Summary: Emmett McCarthy is a 22-year-old single parent living with his grandfather in Forks. His daughter is 4-year-old Isabella Marie McCarthy. When the Cullen's move to Forks will Rosalie give Emmett a chance, will they fall in love even though he's human? Or will an accident cause Rosalie to make a huge decision that will affect both Emmett and Bella.

Chapter 1

EmPOV

"Emmett, I'm sorry." She says looking guilty and lost.

"I love you, but I can't leave her, she's… apart of me," my pleading eyes look into her gold ones.

"You have to Emmett, I'm so sorry," she sobs but no tears fall from her face.

"Daddy?" I look down to see my little girl looking at me with a questioning gaze. Her brown eyes tearing up. "Daddy, I want to go home now, come on," She grabs my hand and tries to pull me. But I don't move. Instead I drop her hand, and turn to the beautiful woman in front of me and we start to walk away.

"Daddy!"

"Daddy!"

"Daddy!"

My eyes snap open and I jolt up while coming face to face with my little Bella. Her head tilted sideways as to silently ask me what's wrong. "Daddy had a really bad dream." She simply nodded her head and sat on my lap while her little arms wrapping around my neck.

"It's ok Daddy, I won't let the monsters get you." My arms wrap around her and I kiss the top of her head. I calm myself down by holding Bella. We sat there for a few minutes before she gasped and pulled away.

"Daddy, guess what?!"

"What, honey?"

"Today's Friday, and that means we get to go and get a movie." I smiled as her eyes started to shine with excitement for our typical Friday event. It never amazed me how Bella would rather spend time with me and an old man then go and buy toys.

"Oh my, I almost forgot." I said while smacking my head dramatically, this escalated a small giggle from her.

"See what would you do without me? Now come on and get up or we're going to be late and then we will have to wait longer to get a movie."

"Ok, Bella, did you brush your teeth, and wash your face yet?" She nodded her head really fast and made way to get off the bed before I grabbed her while giving her a skeptical look.

"Really? I think I see some dirt right there." I said pointing to a place on her face that was actually clear.

"No you don't, because I washed my face," her eyebrows pulled together slightly and her lips puffed out.

"Ok, open your mouth," she rolled her eyes but did as she was told. I looked at her teeth and saw they were fairly white and her breath smelt like mint. "Alright go get dressed." She scooted off my bed and ran to her room. I heard a little fumble and then running stopped.

"Did you fall down again?" I shouted still sitting on my bed.

"No…yes."

"Are you ok?"

"I'm fine daddy." Stretching I got out of bed and looked around my room. It was the exact same since high school same bed with blue comforter, same dresser with a small TV on top, the only thing that was different were the walls, once covered in posters of football players and girls in lingerie were now bare. I went across the hallway to the bathroom and took a quick shower then brushed my own teeth. Soon I was dressed in my typical work attire, a t-shirt that said 'McCarthy Outdoor's' and a pair of jeans. I walked down the stairs having them creak with each step. I could hear Bella and Grandpa, or 'Papa' as Bella called him, in the kitchen. The smell of bacon and eggs making my mouth start to water.

"Good morning, Emmett, before I forget, I ordered more sleeping bags and tents." My grandfather owned 'McCarthy Outdoor's' a hardware like store where we sold almost everything from camping equipment to car parts. That way people wouldn't have to drive all the way out to Seattle and Port Angels every time they needed something. I ran it now, but still took minor orders from him.

"No problem gramps, when did they say they'd be in?"

"Monday, but I just wanted to tell you now, it seems like my old age is getting to me. I didn't even remember to put deodorant on the other day and when I went to grab an orange at the grocery store I thought the lady next to me was going to faint. And at first I thought it was her that smelt so bad." Bella giggled as she put a piece of bacon in her mouth.

"Oh come on gramps you're as healthy as a horse." I filled my plate with some food and grabbed the pills he had to take.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, if I'm so healthy then you want to tell me why have to take these damn pills." Bella giggled again while I gave my grandfather a disapproving look.

"Language."

"Darn, darn pills." Bella continued to smile as she kicked her feet under the table.

"Papa, what movie do you want to watch tonight?" Bella asked looking up at him.

"We can watch anything, as long as it does not have little cartoon characters talking about gum drop buttons and how everything is wonderful. Blah, get a movie with some action and adventure, maybe some fighting. Or maybe something scary where things pop out at you. Those are good movies." What on earth was this old man thinking, did he want her to have to sleep with me for a month.

"You do realize she's four, right?" I said looking at my, clearly forgetful grandfather.

"No I'm not. I'm four and two thirds. That's old enough to watch a scary movie." I rolled my eyes at the extra two thirds.

"Ok fine, but if you get scarred we shut it off and then you have to watch one of grandpa's old war videos." I said while standing up and grabbing our plates. It didn't slip past my eyes that Bella and Gramps pounded their fists together under the table. "Ready to go?" Bella nodded her head and kissed Gramps on the cheek.

"Thank you, I think you just made my heart start to flutter." She giggled and turned bright red, while she went and grabbed her plain blue backpack. Out of all the back packs she could have choose that had fairy's, Hello Kitty, some girl with strawberries, she choose just a plain blue one. Of course all those backpacks were pink and my little girl hated that color. We learned fast that any t-shirt that had pink on it would end up under her bed, so we quit buying them.

"Alright let's go." We walked out the front door and towards my jeep where I had to lift Bella into the back and put her in her car seat.

The drive to Bella's school was short. I parked the car, helped her unbuckle her seatbelt and then watched as she climbed the few steps to the front doors. Soon I was on the road to work.

I opened the shop up as soon as I arrived, and some of the employees showed up. Joshua was first in; he had short red hair that looked as though he cut it himself. Josh was a good employee, never swore around Bella if she was here, always helpful, and he was great with the customers unless they were female then he would choke up and get extremely nervous. It was kind of funny and I would always sit back and laugh behind the counter.

Then there was Blake, he was the slacker employee, he hated coming to work and came in late every day. He was a troubled kid though and that's why I kept him around. He dropped out of school to help pay his moms medical bills and I had to respect the kid, he took on the responsibility that wasn't given to him.

"Mourning guys, there are some boxes out back that need to be broken down if you could do that it be great."

"No problem boss, I'll get right on that." Josh said excitedly. Blake rolled his eyes and nodded in good morning before he followed the almost skipping red haired boy.

The day continued on with the regulars coming in and buying cleaning products, or bullets for their guns. It was almost 2'oclock now and Bella's bus would be here anytime dropping her off. Call me whatever you will, but I still got nervous dropping her off at school, and I would worry about her all day until she was back with me.

My eyes kept going to the window every few seconds to see if the bus was here when a very slick Black Mercedes, Silver Volvo, and Red BMW pulled up.

"That must be the new folks." Josh whispered.

"What?" I asked tuning around to look at him. He nodded his head while looking out the window.

"Yeah, my mom was talking about them. There the Cullen's. There's Carlisle and Esme with their 4 kids, Edward, Rosalie, Alice, and Jasper. All their kids are adopted. They come from Alaska. I hear their kind of weird." Just then the door opened with the jingle of the chimes.

"Good Afternoon, if you need any help just holler." I said while turning around to look at the new additions to our town. They were all beautiful. The older man I'm guessing Carlisle, had a flawless face with blonde hair, and gold eyes. He smiled before he went into one of the many isles. He took with him a woman with a heart-shaped face; she was equally as beautiful as her husband, with caramel colored hair, and the same golden honey colored eyes. One of the boys had blonde hair, while the other had almost a penny colored hair, both as equally as handsome as their father. The blonde boy held the hand of a small pixie like girl, she had black spiky hair. They were all beautiful, and all had the same gold eyes. But the blonde girl was the one who took my breath away.

There were no words to describe the beauty she held. Her blonde hair was all the way down to her back. Her face absolutely flawless. Her clothing fitting to her slim body perfectly, herself in general belonged to an angel. She walked into one of the isle to find whatever she needed. Once she was out of my sight I was finally able to blink and breathe. I shook my head back and forth trying to remember what I was going to say to Josh before they walked in.

"Josh can you go and see if Blake is down unloading the truck. And see if he needs any help." I asked while turning around. He was still staring at the spot where the Cullen's had just been. Snapping my finger right in his face he jumped back and came out of his daze.

"Yeah, boss?"

"Can you go and see if Blake needs any help out back?"

"Sure," he looked over one more time before he turned around and walked out the back doors. I sat down in one of the chairs and began flipping through a magazine. My eyes continually going from it to the windows, and to my watch. Bella's bus must be running late today. The Cullen's were making their way up to the register holding some camping supply's and car parts, the beautiful blonde had a look of happiness on her angelic face.

"Find everything you were looking for?" I asked the oldest Cullen who I'm guessing was Carlisle. My eyes though kept sneaking to the side and getting a glance of the blonde. Gosh I wanted to know her name.

"Yes, we did, though you seem to be lacking sleeping bags."

"Yeah, sorry about that. We should have more in by Monday."

"That's no problem we will come in then." He smiled kindly.

"So you all must have just moved in, right?" I said trying to make small talk while I rang up there items.

"Yes we did. I'm Dr. Carlisle Cullen; this is my wife Esme, and my kids Edward, Jasper, Alice, and Rosalie." He pointed to each kid. I was happy that I finally new the blondes name, Rosalie even her name was beautiful. I realized I staring so I quickly turned my attention back to Carlisle.

"You're going to work at the hospital I take it?"

"Yes I'm starting there Monday."

"What part of the hospital will you work in?"

"The ER, they were short staffed there. It's the main reason we moved down from Alaska." I nodded my head and smiled a bit.

"Well Dr. Cullen it looks like I'll be seeing you around a lot then." I said laughing a bit as he gave me a curious look. "My daughter, she trips over thin air. She's a really big klutz; we are at the emergency room at least twice a week." He smirked and chuckled a bit himself. "And speaking of my daughter," just then the bus pulled in and Bella started running to get inside. But being my daughter she tripped and fell to the ground. "If you'll excuse me for one moment." I didn't wait for an answer before I ran towards the door and to her.

The cold air hit my sleeveless shirt as I ran towards Bella. It didn't take long until I was picking her up and wiping the tears from her face.

"I fell down again." She said sniffling and putting her head on my shoulder.

"I know honey, I saw you." She nodded her head against my shoulder.

"How was school? Did anything exciting happen?" I asked trying to get her mind off her fall. It seemed to have worked because she lifted her head and smiled big.

"So today, Miss. Peterson forgot one cookie for snack time," by this time we had just walked into the store. I gave the Cullen's a small smile silently thanking them for their patience. "and Angela didn't get a cookie, and Miss. Peterson felt really bad so I told her that I would share with Angela, and because I did Miss. Peterson gave me a sticker. See." Bella pointed to a little blue dragonfly that was on her shirt saying 'Good Job'.

"Wow, that's so cool. Let me finish ringing up these customers and you can tell me what else happened today." She nodded her head and started to swivel back in forth in the chair.

"Sorry about that," I said while finishing up their purchases.

"No problem," I turned to see Rosalie smiling at me. I smiled in return and told them there total. While Carlisle paid, Alice the girl with spiky hair, eyes went out of focus. The blonde boy, Jasper, held onto her tight when suddenly she shook her head with a huge smile on her face.

"Sorry," she apologized still smiling. Edward looked at his sister with a look of pure shook on his face. Quickly he shook his head back and forth, and with a thank you from Carlisle they were gone.

"Now, what else happened at school today?" I asked. Bella told me everything and though I heard what she was saying, Rosalie's image was in the back of my mind making appearances every now and then.