Okay, just to clear some things up…yes I know there is a chance that Bella can get pregnant with pre-cum. But a very small chance, I would NOT let Edward get Bella pregnant this early in the relationship. There are too many things they need to discuss. Trust me guys…Edward is a Doctor *hint, hint* he knows what's up. I'm kinda saddened that you questioned his intelligence or was it mine? Hmmm…that's just what they did in my head so I went with it, k? I think Bella would have been majorly pissed if I put a stop to it. Lol I would be… ;)

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SM OWNS TWILIGHT

To Love Again

Chapter 12

EPOV

"Dr Cullen, do you have clinic today? I thought your office was closed weekends." Dr Joy interrogated me when I walked into the clinic. I wasn't here for work. The clinic didn't just offer Pediatric services but also family planning With Dr Joy.

Plan B One-Step…what I was here for.

Bella started freaking out this morning when we woke up. I guess it just sunk in, and she didn't know what to do.

I found her crying in the bathroom. "Edward, I can't believe we had sex without protection…what if I get pregnant? I'm not ready. I haven't even met your parents. Oh god! You still haven't met mine!" She cried. She looked at me through the mirror, tears running down her face. I turned her around and pulled her into my arms. I'm a fucking asshole for putting her through this.

"Bella. Listen to me. It's a far chance that you'll get pregnant…but we can still fix this…I'm guessing you wouldn't object to the morning after pill?" I looked into her eyes, waiting for her response.

She shook her head and sniffled. "No, I'll take it. However, does it really work? What if I'm like the one in a billion that it doesn't work on?" I laughed and she smiled. She knew she was being ridiculous.

"It works…well…I believe it's 95% effective. But…if by any chance we have a baby in nine months, then we know it was meant to be. Come on…It wouldn't be so bad to have my baby would it?" I grinned; it made her giggle.

I certainly wasn't thinking about having kids this second, but sure, down the line I would like to. I would just hate for this to ruin my relationship with Bella. There's so much to still learn about each other, that, in reality, a baby would hinder that. I wouldn't say ruin, but definitely complicate things more. Fuck, I mean I still have Nathan to think about, that whole situation is getting a little complicated for me too. I don't want to put him on the back burner, nor do I want to put Bella…it's just…complicated right now.

"No. I guess it wouldn't be that bad. It would be our miracle baby." She smiled and relaxed a bit. "So…you think you can score me some Plan B Doctor Cullen?" She teased. I nodded and kissed her forehead. I could definitely do that for her. "It would make me feel a lot better, if we just took that precaution." I agreed.

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Bella refused to get out of the car, so she made me go into my Dad's clinic to get the morning after pill. Fucking great. She argued that she would be beyond embarrassed if they found out, she was my girlfriend, and she needed the pill.

Thank god, Dr Joy follows patient confidentiality rules to a T. I had no problem asking her for the pills. She said she would send me the bill and just type in "prescription". She did, however, lecture me about safe sex. It was awkward; it felt like I was having this conversation with my mom. She didn't care even after I told her it was for a friend of a friend.

"Thank you, Dr Joy, but like I said, it's for a friend…of a friend." I sounded so lame with that lame excuse. She raised her eyebrow at me, and mhmm'd daring me to argue with her.

As soon as she handed me the bag, I mumbled a thank you, and I was out the door.

"Thanks to you, my Dad's colleague now thinks I practice unsafe sex." I told Bella, as soon as I got in the car. She giggled and reached up to kiss me on the cheek. "It's not funny. She's like my mom's age. I wouldn't want my mom to know that stuff." I huffed.

"Thank you baby. You took one for the team." She laughed and I handed her the paper bag. I instructed her on how to take it, and that was that. Crisis averted...unless Bella really was that one in a billion.

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Next dilemma… Nathan was bouncing off the fucking walls with excitement that Miss Bella was going to the BBQ with us.

I called Kate this morning after dropping Bella off at her house. I let her know that I was taking Bella to my parents, and she said she would let me handle telling Nathan about her if I wanted. I decided it was a good idea if I did it alone, and then if he had any questions he could ask his mom or me.

I sat on Nathan's bed while he jumped up and down on his bed.

"Daddy can I show Miss Bella my toy room at gramma's? She could play Xbox with me!" his face lit up at the thought of Miss Bella playing with him. What can I say, like father like son? We both loved her.

"You can show her, but you have to ask her if she wants to play. And she's allowed to say 'no'…I don't want any tantrums, okay?" He nodded. I have a feeling I'm gonna be fighting my five year old for Bella's attention. "There's something else that I wanted to tell you…um…Bella is gonna be coming around more often-"

"COOL!" Nathan interrupted. I knew he was gonna be excited.

I put him on my lap to keep him calm for a bit. "Settle down little man. Like I was trying to say..." I looked at him pointedly. "Bella is Daddy's…girlfriend now, like a special friend, so you'll see her sometimes at my house or like today, at grandma's house. You understand?"

"Miss Bella is your girlfriend?" he giggled.

"Yes."

"And she can play with me all the time now?" I chuckled and ruffled his hair. He was only seeing the benefits for him. That's my kid.

"She can play with you, but she needs to have grown-up time too. So you have to be patient if she can't play with you…"

"You're lucky Daddy." He looked up at me with bright eyes.

"Why is that?"

"B'cus Miss Bella is a girl, but she has no cooties. You can hold hands." He smiled, looking so happy for me. I grinned at him.

"You're right. I am lucky, and maybe she'll let me hold her hand today." I winked at him, and he giggled.

I thought this conversation would be difficult. I guess I was just expecting Nathan to throw a whole bunch of questions at me that I wasn't gonna be able to answer, but he didn't. Maybe later on he will get curious. For now, all he wants to know is when Miss Bella will be available to play with him.

I left Nathan in his room to clean up what Kate told him to and I went back downstairs. She was sitting on the couch reading a book. I sat next to her and she put it down.

"I think he gets it, but we'll see." I told Kate.

"So it's serious huh?" she asked. I smiled and nodded.

"Yeah it is."

"I'm happy for you, you know. She's a lucky girl."

"Thanks, Kate." Aside from the argument we had early on about Bella, Kate has been neutral about everything. We don't really talk about our personal lives, just about Nathan, mainly. But I do know that Kate has been focusing on her career more than she does dating. I know how she feels about bringing someone new into Nathan's life, and I'm grateful that she isn't parading men around my son. "So I was also thinking that I'm gonna be cutting off my time from coming here to see Nathan..." She was about to protest, but I told her to listen to me first. "I'll only do it if you agree to let him stay with me an extra night or two at my place instead. I think before it was oaky for me to be here, but now with Bella…it doesn't feel right. I'm not single anymore, so anything I do, I'm gonna take her in consideration." Kate wasn't saying anything, "what do you think? Can he stay with me?"

She looked like she was thinking it over. "I just need you to promise to be extra careful with Nathan if she stays over. I mean I know you will, but you have him accustomed to sleeping with you—even though I've told you not to." She glared at me, still pissed that I let Nathan sleep with me. "That's my concern right now. You do what you want in your house, but remember that he sees and hears everything."

"Yeah of course. And I'll deal with things as they come, I just want him a couple nights a week—we shouldn't have any problems. He'll still see us both."

"Well then I think it's a good idea, we both need to have our own space and try to focus on what we have going on in our lives…it's time to move on." She got up, ending our conversation. She picked up Nathan's bag and handed it to me. "Now, you guys need to go because I have company coming over."

I raised an eyebrow. "Really? You haven't mentioned anyone…" I smirked; she knew I was teasing. She slapped my arm and pushed me toward the door.

"Shut up. Get out of here!" She laughed. I followed her out of the living room, and she stopped at the stairs to call Nathan. "Nathan, baby come down, Daddy's ready to go." She yelled.

I eyed her; she was fighting a blush and not daring to look at me. Now I knew for sure it was a guy she was waiting for. "The fucker better be treating you right." I told her seriously. She looked at me and rolled her eyes, but didn't say anything.

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"Miss Bella we're taking you to my gramma's house, and I'm gonna show you, my toy room, and we're gonna play Xbox you know how to play Xbox Miss Bella? S'okay if you don't I'll show you how an s'okay if you lose my Daddy loses all the time an-"

I looked over at Bella in the passenger seat, she was giggling. Nathan was still rambling on in my rear view mirror. I rolled my eyes when he mentioned that I lose all the time.

"He's five. I have to let him win…" I whispered. She nodded but I don't think she believed me from the fit of laughter that ensued.

"…my Daddy says I hafta wear floaties b'cus I drink a lot of water and, I can drown like that and do you hafta wear floaties too? My Daddy can buy you some, I only have boy ones…and you can sit next to me when we eat cuz you don't know where all the stuff is, but I'll show you my gramma says we have to eat all our veg'tables or else we can't play so you hafta eat everything Miss Bella!" Nathan yelled histerically. I've never heard him talk so much, the kid wasn't even taking a breather. Bella was near hysterics now, covering her mouth to muffle her laugh.

"I didn't hear one question to Bella, Nathan…you have to ask first if she wants to play, but just for a little bit. She's here to see grandma and grandpa too…and please stop kicking Bella's seat." Bella looked up at me and recovered from her laughing.

"Sorry." He mumbled and took his dirty sneakers off my leather seat.

"Tell you what Nathan," she turned around in her seat to face him, "I'll challenge you and your Dad to one game on the Xbox…and I'll sit next to you and your Dad on the table. What do you say?" She just made us both happy. Fucking awesome.

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Fifteen minutes later, we finally made it to my parent's house. Emmett's car was there so we were the last to arrive. Nathan was already unbuckling himself. I reminded him not to get off the car until I got him out myself. I went around and opened Bella's door then Nathan's.

I pulled out some stuff from the trunk, and Bella pulled out the New York cheesecake that she bought on the way here. I've been eyeing it since she brought it into the car.

We started walking up the driveway when Nathan spoke and stopped us.

"Miss Bella, my Daddy said he wants to hold your hand!" He giggled and covered his mouth like if he let out a huge secret. I groaned and covered my face before meeting Bella's eyes. Her face amused at my kid. She winked at me and then looked at Nathan.

"Really?" she asked Nathan and then leaned down to whisper to him, but loud enough for me to hear. "Do you think I should let him, he doesn't have cooties does he?" she glanced at me with a smile.

Nathan giggled. "No. My Daddy doesn't have cooties, you should let him." He looked up at me proud and grinned.

"Well alright then." Bella straightened up and held her hand out to me. I laced my fingers through hers and brought her hand up to kiss it. I looked over at Nathan; I winked and gave him a thumbs up. His face lit up, so happy with himself for helping me out.

My Dad opened the door before we even rang the doorbell. I bet my family was looking at us through the window this whole time. He led us in and closed the door.

"Hey Dad, this is Bella. Bella this is my dad." I introduced them.

"It's nice to meet you Mr. Cullen." Bella smiled, my Dad shook her hand.

"Bella, it's a pleasure...,please call me Carlisle. Come on in, we'll finish introductions inside." He ushered us in and Nathan ran off into the living room to see the rest of the family. We followed him in.

Emmett and Rose were sitting on the couch watching a game on my Dad's new flat screen. I still don't understand why my parents got all the good stuff after I moved out.

"Sup Bro! You're late as always." Emmett called out from the couch. I rolled my eyes at him.

"Emmett! Leave your brother alone." My mom called from behind us. She looked elegant as always, wearing her apron that looked more fashionable than to prevent splatter from cooking.

"Hey ma, how are you?" I hugged her and gave her a kiss on the cheek.

"I'm fine. Thank you, Edward." She looked over at Bella and beamed. "You must be Bella!"

I wrapped my arm around Bella's shoulder bringing her closer. "Yeah Mom, this is Bella. Bella, this is my Mom, Esme.

"It's so good to finally meet you dear…outside of school that is." My mother, the ever-patient woman, had threatened me numerous times that she was just going to invite Bella herself on one of the days that she was to pick up Nathan at school. We both knew she wouldn't, but she liked to torture me for fun. "Edward has told us so much about you. And Nathan, well he just doesn't stop talking about Miss Bella, his favorite teacher."

Bella laughed softly. "Oh, well thank you, it's good to meet you all. And thanks for having me; you have a lovely home Mrs. Cullen. I brought a cheesecake; Edward told me your family loves it."

"Call me Esme, dear. And thank you, I better put that away before it gets eaten before lunch. Please make yourself at home; we should be eating soon, so I'm going to excuse myself to finish up." She looked over at my father. "Carlisle, honey, please don't burn the chicken. You haven't checked it in a while…" my father nodded at her. As he was walking away, he mumbled something about men knowing how to grill with their eyes closed.

"Would you like some help Esme?" Bella asked.

"No, thank you dear. Just sit and relax." My mom went back to the kitchen and I introduced Bella to Emmett and Rosalie. I'm not sure if that was a good idea.

"Bella, I have to apologize to you personally…" Emmett paused dramatically and Bella looked up at me confused. I looked just as confused. "Because…well I took all the good looks in the family, and Eddie here got the scraps. But he's a really good guy if you just ignore his face and overall scrawny body." Bella laughed. She looked at me, her eyes full of amusement.

Fucking Emmett. His big ass dimples gave him away the second he finished his sentence. He can never be serious.

Rosalie cut in, "No Bella, let me apologize for my husband. I think Esme dropped him when he was a baby." Rosalie laughed at the top of her lungs when Emmett pouted like a big baby.

"Sorry Bella, in all seriousness, from the looks of it, my brother has never been happier. And little Nate already loves you, so welcome to the family!" Emmett smiled, full dimples showing.

Bella looked up at me and giggled; I sighed and rolled my eyes. She nudged me and told me to be nice.

I took Bella to the game room to get the kids out of there. It was a nice day outside to waste it away inside.

"Alright guys, time's up in here. We can go play catch or you guys can jump in the pool for a little before lunch." They cheered that they wanted to play catch. Liam and Logan ran out to get their Dad to come play with us. Nathan stayed behind.

"Miss Bella, this is my toy room!" Nathan took Bella around the room and showed her all the toys and game consoles. I stood in the doorway and watched their interaction. Bella would occasionally look at me, and I'd smile at her.

"Wow, you have a lot of toys here…this is the coolest toy room I've ever seen."

"Gramma and grampa bought me these for when I visit. You can use it too when you visit."

"Awesome thank you."

"Come on Nathan, let's go outside, we're gonna play catch." I told him. He took off running too. I checked the hallway to make sure no one was around. I walked into the room and pulled Bella into my arms. I buried my face in her neck. I hadn't realized how much I missed being close to her.

"I missed you baby." I mumbled into her neck.

She laughed and brought my face up to hers. "I've been right here, Edward." She pecked my lips. I shook my head and kissed her, deepening the kiss this time. I massaged her tongue with mine, eliciting a low moan from her mouth. She put her hands in my hair, massaged, and pulled. My dick twitched pressing into her stomach.

"I meant that I miss being this close to you, touching you." I kissed down her neck, nipping and licking. I noticed her marks were practically gone, so I was careful not to add any more.

Bella tried to push me away. "Edward, we have to go. Everyone is waiting for us outside." She giggled when I reached her sweet spot.

"Nobody will miss us. We can lock the door. That sofa is really comfortable..." I pointed to the L-shaped sofa in the far end of the room. She looked over and seemed to be considering it.

Then she shook her head. "No. We can't. They'll be looking for us. And besides I came here to meet your family, not ditch them to go and have sex with you in the game room."

"It doesn't have to be here. We can go to my old bedroom. It's probably still full of teenage angst and raging hormones." I grinned at her. "Come on, I've never had a girl up in my room at my parent's house…it could be fun." I licked behind her ear, and I palmed her breast. She slapped my hand away and started walking toward the door.

"I'll give you a quickie in your parents house another day, Edward. Today, I'm here to mingle with your family…and baby, if you're good, I'll let you feel me up in the pool…" she grinned and sauntered out of the room. Damn she was gonna kill me.

I had forgotten that I told Bella to pack a bathing suit, just in case we got in the pool. The image of her in a tiny bikini had me hard again, and I had to wait a couple more minutes before walking outside with my dick put back in check.

As I walked back through the house, I heard Bella laughing. It brought a smile to my face. I walked closer to where I heard her, and I saw her sitting with my mom on the kitchen island, each with a glass of iced tea. They were completely lost in their conversation, a salad off to the side, long forgotten. My mother was completely enamored with Bella, I couldn't blame her. We all were. I didn't stand there long, I didn't want to listen in. I gave them their privacy. Bella was fine without me being attached to her at all times. I knew she could hold her own, and I loved that about her. She was a strong and confident woman…and she could own the room with just her smile.

She was worried about coming here to meet my parents. She wanted to make the right impression and fit in. I just told her to be herself…

She had nothing to worry about.

"I'm glad you finally brought Bella over to the house, Edward. Your mother has been so excited; she couldn't even sleep last night." My Dad laughed. He was manning the grill. The one job my mom ever trusts him to do.

"It was time. She's special to me, Dad." I smiled and looked back at the house where I knew she was still sitting with my mom.

He grinned at me. "I can tell. You can't stop looking at her, even when she's not around you're looking for her."

We talked about the conversation I had with Nathan, and what his reaction was to the news of Bella being my girlfriend.

"He's just a kid son. He might have questions for you later, but right now, his mind is focusing on the fact that he gets to see Bella at home. It is that simple for him. I wouldn't worry about confusing him. He'll be fine."

After a game of catch with Emmett and the kids, my mom, Rose, and Bella came out of the house carrying trays food. My mom really outdid herself, making all kinds of side dishes for the ribs and BBQ chicken. Most of it would end up on Emmett's plate, but it still looked like a lot.

We all sat down, my dad at the head of the table followed by my mom to his right, Emmet and his family on the left of my Dad. Bella and Nathan sat on either side of me. Nathan talked Bella's ear off almost the whole time. My Mom and Dad would throw in a question here and there to Bella to keep the conversations flowing. They asked her about her family, and where they were from.

Bella lived here in LA while her parents lived down in San Diego. My parents were surprised to hear that she was an only child, and they asked her many other questions about how it was growing up an only child. Of course, Emmett had to jump in and let everyone know that he would have been happy being an only child.

"Seriously Dad, why'd you have to go get mom knocked up again? I was perfectly fine being the only one." He said through a mouth full of potato salad.

"Because they figured out that they made a mistake the first time and gave it another try with me." I smiled sweetly at my mother. "Isn't that right ma? Once you had me, you had perfection. No need to try again." I finished proudly.

"Listen guys…" my father spoke up and pointed at Emmett and me. "You both are boneheads." He reached over and took my mom's hand. "Esme, we should have tried for a girl. Maybe she would have made us proud." He smiled at my mother, and she chuckled. Emmett and I were no longer smiling. That wasn't funny at all. Everyone else at the table thought it was hilarious. I playfully glared at Bella, who was laughing uncontrollably next to me.

Overall, we had a good time. We laughed and joked as we usually do, Bella right up there with us, fitting in perfectly. She was like the new shiny toy that everyone fawned over, and it didn't even phase her.

When our stomachs were full, we lounged around the pool waiting for the food to go down. My mom would not let us in the water for at least a half hour; for fear that, we would get a cramp in the water or something.

"Are you having a good time, babe?" I asked Bella as she put sun block on Nathan and me.

She smiled at me. "I'm having a great time…you're family is a lot of fun."

"I'm lots and lots of fun, Bella!" Nathan jumped up and down on his lounge chair. He dropped the Miss to Bella's name when he heard everyone calling her Bella. I explained to him that he still had to call her Miss Bella at school though. And when he asked what would happen if he forgot to call her that, Bella told him that she would remind him, so he didn't forget at school. That put him at ease right away. "I know how to play lots of games…um…but I don't know how to swim…can you teach me, so I don't hafta wear the floaties?"

"Sure I can. But you'll have to practice with your daddy too when I'm not around okay? It takes time to be really good."

"Yeah buddy, you'll still have to wear your floaties for a while." I told him. He's been trying to get rid of them, but he won't let me teach him to swim so they stay on. At least he asked to learn this time.

Bella went to the pool house with Rose and my mom to change into her suit when she was done with us. My dad, Emmett, the kids and I, we all got in the pool, since we were ready to go even before lunch. Nathan wanted to jump off the diving board with his cousins, so I let him. Em made sure to catch him and swim him to the three-foot mark.

"I want to go again Daddy! Can I go again?" Nathan paddled toward me.

"Go ahead. I'll catch you this time." I watched as he got out of the water. "Don't run Nate, I don't want you to slip and fall." I reminded him. I swam to the deep end of the pool and waited for Nathan to take his turn after Logan. After a huge splash, Nathan yelled down to me.

"READY, DADDY? HERE I COME!" My kid, the fucking daredevil, didn't hesitate to throw himself off the diving board, hands and legs wide open. I caught his upper body just in time as his legs hit the water, but I didn't let him go down too far. I helped him reach the surface and when his head popped out his smile was a mile wide.

"Oooh Daddy that was awesome! Did you see my jump grampa?" We grinned at him.

"That was pretty cool Nathan." My Dad said.

Just as I started to swim back to the shallow with Nathan, I stopped a dead fucking stop. I held Nathan on my hip as I admired the most gorgeous woman that ever walked this earth. Sorry mom.

Bella looked fucking beautiful, wearing a two-piece purple bikini. It wasn't skimpy or anything, just showing enough of her beautiful body. It was all ruffly in the right places and so, so hot on her. I wouldn't dare tell her to cover up. If she was proud of her body, then so was I. She noticed me staring at her, and she flashed me a smile.

Rose and my mom walked up to her, and they laid their towels on the chairs. Emmett immediately whistled and hollered at his wife. I won't lie, she was a pretty face, a nice body and so down to earth, but she doesn't take anyone's bullshit. She's perfect for Em. Even with the tiny baby bump she was sporting these days she looked good. I won't admit this out loud, but I did notice that her boobs were way bigger than they usually are.

I caught my dad checking out my mom, and as creepy as that was, I was happy for them. Their marriage has been strong through the years. There have been difficulties, like my dad explained to me once, but they saw them through. I would do anything to have that kind of relationship. To be able to grow old with the love of your life, and watch your grandchildren and great grandchildren walk this earth. And of course, spoil them rotten.

The three women got in the pool, each to their significant other. Bella swam to us, and as soon as she reached us, I pulled her close to me and kissed her on the cheek.

I had my son on my right and my love to my left. They were all I needed. I looked around at the rest of my family…and I knew that this is what life was all about.

Family. And I finally had mine.

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