"Hi. Welcome to Elizabeth's how many?"

"Two." The man said with his arm wrapped around a rather curvy individual with an equally low red dress.

"Alright follow me." Bella grabbed two menus leading the house to small round table with a candle in the center. "Here are your menus. I hope you guys have a great meal." Bella said before returning to her post at the front of the restaurant.

It had been a month since she left Mike and hadn't seen him in almost two weeks. The last time she had seen him he had shown up at the house yelling how he knew that Bella had quit her job and demanded to know where she was now working.

Thankfully Rose was with her at that time, she had called the cops and had him arrested. For whatever reason it was Bella had asked Rose not to go crazy and press a lot of different charges. When Bella thought about it she had come to the conclusion that she didn't love Mike but she did pity him and if she kept that up it was going to be her downfall…

"Bella it's your turn to go on break." Alice walked up quietly telling her friend.

"Thanks Alice. The 6pm reservation hasn't shown up yet but they called saying they're going to be a little late."

"Kay thanks, Bella, I got it from here see you in a bit." Alice ushered her friend to the back room.

Plopping herself of the couch Bella looked to see Emmett wandering around the back room. "Aren't you supposed to be in the front or at the bar?" Bella said with one eyebrow raised.

"Yea…but you were in the front it's practically dead out there. No one wants to go out and eat on a Wednesday." He said with a shrug

"Guess you have a point." She shrugged grabbing an apple out of her bag taking a bite. "So who owns this place anyways? It's like we're Charlie's angels and you're our Bosley." Bella said with a chuckle.

"He's not really into being a manager right now. I think he inherited the place and didn't have the heart to get rid of it. Since Rose has been able to do such a good job managing the place he doesn't really need to be around much." Emmett smiled when he said Rose's name. It was painfully obvious at times how much this man liked Rose.

"Yea Rose is one great person, huh?" Bella smiled devilishly as she baited Emmett.

"Yea she's great." Emmett said sounding distant. It was pretty obvious he had left the conversation.

"Alright well I'll be going back I'll leave you to day dream about Rose." Bella threw her apple core into the garbage.

"What? I-I don't know what you're talking about! I'm not dreaming about Rose!"

Bella could have sworn she saw Emmett blush but decided to leave him be for the time being.

"Hey Alice I'm back you can go now but I'll warn ya Emmett is in the back day dreaming about Rose." She said laughing

"Alright then I'll have Rose go on break before me." Alice gave Bella a wink before heading back into the kitchen.

It was obvious that Emmett liked Rose she wondered why he had not asked her out yet. Though it probably had to do with the fact that Rose was his boss and she took running the restaurant seriously, also she was really good about playing it cool for the most part. Now that she was thinking about it, it made more sense that Emmett would be nervous about asking Rose out.

"Ahem."

Bella looked up to see a pair of bright green eyes smiling at her. Being slightly taken aback by the unique bright color of his emerald color of his eyes she took in the rest of his appearance. He has dark slightly messy hair. He had on a burgundy dress shit that clashed nicely with his skin.

"Table for two under Edward." The green-eyed stranger said still smiling at her.

"Uhm, yes of course." Bella said grabbing two menus but dropping one. "Dammit." Bella cursed under her breath. Bella's shoulder hadn't really healed one hundred percent yet. She has at least two weeks before she was going to have most of her mobility back.

"I'll get it."

"No its ok I'll grab it." Bella said trying to reach down for the menu.

Before she could bend down to pick up the menu it was snatched up from the ground. Seeing his hand moving back up toward her so quickly Bella had a flash back to Mike and all the times he had hit her for dropping something. She couldn't help but flinch and step back knocking into a chair and falling backward on the ground.

"Here let me help you up." He held out his hand to Bella looking apologetic.

Bella nodded and smiled taking his hand into her own. She couldn't help but feel that here was electricity from just his one touch it sent sparks flying from her hand through the rest of her body.

He gave her an award winning smile that made her head sway. "It seemed like you needed a bit of help." He said motioning to the sling Bella still had her arm in.

"Thanks I appreciate it." Bella could feel the heat just radiating off her face.

"Don't worry about it." He said with his smile still plastered on his face giving the menu back to Bella. "I don't want you to get into trouble with your boss. You can give it back to me when I take a seat." He said with a wink.

Bella could feel the heat on her face intense if that was even possible. Turning away quickly Bella walked to a corner table for two nodding at Edward. "Here you go." She smiled and handed him his menu. "Do you know when your guest will be arriving?"

"She should be here soon." He said nodding taking her menu, his smile suddenly fading.

"Alright I'll let you know when she arrives." Bella could feel her own smile fall a little.

Making her way back to her spot at the front Bella smiled when she saw Rose standing in front staring her down. She shook her head she knew exactly why her friend was there.

"So who was that?" Rose interrogated her friend as soon as she arrived

"His name is Edward and he was waiting for someone." Bella added as if it would deter Rose from her on sought of questions.

"Doesn't matter it is soo obvious that you like him, Bella, I've never seen you so happy you're practically glowing!" Rose said excitement growing in her voice. "…though that's because you're so red." She nudged Bella teasingly.

"Calm down, Rose! It doesn't matter anyways like I said he is waiting for someone… a girl." She said putting emphasis on the last part.

Rose sighed and shook her head finally giving up. "Alright well you know what they say. There is many fish in the sea or something like that." She said reassuringly to Bella.

"Yea." Bella said with a nod of her head.

Sometimes she felt like Mike was right, she was worthless and she didn't belong to anyone or anywhere. That maybe if she goes back to Mike she might be able to get him out of jail and maybe…

No! That wasn't true she WAS worth something but sometimes she could find herself slipping back into her old thoughts. It was a constant struggle for her to tell herself that she was actually worth it and she would eventually find someone who thought the same about her. Trying to undo years of brainwashing was something really hard to do.

"Hello."

Bella looked up again for the second time tonight broken out of her thoughts by someone. "Welcome to Elizabeth's how may I help you?"

"Yes, hi. I'm expecting someone here tonight." The woman smiled.

Bella did a once over of the woman whoever she was she was quite a catch. She had curves in all the right places and a slinky black dress that seemed to hug her in all the right places. She looked like she was right out of a magazine anyone would be happy to have her at their table.

"That's him right there." The woman pointed out Edward. She breezed past Belle looking like a female lioness going after her prey.

Bella sighed and shook her head. She should have known that someone like her was going to be going out with a good looking guy like Edward. Looking back to the front Bella was able to see a tall blond-haired man enter. Bella smiled and wordlessly nodded at him. She knew exactly where she was going. He had been coming in since Saturday headed straight for the bar. Bella had no idea what his name was but she noticed at the same time whenever he arrived Alice was suddenly covering the bar. Bella smiled and shook her head as she saw Alice beaming to greet the handsome stranger.

The rest of the night was pretty slow. People filtered in and out of the restaurant but Edward was still there with the beautiful stranger diligently going over some paperwork.

"So are you going to tell me who got you looking all gaga?" Emmit snuck up behind Bella making her jump.

"I have no idea what you are talking about Emmit." Bella felt her face heating up just giving her away.

"Uh-huh…Bella I have watched you for the last half an hour all you've been doing is looking over at the dinning area." Emmit has his too smug all knowing look on his face.

"W-well… uhm…" Bella struggled with an answer for her friend. "It doesn't matter he's here with someone." Bella said hopping that would get him off her tail.

"So it is a him!" Emmit this time had a look of success on his face. "Mhmm… lets see if we can figure it out…Defiantly not grandpa and grandma over there." Emmit pointed out an elderly couple. "I don't think its uncle Joe over there that is making your swoon." Emmit said this time pointing out a man in his forties.

"Uncle Joe?" Bella looked at him with an eyebrow raised.

"I don't know he looks like an uncle Joe to me." Emmit said with a shrug. "But forget that lets keep looking."

"How about we don't and say we didn't?" Bella tried one last time to get him to leave her alone.

Ignoring her requests Emmit continued on. "What about Mr. Greeneyes over there?"

"No." Bella said just a little to fast

"That means a yes!" Emmit poked Bella's cheek. "Plus the blush is a dead give away."

"It's not him!" Bella said to the point of getting childish. She wasn't sure if this was going to help her case much.

"Alright you two break it up." Rose said clapping her hands. "Emmit it's time to close up can you head to the bar with Alice and make sure no one gives her a hard time?"

Emmit stood to attention like a solider with his hand at his brow. "Aye, Aye Captain." He said before Hitler marching to the bar.

"What do you need me to do?" Bella asked turning her attention to Rose.

"Nothing tonight. Alice gave me cash to pay for Chinese tonight. Everything is pretty much done just pick it up and meet us home?" Rose said handing over some cash for dinner.

"Sure sounds great." Bella said grabbing her keys. "I'll see you guys home soon." Bella said before turning around to take a look at the green-eyed beauty before she left. She wondered if she would ever see him again.