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My husband was trampled by chickens when he was 3, like our son, he still won't go around them and he's almost 33. lol. 

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Well a lot of you still want Renee to die a slow and painful death, but many of you are just glad she is gone.  Renee will be heard from again in future chapters, however we don’t want to give away too much by telling you how, when or why.  We think the next chapter will be the second most popular chapter to date when it posts.  Christmas and preparations for it, is a very fun time for Edward and Bella and will hopefully be well received by our readers. 
On a side note, please check out the wonderful little story that Nikky, Jess2002 and I are writing for Savannavansmutsmut.  It is called If I Die Young and it is posting under the author name: WeeJessAndTAT. 
Nikky and I would love to thank whoever the people were that nominated us in so many catagories for the Twi-Fic Awards.  We are nominated on four different stories: His Cimmerian View, Meeting Her Needs, Diamond Dolls Kitty Cave and Crabs And Cream.  We were also nominated in the veteran author section.  The link to vote can be found on our profile, and if you don’t vote for us, vote for someone.  There are some AMAZING writers, stories, banner makers and readers all nominated for awards. 
Be sure to check out our spook-tackular — Halloween 2013 One-Shot (This is our 3^rd year in a row doing a one-shot for Halloween,) it is called: Crushes, Canines & Clowns. 
Can’t wait to see what you all think of the two stories listed above, and please go vote.   
Thanks for reading and reviewing, Nikky & Kasi~

Teaser: 

I lead her back to my car and we drive to another place where I can pick up the things that I need. I watch as Bella blushes and chuckles at the joke gifts the store has. I frown when I see that she has a bag, having bought something without showing me.

“What’s in the bag, Little Girl?” I ask trying to get the bag from her. But she’s quicker and hides it behind her back.

“It’s one of your Christmas gifts, Sir, and you can’t see it until Christmas morning.”

I chuckle shaking my head at her, knowing this will be fun for both of us in the long run.  “Oh, is that a fact, Little Girl? I could order you to show me, you know?”

Bella shakes her head at me. “Then your girl will tell tales to her Sir’s mom.”

My mouth drops open and I look at her, smiling internally, because she is willing to stroke the lion and play. “Is that so, Little Girl?”

Bella nods at me, but bites her lip.

“Well then, Little Girl, I may need to give you a spanking,” I say playfully to her.

“Your girl will take the spanking, Sir. Your girl really wants this present to be a surprise for her Sir.”

“Fair enough, let’s finish shopping.” I shake my head, watching her walk away from me. She looks over her shoulder and flicks her skirt a little showing her ass.  “Spanking it is then,” I say to myself before walking after her.

Well it seems the majority of you really liked this chapter.  There was some confusion regarding Edward’s family, they all really love Bella, but have been warned to not be too handsy or huggy with her, because it is nothing she is used too.  Please don’t fret, Edward’s family is there and will be there to support Bella.  Lots of you still want instant retribution for Bella against everyone who has hurt her, but please be patient Rome wasn’t built in a day.  As always our update schedule is every Sunday night/Monday morning, so far I have been able to post every Sunday.  There is a lot of stuff going on and things will be interesting here very soon.  A lot of people were surprised by Bella’s actions of kneeling naked in his playroom, but only Bella knows what she wants.  Edward wants her there is no doubt about that, but he wants her to want him for herself—not just because she thinks this is what he wants.  Edward has a fine line to walk, but he is not stupid and will handle this situation accordingly.  Thanks as always for reading and reviewing.  Nikky & Kasi~

Teaser:
I glance down at my cell, when it rings seeing that it says Beauty.  I frown, because I know that she should be about to start her last class.

“Beautiful, is everything alright?” I ask worryingly.

“Renee called, I didn’t pick up.  I was unsure if you wanted me to call you first or if it was just Charlie. I’m sorry, I just thought ...”

I smile and sit back down.  “No, Renee wasn’t on the list, but I’m glad that you called.  Please wait until I’m with you before calling her back.  I will make a list of people of who you are not to answer to, it’ll make it easier for you—us.” I hear Bella clear her throat a few times. “Is there anything else, Beautiful?”

I hear a light chuckle. “You know me so well.  Two things, one I want to know what would happen if I skipped my next class, and second, they want me to see Mr. Whitlock, Jasper, sometime today.”  I can hear in her voice there’s something more and I know this may need a face to face talk. “I am on my way to make an appointment with Jasper right now.”

I smile a little and grab my car keys.  “I coming and getting you from Jasper’s office, stay there until I arrive.”

“I will, Sir ... it’s, oh, Jacob,” Bella says.

“Well, hello there, Isabella.”

I move faster towards my car.  “Don’t speak to him.  Go into Jasper’s office and hand Jasper your cell,” I say to her, while Jacob was talking.

“I’m sorry, but he’s blocking my path.”

I let out a sigh, and start my car. 

“Who are you talking to?  Not that old guy?  Is he still fucking you?  I’m surprised he’s been able to keep himself hard around your whore ass.”

I grit my teeth together. “Shout Jasper’s name now,” I say as Jacob rattles on.  When I hear nothing coming from Bella, I put on a firm voice.  “Now, Little Girl, scream for him and hand him your cell.”

“Jasper!” I hear Bella yell.

Many of you have already figured out that Renee is not quite motherly material. We were laughing and shocked by some of the stuff said about Renee’s pink hair.  Gotta love it.  We think you’ll like the next chapter, we get to see Renee and how she treats Bella, but we will also see how Edward gives Bella the ability to stop letting Renee walk all over her.  We think you will love it, we know we did.  A lot of you are worried about Jake and Charlie as well as Tanya ... with that being said we don’t want to give away anything much, but trust by the end of the story all things will be resolved.  I think you all will enjoy Edward’s protective ways of Bella, now that he knows she is his both casually and contractually.  We hope that you love the teaser, we had to share something juicy with you.  Thanks for reading and reviewing.  Nikky and Kasi~

TEASER:

“I couldn’t tell you for how many years we’ve been married. I know it’s been a few, but it still feels like yesterday.”

I roll my eyes at Renee’s performance, because that’s what she’s doing—performing for them.

“Mr. Cullen, when were you going to tell the world about your marriage to this woman?” one of the paparazzi yells out.

I shake my head at them. “Mrs. Dwyer is not my wife; she’s the mother of my girlfriend. Mrs. Dwyer was talking about her husband, Phil Dwyer, he plays baseball.”

Renee turns and glares at me. “They know who he is. He’s the best baseball player that has ever lived.”

I glance at the paparazzi seeing they’re all trying to figure out which team he plays for. The bright one of the bunch of course starts questioning me again. “Where is the new girlfriend, Mr. Cullen? Do we get to know her name?” I smile and look beside me to see that Bella has moved to stand almost behind me.

“She’s a little camera shy, and her name is Isabella Swan. However, we have to go, her mom and step-father have had a long flight, and it’s been a few months since they’ve had a chance to visit.  As you can imagine, they want to spend some time together, so please excuse us and have a nice day.” 

I start to walk away, but see Renee has failed to move. “Push this for a second, Beautiful,” I say before walking back and grabbing Renee’s arm lightly.  “Time to go.”

She huffs at me and I give her the look which managed to only shut her up for a whole two seconds. She really is obtuse. “Look, I need to do stuff like that with the paparazzi. I know you’re just a newcomer, but I’m famous because of who I’ve married.”

Well without a doubt I think it is a clean sweep, everyone wants to either: kill, beat or maim Renee.  Nikky and I both want to thank you all for telling us all of this.  To us it means more knowing we were able to evoke those kinds of feelings in our readers, than any of you can know. 
There have been a few people laying threats about bring charges or else I will walk from the story.  I want to address that by saying, Bella is not as weak as she used to be, and trust that the cards will fall exactly as they should.  Renee’s story is set in stone for us, and we will not deviate from how we planned it.  Neither of us wants to say, Renee will go to jail and Renee will suffer this and that way ... What we want is for this story to unfold as it was and is intended to do so.  All we can say is trust in us enough to know that we will not let a story go with things unfinished. 
Now we do need to address the several comments about how Edward needed to step up and be the Dom and take control at the hospital and how Renee wouldn’t have been allowed to do what she did.  Sadly if a person is an adult and is unmarried and doesn’t have a power of attorney signed over to someone else, medical choices fall to your nearest blood relative.  Edward trying to control things would’ve most likely gotten him removed from the premises, and we’re sure you’ll appreciate how well he brings out the Dom soon.  Some questioned if the hospital would’ve kept Renee out being it was her fault, but unless the police were involved the hospital is in a hard situation. 
Finally we want to say again that we will continue to post every Sunday night/Monday morning, until the story is fully written.  Once the story is fully finished we will post twice a week until it is completely posted.  Thank you so very much for reading our story, reviewing our story and loving our story so much.
Nikky & Kasi~

Teaser: 
“I love you Mom, and want you in my life,” Bella says.

I feel my heart start to race, but I hold back the yelp that wants to come out. I’ll beg her if I have to; I need her in my life. I can’t live without this girl. She may’ve only been in my life over a short period of time, but she has quickly become everything to me.

“And I hope one day you can forgive me,” Bella says looking to me as she speaks. “But I need Edward more, a lot more. I know that I will never be enough for you or for him, no matter what I do. I know that Edward deserves so much more than what I can give him.” 

I shake my head and walk in. “Not true,” I say with a smile.

“But, here’s the thing, he’s a good man, Mom. He has such a big heart and he would never hurt me physically in any way. When—and I know it will be when—he leaves me, he will make sure that I am still okay. He makes me happy. He makes me want to live.  He’s the reason I’m still alive.” Bella’s eyes fall to my feet.

“Don’t start that silliness again, Isabella.” Renee starts chastising my girl. 

I walk right up to Renee and glare at her. “Quit treating her like a pet; she’s your daughter.”

“Say your goodbyes, Isabella. You’re coming home with Phil and me.”

Bella shakes her head. “No! I can’t and won’t leave with you. I love you Mom and I will be here when you forgive me, but I’m staying with Edward, if he’ll still have me.”

I move quickly to Bella and look into her eyes. “You’re more than enough for me. You’re so much more than I ever dreamed of. I’ll always have a place for you in my life.” I lean my forehead against Bella's.

Wow, I dropped the ball, normally I have the review reply all written out before now.  So all Nikky has to do is send it to all the reviewers at FFN, and I do TWCS and I post one in the comments FicPad.  I dropped the ball this week.  Between personal stuff and the holidays and other drama things, I just flat out missed the bus.  I am so sorry for the delay in you getting this from us.  There were not a lot of questions at all, but you all seem to LOVE Esme, and how could we blame you.  I FLOVE her myself.  This is short but sweet, but hey you’re going to get an extra long teaser …   Thanks everyone for reading and reviewing.  Nikky and Kasi~

TEASER:  As Bella’s face pales, I look to see who she’s looking at.  I see Sue walking in with a crying Leah clutching her arm.  When I turn my head I catch James rolling his eyes at the display that Leah is putting on.

“I will go back and take my seat, I hope you like my last surprise,” James says getting up and walking away.  I watch him trying to work out what he’s talking about, but chatting brings my eyes to the dock. I watch as two officers bring in Paul and Jacob.  I frown at them seeing that their heads seem to have been shaved and they both have those scalp molding scarfs on their heads.

“Please rise for the Honorable Judge Varner,” the court bailiff speaks out loud before anyone can say anything. 

The judge enters the room and sits in his chair, and tells us to be seated as he calls the court to order.  The judge reads over some paperwork and looks up at the defendant's table. 

“This is a court room, remove those head scarves,” the judge says bluntly.

I kiss Bella’s head, but the loud gasps make me turn my head.  I look around the room seeing everyone’s looking at Paul and Jacob.  As they move around at the reactions, I can see they have ‘rapist’ tattooed across their foreheads.

I turn to look at James who is smirking away.

“What did you do to him?” Leah screams as she stands up making her way toward Bella and I.

“Young woman, sit down!  No, in fact get out of my court room and don’t come back until you put some clothing on.  Bailiff remove this person, and do not let her back in here unless she’s dressed more appropriately.”

Leah’s mouth drops open as she looks at the judge with rage in her eyes. Two of the eight bailiffs in the room escort her out of the room with Sue running out of the room behind them.

I smile a little and turn back to pay attention to the judge.

“Are the defendants, still pleading not guilty?” the judge asks.

“Ernest Berty, for the defense, your honor,” the defense attorney stands and says.  “I’m representing both Mr. Lahote and Mr. Black and they both plead not guilty.  At this time, your honor, we are petitioning the court to have the trial moved due to bias and news coverage in this matter.”

“Well Mr. Berty, since both your clients are facing charges in four states including the great state of Washington, I doubt you’ll find anyone who hasn’t currently heard something of the case.  You have had your chance to question and discredit members of the jury, so therefore your request is not applicable.  Your request to move the hearing is denied, and further more future stalling tactics such as this will not happen in this court.”

I chuckle silently as the defense attorney tucks his tail and sits down.  The judge has the bailiff bring in the jury and they are seated.  We listen as both sides give their opening arguments.  I’m glad that as soon as the opening arguments are done, the judge breaks for lunch.

“How are you feeling, Love?” I ask Bella, as I lean close to her ear so our conversation is private.

“I’m all right, but I think I may head home soon, if that’s okay?”

I kiss her head.  “Of course it is, my love.”

Wow, you all just blow us away with the response for each and every chapter, so on behalf of Nikky and I, THANK YOU ALL so very much.  There are a lot of questions about what all happened to the evil witches at the college, well that is coming to you soon.  There really weren’t any questions asked that we could answer without giving away the ending of what they all have coming.  We are currently working on chapter 22, but it’s going well and there should be no waiting for it to post, it should post on time.  Most of the story wraps up in 21 and 22, but there will still be chapter 23 and for sure chapter 24 and maybe a chapter 25.  The ending is almost writing its self and it all is going really smoothly.  We hope you enjoy the way this wraps up.  Thanks for reading and reviewing.  Hope you all like this teaser ... Nikky & Kasi~

TEASER: 

I get out of my car and walk toward the club. I can’t help but walk with a skip in my step, knowing very soon my girl will be meeting me here.

“Edward,” someone calls from behind me. I turn around and my mouth drops open.  Standing there is a much disheveled-looking Tanya. I look down at her as she rambles on, but I don’t listen. She’s wearing dingy, yellow slacks that are at least two sizes too big. The gray t-shirt she is wearing has what looks like coffee stains all over it. Partially covering her crusty, dirty looking shirt is a rather ugly purple, ripped-up, fake leather jacket. Her hair is very frizzy and looks like a huge afro on top of her head. To top it all off, she has no makeup on and looks ghastly pale. I hold back my laugh and just look at her.

“Are you listening to me? I said, ‘Do you see this?’ Look at me, please, you need to let me have my life back,” she whines out at me. “I need proper clothes, and a salon.  Alistair would freak if he saw how horrid this is. Please help before I have to have it all cut off,” Tanya says as she pulls at her hair.

Thank you all for reading and reviewing.  We love reading all of the nice things that you all have said.  Thank you again for everything.  Some of the biggest questions we had was these:
I thought Bella was having a girl? – Bella thought she was having a girl, but Edward thought boy.
Have Charlie and Leah been involved sexually? – No, Charlie is a real yuck, but he honestly thought Leah was his daughter.
How in the world did James get away with the things he did to Jake and Paul? – Money and having influential friends does a lot in any situation.  Besides this is fiction and there are not many if any people who did not want Paul and Jake to both get a tiny taste of the stuff they all to willingly dished out to others.
Is there an Epilogue after 25 or is 25 the epilogue? – The story is 25 chapters including the epilogue, so no more after 25.
Do you have more stories coming out since this is coming to a close? – We currently have a one-shot we did for Christmas that has an epilogue yet to post.  Then we have the one-shot we are writing for Moo AH, which we will post sometime in January.  We will be starting our new story that is sort of an ugly duckling Bella story, and for a change it will be in Bella’s POV and we’re excited by this prospect.  We also have an Escort story coming soon, and it will be fantastic.  We have another story we are doing for a fandom fights program, this time it is for domestic abuse—this will be a story written with jess2002 joining us.  We also will be posting a story to the facebook group page.  The two groups it will post at are: TeamAllTwilight & AndTAT Fan Fiction and it will post at Secluded Wings.  Everyone’s welcome, we are an adult only, drama free environment. 
Is Phil going to end up with Sue? – No, but there is a bit of a story there yet to come for them both.
I think that wraps up the majority of the questions we have been asked.  I hope that you all like this teaser it is COMPLETELY unedited, because we haven’t even gotten 24 to the beta yet—speaking of which the last 2 chapters – 24 and 25, may have a few more mistakes than normal, since we are down 2 of our team because of the holidays.

Thanks again for reading and reviewing our story, Nikky and Kasi~

Teaser:  I hold Bella’s hand as we walk in with Adam into the doctor’s office.  We’ve both been worried about today, this is his first set of injections.  “You’re sure you’re okay to hold him?” Bella asks me again as she holds Adam close to her.

“Yes, I’m okay to be the mean parent today,” I say again with a little chuckle. “Beside you don’t like shots.  Since they scare you when you get them done on you, I know this is really going to be hard on you,” I say.  I remember that I had to hold Dean for his four month shots because Rose couldn’t even be in the same room when it was getting done, and Emmett was sick.

Bella frowns at me and I chuckle kissing her lips. “It will be fine, I promise.”

“But he’s only two months and still small.”

I pull her and our son to me and hold her close as I look down at my sleeping son.

“I know, believe me, I know.  Sweetheart if weren’t important for him to have these done we wouldn’t be here.”

Bella nods and lets out a sigh.

“I really can’t believe she’s breast feeding him in public,” a woman says loudly to the other woman sitting next to her. 

Both Bella and I turn to look at her and then to a young woman about Bella’s age who is breast feeding her baby.

“These teens today have no respect, whatsoever.  They act like whores, get pregnant and then plop their breasts out for everyone to see,” the woman sitting next to the woman who first spoke replies.

I look to Bella who’s looking at the young girl that is being spoken about so rudely.

“It’s girls like her that go out lead a guy on and then cry rape when it gets taken further than they wanted.  But just look at her showing all off all her goodies here in public.  Whatever do these stupid trampy girls thinks is going to happen?”

My mouth drops open at the woman’s cold words.

“Hold our son for a second,” Bella says passing AJ into my arms as she gets up.  At first I think she’s going to the restroom but instead she turns walking directly over to the two women.

“As you seem to make sure that your thoughts were spoken loud and clear enough to everyone that’s in the room, I thought I should make my thoughts clear.  First, neither of you have any right to judge that girl on anything she’s doing.  So what, she’s feeding her baby, it’s a baby who is clearly hungry and being cared for.  If you don’t like it, then don’t flipping look!”

My eyes open even wider hearing Bella use one of her clean swear words.  I start to get up to head over to her.