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"Mr. Masen I hereby give you all parental and custody rights over Lily Masen." I breathed a sigh of relief. Not that there would be a chance that Jessica would have beat Edward but still coming to court today with him and Lily had made me nervous. Jessica started yelling almost instantly and I quickly got Lily out of there.
"I'm sorry sweetie." I said to her as we walked down the echoing hallway.
"It's ok. I'm just glad I get to stay with you and dad." She squeezed my hand a little. She had been so strong through this whole ordeal and now it was finally over. For now at least. And top make everything better, Edwards divorce was officially over. We made our way to the front door and waited for Edward to join us. It didn't take him long as he wanted out of there as much as any of us did.
"Thanks for getting her out of there. You ok sweeite?" He asked Lily kneeling down next to her.
"Yea. Just ready to go home. Or do I have to go to school?"
"No, you've had a long day I think you can skip out on the rest of it." She beamed as we opened the door. But instead of the quite morning we had been greeted with when we arrived at the court house, we were greeted with many yelling people flashing camara's in our faces.
"Mr. Masen, how did you guys meet?"
"Are you two official now?"
"Did you win?"
"How will this divorce affect your company?"
"Is it true Mr. Whitlock has sole ownership now?"
"Is this the woman you had an affair with?"
A few officers from inside the court house rushed to our side to help us to the car and driver that was waiting for us to depart.
"Sorry about that."
"Why are you sorry?" I asked.
"Because you shouldn't have to deal with that. What some of them say." He looked ashamed.
"Edward, we know the truth. The people that matter know the truth. I know you would never cheat on any girl. Including Jessica, as horrible as she was. I don't care what they say about me. And if I couldn't handle it I wouldn't be here with you." He leaned in a gave me a quick kiss.
"Your amazing. Thank you. For everything. But there is something I need to tell you." I instantly got a knot in my stomach. I swear I hated being a girl sometimes. We instantly assume the worst.
"Ok?" I said nervously.
"Well I was thinking. Um, ok well your fired." He must have smiled at the shocked look on my face. "I don't want you to be working for me anymore. I want to buy you what ever it is you need and want." Lily was falling asleep on my arm.
"Ok."
"Ok?"
"Yea, but I feel weird about you buying me stuff." I said.
"Well don't, I want to." He gave me another kiss this one last a little bit longer. "I think this may be one of the best days ever." I smiled against his lips and then rested my head against his shoulder.
"I think I agree. Other then being fired. But now it seems I have unlimited funds." I winked looking at him.
"But I do have another surprise for you." He said with a sly smile.
"Ugh, what?"
"Oh don't sound so icky about it." He laughed as the limo bumped into a parking lot. I glanced out the window noticing a car lot.
"No."
"What? You've been driving Alice's car for ever now. And you wanted a new car. Please let me do this." I took a deep breath.
"Fine. But nothing over board."
"Nope just going for whatever you want. I didn't buy one on my own because I wanted you to pick it out.
We spent the next hour looking at the car lot. I ended up getting a brand new Ford Edge. But seeing as Edward want it to have a state of the art alarm system plus a million other customizations I would be able to have it next week.
"When are Alice and Jasper moving?"
"Why wanting the house to ourselves are we?" He picked on me as we got back in the limo.
"No I just assumed since they were back and married they would want their own place"
"Yea I assume they do. But I know the house isn't quite ready yet. So I don't know really. Probably with in the month though. Its going to be different without them there."
"Yea I will defiantly miss them being there everyday. But I'm sure not much will change. I know they will always be over or vice versa."
"Dad?" Lily said mumbling half asleep.
"Yea sweetie?"
"Why don't they want to live with us anymore?"
"Oh that's not why they are moving but they are going to want their own space now."
"Why we have lots."
"Because they might want to have kids of their own too silly."
"Oh." She seemed satisfied with the answer given and started to doze off again.
"Welcome Home!" We stepped into the decorated house with a banner saying 'CONGRATS' about the entry way.
"We didn't go anywhere."
"But you won!" Alice said hugging Edward. I carried Lily to her room as she was still fast asleep. I came back out to everyone at the table.
"So glad this is over and she is out of your life. For now at least." Alice was still talking excitedly.
"Yea me too. But enough about this. How was the honeymoon?"
"Amazing! We went to Paris! Oh my god. Best. Shopping. Ever!" She pulled out her camera from her purse to show Rose and I pictures from their trip as the guys grabbed some beer from the fridge and went to the back deck.
"So how did court really go?"
"Good until we left. Then we were bombarded with reporters. Apparently they have caught wind of all of this. They were asking some crazy questions."
"I bet. I have read some of the stuff people have been saying just because people call and ask for comments on things. Half the stuff is so bizarre I can't believe they actually think its real." We laughed a little knowing some of the things people had begun to say. Though most reports were in Edwards favor there were some of those outlandish ones that usually said something about finding big foot and such that were saying some horrible things about Edward.
"Yea, Edward feels bad about the things that are being said that involves me but I don't want him to. I keep telling him if I couldn't handle it I wouldn't be here but its like he is scared that I won't stick around."
"Well Jessica didn't." Rose said. Both Alice and I looked at her weirdly. "Well all I am saying is the last girl he loved, or thought he loved, turned out to be, um, crazy I guess is the word I will use."
"Well that's putting it nicely." Alice said laughing. "I think Rose has a point. He isn't use to trusting a lot of people. And I'm guessing he is just scared because well its obvious the boy is already in love with you."
"You know what?" Alice asked with a wicked grin. "Did he say it to you?"
"Yes."
"Oh my god. Holding out on us when?" Rose gushed.
"The day of the wedding. That morning when he was getting ready to leave to go with the guys." I blushed thinking of other memories.
"Anything else?" Rose pushed.
"We may have finally slept together."
"Oh my god! You really were holding out on us!"
"Well I didn't want to tell you that day! It was Alice's day." I laughed.
"Um, who the hell cares!" Alice said laughing with me.
"Whatever." I said rolling my eyes and went to get a bottle of wine for us.
"Hey guys we are going to ride the quads. Be back soon!" Emmett's voice flowed through the house as I stepped into the kitchen. "Oh hey sorry didn't see you coming in."
"That's fine. We will see you guys soon. Have fun." He raced back out the slider and I grabbed the wine meeting the girls in the living room.
Half the bottle of wine gone and the girls had gotten every detail of me and Edwards night together out of me. We no longer heard the quads in the backyard but the boys weren't back either so we assumed they had gone onto the trails.
"We should get dinner started. I can't believe Lily is still sleeping."
"I know but I guess its only been about an hour and a half. If shes not up by the time dinner is done we will wake her." Rose said standing.
"Sounds good. What are we making?"
"Chicken? Lily loves it. We can make it on the grill with corn on the cob."
"Sounds good. I'm just going to check on Lily and I will meet you guys outside." I quickly went upstairs and poked my head into Lily's room. She was still fast asleep.
I went back down stairs and started helping the girls get things around for dinner. We had been getting the husking corn for about an hour when we heard a weird crack coming from inside. I opened the door only to be hit in the face with a cloud of smoke. The shade of the slider had been closed due to the air being on and keeping the sun out of the house. I started coughing instantly. Alice and Rose ran beside me.
"911 what is your emergency"
"We have a house fire. 1548 Forest Creek. Please hurry."
"Ok Miss please calm down is everyone out safe?"
"No there is a six year old inside sleeping!" Rose was frantic watching the smoke role out of the house.
"Oh my god Lily." Without thinking I was running for the smoke. I could hear Alice yell after me and Rose telling the 911 operator that I was going inside.
I tried to hold my breath as much as possible and frantically tried to think of 5th grade fire safety. As I tried to stay low I passed the hallway's bathroom dipping inside and soaking a towel. I heard a cough come from upstairs and more screaming from outside. The smoke seemed to be coming from the living room area but smoke rises and upstairs is where I needed to be.
EPOV
I slowed my quad down as we got closer to the house taking in the smell of wood burning. I assumed the girls had started a bonfire. The others caught up with me as I reach the edge of the trees. My heart stopped.
Smoke rolled from the house. You would have assumed Emmett, Jasper, and I started racing because our speed had increased considerably.
The sirens filled the air when we reached the house. Rose was on her cell phone in tears and Alice was screaming for Bella.
"Whats going on where is Bella and Lily?" I asked panicked while Jasper cradled her in his arms.
"She, she, went inside!"
"What?"
"Lily is upstairs. Bella went in after her. She hasn't come out yet! And, and the smoke is getting worse. And she has been in there for a while!" Alice was trying to tell us everything through her own panicked tears. I took a step to go in after both Lily and Bella when Emmett's arms stopped me.
"Let go! I have to go in there!"
"Dude your going to get killed."
"No!" I tried to pull away and everything in my head knew I should listen to him because for all I knew the woman who I have fallen so much in love with and my own daughter could be possibly already dead.
A window shattered from one of the upstairs bedrooms. Flames came bellowing out. It was Bella's old room.
"I have to help! My daughters in there." I continued to struggle against Emmett and now Jasper who was helping him. Rose ran to the front yard as the firemen began rushing around the house.
"Sir, you need to calm down we are going to get her out."
"Them! Bella's in there too."
"Ok but we need you out here to know you are safe." And then they were running into the house to look for the two most important people in my life.