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(Twelve years later)

EPOV

I stood in front of the doors of my old school gym. I wasn't sure if I really wanted to go in. I didn't really have any friends here at the school that I cared to see again.

But Bella had convinced me to come. Part me was convinced she wanted to find Maggie and rip her a new one. She laughed when I asked her and just shook her head.

We made a family trip out of it. Shaylynn was about to turn twelve. Our sons, Jacob and Seth, were nine and six. My parents came with us and were keeping the kids busy tonight.

"Are you ready?" Bella looked up at me with her adoring eyes.

"I guess. Why am I doing this again?" I sighed.

She straightened my tie and kissed my cheek. "You're showing them that you grew up to be a successful doctor that owns his own practice and has a loving family."

"So that they know that I'm no longer a pathetic nerd." I surmised.

She glared heatedly at me. "You were never a pathetic nerd. Don't call yourself that," she hissed.

I had to admit that I did that because of how sexy she looked all wound up. "Yes, ma'am. Just promise me you're not going to get into any cat fights defending my honor. You're carrying precious cargo." I placed my hand on her small bump.

Yup, baby number four. Convincing Bella of having more wasn't too hard. After Seth started school, she decided she wanted one more.

She huffed. "Of course not. I would never get into a cat fight." She gave me an innocent smile. It was too innocent.

"Bella," I warned.

"Come on. I want to dance with my husband. I don't get to often enough." Bella pulled me through a door.

"Yes, ma'am." I sighed and followed her in.

We stopped at the table to check-in. I vaguely recognized them from the student council when I was here.

"Edward Cullen," I told them when the guy and the girl sitting there gave me blank looks.

The guy, Alec, found my name tag and glanced at the picture. "Dude, bad picture." My jaw ticked slightly.

"And you?" The girl, Jane, looked at Bella. She looked Bella up and down and frowned slightly when she saw the baby bump.

She smiled widely. "I'm his wife," she announced proudly, flashing her ring before she placed it over the bump and flashed the girl a look.

"Here, just place your name on the tag." Sarah handed her a blank name tag.

Bella bent over slightly to write on the tag.

"Congrats, man." Alec wiggled his eyebrow and stared at my wife's ass.

I rolled my eyes at him. Bella stood up and placed the tag on.

"Is it straight?" she asked.

I let out a chuckle when I read what she wrote. 'Mrs. Dr. Edward Cullen'

"It's perfect, Love." I placed a hand on the small of her back and led her into the gym.

The gym was decorated with crepe paper and balloons in the school colors. There were a few boards of pictures of my classmates in high school. I doubted if I was in any of them.

Bella sensing my reluctance went past them and found a table where we placed our coats.

I did a quick glance around the room and recognized a few faces. My eyes fell on Bella who was looking around with curiosity. The black dress she had accentuated her baby bump and the rest of her curves. She was as beautiful as the day I met her in Biology class.

I entered the class. It was already about half-full. I walked up to the teacher at the front of the class.

"Mr. Cullen, welcome to AP Biology. You may take a seat with Miss Swan. Last row, middle." He handed me a small stack of things for the class.

I turned and noticed the unwelcome stares of most of the classmates. I headed to the table he pointed out. There was a small brunette already sitting, engrossed in reading what looked like a lab handout. She had her books spread out on the table that we were supposed to share.

"Excuse me, please?" I said softly.

Her head shot up in confusion, she looked at me and gave me my first friendly smile of the day. Immediately, I was captivated by her warm brown eyes.

"I'm sorry, I didn't realize we had a new student in class." She started sliding her stuff over and reorganizing her things.

"That's okay." I shrugged.

"Hi, I'm Bella Swan. I guess you will be stuck with me as lab partner." She smiled and extended her hand.

"E…Anthony Cullen." I shook her hand.

A buzz of electricity rippled up my arm, surprising me. I felt drawn to this beautiful girl in front of me. I could already tell she was different from the others around here. At the same time, I was wary given my past with the last very friendly girl. But something told me it wasn't the same. She wouldn't have gotten into an AP class if she wasn't an intelligent student.

She was looking at me expectantly, and I realized I missed what she said.

"I'm sorry, what was that?" I asked nervously.

She had thrown me completely off-guard. I wasn't used to someone being so friendly.

"I asked if you were related to Tanya Cullen?" she repeated.

"Yeah, she's my cousin," I admitted.

"Must be nice knowing someone here already," she commented lightly.

"Actually, I don't know her all that well. We don't exactly get along." I grimaced, thinking about the fit she threw the other night when her parents asked her to show me around.

Bella paused for a minute and her smile faltered. "No, I suppose not."

I wanted to ask what she meant, but she turned from me slightly. She glanced around the room and bit on her lower lip. She shook her head and looked back at me.

"The staring will stop in about a week. I should know, I was the new kid back in September. Apparently, this town doesn't get many newcomers so we are like shiny objects to them." She grinned at me.

I felt myself smile back at her. "Thank you, I hope you're right."

"You're welcome. And if you need any help or have questions, or anything just let me know. I'll be happy to help you," Bella informed me.

"I will, thank you." I felt something flutter in my chest. My rational mind told me to forget about it. I was only here for couple of weeks, and to hope for anything more would be stupid.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Bella was looking at me with one eyebrow raised and an amused smile.

"Just thinking about how beautiful you were when we first met and that you're even more beautiful today," I told her shyly.

She blushed and kissed my cheek. "You're very sweet."

"I still wish we were at high school together. You would've been a bright spot to the dreary experience." I wrapped one arm around her waist.

"I'm sorry you had a hard time. But I kind of like how we met. It will make a great story for the grandkids one day." She grinned.

"No one is dancing yet. Do you want to wait? We can see if they have any cake?" I offered.

"I wouldn't pass up the chance for cake?" She licked her lips and rubbed her bump tenderly.

I took her hand in mine and laced our fingers together. We headed to the area set up for refreshments were there was no cake but there was some cupcakes.

"Hey, I think I remember you? You were on the basketball team, right?"
I looked up to see a guy I recognized that had been on the football team. Only his hair was thinner and he now had a beer gut.

Beside him was another guy I recognized also from the football team. He was severally overweight now. His tie was undone and he was sweating even though it wasn't that hot in the room.

Both of them were my main tormentors in school. To say I wasn't happy to see them was an understatement.

"No, sorry I didn't play basketball." I answered him with a forced smile.

"See, I told ya, Randall. You played first base on the Varsity baseball team, am I right?" Steven responded.

"Again, no." I shook my head. "I was on the chess team."

"We had a chess team?" Randall frowned.

"Yeah, remember that…" Steven trailed off as he paled. He glanced down at my name tag and blanched.

"Steve? What should I remember?" Randall looked at his friend. He followed his gaze to my name tag.

"Oh…" Randall seemed to figure it out. His face flushed, and he looked embarrassed.

They exchanged a look, and both of them looked very guilty.
"Wow…I didn't think we would see you again." Steven mumbled, pulling at his collar and looking uncomfortable.

"Why wouldn't he be here? He has every right to be here as you," Bella spoke up from my side glaring at them.

Both shrugged and shifted in their spot.

"If you would excuse us." I started to pull Bella away from them.

"Edward, wait a minute," Randall called out.

I turned but remained silent.

"I know I speak for Steve as well as myself when I say that we owe you a huge apology for things we did to you in high school. We were jerks. At the time, we thought we were being cool. But now watching our kids go through school and seeing news of the high school shootings — well it has been a wakeup call to how horrible we were then. We are sorry for all the shit we put you through," Randall explained sheepishly.

"I appreciate your apology, thank you," I said graciously.

Bella squeezed my hand and smile up at me. I kissed her forehead and started to guide her back to our seats.

"Dude, did you see his wife? She's hot. Doesn't it figure that when were jocks, we got the girls and the nerds didn't. Now the nerds get the girls 'cause they are all successful and shit, and we are left with no one," Steven scoffed.

I stiffened and clenched my jaw. Apparently, he hasn't changed all that much.

"Shut up," Randall hissed back at him.

Bella turned and glared at Steven. "Or perhaps, you are alone because you're a pig."

She turned and stalked off to our table with me following behind her with a small grin. She was still gorgeous when she was pissed off and trying to protect me.

We ate our treats silently. I listened around me to the others commenting on how smart and talented that their kids were. I don't know why it was bothering me so much. But most of them were the same kids that made my life hell for being a smart student and now I was hearing them brag about it.

I rubbed my forehead and sighed heavily. Bella looked at me with worry in her eyes.

"Are you okay?" she asked, placing her hand over mine.

"No. I need to get out of here for a moment," I admitted.

"Okay, how about giving me a tour of the school? They said we could explore the school," she suggested.

"Sure." I stood up and held out my hand to her.

I helped her to her feet and led her to the doors. We walked through the hallway hand in hand.

"Have they changed much since you've been here?" Bella asked.

"Some of it. Mostly a new paint job to everything and looks like they upgraded the technology some," I answered blandly.

"Should we find an empty classroom or janitor's closet and fool around?" She giggled and swung our hands.

"I don't think so, Love. One, the classrooms are probably locked, and I'm not fooling around with you in some dirty closet," I answered.

She sighed, but didn't say anything.

She stopped in front of a case that housed awards. I hung back because it held little interest to me.
"There you are," she exclaimed excitedly. She took a picture of something through the glass. Then a second one without a flash.

I looked through to see my name on a plaque for being Valedictorian.

"The kids will love to see this." She kissed my cheek.

I rolled my eyes and looked down the hall.

"What? They are going to be proud that their daddy is so smart and got an award in school for it." Bella frowned and looked slightly irritated.

"Want to take a picture of the lockers I was shoved into too? How about the toilet my head was shoved in or will the bathroom door suffice?" I snapped.

"What is your problem? You don't have to take it out on me." She looked upset.

"Why not? You're the one who dragged me here. I didn't want to come. Now I have to relive a past I'd rather forget and people who treated me like shit and forgive them as if it was water under the bridge. So I'm so sorry that I can't be thrilled to be here," I ranted.

Bella looked at me with tears in her eyes as if I had slapped her. I felt instantly like a jackass. She turned and walked away.

"Love, I'm…" I raced after her.

I reached for her, but she yanked her arm away from me. She entered the women's bathroom leaving me in the hall.

"Fuck!" I yanked on my hair.

I leaned on the wall across from the door and waited for her. I debated going in after her, but that would probably just piss her off.

I'm not sure, how long I was out there waiting, but I looked up at the clicking of heels in the hallway. Maggie was heading towards me with a huge smile on her face.

As if things couldn't have gotten worse. Double Fuck!

"Eddie, is that you?" Her voice squealed, sounding like nails on a chalkboard.

I didn't answer her and rethought about going in after Bella. Problem was, Maggie could just follow.

"Oh my gosh. It is you," she squealed.

She stepped into my line of vision. She was still pencil thin — too thin. She was wearing a short red dress with her blond hair down.

She waited for me to say something and scowled when I didn't. "Don't you recognize me, silly? It's me, Maggie Jamerson. You used to tutor me?" She patted her hand to her chest and fluttered her eyelashes at me.

"I know who you are. If you excuse me, I'm waiting for someone." I gave her a curt nod.

"Oh, you're not still upset about all that, are you." She pouted at me.

I stayed firm on ignoring her.

"Aww, come on. I can make it up to you. Why don't you come back to my place tonight?" She reached out and touched my arm.

I pulled away and shook my head. "I don't think so. I'm a very happily married man."

"What? What she doesn't know won't hurt her. I heard that you were a doctor now. You can give me a check-up," she purred.

She suddenly was hip-checked out of the way; she stumbled but regained her balance. Bella wrapped her arms around my neck and pulled me into a heated kiss. Her tongue slipped into my mouth and entwined with mine.
I forgot that we were in the middle of the hallway, and I wrapped my arms around her and pulled her tight to me. She moaned into my mouth, and immediately my body came aroused.

"Excuse me?" I heard a foot stamp and irritated voice snap.

Bella pulled away. "Opps, I guess we got carried away, again." She smirked, but there was still a tinge of sadness in her eyes. She ran her thumb over my lip to wipe away her lipstick.

"And you are?" Maggie huffed, her eyes flared in anger.

Bella plastered a huge smile on her face as she turned to face her. "I'm Edward's wife, Bella." She ran her hand protectively over her baby bump. "This would be our sweet Baby Cullen number four. I would give you a name, but it's still too early to know the gender. I'm thinking it's a little girl, like our oldest. But we will find out in about another two weeks," Bella explained sweetly.

"How quaint. I'm…" Maggie started but was quickly cutoff.

"I know who you are. You're the bitch that used and abused my sweet husband's kindness and intelligence for your own benefit in high school. Then had the audacity to try and get him to cheat on me with your skanky ass," Bella's voice was cold and hard.

"I think you're just jealous, because you're afraid he would cheat on your fat ass," Maggie sneered.

I went to interject, but Bella beat me to it.

She scoffed and tossed Maggie a smirk. "Nice try, but your shit doesn't fly with me. You can try to insult me until you're blue in the face but I know the truth." Bella's smile was cold. "My husband loves me and would never cheat on me. Especially with someone who is as worthless as you. Go crawl back to whatever street corner you work at, because you are wasting your time here."

"Are you going to let her talk to me like that?" Maggie looked at me outraged.

"She couldn't have said it better," I answered. I pulled my angel to my side and placed a hand over our child.

Maggie turned and stormed off. We watched her silently until she was out of sight.

Bella turned to me and looked up — her expression was heartbreaking. Tears welled in her eyes, and she chewed on her lower lip like she did when she was anxious.

"Edward, I'm sorry if I dragged you into this. I was hoping if you saw these people again you could get some closure. Especially, if you saw them all grown-up and out of their immature phase. Look at how Tanya has changed. Plus, maybe it was to show them how successful you are and how far you've come. That you're not that boy that they pushed around anymore. That you've become a strong man." Her eyelashes fluttered as she blinked back tears.

She did have a good point. Tanya has done a complete 180 since high school, after being gang raped at a fraternity when she was attending a party. She was now a soft spoken woman and worked at a woman's crisis center. She has been with her partner, Leah, for about five years now.
"Beautiful, you don't owe me an apology. I owe you one. I shouldn't have snapped at you like that. Just old feeling resurfaced. I know you meant well. And you're right, most to these people seemed to have grown up some." I brushed her lower lip out of her mouth with my finger.

"I was listening to them in there. The same people that picked on me for good grades were trying to be boastful of their own kid's grades." I shook my head. "It just seems too hypercritical."

"But what bugs me the most, and it has for longer than tonight, is how worried I am about Seth. He is just like I was at his age. He's smarter than his peers and they want him to skip grades. And while I'm happy that he is so smart — its scares me. I worry that he's going to get bullied, too. I don't want him to go through the shit I had to," I exhaled loudly.

Bella gave me a sympathetic smile as she played with my tie. "Seth will be okay. With our support and love, we can get him through it. If we see warning signs, we will get it taken care of right away. Schools have become stricter when it comes to bullying since we've been in school. Plus, you know how protective Jacob is of Seth. Jacob will defend him at every turn. So would Shaylynn, even though Jacob is our fighter." Bella was able to elevate some of my concerns.

"I've been talking to Emmett a bit too. His gym offers martial arts for kids starting at Seth's age. I think it would be good for him to build up his self-esteem, and he would be able to defend himself," she suggested.

"I like the sound of that," I agreed.

Emmett had helped me long ago, and I have been forever grateful for him.
"I think we should enroll Jacob, too. Maybe, it will teach him some discipline, so he's not fighting all the time. He too much of a spitfire like his mom." I smirked.

"I've never been in a fight, thank you very much." Her eyes narrowed.

"No, but you're very passionate and protective." I smiled warmly. "Want to get out of here?"

"I'd love to. We can make good use of having the hotel room to ourselves." Bella smiled back. "But first, you owe me at least one dance."

I wrapped my arm around her and guided her back to the gym and to the dance floor just in time for a slow song. We danced slowly together, and she rested her head against my shoulder with her eyes closed.

There was a crash and a loud commotion back by the tables.

"I think he's having a heart attack."

"Someone call 911."

"Is anyone here a doctor?"

Bella gently pushed me in the direction of the voices. I found Steven on the floor clutching his chest. Randall was kneeling next to him looking worried.

"Edward, please help him." He looked up at me.

I knelt beside them and took Steven's pulse.

"Does anyone have any aspirin?" I called out.

A bunch of the women started digging through their purses.

"I'll go check the nurse's office." A guy ran off in a hurry.

"Steven, I need to you try to remain calm. Help is on the way." I calmly told him. "I'm going to loosen your tie and I want you to lie back and take some deep calming breaths for me.

"I got some aspirin. I also grabbed the defibrillator and a CPR mask." The guy came rushing back.

"Defibrillator? Are you going to shock him?" Randall exclaimed.

Steven's eyes widened in panic and he grasped my arm tightly.

"No. I don't need that right now. But it is good to have it as a precaution."
I grabbed the bottle of aspirin and helped Steven sit up slightly.

"I need you take these." I looked around to ask for water. Bella was right next to me, and she silently handed me the bottle.
He drank the water sloppily, but he got the medicine down. At that time, the paramedics arrived. I stepped back so they could take over and told them what I had done so far.

Bella hugged my side as we watched Steven being taken out of the gym. Slowly, the rest started to spread out gossiping about what happened.

"Thank you for your help." I told my classmate.

He looked up and nodded. "I was glad to, I guess it's a good thing I work at the school now and had access to the stuff, though I'm glad you didn't need them. Good thing you were here though."

I recognized him as Liam. He was Maggie's boyfriend in high school. I nodded uncomfortably, Bella noticed the changed and gave me a worried look. Liam noticed too and he frowned slightly.

"Edward, for what it's worth, I had no clue that Maggie was using you like she did back then. She said you were tutoring her, but I wasn't aware how she was treating you. If I had known, I would've put a stop to it. In fact, I broke up with her at prom when I overheard her and her friends laughing about it." He gave me a regretful look.

We were never friends but he was never the one to tease me in high school. He did often pull his friends off me at times and told them to leave me alone.

"I believe you." I smiled.

"This is my wife, Bella. Bella this is Liam." I introduced them.

"Pleased to meet you." Bella smiled genuinely.

"You too. You're a lucky guy, Edward," Liam said. "Watch out for Maggie. She's around here somewhere. Her last sugar daddy kicked her to the curb, and she's looking for someone new. Rumor has it, she's gunning for you. I think she thinks she can get away with what she did all those years ago, again," he warned me.

"Thank you for the warning, but we already took care Maggie. I doubt she will be bothering us again." Bella smirked.

Liam chuckled and gave a short wave as he headed off with the stuff to put it back in the nurse's office.

"Shall we leave," I asked.

"Lets. It's going to be a busy day to tomorrow. You promised Seth we could go to some of the museums while we are here." She suddenly looked tired.

MP

We entered our room to find it dimly lit. Someone, or someones, had pushed the small breakfast table to the window that looked over the city. On the table was a small chocolate cake and above the table hung a small kissing ball.

"Aww… how sweet. Did you do this?" Bella looked up at me.

"It's July, why would I hang Christmas decorations." I shook my head.

Bella rolled her eyes and picked up the card from the table.

"It's from the kids. They are sweethearts," Bella gushed.

She placed the card down and wiped her fingers over the frosting and stuck it her mouth. She licked her finger clean with her tongue.

"Hey, you have to share that, you know." I teased.

"I will…with the baby." Bella gave me an impish grin.

She picked up a fork that was lying on the table and stuck it into the cake. She lifted up a decent sized piece to her mouth. I grabbed her wrist playfully and guided it to my own mouth. Her jaw dropped in shock.

"I can't believe that you just stole from me and a baby," she huffed, but her eyes sparkled with amusement.

I took the fork from her and filled it with a bite. I raised it to her lips. She opened her mouth, and I placed it in. She sucked on the fork a moment longer than necessary while keeping eye contact with me.

I pulled out the chair for her to sit on then handing her the fork. I sat in the opposite chair and lifted her feet onto my lap. I pulled off her shoes and massaged her feet. She closed her eyes and moaned.

She alternated feeding herself then me bites of cake.

"Shall I pour you some milk to go with that?" I offered, spying a bottle of milk that was in a bucket of ice set on the table.

"Please." She nodded, sliding her glass towards me.

I grabbed the bottle, wiping off of moisture with a napkin, before opening it then pouring two glasses.

I handed her one, she took it with one hand while using her other hand to wipe some chocolate from the corner of my mouth. She brought her thumb to her mouth and she licked of the chocolate.

I shifted in my seat as I watched her. She smiled seductively before taking a sip of her milk.

"I think, I'm ready for bed now." She bit her lip.

I placed my glass down and stood up. I helped her to her feet. She went to move to the bed, but I placed a hand on her hips stopping her.

"I have to do one more thing first," I explained.

She remained silent but gave me a questioning look. I pointed up to the kissing ball.

"I need to kiss you." I grinned, leaning down to kiss her.

Her hands came up and threaded through my hair pulling my face closer. Swiftly without breaking the kiss, I swooped her up into my arms.

She broke the kiss. "Edward, careful, I'm too heavy."
I narrowed my eyes playfully. "Are you calling me a weakling?"

"Never," she stated with conviction.

"Good, then I'm bringing you to bed to make love to you, until you're so tired you pass out." I grinned and carried her to our bedroom in the suite — kicking the door closed behind us.

The End

A/N: Thank you for reading and also review my story. Also, thank you for the well wishes about the stormy weather. We got over two feet but thankfully, we never lost power.

Up next, I'm pretty sure I'm going back to vampward. Just trying to work out a storyline. Not sure when I will start posting, life has been a bit crazy lately. I may also write at least an additional chapter to my May to December entry.