hahahahahahaha!!!!!!!! I said you would want to hunt me down and shoot me..... hehehehe... you have to admit it is funny....

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thanks for your note.  I plan to post the next chapter tonight.  here's a little teaser of chapter 30 : 

Leah was firing on all cylinders and it was a magnificent sight. I had doubted her when she said her nickname when she was younger was ‘Queen Bitch’, but now I could easily believe it as I watched her in full flight protecting her loved ones.  Way to go Leah. I almost felt sorry for Whitlock… almost.

He stared at my Bella as Leah poked him in the chest.  “They have no family except the loving friends you see around this room whose lives have all been enriched and blessed by knowing her.  So finding family should’ve been a moment of joy for her and for Elizabeth but what do you do when you finally show up?  Huh?”

He stepped back from the force of her chest pokes but Leah isn’t letting him get away that easy.

“You threaten to take her daughter from her, by the way something your idiot lawyer should know you can’t do.  She is Lil Bit’s sister and now officially her mother through a completely legal and finalised adoption.  

“We are not going to stand idly by while you and your idiot lawyer try to bully a nineteen year old into giving up her child.  We are their family and we will protect them.”

We knew the reactions to chapter eight would be intense and strong.  We were shocked that some of you actually attacked Bella for being weak, but at the same time it’s not surprising.  Sometimes people who are mentally abused and neglected for years strive only for some sort of love.  I can’t imagine any child not wanting their parent to love them.  We all see love in differing ways, and when you’re raised not feeling that unconditional parental love, it makes you strive to have it—at least it did for me.  Bella will come into her own strength soon, and with the help of Edward and his family she will get better.  We are stoked for you to see the interaction with Bella viewing Esme and the way that Esme treats her children, so a portion of that is your teaser.
Many of you asked why Edward did not just beat Charlie down, or how he could have not stopped the situation, or known Jake was in the kitchen.  Edward is one person, and he was trying to watch out for Leah, Jake, Charlie, Brady and didn’t know if he could trust any of the other five people there as well.  As for when Charlie smacked Bella, he had his attention focused on Leah and Jacob.  As for why he did not punch or beat down anyone, imagine this:  Edward defends Bella by striking someone or several someone’s.  He gets arrested his word against several, one of whom is the police chief.  Meanwhile Bella is unprotected and left with the wolves.  It was best for him to do as he did get her out and safe.  And trust that he will be dealing with this.  The ball has already been rolling on a few things, but this just upped the ante.
I’m sad to say that we have lost some readers, but again we cannot and will not apologize or rose color a story about an abused girl, when a good lot of the abuse she withstands is things that are personal to one of the writers and or other people the writers know.  Abuse happens and the largest form of abuse out there is mental abuse and neglect.  Awareness is a key to making things better.  Bullying is a problem, and awareness is a key.  We are however thankful that we have readers who trust in us to bring things full circle.
Thanks for reading and reviewing, Nikky & Kasi~

Teaser:  “This is very nice, Esme,” Bella says after taking a bite.

Esme smiles broadly at Bella.  “Thank you, dear.  Edward tells me you're quite a wonderful cook yourself.”

Bella’s blush appears on her face.  “I’m nowhere near as good of a cook as this.”

I shake my head at her.  “Trust me, Bella’s cooking is to die for,” I say as Emmett passes me the wine. I pour some for Esme, Bella, and then lastly for myself.

“What are you going to college for?” Rose asks as she looks at Bella.

“I’m getting a law degree,” Bella answers, but I know the whole table can hear the sadness in her voice.

“And Edward tells us that you’re a dancer, a quite wonderful one at that.”  I look to Alice, smiling that she brought up something that makes my girl happy.

Bella nods at Alice.  “Yes, I love dancing, but I only do it for fun.”

“You’re in the Christmas dance program for the college though, right?” Esme asks as she looks at Bella.

“Yes,” she replies with another blush.

“Carlisle and I have tickets for three of the performances. I’m so looking forward to the show, and seeing you dance, of course.  The dance department director has been bragging to the board of directors about the dances that you have choreographed.” Again Bella blushes more at hearing about the commendations she’s being given.

“That’s got to be the cutest blush ever,” Emmett says in a childish voice, which is followed by a slap from Rose. 

“I love dancing, and the people I’ve been dancing with are all great.  I just hope that no one’s disappointed at the end of the night.”

Esme frowns a little. “I’m sure no one will be disappointed, dear.” My mom smiles at Bella in a way that I can see the mother in her trying to break out and pull Bella in.

The rest of the dinner seems to fly by with everyone talking about what’s been happening.  The more the night goes on, the more Esme became motherly to Bella, but I’ve also noticed Bella becoming uncomfortable with it.  At so many times, she’s looked like she isn’t sure how to react at something Esme has said or done.  She’s remained respectful, but I’ve seen her slowly distancing herself from Esme.

I walk Bella to the car and open the door for her. “I’ll just be a few seconds.” I give her a wink and walk back to house.

As soon as I do, I can hear Esme’s upset voice.  “We really need to do something.  I won’t accept that nothing can be done.”

I hear my father sigh.  “It takes time, dear.”

“No, first those little punks ... I’ll let you and Edward deal with them, but Charlie is mine!”

I chuckle, but feel a little nervous, because I can hear the anger in my mom’s voice. 

Well now seems like the major majority of you are all kinds of happy with Bella and Edward and how their progressing together.  We love it, Bella is finding her strength in Edward, but Edward is gaining and coming into a deeper strength too.  Many of you want redemption right away against Charlie and Jacob and the rest of the bad apples, and it will come, it’s still simmering and the dish of revenge is not quite ready to be served.  Next two chapters we will be given the honor of meeting Renee.  The way the story is going on our side there will be no more than 25 chapters total.  We have 18 written, and working on 19 and 20 now.  As soon as we are done, we will start posting faster.  I assure you that wrapping this story is one of our top priorities.   Thanks for reading and reviewing, Nikky & Kasi~

Teaser:  Vicky smiles at me and then looks at Bella. “If you get tired of his old ass, call me,” she says as she hands her number to my girl.

I glare at Vicky.

“Oh, don’t pout, Edward. I will see your girl every Thursday from now on.”

I shake my head at Vicky, who is grinning widely.

I guide Bella out of the office, but then hear Vicky calling out for me. I turn and look at her.

“Tell James I’m ready for my second shot.”

I tilt my head and Vicky wiggles her eyebrows at me.

I smirk, shaking my head. “Will do, Vicky. Have good day.” I walk Bella out and see she’s still holding in her laughter.  “It’s okay, Little Girl, you can laugh. What did you think of Vicky, Little Girl?”

Bella smiles at me. “Sir, your girl thinks she is nice, but she seems like she walks to the beat of her own drum.”

I chuckle. “Little girl, Vicky has her own orchestra.  Let’s go to lunch.”

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.

The overwhelming response to the chapters so far have far exceeded what Nikky and I thought this story would generate.  We are both very proud of this story and humbled by your responses.  In lieu of the ‘boycott’ at FFN everyone will be getting Meeting Her Needs in their inbox later today.  We hope that you all will still take the time to leave us your thoughts, especially since this coming chapter is super wonderful, (Well we think so anyway!)  Thanks for trusting in us, and no worries things are really shaping up at the end we’re working on that will leave you all satisfied—we hope.  Thanks for reading and reviewing, Nikky and Kasi~

TEASER:
I put on my tuxedo trying hard not to turn and watch Bella get dressed or look in the mirror.

“Edward ...” comes Bella’s voice as I tie my laces and answer her.

“Yes, Beautiful?”

“Two things, is it wrong to go to these balls ... things without under garments on, and could you zip me up, please?” I run through what Bella has said again and turn to her.

“Wh ...” I try to talk, but I’m unable to complete what I’m saying as I look at Bella, whose sheer beauty takes my breath away. The dress only adds to her natural beauty and I feel stupefied as I stare at my beautiful girl.

I look Bella up and down, taking in every part of her body. I slowly look her up, starting at her feet. My eyes trail up how the dress sits on her body like a second skin. I look at how it makes her already large breasts look fuller. I look at her neck that still displays my mark. My eyes go to her lips and I see that they are moving.

I close my eyes and shake my head. “Sorry, I spaced out there, can you say that again, Beautiful?”

Bella chuckles shaking her head at me. “You look really hot, like my own secret agent man. I was asking, because this dress shows every line, so I should I take off my panties, right? I couldn’t squeeze my bra into the bust area; the girls can hardly breathe as it is.”

I look back down her body and see that she's right, she has a panty line. “Remove your panties, Beautiful, no one will know,” I say. I watch intently as Bella wiggles out of her panties and comes over to me and turns around. My eyes trail down her body again and I start to kiss her back. I feel Bella shake and laugh and I look to her.

“I need you to zip me up. I mean, you can carry on doing that, but I think we’ll be late if you do.” I smile giving her one last kiss, open mouthed, at the base of her lovely neck, before pulling the zipper up. With the zipper up it makes the tight dress even more molded to her curves. It fits her like a glove, and I make a mental note to thank my mom.

“Come on, Beautiful, let’s get this over and done with so I can bring you back here and kiss you some more,” I say holding my arm out for her to take.

Well no big surprise that a lot of you were not happy with the cliffhanger, yeah, expected that.  Some of you are very perceptive on future things to come as well.  There will be some BIG shockers in the next chapter, and we are super stoked to hear your thoughts on those.  Few questions we got from a scan over the reviews were: posting schedule? We post on Sundays.  What are rose and the other Cullen’s up to?  Revenge served Cullen style.  Can parents really be that asinine?  Yeah, actually they can, sad but true.  Is Tanya really that stupid?  Well, yeah, clearly she can be.  Is someone messing with Bella’s medical records? No.  Why is Charlie such a asshole to his daughter?  The answer to that will be in chapter 19.  Who let Jacob and Paul into the club and how?  Tanya, and since she worked there she knew how to get in, without being out in the open.  Wasn’t Tanya kicked out of the club?  Tanya was on a warning, but because at the time Tanya was still under Sir Stephan, her entrance card would still work.  You’re only writing around 25 chapters, can’t you write like a 100 instead?  Um, well we have other stories killing our minds, so yeah without sounding harsh, we’d rather write something new then run this into the ground and make people hate it.  I think that covers most of the questions; there are a couple questions asked that will be answered in the next chapter.  We cannot wait to read your coming comments on chapter 18!  Nikky & Kasi~

Coming up with a teaser for this next chapter was not easy because there is a lot packed into it.  So we hope that you like this: 

“You asshole,” I hear Bella scream. I turn in time to see Bella flying at Paul.  Moving quickly, I try to pull her off him and she shakes me off and keeps hitting Paul as hard as she can. As she hits him, she continues to scream calling him names and chastising him. “I fucking hate you. I really fucking hate you. I hope you rot in hell, but even that’s too good for you!”

I pull her to me again.  “Enough,” I say into her ear, but I know by the look on her face she hasn’t heard me.

“What the fuck are you laughing at, Jacob? Eh, you’re a sad pathetic loser who’ll more than likely die from a sexually transmitted disease.” Turning her head between the two of them she continues on. “Neither of you are anything or will be anything. You’ll both always be nothings! Go fuck yourself, because I really don’t think anyone else will, not willingly anyway. I won’t back down this time. I will take both of you to court. I will tell the world what you’ve done.” Jacob runs toward her and I turn us so Jacob starts hitting my back. It takes all my strength to hold on to Bella as she’s still trying to get loose. Only a few seconds pass and Jacob is pulled off of me.

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.