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Last chapter, we catch up to our couple ten years into the future. Where do you think they are now? We will find out what happened with Aro to make him lose his job, and how everything is working out now. Let's find out …

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Exchanging Companions

Chapter 34

Epilogue: Forever

~Ten Years Later

BPOV

The knocking on the door wouldn't stop. So, I quickly wiped my hands on the rag on the counter and hurried to get the door, screaming at Edward in the process.

"Why can't you open the door?" I hollered in the direction of the living room. He was probably lost in the damn weather channel again, and wouldn't move. I could almost call them a weather coma of sorts. He would tune out the whole damn house. Of course, I was accused of the same thing when I found myself lost in a new novel.

I swung the door open to see Aro Volturi standing in the doorway.

"Mrs. Cullen," he said smiling broadly at me.

"Who's at the door?" Edward asked rounding the corner to stop dead in his tracks.

"May I come in?" Aro asked looking at both Edward and myself.

"Of course," I said pushing the door open further to allow him in.

I offered Aro something to drink and wrapped up things in the kitchen. I was just cleaning up from dinner when he came knocking.

"So, tell me what has been going on with you guys since the last time I saw you?" he asked.

While Edward told him about our lives, I was lost in thought about the last ten years. It was hard to believe that Edward and I would be celebrating our ten year wedding anniversary in a matter of weeks. Things had changed so much since then, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

Jake was doing well in LA and I think he finally grew up some. The show was a success and after it had run its course on the air, he had enough notoriety to open up his own shop in LA. He finally got remarried to some gal out in California. I had only met her a handful of times and I didn't like her. In some ways, she would make you think of Kate, and that wasn't anything I wanted to be a part of. I personally think she married Jake for the popularity he had and the fact he was making good money.

Jake did right by the girls or what could potentially be considered right. He visited with the girls every month whether he came to them or had the girls come to him in LA. He paid child support for the girls. Edward and I talked about adopting them, but didn't want to take away Jake's rights.

Sierra was twenty and going to school at Berkley. Riley had just turned sixteen and would be starting her junior year in high school. Sierra had no idea what she wanted to do, which was fine. She was still young and would figure it out soon. Neither one of the girls wanted to live with Jake, nor did they like his new wife.

Tanya and Irina came to live with us when they turned fourteen because Garrett and Lexi couldn't control them. I knew it was coming years ago, but never wanted to say anything about it. It wasn't until their mother was convicted and sentence to prison time that things got increasingly worse.

When she was paroled six years ago, she hunted down Garrett and Lexi and made their lives a living hell. I was worried she would start coming after Edward and I. When we learned she found a sugar daddy and had hightailed it out of Portland for New York, I breathed a sigh of relief. She wasn't gone for good, but I felt like maybe she wouldn't bother us for a while.

After the trouble she caused with Garrett and the previous problems the twins had, it just imploded the whole damn thing. Edward and I stepped in to make things right. That was who we were, the caretakers and it was a hard habit to break.

I was the only one who could pull the true attitudes and personalities out of the twins. I knew somewhat of what they had been through, and even though their mother treated them like shit, there was always a love for her. They were now both nineteen and were on a road to recovery with Garrett and Lexi. They were both attending The University of Washington.

Masen and Meadow are both ten and still have their picks in place. Masen looks more like me with brown eyes and dark brown hair. However, he has Edward's wild locks and his body style. Edward keeps trying to get him on his side because the females still run this house. Meadow has Edward's coloring with cooper hair and green eyes. It's sometimes hard to think they are twins with how entirely different they look.

When the twins turned a year old, I opened up my daycare and catered to all the men and women that Edward employed at his companies. They weren't the only ones, but I did give them a little discount. Alice gave up the salon in Portland and came to work with me full time. She often used the daycare as her free childcare when needed. I never called her out on the fact she didn't pay to enroll her kids, but it didn't really matter because it all washed in the end.

Alice and Jasper added to their group a year after Cynthia was born. When they had Carter, Alice had some major complication and had to have a hysterectomy. It took her a while to bounce back, but I think working with the kids at the daycare helped her recover.

Emmett and Rose joined the group in tying the knot two years after Edward and I did. It wasn't much longer before they started having children. In fact, while Rose was pregnant with Henry, Emmett had forbidden her to crawl under a car or its hood. She wasn't happy about it, but understood his concerns. Edward told me he was afraid that the car would fall on top of her or something terrible would happen and brake pad dust wasn't good for us to breath. So, she allowed his antics and came to work with me at the daycare. She still helps here and there, but she doesn't like it as good as being under a car.

Carlisle and Esme still lived close and loved to have the children over. They had so many grandchildren by this point that Christmas looked like the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade at their house. I don't know how they pull it off every year, but Christmas changed once the kids came along, no more donating to charities. Now, everything was about the children.

Charlie retired from the police force about five years ago. I begged him to; if not for his own safety, but for sake the of the kids who loved him dearly. There had been a rash of break ins and other things going on the sleepy little town of Forks, and when guns were drawn and Charlie was shot, I wanted him out. He now lived close to Edward and myself, and was around all the time helping me out with the brood that we had.

Masen and Meadow weren't the last of kids we had. Hell, every two years we were adding more. The first time it happened was an accident. I had missed taking a couple of my pills and Edward and I were very careful. But, when I had missed them, it through my whole body out of whack. I had to come off the pills for three months just to iron myself out. Three months was long enough for us to mess up and one night of hot, kids out of the house sex found me pregnant.

This time around, things were a little different. We were having twins again, but this time we had identical. Spring Love and Summer Joy were exact images of me with the exception of Edward's eyes. One thing about having identical twins was sometimes it was hard to tell them apart, but when we learned that Summer had a distinct birth mark on her neck, all bets were off. However, the teachers at school didn't know.

When she was little, it was very light and we had a very hard time seeing it, but as she got older, the lines became a little more defined. However, with her long brown hair, you couldn't see it. So, Spring came to me one day complaining about how she had gotten in trouble. According to Spring, Summer had dared her to trade places during Math class. They had put them in separate class for some odd reason, but one day, they decided to switch when the teachers weren't looking. This continued for months on end, and when Summer started passing Math, we had praised her for her accomplishments, and then Spring started passing English with flying colors. We were extremely proud, until the teachers found out about the ruse, and punished the both of them. Spring was the one who would come right out and tell the wrongs she had done while Summer tried to hide them. So, I began to wonder how many times the girls has switched places. Classes were now started by the girls proving who they were and I handed out any punishments.

When Spring and Summer turned two, we found out we were expecting again. This time it came after coming off the birth control completely. It seemed that when I got messed up on my pills, I always had twins. So, Edward and I decided to use the rhythm method. The only reason this worked was because I was so regular and I was due the same time every month. Edward was excited that he would have times when he didn't have to use a condom, and things had been working out great. Hell, we had gone two years using the method like clockwork. During the fertile phase in my cycle, we would use condoms. After the girls, we had become more aware to put one on, but putting one on works out great if it doesn't bust.

I can still remember the words that he uttered.

"Shit!" Edward panted he pulled away from my body.

"What wrong?" I asked pulling up to look at him still trying to catch my breath.

"The condom broke," he said looking scared to death.

"What the fuck do you mean 'the condom broke'?" I asked hateful as hell.

"The fucking thing broke Bella.I have nothing covering the head of my dick," he said motioning toward his groin.

"Shit! I exclaimed.

"Where's the rest of it?" I asked perplexed about how he was missing almost the whole tip.

"I don't know," he screamed with panic setting into his voice as he frantically searched the bed.

I jumped up from the bed and ran straight to the toilet where I squeezed every muscle I had trying to get rid of everything possible. There was only one place that missing condom could have been if it wasn't in bed with us; still inside of me. I tried with everything I had to get it out, but I couldn't.

I took a deep breath and walked back to the bedroom. I pulled the flashlight out of the bedside table and grabbed my teasers out of my makeup bag.

"Look and see if you can find it. If you can't find it, I have to go to the hospital."

I had heard of this happening to girls in college where the condoms had broken and they had to get them out. I wasn't about to go to the ER where my father in law worked to have to remove a condom from his daughter in law's pussy.

I laid back on the bed and spread my legs as wide as they would go while Edward felt around, used the flashlight and pulled me apart until he fished out the tip of the condom. I was relieved he had found it, but concerned that our little mess up could have resulted in a pregnancy. It wasn't that I didn't want any more. I just wanted to spread them out a little further.

When my period never arrived, I knew exactly when I got pregnant, and that was when we finally had a break in the twin's population. Sunny 'Blaze' was born two weeks earlier than anticipated and weighed in at nine pounds four ounces. Edward loved the fact of having another male in a house full of women, and I didn't mind the little guy. He was our oddball of the bunch; he had blonde hair and baby blue eyes. He looked just like Carlisle, which we both though was too funny. I never understood how we had managed to pull it off, but every family has one.

Two years after Blaze was born, Edward and I didn't mess up this time. For some crazy damn reason, it felt odd that we weren't expecting another one. I mean, every two years like clockwork, we had another little baby to cuddle and love. So, we decided to get pregnant one last time.

Slade Angel had the hardest time of all the children. He was breach and they couldn't turn him; so I had to have a C-section. He only weight five pounds and two ounces and being he was a single pregnancy, he was considered small. After Slade was born, the doctor encouraged me not to have any more children. So, I opted to have my tubes tied.

Two years after Slade was born, Edward and I didn't have the baby bug any more. Slade was always the sickest and always the one who would hurt himself at the drop of a hat. We were so busy with him and the others that adding more wasn't important anymore.

All of our children had meanings to their middle names. They weren't conventional, but they were us. Masen's was Fate because …fate had brought us together. We might not have ever crossed one another's paths had it not been for the show. Meadow's was Destiny because … our relationship was meant to be from the beginning. Spring and Summer's first names came from the fact that according to when I got pregnant, the twins were conceived on the last day of spring and the first day of summer. Spring's was Love because without love, we had nothing, and with love, we had it all. Summer's was Joy because being together had brought great pleasure and joy to all of us. Blaze's first name was Sunny because it meant being happy and together, which we were. Slade's was Angel because we were blessed to have him; and blessed to be together.

I tuned back into their conversation just in time to hear Aro utter the words I never wanted to hear again in my life.

Aro's POV

After the finally taping of the show, I left with a heavy heart. I knew what would be coming from the network owners. They would watch the footage first before any editing was done. Once that process was over, they would turn it back over to me, where I would have the final say about the show.

When they would see how Kate looked at me and acted, I knew they would call our nonexistent relationship into question. I had made Edward a promise to make sure that not everything was televised, but the network would take that control out of my hands if a relationship were proven.

I called Twilight, our competitors, and spoke with their CEO to see if they were looking for producers. Thank God, George the network's head was a dear friend and told me that when I was done with Eclipse, he would gladly take me. I told him I would give him a definite answer in a couple of weeks.

I was sitting at my desk at the network a week after turning in the show waiting for the go ahead to start editing when Nathanial walked into my office.

"We need to talk," he said walking in and sitting in a chair across from me.

"I figured as much," I said lowering my head.

"Were you involved with either Mrs. Black or Mrs. Cullen before or during filming?" he asked.

They had also seen the way I favored Bella and didn't like it either. I had never considered that one.

"I wasn't involved with either woman. Mrs. Black reminded me of Didyme, if you must know, and Mrs. Cullen is the typical spoiled brat rich girl."

Nathanial knew about my late wife. So mentioning her, he would understand that some of my attention came from that fact that I still loved and missed her.

"Mrs. Cullen said that you did have a relationship where you promised her a spot on the show. Did you save her a spot?" he asked raising his eyebrow.

"I never promised her anything and neither did I have a relationship with her," I stated.

"Well, I have proof that says otherwise," he said handing me photos from my night with Kate. Apparently, someone had pictures of us together, but the most damning were the ones she had taken, obviously, because they were self-portraits of us laying beside each other.

I had to hand it to that woman; she knew how to screw everyone over in the process, and I dreaded the day I laid with her. Within a matter of minutes, I was told to pack my office that I was fired.

I quickly called George to tell him I was taking the job, and explained why I was leaving my position at Eclipse. He wasn't exactly happy that I hadn't been honest, but he had been there that night. In addition, he knew that I had left with Kate; in fact, he had given me a high five telling me to have fun. We all knew what type of girl Kate was, and it wasn't the stab you in the back type that she turned out to be.

I had kept up with Bella and Edward during the years and was impressed that with everything that happened to them, they had made it. The last I heard, they were married and living in Seattle. Jake was forth coming with information about them all the time.

The only reason I called a friend of mine about Jake was that I knew two things about the Black's. Jake needed a job to better take care of his family, whether Bella stayed married to him or not. I also knew that Kate didn't exactly help him out when it came to giving him the money for his garage like they wanted. Plus, I had to try and make things right after seeing what the network had put together.

Jake didn't do exactly like I wanted either, which I should have anticipated. I figured he would bring the girls and the money he made would make it able for him to provide for them and get out of Bella's hair. However, even though, he allowed the girls to reside with Bella, he did pay child support. I knew he did because I watched his check every week to make sure it was covered.

I scheduled the first flight out planning to pay the couple a visit. According to the information I had received, they would be perfect.

I finally landed and headed toward their house. It was later than I wanted, but I knew they both would be home. I knocked on the door and when she opened it, she was just as beautiful as she was the day she sat across from me in that house in Portland.

Edward bounded around the corner stunned to see me of all people standing in his doorway. It didn't take long for them to allow me in and offer me something to eat and drink. I listened to Edward talk about his life for the past ten years since the show had been filmed. Bella didn't say much just sitting there, looking like she was thinking.

I told them bits and pieces of what happened and how sorry I was about not living up to my end of the bargain so to speak, and then I knew I had to ask them.

"I have this show I plan on producing. It's a family oriented show about life with multiple kids and I would love for Bella and you to be a part of that show."

"No," they both screamed at the same time.

A/N: Parting is such sweet sorrow. As always be kind and show some love.