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Chapter Three

A New Day

BPOV

Seeing all of my siblings and my parents faces once again in the city where I had met them and my new life began was incredible. I hadn't realized how much I had missed having them around while they were away. Not all of them at once. Over the last few years, we of course, needed a break, from one another but not from the entire family. Occasionally, the different pairings of couples would go off on their own for several weeks at a time, but we always came back together in the end. Our family bond had gotten so much stronger each time we faced the Volturi and with the difficultness of both of my pregnancies, spending time apart was almost unattainable. I was having so much anxiety from being apart from my children, but I knew in the end, they needed to spread their wings a bit. Ness had her own child, my grandchild, to take care of. We were all wondering during Renesmee's pregnancy which part would be the dominant of our Emma, the immortal or the shifter, but in the end, Emma was going to be immortal. It was an argument between Edward and Jacob that Edward was victorious in and Jacob couldn't argue, his daughter would live forever. How could you not want that for your child?

Edward had told me on several occasions as well as Esme and Carlisle that Masen was more like Edward in every way possible. Masen was the carbon copy of his father in physicality and in mind. Masen had yet to meet another to be his mate. Instead of worrying, I tried to remember how long it took Edward to meet me. Although hard to see my son alone, I knew that one day he would fall hard for his mate just as his father had fallen for me.

Edward had taken my hands and led me outside of our home into the early morning dew that was over all of the wildlife surrounding us. The sky was just above the horizon and it would be morning fast. We would start a new day in Forks as a group of siblings going to the high school. This would be an opposite experience of my first meeting with the Cullens so long ago. Edward smiled at me as he quickly fastened a shield of sorts around my eyes. A blindfold. What was he doing? "Edward," I started to oppose, but his finger brushed across my lips to stop me. "But…"

Edward slung me on his back and began to bound. Edward could run more fast than any of the rest of us. I spent all of my energy trying to focus on the directions he was bounding but he was back and forth and jumping from tree to tree. He was trying to confuse me and he was being successful. I felt his movement under me slowing and he spoke, "Love, I have a surprise for you that I believe you will love."

He brought me down into his arms, cradling me like I was a child. Edward always knew how to make me feel all emotions possible at once. This effect he had on me never wavered once. I felt his hand untying the handkerchief he had used to keep me blind on our journey. The sun had begun to come up and the beams of sunlight trespassing the sky were gleaming off my husband's face as I looked in to his eyes. I turned my face to look in the direction he was pointing us and I could hear my throat let out a low gasp. "Edward, oh, Edward," I said softly. "I didn't expect it…to be…standing still yet. After all these years…"

I looked at the cottage that Esme had fixed for Edward and I those many years ago. She had renovated the cottage that had already stood on the property. Edward had explained to me all those years ago that Emmett had wanted to build us a new house with many square feet, but Esme knew what I would like, she knew I would want the original. And there it stood. Obviously, Edward had arranged to have the others to get it in living order and perhaps repair any damages that the children of the town may have down to our cottage. It looked as though we had never left it. I had missed our cottage so much when we first left. No home that we had lived in since leaving Forks had ever compared. We had lived in mansions and large condominiums, townhouses and country homes, but nothing compared to my little cottage that was over one hundred and seventy years old.

Edward, being the gentleman and romantic that primarily made him who he was, carried me across the threshold as he had done before into our cottage. He used the toe of his shoe to push the door closed. Everything was as I remembered. The reminiscence of Esme's Island. Edward set me down in the middle of our living room and pulled me close to him. His lips came down onto my mouth and I could taste his venom as it poured into his mouth. "I love you," I whispered.

The crooked grin spread slowly across his face, the grin that melted my un-beating heart. "As I have said many times, Bella, you are my life."

Edward took me into his arms and we danced slowly around our cottage. "I hadn't expected our cottage to still be here. It was already so old before. I didn't think it would stand the test of time."

I pulled Edward closer to me. "Bella, Bella, its not been THAT long," he mused.

I knew it hadn't been that long to my husband and the others, but I was still new to immortality. I still saw the concept of time in somewhat a human perspective. I knew that someday, eventually, I would see it differently. But it still seemed like a long time for a structure like our cottage's to be able to withstand. "Plus, love, I had Emmett to stop by a couple of times on his and Rose's way through to Denali. Jasper too. I made sure to keep this place as we left it, love. It is our first home together as a family."

Upon Edward's mentioning our family, I felt the sudden yearning for my children. I loosened my shield so that Edward could hear how I was thinking in regards to Renesmee, Masen, and Emma…even Jacob. This had been our home for those first few years. Our family had been so kind to have it ready when I awoke from my burning, to add a new room on so that Masen wouldn't have to share with his sister…I missed my children so much that if I had been human the tears would be flowing. Edward brought his arms around me and rubbed his fingers through my hair. "Bella, they will be here to visit and Masen will move here in six months," he tried to reassure me. "You haven't lost them, love. All of us need that teenage moment were our family isn't around us. You and I had it briefly on Esme's Island. Nessie and Masen have never been without us. You know that Jacob will look after the both of them as well. He's as old as us and will keep them safe, love."

I knew that Edward was right. Both Renesmee and Masen needed some time to be own their own and discover themselves as their individual persons. From birth, they had been with us and all of the other Cullens. This would give them a chance to step out into the world. To make their own life in their own way. They would forever be my children. "I know you are right, in every sense, but Edward, they will forever be my babies."

Edward grinned and put his fingers under my chin. "Yes they will. Renesmee will always be Daddy's Little Girl and Masen will be my Big Little Boy…but Bella, we have to let them have these moments or they will resent us…"

I thought about every word I was hearing from my Edward. He was right and I would have to deal with it. I knew there was nothing else I could do. Maybe allowing them, okay, agreeing to their plans and being supportive (lets face it, I don't have to allow them as they are very much adults), would be a good thing for all in the family. Edward and I had spent all but a month, give or take, of our marriage, being parents. We had not had time as just Edward and Bella in so long. This cottage was meant to house just us and in the first time in our existence together, that is just what it would do. And perhaps we could maybe start a little earlier than possible…

My shield was still open for Edward and he began to grin quite mischievously. "Ah, Bella, my love, I thought you would never suggest that…perhaps, perhaps I did have a reason to getting you out here at just the right time."

Edward's sexy crooked grin reappeared as I brought myself close to him once again. We had for several years had to take care in other's around us, namely our children and our son-in-law, we had never been able to have that first year, that newlywed year. I would never regret, only be thankful, for the existence that we had. We were blessed, gifted two beautiful and amazing children, but I had wondered after about a score of years, what would it have been like if our children had waited a few years to join us. Would we give ourselves to each other every night, all night? My shield must have been still lifted as thoughts of loving Edward ran through my head. I heard a gasp from deep within his throat as it was replaced by a even deeper moan. Edward brought me into his arms and I wrapped my legs firmly in place around his waist. "Maybe being alone for a while won't be so bad," I affirmed.

Edward carried me swiftly to our bedroom as he had on many other occasions. "Mrs. Cullen, we mustn't be patient and in control this morning as we have places to be in two hours."

I looked directly into my husband's eyes. "Throw all that caution to the wind, Edward. My heart is not beating anymore but it remains for you," I said as Edward lowered me onto the bed. Being Edward's was all I had ever wanted from the first time I saw him and being Edward's would be how I would remain forever.