Sorry, but you're going to have to wait awhile for M/L breakup information. This chapter is all BPOV. :) Enjoy!

Chapter 4

The tension in the kitchen around the center island was so thick that it could be cut with a knife. Fingers were tapping and frowns were set on faces. Two sets of eyes were glaring right at me while my husband stood next to me with his arm around my waist supporting me.

"So…" I laughed nervously.

"Tell me why exactly my ex-girlfriend was standing naked in the middle of my bedroom." My eyes widened at Masen's hard voice and the fact that he said she was naked. I wanted to laugh, that must have been awkward to walk in on.

"I'm really not sure why she was naked but…Lane's staying with us for the summer." Edward answered for me. I leaned closer into him.

"Why?" Masen narrowed his eyes.

"To watch your siblings, dumb ass. And if you knew how to knock then you wouldn't have walked in on me naked." Lane hissed from her spot at the end of the island.

"Don't start with me, Lane. You should have locked the door if you didn't want anyone in there, plus it's my damn room!" Masen whipped his head around to look at her. "I want answers, Mom. Please tell me why she's here, tell me why you would do this when you knew I'd be coming for the summer!" He turned back towards me.

"You weren't supposed to be here until the beginning of July…" I trailed off. "And I needed the help with the kids. I'm starting back at work…"

"And you couldn't have found someone else? Why didn't you call and ask me? You know I would have dropped anything to help." Masen cut me off. "God, I'm too tired for this crap." Masen rubbed his forehead.

"Alright, we'll finish this in the morning. Masen take the basement bedroom and Lane can stay in your room. We'll talk about this in the morning." Edward sighed.

Edward had a full basement put into the house with a very functional extra bathroom and bedroom for a just in case type of thing. I guess this is our just in case.

I just never thought we'd need it for our son because his ex-girlfriend was sleeping upstairs in his room.

Could I get any worse at this Mom stuff?

Masen shook his head and went to the basement without another word. Lane didn't move a muscle.

"You said he wasn't going to be here this summer." Lane whispered. I could tell she was about to cry.

"I know and I'm sorry that I told you that but I really needed your help." I tried. Lane shook her head at me and I saw her start to cry again. "I didn't mean for this to upset you!"

"I never wanted to see him again and I told you that. Why couldn't you just respect my wishes?" Lane shut her eyes. "I can't stay here…I'm sorry. This is just all too much."

"Please don't go, Lane. I really need your help this summer."

"Fine, I'll go stay with my Dad…"

"No! You can stay here, look Masen can stay in the basement and you can stay in his room. I'm sure you two won't even see each other…" I blurted out. So, I was pulling stuff out of my ass right now trying to get my plan to work out somehow.

"Stay here? Are you kidding me, Bella?!" She narrowed her eyes at me.

"Sleep on it, Lane. We'll talk more in the morning when everyone's had time to think this all through." Edward interrupted us. I glanced up at him thankful for his help. I needed to think through a new plan.

Edward pulled me out of the kitchen once Lane was gone back upstairs. He kept quiet until we got back into our room and into bed.

"Please, Bella just leave it alone. I know what you're trying to do in that little head of yours. You're trying to figure out another way to get Lane and Masen together. But you have to realize, if Lane and Masen are meant to be then they will, stop trying to force it on them." Edward sighed as I snuggled into his side.

"I'm not forcing anything on them." I huffed. "Is it so bad for me to just want my kids to be happy?"

"No, Bells it's not but sometimes there are situations that parents have to stay out of and I have a feeling this is one of them." Damn Edward and his always having to be right about everything.

Morning came all too quickly. One second I was snuggled into my husband enjoying a deep sleep and the next I'm being shaken awake by my oldest son. When my eyes opened they landed on his very angry face. Apparently he hadn't eased down after sleeping on what happened last night. It looked to me like he was even more angry then before.

"Let me please wake up properly before you start yelling at me." I groaned reaching out to search for Edward. Instead my hand hit a pillow and not my husbands chest.

"I'm not going to yell, Mom." Masen sighed and ran a hand through his hair. "I just don't understand what you're trying to do."

"Right now I'm trying to wake up." I rub my eyes.

"Look, I know you need Lane's help for the summer so I'll just go stay with Grandpa to make things easier…"

"No you won't! You'll stay in the basement. It's not so bad down there, you've always told me how you wish that was your room instead." I sat up quickly.

"I know, Ma. I just don't think I'll be able to live in this house with her." He sat down on the edge of my bed and turned towards me.

"What happened between you two, Mase?" I asked hoping he'd give me some sort of answer.

"A lot of stuff. But none of it matters anymore." He looked away.

"Do you still love her?" I asked biting down on my lower lip.

"Don't start with that, Mom. Please just don't go there right now." He stood up from the bed and looked down before taking a deep breath. "I'll stay under one condition."

"And that is?" I raised an eyebrow.

"You do not try to get Lane and I back together. We're through, and the two of us have moved on. I've accepted that now I think you should too."

"Alright, I'll stay out of it. And you're wrong, Sweetie." Masen gave me a strange look. "You haven't moved on and neither has she. You just can't see it yet."

Masen just shook his head at me and left the room. I let my head lay back on my pillow and I shut my eyes hoping I could get at least another hour of sleep.

Of course I should have known that I wasn't done getting fussed at because Lane was in the room just minutes after Masen left.

She didn't say a word just started pacing my floor.

"Lane…" I started but she stopped pacing and cut me off.

"I'm really upset that you did this, Bella. I was just finally starting to move on with everything in my life and here I am back where I started." She threw her hands into the air and I could tell she was starting to cry. "I'm only staying because my Dad's house is full and my boyfriend is staying with his sister for the summer and I have nowhere else to go. Plus, I woke up this morning and Mikey begged me to stay."

"Mikey?" I sat up giving her a strange look.

"I was surprised too, last night he looked at me like I was trying to kill him." She shrugged. "I can't deny the kid. I just really want to make something clear, Bella." She sat down next to me like Masen had just a little while before. "I don't want to be with Masen and he doesn't want to be with me. Too many things happened back then that we just can't and won't get over. So, please stop trying to think up any plans to get me back with your son."

"Okay, I can do that." I nodded with a smile.

"Good, this is going to be so awkward." She let out a nervous laugh.

"What is?"

"Living in the same house with that arrogant son of yours for the next three months."

"I'm sure it won't be too bad." I tried.

"Oh no, it's going to be terrible but I'll grin and bear it. I kind of need this job anyway." She ran a hand through her hair.

"Lane, what happened between you and my son?" I had to ask. I knew she wouldn't tell me though.

"Lot's of things. But like I said none of that matters anymore." She gave me a sad smile before standing up from the bed. "Oh yeah, Alice called she said she'll be by with the girls around lunch time."

"Good, I can't wait for you to meet them." I said happily. I missed my girls when they stayed with Alice.

Once Lane left my room I hopped out of bed and got dressed. I walked into the kitchen finding Mikey at the kitchen table eating his cereal. He was a slow eater and I had a feeling that had to do with the stomach aches he got from his medicines.

"Did Daddy give you your medicine this morning?" I walked over to him and sat down next to him.

"Yeah…" He sighed and played with his cereal instead of eating it. It was getting soggy now so I knew he wouldn't finish it. "I don't feel good, Mommy. I'm tired…" He looked up at me.

"Why don't you go lay down for a bit, baby." I reached out and ran my hand through his hair. I bit down on my bottom lip when I realized his hair was thinning again. My poor little angel. "I'll put on a movie for you."

"Nemo?" He gave me his adorable smile.

"Of course." I smiled back and picked up his bowl to bring to the sink. Mikey got out of his chair and walked out of the kitchen. After setting the bowl in the sink I followed him and scooped him up before he reached the stairs. He always tripped when he walked up them alone. I really didn't want another Emergency Room visit this morning.

I helped Mikey into bed and turned his TV on for him. I climbed in next to him and kept him company until he fell asleep. He slept like this a lot off and on through the day, I'd have to remember to tell Lane about that.

I got out of his bed and shut the movie off, it was barely even to the middle of it. I shut his door slightly and went down the hall to Alexa's room.

I peaked in to find her on the floor talking animatedly to her dolls. She didn't even notice my presence in the room. I loved watching my kids play, it was amazing how big their imaginations were.

"Hey Mommy." She finally noticed me after a couple of minutes. "Is Alison and Gracie home?"

"Not yet but they will be by lunchtime. Do you know where Daddy is?" I asked after realizing I hadn't seen Edward all morning.

"I don't know." She shrugged and went back to playing.

I didn't see Edward until lunchtime when the girls got back. He had locked himself away in his office, which seemed to be an occurrence lately, he was hiding something and wouldn't even give me a hint to what it was. I just hoped it wasn't something bad or something big he was keeping from me, I didn't want another situation like the Tanya one that happened years ago. We built a lot of trust since then and I'd hate to see it all tumble down. But, I loved him and I trusted him enough to know that if it was something too terrible he would tell me.

"How was your night with Aunt Alice?" I asked the girls when they rushed towards the kitchen to eat lunch. Edward made the kids grilled cheese and chicken noodle soup, their favorites. It was the one thing we could get Mikey to eat without a fuss.

"Good." Gracie spoke for both her and Alison. They were wearing new matching outfits with matching hair styles. That was all Alice of course. They hated when I asked them to match but Alice could get them into anything.

"They were perfect angel's." Alice spoke from behind me. I turned around and noticed that she was wearing the same outfit as the girls but bigger of course. I raised an eyebrow at her and she just flashed me a smile. Her oldest boys ran into the kitchen, luckily Edward always made more then enough food so Cason and Joey could both eat.

Cason was a few weeks older then the girls making him five now too. Joey turned four two months before Cason turned five. Cason was only two months old when Alice got pregnant with Joey. It wasn't until six months ago when Alice had baby boy number three, Avery. He must have been at home with Jasper because he was nowhere to be seen.

"Alright, so tell me what's going on because I know something is going on." Alice grabbed my arm and pulled me out of the kitchen and away from the ears of our kids.

"Lane got here yesterday." I sat down on the couch and looked at Alice. She nodded and beckoned for me to go on. "So did Masen."

"You're joking right?" She let out a laugh. I glared at her. "So I take it your plan blew up in your face?"

"Thanks for the sympathy." I crossed my arms over my chest and pouted like a child. "Actually if you think about it my plan didn't blow up in my face. It worked, they are both here right? I'm just not going to help them get back together, but I'm sure they will do that just fine on their own." I grinned feeling a little better about everything.

"And if they don't?"

"Then you can just give them a push, I promised I wouldn't but I didn't promise that you wouldn't."

"I like that." Alice got all giddy. She suddenly started telling me her idea if plan A didn't work out. I just hoped we wouldn't have to use it, even though it was a really good idea.