I was finally living on my own. I had finally decided to move out of the apartment I shared with my brother Emmett. I was in my last year Law school at Columbia and I needed to focus. It was hard to focus with Emmett anywhere near, and when you added his girlfriend, Rosalie, into the mix things just got worse. I knew Emmett would be moving to Baltimore soon but not soon enough. It was time to get out and get my own place. My phone started to ring in my pocket.

"Hello?" I answered.

"Hey Eddie!," my sister, the only one allowed to call me that, I should have known. Emmett tried to call me Eddie once, not only did he get a beating from me, but he incurred the wrath of my twin and trust me she is downright scary when she is pissed off. She gets really quiet and shoots lasers from her eyes and breaths fire. I am lucky that I am always on her good side; it pays to be a twin. "How's the new place?"

"Amazing actually, but too quiet!"

"I know what you mean! I loved living on my own." She was living in the Baltimore house for school when Dad accepted the position as Chief of the ER at Hopkins. Naturally mom and dad moved into the Baltimore house with Ali. That was seven years ago. "So, hey, I am going to be in town this weekend and I was wondering if you had some free time to catch up with your favorite twin sister?"

"Of course I have time for my sister just call when you get in!" I was thrilled at the prospect of seeing my twin! It had been far too long since the last time we had seen each other.

"Okay! I have to go…rounds! I will see you this weekend Eddie." My sister was a Resident in the ER at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. She was brilliant. She finished medical school when most people our age were finishing their undergraduate work. I was only a year and a half behind her in finishing grad school. I guess it pays to have a brilliant father who homeschooled us around his shifts at the hospital.

"Yeah, me too! Jasper and Emmett are forcing me into a blind date tonight." Was that a snort? She totally snorted at my situation.

"That's probably good thing! You do need to get laid! Just make sure it's not a hooker like last time."

"Hey I resent that, and the hooker thing wasn't my fault. Emmett is just stupid."

"Touche. Okay, love you! Don't do anything Emmett wouldn't do…"

"Is there anything he wouldn't do?" I don't think there was.

"Ummm… he wouldn't prance around in a tutu and no tights!" I laughed.

"No he wouldn't do that…"

"You're right he would put on the tights!" We were both in hysterics and I could hear dad on the other end of the phone asking Ali if she needed to be committed.

"Love you Ali" I laughed. We finished saying our goodbyes, and I glanced at my watch. I had agreed to meet Jasper and Emmett for dinner. They were setting me up on a blind date with a friend with one of their girlfriends. I got dressed, jumped into my Volvo, and headed to the restaurant. I saw the guys in the corner already joined by Alice and Rosalie and my 'date'…Bella? She was in the literature program at school. We worked in the library together. I have to admit, I have been trying to muster enough courage to ask her out for almost three months. Composure Edward…

"Hey everyone" I smiled walking up to the table.

"Hey Edward" Alice jumped from her chair and hugged me. She was Jasper's girlfriend and my little sister. "Edward this is B…"

"Bella" I interrupted, kissing the back of her hand.

"Hi Edward" she blushed. She was beautiful.

I hardly remember dinner that night. I was mesmerized by the goddess in front of me. We silently gazed at one another all night. I didn't want the night to end.

Bella was amazing. I couldn't be away from her. After only a few weeks I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her by my side. I called my dad and asked him about when he knew he loved mom.

"Hey Dad! I wanted to ask you something…"

"Sure Edward! What can I help you with?"

"When did you know you wanted to spend the rest of your life with mom?"

"The moment I laid eyes on her I knew she was the one! I proposed weeks later and she said yes. Why?" I dreaded that question. He would figure it out anyway.

"Well I met this girl and I can't describe it. It hurts to be away from her and when we are together I feel whole. I love her dad! I want to marry her, but I don't want to scare her."

"Talk to her about your feelings and gage your decision from there. If you propose, you'll know when the right time comes."

"Thanks dad."

"Anytime, goodbye Edward."
"Bye dad!"

The conversation with my dad had done wonders on my nerves. I talked to Bella and decided that I did in fact want to marry the amazing woman who I shared a bed with every night (NOT THAT WAY YOU PERVERTS!). There was one thing I needed help with, finding the perfect ring. I knew Alice and Rosalie would be willing to help, but I didn't think I could handle shopping with them. So I called my twin. The call consisted of a lot of screaming and laughing. She flew up days later to spend twenty minutes in Tiffany's with me before we found the perfect ring. She had planned to stay a day and meet Bella, but she was called back to her swamped ER at the Chief's orders—the downfall to working for your father.