A/N: Here's the second chapter, hope you liked the first. This one gives more interaction between characters and introduces the 'dog'. Yes I said it *smirks Damon Salvatore style*. Not a Jake fan but I did like him in NM. Hope you like it. - E.C.

Chapter Two: What's a Girl to Do?

"Isabella Swan what have you been eating? There is no food whatsoever in this kitchen asides from cereal and milk. And I'd let you get away with it if it were some of those yummy cereals you know like frosted flakes or lucky charms . . . " I started laughing kid cereals were her kinda cereals, they were loaded with sugar. "You trying to pimp your uncle lucky out now Alice?" she shot me a dirty look and stuck her tongue out but laughed. "I haven't been here much Allie, remember?" she started going through my drawer full of take out menus. An hour later we were watching a season of Grey's Anatomy on the couch.

"You know I see Edward out there every day and he always has that notebook writing random things in there. Some people are real jerks with him and he's always so polite. They think they're better than him just because they have money and a roof over heir heads unlike him." I looked at her confused no understanding what she meant. "He's homeless Bella." I shook my head. "But he doesn't look it." She turned her body to face me. "I stayed with him for a while after you left and talked to him for a bit. He has no memory of anything he doesn't know anything about himself other than his name being Edward and that's because they found his iPod on him and it had his name engraved on the back, he showed me it. I told him I'd have lunch with him from now on." that was an Alice thing to do no matter where she went or what she did she somehow always made a friend. Once she went home I went to bed knowing I had to wake up early tomorrow if I wanted to get to a meeting I had scheduled on time, it always took me a while to get out of bed.

"Bella." the one voice I wish I never had to hear again was calling my name and it wasn't like I could fire him either he was my dads best friends son and the one guy I hoped would fall off the face of the earth. Jacob Black. We dated for years while we were both over seas at school we met at orientation even if our dads were friends and a month later we were dating. Just before we left for Spain for the holidays back in December I walked into his apartment only to find him with his secretary. I might not be able to fire him but the next morning Lauren Mallory couldn't get into the parking lot much less the building. I smiled at the memory; Jacob knew that the two things I can't stand are liars and cheaters.

"What do you want Jacob? I just got out of a meeting and I don't want to have to deal with you if it's unnecessary." I kept walking saying all of it over my shoulder I just wanted to get to my office and finish something up so that I wouldn't have much to do. "I was looking over this that the company is donating and was wondering if the amount on the check is right, it's a lot of money."

I reached my door opening it and walking inside letting it almost hit him on the face before he caught it and walked inside. I set my things down on my desk and held out my hand waiting for him to place the check in it I knew what check he was talking about I just wanted to make a point. "Is my signature on this Jacob?" I said this without looking at him. "Yeah." I always signed everything myself no stamp no nothing just my hand and a pen. "Well then if I signed it the amount is right. Anything you get with my signature is right and you know that. You're going to find another two big ones so don't get scared and come up here, because I don't want to see you." I went behind my desk and started putting my things away and when I turned around Jacob was sitting on my desk and had pulled me to stand between his legs.

"Dammit Jacob let me go and get the hell out of my office!" he simply held me tighter. "You can't still be mad about what happened baby? Really? She meant nothing to me, it won't happen again. Just stop being mad so this break of ours can finally be over, the holidays without you were hell." I was a firm believer that if they did it once they're capable of doing it again and I didn't want to live with that seed of doubt in the back of my thoughts. "Jacob we are done, over, se acabo. There never will be an us again so please let me the fuck go and get out of my office before I have you forcefully removed." he still made no move to let go of me. "Baby you're mad you don't know what you're saying." idiot doesn't take a hint. "Black you better let go of my sister before you don't have any hands to play with yourself. Bella doesn't fire you as a favor to our fathers but trust me Charlie will have no problem getting rid of your ass if I told him the exactly what happened and what you're doing now." Jacobs face immediately blanched and he let go and stepped away very quickly and walked out the door in less than thirty seconds.

"Bella you're way too nice I would've fired his ass while his pants were still around his ankles." he started laughing and then abruptly stopped and his face looked like he had just seen something that he never wanted to been witness to. I nodded my head in question. He shook his head in disgust "it's just you're so small compared to him weren't you afraid he'd break you? You know what don't answer that I don't want to know." it was my turn to laugh I often wondered the same to but in the end I would never know I never went that far with Jacob it just never felt right. But Emmett was right while he was six foot four Jacob was six foot five and was built more so than Emmett. He was never my type, which led me to accept the idea I'd had that it was more because of convenience than anything else. "Sorry to bug Bella but I've got your new iPhone for you." Angela was my assistant and friend she was shy and quiet, my dad had assigned her to me when I graduated and she was like a second daughter to him. "Angie! Has Ben gotten to you yet? I heard him mention something about taking you out on a date and asking you to be his date for the pink tie event." Ben was the tech guy and Angela had a thing for him and since Emmett found out he hadn't let her live it down. "Really Emmett?" I gave him a look that clearly said shut the hell up. "Ignore him Ang." she nodded. "I'll see you later Bella." I ripped into the iPhone box and began messing with it immediately, Emmett huffed. I ignored him he had something against iPhones if it wasn't a black berry it was no good in his eyes that and the fact that he disliked anything Apple claiming that they made everything was so complicated the only apple product he owned was an itouch. Emmett left not long after to go to the gym.

Come over to the store, lunchtime. - A.B.

Apparently the little mob boss wasn't getting me today. I got my coat and my bag and my iPhone and headed down to my car. It took me less than five minutes to get to Alice and I walked in and upstairs. Her store was cute it was a loft the upstairs was her office while the downstairs was the boutique. When I reached the top step I wanted to laugh there was Edward clad in a pink fluffy bathrobe and a pink towel on his head. When he saw me he smiled and waved and his cheeks tinted a light pink. I wanted to laugh but that would've been mean so I settled for a wave and a smile when Alice flew up the stairs carrying a bag and handed it to Edward ad pushed him back into the bathroom.

"I wanted to give him a haircut but thought that would be too much you know? Plus it's pretty." she was right his hair was pretty it was a medium brown with some blonde mixed in. He cane out five minutes later in some jeans and a long-sleeved black t-shirt. "Thanks Alice." his body posture and soft voice reminded me of a child's as he thanked her kind of like when I would thank my parents for giving me something I had asked for. Yes Emmett and I had grown up with money but if there was anything our parents taught us it was to be humble and not look down upon anyone. Alice brought the food out and settled down. "Emmett says you were being mean earlier."

I huffed and swallowed the food I had in my mouth. "What? Emmett is a big baby, does he really need to come crying to you when I give him a mean look?" she just kept giving me the eye and Edward who had been quiet spoke up "Is Emmett your boyfriend?" his voice was soft as always. I shook my head when I looked at his eyes they had the same effect as they did the first time I saw them every thought kind of left my mind. "No, he's my brother." I pulled my Iphone out and pulled up a picture of Emmett and handed It to him. "That's my brother." It was a picture he had sent me of him in his uniform for the world cup he still looked like a little boy that picture looked just like the ones our parents would take of him when he was little in his team uniforms. "He looks a lot like you, you guys have the same hair and nose. Is he your younger or older brother?" this was the most I had ever heard him talk and I was happy he seemed curious it gave us something to talk about.

"He's older but only by like two minutes but I could swear I'm older than him sometimes." he chuckled at that. "Where does he play?" Alice had left at some point because when I looked to her chair it was empty "He plays for Real Madrid in Spain, he's going to play for Spain in the world cup later on this year." he looked impressed from the little information I had given him and then I saw some sadness in his face. "I wonder if I have a brother or a sister I can't remember." that was when it really hit me. Edward was alone he had no one he had been living alone for who knows how long he had no where to call home.

There had to be someone out there who missed him whether it be a brother sister, parents or a girlfriend.

His attention the quickly went to the fact I had gotten a text making the screen light up. It was Emmett he had sent me a picture of him sitting in my chair with my mac book air sitting on his head while he stuck his tongue out at me. "Ugh and that is my cue to go otherwise he might just break that pretty piece of machinery." my electronics were like my children you didn't mess with them. "Mine doesn't turn on." he pulled out his itouch showing it to me. "Maybe I can charge it for you and I'll bring it back to you tomorrow?" he nodded letting me know it was ok. "You'd do that for me?"

A/N: Let me know what you think. :)