What we're reading in TLS this week:

In celebration of Father’s Day yesterday, TLS decided to change things up a bit and give you a rec list of some of our very favorite father fics! These are tried and truly loved recommendations that we’ve read many times. We hope that you will enjoy them as much as we do. Please leave the writers some love, in the form of a review, and tell them TLS sent you! 

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A Rough Start by ItzMegan73
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5319052/1/A-Rough-Start
Overnight irresponsible Edward goes from bachelor to father of a 5 yr old. Meanwhile responsible, prepared Bella begins her first job as Kindergarten teacher at Forks Elementary. When irresponsible meets the epitome of responsible, sparks will fly! Rated M

A Soft Place to Land by btwnthestacks
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7775714/1/A-Soft-Place-to-Land
Single father Edward Cullen and his daughter are looking for a soft place to land. In an attempt to help her, he turns to a program at the local library. While two furry friends help his child find her confidence, their owner will mend his broken heart. Rated M

Begin Again by pattyrose
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11972117/1/Begin-Again
Bella's life philosophies mirror her bakery-business philosophies: 1) you can't save a burned batch, and 2) there's no turning back once a batch is finished. It's the same when life gets real: marriage, children...widowhood all relegate memories of first love to weekly, monthly, yearly, and then…to occasionally. Unless...unless you're willing to begin that batch all over again. Rated M

Beyond the Break Room by Discordia81
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8581542/1/Beyond-the-Break-Room
22 year-old Bella Swan works for Edward Cullen, the 39 year-old VP at Providence Medical Center in Portland. After years of fighting the attraction, a tryst in the break room leads to a complicated relationship. Trying not to get caught by the prying eyes of their entire workplace, they're forced to hide their relationship and deal with his ex-wife and his 16 year-old daughter. Rated M

Going Under by sparklnfade
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7728698/1/Going-Under
It's been ten years since the summer Bella Swan's life changed. What will happen when she comes face to face with the reason for it? She went under once, will she go under again? Rated M

Holding On and Letting Go by Jenny0719
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8382216/1/Holding-On-and-Letting-Go
Masen Valley, SC. Population: 10,789. It was a tiny dot on a map; an escape of sorts for Bella Swan. But when circumstances bring a certain member of Masen Valley's founding family back to town, she finds that the past isn't as easy to leave behind as she thought it would be... Or let go. Rated M

Paper CutOuts bytwistedcoincidence
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5993964/1/Paper-CutOuts
Bella prefers the virtual to the actual, but feels herself being tugged from the safety of her online realm into the world of a rough edged Edward. This time she'll write her own story. Collab with astilbe13

Reality Minus Expectations by Incog Ninja
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8911907/1/Reality-Minus-Expectations
Originally posted in June 2009. AH. When it comes to Forks's social scene, event planner Bella Swan is a smash success. Her marriage, however, crashed and burned. The town's newest real estate attorney arrives in time to add some heat of his own. Rated M

Rest My Soul by MrsSpaceCowboy
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9786923/1/Rest-My-Soul
On opposite corners of Third Street and Beale, two lonely people fight to stay that way. Her scars are on the surface, soft on her skin and in her eyes. His run bone-deep, seeped in bourbon and blues. EPOV. Rated M

Secrets and Lies by BellaScotia
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9016564/1/Secrets-and-Lies
Bella once told a lie. A lie that cost her everything she ever wanted. 10 years later she returns to her hometown to an ailing father, an angry best friend, and the man from whom she has kept a secret that threatens to unravel her existence. Rated M

The Life Aquatic by coldplaywhore
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8685921/1/The-Life-Aquatic
Life happens when you least expect it, and puts you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never even imagined that you wanted. This is the story of girl meets boy, meets boy... aka, his son. Rated M

The Living Will by 2carm2carm2
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8454547/1/The-Living-Will
"In the event of my death, Isabella Marie Swan, upon previous agreement, is to step in and assist Edward Anthony Cullen in the caring of the child, necessitating her to stay at the Cullen residence in which the child lives for six months." When tragedy strikes, a last wish forces Edward and Bella together to deal with their pain, heal and rebuild the lives they lost. Rated M

The Pie Equation by TheQueenWriter
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10398001/1/The-Pie-Equation
Don't allow your past to dictate your future. Edward is a single dad. Bella comes home to help her dad after an accident. Will Edward allow their old friendship to blossom? Rated M

Unplanned Perfection by Littlecat358
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6229263/1/Unplanned-Perfection
Bella and Alice were best friends, which made Bella the only girl off limits to Alice's brother Edward. When a party the summer after graduation gets out of control, Bella's world is turned upside down. "He doesn't know. I don't want him to." Twilight - Rated: M

Waiting for Dr Right by vickitori303
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4934589/1/Waiting-For-Dr-Right
Bella works at a child care center and Edward is the single dad she falls in love with. Rated M

TLS Special SNEAK PEEK Feature

 

The Lemonade Stand has spent so many years bringing you the best the Twilight fandom has to offer, and we are very excited to have the chance to offer you even MORE. We've watched stories grow and develop from first post through COMPLETE, and now we're lucky enough to share previews of the stories that will soon be your new addiction.

This week's feature comes to us from the collaborative efforts of Lily Jill, fanficsR4nerds, and DaniDarlingxx, also know as Nerdy Lil Darlins. They are sharing a preview of their upcoming new fic Taking the Horizon.

banner by DaniDarlingxx

Taking the Horizon

by

Nerdy Lil Darlins

Summary: ‘For her, the ocean was more than a dream. It was a place she needed to visit to find herself.’ A tale of true friendship, new love, and learning to dance in the waves.

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Since the first day they met on the campus of the University of Minnesota in their freshman year, they had always known how to read one another.  Three different girls,  with three different personalities and backgrounds, somehow gifted with understanding each other better than anyone else.  They had been inseparable since that day, the three of them attached at the hip throughout their bumpy, incredible, roller-coaster college years.

And now, it’s over.

This chapter of their lives has officially come to a close.

One week ago, before they boarded a flight to Lighthouse Cove, Maine, they had watched each other walk across the stage at their college graduation.  According to the world around them, they were now fully equipped to begin careers of their choosing.

For the first time in four years, the girls would have to part ways and enter adulthood without the other two by their side. It was a thought that had devastated the three of them, throwing them into a panic about how they could manage without each other. 

“Pick a place,” Bella had said through her tears one night on their couch in their college apartment after too much wine at the realization of their upcoming separation.  “Pick a place and we’ll go there right after graduation.”

“One last hurrah,” Alice had agreed while Rosalie had pulled out her phone to find a destination for the three of them.

Lighthouse Cove off the coast of Maine is what they had landed on, and now, as the sun rises from what seems like the depths of the ocean and covers them all in youth-like warmth, they know this will not be the last time they experience this together.

“It has to be an annual thing,” Rosalie says. “Every year we need to come back here.”

The pull of the horizon, the promise of endless possibilities, and a blank slate for them all to write their own stories upon, leaves them all in quiet reflection.

“I don’t want to leave,” Bella sighs, lifting her head into the sunlight and letting it sink into her skin. There is still a morning chill in the air, as it is the middle of May and not quite summer season yet, but it warms her nonetheless.

“I agree with Rose,” Alice says. “With you too, Bella. We might not be able to stay here now, but we’ll visit every summer. And instead of one week, we’ll make it two.”

“Aren’t you getting married in the next year?” Rosalie asks with a laugh.

“Yeah, but that won’t matter. Peter knows how important you two are to me,” Alice answers back, unable to keep the smile off her face as she thinks of her fiancé.

“He’s a good guy,” Bella says thoughtfully. “I’m happy for you.”

“When you know, you know,” Alice replies, not for a single second regretting the idea of settling down at the young age of twenty-two. “Sometimes life is too short to think and wonder if every move you make is the right one.”

“Now is the time for mistakes then?” Rosalie jokes.

“Maybe,” Alice laughs with a shake of her head. She shrugs. “The last four years were meant to be the years we find out who we are. We’re college graduates now, ladies.”

“So what’s next?” Bella asks.

Alice giggles and reaches for her coffee again. “Fuck if I know. Maybe figure out this whole adult thing. Learn to make money and save it.”

“Or fall in love,” Rosalie finishes, memories of the handsome, quick-witted gentleman she had spent entire nights talking to during her last trip scouting apartments.

“Or travel the world,” Bella adds. She points to the horizon once more, and it might as well be the rest of the world for all they can see. “It’s ours for the taking.”

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Put Nerdy Lil Darlins on Alert so you don't miss out! Taking the Horizon begins posting on June 16.