Chapter one

Bella Pov

I woke up this morning with the feeling I was in another time. Today was New Year's Eve. Time went by so fast for me; it almost felt like a blur. To me, thinking that I had or wasted my time doing insignificant activities, or on things so great that time didn't make its adjustment for me to enjoy more. It was a beautiful New York City day. The snow was falling lightly as I watched snowflakes fall on the window, and people were scampering doing their final shopping for New Year's Eve treats for their parties. Today was the day that millions of people, at the strike of twelve, have a new chance of following their dreams. Where they had a second opportunity to fix or change their ways of living. For me, it was a new year to have new experience's and adventures.

Now, being twenty-two, I had everything I wanted. The job of my dreams being a prestigious photographer; a great family who supports me; a boyfriend that loves me unconditionally, and my twin sister Natalie.

Even though we're twins, we were our own person, physically and mentally. She had sapphire blue eyes, golden red color hair, and she was a supermodel working for top fashions designers all over the world. I decided to be behind the scenes, working with the technical part.

I had light gray eyes and dark brown color hair. Natalie has a very strong personality, and if you mess with her, she will tell you how it is without thinking about it, or doubting herself otherwise. On the other hand, I was a low key pacific person that doesn't like to get into drama. In that case, being that we were so different, we would get into arguments a lot, but we were still sisters, and we were always there for each other.

Tonight, I was going to see her for the first time since she left to travel all around the world for a three month tour. Doing her job, the new spokeswoman for Covergirl, and she was attending the Masquerade Ball that Edwards best friend Alex, aka "party boy", who is the owner of a huge chain of high class restaurant's including AQUA, BESO etc…) was throwing. His New Year's Eve parties are always the best party in the city. There always theme oriented. He has done from 80's theme, to last years all white party, where he invited 600 guests. Now, he was having the Masquerade Ball that was going to be held at the Ritz Carlton.

I bet this year he's going to beat he's own record, and invite even more people. The dress code for the party was formal, but sassy. Literally, this was so typical of him since he is kind of a playboy that loves his women. Now, he was all about his new girlfriend Heather (who is PR for ONIX which was an organizational event planner and publicity company), I've met her, she is a very sweet girl, but she's very direct with Alex, and she has told him that she wasn't going to be put up with his crap for nothing. I think, for him, it was sort of a turn on. Four months ago, I went with her and my sister to London to see if Natalie's friend, Sarah Goldman, the head designer of Alexander McQueen, if she could make us the dresses for the ball. Of course, she said yes, so my sister was going to pick up the dresses. She was coming to Edward's and my penthouse that we had in the Upper East Side of New York, to get ready together since I told Edward to get ready at Alex's. I wanted to give him a surprise.

Now, Edward was about to come home from a trip he made to Russia to close a business deal. (He works as the current CEO of Mason Enterprises)I had missed him so much since he had been gone for about a week. When I had the enthusiasm for Edward's arrival, I lifted myself off of the bed and put my kimono on, to hide the welcome home present to Edward that I bought with Alice. It was a ?. Suddenly, I heard the door knob, and I immediately ran to the living room and saw him

"Hi love."

"Edwarddd!" I said excitedly and ran toward him and hugged him as he lifted off the floor and kissed me sweetly. Edward was a fairly large man towering me at 6'4 in comparison to my petite 5'6, and he had a nice toned body since he goes to the gym 3 times a week.

"I missed you," he mumbled into my lips.

"Me too." We kept kissing for many minutes, until I realized that the elevator was still open, and there was a decorated moving box. At first I was kind of scared, so I stopped to ask him about the box.

"Edward?"

"Yes?"

"What is moving inside that box?" I pointed my index finger toward the box.

"Oh, I totally forgot. Okay, stay here."

"Okay." He ran to the elevator before it closed, and picked up the box. He came back into the condo, and set the box on the table.

"What is that?"

"I know Christmas has already passed, but I couldn't pass this up. Consider it as a New Year's Eve, Kuaza or Januca holiday present. I don't know, but this, my love, is a gift from me to you," he said with a sweet smile on his face.

"You're crazy Edward," I said with a laugh.

How could he possibly give me more presents? A BMW and a diamond bracelet on Christmas day. I started to look at the box, and Edward who looked more excited than I was. I took the lid in between my hands and looked inside. When I did, my face turned into total shock and surprise. It was...A PUPPY! An adorable puppy that what looked like a golden retriever.

I was going to kill Edward; how could he get a dog without even consulting me about it? I knew that for months he had been bothering me about getting a dog. I would relegate to him, because the matter of the fact is that we didn't have time to be caring for a puppy right now. I loved dogs and this puppy was so cute. He had light blond fur that looked so soft and touchable. He had beautiful dark brown eyes, a button nose, and a to top it off, a red bow around his neck that said, 'Hi! I'm Max and I hope you're going to love me as much as I already love you. PS: please don't get mad at Edward he loves you very much'. I almost laughed, but I was too pissed to be laughing at him right now. I had to be firm with him. I needed to talk to him very seriously about it, and tell him the truth as soon as I gave him the WERE NOT KEEPING IT LOOK. He got very protective, and took the puppy away from my hands and caressed his head as he started talking.

"No, I know that look. No, no, and no, were keeping him Bella," he said with a determined tone of voice.

"We can't him Edward, he's very cute and I love the gesture, but we just can't take care of a puppy right now."

"But, I can take time off from work and take care of him," he said while holding the puppy that was excitedly playing with his other hand tying to bite a piece of it off.

"Babe, I know you already love him and he's very cute and all, but when are you going to take time out of work? You have a meeting almost every day. I have photo shoot's booked for the next two weeks after New Year's Eve. We just can't have him. He needs someone who can be with him, play with him, take him out to the park, and just spend time with him," I said in my most loving voice, so he would understand.

"But love, look at this face." He lifts the puppy up to show his face that was the most adorable face in the world. His little eyes that were so happy to see me since he was snatched from being so entertained with Edwards fingers. He started to jolt in happiness trying to get to me. "See, he even knows who his mommy is".

"Edward," I said unsure.

"Anyway, I can't take him back since it was a gift from a friend to me and from me to you. C'mon say yes, PLEASEEEEE?" Showing his and the puppy's pouty face.

"I give up, we can keep the dog," I said giving up.

"YESSS! You hear that Max? You're staying, see I told you I always win" he said kissing the puppies head.

When I heard that I gave him an, 'I beg your pardon', look in which he resolved fast.

"But, your mommy is the boss of the house, so be careful at what you do or bark at her," he said as i laughed.

"With that, he is right," I told the puppy.

"HEY, why don't I put you down so you can see the house? As soon as he put Max on the ground, he ran as fast as his legs could take him. We laughed as he scooted off to his activities.

Edward than came to me and hugged me saying 'thank you', and 'I love you'.

"You are so very welcome, I said kissing him.

Okay, well, I'm going to take a shower. I feel dirty right now.

"ARE YOU SURE?"

"Yeah babe."

"Well, that's too bad, because I have to share this…" As I said that in my sensual voice, I opened my kimono to reveal my very sexy new lingerie that I knew wasn't going to last a long time.

Just like that, I was being lifted off my feet and charged to the bedroom before I could even say anything else.

In that lapse of time I thought to myself that, 'NOTHING COULD GO WRONG'.

After we "reconnected", I had to wake up, because we needed to get ready for the party. I looked quickly at the clock that was flashing 2:00 pm with a sophisticated silver color, until I realized that my sister's flight was supposed to land at 2:30. This meant that I was already late. It would take me a half an hour to reach JFK Airport.

"Shit," I curse softly. I tried to not wake Edward up, but of course, when I started to try to get up, I was tightly wrapped in Edward arms that didn't smooth the grip at all.

"Edward I have to get up," I said anxiously.

"No, five more minutes please."

"Babe, I forgot I have to pick up Natalie from the airport."

That's when he sat up on the bed and said, "Can't she just take a cab or walk home herself?"

"Ha-ha, very funny. She's my sister, and I'm going to pick her up. Anyway, I have to take her to her new apartment."

"Where is her apartment?" He wondered.

"Soho."

"Oh, thank god." I looked at him meanly. "Oh, c'mon babe, I don't like your sister, and she doesn't like me. Let's face it; she's a mean and superficial."

"She's kind of mean, but c'mon, she has a very short temper and really cares about her looks;she's a model."

"Kind of?" Your sister is like that cheer captain in high school that everybody hates, but doesn't say anything, because their afraid of her. She's manipulative and cruel, and if you do say something to her, she'll make you disappear," he said with expressive magic hands.

"Don't be dramatic. Just because my sister was cheer captain doesn't mean she's like that. If you really take the time and know her, she's very generous and kind. When you do get to know her, I bet you guys will be really good friends. Now, if you could excuse me I have to get ready and pick up my sweet sister."

I left Edward to go to our bathroom to bathe, but I could hear him doing gagging voices. After I bathed, I fixed myself putting a pair of true religion jeans, a banana republic shirt, a cotton coat, some boots, and a Balenciaga purse to top off the look. I gave a kiss to Edward and left. As I got into my black BMW M3 Sedan, I started to get more anxious to see my sister. Even she could be hard to deal with at times, I missed her and wanted to know how her trip went.

When I got to the airport I went rushing to the International Arrivals department, because people were already coming out excitedly and joyful seeing their families again or just here as a tourist getting to know the Big Apple. There was a cute three year old boy that was trying to lift a sign with his short arms that said, "I missed you daddy". Seeing that made me want to melt and start having babies with Edward, even though we've been dating only three years, but we're still very young. I knew that I wanted to be with him in the future, maybe get married and have babies, but my daydream of babies and marriage proposal had to wait. When I heard a loud scream that was calling my name, Bella! Bella! I looked toward the screaming, and I saw Natalie. As always she wasn't here to disappoint she came here with style. She had her Louis Vuitton luggage that a man was rolling, Chanel bag, Chanel purse, and a pink Victoria Secret tracksuit. She came up and hugged me.

"I missed you sissy," she said hugging me.

"I missed you too, how was your flight?"

"Ugh, don't make me start. First of all, the flight was long. I decided to wear this, if I'm going to sleep I might as well go to sleep with style. First class was crap they didn't let me use my cellphone," she whined.

"I think they do that for your safety, Nat," I said laughing.

"Safety my ass, safety from getting hit by the cellphone," she said looking for messages and missed calls in her pink colored and designed bedazzled BlackBerry 3 9780

"Okay, let's g..." I started to say when I was interrupted by another complainant from my sister.

"Anddd, they didn't have champagne can you believe that?"

"Those bastards," I said jokingly.

"I know right, I should sue them. You know how I get nervous when flying; they should have decent liquor at least. That wasn't good service."

"Why don't we go and leave that traumatic experience behind."

"You're right," she said with a sigh.

"Plus, you can tell me about your trip at your NEW APARTMENT," I said excitedly while we got to the car.

"Oh yesss, you have to see it. Everything was decorated and chosen by moa with the amazing help of my interior designer, Kari something, I forgot her last name."

"Wow, sounds very elegant," I said when I opened the car and Natalie stopped when she saw the car.

"Bella, where did this come from?" She asked surprised.

"Edward gave it to me for Christmas."

"Oh, how is it going with Edward? I can't wait to see him, even if we did have our rough times. I hope we can start again?"

"It's going great. I love him so much, and I think Edward will be happy to see you too, and would like to start over again too," I said knowing that the happy part was full of crap. I ignored it as we drove off from the airport.