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Chapter 37

EPOV

The new house was amazing and everybody was loving it here, we had all agreed to start high school again apart from Bella who wanted to go out find a job she started working for a local newspaper and I had not seen her any happier. The girls were growing so fast Luna May was nearly a year old and had started walking, talking and getting into everything and anything she can but she is still a little drama queen her first word was mama which made Bella so happy much to the disappointment of Jacob who had been trying for weeks to get her to say dada. Lilith is a little princess the complete opposite of her sister. She is far calmer than Luna and is learning to talk a little faster than Luna May did as she is now trying to copy all the sounds that come out of our mouths, but she is far more talented with beating a spoon and when I say this I mean she can copy a beat very well. Bella was right she was going to be a drummer.

This afternoon, me and Bella were at home as it was sunny so we were off from school and Bella had blagged a day off telling her boss her daughter was sick. We were alone at home as the other had gone hunting and Jacob had taken Leah out on a date.

I had left Bella with the girls inside while I went out and set up a blanket and play area for the girls. Then went back inside to get them, I wandered into the living room following the giggles that I could hear from outside and smiled at the image before me. Lilith was on her tummy, with her hand in her mouth bouncing her legs and shoulders, while watching Bella help Luna to walk, she was crotched down with her arms wide open beckoning Luna to her. Luna was holding on to the sofa edge with a death grip and took small attentive steps towards her mother.

Bella spotted me in the door way and shot me a huge smile.

"I think the girls would have more fun out in the sun don't you love?" I said going over to my daughter and lifting her into my arms. She gave me a big gummy grin and patted me on the face with her wet hand. I gave her a kiss on the forehead.

"I guess seeing as it is so nice out today." Bella said standing and detaching Luna's hands from the sofa and taking her hand and slowly following us out into the back yard.

"Pa iter." Luna said as I walked into the sun light. I laughed at her; she was so cute when she tried to talk.

I placed Lilith down on the play mat and sat down next to her. She lifted her head and looked at me stuffing her fist back in her mouth. Bella and Luna came and joined us seconds later.

Luna crawled over to her sister and started to play with the soft toys I had brought out. We learnt very early on that Luna did not play fair sometimes and would try and hit Lilith with whatever she had in her hands. So all toys know had to be soft.

"Edward, I have been meaning to ask you for months, were you really married before you became a vampire?" She just blurted out. I had been meaning to tell her for so long about my past but with everything that had been going on I never found a good time and the only way should could know was if she asked Carlisle about his past.

"Yes love I was married to a young woman named Isabel Whitehouse." I told her. She looked at me a little sad. "Bella what is wrong." I took her face in my hands and made her look me in the eye.

"I guess I am a little jealous that you had a family and that you were once in love with someone else." I laughed at her; she had no reason to be jealous especially of Isabel.

"My love there is no need to be jealous. My human life was not the best. Let me start from the beginning it is the easiest way I think. I was born in 1649 to Edward and Elizabeth Masen, we lived just outside of London and had a rather large estate. When I turned 15 my parents thought that it was only right that I be married and I was to Isabel she was 13. Her family were very close to mine and had arranged this marriage before we were born. We married March 6th 1664.

In 1665 my father went to London for what he told us to be business, it turned out that he was in London gambling all of my family's money and doing things that ruined the family name. He never came home we never found out if he was killed by the plague or by someone he owed money to. We were kicked out of my family home as we had very little money. Isabel's family would not help us so we ended up moving to the poor end of London into a tiny one bedroom bedsit above a Doctor's office that Dr was no other that Carlisle. We soon became good friends; it was the only thing I could do to get away from Isabel. In April of 1666 Isabel told us that she was pregnant but I did not believe her when she said it was mine as I knew she was never faithful. To be honest we hated each other.

On the night September 2nd I was with Carlisle in his office talking of all the things I would love to do with my life. When we heard screaming coming from the street, that night the great fire of London started and was consuming house after house. It reached us Carlisle held me from running and saving my mother, but I managed to escape his grasp and ran into our small home. My mother had been crushed by a fallen wooden beam which if it did not kill her out right the flames that consuming it did. Isabel was on the far side of the room passed out from inhaling the smoke and there was no way that I could get to her. I had started to go light headed as I was also inhaling a lot of smoke. Before passing out I heard Carlisle. He pulled me from the fire and turned me. He was the only family I had after that but I was happier with him as my father than my biological family and know I have you my soul mate the person I want to spend every moment of eternity with." Bella looked at me. I kissed her forehead.

"Wow, your vampire life does seem to be far better than your human life. But do you not miss your human family?" She asked after a moment. I gave her a sad smile. 'Did I ever miss them?'

"My memories are so foggy of my time as a human, all I can say is I have mourned their lose yes, but after being alive for 361 years you learn a lot about life, family and love. I can truly say that I do not miss them." I told her, but she still seemed sad. "What is wrong love?" I asked trying to figure out what was going on in her mind. I watched as her hand went and caressed the right side of her chest over her t-shirt.

"I do understand how you must feel about your family as I feel the same way towards Renee. I am just glad that you are not alone anymore, and have a loving family. Everything that you could have dreamed for has come true." I looked at her she was right I had what I dreamed of what I wanted more than anything when I was human, to be married to someone who really loved me and to have children.

"My turn for a question, my love." She looked at me tipping her head to the side a little. I smiled at her.

"And what would that?" She answered me raising a perfect brow at me.

"You used to sleep in shorts, know why would you be sleeping in a t-shirt as well, the house is not cold and you don't have to get up with the girls. And I have not seen you, you know naked in the last 4 months and you cannot tell me it is because you think you are fat because that t-shirt you have on now is very tight." I said making sure to emphases the word very.

"Well if you really must know why tell me no one is coming and I will show you." She said as she settled on her knees. I shut my eyes and listened. I heard nothing apart from the girls babbling away to each other.

"No one is around for miles." I told her. Slowly she reached for the bottom of her shirt and slowly lifted it up over her head. Her stomach was once again flat, her bra was dark blue and lacy and set her pale skin of beautifully and her tattoo looked amaz… wait tattoo? I wrapped my arms around her waist and pulled her closer to me. I ran my finger over the ink that marked her pale flesh.

"When did you get this done? It's still quite fresh." I asked her. She looked at me like I was stupid.

"I got this done while we were in Seattle when Charlie was in hospital. I got it done the same day that I got the girls necklaces ordered. Do you like?" She asked me.

"Well it is defiantly different. I do like it." I told her while looking at it closely. It was the family crest with 'the lion fell in love with the lamb' in scripted under neither it. I bent down and kissed it. "It is perfect my love." I said before kissing her deeply. She pulled away from me gasping for air.

We both looked over and saw that the girls had stopped babbling and were looking at us. We both burst out laughing. Luna pointed at us. And started making her own kissy face. This made us laugh even harder; Lilith tried to copy her sister but ended up blowing raspberries at us. I let Bella go and watched as she quickly placed her t-shirt back on. I moved over slightly so that I could lie down next to the girls and both gave them a kiss. They then turned to their mother and waited for her to do the same both of them giving us gummy smiles once we had.

"I think we better leave the kissing till later or these two might pick up a bad habit." I joked as I picked Lilith up and lifted her over my head. She had grown even more beautiful over the last couple of months with her eyes turning a beautiful emerald green. Her hair was starting to lose it darkness as well and it now turned a lovely shade of red in the sun. Luna had crawled up on to my stomach and sat down with a heavy thud. If I had been human it would have winded me. I passed Lilith to Bella and pulled Luna up to my chest were she lay on her tummy and feel asleep with her thumb in her mouth. Lilith let out a big yawn and fell asleep against Bella's shoulder.

"I think it is time for their nap, we had better take them inside and we can carry on what we started a minute ago." She said standing up and winking at me. I was on my feet in moments being careful with Luna and followed my wife's swaying hips into the house.