A.N.: Hi! So here's chapter 7. I hope you all like it! :)

Please read the AN at the bottom. It's in regard to my website. Thanks! :)

Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight. This story, these words, the character AJ and the plotline is mine.

CHAPTER 7

EPOV

"Well... I lied. I guess it was out of protection, but I knew all along." She then looked at me, taking my hand in hers, then turned back to her parents. "Edward is AJ's dad."

There was silence all around. I was so scared. Charlie looked at me, his face turning a bit purple by the second.

Oh shit!

It seriously looked as though Charlie was gonna kill me. I swear I saw his eyes flash over to his gun rack not twenty feet away from him, eyeing his shotgun. Renee looked ecstatic, and was screaming out in happiness, jumping up from her seat and hugging Bella, AJ and I tightly in her arms.

"Oh my goodness! I'm so happy! I just knew you two were perfect for each other! And you both had AJ, and he's perfect! Why didn't you tell us?"

"Well..." I started, gathering by bearings and trying very hard not to think about what Charlie might do to me. "It was at a graduation party, things happened and AJ was here, but I went to college in Chicago, and I never did get a phone number or email address from Bella, so I never found out about AJ until two weeks ago. I also never told her of my true feelings that I've kept inside me for about fourteen years. That was my biggest mistake. We could have been a family for a while now, but I believe this was meant to be, for me to find her again and patch things up. We're a family now, and I wouldn't trade it for anything."

I looked over at Bella, and she smiled a toothy grin. I was holding her hand and I lifted it to my lips to kiss gently. I also looked down at AJ and he had the same smile plastered on his face as I always had. He was me in every way, except for the eyes, blush and clumsiness that he inherited from Bella.

"Aww..." Renee cooed.

"You knocked up my daughter when she was seventeen!" Charlie shouted.

The smiles fell off all our faces at that moment. Charlie shouting was now a killjoy, but we knew we had it coming. Bella started shuffling our son over to the staircase to send him upstairs.

"AJ, go upstairs to your room. It may be best that you don't hear this," Bella whispered to our son, handing him her iPod from her purse and pushing him up so he'd escape faster. He looked at me sadly, but I just nodded, silently saying that I'll be fine and for him to go upstairs. Hopefully the music from the ear buds in his ears drowned out the yelling. I'd really hate for him to hear fighting, especially between his parents and grandfather.

When AJ was out of sight, Bella looked over at her father, and stalked up to him in his chair. "Don't you dare talk to Edward like that!"

"I'll talk to him in any way as I damn well please, Isabella! And don't you raise your voice at me! You may be twenty-eight, but you're still my daughter, and I won't stand you yelling at me."

"Yes! I am twenty-eight! I'm an adult! And Edward is with me, and is the father of my kid, and I won't have you driving him away from me just because he and I fucked at a party when I was seventeen and I got pregnant. Of course, having unprotected sex wasn't a good thing. We were drunk. We knew what we were doing, but we didn't think clearly about the consequences that may rise, like me getting pregnant.

"And yes, he wasn't around. We both know that and regret not getting any kind of contact information. We were just friends, nothing more, but we hid our feelings, afraid that the other didn't feel the same. I never knew that Edward was in love with me in high school; I always thought he saw me as nothing but a friend who tolerated me because we had the same friends. He had girls bowing down at his feet, and only went out with them to make me jealous somehow, though it didn't make me jealous. More like making me feel like I wasn't enough for him, and he knows that now and kicks himself over it."

Then Charlie looked over at me. "You know, I thought you were a good kid back then, and I didn't think you would take advantage of my daughter. I didn't even think you were one of those guys that slept around, and my daughter became one of your victims, and she had a child thanks to you at eighteen years old! She was barely a legal adult when she found out she was having a baby, thrust into adulthood thanks to you and your inability to keep it in your pants. I don't care if you are AJ's dad, but I won't stand you being around him and my daughter."

I saw red then. I shot up out of my seat and towered over Charlie. Bella had stepped away and was in her mother's arms, shaking because she was crying. Her own father made her cry and I wasn't gonna have that. I loved Bella, and I don't care if Charlie was her dad, but I won't have it that he made her cry about her choices. Besides he can't keep me away from the love of my life and my son just because he holds a grudge against the man who got his daughter pregnant.

"I LOVE BELLA! I love her! I love her now, I loved for the last fourteen years and will always love her. She's it for me. I want to be a part of hers and AJ's life, and the only way I'm gonna leave is if they ask me to. Maybe it was wrong for us to do what we did at that age, and not thinking completely through about things, but we wanted it. And it gave us AJ. I apologize for not being around, but maybe, just maybe, if I knew, Bella and I probably wouldn't be together. It has to be fate how things turned out with us, and I'm not gonna regret it or change things now 'cause it was meant to be.

"And you may be her father, but Bella is an adult, and you can't tell her what to do anymore. If she wants to be with me, excellent, 'cause I want to be with her, too. If she doesn't want me or tells me she doesn't want me anymore, then I'll leave and we'd work something out with AJ. But you can't protect her from the world anymore like she's five and decide the rules she has to live by just because you're scared that she'll get hurt. She's a big girl now, and has been for quite a while. She's independent. Plus I want to be the man who'll protect her from any harm and I'll be there for her when she needs me."

After my little rant, my shoulders stopped shaking and my breathing evened out. Charlie still looked like a pissed off papa bear. I kind of felt the need to apologize for my outburst. "And I apologize for disrespecting you in you home, Chief Swan, but you deserve it and need to know that I'm not going anywhere, and you can't make me. Even if you threaten to shoot my balls off."

It was completely silent. Charlie and I were in a staring contest, neither of us wanting to be the first to blink, giving in to defeat. In the end, Charlie looked away from me and towards Bella. Then he looked back at me. His face was back to normal, not so reddish-purple or angry anymore, but he still didn't look happy about me knocking Bella up and being AJ's dad.

Charlie walked away from his chair in a huff and went outside, slamming the door behind him and making us all jump a little at the sound. I wasn't sure if he was leaving to go for a drive to cool down or maybe just sitting on the porch. And I wasn't sure if he was ready to accept me in Bella and AJ's lives just yet.

Bella left her mother's arms and came over to me. I pulled her into an embrace, which she gladly returned, and kissed the top of her head. She felt right in my arms, and I was gonna do my best to make sure I didn't fuck this up. I wouldn't know what I'd do if Bella wasn't in my life.

Renee eyed us with a happy grin on her face, me guessing she was happy that Bella had her one and only. And happy to know that Bella's one and only was also the father of her grandson.

"So..." Renee asked, breaking Bella and I out of our love trance. "Do Esme and Carlisle know?"

"Ummm... no," I replied sheepishly.

"Well, when are you gonna break the news to them?"

"Tonight. We were hoping, especially since you and Esme are close, that you and Charlie would love to have dinner with my family, plus Alice, Jasper and Ali, and we'd tell them there."

"We would be happy to. Now... I want to hear more about this reunion." She dragged Bella and I by our hands into the kitchen. We didn't have a choice and we followed.

When we were settled, Renee asked if we could help her with making some more snacks. As I was making the chili dip, Renee stood next to me and softly told me to not worry about Charlie and that he'd get over it and accept me, especially since I love Bella and AJ more than my own life. I just hoped she was right.

BPOV

After making some more snacks, we told my mom everything. We left out the more intimate details about how Edward and I got together and conceived AJ, but just said where it happened and nothing more on that subject. There were some things you just don't tell your mother, and one of those things is your sex life with your baby daddy.

We then moved onto the reunion two weeks ago on the first day of school and the chats outside the classroom. We talked of our romantic dates, the one the night before telling AJ and my early birthday date, and of telling AJ and how understanding he was of the situation. AJ was so mature for his age. Edward then really told me and my mother how he enjoys being a dad, even though he only was one for the last week, but how attached he's become to AJ and the fun they have before I come to pick AJ up. Our arrangement seems to be working quite well.

I then left Renee and Edward alone so they can talk to each other more and get to know each other more. AJ was still upstairs in the room he sleeps in when we come to visit my parents, and I found him asleep with the ear buds still in his ears. He's a deep sleeper, so when I took out the buds, he didn't wake up. Edward and I will wake him when we were leaving to see Esme and Carlisle.

My phone buzzed and saw that it was a text from Alice.

Hey! We're on our way. We should be there in an hour or so. Should we meet at your parents or drive to the Cullens' house. ~ A

I texted her back.

When you get closer to Forks let me know. I'll tell you what to do. ~ B

OK! ;) ~ A

With that I went back downstairs. I wanted to check on my dad. This fight we had was one of our worst and I hated it. I always got along with Charlie and never had he really pulled the 'stay away from my daughter and grandchild' card on anyone, including James. He doesn't know the true reason of our breakup, and I'd like to keep it that way. At least for now.

But I never wanted to stay angry with Charlie over an argument, even one as serious as this where he's sulking on the porch. My father has never once walked out on an argument with me or my mother, only getting as far as the porch. He just needs his space and the fresh air calms him down, but at least neither Renee or I had to worry about him since he was no more than twenty feet away.

I stepped outside onto our small porch. It was nippy outside, and I wish I hadn't left my sweatshirt in my suitcase upstairs. I wrapped my arms around myself and walked over to the porch swing where my father sat, his head down in his hands.

"Daddy?"

He looked up at me, sadness and defeat written all over his face. He knew he had lost that argument between him and I and the one between him and Edward, but he's a man who is always too proud to really give in, and when he does, it really hurts his ego.

Plus he's a father who at one time a few years ago was gonna give his daughter away to a man, and knew he would lose me since the other man was now gonna take care of me and AJ, and he was no longer needed. But then he had another chance when James and I broke up. And now he was losing me again, to a man I really love who happens to be the biological father to AJ. And AJ loves him, and Renee loves him. He's afraid of me getting hurt, like any father would be when another man comes into his daughter's life and promises to love and care for her. He's no longer needed to take care of me.

But what he doesn't know, like most fathers don't at first, that even if daughters fall in love and get married and have children, and their husbands promise to protect them from the dangers in the world, they always need their daddies. And I need mine. I'll always need mine.

I walked over to him and sat next to him. I then hugged him tightly, his arms reciprocating. Charlie and I never had an awkward relationship, always showing how much we loved each other. Hugs worked the most. Occasionally he would kiss my forehead.

"I'm so sorry, Bells. I don't know what's gotten into me. I was acting so-"

"Acting like a dad who wants to protect his daughter. But dad, I'm a grown woman. I've grown up a long time ago, and that was even before AJ came into the picture. I was never really a normal child who acted like a kid. And I have Edward now. I'm in love with him, and he loves me, too, as he had said a little while ago. He wants to take care of me and AJ. He wants us and only us. I believe him when he says I'm it for him. He's not a liar and just wants you to know that he wants me for me.

"And even if he and I weren't together, or I never told him the truth, he'd be seeing AJ everyday 'cause it so happens that he's AJ's teacher, so there's not much you could do to make him stay away from AJ."

"I know, honey," Charlie said. He released me from our embrace, but tucked me into his side and slid an arm around my shoulders and held me. We looked out, twilight just breaking out. "It's just you're my baby girl and AJ's my only grandson. After that ass that you were going to marry a couple of years ago, it's hard for me to trust any man who comes into you and AJ's lives. I believe Edward when he says he loves you and wants only you, and wants to be there for AJ, but it's hard letting you go. I'm not gonna be the only man in your life who you'll look to for help."

"But daddy," I murmured, tears falling from my eyes. Wetness glistened in Charlie's brown eyes, the eyes I share with him, just one of the qualities we share. "You don't have to worry about me never needing you. I'll always need you. You're my father. A daughter will always need her father, even when she's in love and can rely on the other man. And I promise you that Edward will be there for me, just like I know you'll be there for me. So don't worry at all. You'll always be the number one man in my life."

"Nice to know that, kid. You and your mom will always be the number one women in my life. AJ will always be my number one grandson, even though he's the only one right now, and I'll also favorite any other kids you have. And I'll even get along with Edward. Like I said, I believe him and I think he's a good man. I trust that you know what you're doing. Let's go inside. I need to apologize to Edward and I'm getting hungry."

"OK. And we're gonna be going to the Cullens'. They don't know about any of this and we want to tell them as a family. Alice, Jasper and Alison are coming, too, and I'm sure when we decided this, Edward's brother, Emmett, and his wife, Rosalie, will be coming as well."

"Cool. So... shall we?" He held out his hand for me to take and I took it gladly. We walked in, both of us with small smiles on our faces. Renee and Edward were still talking in the kitchen. And Renee was showing him pictures of AJ when he was a baby and telling him stories. I could see that they both had tears of happiness rolling down their cheeks as Renee told the stories of me trying to raise AJ. Oh all the trouble I went through that was so embarrassing!

They turned their heads when they heard the door close. Charlie and I walked into the kitchen, Charlie immediately going over to my mother and hugging her to his side. After almost thirty years of marriage, they were still so deeply in love. I wanted that with Edward.

I must have been staring off into la-la-land, dreaming of all the possibilities that life may hand me and Edward 'cause Edward had to break me out of my trance by pulling me into his lap and nuzzling my neck.

"I love you, Bella," he murmured. I whispered it back to him, too, and softly kissed his lips, not giving a damn about my parents seeing mine and Edward's affection. Charlie said he was gonna try his best to be calm about the situation and accept Edward, and one of the ways is being able to see his daughter and her boyfriend being affectionate. At least we're not into extreme PDA.

As we were in our own little world, with Edward dropping sweet kisses on my neck and whispering sweet nothings in my ear while holding me tightly to him, we were broken out of it when my father cleared his throat to get our attention. We looked up and I saw Edward keeping a straight face, unafraid of my father. Charlie was showing no emotion at all. But by the way he walked over to Edward and reached out his hand for him to shake, they'll both be civil and he'll accept our newfound relationship because he wants me to be happy.

"OK," he said as he shook Edward's hand. "If Bella and AJ want you around and they love you, then you being with them is fine. You said that you'll go if Bella sends you away, but if I hear that you were the one who broke her heart and left her before she could send your ass packing, then I will hurt you badly."

"Yes, sir," Edward replied smoothly.

"And Edward... you can call me Charlie." My dad smiled and that made Edward not seem so stiff, causing him to smile, too.

EPOV

All seemed well now. Charlie was accepting of mine and Bella's relationship and the fact that I'm AJ's father. We chatted a little more until Bella received a text from Alice saying they were in town. Three o'clock my ass! It was almost six now. My parents knew I was coming to Forks for the weekend for I haven't really seen them since I moved to Seattle. Even I haven't seen Emmett and Rosalie since I moved in June and they lived in Seattle as well. They just didn't know I was with Bella at her house already and that I was springing a surprise on them. I really hoped their reaction would be a little bit better than Charlie's.

Bella had replied to Alice for them to head toward Charlie and Renee's since we hadn't left yet. Ten minutes later they pulled up to the curb outside the Chief's house. Renee fawned over Alison and how big she had gotten, Charlie greeted Alice and Jasper like family, giving tight hugs and handshakes. Hopefully one day Charlie will greet me like that when Bella, AJ and I come to visit.

My parents were expecting me over at seven thirty. I told her to set seven extra places settings, saying I was bringing some friends over. My mother was curious, thinking this was a close family get together, not me bringing friends, but she didn't question and said she would make sure places were set and that there was enough food for everyone. Of course it is a family get together. And one day we'd all officially be family.

I woke AJ up about forty-five minutes before we were to head over to my parents' house. He was excited to meet his other grandparents, plus his aunt and uncle. Bella had instructed me to have AJ change into something a little nicer. It wasn't some fancy get together and we weren't dressing overly fancy, but just something nicer that he hadn't slept in for three hours. AJ had changed into a clean pair of black jeans and put on a gray button down shirt that he left untucked. I put on a white button down shirt, also leaving it untucked, but didn't change out of my gray jeans. The two of us were in the bathroom, trying to tackle our hair with styling products. There was some improvement, but he still had some bed hair going on while I had sex hair.

We went downstairs and saw Renee and Charlie ready to go. They, too, had changed and Charlie was tugging at the collar of his blue dress shirt. It was obvious he didn't like dressing up. Renee was scolding him for tugging on his to tie loosen it as she kept trying to tighten it. She looked nice in a nice blouse and cream colored slacks.

Jasper came out of the bathroom, changed, too, probably Alice's orders. Alice, Bella and Ali were nowhere to be seen, and it was probably because Alice had Bella held hostage in her room getting ready. About five minutes later, the girls came down. Alice had a dark pink knee-length dress and was walking Alison down, who was dressed with a frilly lavender dress on.

Then Bella came down, and my God she was gorgeous! She had on a summer dress that had a million flowers on it and was about mid-thigh. Her shoulders were covered with a ivory sweater that was left unbuttoned and reached just below her waist. Alice even put her in heels which made her creamy smooth legs run a thousand miles long.

I was speechless. AJ had to nudge me hard in my side to get me to close my mouth and stop staring at her like I was dumbstruck.

"Hi," she said to me. She seemed nervous. We never really showed too much affection in front of AJ and I can't mawl her and throw her up against the wall in front of him and our family and friends. Charlie would so kill me if I did.

"Hi, love. You look beautiful," I managed to say without messing up.

"Thank you. Two of my favorite men look very handsome tonight."

"Thanks," AJ and I said together. The others were chatting amongst themselves.

"Ready to go?" I added. Bella just nodded and both my son and I led Bella to the car, her arms on one of ours. We were her dates tonight.

We arrived at my childhood home just in time. My mother would probably be just finishing dinner right about now, Emmett and my father would be in the living room chatting about their careers and Rosalie would probably be in the kitchen with my mother with her feet up and nursing a glass of water while they chatted. We got out of the car and AJ seemed very apprehensive now, fear all over his face,

"What's the matter, bud?" I asked as I helped Bella out of the car. He had already let himself out and was fidgeting.

"I'm scared. What if they don't like me?"

"Honey, it's OK. They'll love you," Bella soothed, wrapping an arm around his shoulders. AJ stood a little bit below her shoulders and she was in heels, it was unbelievable that he was ten, he was so tall. He nodded, but still clung to Bella. I held Bella's hand as she rubbed AJ's arm while we walked up the front porch stairs. Both of them looked intimidated by the size of the house, but they pushed it aside when I rang the doorbell. I heard the clacking of heels and my mother wrenched open the door.

"Oh my God! Oh, Edward! I'm so happy to see you! It's been too long! Why haven't you visited sooner?" She hugged me tightly, then pulled back and noticed my two favorite people next to me. My mother gasped and squealed when she realized it was Bella. "Oh Bella! Oh, honey, it's been so long! How have you been?" Esme had Bella in a death grip hug and was rocking her back and forth. Bella was returning the hug graciously. When my mom pulled back and took notice of AJ, she asked, "And who is this striking young man?"

AJ blushed, but pushed his shoulders back, holding out his hand to shake my mother's. "Anthony Jacob Swan, ma'am. It's a pleasure to meet you."

"Oh, so polite. It's a pleasure to meet you, too, Anthony. Well, in this house, I don't shake hands. I give hugs and you look like you need a hug to calm your nerves, sweetie." Esme hugged AJ lovingly, just like a grandmother would hug her grandson, if she knew the truth already.

"Esme, this is my son. He likes to be called AJ," Bella told my mother.

"Well, AJ it is," Esme answered. Then she got a good look at AJ. Her face paled when she realized that all his features looked like mine when I was his age. "Oh my gosh," she murmured. She kept looking between me and AJ and then at Bella, then back to me and AJ. She kept doing that for a few more seconds. She then realized the rest of our party arrived. She ushered us in and had us go into the living room while she greeted the others, gushing over Alice, Jasper and Alison.

I led Bella and AJ into the room where, as I had suspected, my father and Emmett were parked. They were chatting while a football game played. I cleared my throat and my dad and brother looked up and saw us.

"Edward," my father greeted, standing up and walking towards us, shaking my hand as well. "Good to see you, son." Then he saw Bella and AJ. "Well, if it isn't-"

"Well I'll be damned! Bella-Boo!" I heard Emmett exclaim. He charged towards us and lifted Bella up off her feet and twirled her around till she was dizzy. "It's been too long! Where have you been? I missed you so much!"

"Bella!" a voice rang from the kitchen. Rosalie came into view, her almost six month pregnant self waddling towards us. "Oh my God! Bella! It's been forever! How have you been?" She hugged Bella tightly, her belly sort of getting in the way.

"It's so good to see you, too, Rose. Emmett, I missed you, too. I've been in Seattle, like I have been for eleven years," Bella answered. "Oh, this is my son, AJ."

"Hi," AJ waved.

"Oh, Bella, he's so handsome," Rose praised. She then leaned down a tiny bit to be eye level with AJ, though her belly prevented her from going further. "Hello, I'm Rosalie. This is my husband, Emmett."

"Nice to meet you."

"Hey, little man! You know, you and Eddie look scary alike." He did the same that Esme did five minutes earlier, looking between us.

"Yeah, you do," Rose threw in.

"Rose!" Alice's squeal carried throughout the house.

"Oh my God, Alice!" The two of them hugged it out, Rose totally forgetting what was going on with us, while Emmett, and then my dad, looked at me, Bella and AJ, trying to figure this out. They didn't look mad, but they looked concerned.

"Dinner!" Esme's voice yelled. We all walked into the dining room. I pulled out a seat for Bella, and AJ and I sat next to her on both sides. The others took their seats as well and dinner was dished out. We ate and Bella, Alice and Jasper brought my family up to speed about their lives for the last eleven years.

Eventually it came down to the moment where we had to tell my family about AJ and his significance in my life. We were in the living room having coffee and dessert. Bella, AJ and I were on one couch and we stood up to give our news.

"OK, everybody... Bella and I have to tell you all something. As you now know, AJ is Bella's son, and I'm sure that you all are wondering some things, including why AJ looks so much like me. The truth is... AJ's my son."

There was some silence, only shocked looks on my family's faces. Then Carlisle spoke up.

"AJ's your son?" Carlisle repeated. "How did this happen?"

"Some things happened at a graduation party eleven years ago and AJ came out of it," Bella replied, giving the story in a nutshell.

"I have a grandbaby?" Esme cried. "Oh Carlisle! We have a grandchild!" She pushed herself out of her seat from the love seat and came towards us. The three of us stood there as Esme tackled us with hugs and kisses. She especially fawned over AJ. He was her first grandchild. And he loved every minute of it, though he did blush crimson.

"How did we not know about this, Edward?" Carlisle asked.

"I didn't know for ten years. And before you jump to conclusions and blame Bella, just don't. She didn't know where I was or have anything to contact me and she was scared to tell you. Of course she wanted to tell me first. Plus, Renee and Charlie just found out today that I'm AJ's dad, so they couldn't tell you anything, either. Bella didn't even know mom and Renee had become such good friends."

"I'm not blaming anyone. It's just shock. All this time we had a grandson."

"And he's perfect!" Esme squealed. "Oh, Bella, Edward. You both did well."

"Hey! This isn't fair! You had a kid before I did and you didn't even know!" Emmett sulked.

"Oh, Emmett! Don't be such a drama queen! I think it's wonderful Edward and Bella have a child. It's surprising they haven't been together all this time. We all knew in school you two were perfect for each other."

"Thank you, Rose," Bella told my sister-in-law. "I wished I told him sooner how I felt, but then we probably wouldn't have AJ, and he's everything to us. Oh, and Edward and I are together now. Took fourteen years, but we got here."

"So... how did you two find each other?" Esme wondered.

"Well... it turns out that Edward is AJ's fifth grade teacher. Um... and if you remember, I was always clumsy and when I saw Edward, I panicked. I tried to make a run for it, tripped on a small toy and went down. While all the parents and kids stood around me wondering if I was OK, Edward actually took action and helped me up. I told him about AJ that afternoon. We got really close and just last week, we admitted we've been in love with each other since high school, and now... here we are. And AJ approves. We're a family now," Bella said.

"It's been ten years and it comes down to you finding each other 'cause you're a teacher, bro?" Emmett wondered, giving me and Bella strange looks. "That's seriously fu-" Rose then slaps Emmett across the head. "OWWW! Rosie! That hurt!"

"Watch your language! There is a child present, and two more are going to make an appearance in about four months, so you're gonna have to filter your dirty mouth now."

"OK! I mean, that's seriously messed up."

"Yes, we know, Emmett. But we wouldn't have it any other way," Bella replied, looking up at me and smiling. I can tell that she was completely and perfectly and incandescently happy. I leaned down and kissed her sweetly on her lips, lingering there because the sparks I felt whenever I did kiss her made me want to never not kiss her again. I would always want my Bella and no one else.

"I love you," I whispered.

"I love you, too," she murmured back. We smiled like fools at each other, forgetting everyone else was in the same room as us, until AJ pulled on my arm to get my attention.

"Yeah, AJ?" I asked. I was so lost in Bella's eyes that I didn't realize he was tugging on my arm.

"Grandma Esme's been trying to get your and Mom's attention for the last ten minutes. I love that you and Mom love each other, but stop making goo-goo eyes at each other and listen to your mother," he ordered.

I looked at Bella to silently ask her when he became so demanding. She shrugged and nudged me to listen to my mother.

"Yes, Mom?"

"Yes, Esme?"

"I was just wondering, since I kind of just realized now, if you, Bella, named AJ 'Anthony' after Edward? In another way to keep Edward close to you?"

"I'm sorry. I don't understand what you mean," Bella replied.

"'Anthony' is Edward's middle name. You didn't know that?"

"No... I didn't. I just liked the name. And I refused to nickname him Tony, so I just shortened it to AJ as a nickname. But Edward never mentioned that I coincidentally named his own son after his middle name." Bella looked at me with that look that silently said 'You've got some 'splaining to do, Lucy.'

"Well... it never came up, love."

"Mmhmm."

"So... in a way, I was named after you, even though Mom didn't know that I shared my name with your middle name?" AJ asked, looking a little confused still.

"Seems so. You know, I never even realized on my roster list that your name and my middle name were the same. That could have been a hint that you were my son. I got so used to calling you AJ since you prefer being called that. Anthony does seem a little proper."

"Hey! I think it's a wonderful name," Esme threw in. "But since my grandson likes AJ, I'll call him AJ."

"Only call him Anthony if he does something he's not supposed to," Bella gave permission.

"What! I'm a perfect angel," AJ said innocently.

"Yeah right, kid."

"OK... so I may be a little devilish, but I'm good most of the time."

"Thankfully it is only a little. I don't need you turning out like Emmett. One of him is enough," I said.

"Hey!" Emmett exclaimed. We all laughed.

We continued chatting about whatever, Esme telling Bella, AJ and her parents stories of mine and Emmett's childhood that no one knew about. Since Bella's in my life, she has the right to know these things.

It was late and AJ was already falling asleep, so we decided to leave. We said goodbye to my parents, Rose and Emmett, Bella being bear hugged tightly by Em, Rose telling her that they should get together real soon, especially since they lived in Seattle, too. AJ was being hugged and kissed by Esme and Carlisle, them telling him how much they loved him and how great it was to finally meet him. Bella and I told them we'll come to Forks as often as we could, and maybe we can ask them to babysit, and they smiled brightly, answering they would love to.

We left after telling them about the get together we'll have at Charlie and Renee's for Bella's birthday. Renee was OK with me and Bella sleeping in her bed, though Charlie was reluctant to agree. We knew our boundaries, though we are adults, since it is their house. We behaved well that night, just holding each other in our arms and kissing lovingly. Bella fell asleep maybe a half hour after we got into bed, whispering one last 'I love you' to me. I stayed up and watched her sleep till my eyes drooped and sleep overcame me.

Everyone knew about AJ and everyone was happy about it. Everything was perfect now.

A.N.: So what do you think? Huh? Huh? Haha! :D Let me know in a review!

I added a Pride and Prejudice quote and an I Love Lucy quote. You got some 'splaining to do, Lucy. Lol!

OK... so I think my website is ready to go and be viewed by all of you. I have all my pictures up from past chapters of this story and my other story One of the Boys, including two of my one-shots. I'm gonna have to go alert everyone who story alerted my stories where my pictures will be from now on, even though I'm gonna keep my Flickr. I've been making banners and I can upload directly from Photoshop to Flickr, so maybe I'll keep it for those and take down my other pics. I hope you like it. I'll link it on my profile! Just to let you all know the Documents tab and the Music Player tab are not available. I'll eventually post PDFs of my stories and when I have access to my iTunes at home on my desktop computer and not my laptop then I'll put a playlist up. Right now it's just a blog, photos, a calendar and a links page. So check that out if you like! :)

OK... I think that's it. I'll see you all next week! xoxo