I'm Back! I would have been back sooner, but my laptop wanted to throw a hissy fit, so I have no internet, and now I am writing from my home computer which is slower than crap!

Okay so I have a few notes before I give you the chapter with the actual dinner in it.

First: I am extremely sorry if you see that I spell Mollee with only one e. I also do alot of spelling errors. Usually because I just type as fast as I can, check for the major flaws and post it.

Second: My school year starts up in September, so if this seems like it's going fast or that it's getting posted fast, that is because it is getting posted before school starts. Not that I hate this story and just want to get it done and over with, but I really want to do 10 times better this school year (not that I was a horrible student, but instead of top thirty, i want to make it to top twenty). Plus I am going to be auditioning for the school play which is sometime in September and means your life turns to hell until November. So the option I have is finish this within the next three weeks, or try to do it with the play, but if I do it will be long periods of time before the next chapters pop up.

Third: I am doing a poll, not on my profile but through your reviews, because your thoughts count. The pole is on something that will last throught the whole story, hopefully. I'm not going to give you a hint why, but I need to know soon. When you review or if you review (which you do because if you don't than you don't get a say in the pole)please list if you would rather see Wicked, Grease, or The Wizard of Oz. However I am leaning toward Wicked, but I would like to see if you outvote me. But there is also the option that you send me popular songs that a group could sing and i could work with those, like glee songs

Thanks,

Ali

BPOV

I wanted so badly to just kiss Edward forever, but then I came back to reality and realized, what the hell am I doing? Bella Swan never acted this way. I was shy, safe, and was hurt by men too many times. Why was I so easily letting Edward into my life? What made him so special? Was it that fact that he was sweet, sensitive, and above all, caring? Or that he looked like a Greek God? I had no idea, but it was going to kill me throughout the rest of the evening.

After the interruptiong of our family and the confession to the fact that we both felt something between each other, I picked myself off the floor and hurried through the kitchen, and up the stairs. I wanted to be alone, for five seconds. That's alot to ask when you're a mother of three, but I knew my kids were in the good care of their Aunts and Uncles for the time being. I made it to my room, locked the door, and flew to my bed, screaming into a pillow. Why did I suddenly feel like a seventeen year old again?

"Bella?" Someone called along with a knock. I picked my head up off the pillow.

"Go away, I need to be alone for a second okay." I slammed my head back onto the pillow and tried to get myself to calm down. Rose sighed from the other side of the door.

"Don't make me bust down this door!" Alice said, trying to sound menacing.

"You wouldn't fucking do that, you'd break a nail Barbie Girl." Rose said.

"I thought we had to watch our language Rosie." Alice said sarcastically.

"That's when there were kids around, we're all adults up here, though you probably could get on the Kiddie rides at Six Flags." I laughed lightly. Reluctantly, I got off the bed and shuffled to the door, unlocking it for my two best friends. On the other side, Alice and Rose were glaring at each other. It hadn't seemed to dawn on them that I had openned the door.

"Are you going to come in? Or can I shut the door and go back to losing my mind?" I asked, walking over to the bed, leaving the door open. Alice and Rose seemed to shake off whatever was going on between the two of them and rush into the room after closing the door. They came and sat on either side of me.

"So what happened?" Alice asked. I rolled my eyes.

"What did it look like? We kissed." I said.

"I'll say." Rose commented. "That was some kiss Bella." I groaned and throw myself back onto my bed.

"What is wrong with me?" I asked. "I mean, I'm a mom, I'm not suppose to act this way."

"You're also young, and you've never really had fun." Alice said. I glared at her.

"But I'm not suppose to have fun." I practically yelled. "I messed up. I got pregnant at a young age and my days of fun were taken away as punishment."

"That's not your fault Bells." Rosalie tried to sooth, taking my hand. "It's that vile, low life's fault."

"And you'll never see him again because Charlie made sure that he would be gone for a very long time." Alice added. I sighed. I guess that was one good thing about having a father who was the Chief of Police. He put away the bastard that gave me Jesse for life, and made sure that I got plenty of support with Jesse and raising him.

"I know, it's just, I don't want to try again, okay? Look were it got me last time, a bunch of divorce papers and two more children." Rosalie looked at me horrified.

"You say that like you didn't want your kids Bella." She said. My eyes widdened. Was I really that much of a bitch that I would put this whole thing on my kids?

"That's not what I meant." I said. "I want my kids to have a stable life, I don't want Jesse to get his hopes up with another man in the house."

"Oh please," Alice scoffed. "Eric never had any balls to begin with, how you ever concived two kids with that saggy vagina is beyond me." I was shocked.

"Where did that come from?" Rose asked, shocked too. Alice looked at us and gave a big smile.

"You can't say anything until we announce it after dinner, but I'm pregnant." The three of us all squealed together. When we stopped and called down, Rose placed her hand on Alice's stomach.

"God, you're downstairs will look like shit after all the kids you and Jasper plan to push out." Alice and I laughed at Rose's comment. Once we were sobered up, Alice turned to me.

"Are you seriously concerned on just the kids?" She asked. My eyebrow rose as I looked at my friend questionably.

"Yeah...?" I answered, unsure if it was what she wanted to here. Rose rolled her eyes.

"She means is the reason why you're freaking out about what is happening is over what you want for your kids or that fact that your scared?" Rose asked. "Or is it because you think you will be no good since you haven't done it in five years?" I stared at Rose in horror.

"Can I go with the first and second reasons and forget you even said the third?" I asked back, blushing like a maniac. Alice giggled.

"Sure, but let it go on the record that you ignored that option." She said. I rolled my eyes.

"Look, I don't spend alot of time looking out for myself anymore, I have three kids to look after."

"Exactly!" Rose half yelled. "You have never looked out for what's good for you. You want what is best for your family, which is great, but sometimes the only way you find that is by doing what you want!"

"Rose is right." Alice said. "Take us for example. If hadn't started my own clothing line, than I would be another house mother. Now I bring a paycheck to the family, can educate my kids in fashion and still stay at home, as long as I get my work done."

"Yeah," Rose added. "And if I hadn't decided that I needed a weekend away from the family every three months, than my kids or more my husband would have been dead from all of my stress." I tried to laugh at my friends crazy examples, but it sounded like I was trying to hard.

"There's one thing you guys have that I don't have, husbands. I just have Jesse, and I don't want him to play father at 16." I said. Rose sighed.

"Your killing our ideas of cheering you up Bells."

"All we are saying, is once in awhile you should make a plan for you instead of your whole family and see where the chips fall." Alice said.

"So what do I do with Edward?" I asked.

"Let the chips fall where they may, you never know what will happen." Alice said wisely. Rose and I stared at her blankly. "What?" She asked.

"Do you have a wise mood swing when you are pregnant?" I asked. Alice giggled.

"Sorry, um how about, date him, get to know him and see how things play out. You are in a way a family, but see if you can make it your own personal family. The kids seem to like each other and the opposite parent." I nodded. That sounded reasonable.

"Okay, that sounds like a plan." I declared, smiling at my two best friend. I was going to do something for myself for the first time in sixteen years. I was going to date again, a man that was respected and who my kids adored. I was going to have fun, even if it killed me.

EPOV

Dinner had been quiet entertaining. The kids had all sat at one end of the large table, entertaining one another with silly jokes and stories, while the others bonded and talked about school, music and movies. At the adult end of the table, things were quiet crazier. Emmett had mananged to fling exactly twelve peas perfectly into Rose's cleavage, earning himself fifty buck from Jasper and a well earned glare from Rose. Alice talked animatedly to Rose and Bella about having another "Mommy Weekend". From what I heard from Jasper and Emmett and the little I was hearing from the girls conversation, I learned the weekend was hell for the guys and heaven for the girls. Bella, Rose and Alice went away for a whole weekend, shutting off their phones and the only way they could be reached was via the hotel or spa phones. I wasn't an idiot to figure out that most of Alice's and Rose's recent pregnancies had been do to a little too much fun when Mommy came home.

Bella had been very outgoing the rest of the evening. I choked on my water when she placed her hand on my knee in the middle of dinner. She laughed and joked with her brother, and even asked Alice if they could go shopping, which sent Alice into shock. I didn't know much about Bella or how she acted and everything, but she did not seem like the girl to like shopping.

At a little around 8:30, the house was less of a disaster from all the dishes and scattered crumbs of dinner. Jesse had definatly been right, Bella's cooking was amazing. I wanted nothing more than to keep eating it. If I date Bella, I will definatly have to get a membership at a gym or I am going to become the size of a house.

All the adults were sitting outside on the back porch with the kids running around in the yard, throwing balls and leaves at each other. It was oddly a very nice evening for late November.

"Everyone," Alice said, standing up from her position on Jasper's lap. "Jazz and I have an anouncement." I started to laugh.

"She's still hell bent on calling you Jazz?" I aske him. Jazz shrugged and took a sip of his beer.

"Whatever, Eddie." He said. I glared at my older brother. There were two things that I hated the most in this world, my childrens mothers, and the name Eddie.

"Anyway," Alice butted into our brotherly banter. "As I was saying before I was rudely interuppted by Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumbass, Jazz and I are going to have another baby." Bella and Rose looked at each other with a look of knowledge. Women, how they can already tell someone is pregnant is beyond me.

"Again?" Emmett asked, looking up from feeding Lily. "How many kids do you want?"

"It's not that we want alot of kids or no kids," Jasper said. "To us, every kid we have makes our love grow stronger and proves that we still love and care enough to have a family and express your love."

"Trust me, you don't need kids to let people know you express your love." Bella said. "Weren't you the two kids they caught screwing around at Sea World when we were in college?" Jasper's cheeks turned red and Alice was trying not to look embarrased.

"Your point?" She asked. Bella shrugged.

"You don't seem to have a problem showing people you love each other. Even when you two just look at each other, your eyes are full of love and care, and makes people jealous down to their cores because they see what you have and they want it, forbidden fruit." She said casually. I stared at Bella. She was really a deep person. She came up with that all on the spot and it was so heart felt and caring.

"Oooh, Marked refernece!" Alice clapped her hands together and squealed. Rose rolled her eyes with a laugh. Marked reference?

"What?" I asked confused. Everyone in the group turned and looked at me, shocked.

"You don't know?" Emmett asked. I shook my head.

"I have no clue what you are talking about." I admitted.

"The book Marked, by I. Crane?" Rose asked. I thought for a moment.

"I've seen Mollee with her books, but I haven't really read or heard much of them." There was a gagging soung and I turned to see Bella pretending to be stabbed.

"Ow Edward, that hurts." Bella smiled. She laughed before turning fully to me.

"She also wrote On My Own, and The Extremely Young Parent's Guide for 20-30 year olds. Of course she signs those Isa Marie."

"I have actually read those books, and have to say I love them. I'm pretty sure they were meant for woman to read, but it had helped me with Mollee, Sammy and Nicky." I admitted, knowing that Jasper and Emmett were going to give me hell for this. Bella smiled sweetly at me.

"You are familiar with my work." My eyebrow rose and I cocked my head to the side.

"What?" Everyone else started to laugh.

"Dude," Emmett said. "Bella is I. Crane and Isa Marie." I stared, shocked at Bella. This tiny, beautiful angel came up such an easy guide to raising kids. The book sounded like it was written by someone much older than us, someone who had in a way made the same mistakes as us, and was trying to tell us that everything was going to be okay. I looked closely at Bella. She had to have gone through alot to have such emotions and feelings to write about how to be a parent and the hardships of it. She's been through hell and back with these kids.

"You have an amazing writing talent." I told her truthfully. Bella blushed and looked down at her beer bottle.

"It's nothing, just something that never left me through out all my mistakes." She said in a soft voice. She was so wise for someone in their thirties.

"Mommy!" We all turned to see little Michelle running towards us with Colette and Nicky hot on her tail. "Mommy, Can Collette and Nicky stay over?" Bella smiled at her daughter.

"I don't see why not. But they have to make sure it's okay with their parents." The three kids nodded. Nicky turned to me.

"Daddy, can I stay with Princess Bella?" My cheeks turned slightly pink and the prince and princess reference for yesterday. I looked down at my son.

"If Miss Bella says it's okay than you can stay." I turned to Bella. "Do you really not mind him staying?" I asked, not wanting to intrude too much into her life. She smiled brightly at me.

"Of course not! Him and Michelle have become great friends, it will be good for them." I nodded. It would be good for Nicky for sure. He was a very shy child himself and hadn't made any friends in his kindergarten class.

"What about me, Mommy?" Collette looked pleadingly at Alice. I laughed at her and Alice's similarities. Collette looked like a mini version of Alice, she had shoulder length black hair, big, bright blue eyes, and was shorter than any six year old I have meet. Colette also had Jasper wrapped around her little finger. She was definatly a Daddy's girl.

"You can stay sweetie." Alice said laughing. Jasper pouted from behind her.

"Why do I never get asked any of these questions first?" He asked. Alice smiled sweetly at him.

"Because you're too much of a softy, and she knows to always ask Mommy first." Alice explained. She kissed Jasper on the cheek. Jasper said he would go to both my house and his and pick up clothes for the kids so everyone else could say goodbye. Rose decided it was best if her and Emmett and the kids left now because Lily was already asleep and it was past Kyle's bedtime, though Kyle was insisting he wasn't leaving. So Alice said Kyle could stay over at her house with the twins. Rose, Emmett, Sophie, Alex and Lily all left to their house first. Jesse told Bella he was going to spend the night at a friends house, so the kids could have more room. Mollee said she wanted to spend the night at her friend Bridgets house, and Jesse agreed to drive her there because it was on the way. I was suprised at how okay I was with this. Once Jasper came back and rounded up his wife, sons and nephew, it was just Bella and I and all our kids.

"Thanks for letting Nicky stay the night, are you sure it's not a problem?" I asked as Bella walked me to the door. Sammy had already said her goodbyes and was waiting in the car.

"Of course not, they're all friends, it's going to be fun." She smiled sweetle at me. I looked at her lips and suddenly we were kissing. It started out sweet and innocent, but soon turned into a passionate, steamy kiss. After a few minutes we had to pull away, both of us desperate for air and goofy grins plastered on my face.

"So...?" Bella said. I looked confused at her.

"So what?" I asked. She shuffled from foot to foot.

"So what are we?" She asked, shy and bashful.

"Human?" Bella laughed.

"No, are we dating, parents of our kids, friends...?" I rubbed the back of my neck.

"I don't really know." I admitted. "I'd like to ask you on a date before we name what we are." She nodded.

"So are you asking me out?" She asked in a joking, yet serious tone. I smiled at her.

"Yes, yes I am." I said. "Dinner tomorrow night?"

"I'd like that." She said. We shared one last kiss before I made my way to my car and prayed to God tomorrow would come faster.