12

We both woke up to see that dew was on the glass door and the leaves outside have been kissed by the rain. I didn't even notice that it was raining at all last night. While I made breakfast that morning, Nessie did what she had been doing every morning for the past few weeks. She came out after ten minutes, throwing the pregnancy test, angerly, into the trash can. Istead of coming to see what I made for bfeakfast, she went over to the couch, where the TV was playing a movie, and lay down, staring at the screen, probably not even paying attention to it. I went over to her, lifted her to where I could get under her, and let her lie on my chest. She began to cry, her tears flowing down my pure white shirt, and I knew all I could do was hold her tight and smooth and kiss her hair.
"Shh. Nessie, it's alright."
"I g-gues we can never have a baby. I guess... w-we'll just have to a-adopt."
"Like I said before, we're not just going to get a baby over night. It takes time. We can try again, but there are no guarantees that anything will happen. I want to have a child as much as you do, but if you don't get pregnant in the next few months or so, then I guess we'll adopt, Okay?"
"I guess."
"Plus this is our island and we can stay here as long as we want."
"True." That's when her cell phone rang on her nightstand, making her jump a little. "I'll get it," she said getting up from the couch.
"Hello? Oh, hey Alice! Hold on, let me put you on speaker," she said tellingme to go over there. I walked over to her.
"Hey, Shortie, what's up?"
"Well," she said,"I'm here with Leah and she kind of wants to tell you guys something. Here, Leah, take the phone I've got to get back to work."
"Okay.... Hey guys!"
"Hey Leah!" Nessie said.
"So I have a little news for you, and I'm just gonna come right out and say it..." She cleared her throat befor saying, "I'm marrying Jessie!"
"What?!"
"Yeah! He proposed to me just a few weeks ago and we're getting married in five days!"
"Five days!"
"Yeah! So I need you guys to come home!"
"Leah, why didn't you call us, oh I don't know, weeks ago!"
"Because, for some reason, Alice told me not to, which doesn't make sense at all."
"Okay, we'll be home in just a few short hours. Bye."
"Bye! See ya'!" She snapped the phone shut.
"We'd better start packing," she said, not even looking at me.
"Yeah."
It only took us a few minutes to pack, so I started loading the luggage onto the boat. Once I was done, I went back inside to tell her it was time to leave. She was sitting on the winow seal, looking wordlessly and silently out the window. She began tracing patterns in the fog on the window, from the rain's mist.
"It's time to go." She didn't say anything, she just nodded. "You okay?"
"Maybe... maybe it's a good thing we're actually going home. If it's just impossible for us to have baby, then what's the point of living here with that extra, empty room next to ours?"
"Nessie. Don't think like that. I've never been happier to be here with you. Look, when we et home, we'll go see Carlisle and see if he can figure out why you can't have a baby. Okay?"
"I guess."
"Please. This one of the happiest moments of my life, being here with you, you being my wife. I love you," I said lifting her chin and turning it so she could look at me. She finally smiled at me and kissed me lightly on the lips.
"I love you too."
"That's my girl. Come on, let's go."
"Okay."
And we headed on home to go see the newly weds... ugh.