BPOV

"Come on Jake, just one night at home. Please?" I had to finally beg. I mean, come on, a grown man choosing a stupid poker night over spending time with his wife and son. That's just wrong.

"You know I do this every Tuesday night. Why can't you just let me have this one night out of the week to spend with the guys?" Jake said, frustrated, as I started to get more and more angry.

"It's every week! You can go play cards next week! Can't you just tuck Embry in tonight? He misses his dad. You come home after work, eat dinner, and then just run out to play poker!"

Embry Charles Black is our 4 year old son. He's adorable with his shaggy black hair and his chocolate-colored eyes he got from me. He definitely got Jake's hair color and smile, but he did get my eyes and my clumsiness. He can trip over thin air sometimes and I feel so bad for giving him that one horrible trait. But he is the love of my life and I was the happiest woman in the world when I gave birth to him. Embry is my little angel, a momma's boy completely.

"I'm sorry Bella, but I'm going out. I'll tuck him in tomorrow night. You can handle him. I'll be back later. Don't wait up," he said, as he walked out and slammed the door.

I walked back into the living room and plopped down on the couch as the tears started to run down my cheek. Every week, he insisted on leaving to go play poker with the boys from the garage. Jake worked at one of the few Forks auto shops. He absolutely loved his job, and sometimes I thought he loved it more than his family. I try not to let him know I think that, but it's just so hard.

Jake and I were high school sweethearts. I've known him since I was a toddler. My mom, Renee, died in a plane crash when I was two, right after her and Charlie, my dad, got divorced. Charlie is best friends with Jake's dad, Billy Black, and through them we met and became instant best friends. One time in high school, my friend Mike asked me to go to the movies with him in Port Angeles. I felt so awkward and unable to say no, so I asked him if I could bring a friend. He quickly obliged, realizing I had actually said yes to him for the first time since I moved up here.

That friend was Jake. He brought his VW Rabbit to drive us to the movies and it was a blast! Mike got pushed to the side and Jake and I slowly fell in love. Ever since that day, he's been the only man for me. I love him with all of my heart, but I can't help but feel like I've lost him.

Ever since he started these poker nights five months ago, I feel like he's slowly slipping away from me. I can't go on without him, he's my sun, the shining star that has rescued me.

"Momma, momma! Can I have a cookie??" Embry came running to me holding 2 cookies in his hands, offering one to me, waking me out of my daze.

"Sure sweetie, but right after we have to go up to bed, okay?"

"Can Daddy read to me tonight? Please!" Embry whined.

"Not tonight. Maybe tomorrow. How 'bout I read you Where the Wild Things are again?" That was his absolute favorite book for me to read to him, and he always fell right asleep afterwards.

"Finnnne. But I want Daddy next time! I wanna show him the picture I colored for him!"

"Ok sweetie, let's go head upstairs now and get you ready for bed. Daddy will be home before you wake up." I picked him up and walked up the stairs ready to get him in his bed and go straight to mine. It was a long day of fighting with Jake and I hoped when I woke up, he would be in a better mood.

EPOV

"I'm leaving. You can deal with Kat. I'll be back late. Don't wait up." Tanya yelled to me while she walked out the front door.

Honestly, I don't know what I ever saw in her. Sure, she's beautiful and she gave birth to my beautiful daughter, Katherine Annabelle Cullen, but how did I end up married to her with a three-year-old.

I met Tanya Denali while working at the hospital in Forks. She was visiting a friend in town when she tripped in her high heels and broke her ankle. She showed up in the emergency room and I was the "lucky one" that got to work on her. She had a severe break in her ankle, yet she still held the ability to flirt shamelessly with me. Granted at the time, I was a single guy lusting after all kinds of women, but she drew me into her. I actually believed the lie.

We went out on a few dates and I introduced her to my family after a few months of dating. My mother, Esme, disliked her from the start. My mom is an interior designer, one of the most elite of them all and makes a living decorating celebrity homes. My father, Carlisle, is a world renown surgeon and is one of the most passionate people I know. He tried to like Tanya, but her hidden malice destroyed any good thoughts he harbored for her. My siblings were a WHOLE nother story.

Alice and her husband Jasper Whitlock immediately hated Tanya, but I never understood why. I guess I was just blinded by her and never noticed what the others did. Alice has her own clothing line and several shops located all over from NYC to LA to Miami. Jasper is a high school History teacher. He loves anything civil war and enjoys teaching it even more.

Emmett and his wife Rosalie Hale took things a little bit differently. First off, Emmett is a famous football player for the Seattle Seahawks with a huge sense of humor. On the outside, he looks like he could kill with his bare hands, on the inside, he's just a huge teddy bear. Rosalie on the other hand is a gorgeous blonde with an attitude. She's a notorious model and has traveled all of the world. Rosalie instantly wanted to strangle Tanya and Emmett had to hold her back a few times. Emmett just let things flow at first, but pulled me aside and told me to lose her, and lose her quick.

A few months later, she told me she was pregnant and I was shocked to say the least. Of course I've dreamt of having a family ever since high school, but I never imagined it would be with her. I figured I should do the right thing and proposed. We were married 6 months later. A grueling two months afterwards, she gave birth to Katherine, aka Kat. Kat is a splitting image of me. She has my bronze hair, my sparkling green eyes and she even developed my crooked grin as she grew older. Luckily, she only had her mothers nose and feet. Things between Tanya and I slowly went downhill after the birth of our daughter.

I knew I never loved her, but she gave me my adorable little girl who I cherished more than my own life. I lived for the nights when Tanya would leave and I would get to have Kat all to myself. Tanya barely spends any time with Kat when she is home, but I know that our little girl needs her mother so I stay with her, for the sake of my child. But how I wish I could find someone to truly love. It's horrible having to see Tanya day after day and pretend to enjoy her company.

"Kat, hunny, are you ready for night-night?" I said as I walked into the playroom.

"Dada.. I'm sleepy… Can I sleep with you now?" She pouted her lips and I could never say no to her pouty face.

"Of course sweetheart, mommy went out tonight so it's just me and my favorite girl!"

"Yeah!! Let's go upstairs and watch Dora! Mommy never lets me watch Dora."

"Well baby, tonight, you're watching….DORA!"

"Let's go! Let's GO!!"

"Alright baby, hop on." I said as I lowered my self down to the ground and helped her jump on my back.

We steadily walked up the stairs and into my bedroom where I flopped her down on the bed and told her to lay up on the pillows while I put her Dora the Explorer DVD in.

After pressing play on the DVD, I laid down next to Kat and let her tuck herself into my side. In minutes she was asleep. I kissed her softly on top of her head and watched her sleep.

I loved Tuesday nights because I could spend them with my daughter like this.