"So, what do you think I should do?" I asked her.

"Well honestly Bells, what do you have to lose?" She asked me.

"My apartment."

"Oh please! I bet prisons cells are bigger than that place. I will say this though; I think you need to play twenty questions with him. Ya know, like: 'have you ever killed anyone?' or 'do you like little boy or little girls?'"

"Alice?" I yelled at her.

"What, Bella? I'm serious! You just can't up and move in with some random guy without knowing anything about him."

"You're right. I'll talk to him tonight; he's coming by the restaurant tonight."

"What time?"

"I don't know, he was there last night around seven," I told her wondering why she was asking such an odd question.

"K, I'll be there. Bye," she said and then hung up the phone before I could tell her not to come.

She liked to give her two cents in any situation that involved myself and a guy. When I got off the phone with her, I called my landlord and told him that I would be out by the end of the week; I was going to do it. I didn't think that Edward was a bad guy. I didn't get any weird feelings when I was around him, but I would definitely be playing twenty questions with him tonight; I wanted to get to know him, maybe in more ways than one.

My day went by quickly, I started to pack up my things and clean the apartment, getting ready for the move. I really didn't have that much stuff, and the most of the cleaning that needed to be done was dusting. We could probably get everything in one load if we packed the truck right. It was a slow night, but that was normal for a Tuesday. Edward showed up at about seven and he sat in the same seat that he had the day before.

"So, what can I get for you?" I asked him with a smile.

"I'll have a coke and then I think I'm going to have the turkey melt with fries," he said all in one breath. Then he winked at me, which made me giggle. I went to go give the cook his order, poured his coke, and then brought it to him with a smile on my face.

"So did you think about it?" He asked before I could say a word.

"Yes I did. I just have a few questions for you first, if that is okay?"

"Okay, shoot," he said as he took a sip of his drink.

"Have you ever killed anybody?"

"No," he said with a chuckle.

"Have you ever been arrested?"

"When I was fourteen, I stole beer form a gas station."

That made me laugh. "Are you a child molester?" I asked.

"No, I lock them up," he said in a very smug and confident voice.

"Do you have a girlfriend or wife or anything along those lines?"

"No. Women don't put up with me for too long because I work a lot. How about you?" He snuck that in there easily. God, you could tell that he was a lawyer.

"No, I don't date or do anything along those lines," I said embarrassed.

"Why?" He asked.

"It's a long story. Maybe if I get to know you better I will tell you."

"Okay, fair enough. So, what do you say roomie?"

"Why not. What do I have to lose?" Only my life if he ended up being a serial killer. I walked away from him before he could respond. His food was ready anyway. I brought him his dinner and he thanked me before he began to dig in.

I went about my way and cleaned off some tables, stopping to talk with a couple of regulars. When I turned around, I was absolutely horrified. Alice was sitting there talking with Edward, so I quickly walked to where they were sitting.

" Another coke?" I asked him not making eye contact with Alice.

"Yes, thank you," he said smiling. I quickly refilled his cup and brought it back to him before turning to Alice.

"Can I get you something?"

"Yeah, I would like a Sprite and a piece of the peanut butter pie."

"Edward, this is my friend Alice. Alice, this is Edward."

"Don't worry about it Bells, I already took care of that," Alice said to me with a teasing laugh.

"She is going to help us move you in tomorrow," Edward told me.

"Yeah? I wouldn't have it any other way," I said as we all laughed. The three of us shot the shit for a couple of hours. I think that made Alice feel better about me moving into the same house with him.

The next morning, I heard someone knocking at my door at seven. I hadn't slept very well, so I was tired and I didn't want to get up yet. Next thing I knew, my cell phone was ringing. I rolled over to look at the phone and was that it was Alice, so I got up and went to the door.

"It's about time, what were you doing?" She was way too perky in the morning; that drove me crazy.

"I was sleeping," I told her in a grumpy tone. She pretty much ignored my statement and went into the kitchen to get a soda.

"So, Jasper called and we are going out again this weekend," she told me all excited. She made me laugh, because she'd been seeing Jasper for almost a year, and she still got excited every time he called and made plans or vice a versa.

"Yeah, you guys do something every weekend."

"Yeah, I know, it's just that I'm waiting for him to stop calling me like all the other ones did," she said. Alice has never had any luck with the guys. She would date them for a while and she would think that everything was going great and then, BAM; they would just stop calling, and she wouldn't hear from them again. I felt bad for her, but Jasper was here to stay, I was sure of it.

It was a mild day in February, so we sat outside to talk while we smoked a couple of cigarettes. Edward was going to be at my place at eight thirty, so I decide to get dressed. We spent most of the morning moving my things, but I had to leave for a while to go open the restaurant. I just didn't feel like staying there. I went back to the house and it was full of stuff that I knew wasn't all mine.

"What is all of this?" I asked Edward feeling a little overwhelmed.

"That's just stuff that I'm taking to the Salvation Army." I just nodded and went to my room. Alice unpacked a lot of things, but she didn't put any it away; she knew that I would just move it anyway. As I started putting things away, my door opened and Alice walked in.

"Hey, whatcha you doin'?" She asked with that perky smile.

"Nothing, just putting things away. Where were you?"

"Out back talking to Jasper. So, are you going to try to hook up with Edward?"

"No…maybe...I don't know. We'll see how things go." We both laughed at my response. "He is so hot, he has a job, a really good job I might add, and he is totally sweet. He would be good for me."

"Yeah, that's what I thought. I knew you were thinking about it," she said in a teasing tone. We were quiet for a while and we both jumped when my phone rang.

"Jesus, Alice, jump much? Hello?" I said with a giggle.

"Hey, it's Edward," he said as I rolled my eyes because I knew it was him.

"Yeah, I know. What's up?"

"I'm kind of hungry and I was wondering if you, Alice and her boyfriend want to get some pizza for dinner?"

"Umm, hang on a sec okay?" I turned to Alice and asked if she and Jasper would like to hang out and I already knew her answer. Of course she wanted to, because that was the kind of thing that 'couples' did. "Yeah, they'll be here."

"What kind of pizza do you like?"

"Anything but veggies."

"Okay, I think I can handle that," he said as he hung up the phone.

Edward arrived at the house with the pizza. We had a really good time. We ate, talked, laughed, and played cards. I had the best time I'd had in a in really long time. It was something that I desperately needed, and it got my mind off of everything that was going on. I was starting to like Edward, too. He was beyond sweet. Even if nothing happened between the two of us, I knew I had a friend for life.

Here is chapter two and chapter 3 will maybe post tomorrow. Tonight I am going to see Bruno Mars, ssoooo who knows how I will feel tomorrow!

Thanks to my girls for all the help!