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Hello our faithful readers and reviewers!  We were expecting a bit of a lashing from some of you, and we have gotten a few but nothing like I expected.  Please let me remind you all now first and foremost that we are both happy ever after kind of gals.  Little refresher is needed about ages, and a few other things, since there were a few questions.  Edward is 28 and will soon be turning 29.  Bella just turned 11 when the twins were born, Sue left when Bella was 13, and Bella has been working for the university for over 5 years.  Bella just turned 19 in chapter 8.  Edward is 9 and 1/2 years older than Bella.  Before Sue left, she obtained a fake ID for Bella that said Bella was 18.  Therefore everyone surrounding the apartment building assumed she was of legal age.  Sue needed everyone to think Bella was 18, and she was sure to scare tactic that into Bella.  All these years, Bella has continued to maintain the age Sue said she had to say she was, in fear of not being able to stay with the twins.  Now for Bree Tanner and James...Bree Tanner was the female student from Edward’s Summer school course he taught.  In the summer for the past several years, Edward has been helping his good friend Marcus by teaching the kids who struggle to pass, or are so far behind they may not graduate high school.  Bree Tanner was the hoodie wearing shy and quiet girl from chapters 1 and 2.  Bree lives in Forks and attends high school at Forks High.  James Hunter is a Math teacher and the truancy officer for the Forks school district.  We don’t want to give too much away, but if you think back to the earlier chapters, when Edward had to take a break from his panic attacks, he was clear to tell Marcus his concerns about Bree being abused.  Bella is naive about many things, but she has grown a lot in the past few chapters.  We want to be clear that Bella feels as if she lied to Edward, she started trusting him a long time ago and when she started trusting him she feels she should have told him then.  Edward doesn’t feel betrayed by the lie, but he is more of in shock by the lie.  When he thought he was almost 5 years older than Bella he was concerned with the age difference, mainly because of how innocent she is.  Now that that almost five is almost ten, he is confused.  The next chapter will have you cheering Edward on, and hating his guts too.  We don’t want to give too much away, but I will say this, we are both excited at the prospect of the reviews after the next chapter posts.  Thanks as always for reading and reviewing this story, you all have no idea how much your words mean to us.  Thank you, Kasi (& Nikky)

Teaser for Chapter 18: Confessions  (As always subject to changes in the Beta process.)

Leaving Bella’s place, I get in my car and drive.  I don’t even slow down when the speedometer hits one-hundred-thirty miles per hour; I just keep driving.  I am racing to get away from the fear and the rage that is inside of me. I still feel so angry; how the fuck did I not see that she was only nineteen?!  I mean, she looks so young; I am so fucking pissed at myself.  She is still a baby, and the fact that she is only nineteen, doesn’t keep me from wanting her.  I want her, and I need to be with her.  I want her in every way, which is so fucked up. I shouldn’t want to be with a nineteen year old girl.

She was thirteen when Sue left her to look after Seth and Leah.  She was so fucking young, and she ended up in Aro’s club at thirteen!  Fuck, if he would have said yes to her…if she was in the pictures I had to choose from…I would have picked her…I know I would have… fuck! I could have really hurt her.  I am really fucking sick! Thank God he said no! Fuck, the dip shit pimp that said yes...shit! I’m sure she would…fuck I don’t even want to finish that thought.

“FUCK!” I scream out and I do an illegal U-turn at eighty miles per hour.  I decide I need to see Aro. If I find out that fucker knew her real age, I am going to add that motherfucker to my shit list.  I am going to hurt him so fucking much, and anyone who tries to stop me, too.

I've been horrible about replying to reviews over here. I'm so sorry. Thanks so much for reading and dropping me a line. Glad you're enjoying the story! Updating shortly! 

Sandra

Thanks!  Glad you're enjoying it!  I really appreciate that you took the time to review.

Well this was our second Halloween scary story to share; I am stoked to see what kind of stuff Nikky comes up with for next year.  I am not a big super-natural writer, or alternate universe writer, so this was mainly all Nikky; I just helped research things, reworded and worked things and added bits here and there.  Be sure to check out our other stories and if you like yourself some Older-ward and Dom-ward stuff be watching for the new story we have coming out soon, because it is going to be good. 

Well I promised that I would tell you all about my experience with the super-natural.   When I was 18/19 I lived in this house in Rock Island, Illinois.  The house was old and quite spooky anyway, but not huge in size.  The basement had closed off walls that had been bricked over that were at one time part of tunnels used for the escape and hiding of slaves.  The second floor was one large room and it had a dead bolt lock on the door.  I used the whole second floor as my bedroom.  The only people, who had a key to my room, were my mother, my best friend and myself.  Well one night my best friend and I went out to a movie, before leaving I got mad and threw a wadded up bunch of necklaces and earrings on the comforter of my bed.  I had been trying to untangle one necklace, but couldn’t get it.  There must have been fifteen or more necklaces, and several dangling earrings and bracelets in the wadded mess.  When I left the house I locked my door, because I didn’t trust anyone in my room.  My mom was also gone and the whole house was locked up.  My mom was with her boyfriend and actually spent the night there.  My bff and I went to see two movies back to back and then went out to eat and came back to my house.  When we opened my bedroom door, and turned on the light all of the knotted up jewelry was all separated and laying out in neat rows across my bed.  All three keys were accounted for, and there was no sign of someone breaking into the house or my room, all doors had been completely locked up tight.  A few weeks later we had someone come in that claimed they could converse with the spirits and that there was a family who had died in the house many, many, years ago of some sort of plague like disease.  Well it was a younger woman her husband and 2 children a boy around 6 and a baby girl and the couples grandmother.  It was the boy who unknotted all the jewelry, he apparently liked to do puzzles, that is what the person said who talked to the spirits.  Several other weird things happened in that house.  The toilet used to flush all by itself.  Someone hid my mother’s glasses and then threw them at her when her back was turned after looking for them for a few hours.  My mom came home one day to a pot of water boiling on the stove, and she was the only one in town, me and anyone else who had access to the house were out of town for a concert and she had locked the door before work that day, when she came home water was boiling on the stove.  Many other odd things happened, but I was never so happy in my life when the people we rented from sold the house and we had to move.

Thanks for all the story love, Kasi and (Nikky).