Edward knocked on Bella's door, knowing that Charlie lived in L.A. They heard a baby fuss, Bella cooed, and she walked downstairs, and to the door. She gasped.

The door flew open. "Come in, come in!" she whispered. "Be quiet," She added as an after thought. We all walked to the kitchen. She motioned for us to stay where we were. She went up the stairs, and then came back. This time, she didn't have a baby. She calmly walked down the stairs, and then pounced on Alice. "Alice!" she screeched. After what seemed like an eternity Alice Let go of Bella, she said something about having a shopping partner, but all I saw was the face of my angel.

She turned to face him.

"Edward!" She smiled her breath-taking smile, and then she pounced on him!

"Bella!" I cried as he picked her up with willing arms and twirled her around once. "Oh, Bella, love, I have missed you so!" she wrapped her legs around his waist, and her arms around his neck, fingers intertwined in his tousled bronze hair. He wanted to kiss her. More than that. He wanted her. He wanted her bad. She absentmindedly licked her lips and sighed contently. That did not help at all. He could see myself, upstairs; we are intertwined in her sheets, making sweet-

Go, Edward, Alice thought. I will call Carlisle and Esme. They'll be glad to hear that we arrived safely. He nodded my head discreetly, so Bella wouldn't notice. Alice slipped out the door silently.

"Edward?" Bella asked, tentatively. Why? Was she scared? Did she finally learn to be afraid of me? Oh no. Not now. Not when I needed her the most.

"Yes, love?" Oh, she smelled so… so…

"Will you…." She paused. Oh, yes! She is afraid of me! Why now? Why not the first day I met her? "Kiss me?"

He was more than happy to comply with her wish. He shifted his weight to take Bella to her bedroom, but she froze.

"Edward, Alice-"

"Is outside," he stated.

"No, Edward. My baby."

He was dumbfounded. She had a baby. Moreover, it was not mine. That hit me, and it hit me hard. He simply asked, "What's the baby's name?"

She stopped, suddenly seeming uncomfortable. "Her name is Alice Mary Esme. . . Black."

He was infuriated! "Jacob Black is her father? How could that be?" No, infuriated does not even begin to cover it.

"We were married, had a child and he imprinted on Leah. That doesn't seem very hard to me."

"That dog? That horrible dog that tried to steal you from me-"

"Edward!" Bella cut me off. "YOU, sir, left me in the woods, not telling me where you were going and you promised that you were never coming back. Jacob, on the other hand, was there for me, and he kept his promise. He said he would be there for me until he imprinted. And he imprinted. So there!"

"I'm sorry, Bella. I- I-" She cut me off with a kiss. That was all it took. His will crumpled into a thousand pieces and went flying away in the wind. She licked his bottom lip. He set her up and the counter and opened his mouth. Her tongue explored his mouth. She tasted delicious. Of course, he already knew this. He had tasted her blood. "Bella," he moaned. Who needed a bed? N

"Edward, I need to tell you something." She said, "I'm in love with someone." She must have seen Edward's face fall. "Silly, it's you. I never stopped loving you. Not for one single second. I sometimes heard your voice, as if you were standing there, next to me. I would turn, but you weren't there. I missed you every single second and yet, it still hurts. The fact that you lied to me. But I don't care. I forgave you a long time ago."

Alice walked in. "I want to hold my niece."

"What? You aren't an aunt." What was Alice thinking?

I will be, she sang in her head. Bella jumped off the counter, raced up the stairs, and returned with a beautiful baby in her hands just as quickly. She was not a klutz anymore. She must have seen the confusion on their faces.

"You can't be a klutz with a new born baby in your arms." She handed Alice to Alice. "We'll call her Mary so there's no confusion." Alice held her, and then she passed Mary to me. Besides the fact that she kind of smell likes a werewolf, he loved the baby.

Edward, Alice thought. Ask me to leave. I'll take Mary, and you and Bella can have . . . fun.

"Alice?" He asked casually. "Will you please leave so Bella and I can have some time together?" She nodded, took Mary, and left Bella and he standing in the kitchen. She took his hand to lead him to the living room. He sat down on the recliner, she on the couch. After twenty agonizing minutes, she came and sat on his lap. She sighed, and curled into Edward's chest. "It feels like I belong here," she murmured. He stroked her back in circles, she soon fell asleep. He carried her to her room. There was only one change to this small room; the bassinet that sat in the corner.

He laid her down on her bed, covered her up, and contoured his body to hers. He breathed in her astounding scent. "I'm your brand of heroin?" she asked. "Yes, you're exactly my brand of heroin." He sighed. She started to mumble in her sleep.

"Don't… leave, Edward."

"I won't, love."

"I love you," she sighed. She rolled over and tucked her head into his chest.

"I love you, too." Little did he know she was awake.

"Really?" she whispered.

"Really, love. Now sleep," he ordered. Ten minutes later, her breathing was even.

"Edward," she breathed. This time he knew she was asleep.

Bella slept very peacefully in his arms. Every now and then, she would mumble. Alice came in, once, to put Mary in the bassinet. After about two hours, Mary fussed. Bella was up and over at the bassinet in record time.

"Bella? Are you sure you aren't a vampire?" Edward joked.

"NO, I am not. I am a mother," she replied in mock curtness. Then her face became thoughtful. "I want to see Esme."

Edward was taken aback by the suddenness of her wish. "Um, Okay, I will call her."

"Now."

I pulled out my phone, and dialed my mother's number. "Esme? Bella would like to see you. As soon as possible." Esme giggled.

"Of course, son. tell her that we will be there soon," Esme reassured me.

Fifteen minutes later, Bella was rocking Mary back to sleep. She started humming a lullaby that was beautiful:

"And you shall run and wander,

And you shall dream and sing.

Of brave things and bright things,

Beyond the swallow's wings.

And you shall envy no man,

Nor hurt your heart with sighs.

For I will keep you simple,

That God may make you wise.

Your friend shall be the Tall Wind,

The River and the Trees,

The Sun that laughs and marches,

The Swallows and the Sea,

And you shall run and wander,

And you shall dream and sing,

Of brave things and bright things,

Beyond the swallow's wings.

Your prayer shall be the murmur

Of grasses in the rain;

The song of wild wood thrushes

That makes God glad again.

And you shall envy no man,

Nor hurt your heart with sighs.

For I will make you simple,

That God may make you wise.

The song of wild wood thrushes

That makes God glad again;

That makes God glad again!

And you shall envy no man,

Nor hurt you heart with sighs.

For I will make you simple,

That God make you wise.

And you shall dream,

And sing."

"Bella," he breathed. "I had no clue you could sing!"

She blushed. "Yeah, neither did I," she giggled. "Then, one day, Mary didn't want to sleep, so I sang her my lullaby. She fell asleep instantly."

"She looks a lot like you," he commented.

She shook her head in disagreement. "More like Jacob, I think."

"Well, Mary does smell more like Jacob."

Bella gently laid Mary down. "Edward," she said," do you remember what we used to fight about?"

Edward thought about that. She always fought about "her mortality."

"Yes. I don't want to be a vampire, Edward."

Well, damn.

Bella put Mary back to sleep, then she kissed Edward on the cheek, and climbed in bed herself.

Bella tossed and turned all night. She was mutter in things like, "Edward, don't go," And "Edward, I love you," to Edward, he assumed. Unless she was having nightmares, he really had no clue. She woke up and sat up, looking confused. "Edward?"

"Yes, love?"

"Did you- are you- I'm confused as hell. What happened?" she looked flabbergasted.

"Well, three days ago, I was sick and tired of pretending that I was okay, so I decided to, um, break my promise. I came to see you, and then when you said my name in your sleep, I knew that I could never leave your side. So," he cleared his throat.

"Good. I thought it was all dream. I was really scared for a second that you were going to leave again." She paused. She looked very uncomfortable. "Can I. . . Show you something?"

Um, duh, Bella. "Well, of course. What is it?" she paused, again. Then she pulled up her sleeves and turned her arms over. She had pink, white, and red lines all over her wrists. "Bella! What is this?"

"Well, when you left, I didn't know what to do, and I- I- I needed a way to get rid of the dreams, the pain, and Edward, cutting helped."

"Why are there red marks?"

"I cut the other day, when Jake called me, and he said. . ." she paused, and started crying. "Well, Jake came up one day after you left –I already had started crying cutting, I started after you left- we were hanging out, and he saw my wrists and he flipped out. He yelled at me, and then he stooped when he saw that just hurt me more. I stopped cutting when I found out about Mary Rose." The tears were coming more freely now. "When he told me that he imprinted, I died all over. It was you leaving me all alone in the forest. My sun, the only thing that kept me alive, gone. Poof. Edward, you can't leave. I won't make it. The only thing that kept me alive was Alice called me a month ago, saying that you were coming."

Edward didn't know what to say. He left her, and then Jacob left her, Charlie moved. "Have you ever heard the song, Comatose, by skillet?" I asked.

She shook her head. "I don't want to live; I don't want to breathe, without you next to me." I softly sang the chorus to her. Then, I thought of one other song. "You come to me with scars on your wrist. You tell me this will be the last night feeling like this."

"I just came to say goodbye; didn't want you to see me cry- I'm fine." She sang the part so perfectly. "Edward, I fucking love you, and trying to explain why is like trying to explain how water tastes: completely impossible." If I could cry, I would be sobbing. How much did I hurt her? Only she would know.

"Did you see your babies?" Where did that come from? He nodded my head. "Aren't they just the cutest two year olds ever?" Edward smiled. They were cute. My sons. He still really loved the thought of having children. "They aren't venomous. They've bit me more than once." They couldn't change humans? Oh, thank God! She laughed. "They're awake." Just then, two little mini-Edwards came rushing in.

"Mommy!" They yelled, and jumped on the bed. They saw Edward. "Who's this?" They asked.

"They have intelligence of a 15 year old, Edward. They have your inhuman grace too." Oh. "Boys, this is your father, Edward." She smiled lovingly at them.

"Daddy?" They asked. I nodded. "Mommy really loves you. She talks about every night. Even when we were little." Bella turned about twenty shades of red. " We love you. The way mommy talked about you, it was like she was worshipping a god." They were smart.

"Eddie!" Bella chided the boy that had spoken. "Sheesh, you'll scare him away. And it takes at lot to scare a vampire." She saw the look on his face. "Edward! They're half vampire. They have thirsts. They go hunting. It's kinda cool to watch." She was a very proud mother. Like her son had become the president.

"How could you do that? They could kill you!" But she shook her head. He took her head between my hands. "If they accidentally-"

"Edward! They would never! How dare you question your own children?" She was a very offended mother now. Shit. Never piss Bella off.

"I'm sorry, love." She perked up.

"I forgive you. Oh!" she jumped out of bed, down the stairs and right to her crying baby girl, Mary Rose, after her two "aunts." Rosalie handed over Mary, and Bella put a blanket over her shoulder, positioned Mary under the blanket. If he could blush, he would have. She was breast feeding.

"Bella? How are you not completely embarrassed?" Jasper asked.

"Well, I had to do this to vampire babies in front of werewolves. I'm kinda used to it."

"Oh," was all Japer could say. We all laughed.

"Alice?"

"Yes, Bella?"

"Let's leave the kids with the boys, and take all the girls shopping!"

Alice squealed. "By, the way, can you baby sit tonight? I want time alone with Edward." Alice squealed louder.

"Of course, Bella!"