Epilogue- 12 Years Later

I was finally driving home after a long day of work, but I couldn't be happier. I had never regreted deciding to go into a private practice as a family physician. The hours were better, allowing me more time with my precious family.

I couldn't help but smile at the memory of the morning after Bella said yes and we told Sophee the news.

*Flashback*

We were all sitting in the kitchen when my mom walked in with a still sleepy Sophee on her hip.

"Look who finally joined the land of the living!" Emmett said, making Sophee giggle. She wiggled out of my mom's arms and went to sit in Bella's lap. After a while, she looked down at Bella's hand and then back up to her.

"Mommy, what's this?"

Everyone looked around and slowly began leaving the room to allow Bella and I to talk to her.

I placed my arm around Bella and looked at Sophee as Bella seemed to be looking for the words to say.

"Sophee," I said and she looked at me. "Remember your wish?" She nodded. I leaned in close to her and smiled. "Told you I could help out with it."

She looked at me for a second before her eyes grew big and looked at Bella. "You going to marry Eddie!"

Bella smiled and laughed. "Yes sweetie I am." She tilted her head and then asked, "Is that what you asked for?"

Sophee nodded. "Well and one more thing."

I pulled something out of my pocket. "And that's were I help complete it." I pulled Sophee into my lap. "Sophee, you know I love you so much. Both you and your mommy have made me so happy. So Sophee I will ask you as well," I opened a box to reveal a necklace that had her birthstone on it. "Will you allow me to be your daddy?"

Bell had tears rolling down her eyes as Sophee threw her arms around me. I hugged her tightly to me as tears slipped through my eyes. I couldn't be happier.

*Flashback End*

As I got closer to my home I started thinking about the past twelve years. Bella and I decided to get married after she graduated so she could start working while completing her masters online. When I asked her if she was ready to deal with all that as well as dealing with me being in med school and not being around a lot, she just smiled.

"As long as I get you forever, I think we'll be ok."

And we were. It was perfect always and there were some times that both of us struggled, but all it took was a reminder of the love we had and everything was great. It especially helped once we moved out of the city and closer to my parents. We had no clue that while we began looking, my mom had already, of course with my dad, bought the Bradley home and had it remodeled for us. When we got there, Bella lit up and looked over at me. I just kissed her hand and smiled at the first memory we had of the place.

As I pulled up into the driveway I see Sophee standing outside waiting for me. I frowned, knowing what this meant.

"Hey Sophee."

She hugged me tightly. "Hey dad."

It still made me smile to hear her call me that. I remember I cried when she stopped calling me daddy and moved to just dad. Yeah, Bella laughed at that.

I sighed. "Bad day?"

She frowned. "I don't know so much as bad as just, crazy."

I raised an eyebrow at her.

"When you go in, you'll see, but just so you know I've already called Nana. I'm taking the kids over there and we're spending the night."

"That bad huh?"

She just turned and and that was my sign to follow her in. I walked in and heard before I saw the craziness. I saw Chase, our five year old, fly through the room squealing with a towel wrapped around his neck like a superhero and only in his underwear. I looked down and saw flour footprints on the ground. I then made my turn into the kitchen and saw Olivia and Grace, our two year old twins playing with the dog and his food while Bella was on her hands and knees trying to clean whatever it was that exploded in there off the floor, counters, well, pretty much every where. I looked at Sophee, handed her the keys the the car with the carseats and kissed her forehead.

"You're a great daughter, you know that."

She just grinned. "And you're the best dad. Love you."

"Love you."

She then went and scooped up the twins and went after Chase and started getting them together. Bella still hadn't noticed that I was home until I walked in and stopped her hand. She whipped around and I couldn't help but laugh at peanut butter? that was on her face. She grimaced at me then sighed. "I was trying so hard to get this cleaned up and dinner going before you got home."

I smiled and pushed a piece of hair out of her face. "Baby, its not a big deal. Why don't you go on upstairs and take a bath, I'll take it over from here."

"No Edward, you've been at work all day. I can get…"

"Bella. Please. You've been working all day as well. It still blows me away how you work part time and take care of the kids and the house, and everything. You are amazing. Now go on up and soak for a bit, ok."

She sighed and then turned to head upstairs. I loosened my tie and placed it away from the mess. That was a tie that Bella gave me on my first day at work; I couldn't afford for it to get dirty.

I finally finished the kitchen and had placed the casserole dish Bella had already prepared in the oven and poured us two glasses of wine. I had just turned on some music when Bella came down the stairs. She just had on some yoga pants and a long sleeve shirt that fit her perfectly with her hair hanging down. She had never looked more beautiful.

Yeah, with the years that had past we had aged a bit, but she just got more beautiful.

"You're so beautiful," I whispered as I handed her a glass. That precious blush rose on her cheeks and she smiled.

"And you still make me breathless."

She then looked around. "Where are the kids?"

"At Nana and Pop's. Sophee took them over there."

"So a night all by ourselves."

I nodded. "Sophee's idea."

As a song came on I sat our glasses down and pulled Bella to me.

"Just dance with me?" I asked.

She answered with a sigh and leaned in close to me.

My life was beautiful. I had an amazing wife who was my world, four children who I adored, a job that I love, and an extended family that is always there for us. I never thought that my life was going to turn out this great. I am so thankful I was at that red light the same time as her.

This is the life we were destined for. This was a better life than either of us ever thought we would have. We thought all was lost, until we found each other.

And so now as we just danced together, I knew it would only get better from here. As Bella said, we had forever.

I just wanted to thank everyone for all the support during this story and the reviews. I can't believe this story had all the following it did. I feel so honored to know you read this story and enjoyed it. That's it for this Edward and Bella. I might do an outake here and there, but I'm about to have my full attention on my other story Love This Pain. Check it out sometime.

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