Many of you are questioning how Jessica knows so much about Bella.  Bella and Jessica are both from Forks.  Jessica is jealous of Bella, because Bella beat her out for valedictorian.  Jessica was always the smartest of her class, until Bella came along.  Several years younger and doesn’t even have to try in order to surpass her academically.  Bella got all the best scholarships and awards, all things Jessica wanted.  When the stuff happened at Harvard, of course Jessica heard about it, and being from Forks she certainly knows Jacob.  A lot of you want retribution in blood or however it can be gotten.  Rest assured that what comes around goes around, but as long as Bella is close enough for them to hurt, Edward will keep his cards close to his chest. 

Things are progressing well, and where this is a slow burn thing will heat quicker now that she lives there.  It’s still a slow burn, but no longer dragging feet pace.  For the record, Edward does want her to go to supper and meet his family, but he is tense about it because his family is very in your face caring and loving and Bella is not used to that type of family interaction.  Edward doesn’t know it yet, but he loves her.  Be patient and you will see this, I assure you.  Next chapter will post on Sunday, see you then. 

Thanks for reading and reviewing, Nikky and Kasi~

Teaser:  “Yes, my girl performed a special dance for me earlier. She said she would, with our approval, teach something similar to Sulpicia.” Aro gets a dreamy look on his face and grins even wider at me.

“Yes, there have been talks about that dance your girl performed since I arrived earlier. If you are in agreement with your girl doing this, then so am—” Aro gets cut off with the ringing of his cell phone. “Speaking of my pet,” Aro says before he answers, “Sulpicia,” he says answering the call. 

Before he says another word he looks to me as if he is concerned. “Yes, I’m with him right now,” he stops talking and has a look of anger coming across his face. “Keep her as calm as you can. Edward and I will be with you both soon.” I look to him as he talks and close his cell.

“Sulpicia is at Bella’s work. From what I can gather, there is some money and belongings that have gone missing.  Her boss checked out the staff lockers and found a laptop that another staff member claims was hers in Bella's locker.”

I nod at him, but I know my girl and she is no thief. It only takes us a short time to reach Bella’s work.  As I walk in my eyes fall on Lauren and Jessica, standing together.  As I look at Lauren, I see she has the laptop I bought Bella.

I smirk and move over to them. “That's my laptop and I don’t believe I gave you permission to touch it.” Both girls look my way and Lauren glares at me.

“No, this is mine. Look, it has my name on it.” I raise my eyebrow at her as she turns it and shows me the stupid sticker displaying her name.

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.”

We are so sorry for the lateness of this review reply.  I (Kasi) meant to do it the other day and honestly between the flu that has ravaged my home several times over the last month making another round, and trying to get ready for Christmas I forgot to do it.  Chapter 24 is almost ready to go to the beta.  Chapter 25 is not yet started, but we will do our very very best to make sure it is posted on time.  Most of the questions are answered in this chapter posting in less mere hours.  Sorry again for the delay in the review reply and teaser being sent out.  Nikky and I both wish you all the Happiest of Holiday Seasons for what or whom you celebrate.  There are only 2 chapters left to post and this story will be complete.  Kasi~

TEASER:  Seth has been in shock from finding all this out, but thankfully, Dr. Banner has been working with him through it all. The school has also been doing well at keeping the kids focused on what they are learning and not what’s going on in the news. Seth’s school life has really not had many distractions—regarding his personal life. Sue has been seeing him a lot more, but the relationship still seems to be strained for Seth.  Sue had gone along with Seth to one of his appointments with Dr. Banner. After talking briefly with Dr. Banner, he thought that Sue would benefit from seeing someone, too. Dr. Banner did say that he felt she should see another doctor so she had an unbiased person to speak with.

Seth has become very important to our whole family, so I set this up in order to help him. I know that he loves his mother, and so that he and his mom have a chance of building a healthy relationship, I wanted to do this for them both. He is still with us and Sue is living in an apartment close to where she now works here in Seattle.

Bella has finished college and is taking two years off before finishing the rest of her teaching degree. She will only have to do the required hands-on training as a teaching assistant. I’ve already looked into that, and she can easily fulfill her needed requirements at one of the local private schools.  

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