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Summary: Hidden Angel: In High school Edward Cullen and his crew made it a daily mission to torture the school bookworm/outcast Isabella Swan. Bella, whose problems lye deeper than anyone outside of her broken home realize is grasping at straws trying to find a reason to live. She pulls through to graduation and heads off to college. Nearly nine years later Bella is back in Forks to care for Charlie and opens a small coffee shop with the money she had saved from her best-selling award-winning books. Time has been nothing but good to Bella, she is beautiful, more self assured, and a successful famous author. But that is not the best thing about Bella, she is the same selfless kind person she has always been, she has a heart of gold and an inner beauty that her outer beauty matches everyone can see it, but she still does not see herself clearly. Edward Cullen having been left broke and broken hearted is back in Forks living with his parents trying to get his feet on the ground. When he applies for a job at a local coffee shop how will it go over? Once he realizes the beautiful women in front of him is Bella Swan he knows he will never get the job. But Bella seeing Edward as a person in need hires him on the spot. He is her employee but what happens when Edward can no longer deny that he wants something more? Will she accept, or has she been too broken? And how will he react when he uncovers the rest of her past? All Human. Rating might change to M later.

Hidden Angel: Prologue

~A/N I know this is much, much earlier than I had originally planned but I am really excited to finally have this out. This does not mean I will be neglecting Monsters, but the updating for this story may start off slow. So please bare with me I, am excited to hear feedback. Read and Review Please. ~

Nine years ago. Third Person POV

Bella Swan walked swiftly down the hallway, her mind was consumed with concern trying to make sure that all of the bills had been paid for the month, and how much was left for groceries, if any. Not paying enough attention to her surroundings Bella walked straight into head cheerleader, Rosalie hale. One of her tormenters, Rosalie was relentless in her torment of Bella, her treatment falling second only to that of Edward Cullen.

"Watch where you are going you ugly bitch!" Rosalie sneered while looking down at the girl as if she were something nasty on the bottom of her shoe.

"S-Sorry, I…I did…didn't see you there." Rosalie's sneer just intensified as Bella quickly scrambled to her feat and tried to hurry away only to be stopped by Emmet Cullen and her ex-best friend Jasper Whitlock, they were standing side by side arms folded across their chests blocking the hallway, amused smirks in place looking as intimidating as ever. Bella could feel the familiar burn of tears behind her eyes as she anticipated what was to come, she had been on the verge of tears all day after finding Charlie passed out in the front hallway she was in a hurry to get home and make sure that he was still on the couch as she had placed him.

"What's the rush Swan you bump into my girl and then you think you can just run away like a scared little puppy? It's pathetic really scampering away, tail between your legs." Bella closed her eyes tightly trying to keep her tears at bay, she knew all of this already she was pathetic. Just as she was starting to regain composure a force from behind caused her left shoulder to lurch forward effectively knocking all of the books from her hands, there was a crowd forming now all came to watch the public belittling of Isabella Swan. The force had been none other than ringleader Edward Cullen who had seemingly tried to walk right through her his broad shoulder easily knocking through hers.

"C'mon Swan everyone knows you aren't good enough to even walk the same hallways as us but now you think it's okay to just bump into people left and right. Get this straight Swan we don't want you here so stop reminding us of your presence your hard enough to look at as it is." By the end of Edwards's speech the hallway was filled with ridiculing laughter and Bella had a steady stream of tears flowing down her cheeks, you could see a quick flash of remorse in Jasper's eyes but as quick as it was there it was gone. Rosalie Hale and Alice Cullen had joined the group each standing by their boyfriends laughing at a broken Bella.

As fast as humanly possible Bella ran from the school ignoring the half assed protests of her classmates who weren't done torturing her. Little did they know that Bella would not be returning to school, she had gotten the grades to graduate early and would be spending the next two months figuring out a way to get her father clean before heading to Columbia on a full ride scholarship as English major.

Bella ran the entire way home she slammed the front door shut before slumping against it and sobbing. She couldn't help but believe everything that the kids at school had said to her, she was worthless and she wasn't good enough. She couldn't keep her mother alive, she wasn't enough to stop her father's drinking and she couldn't help but feel she wasn't worth anyone's time. So she sobbed she cried for everything that had happened her mother dying of cancer, her father losing his job due to his drinking, not being able to pay all of the bills, but more than anything she cried because she was alone and the reality of that was dawning on her.

Charlie Swan was awoken by the front door slamming, the sound matching the feeling that was currently replaying in his head. He looked around realizing that he was not in the front hallway but instead in his bedroom and he felt the guilt start to eat away at him once again. He put his hand to his forehead and felt a bandage and he realized he had done it again, left his daughter to clean him up because he couldn't take care of himself. Then he heard it, the sobbing, the gut wrenching, heart tearing sounds coming from his daughter, the only reason he had left to live and the one person he was hurting most in the world. He wasn't sure how they were still able to live in the house seeing as how he hadn't paid a single bill in over a year and didn't remember having even a 5 word conversation with his daughter in just as long, as Charlie made his way to where he could hear Bella the sight before him was enough to bring the grown man to his knees. There was his baby curled into herself looking so much like her mother it hurt, but what hurt more was how broken she looked he didn't know what happened but couldn't help but feel like he was partially to blame, that and she didn't come to him like she would always as a little girl. When she was hurt or sad it would be he who would hold on tightly to his little girl until her problems would be gone, when her mother got sick and spent nights in the hospital he would sit with Bella on the couch smoothing her hair until she fell into a restless sleep. Once it was too much for him to bear he selfishly started drinking leaving his defenseless girl to face the world on her own.

Something broke inside of Charlie as he launched himself at his daughter wrapping his arms tightly around her trying once again to hold her until her problems were no more. She clung just as desperately to him and they sat there and sobbed together for what felt like hours until Bella, emotionally and physically exhausted fell asleep in her father's arms.

Charlie carefully picked up the sleeping girl and placed her in her bed noticing for the first time in over a year that any of his daughters valuable possessions were no longer in the room. Her mirrors, her small TV, her stereo and most of the books and movies that used to be stocked on the shelves. The only things left being anything given to her by her mother or Charlie himself.

Finally sober enough to take interest Charlie Swan set out to the rest of the house noticing only the necessities still remained. The house was virtually spotless except for the dining room which was still an organized chaos the table littered with many papers and boxed labeled, paid bills, late bills, and notices. Then as he looked in the safe he saw envelopes that read "Tag sale profit" and he realized that Bella had taken everything worth money that had no emotional tie and sold it, from every room except his own and he felt like shit leaving his daughter broke and forced to sell her belongings. Thankfully the paid bills was the largest stack and then he noticed some other interesting forms as he read them he felt his pride swell along with the lump in his throat. Bella, his Isabella had gotten a full ride academic scholarship to Columbia, her mother school all of her high school transcripts were still here her grades flawless, and was that a diploma?…she had graduated early? The realization of how much he had missed of his daughter's life was a slap to the face.

Who knew that his baby was so strong? Her mother, that's who. Charlie thought back to one of his last sober conversations with his wife finally able to understand her words.

~Flashback~

René Swan sat in the hospital bed looking lovingly at her husband, she could feel her time to leave this Earth was nearing and she was scared at what she would leave behind.

Charlie Swan looked at his wife like it was the first day he met her, still as beautiful as ever.

"You are one of Gods most beautiful angels."

He whispered it, that had been his first line to René but only this time it wasn't followed with the laughter and the cheeky reply of "Does that line work often?"

"You're wrong you know." René had replied, leaving Charlie confused.

"God's most beautiful angels are hidden amongst us, they are also his strongest. I was blessed to know one, and so are you. They say that God will hide his most beautiful angels in the ugliest situations, knowing they are the only ones strong enough to bring beauty to the situation. That is why I am leaving I wasn't strong enough and I am sorry for that, but never forget who you have Charlie, please your angel is here she is well hidden but you will find her when the time is right."

"God has hidden his most beautiful angel among us and once she gains her wings, all those around her will see the light."

With that she slipped into a deep sleep.

~End Flashback~

René had died a week later, and Charlie had chosen to ignore her words, but now they made sense, René may have left but he was left with Bella, and that was more than he had ever deserved. Her cryptic message finally made sense, God's most beautiful angel was Bella.

That was when he made up his mind, he vowed that as long as he shall live he would try and redeem himself his daughter was stronger than he could ever hope to be and she deserved more than him.

It was true, Bella was an angel, a Hidden Angel, she didn't know it now but her very presence and the pure white light of love and goodness that surrounded her heart would be the saving grace to more than one starving soul, and no one would have guessed that the soul in the most need of her light, would be the one person who had broken her. Edward Cullen. But I'm getting a head of myself.