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Chapter 24

EPOV

"Isabella Marie Brandon, you are going to prom and that is the end of the story." I told Bella as we faced off in her bedroom one night before bed. Prom was just two days away and she was fighting me every step of the way. She hadn't attended her junior prom either because she was terrified of what Tanya would pull. Now, she just flat out didn't care anymore. She didn't care about anything high school related besides her grades and graduation and that is just because that bled over into our next stage in life.

She shook her head with a smile on her face. Her room was now barren of anything personal, no pictures, no what knots, no posters, no books, no nothing. It was all in Georgia waiting on us to get there in a short month. Graduation was four weeks away and that is when we were leaving this life behind most likely never to return again. "No. You can go but I'm not going." She was standing in nothing but her panties and my button down shirt I had worn to the final game of my high school career earlier tonight. She looked amazing and she and I both knew she would win this argument but I wasn't giving in quite so easily.

I shook my hand as I scratched a hand over my bare chest. I stood on the other side of her bed in nothing but my boxer briefs and crooked charming smile. "Please baby, you need to at least have the experience if nothing else."

She smiled and shook her head as she raised her arms in an exaggerated stretch that raised my unbuttoned shirt and also spread the edges apart revealing a whole lot of tempting skin that was going to be the death of me. "No, I don't need nor do I want that experience Edward. It is just an excuse for people to dress up and show off to people. Consider the Snowflake Gala back in December as our prom." She said with a smile on her face as she lowered her arms but didn't pull the shirt closed.

I groaned and shook my head. "I told Alice and Rose that I would get you to go, baby. They bet me $200 that I couldn't do it." I pleaded with her but I honestly could care less one way or the other. Rose and Emmett weren't going to prom either but Alice and Jasper was because they were up for prom king and queen.

She giggled and grabbed the edges of my shirt which got my attention really quick. "If I give in and go to prom which I really don't want to do then you have to give something up since I would be giving up my quiet night at home." She said with a wicked smile on her face.

I knew this was going to come back and bite me in the ass because I had a feeling I wasn't going to like her terms even more than I wasn't going to like giving up $200 to both Rose and Alice. "Anything. Name your price, Isabella."

She flashed open her/my shirt and with a cocked head. "No sex until graduation if I go to prom. 10 seconds to take it or leave it." She said as she quickly shut the shirt.

My mouth gaped open in shock at both her stipulation and her flashing me. I shook my head to clear it and heard her counting down in between giggles. "4" She said with a crazy wicked gleam in her eye. "If I get to zero then we are going to prom and I will consider my stipulation accepted. 3"

I quickly cleared my throat. "Hell no it ain't accepted, you crazy woman." I told her as I ran around the bed and tossed her over my shoulder before collapsing on the bed amid our laughter. "Fuck $400." I whispered against her neck as I placed kisses there.

She giggled and shook her head. "No, fuck me."

Indeed I did, all night long and again on prom night.

"How many people did you invite to graduation?" I asked Bella as I shoved another box into the back of the Volvo to take to the local church for donations.

She laughed and held up a solitary finger. "Just my dad. You?"

I held up one solitary finger also. "Dr. A even though he can't attend because of his daughter's graduation, but you already knew about him. I mean Carlisle and Esme will be there but other than that I don't want anybody else there. How sad is that? We both only invited one person to graduation."

She shrugged her shoulders. "It doesn't matter to me, I'm just ready for it all to be over with already so we can get to Georgia and start our lives."

I smiled and nodded in agreement. "Just a few more days, baby, just a few more days and we will be out of here." I whispered against her ear.

She giggled and nodded. "Is all of our remaining stuff going to fit in our cars?" she asked as we headed back upstairs to get another load of trash bags and boxes for donation.

I just laughed. "Yeah, as long as we keep Alice out of the donation piles and stores."

I laughed and headed on down the stairs because we all knew Alice's addiction to clothes and shoes, but it seemed her shopping addiction had turned to things for both Gavyn and Blakely. She was taking the 'doting aunt' thing to a whole new level. Our secret was halfway out, it had been for a few weeks now. Someone had caught Alice coming out of 'giggle' a downtown children's boutique and she had quickly told them off by saying that she was a proud aunt shopping for her niece and nephew. Everybody knew that Rose and Emmett were having a little girl but that started a rumor going around school that Edward and I were having a baby, which we would never deny because Gavyn was our son. We just let them think what they wanted. When they commented on how I wasn't even showing yet I told them I chalked it up to eating healthy, the stress of the move, or good genetics; whichever one popped into my head first.

"I'm ready if you are." Bella said as she shut the door behind her before picking up her bag ad heading for the car.

I nodded and took the bag from her stuffing it into the trunk. "I'm ready."

We took off for the church right around the corner that took donations for the local battered women's shelter. This was our fifth trip and we weren't done yet.

We had been out of school for a little over a week now and had concentrated on packing up our rooms and non-essential things so we could leave the night of graduation. When Emmett and Rose moved they just unpacked their essentials and left everything else packed before shipping it to Chicago so they didn't have much other than clothes and the stuff from Blakely's baby shower.

Carlisle and Esme didn't want us leaving so soon but we figured we could get a lot of our driving done at night since traffic was going to be kind of bad during certain times of the day. We were driving as couples so we could swap out drivers and shipping the other cars we weren't driving. We were driving my Vovlo, Jasper's Ford F-150, and Emmett's Jeep while shipping Alice's Toyota Celica, Rose's Toyota Corolla, and Bella's Ford Fusion.

Where we were going to park all of these vehicles once we got to Savannah was still a mystery to me. We had room for two in the garage, two in the driveway, and I guess two would be parked at the curb. We would figure it all out once we got there.

Once we unloaded the bags and boxes and sat them by the back door where we had been told to put them we headed to the grocery store to buy supplies for Bella's chicken and beef enchiladas that she was making for the entire family. "How many are you going to have to make?" I asked her as I pushed the buggy down the aisle in the grocery store as she read over her list.

She just laughed. "I normally make two casserole dishes just for you, Jazz, Tinker, and myself. So I am just going to double it and make four since Emmett, Rose, Carlisle, and Esme are coming too."

I groaned and nodded. "Why they insist on having a family dinner every night this week I don't know. It's getting annoying though since we are the only ones cooking." I grumped as we stopped in the dairy aisle so she could toss package upon package of cheese into the buggy.

"Stop complaining. They are going to miss us and we are all leaving in two days."

I groaned again. "It's not like they can't come visit though. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if they go back on their 'you guys need your own space without the parents around' suggestion and move to Savannah within the next two months or so. Esme won't be able to handle being away from all of us much less Gavyn and Blakely." I grumped as we eased down another aisle.

Bella laughed. "Esme is already looking at houses."

"Seriously?" I asked kind of surprised that she knew about that and I didn't but I hadn't been home much since returning from spring break.

She nodded. "She asked me for our realtor's name, number, and agency the other day. I believe Carlisle has been scouting jobs in Savannah and the surrounding areas as well."

I groaned and mock slammed my head against the buggy. "I knew I couldn't get away from them." I said with a smile.

Bella slapped me on the back of the head. "You love it and you know it."

I smiled and nodded. "It would be pretty awesome to have them close by. I only saw my grandparents on holidays growing up because they lived so far away. They can also help tell stories about my parents to Gavyn as he gets older since they were friends for years. I want him to know them as his grandparents also even though they aren't here in person."

"Sounds like a grand kind of plan to me." She said as she danced away to get the rest of her supplies as I followed dutifully behind. I could see us doing this very same thing months if not years down the road but we would have a little one or multiple little ones in the buggy in the future.

"How many kids do you want?" I asked Bella as I helped her put stuff on the conveyer belt to check out.

She shrugged. "I don't three or four maybe. I know college is important but I want them kind of close in age. It was amazing growing up with Alice but when we were fighting it could get kind of lonely so I want more than two but three is an odd number and one will usually be left out." She rambled.

"Four sounds like a good round number to me. How close in age are we talking here?" I asked her seriously.

She shrugged. "I don't know, no more than two or three years apart would be ideal but I know we are still young so…" She said as she trailed off.

I smiled and nodded. "Bella neither of us has been 'young' for years." I told her with a kiss to the side of her head as she swiped her new debit card to the joint checking account we had created when we had gotten back into town and legally could without her parent's agreement. From what I understood her parents were fighting but sticking it out for the time being. She had started replying to some of her dad's emails and texts but was firmly ignoring her mother as was Alice.

The next few days flew by with our graduation preparation and ceremony seemingly dragging on for hours. Just as the person sitting beside me was called up to come get his diploma my phone buzzed from my pocket. Emmett looked at me wagging his eyebrows up and down causing me to shake my head. I quickly pulled my phone from my pocket seeing a text from Eleazar and an email from Dr. Shrum with the message line being 'URGENT! BABY COMING!' which alerted me that Gavyn was apparently coming a few days early. I quickly read over the text message that caused chills to race down my spine.

It's time. Tanya's went into labor.—Eleazar

On my way. Be there in a few hours. –Edward

"It's time." I hissed at Emmett as I heard my name being called by the principal.

Emmett's eyes got huge. "I'll text the girls and we will meet you outside. You make up a story to get the principal to let us leave without holding our diplomas captive." He whispered in a rush.

I nodded as I stood up. "Text Esme and Carlisle too." I told him as I headed up to the stage tossing my phone in Bella's lap along the way. I hoped she got the hint to read what was on the screen.

Just as I was accepting my diploma I heard Alice squeal. "Mrs. Richards, my baby is about to be born so my family and I need to leave now so I can go collect him." I told her honestly as I shook her hand. It's not like I was ever planning on seeing her again so I figured that the truth wouldn't hurt, it's not like I was saying that Tanya Denali was the baby's birth mother.

"Baby?" She asked continuing to shake my hand.

I smiled and nodded. "Yes ma'am, his mother just went into labor, so we need to leave immediately. Is that okay?" I asked her quickly.

She smiled and nodded. "Absolutely. Good luck, Edward. " I practically ran off the stage to see my entire family crowded by the exit waiting for me.

"Mr. McCarty, Mr. Whitlock, would you guys like your diploma's right quick?" Mrs. Richards called out over the microphone as we were all scurrying down the aisle.

They quickly looked to one another before racing to the stage where she handed them their diplomas before we all ran out the doors never to look back again.

"Have you looked at the email from Dr. Shrum?" I asked Bella as we raced down the interstate headed for Nashville and our son.

She shook her head and quickly read the email. "It just says that Tanya reportedly got another person to punch her in the back several times and to manually break her water so she could go into labor but the baby has a healthy heart rate and doesn't seem to be in distress despite Tanya's crude actions. They have her strapped down to prevent further harm to the baby until she delivers."

I growled in irritation. "That bitch better hope and pray to God that Gavyn comes out perfect and unharmed." I ground out as I clenched the steering wheel tightly in my grasp.

I saw Bella nod in agreement as she texted on her phone. "Is everybody else coming to the hospital with us? Or going on to Georgia?" I asked her after a few miles when she had seemingly stopped texting.

"Everybody but Carlisle and Esme are getting the cars loaded on the transport truck before going on to the house to open it up and buy the grocery list I texted Alice. Esme and Carlisle ran home to change clothes and pack a quick bag before driving to Nashville to meet us and Gavyn. They offered to drive with us to Georgia so they could help out with Gavyn." She said as her phone dinged again causing her to laugh as she read it.

"What?" I asked her in amusement as I weaved in and out of traffic.

"Esme said to tell you to slow down because labor can take several hours to progress and she is bringing Gavyn's diaper bag that you left by their front door along with his car-seat."

I groaned. "How could I forget that stuff?" I asked her cursing myself for forgetting the most basic of essentials that my son was going to need before we could ever leave the hospital with him.

"Don't beat yourself up, Edward. We had it all loaded into the car until Alice and Jasper begged to ride with us and we had to take it out. We were going to go back after the ceremony and pick it up. Remember?" she reminded me softly.

I nodded and pressed my foot a little more on the gas pedal. "Yeah, but I'm not slowing down. I want to be there to make sure she doesn't touch one hair on our son's head. I don't even want her looking at him; she lost that right when she tried to murder him." I growled as I sped down the highway to the next episode in our lives.

"How did we go to packing this car with clothes and things to donate to trying to figure out how to strap a car seat safely into the backseat within just 48 hours?" I growled as I tried to figure out the base and seat contraption. It was the top safety rated car seat but it was a pain in my ass to install in the backseat of the Volvo. We had been in Nashville for almost 18 hours and our son had yet to be born, apparently he was being stubborn. I had been shooed out of the hospital by everybody because I was a nervous wreck that something was wrong with him despite the doctors' reassurances that first time labors take a little while, they were talking c-section now just to get him delivered because Tanya was throwing a fit and her blood pressure was off the charts because she wouldn't calm down. I had decided to make myself useful by installing Gavyn's car seat into the car while I was getting some fresh air.

"Edward, babe, you are making things more difficult than they need to be because you are frustrated. You need to calm down for our sons' sake." Bella said from the other side of the car as she followed the directions and quickly had the base strapped in and level. "Now just snap the car seat onto the base. Don't forget it has to face the backseat."

I smiled and nodded as I placed the fancy car seat on the base and it slid right into place with a gentle but firm click. "I don't know what I would do without you, Isabella." I told her as I leaned over the car seat to give her a gentle kiss. We had both had a restless night last night as we tried to get some sleep in the motel across the street but we were too nervous and excited to meet and hold our son to do much more than toss and turn and stare at the clock slowly tick the minutes by.

"EDWARD! IT'S TIME!" Esme screamed from the hospital's main entrance.

I quickly jumped out of the car slamming the door grabbing Bella's hand and running towards Esme where she was smiling widely. "Is it for real this time?" I asked as we all rushed upstairs to the maternity ward.

Esme nodded. "Yes, Eleazar just consented to a c-section so as soon as you get scrubbed up, you will be escorted to the room next to the surgical area where they will perform the c-section because Tanya doesn't want to see you at all. As soon as he is out he will be passed off to the nurses that will be in the room with you to get checked out. Neither Eleazar nor Tanya want to see any of us or Gavyn." She said as she shoved me in the direction of a nurse who was holding a spare set of scrubs.

"You Edward Masen?" she asked with a smile on her face.

I quickly nodded. "I am. Is it really time?" I asked her nervously as I took the scrubs she was holding out to me.

She smiled broadly and nodded. "It is. Let's go get you into these scrubs so you can meet your son as soon as he is born." She said smiling broadly.

I nodded and turned around to quickly glance at Bella who had tears in her eyes as Esme wrapped her up in a hug. "Give our son a kiss from his mommy and tell him that I love him, please." She whispered.

I smiled and nodded whispering "I love you, baby" before jogging after the nurse.