Still In Bloom ↠ Twilight ✓

28 ; pink or blue problem

Here's the thing: Wallace feels as though he's been running on autopilot. 

His mind and body not seeming to work on the same page. Which seems valid given the current circumstances that Wallace is currently existing through. 

Those circumstances currently being the fact that he's in a limo on the private jet runaway as Edward converses with the pilot outside. His bronze hair the only thing visible as Wallace stares out the limo's window at the private jet steering itself closer in the distance. 

Inside of the limo, Shelby shifts in her seat as she has her headphones plugged into her ears. She's sitting beside Bella in the seat across from Wallace, dark eyes pinned out in the darkness. Wallace knows she's trying her best to ignore him, a rage having been simmering in her gaze every time she looked at him since they found out that Bella was pregnant. 

Wallace had a theory that Shelby is le mad at him and more mad at herself. After all, Shelby is used to getting Wallace out of trouble and this is one problem that seems to be out of her hands. Wallace tries not to think about it too much. 

Bella isn't much better. Quiet in an abnormal amount as she gazes at the tips of her converse. Her jaw is set into a tight clench that makes a muscle in her jaw tick and her eyebrows are faintly furrowed. Wallace scans her for a long moment before letting his gaze drift down to the faint bump at Bella's abdomen and feels a new panic rise inside of his chest. This is real. This is happening. 

"Wallace?" Bella's voice is a question and Wallace glances up at her, half sure he imagined it. Yet whenever he looks at Bella, he sees that she's watching him with a soft expression on her face. Though something about it almost seems resolute. Like someone appearing before a firing squad.

"Yeah?" Wallace asks, flicking his eyes towards Shelby to see that her eyes are closed and her head is tipped back against the backrest of the limo's seat. No doubt exhausted from this morning's events. 

"I'm pregnant," Bella states and for a moment Wallace is worried she's gone into shock but when he meets Bella's eyes again she's staring at him with clarity. "And the baby is Edward's. We know this because there's no possible way that a human...sperm could make me develop this fast."

Wallace feels his chest clench and Bella continues speaking. "And I know that you're nineteen. So, Wallace, I need you to know that if you wanted to leave, you could. I'd understand and so would Edward."

Silence is stagnant in the limo. Practically another entity entirely.

"You want me to leave?" Wallace asks and hears the broken edge his voice has taken on.

Bella's eyes widen and she's shaking her head rapidly. As if the very thought is abhorrent. "No, no, not at all. In fact, that's the last thing I want but...but you're a teenager Wallace. You didn't plan to be a dad this young and I don't think it's fair that...I don't think it's fair that you have to sacrifice more of your life for this baby when you're not obligated to."

For a long moment, Wallace stares at Bella and then speaks. He does it slowly so Bella can jump in and stop him at any moment. "So you're saying that because the baby isn't mine, I shouldn't feel like I need to stay?"

A pained cinch appears between Bella's eyebrows but she nods her head. "I...Um..yes. I just don't want you to feel like you need to stay. I don't want you...I don't want you to live with regrets and miss out on things just because you happened to fall in love with two people who were irresponsible."

Another deep silence and Wallace blows out a long breath. 

And for a sickening moment, Wallace considers taking her offer. Of letting Edward and Bella drop him off at home, Shelby in tow, and he'd live out his life that way. Maybe going off to college and meeting someone he likes and eventually marrying them when it feels like the right time and that's how his story would end. He wouldn't have any guilt given that he wouldn't be leaving a kid with his DNA behind with Edward and Bella and that the only offspring he would ever sire would be ones that were planned whenever Wallace was 100% ready.