the glass walls.
"I need to retrieve some things from the hospital,can you wait?" Edward gave a scoff of frustration but nodded and sat Bella down next to him on a small couch. Rosalie sat on the ground next to her and smiled at Bella.She smiled back.
I took a spot near the only wall in this room and folded my arms across my chest as I observed the non-verbal conversation between Rose and Bella as Edward pinched the edge of his nose and closed his eyes as if the world was crashing all around him and he could do nothing about it. Alice sat cross-legged on the floor and Jasper stood as close as possible next to her.Esme just stood there,her fingers intertwined in front of her. Even Jasper's mood control couldn't keep the awkwardness away.
Finally Bella looked away from Rosalie and scanned the room,vamps,and all."Hey guys." she whispered in a small voice unsure what more to say.She looked away,and then stared at her hands oddly.Her hands looked like they wanted to hold something,something all of us knew what but she was restraining.And I think I knew why.
Carlisle came back almost as soon as he left.Well,never say the guy isn't punctual.I thought to myself as he got out a white van.My brows furrowed and even though everybody else remained frozen like statues I went outside to see what he was doing with a van,he didn't leave with.
"Hello,Emmett."Carlisle acknowledged kindly opening the back doors of the van.
"So what did you smuggle this time?" I asked smartly.
"I am not smuggling Emmett,I'm a doctor...It's hard to explain."
"No kidding."I gaped as I took in his all the medical equipment.
"Some help,maybe?" Carlisle asked pulling out Anesthesia Machines,Sterilizers,a Surgical Table,X-Ray Machines,LED Lights,and even a ultra-sonic machine. I only knew the names of this stuff because I had spent way too much time in the hospital with Carlisle.
"What are you planning for the maternity apocalypse?" Carlisle didn't answer though,he was in a something I liked to call Work-Mode-Trance.Without further ado he started taking the stuff in and I just helped as he asked.It didn't take us long to get back to the room everybody was in.I wheeled in the surgical table and for Carlisle to set up the equipment.
He set up everything in less than a minute,which,I really didn't think was possible,not even with vamp-speed.I guess I had to say that the guy was experienced and that was that.He even had his clipboard at hand.All that was missing were the scrubs.
"Bella,I'm going to just take a few tests if that's alright."Carlisle murmured as I took a spot by the wall again,arms crossed.
She sighed and nodded but it was like she was under a no speaking spell,she hadn't said anything since she came here.He performed his tests as he forced the rest of us out of the room,except Edward.
I feel like a little kid.I thought glumly to myself.Always have to get out when there's action. Alice and Jazz did more than just leave,they left.Meaning,they took the van back to the hospital as the rest of us waited impatiently.I took the remote and flipped through the channels going at the only suitable speed I'd go,which was fast.
"Your kidding me,right?" When we all heard that from Edward,in his tone of almost hatred,we zipped back to the room that was once occupied. The vacant screens from the X-Ray machine on the wall when we left,was replaced by whitish,blue screens I assumed was the inside of Bella's stomach,and I swear there was something in her stomach.Rosalie thought the same because she went to the screens instantly and touched them like it was something magical.
My eyes drifted to Bella,who,now had her hands on her torso rather defensively like it was already expanding,which,if I didn't know any better,was.There were now clear tubes connected all over her,and attached with tape and cotton balls.Whoever thought an IV was the only thing that had to be stuck in you,were wrong.
Carlisle was looking down at his clipboard and spoke as if 3 vampires had not just zipped in the room."...Needles won't puncture the embryo sac--"
"What are you saying?"Edward spat furiously,rudely cutting Carlisle off. He looked up at Edward,with a clear recognition of his anger.
"I'm saying that Bella is definitely pregnant,it is just that I cannot tell by the use of needles.Something is wrong with the fetus."
"It's a fetus all ready?"Edward was now fuming,nostrils and all.
"Yes it's growing at an immeasurable pace."
"Baby."Bella finally spoke.It was seemingly out of place with this conversation,but finally it made sense."He's a baby."she corrected.
"He?"Now Edward was fuming,nostrils and all.
"Yeah."Bella murmured in a meek voice looking down like the world was collapsing all around her and she was stuck in the middle of it all;which,in her case,she might be.
Edward summoned Carlisle without speaking to a corner.
"You can't get rid of it?"Edward inquired almost begging in a low tone.
"Get rid of? You mean,like...abort?" Bella got to her feet then.
Apparently not low enough.I thought to myself.
"It's growing Bella,Do you understand what it's going to do to you?"
Rosalie dashed to Bella's side and answered for her apparently out of the daze that came from staring at the X-Ray screens."No.I don't think any of us do,we should find out.Instead of debating this."
Edward gave her a look that read something like:When did you join Team Bella?
"I'd butt out,Rose." I suggested smartly.
She gave me a sour look."Why? Bella is pregnant and apparently I'm the only one on her side. There's a baby in her stomach,and we need to find out more about what's going on.Because honestly,even everyone in this room is clueless and scared for Bella,we can't be choosing teams now."I wanted to clap,because that was a pretty good speech.Though I never thought Rosalie would be giving it about Bella.
This whole scene was messed up though.Edward was angry at Bella. Bella.Rosalie was siding with Bella and even I couldn't help thinking she had an ulterior motive.For once Carlisle was stunned almost at everything that was going on,I wasn't sure what was going through Esme's mind,and Jasper and Alice were out of the picture entirely because it was as if they just couldn't handle the heat of things,and I...well I wasn't sure what was going on right now.I wasn't choosing sides,I didn't have a favorite,and I didn't know what to think.
Bella was pregnant and whatever it was supposed to be called may be killing her.But it's not like Bella should want to kill The-name-that-shall-not-be-mentioned too,after all The-name-that-shall-not-be-mentioned was in some sense of the word,her baby.And how a mother could ever hate her child was beyond me.So,right now,there was only one thing left to do.
I sighed and got to the books.
