Hey people!So I have a new story, I am aiming to update this story once a week, as much as I can? Thanks for all the author fave's I got and the most amazing response I have had from my other stories! You guys are awesome!

I have some awesome thanks to give for the prereaders of this story!

Thanks to twilightmenrhot for her fantastic prereading skills and keeping me on the straight and narrow!

Thanks to whitegurl2013 for her prereading skills, keeping me right and asking all the right questions!

As always I own nothing, S. Meyer owns everything... I just play with her characters!

EPOV

Why on earth am I always left picking up ALL of the kids? I could murder Carlisle sometimes! My thoughts were furious while I walked into the primary school to pick up my son and daughter and Carlisle's son and daughter.

"Daddy!" I heard my daughter Alice shout, as she ran towards the classroom door. I caught her up in a hug and nodded my thanks to their teacher Mrs Clearwater. Sue was a lovely woman and had helped so much after Tanya had gone AWOL. She keeps the children, generally all four of them, until I can get to the school to collect them.

"Thanks so much for keeping them again Sue, I definitely need to find a sitter for the twins for Carlisle." I said in earnest to the teacher organising the children into coats. Jasper was being particularly problematic today; he seemed to be griping about the colour of his jacket. Not cowboy enough apparently.

"Do you know my step daughter, Bella?" I shook my head, I hadn't heard of this girl. "Well, she just got into town, a few months back, because Charlie was struggling around the house after getting shot in the line of duty as a policeman. He is much better than he was and she has been helping out in school as she gets bored. She already knows Rosalie and Jasper. You could see if she was interested and if Dr Cullen would be interested?"

"I will let him know, God knows he could use the help!" I chuckled to myself. I ushered all of the children out of the school and into the car. Emmet, the oldest of the group and my son, had called shotgun so the twins and Ally got into the back seat and buckled in. They were bickering about what they were going to watch on the TV when we arrived home.

We arrived at home, two doors away from where the twins lived with my best friend Carlisle Cullen, the four little hurricanes headed into the living room and started to watch Spongebob. God, I hate that program! But, I suck it up and text Carlisle.

Any chance of you being home to put your kids to bed? Ed It was harsh but I had had a long day and really didn't want ALL of the children here tonight.

I will be home in 20 minutes, should I bring dinner for all of us? Can hit the Chinese? C. I chuckled to myself. We really were the odd couple, but what could you do in times of need? So I text back a yes and went to find the kids.

"Hey kids, Carlisle is bringing dinner, he is hitting the Chinese on the way home. That ok?" I ask the kids. They nod, not taking their eyes from the TV.

"Eddie?" asked Rosalie

"Yeah baby? What's the matter?" I replied to the little eight year old blonde bombshell that is Carlisle's eldest by seven minutes.

"How come you pick us up all the time? Doesn't Daddy want to?" she said with tears threatening to fall. This little girl could break your heart. I sat her down and explained that her Daddy had to work long hours but loved her a lot. I know that it was his job to do but he was barely functioning at all. I grabbed her up in a big hug and we went to dig out some plates and some drinks.

CPOV

The phone in the middle of my desk chimed with a text message. I knew who it was before even looking, my long suffering best friend Edward.

Any chance of you being home to put your kids to bed? Ed

Wow...Harsh much Ed? I replied quickly explaining that I would be home soon and would bring food. Always a positive thing with the family, Emmet could eat enough to feed a small village as could his father.

I knew what I was doing, was wrong. I was abandoning my kids, I was no better than that low life Tanya Denali, the so called mother of Emmet and Alice. I was pulling away and just couldn't stop. I need to stop!

My wife Esme, my sweet, sweet Esme. I am so sorry for the pain I am putting our children through. I just can't do it on my own. I can't be happy for them, I miss you too much. I know that I need to get over your leaving me and them and move on but it is just too difficult.

I walk out to the car and start the drive to the Chinese takeaway. I order the usual and begin to drive home. We would never have moved so close to Edward if that bitch hadn't left him when Alice was one year old. Esme quickly became Mama to four children instead of two and I dragged my best friend back to the land of the living kicking and screaming. I knew Edward was trying to do the same for me. I just had to let him.

I walked into the house and Alice bounced her way toward me, it stung that it wasn't Rosie anymore. She clearly had had enough, I really needed to think about how to fix that particular problem. I swung Alice up in a hug and went off to find my children.

"Hey babies, how was school?" I asked standing in the doorway to the room, with my arms out tentatively. Edward gave me a look of pride, hope and satisfaction all rolled up into one. Rosie bounded over to me and I hugged her small frame to me. Jasper was shifting from foot to foot, I opened my arms and he ran into them. I love them so much!

We sat down to eat and the kids gossiped about their days at school. While Edward looked at me like he wanted to say something.

"For Gods sake Ed, spit it out!" I said chuckling into my special house noodles.

"Right, erm...don't take this the wrong way but, I was kinda talking to Sue about you needing a !"

I didn't understand a word.

"Please repeat, I didn't catch a word of that," I explained, "slower would be nice too," I said sarcastically.

"Ok, so don't get stressed, I was talking to Sue earlier," he paused so I nodded so he knew that I was listening. "I was saying you would need a babysitter soon, maybe we both could do with one," he mused. "Anyways, she said that her step daughter was available, do you know her? The chief's daughter?" I shook my head, I had seen no one outside of the hospital for nearly a year, or inside the hospital for that matter. "So, she has been helping out at the school in Jasper's and Rosalie's class, so she knows the twins." He was putting it to me very carefully like I would freak out at him. I hadn't been that bad had I? I must have been. He looked at me warily, anticipating my wrath, presumably.

Do I need a babysitter? Probably, I rely on Edward far too much. I know that I do but I can't help it. Every time I look at the twins they do something that reminds me of their mother. It's like my world has stopped.

I have to stop thinking this way. Esme would kick my ass if she knew I was acting like this, hell if I know her she is watching right now and biding her time to kick my ass until I get there.

"Edward, tell you what we will do. I will interview her and decide whether or not I want to give her a trial. Should she get the trial, we will work around our schedules and make sure all of the kids get time with ...?" I look blankly as I have forgotten her name already, not a great start, I will have to write it on my hand for the interview.

"Bella, she is called Bella. Do you want me to leave the number Sue gave me?" Edward asked with a smile across his face. It was the infamous smirk. This could not be good, definitely not good.

Thanks for reading! Like I saind in the beginning I am aiming to post once a week, either a Wednesday or a Thursday...that is the schedule I have set lets just hope that RL lets me keep to it!

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