All Alone chapter 11

BPOV

"Bella, wake up! The captain has switched on the ‘fasten your seatbelt’ sigh," Alice whispered.

I slowly opened my eyes and yawned. I hadn’t meant to doze off. The last thing I remembered was getting comfortable in my seat and closing my eyes when we had been in the air for about twenty minutes.

Once Alice told me that we are landing, I was suddenly wide awake. I fastened my seatbelt and waited for the plane to land.

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Thirty-five minutes later we were waiting at luggage claim in LAX for our bags. Suddenly I heard a squeal coming from behind us.

"Ali sweetie, you have come at last."

I turned around to see a woman in her late thirties or early forties, wearing a mini skirt, and a top at least two sizes too small.

"Hi Aunt Carmen," Alice said softly, as she fell into her embrace.

"How is my sweet and wonderful niece?" she cooed.

After hugging Alice for about five minutes she turned to me, and looked me up and down.

"You must be Isabella? Look at you, you’re such a sweet young thing. It is lovely to meet you. I just wish that it was under better circumstances, but don't worry we will take good care of you and your little one," she said all in one breath, while stroking my stomach.

I instantly felt uncomfortable with this kind of affection. Thank goodness Alice picked up on it.

"Okay Aunt Carmen, we are both tired, so please lead the way, “she said.

We started make our way out of the airport, but when we were approaching the exit Alice shot off and ran like a bat out of hell and threw her arms around some guy. He was good looking, tall and slim, with black hair and grey eyes. He looked to be in his early forties.

"Uncle Eleazar, I can't believe that we are here. I have missed you so much," she squealed.

He pulled out of the embrace, laughing heartily.

"Alice, Alice, you never change. You’re still a ball of energy," he laughed, whilst twirling her around.

He pulled back and then looked at me.

"Let me guess! You’re Isabella," he stated.

"Just Bella," I smiled. He took my hand to shake it but at the last second he decided against it and pulled me in for a hug instead. He stepped back when he was finished.

"I'm Eleazar, but you can call me Uncle Eleazer, as from now on you’re family," he smiled.

I smiled back, liking him more and more. I wondered how a guy like him could be married to a woman like Carmen. I took an instant liking to him, but Carmen made me feel very uncomfortable, as she kept looking me up and down.

Give her a break Bella. You only just met her and she is giving you a roof over your head. She can't be all bad, I thought to myself.

Eleazer finally decided to break the silence.

"Okay everyone, let’s get into the car so that we can go home before anyone gets any older," he joked.

We walked to the car park and got into a Toyota RAV4 EV and drove towards Beverly Hills. It was about 2.45 am, so it was no wonder that my eyes started dropping. I must have fallen asleep because the next thing I knew I was shaken awake by Carmen.

"Isabella? Wake up, we're here!" she said in a demanding tone.

I slowly opened my eyes and looked at the place that Alice and I would be calling home for at least the next year and a half.

It was a single-story French contemporary, with a shared driveway. Inside were marble and hardwood floors, high ceilings and French doors. I couldn't believe that this was the place that I would be staying. It was the kind of place that movie stars lived in. Suddenly it hit me like a bolt out of the blue and I got very afraid. What if Edward lived in a place like this? The only thing that I knew was that he lives in LA. He could be the next door neighbour for all I knew. I was shaking as I got out of the car, thinking that there where spies all around the place waiting to report back to Edward.

Once I was out of the car I tripped on the marble driveway and blackness took over.

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I felt like I was in a daze and the voices that I could hear sounded like they were coming from a badly tuned radio. I heard Alice, but couldn’t understand what she was saying.

"Not a good idea.....You don't know what you have done.....She is going to run.....Get her out of here....She can't know that she is here."

Then I could hear Carmen's voice.

"She is the best....Isabella should be grateful...If she is not happy."

I slowly opened my eyes and looked around me. I was in a big cream room with a king size bed and pine furniture. Sitting on the bed next to me was Alice, and her aunt and uncle were standing at the end of the bed. I looked towards Alice.

"What happened?" I croaked.

Alice looked at me and gave me a sad smile.

“You fell out of the car and knocked yourself unconscious," she said.

Carmen came towards the bed.

"Isabella, I have the ob-gyn here. She is a good friend of mine and she is the best that there is. Would it be okay if she took a look at you, to make sure that you and the baby are okay?"

I looked at Alice and noticed that she had gotten very pale. She looked like she was going to be sick at any moment. I didn’t understand what the problem was. It was only the ob-gyn.

"Sure, I have no problem with that," I said weakly.

Carmen went to get her, while Alice took hold of my hand and looked me in the eyes.

"Bells, I honestly don't think that you will want this person to be your ob-gyn. Please let us get you someone else," she begged.

"What is the problem Ali?" I asked feeling confused.

Alice took a deep breath before answering me.

"Bells, the ob-gyn that my aunt Carmen called is............"

She didn’t get chance to finish, as we heard a gasp coming from the door way. I looked over at the woman that stood there frozen on the spot.

Edward's mother! 

I laid my head back in panic.

"OMG, OMG, OH MY GOD!" I chanted. Alice looked from me to Edward’s mom, with a scared look on her face. Dr Masen finally shook herself out of her daze and came over to me.

"Bella, you need to calm down. It is not good for you or the baby to get yourself worked up," she cooed.

I looked over at her and knew that in just a few hours my time in LA would be over, and that Edward would know where I was. That thought alone sent me into another panic. Dr Masen whispered something to Alice and Alice held my hand and started stroking the back of it with her thumb.

"It's going to be okay, it’s going to be okay," she whispered soothingly.

I finally calmed down so the Dr Masen could exam me.

After giving me an examination and checking for the baby’s heartbeat with her stethoscope, she finished up and put her things away. I looked at the clock and saw that it was 7am. Apart from my nap on the plane, Alice and I have been awake for twenty four hours straight.

Elizabeth Masen looked at me with motherly concern.

"Bella everything looks to be alright, but I need you to come in for an ultrasound as soon as possible," she said calmly.

I nodded at her and she turned to go. I knew that I couldn’t let her leave like this.

"STOP!"

She froze and turned around. < here you have her going but then talking to Bella about due dates and appointments – this doesn’t really make sense to me, so I’d consider editing it!!

"Dr Masen, as my doctor I’m asking you not to tell your son where I am, but as his mother I understand if you can't keep this from him. However, if you do tell him I will have no choice but to disappear again. I won't be forced into having an abortion, not by him, not by anyone," I cried.

A flash of sadness came over her face but it was gone as fast as it appeared. She came over to me and took both of my hands into hers.

"Bella, as your doctor I can't tell Edward anything without your consent. Please understand though that he does have a good heart. He's just not thinking straight and he truly believes that he is acting in your best interests. But I know that he will hurt if you do have an abortion and as his mother I have to tell you that Edward isn’t what you think he is. It is not my place to tell you but I need you to realise that he has gone through a lot in his short life. I promise I won’t tell him where you are, but I ask you as his mother and grandmother to your baby that you go to him when you believe that the time is right."

I smiled at her and told her what she wanted to hear.

"I will, I promise."

She nodded as she took out her organiser.

"I need to know what the date of your last period was?" she asked while going through her organiser.

"Erm, it was the 7th of November, only 12 or 13 days before the premiere of Bite." I told her.

She looked up at me and smiled.

"I know only too well the date you met my son in Seattle Bella," she laughed.

She continued to go through her organiser.

"I’d estimate that you are around 12 weeks 3 days pregnant. I know that you are only just getting settled in but I would like to do an ultrasound as soon as possible. Today is Tuesday so would it be possible to come to Westside Pregnancy Clinic on Friday at 2pm, so that we can get everything done then?"

I told her yes and she made a note of the appointment.

"Bella I want to talk to you, not as your doctor, but as the grandmother of this baby. I was wondering if I could tell my husband and maybe even Emmett where you are?" she asked nervously.

I suddenly felt another panic attack coming on. Before I knew it Alice was next to me with her arms around me. She looked at Elizabeth with fury flashing in her eyes.

"YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. HOW COULD YOU ASK HER THAT? WE JUST MOVED AWAY FROM HOME SO THAT YOUR BASTARD OF A SON CAN'T FIND HER AND YOU ASK HER PERMISSION TO TELL HIS FATHER AND BROTHER WHERE SHE IS? IF YOU TOLD THEM, THEN WE MAY AS WELL PUT A SIGN ON THE HOUSE SAYING EDWARD MOTHERFUCKING MASEN YOU WILL FIND ISABELLA SWAN HERE," she Yelled.

Elizabeth looked shocked at the way Alice yelled at her but nodded anyway.

"I'm sorry, I didn’t think. Of course I won't tell them but Bella, please think about letting me be a part of my grandbaby's life. He or she will be so loved by us and our family," she begged with tears in her eyes.

Alice was still trying to comfort me as well as trying to calm herself down.

"I think you should leave, Bella and I have been awake for over twenty four hours and really need to get some sleep. We will see you Friday," she snapped and turned away from her to show her that she was done here.

She continued to cuddle into me while I cried into her shoulder. I could barely hear Elizabeth Masen leaving the room. I felt like I couldn’t keep my eyes open any longer, so I closed them and fell into a deep dreamless sleep.

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I slowly opened my eyes, yawned and looked around the big bright room, forgetting for a second where I was. Then I remembered I was in LA. I then suddenly remembered seeing Elizabeth Masen and that she was now my ob-gyn. I jumped out of bed so quickly that my head started to spin. I got a little dizzy so I sat down again. After a few minutes I got up again, only slower this time. I didn’t know what to do or where I should go. The only place I had seen was the inside of this bedroom. I didn’t even know where Alice’s room was. Then I got the sudden idea to ring her cell because I really and truly didn’t want to go looking in every bedroom for her. Just as I was about to ring her, my cell beeped with a new message.

Are you awake yet? –A

I smiled to myself thinking that she always knows the best time to ring or text.

Yeah, just woke up. Can you come to my room? -B

B right there. – A

I laughed as I put my cell down on the bedside locker, and went to have a look in my suitcase to find something decent to wear. Fresh as a daisy the little pixie came charging into the room.

“Stop what you are doing right now,” she commanded putting her hands up.

I froze where I stood, while she went over to my suitcase and went through the clothes that she packed for me.

“Why don’t you go and have a nice hot shower and I will find you something to wear,” she said, not even bothering to look up from the clothes that she was scattering on my bed.

I went into the bathroom without a second thought. I knew that when Alice gets into this mood, it’s best to simply let her be. I striped off my pjs and put the water on hot. Once I got under the spray I started to think about everything that had happened over the last few weeks and how much my life has changed. If someone had told me three months ago that I would be pregnant with Edward Masen’s baby and that I would move to LA just to get away from him, I would have laughed in their face.

As I stood in the warm shower I continued to think. I thought about everyone that I had ever cared about. I thought about Esme and Carlisle, my mom and dad, Alec, Alice, Angela and Edward. Out of everyone Esme, Carlisle and Alice were the ones that had stood by me through it all. I felt so stupid for ever falling for Edward’s charms, but he made me feel so special. Sadly, I know now that he makes everyone who he sleeps with feel special. I’m not the only one. I can’t help but think back to the night that we were together and how wonderful and sweet he was.

I sank to the floor in the shower and pulled myself up into the foetal position and cried. I cried for my parents and my brother. I cried because of how much I had turned Esme, Carlisle and Alice’s lives upside down. And finally I cried for Edward and the man that I thought he was. I so badly wanted him to be the man that I fell in love with at the premiere and for him to be a father to our baby, but I knew that wasn’t going to happened. I continued to cry until the water went cold. I could faintly hear a knock on the bathroom door.

“Bella are you alright in there?” Alice said frantically.

I couldn’t bring myself to answer her, but the next thing I knew Alice was putting a towel around my shoulders and bringing me into the bedroom. She threw a bathrobe over me and continued to rub her arms up and down over mine, to get some heat into my body. A fresh batch of tears came to surface.

“Why Ali? Why can’t he love me and our baby? Why do I have to love him as much as I do?” I cried.

She stopped running her arms over mine and pulled me in for a hug. For such a small person she is awfully strong.

“I don’t know Bells. I wish for your sake that I did. The only thing I can say is that I believe that he has deep dark issues and that they have nothing to do with you. But remember you and the baby have me, my parents and my aunt and uncle. I promise you that we won’t let you down.”

I cried in her arms for at least another hour before she pulled me up and told me to get dressed, so that she could show me the rest of the house and get something to eat.

Shortly after she had me dressed in a pair of blue skinny jeans, a size bigger than I usually wear, and a white tank top with a pair of black flat sandals.

We went to explore the house and I had honestly never seen anything like it before. I simply fell in love with the kitchen; it was very spacious and had everything that you would ever need. I loved the granite counters in there too. Alice introduced me to Heidi, a lovely woman in her fifties who was the cook. As soon as she met me she pulled me in and gave me a motherly hug. After we finished a lunch of ham and cheese subs, we continued to look around the house. I absolutely adored the beautiful poolside setting and mountain views.

We could hear sound coming from the pool side, so we went to investigate it.

Lying on a chair next to the pool was a girl about the same age as Alice and I. She was very skinny, but also very beautiful. She looked every bit the California girl, with her long blonde hair, tanned body and blue eyes. She was dressed in a shocking blue skinny bikini. Alice walk right up to her and took the ear buds out of her ears.

“Hi Irina, there is someone I’d like for you to meet,” she smirked putting her hand out to me telling me to come over. I hesitantly walked over to her.

“Bells, this is my cousin Irina. Irina this is my best friend Bella,” she introduced.

Irina looked me up and down, huffed and went to put her ear buds back into her ears. Alice got to them before she could and Irina looked at her angrily.

“What do you want me to say to the little charity case Alice? Do you want me to welcome her to the family? I don’t think so,” she said smugly.

I could tell that Alice was about to lose it when the vain in her temple started to pop. She was about to lay into her but Irina wasn’t finished.

“Do you expect us all to feel sorry for her because she is a slut and can’t keep her legs shut? How can I bring my friends around here now, when my home is invaded with a slut who is pregnant?” she spat hatefully.

I was stunned into silence. For the life of me I didn’t know what to say but Alice lost it.

“You fucking tramp. How dare you speak that way about her when she is standing there next to me and besides you’re a fine one to talk? You must have slept your way through the entire High School by now. You know what? Not everything is about you Irina,” she yelled, her voice dripping with venom.

Irina was taken aback. She was obviously a spoilt princess who wasn’t used to being spoken to like that, and who usually got everything that she wanted.

She looked from Alice to me and then back to Alice again.

“You might have everyone else running around after you, but don’t expect me to feel sorry for you. You are nothing but a slut and a whore, so you better stay away from me so that I won’t catch anything,” she smirked.

She went again to put her ear buds back in but Alice grabbed them along with the iPod and threw them into the pool. We could hear Irina screeching as Alice took my arm and walked up towards her room.

When we got to her room the tears that I was holding back came on like a waterfall. Alice tried to calm me down.

I looked up at her, my eyes red and swollen from crying so much.

“Wh-why does s-sh-she hate me so mu-much?” I hiccupped.

Alice gave me a sad smile.

“Because she is a spoiled princess who is used to being the centre of attention,” she explained.

I continued to cry in Alice’s arms, before I fell into a deep and troublesome sleep.

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The next three days went by fast and before I knew it, it was the day of my ultrasound at Westside Pregnancy Clinic. Carmen had tried to help get me settled into her home but I simply wasn’t comfortable around her. I couldn’t put my finger on it, but there was just something off about her. In the end she left me alone with Alice. Carmen had not been very pleased when she had heard about the iPod incident and didn’t truly believe Alice when she told her what Irina had said about me, immediately jumping to Irina’s defence.

Uncle Eleazer was going to drive us to the clinic and then after drop us off at the mall, as we needed to buy some school supplies ready for starting school on Monday. I felt so nervous about starting at the new school. Unfortunately Irina also goes to that school, and I can only imagine what she has been saying about me. I am so grateful that Alice will be there with me.

Uncle Eleazer pulled up outside the clinic at 1.45pm, fifteen minutes early. Alice and I got out of the car and walked in through the front doors of the clinic. What I saw next made my heart jump to my throat. It wasn’t the receptionist whom caused this reaction; it was the person that she was talking to.....

Edward.