Hi everyone! I'm back! Yay! I promised y'all a chapter and I came through. Here it is. Hopefully I'll be able to post more sometime this week. I'm not sure yet what kind of post schedule I'm going to have though 'cause I start a new job next week

Disclaimer: I own nothing that might be referenced in this story; especially Twilight. Also, as far as I'm concerned Hope Spring is a fictional town that I created for this story. I did not look to see if said town actually exists in Texas and if it does, then I do not own that either.

-RiniBell


CHAPTER ONE


"Mmmm…Edward...what are you doing?" Bella asks lazily as she stretches her arms above her head and snuggles back into her pillow.

"What does it look like I'm doing?" Edward's lips trail open mouthed kisses down the column of Bella's throat and into the valley of her breasts.

"Mmmm...I would say you're trying to take advantage of a poor naïve girl." Bella tries to sound as innocent as she can as Edward's lips travel farther south. Her innocence is soon replaced by undulated desire.

"Oh God…." She moans out breathlessly.

"No God here, just Edward, love." Her own personal Adonis smirks out as he looks up through his lashes at her; his lips coming closer to where she needed him most.

"Please...mmmm...oh….ahhh...GOD YES!" Edward chuckles into her most intimate place; sending a shot of very pleasant vibrations into her core.

"Are you sure that I'm taking advantage of you, love? If anyone is being taken advantage of it's me. Every time I come home you don't even say 'hello', you just push me down onto the nearest flat surface." Edward tries to sound as dejected as he can but fails miserably when his trademark smirk flicks across his lips.

"I don't see you complaining when I do this…." Bella trails off as she pushes Edward off of her and onto his back, his head almost hitting the headboard.

"Easy, tiger." He chuckles at her eagerness to prove herself.

"I'll show you tiger…." Bella winks at him as she descends on him; her mouth leaving no skin untouched, no flesh un-kissed. When her mouth envelops the part of him that has always belonged to her, that will always belongs to her, he loses all thought process as he loses himself in his girl.

Afterwards as they wrapped up in the afterglow of their lovemaking, Edward whispers the three words that always makes her heart swell to the point of exploding.

"I love you, too." She whispers back to him.


Bella awakes with a start, her heart jack-hammering in her chest. It had been a long time since she had even thought of him, much less dreamed of him. Her skin erupts in goose bumps; the prickling feeling descending upon her whole body.

Bella rolls over in bed, burrowing her head into the warm body next to her. Matt must have climbed into bed with her sometime during the night and she didn't even notice.

She starts blowing raspberries into the side of his belly where her head rests.

"Mommy!" He giggles sleepily as he starts to wake up. Bella loves his laughter. It is the sound she lives for. No matter the kind of day she has, if she comes home to her Matty's laughter, she knows that all is right in the world.

"What are you doing in my bed you silly boy?" She teases him as she tickles his little protruding belly. This makes Matt's giggles grow laughter as he halfheartedly begs her to stop.

"Mommy! I's gotsta pee!" Matt gasps out.

Bella releases him from her wicked fingers. Matt jumps out of bed and runs into the bathroom down the hall.

Bella lies in bed for another minute until she looks over at her alarm clock and realizes the time. 8:15 a.m. the green neon numbers read.

She rolls out of bed and yells out to Matt, "I'm getting in the shower baby, why don't you go down stairs and watch some cartoons until Mommy's done, okay?"

"Okay, Mommy!" He yells from the other bathroom.

Bella walks into her bathroom and looks into the mirror at her reflection.

"You're going to get through this." She tells her mirror twin. "You're strong. Charlie's raised you to be the fiercest woman you can be. You would be disrespecting his memory if you let that no good scoundrel ruin your life. Again.

For the past month and a half there had been rumors that Ed...he was moving back to Hope Springs. At first Bella brushed it off, because surely Alice would have told her if he was. Alice is her one and only true friend. Even when Ed...he and her didn't work out Alice stayed by her side and helped her with her pregnancy and Matt as much as she could.

"Edward may be my brother Bella, but you're my sister and sisters stick together."

Ever since that day, Bella's and Alice's friendship has been stronger than ever.

Unfortunately he was coming home. Alice just didn't know how to confront Bella about it. When she finally did though, Bella felt as if her world was shattering around her all over again. Her heart was filled with thousands of tiny shards of memories long forgotten. She was almost crippled amongst the weight her fragile muscle felt.

"Are you sure?" She had asked Alice.

"Yeah…. He called Mom last week to confirm it. She was so mad that she was the last to know. I swear I thought she was going to tell him to not bother showing up. Did you know that she told him to find you and to…."

"WHAT!? Why that meddlesome little…."

"I know…" Alice breaths out; looking anywhere but at her friend. "You know how Mom can be…. According to her, you and Edward are soul mates and belong together."

"Yeah...well…. Did you tell her to try telling that to her son? Last time I checked I wasn't the one who LEFT!"

Bella lets out a long breath she hadn't knew she had been holding, as emotions she had long thought had been buried resurfaced. Tears slowly start to fall as she sinks to the floor of her bathroom; sobs wracking her body.