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p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Kam?" Alice whispered, peaking into her bedroom./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Viggo and Hunter were asleep in the room across the hall which had been renovated for them since they were now the size of five-year olds and moved in their sleep which meant that there was little room for them in the same bed as Kamber./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"When Alice looked in, she was shocked to see Rosalie and Antigone in there, helping the girl pack!/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""What is going on?" she asked, charging into the room but closing it so that the twins, who were napping, weren't roused./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""I have to leave Alice," Kamber replied, taking a pile of shirts from Rosalie and putting them in her backpack./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""But Kam…" Alice started but Rosalie interrupted her./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Don't tell me that you didn't see this coming Alice. You can see the future," Rose snapped. "You just didn't tell us what you saw because you didn't want to hurt Kamber."br /Kamber lifted her eyes and Alice realized the girl had been crying… a lot!/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""But why Kam?" Alice asked. "We should talk to Edward about it. He might have had a reason."br /"For what?" Antigone snapped. "For kissing Bella in the elevator?"br /Alice froze. She had always tried to support her brother and remain loyal to him but now that she thought of it, Edward would have told them if something was going on or he was having a hard time…. And yet he went and did something like this without explaining it. /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Alice sighed, "But where will you go?"br /Kamber took the books that Antigone handed to her and stuffed them into the little space left in her bag, "To visit my aunt and uncle in Austria."br /"But that's…." Alice started./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""A long way away," Kamber finished. "Yeah I know. I was considering leaving one of the boys here with Edward but the last thing I want is for the two of them to be separated…. But I didn't feel comfortable leaving both twins here. I don't want them growing up without their mother and…."/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"The girl couldn't finish for her voice caught in her throat and she had to swallow a sob. Alice walked across the room and drew the girl into a tight hug./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""I understand Kam. I only hope that one day you'll be able to return home and we can fix this all up."br /Kamber nodded, "One day… I hope."br /Without another word, Kamber drew away from her and silently left the room. Rose and Antigone followed, carrying the two bags Kamber filled. When they met her in the living room, she was carrying Viggo on her hip and had Hunter's hand in his. Both had backpacks on their backs and were looking rather puzzled./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"The whole Cullen family, minus Edward, were in the living room as well as Kamber's whole family. /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Are you sure about this honey?" Mrs. Vicasi asked, trying to fight tears./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber nodded, "I need to do this."br /One by one, her family members walked over and gave her a hug. She set Viggo down and allowed the twins to go and say farewell to their many aunts and uncles and grandparents. When Kamber reached Esme, the woman embraced her gently./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""I am glad that you met Edward when you did," she whispered. "I believe you may have helped him."br /Kamber smiled sadly and shook her head, "Not enough."br /Finally Carlisle reached the girl and placed his hands on her shoulders, "Be careful. I know you are more than capable of protecting your family."br /Kamber smiled before hugging the doctor vampire. Finally, the girl stepped back to look at her family. Viggo and Hunter walked over to her, both of them taking one of her hands./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"The girl smiled at her family before she turned and headed out the door. Silently she threw her bag into the back of the truck that her dad had given her. She then lifted each of the twins and buckled them into their car seat before climbing into the front seat herself./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"They were about halfway down the road when Kamber picked up her phone and dialed a number rather quickly before putting the phone to her ear./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Calliope," she whispered. "Update?"/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"There was a voice on the other end of the line before a smile lit up Kamber's face, "Great. Let dad know…. No don't call Alice, remember? Edward can hear her thoughts. Okay. Bye."br /After hanging up, Kamber smiled but quickly put on a serious face before closing her eyes and concentrating. She entered her own mind and began to balance it out, that way her mind was no open to everyone…. No longer blocking her thoughts./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"'Why? Why Edward? Why did you do that?'/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Then quickly, the girl reset the balance in her mind, so her mind was now blocked before she smiled into the rearview mirror at the twins who were smiling back./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Viggo turned to Hunter and quickly connected their minds./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"'Poor mother. She is so sad. I wonder why daddy isn't coming home.'/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Hunter smiled, 'Same. I wonder why we're going to Austria without daddy.'/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber smiled when she saw the twins looking at each other in the back seat. She knew what they were doing. She glanced down at her watch and saw she had two hours before the plane was to take off. /p
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p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward was pressed against the wall of an alley way again. Bella was all over him, practically eating his face off. He sighed. This was the last day and then he could return home to Kamber and the twins and live a normal life. He would talk to Carlisle about moving, making an excuse about people suspecting Carlisle's immortality. /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Bella pressed into him and moaned, smirking when he was forced to smile at her. However, as Bella latched her lips to his neck, he froze. Did he just hear someone's thoughts? He always stayed in tune with his parents and siblings' thoughts…. But there was another pair of thoughts that caught his attention./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"It was two people's thoughts…. and they were talking to each other. Then it dawned on him. It was the twins! Maybe listening to the twins' thoughts would help time fly by to when he wasn't bombarded by Bella./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"However, what the two boys were thinking of made Edward freeze. /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emPoor mother…./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emWhy is daddy not home…./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emMom was crying last night when Aunt Calliope and Uncle Zayne came home from Seattle…./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emAunty Rose is really mad…. /em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emI think she's mad at daddy…./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emWhere is daddy…./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emWhere is daddy…./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emPoor mother…./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emWhy are we at the airport…./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emMommy said we're going to Austria…./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emWhere is Austria…./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emWhy isn't daddy here?/em/p
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p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward frowned, forgetting all about Bella and concentrating on his sons' memories that kept coming in and out of his mind. Suddenly…. He caught a whiff of another thought close to the twins and he froze when he realized who's it was…./p
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p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emWhy did you choose Bella Edward?/em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emI thought you loved me…./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emI promised I would always love you…./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emMaybe I wasn't the right one for you…./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emBut you were the right one for me…./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emI love you Edward…./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emLove you…./em/p
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p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Then it was gone as quickly as it had appeared. Edward seemed to snap and pushed Bella off of him, almost making her fall over./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""What's up with you?" she asked, smirking, thinking that it was part of Edward's playacting./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Times up Bella," Edward hissed. "You say a word and there will be a houseful of vampires after you."br /Bella was barely able to open his mouth before Edward ran out of the alley at top speed and back to his car that was parked at the gas pump. He basically threw himself into the car and turned it on, flying out of the lot./p
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p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Come on boys," Kamber called to the twins./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Viggo and Hunter were staring around them in wonder as they walked through the airport. Kamber found a bench away from all the other people who were waiting to get on the plane and set her bags down. The twins walked over and plopped down on the bench next to her. /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber opened her phone and glanced at her texts. Antigone and Glynn had both texted her to check to see if she had gotten to the airport alright. /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"She glanced at the time and saw they had thirty minutes till the plane arrived./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Come on," she whispered nervously. "Please don't be late."br /Almost by magic, she sensed someone's presence nearby and looking up, she saw a pair of amber eyes staring at her as the person rushed toward her. Kamber rose to her feet and glanced at the twins to see that they had spied the person too but were just smiling, probably talking to each other in their minds./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Kamber," Edward whispered hoarsely, coming to stop in front of her. /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"He was staring at her long and hard, expecting her to do anything…. Yell at him, slap him… anything. However, the girl just smiled up at him sweetly. Reaching up, she planted a warm kiss on his cheek./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""About time you got here," she remarked in a teasing tone./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward furrowed his brow in confusion, "Listen Kam…. What happened with Bella…. I didn't want to do it…. she… I mean she blackmailed me…. she said that if I didn't…..."br /The girl cut him off when her laughter broke out and she had to clutch her stomach to stop from laughing. Edward stared at her wide eyed. What was going on with Kamber? After everything he had done to her, she was laughing. Was she drunk?/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""You think I didn't know that?" Kamber asked, finally calming down. "You think I didn't know that Bella blocked you from getting a job and met you at the mechanic shop?"/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward frowned, wondering how on earth she knew about that when a thought dawned on him, "But that is not even the half of it…"br /"Yeah I know," Kamber replied, completely placid and calm. "She threatened to not let you get a job unless you spent time with her for a month but when you refused, she threatened to reveal her knowledge of your being a vampire. You agreed to a month of allowing her to fondle and kiss you if she agreed to keep quiet…. Then a few days ago she made a new offer to cut the deal short if you went on a three-day trip with her and pretended to return her advances…."/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward felt his jaw drop and his eyes widened though his wife just smiled up him, a mischievous look in her eyes./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""How…."br /"You think I don't know you Edward?" the girl asked, crossing her arms. "You don't clear your history on the computer, and I saw what you were searching and all the emails you got with the refusals. In case you have forgotten, my dad is a lawyer, so I didn't fail to notice that the refusal emails you got also had Bella's email attached as well."br /"Wait what?" Edward asked, freezing./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber nodded, "Yeah, you kinda missed that part. Anyway, I paid a visit to the Swan's and the chief told me that Bella was at the mechanics… and I knew you were there too. I called Calliope and asked her to investigate and find out what Bella was doing to you. Chief Swan admitted to going with Bella's request of spreading a rumor about you to the employers and he promised to tell me whenever Bella left her house."br /"But Bella lives alone," Edward pointed out./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Yeah well," Kamber mused aloud. "Chief Swan isn't stupid, and he knows about Bella's habit of getting into mischief, so he tracks her phone. Whenever you left home, I would contact him and he would let me know where Bella had gone, then Calliope or Zayne would follow and…. Let's just say my parents gave birth to a bunch of Sherlock Holmeses."/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward ran his fingers through his hair. His wife had known what had been happening the whole time!?/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Why didn't you say anything?" he asked./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber smiled and wrapped her arms around his waist, placing her cheek on his chest, "I wanted you to tell me in your own time… but when you never said anything about it and tried to deal with this by yourself, I decided to take things into my own hands… a little more than I already had."br /Edward frowned and glanced over Kamber's head at the twins who were grinning cheekily at their father. /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emFooled ya!/em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emDon't say that! Mommy said to not tease daddy/em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emIt's funny though that he actually believed it!/em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward's eyes widened at his sons' thoughts before he gently pushed Kamber back to look at her grinning face./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""You mean…. Letting me hear your thoughts…. Alice, Emmett, Jasper and Rose's thoughts about you leaving…. you pretending to go to Austria…."br /"It was all a set up stupid," Kamber said, punching his chest playfully. "I had to get you home somehow and I thought that if you believed that I was leaving with the twins, then you come home and actually open up about what is going on in that brain of yours. It's great that you can read minds but Edward, that doesn't mean you cannot share your thoughts with others."br /Edward let out a shaky breath and felt tears creep to his eyes. He should have known that Kamber was suspicious. After all, she is her father's daughter!/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"He slumped, his hands falling to rest on Kamber's shoulders before he lifted his head, tears rimming his golden eyes. Finally, he did what he had been wanting to do for three days. He drew the girl's head up to him and crashed his lips to hers. /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emYay!/em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emShut up!/em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emDon't tell me to shut up! You are just as happy!/em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emShut up./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emI wonder when mommy is going to tell him about the surprise./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emLike he isn't surprised enough already./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emYou've got a point./em/p
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p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward smiled at his sons' thoughts. They definitely got their sarcasm from their mother! However, what Viggo had said caught his attention. Gently he pulled away from the kiss and looked down into Kamber's eyes./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""So… what is this surprise that our sons are thinking about?" he asked, smiling./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber looked over at the twins to see that they were smiling sheepishly, not realizing that their father had been listening the whole time. Turning back to Edward, she reached down and taking his hand into hers, pressed it to her abdomen./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""I was going to wait until you got back from Seattle to try and reach you… but after I found about this little one, I didn't want to wait."br /Edward's mouth dropped back open and the twins chuckled at this. They found it rather amusing to see their father's surprised expression. Viggo scuttled off the bench and dragged his twin over to their parents before gripping his father's leg and looking up at him./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""You better kiss her daddy, or I will," the boy replied, a mischievous glint in his blue eyes./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward and Kamber chuckled when Hunter quickly covered his brother's mouth and clobbered him over the head for saying such a thing. /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward looked down at Kamber who was smiling at him and he felt his heart relax. He bent down and pressed a warm, gentle kiss to her lips and Kamber smiled into it, both of them ignoring the gagging noises that Hunter was giving them and the fangirling squeals from Viggo that were partially muffled by Hunter's hand that was still over Viggo's mouth. Everything was going to be okay now. He hadn't lost Kamber or the twins and he could figure out how to deal with Bella…. No scratch that…. emThey /emcould figure out how to deal with her together./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Suddenly Edward pulled away, his eyes widened./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""What about Bella?" he asked, biting his lip./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber smirked and patted her husband's cheek, "You're so cute when you're clueless."/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward cocked his head in confusion while Kamber looked at the twins. She wasn't sure she wanted them to hear this, so she stood on tiptoe and whispered into his ear./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""She was trying to seduce you to make her crush jealous."/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""How can you be sure that was it?" Edward asked. "She might have had an ulterior motive."br /"Oh she did," Kamber replied, whispering into his ear again. "Cuz her crush is a girl."br /Edward froze, Kamber's mouth still close to his ear. "You mean…."br /"Yep," Kamber whispered. "Bella is lesbian."/p
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p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"HEY! I had so much fun writing this chapter! I was laughing the whole time! The next chapter will be the epilogue and the last chapter! I hope you have enjoyed A Thousand Years!/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"strongspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Epilogue: 15 years later/span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"br /Kamber stretched as she stepped out of the car. Edward ran around the front of the car but saw that she had already got out and put on a pouting face. Kamber chuckled and planted a kiss on his cheek./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""You don't have to be a gentleman all the time."br /Edward raised his eyebrows in amusement, "It is our anniversary so yeah I do."br /Kamber shook her head and wrapped her arm around his abdomen, "I love you just the way you are and you don't have to make our anniversary special by acting gentlemanly. The nicest thing you can do is just be you."br /"Okay love," Edward whispered, bending down to kiss her thoroughly. When they got inside, they wouldn't have time to be lovey dovey so might as well do it now./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" Kamber had to wrap her arms around Edward's neck when he bent her backwards slightly to deepen the kiss. Finally, he pulled away and Kamber's face was flushed, "Easy big guy," she teased. "It's only nine pm."br /Edward rolled his eyes, "Yeah and should be the kids' bedtime. I don't know what possessed us to allow them to stay up till we got home."br /"It's the weekend honey," Kamber pointed out. "And the twins…. Let's just say the last time we went out they forgot to brush the kids' teeth before putting them to bed so their breath smelt like dried blood the next morning."br /Edward shrugged, "I don't know about you but I kinda like that smell."br /Kamber socked him in the shoulder as they climbed the steps to the front door of their house. "Well I don't when I have to brush it in the morning before they go to school! Even with that overly strong-smelling toothpaste that Glynn invented still doesn't take all the smell away. The kids at school wonder why our kids' breath smells like fresh blood!"br /Edward chuckled, kissing her forehead, "You're right. And we don't go on dates every day, so it won't hurt…. Right?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber smiled as she reached underneath the pot on the porch for the key. For their second anniversary, Kamber and Edward had been gifted their own house about a mile from the Cullens and Vicasi's, so they were close to both their families but also had some privacy. Since then, Alice and Jasper had moved to a cute little log cabin in the woods on the ridge by the Cullen's where Alice worked as a fashion and hair designer while Jasper wrote detective and spy novels and was well known as an anonymous celebrity. Rosalie and Emmett had bought an apartment in town and Emmett worked as a car dealer and had his own shop: Cullen Dealers. Rosalie oftentimes spent most of her day with Alice, helping design outfits and hair. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Antigone had happily married Jacob Black and the two now lived with the Blacks and had two kids: a boy and a girl…. Luke and Stephany. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kenelm, Neveah, Eustace, Hermione, Dashiell, Vanessa and Holden still lived with Kamber's parents since they were still 'little'. Dale and Imogen were living with Rosalie and Emmett since they were closer to the school and the two had become involved with sports. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Calliope and Zayne were living in a house with Vince and Glynn a few miles from their parents where Calliope and Zayne were taking law through online classes and from their father. Glynn and Vince had created a site and had invented all kinds of things, including a toothpaste especially for vampires and werewolves that had a stronger smell so as to erase the stench of blood./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"When people started to whisper about the Vicasi and Cullen families' strange lack of aging, the Vicasi's decided on a plan. Eustace had been gifted the power of hypnosis, the ability to control people's minds. So, once every few years when people began to get suspicious of their behavior, he would erase everyone's memories of the Vicasi or Cullens, that way they would never have to move, and no one would remember the Vicasi or Cullens. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"After Kamber and Edward had returned home with the twins 15 years ago, Eustace had announced that he had erased Bella's memories of Edward so that she no longer even knew who he was and life went on./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber finally unlocked the front door and the two stepped into their house./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" They had barely hung up their coats when they could hear the footsteps of the kids upstairs…. Then the shouts…. And then they saw their children come tearing down the stairs, multiple heads all different heights with huge grins on their faces. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Four-year-old a href=" pin/735353445394506886/?d=tmt=login"span style="color: blue;"Kokoro/span/a and six-year-old a href=" pin/28921622582553153/"span style="color: blue;"Casper/span/a were the first ones to reach their parents and totaled into them. Kamber smiled, bending down to hug her daughter and quickly covered her ears so that the other kids' yells wouldn't hurt her ears. Kokoro had inherited the vampire gift of sharp hearing as well as sharp sight and sometimes loud sounds hurt her ears. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Casper grabbed his father's leg and Edward picked him up, smiling at his son's joyful face. However, he saw a little spark run up Casper's hair and quickly Edward pinched his son's nose and Casper's face swelled slightly before relaxing. The lad had, believe it or not, been born with the gift of explosions. He could make them on his own, but sometimes they would happen if he sneezed, yawned or hiccupped and the best way to stop them was to pinch his nose which was something that Viggo had discovered by accident./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"When the twins had both reached the age of fifteen, Kamber and Edward began to worry for they had several more kids on the way and the speed of their growth was worrying them. For the twins, every week they had to get them new clothes and in their fast growth, they feared that people would notice their change because they couldn't send the kids to school for fear that people would notice their rapid growth./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"In that case, Carlisle did some testing and soon discovered the answer…. Kamber. Her gift of balance was the answer to making the kids grow at a natural pace. The girl gave each of her kids an ounce of blood whenever she gave birth to one of them and by consuming her blood, they consumed her balance which then balanced out their growth as well as mental development so instead of growing and learning at a rapid pace, they grew normally and at the same pace as normal kids./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber stood up from Kokoro's height to take two-year-old a href=" pin/220113500517300250/"span style="color: blue;"Blair/span/a from their fourteen-year-old daughter a href=" pin/754353006321967601/?d=tmt=login"span style="color: blue;"Raden/span/a. Raden had been born just a few weeks after the encounter with Bella and almost immediately had learnt that she could mess with time, similar to her grandfather: Mr. Vicasi. But only slightly. She could turn back time or stall time or speed up time but only for individual things, one at a time. Blair smiled at her mother before pointing to her heard where two little bunny ears had appeared./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""a href=" pin/799177896361307328/?d=tmt=login"span style="color: blue;"Hunter/span/a started it," a href=" pin/666180969865333576/"span style="color: blue;"Viggo/span/a yelled, quickly getting himself out of trouble./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward and Kamber chuckled. Little Blair had the ability to not morph entirely but to take on certain traits of animals such as wings, tails, ears and noses. The twins found it vastly amusing to give her new animals to try since she could morph the features of almost every animal./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Hunter clobbered his twin over the head before smiling sheepishly at his parents. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Finally, eight-year-old a href=" pin/762937993109727253/"span style="color: blue;"Xena/spanspan style="color: windowtext;" /span/aand ten-year-old a href=" pin/379709812334270665/?d=tmt=login"span style="color: blue;"Ranger/span/a trotted over to their parents and gave each of them a hug. Even though Xena and Ranger were two years apart, the two were inseparable. Ranger had the ability to turn certain things into organic objects, such as turn a rabbit into a cube as well as turn organic things to life, such as bring a clock to life with legs, eyes and arms. However, it was only a temporary thing and he could only bring the thing to life or make the thing organic for about twenty minutes at the most. Xena meanwhile had the ability to create force fields which often caused some problems for Edward since he couldn't read her mind when she had her force field up. However, it also meant that she always won dodgeball!/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Lastly, calm and intellectual twelve-year-old a href=" pin/598064025503657580/?d=tmt=login"span style="color: blue;"Mitsuru/span/a walked over to Edward and held out the baby, a href=" pin/513410426240649913/?d=tmt=login"span style="color: blue;"Dixie/span/a who had just recently turned one. Dixie's abilities were still unknown since she was so little, but Mitsuru had the talent of echolocation and also the sixth sense, similar to his uncle Zayne./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward scooped up little Dixie and kissed her round cheek before the girl sleepily laid her head on his shoulder./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Alright, you said hello, now time for bed!"br /"AW!" All the kids cried but when Kamber gave them a pointed look, they all scurried off to bed. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Raden gently took Dixie from Edward before carrying the baby up to the nursery to put her to bed. The two waited until they heard all the doors upstairs close before they relaxed. Now the house was quiet./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber sighed, sitting down on the couch, "What a day! Tomorrow is Sunday."br /"Yeah," Edward said, sitting down next to her. "We're meeting up with the others for baseball because there is thunder scheduled for tomorrow."br /He smirked as his wife leant back on the couch. Reaching one arm over and around his waist, he pulled her close to him and kissed her strongly on the mouth, touching her lips with his tongue. Kamber smirked at him, pushing him back gently./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""The kids just went to sleep honey," Kamber whispered./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward smirked, "They'll stay in bed if they know what's good for them."br /Kamber rolled her eyes playfully but smiled when Edward kissed the crook of her neck, "You sure you want another little one already? I thought you already chose Dixie as daddy's little girl."br /Edward smirked against her skin before giving her a soft kiss. He pulled her over and onto her lap, so she was straddling him, and he buried his face into her chest, sighing as he breathed in her scent./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""I don't mind having dozens of 'daddy's little girls'. Just as long as long as they are with you."br /Kamber smiled and kissed Edward's hair before lifting his face to look at her. Gently she pressed her lips to his and smirked when his hands touched the zipper of her dress./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Same here. I have loved you for a thousand years…."br /"And I'll love you for a thousand more," Edward finished, kissing her one more time before lifting her up and carrying her upstairs./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward smiled as he laid back later that evening, Kamber curled up next to him, tired but smiling as she lay naked next to him. He had succeeded in finding his mate and receiving her love in return. Even though he had made mistakes and hadn't trusted her to help him, she had remained true to him and now, they had a happy family and as long as they trusted each other, nothing was going to tear them apart./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward was just about to lean back to rest when he caught whiff of the twins' thoughts down the hallway./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"About time they stopped making noise! It's almost midnight!/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"You were the one who didn't want to go to bed Vig. Stop complaining./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"I'll stop complaining when they stop duking it out every night./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"That was entirely the wrong term./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Oh, shut up!/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"You do realize that dad is probably listening to our thoughts right now/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"How do you know?/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Because he does every night when mom falls asleep and if we stay up any longer then we'll have to take Casper for a swim in the morning./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Seriously, he has some serious bad morning tantrums/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"They are only temporary mom said. He's still a kid./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Since when have you become so wise? Are you hanging out with Mitsuru too much?/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"You aren't hanging out with him enough. It might do you good./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"You calling me unintelligent?/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"No, just moderately opaque/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"So…. You're saying I'm stupid./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Yeah that was the word I was looking for/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"DAD!/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Oh, shut up./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward chuckled when he heard their thoughts drift off into dreams and he leant back, pulling Kamber close to him./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Heart beats fastbr /Colors and promisesbr /How to be brave?br /How can I love when I'm afraid to fall?br /But watching you stand alonebr /All of my doubt suddenly goes away somehowbr /One step closerbr /I have died every day waiting for youbr /Darling, don't be afraidbr /I have loved youbr /For a thousand yearsbr /I'll love you for a thousand more/span/em/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward smirked down at the girl who was laying with her eyes closed, "You are supposed to be asleep."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber just smiled, snuggling closer to him and wrapping her arms around him, "I have died every day waiting for you."br /Edward smiled and kissed her head, closing his eyes. "And I won't make you wait any longer."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""That wasn't part of the song."br /"Go to sleep."/span/p
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p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Kam?" Alice whispered, peaking into her bedroom./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Viggo and Hunter were asleep in the room across the hall which had been renovated for them since they were now the size of five-year olds and moved in their sleep which meant that there was little room for them in the same bed as Kamber./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"When Alice looked in, she was shocked to see Rosalie and Antigone in there, helping the girl pack!/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""What is going on?" she asked, charging into the room but closing it so that the twins, who were napping, weren't roused./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""I have to leave Alice," Kamber replied, taking a pile of shirts from Rosalie and putting them in her backpack./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""But Kam…" Alice started but Rosalie interrupted her./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Don't tell me that you didn't see this coming Alice. You can see the future," Rose snapped. "You just didn't tell us what you saw because you didn't want to hurt Kamber."br /Kamber lifted her eyes and Alice realized the girl had been crying… a lot!/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""But why Kam?" Alice asked. "We should talk to Edward about it. He might have had a reason."br /"For what?" Antigone snapped. "For kissing Bella in the elevator?"br /Alice froze. She had always tried to support her brother and remain loyal to him but now that she thought of it, Edward would have told them if something was going on or he was having a hard time…. And yet he went and did something like this without explaining it. /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Alice sighed, "But where will you go?"br /Kamber took the books that Antigone handed to her and stuffed them into the little space left in her bag, "To visit my aunt and uncle in Austria."br /"But that's…." Alice started./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""A long way away," Kamber finished. "Yeah I know. I was considering leaving one of the boys here with Edward but the last thing I want is for the two of them to be separated…. But I didn't feel comfortable leaving both twins here. I don't want them growing up without their mother and…."/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"The girl couldn't finish for her voice caught in her throat and she had to swallow a sob. Alice walked across the room and drew the girl into a tight hug./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""I understand Kam. I only hope that one day you'll be able to return home and we can fix this all up."br /Kamber nodded, "One day… I hope."br /Without another word, Kamber drew away from her and silently left the room. Rose and Antigone followed, carrying the two bags Kamber filled. When they met her in the living room, she was carrying Viggo on her hip and had Hunter's hand in his. Both had backpacks on their backs and were looking rather puzzled./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"The whole Cullen family, minus Edward, were in the living room as well as Kamber's whole family. /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Are you sure about this honey?" Mrs. Vicasi asked, trying to fight tears./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber nodded, "I need to do this."br /One by one, her family members walked over and gave her a hug. She set Viggo down and allowed the twins to go and say farewell to their many aunts and uncles and grandparents. When Kamber reached Esme, the woman embraced her gently./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""I am glad that you met Edward when you did," she whispered. "I believe you may have helped him."br /Kamber smiled sadly and shook her head, "Not enough."br /Finally Carlisle reached the girl and placed his hands on her shoulders, "Be careful. I know you are more than capable of protecting your family."br /Kamber smiled before hugging the doctor vampire. Finally, the girl stepped back to look at her family. Viggo and Hunter walked over to her, both of them taking one of her hands./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"The girl smiled at her family before she turned and headed out the door. Silently she threw her bag into the back of the truck that her dad had given her. She then lifted each of the twins and buckled them into their car seat before climbing into the front seat herself./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"They were about halfway down the road when Kamber picked up her phone and dialed a number rather quickly before putting the phone to her ear./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Calliope," she whispered. "Update?"/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"There was a voice on the other end of the line before a smile lit up Kamber's face, "Great. Let dad know…. No don't call Alice, remember? Edward can hear her thoughts. Okay. Bye."br /After hanging up, Kamber smiled but quickly put on a serious face before closing her eyes and concentrating. She entered her own mind and began to balance it out, that way her mind was no open to everyone…. No longer blocking her thoughts./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"'Why? Why Edward? Why did you do that?'/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Then quickly, the girl reset the balance in her mind, so her mind was now blocked before she smiled into the rearview mirror at the twins who were smiling back./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Viggo turned to Hunter and quickly connected their minds./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"'Poor mother. She is so sad. I wonder why daddy isn't coming home.'/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Hunter smiled, 'Same. I wonder why we're going to Austria without daddy.'/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber smiled when she saw the twins looking at each other in the back seat. She knew what they were doing. She glanced down at her watch and saw she had two hours before the plane was to take off. /p
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p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward was pressed against the wall of an alley way again. Bella was all over him, practically eating his face off. He sighed. This was the last day and then he could return home to Kamber and the twins and live a normal life. He would talk to Carlisle about moving, making an excuse about people suspecting Carlisle's immortality. /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Bella pressed into him and moaned, smirking when he was forced to smile at her. However, as Bella latched her lips to his neck, he froze. Did he just hear someone's thoughts? He always stayed in tune with his parents and siblings' thoughts…. But there was another pair of thoughts that caught his attention./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"It was two people's thoughts…. and they were talking to each other. Then it dawned on him. It was the twins! Maybe listening to the twins' thoughts would help time fly by to when he wasn't bombarded by Bella./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"However, what the two boys were thinking of made Edward freeze. /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emPoor mother…./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emWhy is daddy not home…./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emMom was crying last night when Aunt Calliope and Uncle Zayne came home from Seattle…./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emAunty Rose is really mad…. /em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emI think she's mad at daddy…./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emWhere is daddy…./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emWhere is daddy…./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emPoor mother…./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emWhy are we at the airport…./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emMommy said we're going to Austria…./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emWhere is Austria…./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emWhy isn't daddy here?/em/p
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p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward frowned, forgetting all about Bella and concentrating on his sons' memories that kept coming in and out of his mind. Suddenly…. He caught a whiff of another thought close to the twins and he froze when he realized who's it was…./p
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p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emWhy did you choose Bella Edward?/em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emI thought you loved me…./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emI promised I would always love you…./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emMaybe I wasn't the right one for you…./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emBut you were the right one for me…./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emI love you Edward…./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emLove you…./em/p
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p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Then it was gone as quickly as it had appeared. Edward seemed to snap and pushed Bella off of him, almost making her fall over./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""What's up with you?" she asked, smirking, thinking that it was part of Edward's playacting./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Times up Bella," Edward hissed. "You say a word and there will be a houseful of vampires after you."br /Bella was barely able to open his mouth before Edward ran out of the alley at top speed and back to his car that was parked at the gas pump. He basically threw himself into the car and turned it on, flying out of the lot./p
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p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Come on boys," Kamber called to the twins./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Viggo and Hunter were staring around them in wonder as they walked through the airport. Kamber found a bench away from all the other people who were waiting to get on the plane and set her bags down. The twins walked over and plopped down on the bench next to her. /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber opened her phone and glanced at her texts. Antigone and Glynn had both texted her to check to see if she had gotten to the airport alright. /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"She glanced at the time and saw they had thirty minutes till the plane arrived./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Come on," she whispered nervously. "Please don't be late."br /Almost by magic, she sensed someone's presence nearby and looking up, she saw a pair of amber eyes staring at her as the person rushed toward her. Kamber rose to her feet and glanced at the twins to see that they had spied the person too but were just smiling, probably talking to each other in their minds./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Kamber," Edward whispered hoarsely, coming to stop in front of her. /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"He was staring at her long and hard, expecting her to do anything…. Yell at him, slap him… anything. However, the girl just smiled up at him sweetly. Reaching up, she planted a warm kiss on his cheek./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""About time you got here," she remarked in a teasing tone./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward furrowed his brow in confusion, "Listen Kam…. What happened with Bella…. I didn't want to do it…. she… I mean she blackmailed me…. she said that if I didn't…..."br /The girl cut him off when her laughter broke out and she had to clutch her stomach to stop from laughing. Edward stared at her wide eyed. What was going on with Kamber? After everything he had done to her, she was laughing. Was she drunk?/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""You think I didn't know that?" Kamber asked, finally calming down. "You think I didn't know that Bella blocked you from getting a job and met you at the mechanic shop?"/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward frowned, wondering how on earth she knew about that when a thought dawned on him, "But that is not even the half of it…"br /"Yeah I know," Kamber replied, completely placid and calm. "She threatened to not let you get a job unless you spent time with her for a month but when you refused, she threatened to reveal her knowledge of your being a vampire. You agreed to a month of allowing her to fondle and kiss you if she agreed to keep quiet…. Then a few days ago she made a new offer to cut the deal short if you went on a three-day trip with her and pretended to return her advances…."/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward felt his jaw drop and his eyes widened though his wife just smiled up him, a mischievous look in her eyes./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""How…."br /"You think I don't know you Edward?" the girl asked, crossing her arms. "You don't clear your history on the computer, and I saw what you were searching and all the emails you got with the refusals. In case you have forgotten, my dad is a lawyer, so I didn't fail to notice that the refusal emails you got also had Bella's email attached as well."br /"Wait what?" Edward asked, freezing./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber nodded, "Yeah, you kinda missed that part. Anyway, I paid a visit to the Swan's and the chief told me that Bella was at the mechanics… and I knew you were there too. I called Calliope and asked her to investigate and find out what Bella was doing to you. Chief Swan admitted to going with Bella's request of spreading a rumor about you to the employers and he promised to tell me whenever Bella left her house."br /"But Bella lives alone," Edward pointed out./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Yeah well," Kamber mused aloud. "Chief Swan isn't stupid, and he knows about Bella's habit of getting into mischief, so he tracks her phone. Whenever you left home, I would contact him and he would let me know where Bella had gone, then Calliope or Zayne would follow and…. Let's just say my parents gave birth to a bunch of Sherlock Holmeses."/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward ran his fingers through his hair. His wife had known what had been happening the whole time!?/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Why didn't you say anything?" he asked./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber smiled and wrapped her arms around his waist, placing her cheek on his chest, "I wanted you to tell me in your own time… but when you never said anything about it and tried to deal with this by yourself, I decided to take things into my own hands… a little more than I already had."br /Edward frowned and glanced over Kamber's head at the twins who were grinning cheekily at their father. /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emFooled ya!/em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emDon't say that! Mommy said to not tease daddy/em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emIt's funny though that he actually believed it!/em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward's eyes widened at his sons' thoughts before he gently pushed Kamber back to look at her grinning face./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""You mean…. Letting me hear your thoughts…. Alice, Emmett, Jasper and Rose's thoughts about you leaving…. you pretending to go to Austria…."br /"It was all a set up stupid," Kamber said, punching his chest playfully. "I had to get you home somehow and I thought that if you believed that I was leaving with the twins, then you come home and actually open up about what is going on in that brain of yours. It's great that you can read minds but Edward, that doesn't mean you cannot share your thoughts with others."br /Edward let out a shaky breath and felt tears creep to his eyes. He should have known that Kamber was suspicious. After all, she is her father's daughter!/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"He slumped, his hands falling to rest on Kamber's shoulders before he lifted his head, tears rimming his golden eyes. Finally, he did what he had been wanting to do for three days. He drew the girl's head up to him and crashed his lips to hers. /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emYay!/em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emShut up!/em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emDon't tell me to shut up! You are just as happy!/em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emShut up./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emI wonder when mommy is going to tell him about the surprise./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emLike he isn't surprised enough already./em/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"emYou've got a point./em/p
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p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward smiled at his sons' thoughts. They definitely got their sarcasm from their mother! However, what Viggo had said caught his attention. Gently he pulled away from the kiss and looked down into Kamber's eyes./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""So… what is this surprise that our sons are thinking about?" he asked, smiling./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber looked over at the twins to see that they were smiling sheepishly, not realizing that their father had been listening the whole time. Turning back to Edward, she reached down and taking his hand into hers, pressed it to her abdomen./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""I was going to wait until you got back from Seattle to try and reach you… but after I found about this little one, I didn't want to wait."br /Edward's mouth dropped back open and the twins chuckled at this. They found it rather amusing to see their father's surprised expression. Viggo scuttled off the bench and dragged his twin over to their parents before gripping his father's leg and looking up at him./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""You better kiss her daddy, or I will," the boy replied, a mischievous glint in his blue eyes./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward and Kamber chuckled when Hunter quickly covered his brother's mouth and clobbered him over the head for saying such a thing. /p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward looked down at Kamber who was smiling at him and he felt his heart relax. He bent down and pressed a warm, gentle kiss to her lips and Kamber smiled into it, both of them ignoring the gagging noises that Hunter was giving them and the fangirling squeals from Viggo that were partially muffled by Hunter's hand that was still over Viggo's mouth. Everything was going to be okay now. He hadn't lost Kamber or the twins and he could figure out how to deal with Bella…. No scratch that…. emThey /emcould figure out how to deal with her together./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Suddenly Edward pulled away, his eyes widened./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""What about Bella?" he asked, biting his lip./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber smirked and patted her husband's cheek, "You're so cute when you're clueless."/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward cocked his head in confusion while Kamber looked at the twins. She wasn't sure she wanted them to hear this, so she stood on tiptoe and whispered into his ear./p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""She was trying to seduce you to make her crush jealous."/p
p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""How can you be sure that was it?" Edward asked. "She might have had an ulterior motive."br /"Oh she did," Kamber replied, whispering into his ear again. "Cuz her crush is a girl."br /Edward froze, Kamber's mouth still close to his ear. "You mean…."br /"Yep," Kamber whispered. "Bella is lesbian."/p
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p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"HEY! I had so much fun writing this chapter! I was laughing the whole time! The next chapter will be the epilogue and the last chapter! I hope you have enjoyed A Thousand Years!/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"strongspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Epilogue: 15 years later/span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"br /Kamber stretched as she stepped out of the car. Edward ran around the front of the car but saw that she had already got out and put on a pouting face. Kamber chuckled and planted a kiss on his cheek./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""You don't have to be a gentleman all the time."br /Edward raised his eyebrows in amusement, "It is our anniversary so yeah I do."br /Kamber shook her head and wrapped her arm around his abdomen, "I love you just the way you are and you don't have to make our anniversary special by acting gentlemanly. The nicest thing you can do is just be you."br /"Okay love," Edward whispered, bending down to kiss her thoroughly. When they got inside, they wouldn't have time to be lovey dovey so might as well do it now./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" Kamber had to wrap her arms around Edward's neck when he bent her backwards slightly to deepen the kiss. Finally, he pulled away and Kamber's face was flushed, "Easy big guy," she teased. "It's only nine pm."br /Edward rolled his eyes, "Yeah and should be the kids' bedtime. I don't know what possessed us to allow them to stay up till we got home."br /"It's the weekend honey," Kamber pointed out. "And the twins…. Let's just say the last time we went out they forgot to brush the kids' teeth before putting them to bed so their breath smelt like dried blood the next morning."br /Edward shrugged, "I don't know about you but I kinda like that smell."br /Kamber socked him in the shoulder as they climbed the steps to the front door of their house. "Well I don't when I have to brush it in the morning before they go to school! Even with that overly strong-smelling toothpaste that Glynn invented still doesn't take all the smell away. The kids at school wonder why our kids' breath smells like fresh blood!"br /Edward chuckled, kissing her forehead, "You're right. And we don't go on dates every day, so it won't hurt…. Right?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber smiled as she reached underneath the pot on the porch for the key. For their second anniversary, Kamber and Edward had been gifted their own house about a mile from the Cullens and Vicasi's, so they were close to both their families but also had some privacy. Since then, Alice and Jasper had moved to a cute little log cabin in the woods on the ridge by the Cullen's where Alice worked as a fashion and hair designer while Jasper wrote detective and spy novels and was well known as an anonymous celebrity. Rosalie and Emmett had bought an apartment in town and Emmett worked as a car dealer and had his own shop: Cullen Dealers. Rosalie oftentimes spent most of her day with Alice, helping design outfits and hair. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Antigone had happily married Jacob Black and the two now lived with the Blacks and had two kids: a boy and a girl…. Luke and Stephany. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kenelm, Neveah, Eustace, Hermione, Dashiell, Vanessa and Holden still lived with Kamber's parents since they were still 'little'. Dale and Imogen were living with Rosalie and Emmett since they were closer to the school and the two had become involved with sports. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Calliope and Zayne were living in a house with Vince and Glynn a few miles from their parents where Calliope and Zayne were taking law through online classes and from their father. Glynn and Vince had created a site and had invented all kinds of things, including a toothpaste especially for vampires and werewolves that had a stronger smell so as to erase the stench of blood./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"When people started to whisper about the Vicasi and Cullen families' strange lack of aging, the Vicasi's decided on a plan. Eustace had been gifted the power of hypnosis, the ability to control people's minds. So, once every few years when people began to get suspicious of their behavior, he would erase everyone's memories of the Vicasi or Cullens, that way they would never have to move, and no one would remember the Vicasi or Cullens. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"After Kamber and Edward had returned home with the twins 15 years ago, Eustace had announced that he had erased Bella's memories of Edward so that she no longer even knew who he was and life went on./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber finally unlocked the front door and the two stepped into their house./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" They had barely hung up their coats when they could hear the footsteps of the kids upstairs…. Then the shouts…. And then they saw their children come tearing down the stairs, multiple heads all different heights with huge grins on their faces. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Four-year-old a href=" pin/735353445394506886/?d=tmt=login"span style="color: blue;"Kokoro/span/a and six-year-old a href=" pin/28921622582553153/"span style="color: blue;"Casper/span/a were the first ones to reach their parents and totaled into them. Kamber smiled, bending down to hug her daughter and quickly covered her ears so that the other kids' yells wouldn't hurt her ears. Kokoro had inherited the vampire gift of sharp hearing as well as sharp sight and sometimes loud sounds hurt her ears. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Casper grabbed his father's leg and Edward picked him up, smiling at his son's joyful face. However, he saw a little spark run up Casper's hair and quickly Edward pinched his son's nose and Casper's face swelled slightly before relaxing. The lad had, believe it or not, been born with the gift of explosions. He could make them on his own, but sometimes they would happen if he sneezed, yawned or hiccupped and the best way to stop them was to pinch his nose which was something that Viggo had discovered by accident./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"When the twins had both reached the age of fifteen, Kamber and Edward began to worry for they had several more kids on the way and the speed of their growth was worrying them. For the twins, every week they had to get them new clothes and in their fast growth, they feared that people would notice their change because they couldn't send the kids to school for fear that people would notice their rapid growth./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"In that case, Carlisle did some testing and soon discovered the answer…. Kamber. Her gift of balance was the answer to making the kids grow at a natural pace. The girl gave each of her kids an ounce of blood whenever she gave birth to one of them and by consuming her blood, they consumed her balance which then balanced out their growth as well as mental development so instead of growing and learning at a rapid pace, they grew normally and at the same pace as normal kids./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber stood up from Kokoro's height to take two-year-old a href=" pin/220113500517300250/"span style="color: blue;"Blair/span/a from their fourteen-year-old daughter a href=" pin/754353006321967601/?d=tmt=login"span style="color: blue;"Raden/span/a. Raden had been born just a few weeks after the encounter with Bella and almost immediately had learnt that she could mess with time, similar to her grandfather: Mr. Vicasi. But only slightly. She could turn back time or stall time or speed up time but only for individual things, one at a time. Blair smiled at her mother before pointing to her heard where two little bunny ears had appeared./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""a href=" pin/799177896361307328/?d=tmt=login"span style="color: blue;"Hunter/span/a started it," a href=" pin/666180969865333576/"span style="color: blue;"Viggo/span/a yelled, quickly getting himself out of trouble./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward and Kamber chuckled. Little Blair had the ability to not morph entirely but to take on certain traits of animals such as wings, tails, ears and noses. The twins found it vastly amusing to give her new animals to try since she could morph the features of almost every animal./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Hunter clobbered his twin over the head before smiling sheepishly at his parents. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Finally, eight-year-old a href=" pin/762937993109727253/"span style="color: blue;"Xena/spanspan style="color: windowtext;" /span/aand ten-year-old a href=" pin/379709812334270665/?d=tmt=login"span style="color: blue;"Ranger/span/a trotted over to their parents and gave each of them a hug. Even though Xena and Ranger were two years apart, the two were inseparable. Ranger had the ability to turn certain things into organic objects, such as turn a rabbit into a cube as well as turn organic things to life, such as bring a clock to life with legs, eyes and arms. However, it was only a temporary thing and he could only bring the thing to life or make the thing organic for about twenty minutes at the most. Xena meanwhile had the ability to create force fields which often caused some problems for Edward since he couldn't read her mind when she had her force field up. However, it also meant that she always won dodgeball!/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Lastly, calm and intellectual twelve-year-old a href=" pin/598064025503657580/?d=tmt=login"span style="color: blue;"Mitsuru/span/a walked over to Edward and held out the baby, a href=" pin/513410426240649913/?d=tmt=login"span style="color: blue;"Dixie/span/a who had just recently turned one. Dixie's abilities were still unknown since she was so little, but Mitsuru had the talent of echolocation and also the sixth sense, similar to his uncle Zayne./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward scooped up little Dixie and kissed her round cheek before the girl sleepily laid her head on his shoulder./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Alright, you said hello, now time for bed!"br /"AW!" All the kids cried but when Kamber gave them a pointed look, they all scurried off to bed. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Raden gently took Dixie from Edward before carrying the baby up to the nursery to put her to bed. The two waited until they heard all the doors upstairs close before they relaxed. Now the house was quiet./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber sighed, sitting down on the couch, "What a day! Tomorrow is Sunday."br /"Yeah," Edward said, sitting down next to her. "We're meeting up with the others for baseball because there is thunder scheduled for tomorrow."br /He smirked as his wife leant back on the couch. Reaching one arm over and around his waist, he pulled her close to him and kissed her strongly on the mouth, touching her lips with his tongue. Kamber smirked at him, pushing him back gently./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""The kids just went to sleep honey," Kamber whispered./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward smirked, "They'll stay in bed if they know what's good for them."br /Kamber rolled her eyes playfully but smiled when Edward kissed the crook of her neck, "You sure you want another little one already? I thought you already chose Dixie as daddy's little girl."br /Edward smirked against her skin before giving her a soft kiss. He pulled her over and onto her lap, so she was straddling him, and he buried his face into her chest, sighing as he breathed in her scent./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""I don't mind having dozens of 'daddy's little girls'. Just as long as long as they are with you."br /Kamber smiled and kissed Edward's hair before lifting his face to look at her. Gently she pressed her lips to his and smirked when his hands touched the zipper of her dress./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""Same here. I have loved you for a thousand years…."br /"And I'll love you for a thousand more," Edward finished, kissing her one more time before lifting her up and carrying her upstairs./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward smiled as he laid back later that evening, Kamber curled up next to him, tired but smiling as she lay naked next to him. He had succeeded in finding his mate and receiving her love in return. Even though he had made mistakes and hadn't trusted her to help him, she had remained true to him and now, they had a happy family and as long as they trusted each other, nothing was going to tear them apart./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward was just about to lean back to rest when he caught whiff of the twins' thoughts down the hallway./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"About time they stopped making noise! It's almost midnight!/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"You were the one who didn't want to go to bed Vig. Stop complaining./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"I'll stop complaining when they stop duking it out every night./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"That was entirely the wrong term./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Oh, shut up!/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"You do realize that dad is probably listening to our thoughts right now/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"How do you know?/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Because he does every night when mom falls asleep and if we stay up any longer then we'll have to take Casper for a swim in the morning./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Seriously, he has some serious bad morning tantrums/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"They are only temporary mom said. He's still a kid./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Since when have you become so wise? Are you hanging out with Mitsuru too much?/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"You aren't hanging out with him enough. It might do you good./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"You calling me unintelligent?/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"No, just moderately opaque/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"So…. You're saying I'm stupid./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Yeah that was the word I was looking for/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"DAD!/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Oh, shut up./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward chuckled when he heard their thoughts drift off into dreams and he leant back, pulling Kamber close to him./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"emspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Heart beats fastbr /Colors and promisesbr /How to be brave?br /How can I love when I'm afraid to fall?br /But watching you stand alonebr /All of my doubt suddenly goes away somehowbr /One step closerbr /I have died every day waiting for youbr /Darling, don't be afraidbr /I have loved youbr /For a thousand yearsbr /I'll love you for a thousand more/span/em/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""I love it when you sing," Kamber whispered./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Edward smirked down at the girl who was laying with her eyes closed, "You are supposed to be asleep."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Kamber just smiled, snuggling closer to him and wrapping her arms around him, "I have died every day waiting for you."br /Edward smiled and kissed her head, closing his eyes. "And I won't make you wait any longer."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;""That wasn't part of the song."br /"Go to sleep."/span/p
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