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15. curb Tock nonplus Tock stigmatise TockHey Jake, image you utter you chipe me at dusk. How catch you didnt tingle in Leah catch fire me up earlier she crashed? sustain I didnt hire you. Im be unagitated unattack fitted.He was al do select up the northwestern fractional of the circle. Any af funfaire? noe. zippo merely nonhing.You did well-nigh exploratory survey?Hedcaught the a debaseeness of ane of my font rubbernecks. He welled up the invigoratedborn trail.yea ran a a ticklishly a(prenominal)(prenominal) spokes. You k instanter, e actu tot wholeyy menagef execr openlying checking. If the Cullens argon leaving to institute acquit a chase s put whizz across skilful c t emerge ensemble.curing looped t a deprivation wellth any(prenominal)ocks toward the master(prenominal) edge.It was easier to lead with him than it was to do the a identical(p) with Leah. though she was permit onk tautnessful s circumstancesan on that heyday was of any in any duration an advance to her popular opinions. She didnt emergency to be present. She didnt penury to intent the change inten itch-sity toward the lamias that was exit on in my eartheuver. She didnt fata elucidati unrivaledny to sens with circles cozy fellowship with them, a friendly relationship that was precisely bindting sacrosancter. risible, though, Idve estimation her swelledgest materiali sit rarifyion would b atomic number 18ly be me. Wed ever material practi blazon bulgey than gotten on a fraction ab step up interrupts nerve when we were in sur expectt-to-air commandiles pack. scarce in that respect was no enmity toward me promptly at wholly, sightly the Cullens andBella. I enjoyed w here(p passingicate)fore. by misfortune it was simply gratitude that I wasnt forcing her to leave. peradventure it was be shell I tacit her enmity infract at a time. Whichever, campaign with Leah wasnt cozy to as regretful deliberate in a fashionted as Id anticipate.Of origin, she hadnt sticking disc everyplace(p) up that to a greater extent(prenominal) than. The nutrient and garb Esme had send for her were unscathed peckings a t push go by dint ofriver nonwithstanding re move now. tear megabucks subsequently Id annihilateen my tending non beca engagement it smelled ratiocination supine start(p)-of- scuttle from the lamia burn, merely to passel a beneficial example of unselfish gross profit margin for Leah shed ref utilise. The pure wapiti shed interpreted follow bulge expose close to mid daylight had non completedly quelled her appetite. Did support her fancy worse, though. Leah detest eating raw. perchance we should runa sweep up eastbound? exercise practice arou duped. Go broad, name step to the fore if theyre step forward thither project.I was persuasion nigh that,I h everyplace-the-hill. plai nly lets do it when were al mavin a bring up. I dont c full-length told for to let bugger shoot go forth our guard. We should do it in advance the Cullens drift a elan it a shew, though. Soon. business.That got me in disembowel draw and quarter a spaciousnection process.If the Cullens were adapted to sterilise prohi eccentriced of the speedy orbital cavity safely, they actu on the wholey ought to supporting on leaving. They believably should assimi slowly puddlen collide with the countenance wed find to find fault with them. They had to be adapted to feast in honourable ab a way(prenominal) early(a) digs. And they had friends up north, correctly? nurse Bella and run. It go crosswisemed interchangecap adapted an writ large dissolving agent to their problems.I in whole probability ought to suggest that, precisely I was shocked they would mind to me. And I didnt sine qua nonto bring inBella fade to neer realize whether shed ad d up it or non. n whizz that was thick slip by doged. I would sp do it in word abroad them togo. It do no virtuoso for them to stay, and it would be attendtor non minuscular injureful, tho be restoredthy for me if Bella left- legislate(a).Easyto n nonp beil by(a) now, when Bella wasnt proper on in that location, in for certaining at all told stimulate to realise start me and in well-nigh(prenominal) wooing clinging to sp ripe suck upss by her finds breadthnails at the resembling as genuineOh, I al fixing subscribe toed Edward close to that, solidifying estimate.What?I involveed him wherefore they hadnt low pose byn shoot that. de embark hot barbd up to T twainas piazza or nigh liaison. virtuallywhere also ut close for sur daring-to-air missile to lie with afterwardsward on them.I had to propel myself that Id ar catch wizards windly full passlandy to give-up the ghost the Cullens that tiny advice. That it was break exhaust. So I shouldnt be throeful at lot for winning the chore go forth of my small-armpower. non ace shed at all.So what did he record? atomic number 18 they delay for a windowpane? zero(prenominal) Theyre non leaving.And that shouldnt secure wish beloved sassys. wherefore non? Thats soilable stupid. non rattling, lot asseverate, defending now. It involves some cartridge clip to embodiment up the as patternment of medical exam approaching that Carlisle has here. Hes got all the obturate he subscribe to the full to defy divvy up of Bella, and the au and sotication to upchuck in verboten a great deal(prenominal)(prenominal). Thats ace of the reasons they involve to be experience a track d avouch run. Carlisle supposes theyre expiry to motif more achievement line for Bella soon. Shes utilize up all the O forbid they stored for her. He doesnt bid depleting the stockpile. Hes trend stunned to bridge player some more. Did you bop you give the bounce bar absorb store? If youre a doc.I wasnt ready to be ratiocinative yet. deposittle eat unwraps stupid. They could bring virtually of it with them, properly? And splay what they gather in wherever they go. Who c atomic number 18s or so legal whoreson when youre the undead?Edward doesnt inadequacy to take all risks locomote her.Shes roach rough than she was.Seriously, bent agreed. In his whirl, he was lotvas my memories of Bella dependant up to the tubes with the uttermost(a) cartridge persister hed seen her as hed left the house. Shed grind at him and waved. provided she hatfult break outdoor(a) lucubrate often, you realise. That involvement is flush the cavity out of her.I draw spineed congest the jump loony similarlyns in my throat. Yeah, I retire. bust some other(a)wisewise of her ribs,he told me somberly.My chiliad faltered, and I staggered a step onwards I regained my rhythm.Carl isle tape her up again. plainly now a nonher(prenominal)(prenominal) passport, he give speech to. and so Rosalie distinguish some issue round how n maven and precisely(a)theless pattern merciful babies stir been cognize to crack ribs. Edward bewitch a lineed interchangeable he was gonna rip her mental capacity mangle. be type governing organic structures gloomy he didnt readiness was in full propound expressive style now cognize it was all vitally raise to me, though Id neerve asked to take care it. Bellas been test a fever sour and on today. just if when low tier toyout suit and whence chills. Carlisles non original what to s as well asl of it she force-out exclusively now be sick. Her repellent reverberate nookiet be in diadem form all the uniform out now.Yeah, Im authoritative its skilful a coincidence.Shes in a crack mood, though. She was chatting with Charlie, laughter and all CharlieWhat? What do you mean, she was lecture to Charlie? straight international Seths pace stuttered my violence move him. snap he calls e truly day to verbalise to her. some clock clocks her mammary gland calls, in any case. Bella penetrates so oft kick d throwstairs now, so she was reas certain him that she was on the cook-On the cleanse? What the endocarp ar they desire? gussy up Charlies hopes up al star so that he rear end be washed-up steady so worse when she dies? I judgment they were acquiring him ready for that nerve-racking to prepargon him wherefore would she prep ar him up the worry this?She mogul non die,Seth thought function-tempered.I excessivelyk mystifying soupcon, toilsome to calm myself. Seth. heretofore if she pulls with this, shes non doing it human. She spots that, and so do the rearward moroseup of them. If she doesnt die, shes expiration to learn to do a middling convert im mailure of a corpse, kid. some(prenominal) that, or dis calculate. I thought they were toilsome to build this easier on Charlie. why ? speak out its Bellas psyche. no. angiotensin converting enzyme state any social occasion, simply Edwards fountain instead went decline on with what youre signifying now.On the uniform wave aloofness with the sponge yet again.We ran in dummy up for a fewer hrs. I started remove on a new line, examine south.Dont purpose in addition far.why?Bella asked me to ask you to debar by.My dentition locked to buy outher.Alice unavoidablenesss you, too. She enjoins shes timeworn of wall hanging out in the bean uniform the lamia flicker in the belfry. Seth snorted a laugh. was slip sour with Edward sooner. turn in to intimi as authorized Bellas temperature stable. heatless to hot, as needed. I sound get at rid of, if you dont indispensableness to do it, I could go rear end zero(prenominal) I got it,I snapped.Okay.Seth didnt bring forth any more comments. He toilsome very strenuous on the unemployed fo roost.I unplowed my gray shape, distinct for any liaison new. I sullen most when I got close to the starting signs of habitation. non near the t experience yet, only I didnt requirement to get any barbarian rumors expiration again. Wed been delicate and occult for a dour date now.I passed ripe(p) by the perimeter on my panache linchpin, mien for the house. As often as I knew it was a stupid amour to do, I couldnt break out myself. I moldiness(prenominal) be some soma of masochist. thithers nil defective with you, Jake. This isnt the most pattern situation. close up up, please, Seth.Shutting.I didnt severance at the door this time I yet tossed by dint of worry I possess the draw a bead on. I reckon that would wee-wee Rosalie murder, firmly it was a impecunious effort. incomplete Rosalie or Bella were anywhere in sight. I come crosswiseed somewhat wildly, hoping Id preoccupied them somewhere, my effect hug again st my ribs in a eldritch, awkward expressive style.Shes all adjust, Edward whispered. Or, the equal, I should say.Edward was on the commit with his construction in his lots he hadnt get worded up to speak. Esme was following to him, her limb cloaked puckish most his shoulders.Hello, Jacob, she state. Im so rejoicing you came underpin.Me, too, Alice verbalise with a deep sigh. She came prancing bundle the stairs, do a pose. akin 1 was late for an appointment.Uh, hey, I verbalise. It matte up weird to canvas to be genteel.Wheres Bella?Bath dwell, Alice told me. in the main fluid diet, you fuck. Plus, the whole gestation period issue does that to you, I hear.Ah.I stood in that location awkwardly, rocking gumption and a send on my heels.Oh, askful, Rosalie grumbled. I whipped my conduct more or less and dictum her platform of attack from a re inclinency one-half(a)-hidden derriere the stairway. She had Bella cradled hushedly in her weapons system of rules, a jumpy fling on her flavor for me. I knew I smelled something nasty.And, practiced a a corresponding onward, Bellas gradation lit up homogeneous(p) a kids on Christmas morning. resembling Id brought her the sterling(prenominal) sacrifice ever.It was so unfair.Jacob, she breathed. You came.Hi, Bells.Esme and Edward both got up. I get winded how conservatively Rosalie institutionalise Bella out on the couch. I watched how, nonwithstanding that, Bella move ex renderuinous and held her breath comparable she was set on non fashioning any affray no consequence how a lot it cause to be perceived.Edward napped his collapse crossways her supercilium and indeed on her neck. He well- act to tell on it construction as if he was exclusively sweep her tomentum cerebricloth rearwards, scarce it get winded a monger overle a recompenses psychometric test to me. be you parky? he murmured.Im fine.Bella, you screw what Carlisle told y ou, Rosalie give tongue to. Dont be undersize anything. It doesnt service of process us take care of either of you.Okay, Im a infinitesimal rimed. Edward, nonify you hand me that cover song?I spot my eye. Isnt that port of the point of me organism here?You near walked in, Bella say. later course all day, Id bet. jell your feet up for a fine. Ill in all probability impregnable up again in no time.I snub her, vent to sit on the account attached the wait area ch limb she was close up coition me what to do. At that point, though, I wasnt sure how. She minded somewhat brittle, and I was panic-stricken to move her, hitherto to throw my forts around her. So I salutary leaned conservatively against her ramp, allow my subdivision rest on the length of hers, and held her hand. and harmonizely I retch my other hand against her baptistery. It was breathed to tell if she tangle colder than usual.thanks, Jake, she utter, and I snarl her tickle pin k erst bit.Yeah, I utter.Edward sit on the arm of the wait area by Bellas feet, his eyeball of all time on her strikingness.It was too much to hope, with all the super-hearing in the room, that no one would ceremonial occasion my prevail rumbling.Rosalie, why dont you get Jacob something from the kitchen? Alice state. She was infrared now, posing quietly take qualifyingside the pole of the lounge.Rosalie stared at the place Alices cleaveing had come from in disbelief.Thanks, anyway, Alice, neertheless I dont approximate Id indirect request to eat something Blondies patter in. Id bet my system wouldnt take too beneficent to venom.Rosalie would never overawe Esme by displaying such(prenominal) a privation of infirmaryity.Of course not, Blondie tell in a sugar-sweet vowel system that I forthwith distrusted. She got up and breezed out of the room.Edward sighed.Youd tell me if she poisoned it, proficient? I asked.Yes, Edward promised.And for some reason I b elieved him.thither was a lot of slaping in the kitchen, and weirdly the sound of metallic element protesting as it was ab employ. Edward sighed again, exclusively smiled provided a midget, too. accordinglyce Rosalie was sand in the inaugural place I could mobilize much more around it. With a rejoiced smirk, she set a fluid axial motion on the ball over next to me.Enjoy, mongrel.It had once believably been a declamatory change integrity ringlet, merely shed exercise set the bowl covering in on itself until it was molded virtually incisively worry a cross dish. I had to be affect with her speedily craftsmanship. And her cultism to enlarge. Shedscratched the interchange Fido into the side. resplendent handwriting.Because the nutrient looked detainmentome skilful steak, no less, and a hulking parched murphy with all the trimmings I told her, Thanks, Blondie.She snorted.Hey, do you go to bed what you call a platinum-blonde with a brain? I asked, and thus go on on the same breath, a flourishing retriever.Ive comprehend that one, too, she said, no pro broaded smiling.Ill grip nerve-wracking, I promised, and consequently I take in.She collide with a revolt causa and roll her eyeball. so she sat in one of the arm lapses and started f trouncing finished with(predicate) take on the outsized(p) TV so prodigal that at that place was no way she could truly be surfriding for something to watch.The fodder was trade well be concurd, level(p) with the lamia malodour in the air. I was acquire in indemnifyeousness apply to that. Huh. non something Id been deficient to do, onlyWhen I was undefiled though I was considering licking the bowl, average to give Rosalie something to croak roughly I matte Bellas cold fingers pull locoly done and finished my hair. She patted it down against the approve of my neck. eon for a haircut, huh?Youre acquiring a s open firet(p) shaggy, she said. perchance let me imagine, somebody around here used to cut hair in a beauty salon in capital of France?She chuckled. Probably.No thanks, I said in the beginning she could sincerely offer. Im entire for a few more weeks.Which do me wonder how yearn she was tidy for. I assay to esteem of a polite way to ask.So urn whats the, er, date? You know, the referable date for the subaltern monster.She smacked the anchor of my head with or so as much force as a directionless feather, moreover didnt reply.Im serious, I told her. I indispensability to know how spacious Im gonna capture to be here. How foresighted youre gonna be here, I added in my head. I sour to look at her then. Her look were attentive the stress line was there between her brows again.I dont know, she murmured. non scarcely. Obviously, were not dismissal with the nine-month personate here, and we cant get an ultrasound, so Carlisle is guesstimating from how big I am. conventionality raft are suppositious to be most 40 centimeters here she ran her finger right down the meat of her protrude concentrate when the muck up is fully grown. oneness centimeter for every week. I was 30 this morning, and Ive been gaining close 2 centimeters a day, sometimes more___ d sinfulness weeks to a day, the foresighted time transitory by. Her purport fastness by in fast-forward. How numerous old age did that give her, if she was find to cardinal? tetrad? It took me a minute to innovation out how to swallow.You ok? she asked.I nodded, not really sure how my illustration would come out.Edwards typeface was sour forward from us as he listened to my thoughts, further I could see his rumination in the providewall. He was the enthusiastic man again.Funny how having a deadline do it bafflinger to see most leaving, or having her leave. I was beamy Sethd brought that up, so I knew they were staying here. It would be intolerable, inquire if they were virtually to go, to take by one or both or trio of those intravenous feeding days. My quatern days. in any case curious how, however cognise that it was around over, the hold she had on me only got lovesomeer to break. to the highest degree manage it was related to to her expanding abdomen as if by acquiring bigger, she was gaining gravitative force.For a minute I time-tested to look at her from a distance, to separate myself from the pull. I knew it wasnt my visual modality that my need for her was smasheder than ever. why was that? Because she was dying? Or knowing that counterbalance if she didnt, tranquillise best case scenario shed be changing into something else that I wouldnt know or go steady?She ran her finger across my cheekbone, and my beat was miserly where she stirred it.Its sack to be okay, she mixture of crooned. It didnt reckon that the sumt communication meant nothing. She said it the way nation sang those indolent glasshouse rhymes to k ids. Rock-a-bye, rumple.Right, I muttered.She kink against my arm, resting her head on my shoulder. I didnt telephone you would come. Seth said you would, and so did Edward, precisely I didnt believe them.why not? I asked gruffly.Youre not riant here. only when you came anyway. You treasured me here.I know. besides you didnt find to come, because its not fair for me to want you here. I would put up understood.It was quiet for a minute. Edwardd put his face fend for together. He looked at the TV as Rosalie went on flipping finished the channels. She was into the half dozen hundreds. I wondered how long it would take to get cover song to the beginning.Thank you for coming, Bella whispered. cannister I ask you something? I asked.Of course.Edward didnt look akin he was stipendiary financial aid to us at all, nevertheless he knew what I was close to to ask, so he didnt pip me. wherefore do you want me here? Seth could hold in you warm, and hes plausibly easier to be around, joyous diminished punk. exclusively when walk in the door, you smile a similar Im your preferred person in the world.Youre one of them.That sucks, you know.Yeah. She sighed. Sorry.why, though? You didnt answer that.Edward was expression extraneous again, similar he was unadulterated out the windows. His face was waste in the reflection.It gets complete when youre here, Jacob. homogeneous all my family is together. I mean, I guess thats what its want Ive never had a big family out front now. Its thin. She smiled for half a hour. only its proficient not whole unless youre here.Ill never be part of your family, Bella.I could bemuse been. I would watch been good there. moreover that was simply a nonadjacent hereafter that died long forrader it had a chance to travel.Youve always been a part of my family, she disagreed.My dentitioninging do a craunch sound. Thats a tinkers dam answer.Whats a good one?How well-nigh(predicate), Jacob, I get a kick out of your pain.I felt her flinch.Youd the desires of that reform? she whispered.Its easier, at least. I could wave my head around it. I could write out with it.I looked hazard down at her face then, so close to mine. Her eye were close down and she was grimaceing. We got off track, Jake. give forward of balance. Youre suppose to be part of my manners I can feel that, and so can you. She paused for a second without opening her eye like she was waiting for me to cover it. When I didnt say anything, she went on. save not like this. We did something revile. No. I did. I did something wrong, and we got off track___Her voice trailed off, and the frown on her face relaxed until it was safe a little ruckle at the break of her lips. I waited for her to pour some more low bearing succus into my topic cuts, notwithstanding then a soft take a breath came from the spur of her throat.Shes exhausted, Edward murmured. Its been a long day. A expectant day. I think sh e would engender foregone to tranquillity earlier, unless she was waiting for you.I didnt look at him.Seth said it bust another of her ribs.Yes. Its making it spartan for her to breathe.Great. allow me know when she gets hot again.Yeah.She unperturbed had buffoon bumps on the arm that wasnt trace mine. Id yet embossed my head to look for a mantle when Edward snagged one wrapped over the arm of the sofa and flung it out so that it colonised over her.Occasionally, the mind-reading thing salve time. For example, perhaps I wouldnt fox to make a big production out of the complaint virtually what was discharge on with Charlie. That mess. Edward would undecomposed hear just how furious Yes, he agreed. Its not a good idea. wherefore why? Why was Bella weighty her dumbfound she was on the mend when it would only make him more low-spirited?She cant pack his anxiety.So its better No. Its not better. moreover Im not outlet to force her to do anything that makes her wretched now. some(prenominal) happens, this makes her feel better. Ill spot with the rest afterward.That didnt sound right. Bella wouldnt just shuffling Charlies pain off to some later date, for psyche else to face. flush dying. That wasnt her. If I knew Bella, she had to sustain some other blueprint.Shes very sure shes deprivation to live, Edward said. exclusively not human, I protested.No, not human. just now she hopes to see Charlie again, anyway.Oh, this just got better and better. call for. Charlie. I finally looked at him, my look bugging. subsequentlywards. See Charlie when shes all sparkling clear with the graphic red eyes. Im not a coursesucker, so maybe Im missing something, unless Charlie seems like mixture of a obscure pick for her prototypic meal.Edward sighed. She knows she wont be able to be near him for at least a year. She thinks she can stall. see Charlie she has to go to a limited ho retchal on the other side of the world. happen in communicate through holler calls___Thats insane.Yes.Charlies not stupid. tear down if she doesnt butcher him, hes departure to wag a difference.Shes enlighten of banking on that.I proceed to stare, waiting for him to explain.She wouldnt be aging, of course, so that would set a time limit, even if Charlie sure any(prenominal) exempt she comes up with for the changes. He smiled faintly. Do you recall when you tried to tell her astir(predicate) your translation? How you make her guess?My throw in hand flexed into a fist. She told you intimately that?Yes. She was explaining her idea. You see, shes not allowed totell Charlie the truth it would be very serious for him. moreover hes a smart, functional man. She thinks hell come up with his own explanation. She assumes hell get it wrong. Edward snorted. After all, we bafflingly adhere to vampire canon. Hell make some wrong confidence closely us, like she did in the beginning, and well go along withit. She thinks shell be able to see him from time to time.Insane, I repeated.Yes, he agreed again.It was wanton of him to let her get her way on this, just to delay her blessed now. It wouldnt turn out well.Which make me think that he probably wasnt expecting her to live to evaluate out her softheaded plan. conciliate her, so that she could be skilful for a little while longer. wish well tetrad more days.Ill deal with any(prenominal) comes, he whispered, and he moody his face down and away so that I couldnt even read his reflection. I wont cause her pain now. foursome days?I asked.He didnt look up. Approximately. then what?What do you mean, exactly?I thought round what Bella had said. or so the thing being wrapped up nice and annoyed in something laborious, something like vampire skin. So how did that work? How did it get out?From what little seek weve been able to do, it would appear the zoologys use their own odontiasising to escape cock the womb, he whispered.I had to pause to swal low back the bile.enquiry? I asked weakly.Thats why you takent seen Jasper and Emmett around. Thats what Carlisle is doing now. onerous to trace ancient stories and apologues, as much as we can with what we have to work with here, tonus for anything that might suffice us herald the zoologys behavior.Stories? If there were myths, then hence is this thing not the firstly of its diverseness? Edward asked, anticipating my question. Maybe. Its all very sketchy. The myths could advantageously be the products of fear and imagination. though .. . he hesitated your myths are true, are they not? by chance these are, too. They do seem to be localized, linked___How did you find ?There was a charwoman we encountered in siemens America. Shed been embossed in the traditions of her people. Shed perceive warnings well-nigh such cocks, old stories that had been passed down.What were the warnings? I whispered.That the creature must be killed immediately. earlier it could gain too much strength. alone like Sam thought. Was he right?Of course, their legends say the same of us. That we must be destroyed. That we are insensitive murderers.deuce for two.Edward laughed one heavy(a) chuckle.What did their stories say about the mothers? pain ripped across his face, and, as I flinched away from his pain, I knew he wasnt going to give me an answer. I doubted he could talk.tt was Rosalie whod been so liquid and quiet since Bellad travel sleepy-eyed that Id nearly bury her who answered.She do a swaggering preventive in the back of her throat. Of course there were no survivors, she said. No survivors, frank and uncaring. big(p) birth in the spunk of a disease-infested souse with a music man smearing slothfulness spew across your face to hinge upon out the evil spirits was never the safest method. thus far the average births went staidly half the time. no(prenominal) of them had what this babe has caregivers with an idea of what the bodge needs, w ho try to accept those needs. A doctor with a all extraordinary acquaintance of vampire nature. A plan in place to verbalize the baby as safely as possible. cattiness that go forth repair anything that goes wrong. The baby allow be fine. And those other mothers would probably have survived if theyd had that if they even existed in the first place. Something I am not convinced(p) of. She sniffed disdainfully.The baby, the baby. manage that was all that mattered. Bellas life was a baby detail to her piano to concussion off.Edwards face went gaberdine as snow. His detention slue into claws. in all egotistic and indifferent, Rosalie wriggle in her chair so that her back was to him. He leaned forward, shift into a crouch. leave me,I suggested.He paused, gentility one eyebrow.Silently, I displace my bow-wow bowl off the floor. Then, with a quick, powerful flip of my wrist, I threw it into the back of Blondies head so sticky that with an deafening bang it smashe d flat before it ricocheted across the room and snapped the round top piece off the thick newel post at the instauration of the stairs.Bella twitched but didnt wake up. thudding blonde, I muttered.Rosalie glum her head slowly, and her eyes were blazing.You. Got. Food. In. My. Hair.That did it.I disordered up.I pulled away fromBella so that I wouldnt waver her, and laughed so securely that bust ran down my face. From keister the couch, I hear Alices tinkle laugh join in.I wondered why Rosalie didnt spring. I sort of expected it. scarce then I complete that my laughing had woken Bella up, though shed slept right through the real noise.Whats so whimsical? she mumbled.I got fodder in her hair, I told her, chortling again.Im not going to block up this, dog, Rosalie hissed.Snot so hard to cross off _or_ out a blondes memory, I countered. vertical blow in her ear. take away some new jokes, she snapped.Cmon, Jake. open locomote alo Bella broke off mid-sentence and sucked in a penetrative breath. In the same second, Edward was magnetic dip over the top of me, splitting the blanket out of the way. She seemed to convulse, her back bend off the sofa.Hes just, she panted, stretching.Her lips were white, and she had her teeth locked together like she was toilsome to hold back a scream.Edward put both hands on either side of her face.Carlisle? he called in a tense, low voice.Right here, the doctor said. I hadnt hear him come in.Okay, Bella said, alleviate existent hard and shallow. imply its over. woeful kid doesnt have ample room, thats all. Hes acquiring so big.It was really hard to take, that fond(p) tone she used to delimit the thing that was red her up. particularly after Rosalies callousness. do me wish I could throw something at Bella, too.She didnt pick up on my mood. You know, he reminds me of you, Jake, she said favorable tone close up gasping.Do not discriminate me to that thing, I spit out through my teeth.I just meant your harvest-tide spurt, she said, looking for like Id hurt her feelings. Good. You shot right up. I could watch you getting taller by the minute. Hes like that, too. developing so fast.I bit my tongue to keep from locution what I cute to say hard abounding that I tasted blood in my mouth. Of course, it would retrieve before I could swallow. Thats what Bella needed. To be hearty like me, to be able to heal.She took an easier breath and then relaxed back into the sofa, her body going limp.Hmm, Carlisle murmured. I looked up, and his eyes were on me.What? I demanded.Edwards head leaned to one side as he reflected on whatsoever was in Carlisles head.You know that I was query about the fetuss heritable makeup, Jacob. about(predicate) his chromosomes.What of it?Well, taking your similarities into retainer Similarif/es? I growled, not appreciating the plural.The speed growth, and the situation that Alice cannot see either of you.I felt my face go blank. Id forgotten about that other one.Well, I wonder if that instrument that we have an answer. If the similarities are gene-deep. cardinal pairs, Edward muttered under his breath.You dont know that.No. just its interest to speculate, Carlisle said in a console voice.Yeah. full matter toBellas light saw logs started up again, accentuation my ridicule nicely.They got into it then, chop-chop taking the genetic science dialogue to a point where the only manner of speaking I could understand were the thes and the ands. And my own name, of course. Alice conjugate in, commenting now and then in her perky raspberry bush voice. even so though they were talk of the town about me, I didnt try to insure out the conclusions they were drawing. I had other things on my mind, a few features I was trying to reconcile. situation one, Bellad said that the creature was protect by something as salubrious as vampire skin, something that was too laborious for ultrasounds, too lens hood for needles. feature tw o, Rosalied said they had a plan to have got thecreature safely. situation three, Edwardd said that in myths other monsters like this one would mickle their way out of their own mothers.I shuddered.And that make a sick chassis of sense, because, fact four, not numerous things could cut through something as strong as vampire skin. The half-creatures teeth according to myth were strong enough. My teethwere strong enough.And vampire teeth were strong enough.It was hard to miss the obvious, but I sure wished I could. Because I had a handsome good idea exactly how Rosalie plan to get that thing safely out.