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Chapter 7

EPOV

I turned around to see an annoyed looking man who was glaring at me but my attention quickly changed as the coach started speaking again.

"I apologize Mr. Swan."

"Black"

"Excuse me?" the coach said.

"My name is Jacob Black."

"I'm sorry Mr. Black." He looked at me and gave me an apologetic smile.

"I just wanted to let you know how well Masen is doing and I uh wanted to mention that our assistant coach is going to be out for two weeks and was wondering if either of you would be interested in filling in."

This was awkward because it was clear that he was coming over to talk to me about it. We had spoken briefly that first game and I had told him how I used to play and he had mentioned his assistant was going on vacation soon.

"I don't think that will be a possibility." Jacob said. It was clear the coach didn't know what to do as he looked between the two of us and Masen.

"Uh perhaps I could interest you Mr.……" obviously he didn't want to get another name wrong.

"Cullen. And yes I would be willing to fill in." I knew that was not going to go over well especially since Masen threw his arms around me. "Thanks Edward."

"No problem buddy, it will be fun." I pulled out my wallet and found a card to give to the coach. "Why don't you give me a call and let me know the details." I told him.

He looked grateful to be leaving the situation. "Thank you Mr. Cullen, I will give you a call later." And he quickly turned around and walked away.

"Hey Masen, how about a hug for you dad?" Jacob said. I was shocked with Masen's reply.

"You're late." and he didn't move from my side.

"I'm sorry about that little man, but I made it." Masen didn't say anything else and the two just stared at each other for a minute. I could see Holly shift behind me slightly.

"Hmmm…well let's get going." Sorry, not gonna happen.

"Actually I'm taking Masen with me back to Bella's house." If looks could kill.

"No, I'm taking him with me, I'm his father."

"I'm aware you're his father but he's leaving with me."

"Who the hell do you think you are?" he raised his voice causing both Masen and Holly to take a step back. I reached for my wallet again and pulled out some money.

"Hey kids, they're selling snow cones over there." I pointed and handed them each some money. They took it without a word and ran over to get in line.

"Bella left Masen with me when you didn't show up on time and I am not letting him leave with you unless Bella says its okay."

"You're not going to let him? I am Masen's father and you don't get a say."

"I am taking him back to Bella's. She should be home by the time we get there and you can work this out with her."

"I don't think so." and he shoved me. I barely had time to recover when I heard the kids gasp. Jacob noticed them too and put his hands in his pockets. Both kids came over to stand by me and it was clear that that had upset them.

"I want to go see mommy." Masen said while looking at the ground. I took each of their hands and started walking.

"We'll see you back at Bella's." I called behind me. The walk home was a quiet one and when we got there Jacob was just pulling up. I wasn't sure if Bella was home or not so I unlocked the house and Masen ran inside calling for Bella.

She hadn't made it home and both of the kids stood inside the doorway. And I met Jacob back on the lawn. "Hey guys, why don't you go back inside and we'll be in in a minute."

They both nodded and went back inside and I walked over to close the door. "So you have a key to her house? What, are you fucking her then?" he didn't even try to keep his voice down.

"My relationship with Bella is none of your business." He laughed bitterly.

BPOV

The meeting was extremely boring but luckily it was pretty short. I just wish it hadn't been during Masen's game. At least Edward was there to take him.

"So what are you doing for the rest of the day Bella?" Alice asked.

"I'm not sure; Edward is watching the kids right now so maybe we'll hang out for a while."

"Oh right Edward……so how are things going?"

"It's hard to tell, I'm not sure if he's interested or not but I like him. He's a really good guy."

"You can't tell if he's interested? Really Bella? He volunteers to watch you son play in his soccer game two weeks in a row and you're seeing him tomorrow too? I haven't even met him and I can tell he's interested."

"You think?"

"Yes, I do." As we were turning the corner I spotted Jakes car parked across from Edwards. "Oh no."

"What's wrong?" Jasper asked.

"Long story short that's my ex's car." As we pulled up behind it I saw Edward and Jake out on the lawn.

"This doesn't look good." Alice said. Jasper turned off the motor and the three of us got out of the car. Neither Edward nor Jacob looked over but I heard Jake as he was practically yelling.

"So you are fucking her and now you're trying to replace me as Masen's father."

I watched as he took a step towards Edward, and Jasper jogged over to them.

"Hey what's going on here?" Jasper said. Just then the front door opened and Masen came running out. "Mommy" he ran into my arms.

"Hey buddy, are you okay?" I pulled back from him to see that tears were forming in his eyes. He nodded but didn't say anything.

"I'm taking Masen inside and I'll be right back…….Alice?"

She quickly followed me inside. "This is my friend Alice. And this is Masen and Holly". I introduced them. "Hi guys, how about we go into the kitchen and find something to eat?" Alice took their hands and led them to the kitchen.

As I made it back outside Jasper was standing in between Jacob and Edward. "What the hell?" was all I could say.

Edward spoke first. "I'm sorry Bella."

"Somehow I don't think you are the one that needs to apologize here." and I turned my attention back to Jake.

"Well it's certainly not me; he was completely out of line." Jake said.

"What happened?.......Edward?" He told me his side of the story and surprisingly Jake didn't interrupt. And Edward tried to apologize again.

"Like I said before you have nothing to apologize for, thank you for taking such good care of Masen. But I need to talk to Jake for a minute." He nodded and went inside and Jasper followed him.

"Well Jake?"

"Come on Bella, the guy tried to stop me from taking my kid. In fact he did, he is not Masen's father, I am."

"Really? Cause you don't act like it."

"What the hell is that suppose to mean?"

"Oh come on Jake, you know exactly what I mean. You're never around; you make plans with him only to cancel time and time again. You aren't involved in his life except when it's convenient for you."

"I came today."

"Yeah but were you on time? No, I had to make back up plans because I knew you wouldn't keep your word." I should never have even called you.

"Just because I was a little late does not give some other guy the right to tell me I can't leave with my son."

"I think it does. I left Masen in Edwards care he had every right to make sure Masen got back to me like we had arranged."

"That's bullshit."

"No Jake it's not, what if it had been a babysitter, one of the teenagers that lives down the street that took him to the game huh? Would you have expected her to just turn over Masen to someone she didn't know? It wouldn't have happened. And you wouldn't be nearly as upset."

"It's not like I'm some stranger." He protested.

"No your not, but that doesn't change what the outcome would have been."

"Just because you're screwing the guy doesn't mean he gets to play dad."

"My relationship with Edward is my business and none of yours."

"It is when it concerns Masen."

"And since when have you been concerned about Masen? You walked out on us years ago; you come around when you can fit it into your schedule which is about twice a year. You are always setting him up for disappointment by never following through.

I have asked you a hundred times not to get his hopes up and you never listen. You've never paid any child support. The only reason your mad now is because Edward is more involved in your son's life than you are."

"Whatever Bella, I'm going in to see Masen."

"You've upset him enough."

"Me? What about your boyfriend?"

"I'm going to go and talk to Masen and if he wants to see you then fine but otherwise you'll need to leave." Just then the door opened and Jasper and Edward were standing in the doorway. I wonder how much they heard.

"Where's Masen?"

"He's upstairs." Edward said quietly. I walked up to Masen's room where Alice was playing a game with both of the kids.

"Hey buddy, can I talk to you for a minute?" he followed me into my room.

"Are you alright sweetie? You seemed upset earlier. Do you want to tell me what happened?" reluctantly he told me the story and gave me a few more details than Edward gave.

"Your dad's downstairs, do you want to talk to him?"

"No"

"Okay, I'll tell him to leave. And then I'm going to have to talk with Edward so I need you and Holly to play up here for a little while okay?"

He smiled. "Okay." I walked Masen back to his bedroom and told let Alice know she could come downstairs. We could hear the conversation that Edward was having with Jasper near the bottom of the stairs.

"I hope I didn't upset Masen too badly." I heard Edward say.

"From the looks of it I don't think you're the one that upset him." Jasper replied.

When we came into view Edward looked up to me with a timid smile. And the two guys followed us into the living room where Jake was waiting.

"Jake, Masen is pretty upset; he doesn't want to talk to you so I need you to leave now."

He didn't say anything but he did knock the coat rack over on his way out.

I turned to Alice and Jasper. "Thank you both so much for your help today. I'm really sorry about all of this."

"Don't be sorry Bella; I'm glad we could help." Jasper said and then he turned to Edward. "Nice meeting you Edward." He said while they shook hands.

"Nice meeting you too Jasper." He said.

"I'm sorry I didn't get the chance to talk with you much Edward, maybe we all could get together for dinner sometime." She smiled up at him.

"That would be nice Alice, I would enjoy that. Thank you." After they left I sat down on the couch and Edward followed me.

"Edward, I'm sorry." I was so humiliated that this happened to him. I couldn't figure out why he was still here I thought for sure he would be out the door and not looking back.

"Bella you have nothing to be sorry for, I should have behaved better. And I'm sorry I upset Masen and I hope I didn't cause any trouble between you and Jake."

"First of all, you behaved perfectly fine, second, you weren't the one that upset Masen, and third you didn't cause anymore trouble between Jake and I that wasn't already there."

"Are you sure Masen's okay?"

"Yes he's fine…..though he did give me a little different story than you did." He bit his lip.

"Oh?"

"It seems you left out the part about Jake yelling at you and pushing you?" I asked raising one eyebrow.

"Oh well I didn't think that those details were actually necessary."

"Well I think they were and I can't tell you how sorry I am Edward, you didn't deserve that."

"I'm just glad that you aren't upset with me." he said sheepishly.

"This whole thing was my fault. I should have never called Jake in the first place."

"This is hardly your fault Bella. Why don't we just both agree on blaming Jake?" He chuckled.

"Sounds like a good idea to me."

"Do you think this will cause Jake to make trouble for you?" he asked as he tucked my hair behind my ear.

"No I don't think so, he'll get too wrapped up in himself again soon enough and then we wont hear from him again for another 6 months.

We sat there looking at each other for a minute when Edward raised his hand to my face; just as he was starting to lean in we heard the whispers and the giggling.

He dropped his head but kept his hand on my face. When he looked back up at me he rubbed his thumb over my check a couple of times before dropping it back down to his side. Nooooooooo

"Alright giggle monsters we hear you." He said which only caused more giggling and footsteps running away.