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This a little insight into Edward's family. Read ON!

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Elizabeth Masen~

I stood over the sink washing the dishes from dinner.

"Hey Mom, I'm going out with Em. I won't be to late." he kissed my cheek and hurried out the door. My handsome boy, My baby. The reason that all those years ago I stayed.

I was pregnant with Edward when she came to me and told me she was pregnant too. I knew that there had been others but not someone I knew. I had always chalked it up to us getting married so young. My closest friends , Renee Swan and Esme Cullen, said he needed a cold hard dose of reality. I always said I could never leave him. He would grow out of it someday and when he did, we'd be happy. I didn't know that during that time I'd get pregnant. I had to think of more then just myself. I knew now I had to leave. I told him I wanted to go home to Chicago and be with the people that loved me because it was clear that he didn't. How could he say he did after what he'd done? I was packing to leave as he sobbed into his hands that he was so sorry. He loved me, he loved us.

"It was a stupid mistake Elizabeth." he cried. I shoved more things in a suit case, my belly constantly getting in the way.

"You're damn right it was stupid." I growled.

"I'll make this right. I'll do anything just please don't leave. We were going to be a family, remember? You and me and little Edward. We can still have that." I listened to his pleas. I shouldn't of. I stopped short of the door with my over night bag in my hand. I needed to walk away, my brain knew it but my heart was his, even after he broke it.

"You'll do anything?" I repeated his words. He walked over and turned me to him, "Yes. God, yes. I'll do anything just don't leave." I had an opportunity here. I could keep what was mine and protect my baby from the truth.

"You must never see her again. You will provide for the child of course but no one can ever know what you've done. This town is small and if we intend to stay here we have to protect our name for Edward's sake." I didn't look at him. I could feel his stare on my back. He was thinking.

"This isn't a negation Edward Masen. That's the deal or I'm leaving." He grabbed my arm.

"Ok. How are we going to do this? Should we move?" he asked. I shook my head, "No. I'm not moving. This was your error in judgment and I refuse to pay for it anymore then I already am." I sat down on our bed where he wouldn't be sleeping for a very very long time.

"Child support. Tell her anything you want. Give her anything she wants just make sure she stays quiet. I won't have a scandal." I spat at him.

"So if I fix this you'll stay. I'll still have my family?" his voice shook with hope and sadness all at once. I had no idea what he was feeling. I didn't much care at the time.

"It has to stay fixed. If I hear one peep around town about this situation I will take Edward and leave." Edward nodded that he understood. In the end he paid for her silence, I never asked how much, and he paid child support until the child was eighteen. I had no idea that even after her husband had left her she would stay in town. It was an almost constant strain on our marriage. I wished daily that we had moved away from here. Seeing the child grow up before my very eyes. Having Edward count the child among his nearest and dearest friends sent cold chills down my spine. So many times Edward had gotten so unintentionally close to the truth. When he was sixteen and wanted his drivers permit I didn't get him his birth certificate fast enough. He went looking for it himself and found the lock box with all our important documents. The deed to the house, bank account information. My will, Edward's will and both of their birth certificates. I didn't understand why Edward Sr insisted he needed a copy of it. I always wondered if maybe it was kept as a reminder of his mistake, a way to keep history from repeating it's self. When I found him trying to pick the lock I almost had a heart attack. Soon after that it was time for him to start applying to colleges and I saw my opportunity. I knew I had to get him out of here. One night when he was out with his friends I brought the solution to our problems up to his father.

"It's the perfect solution. Edward will go to school back east and we will sell the house and leave. We won't have to worry anymore." To me it was the perfect solution to an unwanted seventeen year old unwanted problem.

"What about my practice?" He said. I couldn't understand why he was fighting me on this. It was the perfect exit.

"You can start a new practice or retire. We have more then enough money to live off of. Edward's college is paid for. We could start over completely." I was almost pleading with him. When Edward left there wouldn't be anything holding us here. Edward sighed, "Have you thought about Bella and Edward? I don't think this is a fly by night thing. I think they're in love, Liz. He's going to come back here for her eventually." I shook my head and laughed, "Edward it's puppy love. He will go away to college and see the light. He can't possibly think this is all there is of the world." I rolled my eyes at him.

"Liz I am telling you, he can go to school on the moon and he will still come back here for that girl." I brushed his comment off with a wave of my hand, "As soon as he's gone and settled in he will see the light. He won't come back here. I'll make sure of it." I stood my ground. I wanted out of Forks. I wanted out of the whole damn state of Washington.

"It's not right. What if she's the one for him? What if we are ruining both of their lives?" he said. I shook my head, "Somethings are more important than love." I said and the conversation was over. I didn't know about all his stolen moments with Bella in the woods. I didn't know how deep the love between them ran. I thought they were two stupid teenagers that would break up when they both went away to school. When Edward had gone I felt like I was one foot out the door. His father and I had planned to go to Europe while the house was on the market and when it sold we'd come back long enough to collect our things and leave for good. It broke my heart the first full day Edward was away and he called home almost in tears because he was homesick and missing Bella.

"Edward honey this is all part of growing up. You should be grateful for the gifts you've been given! You're smart and handsome. You're going to go to medical school and do great things." I said as brightly and energetically as I could.

"Mom, I miss her. I feel like I cant breath without her." I closed my eyes tight. I could see Edward clearly in my mind on the verge of tears.

"Honey, that was a high school romance. You should take this time to see other people." I heard Edward gasp, "I love her! I don't want anyone else! Neither does she!" he was getting upset with me. I kept telling myself that I had to push him away to keep him safe.

"I am sure right now this feels like the end of the world. I know it's hard but you have to see the world a little. It's a big place and trust me, there's more to life then Forks." I said.

"But Mom, I love her." his voice cracked and so did my heart.

"Why don't you try being up there just for a little while with out calling anyone here. Go out with your room mates, make some new friends, maybe see the sites a little. You are in New York city for crying out loud." I was a horrible mother. I was th mother that pushed her son away from the people he loved so she could protect herself. I was truly selfish.

"Ok Mom I'll try. I'll call you tomorrow night, ok?" he said. The phone calls nightly between us went on for about a week and then became gradually less frequent until they stopped almost all together. I knew when he had broken up with Bella by letter. It was regrettable that it had come on her birthday.

It was later, right as the house went into contract to sell that Edward Sr heard she was pregnant. The rumor mill said she was due on Memorial day, May thirty first, two thousand and two. Counting back words it was a perfect nine months to the day that Edward had left Forks. Her father never came to us looking for anything. Bella never said it was my son's baby.

"We have no proof it's Edwards! We don't know what was going on with those kids. Maybe she was sleeping around on him?" I screeched.

"Oh come on! You know that's not true. Her mother was your best friend, have some fucking respect. That baby didn't do anything wrong and it deserves a father!" he screamed. I balled my fists up at my sides.

"My baby deserves a future too! I got him out of here and you are not going to drag him back here for a baby that probably isn't even his!" I screamed.

"We are not leaving Forks! I can't make Edward come back here but I'll be damned if I miss seeing my grandchild." he yelled in a booming voice. He pointed to the front door, his face flush with rage, " If you want to leave fine, I wont stop you this time but I won't let you take this from me." he stomped upstairs and slammed the bedroom door. I sat down on the couch with the cordless phone in my hands. I made a decision. I would let fate decide how this should be handled. If he answered I would tell him everything, hell I'd even buy him the ticket home but if he didn't answer then I would never say anything to him about it again. I dialed the phone slowly and listened to it ring, with every pause my heart beat faster. On the tenth ring his voice mail picked up. I didn't leave a message. Fate had decided. Edward Sr decided he would have any role in Lilly Swan's life that Bella would allow. He never asked her directly if our son was the father but he really didn't have too. She had Edward's eyes. He visited her frequently but I never went along. Seeing her was a painful reminder of choices I made to protect the ones I loved the most. I didn't deserve to be a part of her life.

I think he knew his time here was almost over. The reason that I think this is because he changed his will two weeks before he died. He changed it to include his other child, Edward's half sibling. The child would now inherit a third of his considerable net worth as well as a trust fund upon turning thirty. It was his final act of betrayal. He also included Lilly Swan, he granted her a college education and a small monthly allowance that would start upon his death. He left all of it up to lawyers of course. He wanted to make sure I couldn't alter his wishes in anyway. Even in death he was determined to tell Edward the truth. I mourned my husband, my love. The man I had stood by even after he cheated on me and impregnated another woman but what I mourned for more were the wasted years without my son. If I had known that in the end his father was going to ruin everything I wouldn't of pushed him away so long ago.

A/n- Ok guys first of all, you make me swoon with your reviews. Seriously had a big dumb grin all day. The next chapter will be Edward getting his balls busted by Rose. I hope this chapter explained some things and maybe will make it easier for us all to forgive him a little. Review Review Review!