Hi everyone! You do all remember me, don't you? :) Well, I'm back with another story. It is completely different from "Choosing between love and lust". I hope you'll like it.

This time, we are meeting with Bella Swan, who is a single mother and an editor. She works for the publishing company and she has just got an assignment of her life. She has to edit the book written by non-other than an Edward Cullen. This particular book, is supposed to be his big come back.

Both of them are broken, but not looking to be mended. Will they know to recognize the things that stand right in front of their noses?

Oh, and, I've just lost my beta, so don't be harsh on me please if you see some mistakes. I'll try not to have any.

I don't own Twilight. I just like to write about Bella and Edward on my way.

Mending two broken hearts

BPOV

When you are 28 years old, single and with a child, you surely have lot of things on your mind. Especially when you are broke, and you depend on your father's salary. Then you ask yourself, "How the fuck did I get here and why?"

Well let's see. I fall in love in high school, got pregnant and got married. Had a miscarriage, almost divorce, lazy and jealous husband and no money. Then I ran away to college, finished it in time, met again with my husband, got pregnant again and this time actually had a baby. Two months later my divorce papers came as well. My husband was cheating on me and he didn't want anything to do with the child. That was until recently.

Now, I find myself still living in Forks, with Charlie and my five year old daughter Amy, with no job. I felt awful, I felt sad and I hated myself. Why did I let myself become this person? Didn't I have an ambition in becoming someone in my life? I have a Dartmouth diploma for fuck's sake. Thank god I had good grades in high school.

Even with that diploma in my hands, I still couldn't get a decent job. I sent my CV everywhere, but I never got any calls. I wish I could turn back time, so I could fix the biggest mistake of my life that was getting married to a fucking Jacob Black. Oh, how I hate that man.

The buzzing of my phone brought me out of my thoughts. I didn't recognize the id, but I answered anyway.

"Hello?"

"Good morning, this is Jasper Whitlock speaking, from Eclipse publishing company. I am looking for Miss Isabella Swan." He said.

Oh my God, finally someone called. I still couldn't believe this. He was the first who actually called me. I used my maid name, because I am getting rid of the last name Black. Thank God for that.

"That's me." I choked out. I still couldn't believe.

"Miss Swan, or may I call you Isabella?" he asked.

"Bella is fine. "

"Okay Bella", he chuckled, "You can call me Jasper. I received you CV two weeks ago, but I was busy with my job and didn't have time to call you. Am I interrupting anything? Are you busy right now?"

"No, I am not busy at all. Waiting for my daughter to wake up, but beside that I'm free." I answered.

"You have a daughter? That's nice. How old is she?" he wanted to know. It was important for him to know that I had a daughter, but I didn't want to talk about her. She was too precious to me. I'll always choose her over anyone else.

"She is five years old. Her name is Amy." I said a little bit insecure of where this was going.

"Amy is a beautiful name. So Bella, I got a very interesting call this morning. Are you familiar with a name Carlisle Cullen?" he asked.

Of course I knew that name and a person itself. Carlisle Cullen was my mentor at Dartmouth and at the time, my biggest support. I was wandering how did he know him?

"Yes, Professor Cullen was my mentor at my college. I knew him very well and he helped me a lot during my time at Dartmouth." I said.

"That's what he told me as well. Look Bella, I am going to be honest with you. He recommended you to me, without knowing that you sent your CV. His son Edward and I are best friends, so Carlisle told me to look for you and to offer you a job here. I was skeptic at first, but then I read your CV and Carlisle told me a lot more about you and your writing skills, so look… I have a proposition for you. Edward Cullen is almost finished with his last book that was supposed to be his big come back. And he strictly asked for you to be his editor. His ghost writer, so to speak. That would mean an immediate transfer to Seattle, for permanent. Are you interested?"

It took me a minute to understand what he was telling me. I got an offer for a job? Wait a minute, Edward Cullen? Yeah I knew of him, but never got an opportunity to meet him. I didn't even know he was a writer. His comeback? When did he start writing anyway? And how come I never read any of his books? Fuuuck, what do I do? Moving to Seattle with Amy and starting fresh. I had to get out of the Forks and that was the only one opportunity for me to fix my mistakes and make a better life for me and my daughter. To leave the past behind.

"Bella, are you still there?" Jasper's voice brought me back to reality.

"I'm here, I'm here, just….thinking. Um.. Mr. Whitlock?" I asked.

"Jasper, please."

"Jasper." I repeated, "This offer sounds great to me and I would really love to accept it. The only problem is that I am standing very low with my finances and I can't afford myself to buy a place to stay in Seattle." I said honestly.

"That's not problem at all Bella. Company will buy you an apartment that will be on your name and if that's ok, we'll find a suitable kindergarten for your daughter until she starts school. If you are that good as Carlisle said you are, then we'll have no problem with keeping you with us here for a very long time." he chuckled.

"I am not sure what Mr. Cullen had told you, but I think that if I was that good, I would already have published my own book or books." I frowned.

"Maybe you just didn't have a chance. I don't know the story of your life but I'll be more than happy to get to know you. Does this mean that you accept?" he beamed. He was so sure that I was good, without even knowing me. Weird.

"Yes Jasper, that means that I accept. When do I need to be in Seattle?" I asked and found myself giddy and doing a happy dance because of my new job. My new job. I loved the sound of that.

"How 'bout next week? Enough time for us to find you an apartment. I'll let you know if that happens by the end of the week. Ok, so congratulations Bella, welcome to the Eclipse. I hope you'll find here what you are looking for." He said.

"Thank you Jasper. This is really…big for me. I can't tell you how grateful I am. You've just literally saved my life."

And he did. This was my chance to start fresh, new, without anyone interfering and doing something that I actually love. We agreed on the details and hung up. I felt like a little kid now. Speaking of little kids…

"Mommy? Mommy where are you?" Amy called from her room. I was her first thought in the morning.

"Down here baby. Are you hungry?" I asked and move to the kitchen to prepare something for breakfast. My stomach growled, reminding me that I didn't eat anything this morning.

I heard Amy's small footsteps coming down and soon she was standing in front of me, rubbing the sleep from her eyes and yawned. I picked her up and put her on the counter in front of me.

"Good morning Amy. How did you sleep?" I asked kissed her hair. She smelt like babies and orange. I loved her smell.

"I did mommy. But then I wakes up and you wasn't there." She said still yawning. Amy was beautiful. She was my mini me with her long dark curls around her shoulders and brown eyes. Just her skin was little bit darker than mine, because Jacob had bronze skin. Her skin had some sparkle and I never understood why she had that, she looked like she was shining. I always thought that it was because of the combination of mine and Jacob's skin. I was the pale one.

I kissed her again. "It's woke up and you weren't there. I told you it's time for you to start sleeping by yourself. You are a big girl now. You weren't scared, were you?"

"No." she said looking away from me, but then she met my gaze and grinned, "Yes. But mommy, you says I can sleep with you, whenever I wants to. So, I wants that last night." She pouted.

"Baby, I did say that, but you are a big girl now and you must learn to sleep by yourself. Besides, you won't need me forever in your bed you know? It's normal, even though I'll miss you." I said finishing French toast and putting in on the table. Amy jumped down from the counter and ran towards the food. She put the toast on the plate and took a bite.

"Mmmm, mommy, I loves this. Can you makes some more?" she asked.

"Eat this first; this is only your first piece. You want some yogurt with that?" I said moving to the kitchen. She only nodded and told me to take her favorite Harry Potter mug. God forbid I take some other mug instead of this one.

I sat down with her and ate some toast as well. When we finished, we cleared our plates and I brought her to her room. She took off her pajamas and I gave her clothes for today. She'll need some new clothes, I thought.

"Baby, what do you think about you and me living alone? You know in some big apartment….outside of the Forks?" I asked her hesitantly. I didn't want to scare her.

"Will grandpa be with us?" she asked.

"No baby, just you and me. Would you like that?" I tried again.

"Yes mommy. Where are we going?" she grinned.

I patted the bed and she sat next to me.

"Mommy got an offer for a job in Seattle and it's a very good job. We'll have our apartment, and we will meet the new city, new people. We will have a lot of fun, I promise. Maybe….maybe we can enroll you to kindergarten?" I asked that very slowly.

She looked at me with very confusing brown eyes, my eyes. I could literally see the wheels working in her head. A tear escaped her eye and she said "Grandpa isn't coming, is he?"

I removed the tear with my thumb and shook my head. "No baby. He isn't."

"I don't wants to be alone." She whispered.

"You won't be alone baby. Mommy will be with you all the time. I am not letting you go honey, you are with me. I promise."

She just nodded her head and hugged me, whispering "Okay mommy. I wants to go then."

Later Amy and I went to store to buy some ingredients for lunch. When we came home, we put everything on the counter and decided to make lunch together. I let her do some things, and she didn't make any mess. She was actually very enjoying this.

We heard Charlie's voice before we saw him. He came home earlier than usual.

"Hey Bells, Amy, you here?" he yelled.

"In the kitchen!" We both said in unison. We started giggling just in the moment when Charlie entered.

"What are you two doing? Preparing lunch I see." He said and moved to pick up Amy from the counter and kissed her forehead. "How are you princess?"

"I'm fine grandpa. Looks, Mommy lets me make a salad." She said lifting up the bowl and showing him her work.

"That looks good, Amy. You'll be a great cook someday." He winked at her.

"I don't wants to be cook. I wants to be like you grandpa. You are a hero." She said proudly.

My heart swelled at hearing her words. I wanted to cry. She was so young and so small, with child dreams. The only father figure she had was Charlie and no wonder she calls him a hero.

"Amy, how bout we finish this lunch and then we'll talk about that later, okay?" I asked her and moved to the counter to finish with lunch.

"Okay Mommy. Grandpa looks, mommy bought me a new doll, isn't she beautiful?" she asked and took Charlie's arm to take him to living room.

During lunch, both mine and Charlie's attention was on Amy so I couldn't speak with him about the call I got today. I didn't know how he was going to react. I hoped he wouldn't be too judgmental, after all I spent whole my life living here. I picked up the plates and went to the kitchen to wash them. I heard Charlie following me.

"What's going on Bella? You've been acting strange whole night." He said.

"It's…. it's nothing Dad, everything is fine. " I fake smiled.

"Bella I know you, I know when you are upset or nervous. And you are not fine, you are lying. What's going on?" he insisted.

"Let's move to the living room. You want some coffee?" I asked. He said no and I moved to make myself one and hot chocolate for Amy.

I brought us drinks and finally sat to have that conversation with Charlie.

"Look Dad," I sighed, "I've got a call today from one publishing company from Seattle. They are offering me a job there. A very good job. And I accepted it, because that was the only one call I got in months. Months! No one called me and I sent like a billions of my CVs. So….I am moving to Seattle. I mean Amy and I are." I said.

Charlie was quiet for a moment and the only sounds in the house were cartoons on TV and Amy's giggling. I waited for Charlie to say something and grew nervous by each second. Finally he looked at me and then spoke.

"Well….. I'm glad to hear that someone finally had called you. I knew that you've been trying hard to find a job and ….. i'm happy for you kiddo. I was starting to get little worried, since you've got your diploma and no job. So…when are you moving?" he asked.

To say that I was relieved would be an understatement. I was thrilled. Charlie accepted it and he was ok with it. I mean, it's my life after all and I choose my path, but I still wanted his blessing. He knew how much I loved to write.

"Thank you Dad!" I jumped on his lap like a three year old girl and hugged him. "Thank you so much. I am really happy, can't wait for all of that to start." I said getting up from his lap.

He just chuckled. "Bella it's your life, I can't tell you now, what and what not to do. You are a grown up woman, those are your decisions to make." He smiled.

"I know that dad. It's just, that I was worried about you. I mean, we've lived together ever since I was born and….the only time I left you was when I left for college. I feel sad about leaving you. You'll be okay here, by yourself?" I asked

"I'll be fine. Don't worry about me. Now, tell me when do you need to go and where are you two going to stay there? You know anyone in Seattle?" he eyed me curiously.

"Angela and Ben are there, but I won't be living with them. Mr. Whitlock said that company will buy an apartment for us to stay and when I get enough money to buy one on my own, I'll give them that apartment back. Plus, they want to pay for kindergarten for Amy. I said no, but he insisted. That man is so confident in me. It's kind of weird." I said chuckling.

"What do you mean weird?" Charlie's brows furrowed.

"Well…you remember Mr. Cullen from my college?" I asked taking a sip of coffee.

"Yes, I do. Good man, I remember when he told me that he saw you as his daughter even then. You were really lucky Bells." He nodded.

"Yeah I was. Well…I guess I still am. Mr. Whitlock told me that he and Edward, who is Mr. Cullen's son, are best friends and that Mr. Cullen himself recommended me to him, before I even sent my CV. So, when Mr. Whitlock found my CV on his desk, he called me. Not right away, he was busy with work, but he called me anyway. It looks like Mr. Cullen is saving my life again." I whispered.

"That's….that's good Bells. I told you that I liked that man, so if he was standing behind all of that, then good. Go for it kiddo, you'll be alright. Now…you might want to call that Mr. Whitlock and tell him that there is no reason for his company to buy you a place to stay. You'll take care of that yourself." He said getting up and went to one of the drawers and handed me a paper.

I looked at the paper and then at Charlie. I didn't understand a thing.

"I've been saving some money, ever since you were born. Every time I would get a pay, I would set aside something for you. I did that for the last twenty eight years. Also, I started that when Amy was born. It's for….for the black days. You know when you…," he cleared his throat, "it's for days like this Bells. There is a lot of money there, enough for you to buy a decent apartment for you and Amy. I don't want you to depend on anyone. I want you to stand on you own two feet. So…"

I hugged him again and kissed him. God, I can't believe what I father I have. I don't deserve this. I was supposed to be standing on my own two feet and I failed in that. I made myself promise that I'll try and be a better person. I'll work on myself and Amy. I'll do my job, be the best in it and make sure to afford the best life for Amy.

I thanked Charlie again and told him that he was the best father in the world. I called Jasper after and told him about changing plans and he agreed but still insisted on paying kindergarten for Amy.

My life went in all different directions and I made a lot of mistakes in my life when I was young. Definitely getting married in eighteen was the biggest of them all, but I'll never regret having my baby. She was everything to me. I got rid of everything bad in my life, got a divorce from Jacob and I'm ready to start living again. In Seattle I'll start from scratch.

This is just the beginning, Bella is about to have a huge change in her life. She and Edward will meet in next chapter. I really hope you liked it.

Tell me what you think! I'll see you all next week.

XXX