EPOV

"My looks like you have prepared food for an army! We are never going to be able to finish all that!" Renee stared in amazement at the tea trays Esme had prepared for tea. The same thought ran across our minds. Had we prepared too much?

I quickly took a look at Bella's face. She looked worried too. Yes we had made too many things.

"Mom, it's not for only the two of us. Remember there are five more teenagers in the house. Emmett himself eats enough food for an army." Bella looked at Emmett a pleading look in her eyes.

"I do?" Emmett blurted out without thinking. A frown from Alice had him quickly correcting himself.

"Of course I do. In fact these are my favourites." Emmett took one of the very colourful looking cupcakes and swallowed it whole. We all gaped at him. He made gagging sound and his face contorted in agony.

"Next time you might want to get rid of the wrapping first." Renee gave him an odd look. Shit! Emmett had eaten the whole cake with the wrapping. Now Alice couldn't stop giggling.

"Mom, have a piece of chocolate cake. Esme's cake is tastier than what you get at the cake shop." I remembered that Esme had made some cake for Bella the day she came to go swimming with us. It had been one of the few things she remembered how to make from her human memories because she had loved chocolate cake as a human.

Most of today's food had been prepared by Esme with the help of the whole family according to cooking shows from the food network. They had difficultly preparing them from recipies because they could not identify the exact ingredients since we had not paid much attention to human food for some time. Emmett had loved to cook as well as eat as a human and he knew how to make fish and other game he caught while hunting over camp fires.

Alice took out more of her wedding brochures and finally managed to get Renee distracted enough to forget about the food for a while and we took turns hiding things from view so that she thought we had eaten most of it.

"Renee, would Charlie like to join us for lunch?" Esme asked. From her thoughts I figured out that we had made too much for lunch also.

"Sure. That would be nice." Renee was still luckily focused on Alice's documents so she did not notice Esme's worried face.

"Bella could you help me with lunch?" Esme knew we had made a mistake with tea so she wanted to make sure that we did not over do lunch.

"Sure Esme." Bella quickly got up and walked with us to the kitchen. She stopped in the door way and stared in amazement at the assortment of dishes on the countertops.

"God Esme. You've got enough food for a whole engagement party." Bella gasped.

"What do we do now?" Emmett, Carlisle and Jasper had joined us in the kitchen. Rosalie had stalked off after hearing Bella's conversation with her mother about the size of certain anatomical body parts of mine. She now knew Bella and I had not gone all the way. I sincerely hoped she won't make this into another one of her issues.

"Well, I guess we can just serve only part of this food for lunch. May be you could take the rest to the nearest welfare center Esme. I'd hate to see this food go to waste."

Bella was now checking out the dishes one by one and she selected a few that she said were Renee's and Charlie's favourites. I wondered what Bella's favourite dishes were. I should find out from Renee. I knew she liked pop tarts and chocolate. I wasn't even sure she liked mushroom ravioli even though she'd ordered it the first time I had taken her out to a restaurant. What kind of a boy friend was I? I should know these things about her.

"Esme do you have any animal blood with you? I think you should put some in a bottle of tomato sauce and sprinkle it on any food that you are forced to eat today. I don't think it will be easy to fool both Renee and Charlie at once without them noticing that you didn't east any of the food."

"Oh we should have thought of that. Thank you Bella. I'll try to get that arranged." Esme smiled at Bella.

"And try to keep some raw meat it's easier to swallow according to Edward." Carlisle looked at me and smiled. "Bella really was very thoughtful and was sure to be invaluable to keep up our human charade in the future".

Alice was still in the living room with Renee. Charlie was due any minute.

As soon as the food was sorted out I took hold of Bella and dragged her under the stairs where the Renee and Alice couldn't see us. The others were still in the kitchen. I'd watched Bella lick her lips after tasting the food and I couldn't wait another moment without kissing those sweet lips.

I pulled her to me kissing her with all my pent-up need. It had been difficult to spend the night under the bed so close to Bella yet unable to satisfy my need for her the whole night.

"Oh Edward. I missed sleeping in your arms yesterday." Bella sighed.

"I missed your warmth too Bella…" I pulled her closer to me pushing her against my need while bending down to kiss the nape of her neck. I felt Bella's hands on my waist.

She was wearing a formal looking blouse today with tiny pearl buttons in front. It reminded me of dresses from my era. I traced them carefully with my finger tips. Then carefully undid the first one. Then the next. I couldn't help myself. Every button revealed more of her golden skin. I kept going until I reached the front band of her bra. I bent down to kiss the skin I had revealed inhaling her luxurious scent.

"Oh there you are Bella. I've been looking all over for you." Renee took in the two of us. I quickly moved away from Bella hiding her behind me. My hopes of keeping what had happened between us from Renee was in vain because she had already noticed that Bella's blouse was half open. I heard Bella frantically trying to redo her buttons from behind me.

"Well well, what have we here. So the two of you couldn't keep your hands to each other even for the short while that mom came to visit." Renee's mind was a jumble of emotions and I was lost since I couldn't get a good reading.

"I…. we…" Words would not come out of my mouth. Oh god. Once again I had failed to notice her presence since I had been so engrossed in what we were doing. I saw the little pixie stifle a giggle from behind Renee covering her mouth with her hands. And of course the whole family stood right behind her with equal looks of dismay. They had all come tosee what all the commotion was about. Emse's shocked "Edward! How could you get caught?" was all I read before blocking out their thoughts focusing all my energy on reading Renee's thoughts. It was my turn to groan in dismay.

Renee's eye were on my crotch. Oh god I knew what she would be seeing I was very aroused I looked down. It was then that I realised that Bella had opened the button on my trousers and the zip was half way down. Thank god for my underwear. I quickly rezipped and redid the button. It was too late Renee had already seen it. The damage was done. Oh this was so inappropriate. I cursed myself for not exercising more restraint. I heard Alice's giggle again this time much louder along with Emmett's sneer.

"I.. aha.. I'm so sorry Renee.. I apologise for my behaviour.. I …" . I had never encountered anything like this during the whole of my existence. I had expected outrange and shock but Renee was not displaying any of this. In fact she had a very pleased smile on her face.

"Oh no need to apologise Edward. In fact I'm glad I caught you. I had been worried that you were not attracted enough to Bella. Now I know otherwise. So it's a relief for me. So your parents are also ok with this?" The said parents silently vanished from behind me before Renee noticed they were there, not before I saw Carlisle shaking his head thinking "I don't believe this" and Esme smiling in embarrassment.

I heard Bella choke from behind me. I could only nod my head yes. I sincerely hoped Renee would not think that Carlisle and Esme had not taught me proper manners. I was so worried that she would think badly of me for ravishing her daughter the first moment I got a chance.

"Since we are engaged….they…" I was still stammering. This whole situation was so alien to me.

"Mom! Come on!" I noticed that Bella had finally managed to redo her buttons.

"Oh sweet heart. It's ok. You know I had told you, you can bring your boyfriends home with you as long as you are being careful. So it is ok with me. But I wonder how Charlie is taking all this. Does he know?"

"Of course not mom. I don't want to give him a heart attack." Bella was blushing furiously now.

"Well he should know how teenagers are these days. It's not as if he would have forgotten how we used to have a good time in the back of his car." Renee had vivid images of her and Charlie together flashing through her mind. I quickly blocked her thoughts. I did not want to know about Charlie's more adventurous exploits.

I heard Emmett's voice talking in vampire pitch from the kitchen where Jasper and he disappeared to before Renee discovered them behind her. "Well, Edward. You sure have a very understanding mother in law."

"Renee, I was looking for you. Would you like to see the rest of the house?" Esme gave me a stern look. She had come to rescue me. By now we had all figured out that it was easy to distract Renee if we came up with something interesting enough.

"Oh that would be great." Renee said with enthusiasm. Just then we heard the front door bell and Alice admitted Charlie.

We all turned to greet him. I was glad for his timing. If he had arrived a bit earlier he might have witnessed what happened. As it was he was oblivious and now Renee was more focused on the house.

"Charlie, Esme was just about to show me the rest of the house. You are right in time to join us."

"Sure" Charlie grunted. But he was also curious to see the house. He had only seen the outside before.

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