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Hurricane Charlie

Bella

On Friday morning the girls and I spread out in the kitchen while the guys used my home office to work. I was surprised we got any work done at all with Emmett's booming voice constantly interrupting our thoughts and conversations. Then of course was the fact that he was constantly eating and every time he came into the kitchen to restock his plate he had to rub up on Rosalie for a while.

Finally we were able to pack the book up and gather our things to leave. Since Jacob was coming with us on the trip he and I would review the book on the plane and then he would upload the changes via scanner from the jet and email them to his department giving them the rest of the day to begin working on things. All in all it was a productive morning.

Our social calendar's were really starting to fill up and it had not gone unnoticed that invitations that I usually received for Miss Bella Swan and guest now came addressed to Mr. Edward Cullen and Miss Bella Swan. The season would kick off with the Women In Publishing's Woman of the Year ceremony. After that would be the annual Haute Halloween Party, which had become a society must and was Alice's baby. The month of November would be exhausting, every weekend we were set to attend charity events, cocktail parties, society events etc. Between Edward's schedule and my own, Angela had become great friends with Edward's assistant Gianna.

December would be even worse than November, as of September 1st our December calendar was already busting at the seams. Thankfully we could use Christmas as an excuse to get out of many events. There were many nights that Edward and I were double booked for events and would have to leave one event to attend another. Tanya was already going crazy working out wardrobe for us and according to Alice my instincts had been right, Tanya was up to task.

December would end as only a New York New Years Eve can, with the annual Black and White Ball. Of all of the events we were going to attend, many of which I knew would be fun. The Black and White Ball was the event I was truly looking forward to and this year I would be surprising the kids that night with a present.

The publicity that Edward and had received due to our relationship had pushed our friends and Edward's parents into the spotlight and due to this, Carlisle and Esme had been asked to host the ball this year. Carlisle and Esme had become society royalty in the last few months, first due to Edward and I but soon their charm and impeccable politeness made them society favorites. Esme's interior design business now had a wait list and Carlisle had to stop taking new patients.

All of this yet Alice was still dragging her feet on showing me her design sketch book, so I had Jasper snatch it from her apartment. I would be using the flight to get a feel for the caliber of Alice's talent and talk to her about her plans. There was one other thing that needed to be accomplished on the plane and with six of us + Jake it should be a snap. It would be a busy, working flight, which was my plan to keep the guys from having to much time to fret about Charlie.

I was shooting off a quick email to Angela regarding scheduling changes for the following week when strong warm arms circled my waist. I smiled but kept typing determined to get the email off to Angela before we left for the airport.

"This is bad for my self esteem Bella," Edwards whispered into my neck. The combination of his lips moving against me and his warm breath washing over my skin caused me to shiver. "Ahhhh, that's better," he chuckled.

"I just need thirty more seconds and I'm good for the weekend," I answered still focused on my laptop.

"Ok, I'm counting," he answered petulantly and began quietly counting under his breath as I continued to type, and smile.

I typed the last period and then slammed my laptop closed, "I do believe I have thirteen seconds to spare Mr. Cullen. I have a very good work ethic, I try and complete my tasks early as often as possible so that the boss man is impressed by me," I said as I leaned my head to the side allowing him to spread soft sensual kisses from my collarbone up to my ear.

"I wouldn't worry about the boss man being impressed with you Miss Swan, I think your boss gave up on doing anything but worshiping your very, very fine, sweet ass sometime back," Edward replied huskily.

I laughed and pulled away from him walking towards our bedroom, "You are a sexual harassment suit waiting to happen my friend," I called over my shoulder laughing as he fell to his knees clutching his heart behind me.

"You would leave me here in this state my favoritist girlfriend in the world?" He asked gesturing to his very obvious erection.

"I have to change so we can leave Edward, I don't want to be late to Charlie's," I called out shutting our bedroom door and then laughing as I heard Emmett.

"Bet that took care of your little problem huh Eddie."

"Don't even pretend that the mention of Charlie wouldn't do the same service for you dude," Edward retorted.

I rolled my eyes and walked to my closet choosing a bra and panty set that Edward had picked at La Perla, and pair of insanely expensive dark skinny jeans that Alice insisted did miraculous things for my ass. I opened a brand new pack of Hanes kids size wifebeaters and slipped one on with a white Chanel kimono style sweater on top. I stood staring at the ridiculous number of shoes and finally chose some black motorcycle boots that I bought in college. That would be sure to send Alice into an alternate universe.

I smiled and picked up a small Fendi swing bag filling it with a tube of the lipgloss that seemed to drive Edward crazy, my ID, and some cash. Then I threw open my bedroom door, "Let's go bitches!"

*****

"The new Louis ad's are really dark, it will be difficult to find something appropriate to pair it with. I think we should try and get them to make it a two page spread," Jacob said as he read my note to move it to a different location.

"Get marketing on that, tell them not to take no for an answer, offer them a deep discount for the second page only but if they refuse we are dropping it from the issue," I instructed as we finished up our review of the book.

"No problem, I'll get on it," Jacob said as he continued to study the ad. "There is one more thing, while we are in Fork's I need you to meet with Leah Clearwater. Apparently people in town keep telling her she is so pretty she should be a model. She wants to give it a try but the tribe doesn't want her to get her hopes up. Billy asked if you could meet with her and see what you think."

I nodded absent minded, "Have you seen her?"

"Not since I left for New York, she just turned 18, Sam did mention that she is hot but what the hell does Sam know?"

"Did you bring your camera?" I asked.

"Yup."

"Alright, we will go see Little Leah Clearwater and see what she's got," I smiled.

"Thanks Bella, my Dad has been all over me about this for a while, I really appreciate it," Jacob shrugged sheepishly.

Billy could be quite the force of nature when he wanted something so I was pretty certain Jacob was downplaying the haranguing he had endured. "It's no problem, she deserves to have an honest opinion of her chances from people who know the industry. You should have jut asked Jake, we could have sent the jet for her and seen her in New York without you having to put up with Billy's nagging. Aren't we still friends Jake?"

Jake took a deep breath and sighed crossing his arms in front of his chest. "Bella we dated, if it were up to me we would still be dating. I'm still working on this friends thing but I'll get there," he said smiling sadly. "I do think you did a good job with the chick magnet over there, he looks at you like his sun and moon rise and set in you."

I smiled glancing in Edward's direction to find him deep in discussion with Jasper and presumably Emmett who was staring intently at Rosalie. "Yeah, he is really something. It just so happens that my sun and moon set in him too." I turned back to Jake and frowned slightly. "I hope you aren't planning on going all team Charlie and making things difficult for Edward this weekend."

Jake grinned ear to ear. "Tell you what Bells, I won't jump on the torture Edward welcome wagon that Charlie is planning as a birthday present to you. But, you know Charlie is like a second Dad to me so there will be a certain amount of participation involved."

I rolled my eyes and waved Jake off to start his work. I pulled out Alice's sketchbook that Japer had smuggled to me and opened to the first page gasping. I carefully studied the vision before me completely focused and entranced by the artistry. As I continued to flip through the pages each design was more intricate and beautiful than the last. Towards the end were a series of ball gowns and finally the last page was the grand finale of every designers fashion show, the wedding gown.

My breath caught as I examined the sketch, Alice was obviously gifted beyond her own understanding and tremendously passionate. I closed the book and tucked it into my briefcase as my plan took shape. I pulled out a small leather bound journal that I kept with me for times like this and began jotting down my ideas and then looked up to find that whatever it was Edward had been discussing with Jasper seemed to have been concluded. They looked relaxed each with a beer laughing freely. Once I caught his attention I motioned him over with a tilt of my head.

Edward smiled and stood gracefully pausing briefly to pull another beer from the ice bucket and then headed towards me. My breath caught as I watched him move towards me, everything about him was perfection. He kissed me softly and then sat across from me. "You look very serious Miss Swan, planning a corporate takeover?" He smirked.

I returned his smirk. "I may be very sneaky and buy out Vogue someday just to fire Jane but other then that, no current plans for corporate espionage. I am making a snap decision and I want to get your take on it."

Edward snapped into business mode instantly, I quickly reviewed my ideas with Edward getting more excited with each word, he asked pointed and relevant questions some of which I answered, some that I wrote down for further research or thought. Once we had covered everything we could think of he smiled at me holding up his bottle of beer, I lifted my own to toast with him.

"To a sure thing," He offered as his toast.

The business woman in me wanted to chide him, there was no such thing as a sure thing but I had nothing but confidence in my new venture which would roll out immediately. I clinked my bottle against his and smiled. "Thank you Edward."

We each took a pull from our beer. "I am curious as to why you wanted to run this by me. It seems that you thought of just about everything and your business savvy is above reproach, what gives?" He asked.

I took another pull from my beer and thought carefully about his question. "We have made our intentions clear, our present and our futures will continue to intertwine until they are one."

Edward nodded without hesitation making my heart flutter, "I only plan on marrying once Edward and I would never consider having a pre-nup. Once we marry our assets will blend, what's mine is yours and what not. This will be a huge investment on my part and with our future plans in mind I think you should have a say. Even if I didn't plan on making such a large investment, I value your opinion's and judgment, I want to know your thoughts."

I watched his face carefully as I spoke, his expressions changed quickly, many of which I did not recognize. He was quiet for some time stroking his jaw slowly. I was starting to get nervous maybe his level of commitment wasn't quite what I thought it was, I quietly exhaled as he spoke.

"Bella, I have to ask you something and I have to admit that I am very uncomfortable doing so. That being the case, before I ask you how much you are worth I will tell you a little about my financials." He took a deep breath and I nodded knowing that we would have to have this conversation at some point so now was as good as ever.

"I have a trust that was left to me from my grandfather, that's about twenty million. In addition to the cash my grandfathers house in Chicago, a villa in Florence as well as art and heirlooms totally an additional fifty million approximately if I ever sold which I wouldn't as those are items that will pass to future Cullen generations. My personal assets include another twenty liquid including investments plus my house in LA and a condo in Cancun, which are worth about five combined. Lastly are my holdings in Cullen publishing which are priceless, when I became CEO each of the other board members gave me 1% of their holdings making me the majority shareholder. We have a fathom shareholder as most companies owned by families do, that is where we got the holdings that we sold to you."

He leaned back and took a pull from his beer indicating that he was done and then he took a deep breath, I hoped that he would take these numbers in stride.

"Well," I began. "I have about five hundred million in liquid assets including investments which are in my name. As you know I own the building we live in, the building across the street and a third about a quarter mile down the street. There are also several other properties on Seventh and Fifth Avenue. I have homes in Forks, Seattle, San Francisco, Malibu, Paris, Milan, Greece, and Spain. I have land in Washington, California, Arizona, Florida, New York, Maine, and all across the Mediterranean. I have dummy holding companies that I fund my charities through I also make my riskier investments through dummy holding companies to keep them separate from my assets. Then there is jewelry, personal property, antiques, the jet and various collections all in all another eight to nine hundred million. Give or take ten million "

I downed the rest of my beer and sat back waiting for Edward's reaction.

Edward

HOLY MOTHER FUCKING SHIT!

Did she honestly just say give or take ten million? My mind was swimming with the numbers that she was throwing around, and how the fuck did these dummy companies not come up in Jasper's background check? They must be very well hidden.

I didn't know what to do or say but half of me wanted to take a vacation and visit all of her properties. I set my beer down and ran my hands through my hair tugging at it to the point where it became painful when something occurred me.

Why the fuck did it matter?

I had no plans of ever ending my relationship with Bella. We would be together ALL the days of our lives so why should the lack of a pre-nup bother me? If for some crazy as hell reason we did break up we would each leave the marriage with what we came in with and we would equally split what was acquired during the marriage. That's fair, right?

"Bella, I'm glad you came to me to discuss this investment, I support it fully. As far as our future is concerned, emotionally it is certain and on course, I will never let you go. Financially I am fine with your decision not to want a pre-nup. But I want you to know that if you're ever change your mind, I would be fine with that as well. I have no problem with you wanting to protect yourself and I don't think it would diminish what we have in the slightest." I smiled and leaned forward taking her hand and kissing her palm softly before setting it back in her lap and leaning back in my chair.

Bella smiled at me and her eyes became shiny. She swallowed hard several times and even still her voice cracked a bit as she spoke.

"Edward, if I lost everything tomorrow would you still want me?" She asked shakily.

I slammed my beer bottle onto the side table bringing the conversations on the other side of the jet to a halt.

"I love you Bella, I love you to the core. You have penetrated more than my heart, I feel you in my skin, in my bones, in the very fiber of what makes me who I am. That is a ridiculous fucking question, you could never lose everything you have tomorrow because you will always have me." The fervor of my speech was shocking even to me, Bella looked a little startled but I wouldn't change a thing, if she didn't feel the same I deserved to know.

Bella recovered quickly and her eyes became fierce as her eyes bore into mine. "Good, then you understand why I wouldn't even consider a pre-nup. I am giving you all of me and that includes some stuff. The stuff comes with me just like yours comes with you," She said acerbically.

We stared at each other in silence for a while as the enormity of our confessions sunk in and before long the euphoria began to permeate the air surrounding us, soon we were grinning at each other like lovesick puppies.

"So when are we going to Paris, Florence, Milan, and Greece," I asked.

"We're going to Paris at the end of this month for fashion week. When are we going to Cancun?" She asked giggling.

I reached across to her pulling her into my lap. "Anytime you want baby, I would do anything, go anywhere for you," I said into her neck as I kissed her softly.

"No fair Mr. Cullen," Bella said huskily. "We have more things to discuss."

I sighed as she slipped off of my lap and sat in her chair. "Ok, what else is there to discuss?" I asked.

"The February issue, something surprising has happened and even though I am certain things will shift well before it's time to shoot. I think you need to know," she explained with a slightly worrisome expression.

I leaned forward a slight anxiety coming over me, I didn't like for Bella to be upset or worried in any way. "What is it Bella?"

"Well," she began. "The bidding has started and the fever is spreading like wildfire. The fashion, music, and celebrity communities have taken notice and are dying with anticipation." She explained, or should I say stalled.

I nodded indicating she should continue. "There is one couple in particular that has come out in the lead as far as bids go," She continued taking a deep breath. "It's us Edward, we are in the lead, by quite a large margin. Bids will be taken through mid November and I am sure our fifteen minutes will be up long before that but, I thought you should know." She said biting her lip.

I erupted into a deep belly laugh. "Please tell me your kidding." I choked out through my laughter but I sobered slightly at her still nervous and serious expression. "No way, what about Brad and Angelina, Gwen and Gavin, Ben and Jennifer, Jay-Z and Beyonce? We can't be beating out all of them?"

Bella bit into her bottom lip, scrunched up her face and shrugged sheepishly. There was my answer.

"Well fuck it, so what if we make it in, we'll have some nice pictures to show our kids right?

I watched with fascination as a tinge of pink dotted each of her cheeks and a small smile spread across her face.

"Does that make you happy Bella, to think of little Bella's and Edward's running around in a quest towards global domination?"

Bella averted her gaze as the pink in her cheeks deepened until she finally looked up and met my gaze. "Yes Edward, that does make me very happy."

We stared at each other intently until she ended the moment. "Come on, there is only an hour left and there is still a lot to accomplish. Lets join the others." She got up and held her hand out and as I took it I somehow knew that of all the moments we shared both physical and emotional something had just happened that changed things.

We truly became a couple.

I just hoped her Dad would me live long enough to enjoy it.

*****

Bella

I grabbed the small digital recorder out of my briefcase and Edward and I joined the rest of the group. "Time to get to work kiddies," I said to a chorus of groans.

"Dude, do we have to listen to her? She's not our boss. Right?" Emmett asked Edward with a raised eyebrow. He held his hands up in surrender.

"Edward has a homework assignment and we are all gonna help him." I pressed the record button and set the recorder down on small coffee table and then got comfy in Edward's lap.

"Ok, this is research for the February issue of Haute, the topic is. . . . ." I gestured to Alice, Rosalie and Jake who began smacking their thighs in a drumroll soon to be joined by Jas, Em, and Edward. I giggled and made the cut throat sign and we all went silent. "BLOWJOBS, the good, the bad and the Holy Hell, where did she learn to do that shit?"

Emmett stood pumping his fist in the air. "Ohhhhhh yeahhhhhhh!!!"

We all laughed and Rosalie pulled him back down into his seat.

"Ok, lets start with. The Bad." I said dramatically. "Jake, go."

Jake didn't even need a moment to think, "Ice!" He said and then made a face and a whistling noise that the rest of the guys involuntarily mimicked.

"Tell us all about it Jakey," Alice laughed.

"Ok," he said leaning forward animated and excited. "I was dating this girl who I shit you not was a fucking bikini model." He closed his eyes for a moment pausing and obviously enjoying the memory of her.

"Anyway, she was so damn hot and fucking beautiful. Things were going really well for us, we had a lot in common. She was funny, smart, hot, and one night we were at her place, hanging out in the living room and things were getting pretty serious. Anyway, she unzipped me and gets down to business and I think at some point I may have started levitating it was so damn good. Then she reaches over and picks up her drink and takes a sip, I was kind of confused but really what the fuck do I care right? Next thing I know, she takes me back in her mouth and she's got a fucking ice cube in there! That ice hit my dick and I swear to god the gopher and his hamster buddies crawled right up into me and refused to come back out again until they had my assurance that I would never let her near us ever again! I never spoke to her again."

Us girls laughed profusely, the guys looked at him with empathy. It looked as it that ice shit never ended well. "Would it have gone better for you and your furry friends if she would have warned you?" I managed to snort out. Edward frowned at my insensitivity sending me into a fresh fit of laughter.

"No!" Em, Jas, and Jake answered simultaneously.

"I would have appreciated the warning so that I could have stopped her but no, it would not have been better." Jake said shuddering at the memory.

"Ok, Emmett?" Jake said passing the torch.

Jasper and Edward groaned not at all excited to hear Emmett recount this particular tale.

"You two unfeeling assholes can go fuck yourselves ok," Emmett snapped.

Oh, this was going to be good, I rubbed my hands together and giggled watching as Rosalie's brow ruffled. Emmett might be lucky to get out of this with all limbs in tact.

"This is a cautionary tale of not taking on more then you can handle!" He looked around for a moment and then turned to me, "Do you have one of those easel thingies with the huge paper and a sharpie?" He was totally serious.

I shook my head laughing and then laughed even harder as Emmett frowned but then shrugged as he decided to go on with the story without it.

"So, it's my junior year of high school, I had steered the meat boat through the tuna sea many a times but I had yet to have my dingle-dangle doodled."

The room fell quiet in disbelief and slight confusion. "Em, did you just call your dick a dingle-dangle?" Edward asked in disbelief, "Cause a dingle sounds. . . . . insubstantial." Edward said with a smile.

"Oh it's substantial bitch, don't fucking mess around like that cause I will pull it out right here, right now and prove you wrong," Emmett snapped as he went for his belt buckle.

"NO!" we all shouted through laughter.

"Stop interrupting," Emmett demanded. "So anyway, our high school had a carnival right before Homecoming every year and me and these two douche bags went together this particular year. We were hanging out around the Ferris wheel looking for action when this hot ass fuck senior cheerleader walked up and grabbed my arm pulling me with her. She was pissed at her boyfriend who she had caught with one over her fellow cheer whores, he was getting his knob polished when she caught him so she wanted to get back at him. I was totally on board with the revenge plan. Anyway, she didn't want to get caught like they did so she took me to the rowboats.

So we get into the boat and I row us out to the middle of the lake where we are completely alone and after a heavy make out session she decides to get started. It was a little awkward but we decided that I would sit on the side of the boat, so I whip out Mr. Happy and she got a little scared so I did a cheer for her. What? Why are you laughing she was a cheerleader! Anyway, she didn't really know what to do with all that meat but she was making a go of it but then she went to deep and choked. She got scared and pushed away from me and I started tipping over the side so she grabbed me and pulled me back into the boat but my pants were twisted around my feet and I tripped and fell into the boat. My head smashed into the other side of the boat so hard I lost consciousness but don't worry I was out for less than a second before my junk smashed into the bench which jarred me back into consciousness."

The guys all looked like they were experiencing sympathy pains for Emmett, while us girls were trying desperately to control our laughter. Jasper took other the story from there.

"After a while we started to wonder where the hell Emmett disappeared to so, we started looking for them. That's when we saw the chick waving from the boat, we rowed out to find Emmett's buck-naked ass writhing around in the boat.

"We traded our boat to the girl so we could get Emmett's dumb ass back to shore. Then we had to get his damn pants up and get him into his huge ass lifted Jeep. He was the biggest pain in the ass, yelling, cussing and drawing all kinds of attention the entire way," Jasper remembered smirking at Emmett the entire time.

Rosie, Alice, and I were practically choking with laughter. "So like I said, don't take on more than you can handle." Emmett demanded again giving us a very grave face, which sent us into a fresh round of giggles.

"Or don't bite off more than you can chew?" Alice giggled.

"Don't let your eyes get bigger than your stomach," Rosalie said with mock seriousness.

I could feel Edward chuckling under me, which made me laugh even harder.

I checked my watch and then turned to Jasper, "We have time for one more." I said with a grin.

Jasper opened his mouth to begin but was interrupted by Edward and Emmett's laughter. "Shut up assholes!" Jasper demanded.

"Ruff ruff ruff ruff . . . . . grrrrrrrrrrr," Emmett was barking and growling in the voice of a small dog. We all laughed in response while Jasper gave Emmett the evil eye.

"May I continue Conan?" Jasper spat. He rolled his eyes and then leaned forward resting his elbows on his knees.

"Please refrain from enjoying copious amounts of alcohol, large meals, or both before engaging in fellatio ladies. When the three of us were in college and I was dating 'The Girl'," he said using air quotes as he referred to the woman that we now referred to as 'The come barker'. "We went out to a nice dinner one night, it was supposed to be a guys night of taco's and video games but then she decided to tag along and we ended up at a steak house. She of course ordered an appetizer, salad, the most expensive entrée on the menu, and dessert. She ate everything!

At the restaurant she had 3 or 4 martinis. When we were done with dinner she decided we should go to a club and once we got there she decided we could only be seen in VIP. So were sitting in VIP and these two douche bags took of and left me alone with the gold digger. We were there for hours and had gone through several bottles of champagne and half a bottle of vodka and I was starting to get really irritated, I wanted to leave.

She of course wanted to stay and since we were alone and the VIP area we were in was secluded she decided to pacify me with a blowjob. She was down there getting the prep work done, you know . . . prep work?"

The tree of us laughed at his unease. "Yes Jasper, she was getting you good and lubed, we get it," Rosalie laughed.

"Yeah well the next thing I know, these two assholes show up right in front of me just as she goes deep making her gag. Suddenly I've got surf and turf mixed with fucking sour apple martinis all over my dick and my pants. I had to rinse my pants off in the bathroom and then wear them home with a big wet spot in front."

We were snorting and gasping for breath through our laughter. "That was the most disgusting, funniest story I ever heard," Alice cried while tears streamed down her cheeks.

"Miss Swan, we need to prepare for landing now. If everyone could buckle up please?" The flight attendant asked smiling.

"Of course Marjorie, thank you very much," I answered as I leaned over and plucked the digital recorder off of the table clicking it off and handing it to Edward. "This should be a good start," I said smiling.

"This is going to be one scary article," Edward said rolling his eyes.

I climbed off of his lap and settled into the chair beside him buckling in as the jet started to descend.

We shared a smile and held hands, only minutes had passed before we were landing and I could sense Edward's nervousness. I was feeling a little nervousness of my own.

*****

Edward

Bella and I hung back letting the others go ahead of us, by the time we made our way down the steps Alice and Rosalie were completely wrapped around a man who could never be mistaken for anyone other then Bella's father.

Alice was on his back piggyback style while he had an arm wrapped around Rosalie's shoulders. A huge smile spread over Bella's face as she took in the scene before her, I grinned as I watched her already contemplating future trips to forks to see that smile again.

"Alice get down, the man is a retiree for gods sake!" Bella admonished.

Alice pouted but climbed down her head hanging just a bit. She picked up Charlie's hand and held it tightly as she continued her silent tantrum. I knew that I would take whatever this man threw at me. It was easy to see the adoration, affection, and loyalty these three beautiful, intelligent, and successful women had for him. No matter what, I knew that Charlie Swan was a good man saddled with the task of protecting these women and it was a responsibility he took very seriously.

Charlie rolled his eyes but smiled at his daughter. "Come give your old man a hug," Charlie demanded.

Bella half walked, half skipped to her father throwing her arms around his neck. He untangled himself from a begrudging Alice and Rosalie long enough to wrap his arms around her waist and pick her up shaking her back and forth as he smiled whispering something in her ear. When he set Bella down she moved her arms around her waist as Alice and Rosalie joined in for a group hug while Charlie laughed boisterously.

"I missed you too my beautiful girls," Charlie said in a soft voice.

"You guys are fucked," Jake said as he pushed past us. "Hey Charlie," he called out as he walked over to the lovefest that had convened.

"He's right, we are so fucked," Jasper whispered. And even though I felt thoroughly fucked, I also felt just a bit smug knowing that Jasper finally felt the anxiety that Em and I have since Midnight Margarita's.

The hugfest was breaking up as Charlie was reaching to give Jake a one-armed man hug, I wanted to rip Jake's head off for having Charlie's approval so easily.

"I brought you something a little more appropriate to wear," Charlie said handing Bella a black and white flannel jacket.

"Thanks Dad," Bella said handing her small bag and the flannel to Rosalie who scrunched her nose at the offensive garment. Bella pulled her sweater off revealing a very small, very tight wifebeater underneath, but that was only the start of my problems. Under the wifebeater she wore a sapphire blue lace bra that I had picked out for her at La Perla. I groaned as I remembered with precise accuracy the matching boycut panties she would be wearing with them and because God hates me, there was also the issue of it being September in Forks, WA and evidence to that stood right before me as Bella's nipples strained against the fabric of her clothes.

They were rock fucking hard, just like my cock.

"Do you want to die? Do something about that shit before he kills us all!" Emmett hissed at me gesturing to my uhhhh, yeah.

"So you girls gonna introduce me to these gentleman you brought with you?" Charlie asked as Bella slid the flannel on.

That did it, problem solved. The three of us moved forward, smiles plastered to our faces.

"Daddy, this is Jasper Whitlock." Alice said bouncing to Jasper's side.

"It's nice to meet you Mr. Swan," Jasper smiled extending his hand.

Charlie slowly took Jasper's hand shaking it while he eyed him intensely. "Uh huh, I noticed my Alice was careful to avoid any type of particular relationship label so, what do you say son? Exactly what are you to my girl?"

Jasper gaped for a moment opening and closing his mouth several times and then exhaling sharply. "I'm not sure this boy is smart enough for you Ali. It's not a difficult question son, she already told me you all are sleeping together. So, your having sex and taking trips to meet her Daddy, what the hell are you to her?"

"Ummm, I'm her boyfriend sir," Jasper sputtered.

Charlie folded his arms across his chest. "So then you are sleeping with her?"

"Enough Dad," Bella said firmly.

Charlie harrumphed shooting Jasper a withering Daddy stare and then turned his attention to the next victim.

"Hello Sir, my name is Emmett Cullen and I am Rosalie's boyfriend." I had never seen my brother look so scared in my entire life. Had I not been scared shitless for my turn this would have been the funniest thing I had ever witnessed.

"Rosie, is this guy your boyfriend?" Charlie asked never taking his eyes off of Emmett.

Rosalie snorted folding her arms in front of her, a carbon copy of Charlie's stance. "No!"

Emmett balked giving Rosalie a 'how could you look'. "What, you never asked me to be your girl." Rosalie said and suddenly I was very glad that Bella and I had already had some pretty important conversations working out some relationship issues.

"Do you do hallucinogenic drugs boy? Are you recalling a conversation you never had or are you calling my Rosie crazy?" Ok, I couldn't help myself I was enjoying this.

Emmett looked back and forth between Rosalie and Charlie several times with a look on his face that screamed, I don't know what to do!

"Rosie baby, will you be my girlfriend?" Emmett asked nervously.

Rosalie rolled her eyes and in true Rosalie fashion answered, "Hell no Emmett! Your asking me to be your girlfriend because your afraid my Daddy is going to kick your ass! That is the most unromantic shit I ever heard." She yelled, her eyes glinting with anger.

Through all of his nervousness I felt bad for my brother, his shoulders sagged and he brought his hand up to his forehead. "But Rose, I love you," Emmett said with quiet desperation.

Rosalie's eyes popped open and a dazzling smile came upon her face. "You do?" She asked breathlessly.

Emmett's posture straightened out as his confidence grew, "Of course I do, you're the best thing that ever happened to me baby. I have never had so much fun pissing someone off in my whole entire life."

Rosalie's smile and sparkling eyes told us all how she felt about Emmett. "That's my boyfriend Daddy," she said smiling and tugging at Charlie's arm. Her gaze never broke from Emmett's.

Charlie rolled his eyes and his stare came fixed on me. I swallowed hard and I either smiled or grimaced, I'm not quite sure how it came off.

"Edward Cullen I presume?" Charlie said carefully.

"Yes sir," I answered extending my hand. He took my hand and shook it while he eyed me cautiously.

"It's good to meet you son, I look forward to us spending some time together this weekend," He said putting his arms around my shoulders as he gently led me towards the hanger. He smiled and winked at Bella and then turned to me and very softly whispered, "I want your credit report, investment portfolio, and school transcripts before dinner tomorrow. That goes for those other yahoo's you brought with you as well, understand?"

"Yes Sir." I crocked glad that these items would paint me in a good light.

"Edward, you don't have to call him Sir." Bella said from where she followed us from behind.

"Of course not." Charlie said tightening his grip around my shoulders, "You boys can call me Chief Swan." I didn't think it would be a good time to remind him of his retiree status.

We finally made it to the side of the hanger where an old pickup and a Ford Explorer were parked. The girls all climbed into the pickup with Charlie while we filled up the Explorer and followed behind.

The car was silent except for Jake's snickering, which continued to get louder and more annoying by the second. "Can someone please check my pants, I may have shit myself," Jasper said stoically.

"Mother fuck, that man can teach a class in boyfriend beat downs," Emmett said shaking his head.

"That's not the worst of it fuckers," I said and then relayed the message from Charlie which almost brought Jake to tears.

"When we get back to New York, I'm kicking your ass Black," Emmett hissed which just made Jake laugh harder.

Emmett flung himself against the backseat and mumbled incoherently as we pulled up to a very small unassuming two story house.

"Get the fuck out assholes, I'll see you tonight." Jake said still laughing.

We all got out taking our bags with us, we could still hear Jake laughing as he drove off. Once more I exchanged an uneasy look with Emmett and Jasper, which said, we're fucked'.

The girl's were all laughter and smiles and despite my discomfort I has glad to see Bella so happy and at peace.

From the outside the house looked small, inside it was tiny. As Bella gave me the tour I couldn't help but compare this place to the home that I grew up in. Charlie's home could fit in the foyer of my childhood home. Bella's room was just as she had described it, two twin beds with comforters, which made the owners easily identifiable. Alice's was hot pink and covered with pillows and white teddy bear.

The other had a purple comforter and was tidy with two pillows. I smiled as I walked over and sat at the edge of Bella's bed. "So, where are we all going to sleep?" I asked curiously. When Bella said she had a house in Forks, I just assumed it would be something just a little bigger.

Bella smiled almost like she read my mind. "We're going to stay at my house, this is Charlie's place," she explained.

I got up and hugged her tight to me enjoying the soft warmth of her small curvy body against me. "He's brutal Bella but, I like him a lot. I can see that he would do anything for the three of you. I will take whatever he can dish if I get his approval in the end."

She stood up on her tiptoes and kissed me softly, it was a different kind of kiss from the others we shared, it made me anxious and nervous. When we pulled apart I started at her expression, I cradled her face in my hands rubbing her cheeks with the pads of my thumbs. "What's wrong Bella?"

"There's nothing wrong Edward," she sighed probably completely unaware of how utterly unconvincing she was. "Being here with Charlie, I love it. He is the best Dad a girl can have and you may not believe this right now but he has already accepted the three of you. That's why he is giving you all such a hard time. If he didn't accept you he honestly would have lost his shit, pulled his riffle right off of his gun rack and loaded you back onto the jet by yourselves with the threat of mortality if you ever spoke to us again."

I nodded glad to have the insight. "So why you looking so glum pretty girl?

Bella sat on her bed in the place I had just vacated and I took a knee in front of her resting my hands on her knees and drawing small circles on them.

"I don't know how to explain it, being here in this environment with you and Charlie, my family . . . . I don't miss my mom, but in a way I have a longing for her." She explained with a faraway look in her eyes. I kept silent not wanting her to stop, for all of the conversations we had about Charlie she never spoke of her mother and if anyone else brought her up she would quickly change the subject.

"Renee always wanted to be one of those cool mom's. She wanted to be my best friend; she wanted to be my friend's best friend. She wanted to be the parent that bought the alcohol because she would rather the drinking be done in her house where we were safe then somewhere else," She said with a sigh. "It was a constant disappointment that I wasn't popular, that there were no kids to buy alcohol for, that her house wasn't filled with teenagers every Friday night, that my girlfriends were not congregated on her bed gossiping and trying on her clothes. I guarantee you she hasn't seen the stories regarding us, she would have come to Manhattan already to have her moment in the sun, pandering to the paparazzi, telling them embarrassing stories about me all the while laughing and saying at said embarrassment saying she didn't mean to she was just reminiscing in front of the entire country."

Bella kept her head and eyes down fixated on her hands, which were folded in her lap.

"She's not a bad mom, she's really not a mom at all. In fact, I guess if we were really judging parenting skills you could say that I failed pretty thoroughly at raising her to be a responsible adult." Bella shook her head in disbelief and looked up to meet my gaze, I gulped when I saw the darkness, the desperation in her eyes.

"I hate secrets Edward, Renee ruined all of our lives with her secrets, do you know that I didn't even know about Phil until three days after she married him! She never wanted me but didn't tell anyone she was pregnant until she was to far along to have an abortion. She let Charlie and I believe that she was perfectly happy until the day she took me and ran. The woman systematically pulled our lives apart and used the pieces to put her happy ending together."

She grabbed my hands clutching them tight in hers. "Promise me no secrets Edward and I don't mean presents or special evenings, I mean no keeping important things from each other. Promise me please," She pleaded.

I did not hesitate a moment, "Bella, we're partners now, no secrets. I don't want to have any secrets from you. I want you to know everything, every mind numbing, mundane, ridiculously boring detail of my life," I said smiling reassuringly at her.

Bella hugged me tight to her, the slight tremble running through her did not escape my attention. Whatever it is her mother did to her fucked her up pretty good and in that moment I knew I would always be polite but distant. Watching carefully to ensure that Renee could inflict the least amount of havoc possible in Bella's life.

When she pulled away she was smiling at me and although the smile didn't quite reach her eyes and I knew that she was shaking the moment off. She stood and grabbed my hand heading towards her bedroom door. "Come on, let's go get settled in at my place," she said pulling me.

We walked down the stairs, which lead right into the living room where everyone was settled. Charlie was sitting on the couch in between Alice and Rosalie. Jas was on the love seat and Emmett in an oversized chair. Jas and Em looked so miserable I had to snicker.

"Alright, come on kids lets go get settled in," Bella called out.

Jasper and Emmett jumped up and practically ran to the entryway picking up their bags. I snickered picking up my own bag and then joining them on the front porch to wait for the girls. "That man should go work for the department of defense teaching non-violent torture techniques." Emmett mumbled.

Bella and the girls finally came out to meet us still smiles and laughs, we walked around the side of the house to a detached garage that obviously built recently.

She hit a button on the side and the door slid open revealing a large Dodge Durango. We all climbed in and Bella began the drive.

*****

Bella

"So, we are going to be eating late tonight, do you guys wanna get something to eat before we go to my place?" I asked.

"If I don't eat soon I'll faint," Emmett mumbled still upset from Hurricane Charlie.

I giggled quietly and drove the short distance to the diner in the thriving metropolis of Forks, WA. By the time we arrived at the diner the boys were starting to come out of their funk thank goodness. We all filed into the diner and Alice led the way straight to the back where there was an extra large booth.

We all ordered and were enjoying our milkshakes when Alice decided we needed to start up the jukebox. Alice, Rosalie, and I fed some coins into the jukebox when a voice that I could never ever forget wafted through the air.

"Oh my God, Bella Swan?" The three of us looked up to see Lauren Mallory, Jessica Stanley, and Mike Newton walking into the diner.

Alice immediately tensed and stood up straight as if readying herself for battle while Rosalie put on her bitch face in response to Alice's body language. I pasted a superficial smile on my face and greeted the nasty bitches.

"Lauren, Jessica, hello," that was as good as I could do.

Lauren was always a nasty bitch intent on making everyone miserable. Jessica was her little pet who did any and everything Lauren told her to do. They were both immensely annoying and always looking for a verbal battle.

Lauren made a very obvious point of looking Rosalie up and down, a mistake she immediately regretted when Rosalie snorted and rolled her eyes saying, "Sorry honey I don't swing that way but I know some ladies who do if you'd like a setup."

Lauren turned outrageously red and was about to open her mouth in response when Mike interrupted her. "Hey Bella, you look really great, how have you been?" He asked just a little overly interested.

"Thanks Mike, I'm great," I answered wanting to get away from them.

"Bella, I am totally on your Twitter watch and every night I look at all of the new pictures of you on the internet," Jessica gushed.

Lauren snorted rudely and rolled her eyes at her freinenemy, "I keep telling her that the relationships in those magazines are faked for publicities sake, I mean that guy is really hot and well, you know. Your Bella."

I gawked at her in amazement for a moment when I felt the familiar electricity of Edward coming near, I smiled in contentment as I felt his arms come around my waist pulling me back to his chest. He nuzzled my neck with his nose taking a deep breath and causing my nipples to harden, "They just brought the food to the table baby, come and eat so we can get to the house. I'm feeling a little dirty, I think I should take a shower." He said while gently sweeping the back of his hand down the side of my breast making his intentions clear. I kissed the side of jaw and turned my attention back to the nasty bitch who invaded my perfect world.

"Gotta go," I stood for a second trying to come up with an appropriate farewell, nice to see you would obviously not do. "Ummm, bye."

We made our way back to the table where I gouged myself eating all of my bbq bacon double cheeseburger with fries and ranch dressing. What the hell, I wasn't going to be able to get away with eating like this forever so I might as well enjoy it while I could. The ride out to the house was quiet as everyone was full and happy. Edward had spent the remainder of our meal feeling me up and making sure that Mike, Lauren, and Jessica saw us from their table. As childish as it was, it made me happy.

That was what had put the smug grin on my face as I drove us out to my home on the outskirts of Forks. I had originally bought the house for Charlie but he made it very clear rather quickly that he wasn't having any of that. In the end he allowed me to make some much needed repairs to his house, buy him new furniture and appliances including a flat screen TV that was so big it looked ridiculous in his living room. He also let me have a detached garage and with workbench built for him which after a while I put a TV in because he loved that garage and spent a lot of time in it. I still deposited money into his account monthly but from what I could tell, he barely touched it.

I turned off onto the barely visible side road and slowed to enjoy the drive up to the house. The grass was lush and green and the sides of the road lined with tall trees that reeked of age and distinction. As we neared the circular drive and the house finally came into view I sighed already feeling at peace. Emmett let out a long slow whistle from the back seat and I knew exactly how he felt.

My house in Forks wasn't really a house, it was a mansion complete with columns. There were rooms that I hadn't been in since the initial restoration and interior design had been completed. Although I had made sure that my taste and personality was reflected throughout, Alice and Rosalie's preferences were definitely present as well. For example, an entire room dedicated to crafts, gift wrapping and pre-wrapped hostess gifts such as expensive bottles of champagne, etc, definitely Alice.

A home theater room even more spectacular and high-tech than the one in New York was all Rosalie. With the new people in my life I had some small modifications made, in Rosalie's room I had a small refrigerator put in and stocked with snacks.

Alice's room required a bit more work and I couldn't wait to see the finished product. The wall between her room and the room next to us was knocked down and a sitting area/office was put in where she could sketch. There was also a small flanked by the fireplace and a window over looking the forest that encroached from the back. In that area a comfortable chair and ottoman sat with a new acoustic guitar for Jasper.

I had also made some changes for Edward with the help of Esme and I couldn't wait to surprise him, this would be the first time in my life that my birthday was something to celebrate, I was certain of it.

I parked the Durango and we all got out and headed inside, Alice and Rosalie immediately disappearing with Jasper and Emmett to give them a tour. . . . . or whatever. Edward put his small suitcase down and picked up my hand. "Bella, this is incredible," he said in awe as he looked around the foyer. I kissed him softly and smiled happy that he liked this place as it would be his too. "Will you give me a tour?" he asked placing a kiss on the palm of my hand.

"Would you settle for a tour of the rooms I know and use?" I asked sheepishly.

Edward laughed and ruffled my hair a little before wrapping his arm around my shoulder, "Show me whatcha got Sally," he demanded with a show of false authority. I smiled as he had not called me Sally for some time.

"All right Trust Fund, no need to get all demanding and entitled like," I smiled leading him up the staircase. We made our way up to the third floor and down a very long hall which lead to another hall. "This wing of rooms are for my personal use," I said unsure as to why I was suddenly feeling shy.

"Show me," he encouraged gently.

I nodded and walked through the wide hallway passing door after door until I got the end. I opened the door and stepped inside with Edward close behind me. "This is my personal library," I said quietly. The room was cozy with a sitting area, fireplace, and bookcases filled with the books of my youth, tattered paperbacks and lifelong favorites.

My diplomas and pictures, which chronicled the happier moments of my life covered the walls and made me feel at home. One of the large overstuffed chairs had been replaced with a vintage leather chair with matching ottoman and space had been cleared on the bookshelves and CD racks for Edward to inhabit.

He smiled as his eyes rested on the empty spaces, he pressed a kiss into my temple a silent thank you and I took him out and led him to the next room. I opened the door and led him inside of a very masculine office. "This is for you," I said quietly.

Edward walked around the office taking in all of the equipment, the furniture and finally the pictures. Esme had sent over some family photos, which graced the walls, on the desk was a picture of Carlisle and Esme. I had chosen some photos of my own including the picture that the girls had taken of us at La Perla, it was also on the desk. A picture of the six of us toasting with Patron shots on midnight margarita night as well as a picture of the two of us outside of La Cirque were on the walls.

Again he kissed me softly and we left the room, I took him into my personal office next and then led him into my bedroom . . . . our bedroom. He grinned wildly at the custom bed, which was much bigger than our California king sized bed in New York. I just shook my head and rolled my eyes at him as he continued his exploration into the ginormous closet.

My knees were shaking a little with nervousness as I watched him look around the closet and absorb the contents. He walked over to the racks, which contained rows of jeans, khakis, slacks, suits, shirts, and every thing else he could possibly need in his size. He opened a drawer next to one of the racks to find his preferred brand of boxer briefs and undershirts neatly folded and organized and then gently closed it and moved to the shoes gently running a fingertip across the size 13 tennis shoes, dress shoes, boots, Vans and flip flops.

"I guess this means you plan on keeping me around for a while huh Sally?" He asked, his voice thick with emotion.

I stared at him for a moment and then nodded. "When I asked you to move in I meant into my life not just my apartment Trust Fund."

Edward stood staring at the rack of shoes for a moment and then looked at me tapping his finger against his jaw. "Something's off," he said staring as he looked around, his eyes finally settling on me. He held my gaze for a few moments and then smiled picking up the tennis shoes and then walked over to my shoe rack and shoved them right in the middle. He stood back scrutinizing his work and then turned to look at me with a glorious smile on his face, my answering smile was so big I felt as if my cheeks might crack. "That's better don't you think?

I looked back at his enormous Addidas in between a $700 pair of Prada stilettos and a $25 pair of Reef flip flops. "That's perfect." I answered quietly.

A/N: Don't you just want to be Emmett sometimes? I know I do.

OK, couple of things.

If you read my story A Change of Heart then you know that I like to pimp out the stories that I have read and enjoyed so here we go.

I am so freakin in love with this story, OMG!

Pretty please with sugar on top, read Wide Awake by AngstGoddess003 She does something a little different with her fic in that the version she has posted of FF is censored. You can go to her profile to like to uncensored versions of the story and I highly recommend you do so. Please leave her some love as her writing and ideas are original and unique.

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Next order of business, you may have noticed that we aren't done with Fork's yet. I started having so much freakin fun with Charlie that I decided to cut the chapter in two and continue it just a bit longer.

Last, would you like to participate in Edward's blowjob article? I have two idea's the first is that there is no freakin way I am going to write the blowjob article. Writing lemons for me is agonizing I cant imagine how many shades of red I will turn writing an article about blow jobs. That being said, I was thinking of posting the article as an outtake so here's the deal.

There are 2 ways you can participate in this story if you would like to. The first, send me your bad and or unfortunate blowjob stories, just please, they have to be funny. If I get the balls I may write the article, if not I will pass them to someone who chooses to participate via option two.

Write Edward's blow job story for Haute and I will posting it as an out take! That's right, that means it will not be limited to one article, I can post as many as I like. This is a unique opportunity for you to shape Edward's personality a bit through his style of writing.

Please let me know if you would like to give this a shot, I will be as involved as you like or I will just chill and post your work when you are ready, I will site you as the creator of the article and yes, you can also post it under your own pen name with an explanation.

I can't wait till the next chapter is ready, I think once it is done we should have a sit down with Charlie, don't you think?

xoxo,

B~