Bella's POV

Bella's POV

I had a one month old niece and a six month old nephew and niece, and I was six months pregnant with Edward's children. We had found out yesterday that we were having two girls, which led us to where we were now, sitting in our bed discussing names for our children.

"What about Ashley Elizabeth Masen Cullen for one of them?" I asked. Edward thought about it for a couple of minutes then replied, "I like it,"

"Yeah, that's only because the kid's going to be named after you mostly." He chuckled.

"no, I like it because you picked it," I smiled and kissed him, well I kissed him the best I could at six months pregnant, I looked more like eight.

"Well, do you have ideas, wise guy?"

"Hmmm, what about Alex Marie Masen Cullen, for the other, I always liked the name Alex, and I couldn't let you break the family tradition of giving all the women in your family the middle name of Marie, could I?" I looked at him questionably, how does he know about that, he saw the question burning in my eyes and answered it.

"I read your mother's mind back in phoenix she was thinking about it for some odd reason."

"Ohhhhh,"

"So, what do you think of the name?"

"I love it," he smiled and kissed me on the lips, and his hand on my ever growing stomach, when I felt one of the babies kick, it was right over Edward's hand, on the left side so it was Alex. Edward laughed, "who was that Ashley or Alex?"

"Alex, she always knows when you're around." He laughed again, and kissed me then went down to my stomach and kissed where Alex had kicked or punched his hand, and then kissed the other side, where Ashley was and said, "you're my quit one, I like you, your less harsh on your mother." I burst out laughing, and I calmed down after a couple of minutes. "You are here when I sleep right, because I think your quite daughter is nocturnal." He laughed again and kissed me once more.

"I love you Isabella, I always will."

"I love you too Edward, I will forever."

The next two and a half months passed quickly. As soon as I was told I would be having twins, I immediately began to make plans for the nursery, manly where we would be putting the nursery, there was an empty bedroom, ok 'guest' bedroom across the hall from Edward and I's bedroom. This officially became Ashley and Alex's nursery. It had been painted, furnished, and had everything a baby or in this case two babies could possible need. There was a crib specially made for twins, so they could sleep in the same crib, I knew from experience that twins did everything together and got very, very upset if you separated them, I had babysat a lot of kids in my time, weird enough most had been twins, and three had been triplets and I even had a set of quadruplets, that was hard. Edward of course didnot agree with my theory, that they would be better of with one crib than two, and only when I threatened to remove my self from the house and go stay with Rose, did he finally break and say that I could do it, and that he would be there when I was wrong. I let the last part slide, knowing I wasn't wrong and knowing that I wouldn't have actually left the house to stay with Rose, unless I truly felt I had to and a fight over a crib didn't count as such a time.

Two more weeks past, I had made it to nine months, well close enough. Edward and I were sitting on our bed just relaxing, watching some TV when I felt a sharp pain rip through me, I gasped and flinched visibly, Edward of course noticed and immediately went into over protective mode, asking what was wrong and then yelling for Jasper, naturally to calm me and himself, though he would never admit it, down.

At 3:04:24 P.M. on November 13, after 32 hours of labour, Ashley Elizabeth Masen Cullen was born. Alex Marie Masen Cullen was born 4 and a half minutes later. After Ashley was born she was briefly handed to me then Edward scoped her up and I ended up holding Alex. Apparently they didn't like this arrangement because neither one stopped crying that's when it hit me.

"Edward, switch," I had to talk a little louder than normal because of all the crying but I didn't mind. He gave me a questioning glance and I explained further, "the twins, give me Ash and I'll give you Al." I blinked, I just gave my kids nicknames without realizing I did it. Edward laughed and handed me Ashley while taking Alex all in a second. Within seconds they began to settle down and Edward chuckled softly. I just smiled, feeling completely healed.

"How did you know that we each had the wrong twin?" He asked.

"Easy, when ever you talked to Ashley, Alex would use my kidneys as punching bags, and when I talked to Alex, Ashley did the same thing, although less rough and I think most of them landed on her sister." Edward laughed again.

"Wow, you've had nine months to get to know them, I'm just getting started."

"Awwww, you'll catch on fast, just remember Alex is a big daddy's girl." At the last two words his impossibly big smile got even bigger.

"I'm a father," he paused taking it all in, "wow,"

"yeah, wow," I looked at the little girl in my arms, she was soo sweet, I loved her soo much, she had Edward's hair only slightly darker, and she had green eyes. I looked up at my other daughter and chuckled, I could just tell we were going to be so much alike, first of all we both wanted Edward all to our selves, second she had my chocolate brown eyes from when I was human, and she had my hair only with a slight reddish tint to it. Carlisle came in about twenty minutes after they were born and took blood from both of them Ashley first then Alex. Ashley was soo good, not even a sound, Alex naturally complained, loudly, to her father about having to have been stuck in the foot with a needle, I didn't blame her, but she quickly quieted down with Edward humming her a new lullaby that he had been working on.

It had been ten minutes and Ashley and Alex were both asleep in their crib across the hall. Edward was watching them sleep so, I felt safe enough to get in the shower.

Edward's POV

About twenty minutes after we had switched twins, Carlisle came in and took blood from both twins, Alex cried like crazy, but Ashley was silent as a mouse, fast asleep in Bella's arms, I quickly comforted Alex, so she didn't wake up her sister or for that mater her cousins down the hall. Ten minutes later they were both fast asleep in their crib across the hall, I think Bella really was right about the whole 'twins need to be with each other thing' they seemed calmer some how when they were closer together. That day she threatened to leave and go to stay with Rose scared the socks of me (figuratively of course), I didn't think she would actually leave, but the thought, I shivered. Any way I was watching my children sleep while Bella was in the shower, and Esme was cleaning our room of any evidence Bella had just given birth there. Bella walked in 45 minutes later, dressed in one of my t-shirts and a pair of her sleeping pants.

"So, what do you say we let the new Aunts and Uncles come and visit?" I asked her, I could hear my brother and sister's thoughts; they wanted to see the twins NOW!
"Ten minutes," she must have seen the look of aggravation on my face because she quickly added, with a pout, "please, I'm not ready to share them not, yet any way." I gave in as always, I couldn't resist her on anything, "ok, ok, I'm going to go tell them there at least ok, and that you're at least still alive, no pun intended." Laughing a little at my own joke, she smiled and kissed my lips, I held her hips and pulled her closer kissing her a little more passionately, before turning to leave. I walked down the stairs and into the living room and saw the entire family sitting there, Jasper holding his eight month old son and Alice holding her eight month old daughter, and Emmett calming his three month old daughter, lulling her into a sleep, her hair was still honey blonde like Rose's. Alice was the first one to notice me, and she stood up, I held my hand up to silence her.

"They are all fine, and you can see them, in ten minutes," I practically yelled the last part as every one was almost practically running for the stairs.

"Why in ten minutes?" Rosalie asked.

"Bella said she needed a couple more minutes with them, there asleep any way."

"So, what are they, both girls, both boys, one of each, what're their names?" Emmett asked, I had forgotten that no one but me, Bella, Carlisle and Esme knew their names and that there was one of each. I smiled.

"well, the first one is a Girl, her name is Ashley Elizabeth Masen Cullen, Bella named her, not me, and the second one is a girl, her name is Alex Marie Masen Cullen, I got to name her, she's already, what Bella called a 'daddy's girl'." After my announcement every one congratulated me in there own way and then did a little celebration of their own. I quickly reminded them that the twins were sleeping and they silenced themselves immediately. Exactly ten minutes after I came down Alice, quickly followed by Rosalie bolted up the stairs and into the nursery, naturally I got there first being the fastest in my family, well evenly matched with my Bella of course, but still. I looked at my daughters, they were still fast asleep, and then at Bella who was standing by their crib hands on the railing, just watching them sleep. Alice was the first one up next to me; I pulled Bella up to the head of the crib, so that the visitors may have their space to observe.

"Their tiny, God, I can't believe David and Mary were ever this small, I don't think they ever were this small." Alice said this, as Rose came up beside her 3 month old Olivia in her arms, David had a cold, no one knew where he got it from but he had a cold and Bella would be furious if anything happened to either twin, so David was in his room asleep for his afternoon nap, like Liv should be, but Rose wanted her to see her new cousins.

"Liv was smaller, of course she was early, and actually," she thought for a moment, I didn't care to dip into my sister's mind so I left her alone, more focused on my wife and children at the moment anyway, "Liv was about the same size." I felt Bella tense a little, and I whispered in her ear so that no one else could hear, "it's ok, they were both in there, Bella, they have both been checked out by Carlisle and he said there fine ok." Bella untensed and nodded. After half an hour of our family congratulating us and seeing the twins and asking us which was which, Bella had dressed them both in green pyjamas, but the only one to actually guess right was Rosalie; they left us to bond with them.

Four hours later and Bella still couldn't bring herself to let them leave her sight, it was actually kind of funny, but after their feeding, Alex refused to be fed by Bella, I cracked up at this until Ashely did the same thing to me, after that we switched twins deciding it was probably more important for their first couple of feedings to be comfortable. Bella left after that, mind you she set up 3 baby monitors in the nursery alone, along with our hearing; she was a little paranoid, but so was I even if I didn't admit it. We retreated to our room for a night alone.

A/N: hey guys, sorry about the delay in updating, I wasn't feeling well, and I didn't have internet access for a week, so yeah, I did write a lot so you will be getting like three chapters in a row here. I would like to say Thank You to all of my lovely reviewers, you are appreciated.