Yeah I love me too

Chapter 1

I walked into my office not paying much attention to my personal assistant Jessica as she prattled out my schedule for the day. Most of it was not necessary like meeting with my new interns, and meeting with a new client. I turned towards her and told her to clear all the unnecessary things and turn them over to my second-in-command (i.e. my apprentice) Lisa Mc Neil.

As I leaned back in my chair and took in my shorter schedule I ran over the events that were sure to occur this week. It was Friendship weekend again and I was hosting I had already consulted my assistant and told her to keep my schedule relatively clear all week.

As I was thinking this through when my door flew open and with it my best friend in the universe blew in followed by my terrified new secretary who had obviously never met Mel before and been on the receiving end of my renowned temper attacks. She stammered apologies to me about her inability to keep Mel out but I simply shook my head and smiled, I got up and hugged my terrified secretary and said "I'm so sorry you have reason to be terrified of me and my short temper on your third day of the job but never mind about this crazy person she, is my Best Friend Alice Brandon, you will see her a lot" she sighed gratefully and stepped out and closed the door behind her. As I turned around Ali hit me on my head and said "why do you terrify your newbies like that could cause a turn of loyalties later on. " I laughed at her and informed her that was only their first impression, after a week they understood me. We then sat down talked business, seeing as I was her restaurant's lawyer; then started to talk about friendship weekend.

She left soon after and I walked around the office checking out the cases we had been working on. As I was doing this I walked into the intern's orientation they all ignored me thinking I was another one of them. But Jessica who was their mentor for the first week froze mid sentence and introduced me to the interns. All of them froze and turned pale, it was hilarious.

I spent the rest of the week working on some projects and trying my hardest to freak out my interns. On Tuesday as they were walking through the hallway I walked up to one and glared at him and asked him what the hell he was doing. He started to shake and responded saying he was my future partner confidently even though it was obvious he was shaking in his shoes. I laughed and said he better work hard for that position. The next day I freaked out a little blonde while she tried to inconspicuously to call her boyfriend while she was supposed to be making my coffee. She screamed as I walked in and saw her on the phone, that one probably entertained me more than mister "I'm your future partner". On Thursday I decided to sit in on one of the interns' client meeting, the guy was sweating like a pig when he saw me but he made it through the meeting quite well, I'd definitely have to give him a job later on.

On Friday most of the interns knew I was playing tricks on them and were starting to play them back on me, one "passed out" on me and completely freaked me out when I jumped out at her from behind a column while I fretted over her for at least a good ten minutes I realized there was a lot of laughing in the background, I turned around and I saw about ten of them cracking up at me. I then in turn played a prank on them saying they were fired they all gasped and looked terrified, I started to laugh too and they realized I had gotten my revenge.

A lot of the interns were most capable and intelligent but some of them were stuck-up brats whose parents bought their way through college and expected to automatically get a job without working. They were fired on the spot much to the anger of their parents and the joy of their peers and mentors.

I was returning from lunch at my favourite restaurant "Guilty Delights" (i.e. Mel's Restaurant) when Cathy rushed at me saying that there was a very important client that could not be seen by anyone but me, she started to prep me about the meeting. I was with her completely until she spoke the name of my client 'Edward Cullen' as she said the name I was transported back twelve years when I had finally plucked up the courage to tell Edward I was in love with him. I primed myself to perfection and arrived at the movies fashionably late with my friends at my side i walked up the steps and towards him confidently, we chatted for a while with our friends until we went inside, we sat side by side and as the movie began I slowly leaned into his side and he put his arm around me. I was so happy when the movie finally came to the love scene I looked up at him and said quietly "Edward I love you" he smiled and looked down at me and said "I love ..."my heart trilled as he started his sentence but broke at the last part as he said"…me too". It destroyed my self esteem for at least a year. I didn't talk to Edward at all after that. I blocked all his calls and then after college moved to California with Ali and began a new, much better life where he did not matter.

At this Jessica snapped me out of my reverie by shaking her hand in front of my face. She said he would be arriving in half an hour and there was enough time to prepare for my meeting. At this I strode into my office and went straight to my bathroom. I redid all my make-up, brushed my teeth and checked for any accidents on my person. When I was sure I was ready physically I began to prepare myself mentally for the whole half an hour till he came I repeated a mantra "You are Isabella Swan and you are the manager of Swan and Apprentices he can not scare you" as I cleared my desk and prepared for my meeting. I was in the middle of this mantra when my secretary opened my door and in walked Mr Edward Cullen looking even better than when I had last seen him twelve years ago. He egotistically smacked her buttock as he walked in; she gasped then glared at his back. It warmed my heart that someone could look at him like that while I was not allowed to.

He looked amazing however, 6 feet tall tanned and muscular. He looked at me with wide eyes as he realised who I was. I looked back at him coolly as if I did not have a clue who he was.

He said "Good afternoon Miss Swan I came to ask for your assistance in a trial knowing that you are the best in the city. a young woman has sued me for molesting her which I did not do." He said this last part most violently. His hand curled into a fist and his impressive biceps puckered. I said quietly, "Mr. Cullen you are going to have to be perfectly honest with me on this case and inform me on what exactly happened with miss,…" I trailed of uncertainly because he had not informed me of her name. He said quite heatedly that her name was "Miss Denali "I raised my eyebrows in surprise and started to question him on his involvement with her, previous to the case and other relative questions.

As our meeting wound to a close he began to lean closer. As I asked him my last question and closed my folder with the large booklet of notes on the case, he asked quietly if I remembered him. As he said this I looked at him over my reading glasses,(Ali always said i looked freaking hot when i did that to guys)saying "From where?" I said this all innocently as I looked at him with wide eyes.

He shook his head in response said never mind and got up to leave.