Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight of any of it's characters although i do believe everyone wants to own a piece of Edward. Hm? am i correct.

Summary: She settled for him, knowing deep down it wasn't going to last. When it fell apart, could she convince herself even she deserved more? He had lived with heartbreak longer than he thought possible. Will he let her mend his broken heart? When Edward and Bella meet, things can only get better, or can they?

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Bella's point of view.

The throbbing in my head was not as terrible as it could have been, and I was thankful for the fact that I didn't drink that much. However, I was still angry at myself for allowing both Rosalie and Angela in convincing me that having a few drinks would be perfectly fine. Of course I listened to my best friends, them being my best friends and all, but clearly sometimes you'd be better off not to.

So I ended up having a few drinks, and gratefully did not make a fool of myself at the opening. Sometimes I had this problem when I drink; I would giggle a lot and sometimes didn't possess an off button when I started talking. So I had a few drinks and got a ride home from Angela and her boyfriend Ben. And everything was fine up until I got out of the car and started to walk toward my house, where I fell. I was helped up by two strong hands, two strong unknown hands. And was then brought face to face with a pair of stunning, green eyes.

Those green eyes belonged to a very beautiful man, but who actually refers to men as beautiful? Well, I guess I do, especially in this case. I knew I should have been freaking out since I clearly had no idea who he was and he was standing in the middle of my yard. But then it occurred to me when I saw the silver Volvo parked at the end of my property, the same one I had seen when I had left earlier that day. It was Nessie's teacher, the father of the little girl she was babysitting tonight along with my own little Jane.

"Thank you," I muttered, reaching down to wipe off my knee's as I steadied myself out.

"Welcome." He smiled this amazingly adorable sexy crooked smile. "You must be Nessie's sister? Mrs. Dunham? I'm Mr. Cullen."

"Uh Isabella—" I waved my hands in the air, "Yes but I'm divorced… I've been considering changing it back to Swan. M-my—my—" why could I not think of the word!

"Maiden name?" he chuckled.

"Yes! Yes! My maiden name!" I giggled and shoved him playfully in the chest, "Oh! Sorry… I had a little to drink tonight, my friend works at this art gallery and— you don't care… Uh you're here to pick up your little girl… Emma, right? Emma's a good name, Jane Austen named one of her character's Emma… I love Jane Austen, hence Jane's name." I started to giggle once again; I was making myself out to be a real idiot.

"Jane Austen was a very good writer," he chuckled sweetly, his grin still plastered on his face.

"Well let me get this door opened and you can get your little girl." I reached for the doorknob and fumbled with it for a few seconds until I got it open and stumbled in, only to be caught by Mr. Cullen's grasp once again.

"Easy there," he chuckled.

"Sorry! I'm no good on my feet, even when I haven't had anything to drink." I blushed and giggled like an idiot.

"Daddy!" Emma jumped down from the couch and ran over to Mr. Cullen, instantly jumping into his arms.

"Hey pumpkin, did you have fun with Nessie and her niece?"

Emma nodded furiously, "So much! Can Nessie babysit me again sometime?"

"I think that can be worked out. Thank you so much for watching her tonight. I hope I wasn't too late or anything, the meeting went longer then expected."

"It's fine Mr. Cullen. It was my pleasure. And if you need me to watch Emma again I would love to, she was so much fun." Nessie stood up and walked over toward us, Jane following quickly.

"Bye Emma! Remember our plan!"

"Bye Jane!" Emma waved at her. "And I won't. Bye Nessie!"

"Bye Nessie, Jane…" Mr. Cullen turned and looked at me as I stood there awkwardly, having a real urge to pee and sleep. "A pleasure to meet you Mrs. Dunham."

"You too Mr. Cullen." I shut the door behind them as they walked out and then turned on my heel toward my sister and Jane. Of course, in doing so I fell right into the floor.

"Oh that's going to hurt in the morning."

Nessie pulled me to my feet, rolling her eyes as she did so, "How much have you had to drink?"

"Just a little." I held up my fingers to show her my point, "Yeah a little… Don't look at me like that I am not drunk, just a little tipsy. That teacher of yours sure is cute…"

Jane turned her head and looked up at Nessie, "Is momma drunk?"

"I think she might be," she chuckled and I chose to shove her but ending up falling back against the door hitting my head.

"Ow!"

"Please tell me you did not drive home?"

"Nope, Angela dropped me off" I replied, popping the 'p'. "Well, I'm going to get some sleep. Nessie put Jane to bed for me? Kay, thanks!" I pulled off my shoes and wobbled up the stairs to my bedroom.

So here I was now at 8 am waiting for James since he would be coming by to pick Jane up at 9. If I didn't wake up now Jane would never get up. I pulled myself out of bed and clutched my head for a moment; it could be worse, it could be worse, I chanted to myself.

I sluggishly made my way to the bathroom, poured myself a glass of water and popped back a couple of aspirin, now I just had to wait for them to kick in. I headed down the hall to Jane's room and peaked in, she was fast asleep and I felt terrible that I had to wake her up. I headed over to her bed and shook her lightly.

"Sweetie you got to wake up."

Jane let out a yawn as she stretched her arms, "Morning mommy."

"Morning sunshine, daddy's going to be here in an hour so why don't you get up and get dressed? I'm going to head downstairs and make some breakfast, what do you feel like?"

"Umm… Waffles!" she gave me a winning smile. "With strawberries and whipped cream?"

"I think I can work something out, now get ready." I chuckled as I watched her jump out of bed and run over to her dresser in search of something to wear.

I made my way down to the kitchen and started to prepare some waffles, knowing there was no reason to try and wake up Nessie. She wasn't much of a morning person, but the smell of waffles could persuade her to get out of bed on her own.

Just as I was putting Jane's plate on the table she emerged into the kitchen wearing a pair of jeans and a long sleeve striped light purple and dark purple sweater. She had a hair tie in one hand and her brush in the other.

I grabbed the brush and hair tie out of her hand and began to brush her hair as she sat down and began to eat her waffles.

"Daddy said he's going to take me to the zoo tomorrow."

"The zoo? How exciting. You haven't been there in way over a year." I pulled her hair back out of her face and put the hair tie in. "Did you want a headband or anything?"

"No, I think I'm okay." She shoved a piece of the waffle into her mouth and started chewing.

I grabbed myself a waffle and took a seat at the table next to her.

"Sweetie, you have everything packed right? Daddy's taking you to school on Monday. So you got to remember your back pack!"

Jane nodded, "Are you picking me up from school?"

I shook my head as I began to cut up my waffle, "Daddy is going to, mommy is working an hour later at the office so I can get off early on Halloween."

"Does that mean you're taking me trick or treating?"

I nodded, "Yes, daddy and I thought it would be better to go around here since he lives in an apartment complex. But he's going to try and come out with us and did ask if you wanted to spend the night there or here…"

"Can I think about it?"

"Of course you can." I smiled and pushed a loose strand of hair out from in front of her eyes.

"Do I smell waffles?" Nessie called out as she entered the kitchen and went and grabbed herself a plate. She threw a waffle on, then lifted the plate to her nose to take a sniff.

"Ah heaven!" She pulled out the chair on the other side of Jane and plopped down.

"Are you actually awake before 11 on a Saturday?"

Nessie just shrugged her shoulders. "I guess so. I didn't want to spend the whole day sleeping, and I kind of wanted to know if you could take me to get my Halloween costume…"

"I can—" I stopped myself realizing I didn't have my car. "Crap, my car is still at the gallery, I'll see what Rose is up to today, she's usually always up for a shopping trip"

"That is true."

"Okay, so… wait, I thought you were taking Jane out with me on Halloween, why do you need a costume?"

"Well, see…" she began to play with her waffle. "That's the thing; there's this party but it doesn't start till 10 and we'd be way done with trick or treating by then so I figured that—"

"10? As in 10 pm?"

"Yeah, come on Bells it's not a school night and I promise I'll be home by One—"

"One?" I sighed and placed my fork down on the plate. "Your curfew is midnight, which is pushing it anyway because dad wanted your curfew to be Eleven."

She groaned. "Please? Come on… Sarah's mom said she can go, and so did Gina's."

"Nessie I don't know, who's party is it anyway? Will there be boys there?" Was I an idiot? Of course there would be boys there.

"The Clearwater's, you remember Seth? Well it's his sister's Leah's and she's a senior and their parents will be around."

I groaned and stood up gathering mine and Jane's plates. "I'll think about it, ok?"

"Will Jacob be there?" Jane asked in a giggle as I walked to the sink. Jacob? Who was Jacob? And why did my 7 year old daughter know who he was?

"Jane!" Nessie hissed through her teeth, "You promised!"

I turned around just in time for Jane to whisper she was sorry.

"Nessie who is Jacob? Is he your boyfriend?" Surely Nessie would tell me if she had a boyfriend, right? I mean, I knew there was an age difference between us, but we were still sisters.

"He's just this boy from school…" she groaned softly as she shoved a piece of waffle into her mouth. "It's nothing really, Jane has no idea what she's talking about."

"Do you want to talk about it? You know you can—"

But she cut me off, "No I don't want to talk about it thank you." She dropped her fork and stood up. "I'm going to go shower. If you can get me a ride to the mall that be great… Have fun at your dads Jane!"

I shook my head as I watched my sister stomp out of the room and headed upstairs to the bathroom.

"I'm sorry mommy; I didn't mean to make Nessie mad."

I chuckled and went over to give her a kiss on the head, "You didn't make her mad sweetie, I think it was me…"

After I finished cleaning up the kitchen and made sure that Jane had everything ready, James pulled up. I said a quick goodbye to Jane and watched as she drove off with her dad and Victoria. Afterwards I took a shower of my own and called Rose and asked her what she was doing. As soon as I said shopping she said sure. She was in need of some new shoes or something. So an hour later she picked Nessie and I up to go shopping, of course as soon as we got to the mall Nessie split up from us in the search of a costume. I guess she didn't very well feel like being seen with two almost thirty year old women.

"So, I didn't want to say anything while Nessie was around, but this guy from the opening last night asked me for your number." Rose said with a smirk as we headed into Old Navy to look for some things I needed to pick up for Jane.

I rolled my eyes as I started to search through the racks, "And you're going to tell me you didn't give it to him, right?"

"Well…" A smirk played on Rose's lips as she picked up a black cardigan with a white tank top under it and showed it to me, "Maybe I didn't, maybe I did."

"Another color; maybe the teal?" I took a deep breath, "Um but why would you do that? You know I don't want anything to do with any guys."

"Why the hell not? Bells you need to get laid!" She said a little too loudly gaining a few looks from the woman around us.

I grabbed her by the wrist and pulled her into a corner, "Rose can you not be so loud? We're in the middle of a fucking kid's store," I spoke with my voice very hushed.

"Well it's the truth babe!" She groaned as shook my hand off her wrist.

"You have been divorced for over a year, and I know you guys weren't having sex up until that day. Hell you guys barely had sex after Jane was born, and that was Seven years ago!" She took a deep breath and pushed a few strays of hair behind her ear, "You need a good fucking."

"You are unbelievable!" This was not happening, she was not telling me this stuff in the middle of Old Navy. I pinched my arm to see if I was dreaming,but no she really was telling me in the middle of the store. "I should have asked Angela to bring us shopping."

"She'd tell you the same thing! We've talked Bells and we're worried about you. You need a guy."

I shook my head and started to look through different sweaters on the table behind me, "It's too soon."

"Too soon?" Rose let out a small sigh as she leaned against the table and looked at me, "It's been a year Bells and James has already found someone. And it would be one thing if you guys didn't mutually agree on the divorce. But you both knew that the love left the relationship a long time ago, so what's the problem with you going out there and finding something true?"

I dropped what was in my hands and turned to look Rosalie better in the eyes, "This is coming from the girl who dates a different guy almost every night and sleeps around?"

Rose narrowed her eyebrows and stared at me for a few minutes. The last thing I wanted to do was to say something so rude to her, but I didn't want to talk about this!

"I'm going to let that slide because you are my best friend, but I think you need to face the facts…"

"What facts? Really, you are getting at nothing. I'm fine Rose! I don't need to go out and I don't need to get laid." I groaned at the last word and turned my attention back to the shirts.

Rose made a clicking sound with her tongue. "See Bella? You are putting up that wall… Bells you are lonely and I think you are the only one that doesn't see it."

"I am not lonely! I have Jane and Nessie, and you and Angela. See? Not lonely, I am as happy as a clam!"

"Okay, seriously. You need to stop reading those kid's novels, because who in their right mind says 'as happy as a clam' nowadays?"

I smirked slightly, "I do, deal!"

"But in all seriousness Bella, let me and Angela set you up on a couple dates. You don't have to sleep with them, but it wouldn't be completely terrible if you did." I rolled my eyes as she continued to talk, "Just a couple dates?"

I began to chew on my bottom lip as I turned to look her square in the face. I had occasionally considered what it would be like to go out there and date again, but then in the end I would always tell myself it was a bad idea.

"I don't know Rose, I don't really want to introduce a new guy into Jane's life and—"

"And nothing! You can't use that excuse. James is with Victoria and Jane is fine with that. She's a lot more mature than you realize; she's like you in that way." Rose crossed her arms and watched for a few moments before speaking again. "At least let me set you up with one person or something? Or at least if someone asks you out in the near future say yes."

"I'll think about it, I promise!"

After buying a couple shirts, socks and underwear for Jane we met up with Nessie. We grabbed some lunch in the food court before Rose drove us to the gallery so we could pick up my car. We said our quick goodbyes and Nessie and I headed back to the house. As soon as we stepped foot inside the door, Nessie ran up to her room to do 'homework', which probably meant she was on the phone. I decided to start cleaning. I hated to stay this, but sometimes I could be a real clean freak, just think Danny Tanner from full house, only in female form.

After cleaning the house top to bottom, minus Nessie's room, that was her own mess to deal with, I decided to watch a little television before I started dinner, but of course nothing good was on like always. I probably sat there mindlessly flipping through channels for fifteen minutes until I finally gave up and turned the TV off and headed into the kitchen.

I usually didn't go all out on Saturday nights since I made a meal for 5 on Sunday's, well 4 this week since Jane was staying at James' until Saturdays. I decided to make a salad and cut up some leftover chicken to throw in.

I headed up to Nessie's room and knocked on the door to let her know dinner was ready.

"Come in!"

I pushed open the door and stepped in, only to see her dressed in the Halloween costume she bought that day. She hadn't let me and Rose see what it was, probably afraid I'd make her return it or something. Because right there in front of me my sister wore a 'sexy bumble bee' costume that clung to her skin like spandex. When I was her age I would have never worn something like that. Who am I kidding, I would still never wear something like that.

"So, what do you think?"

"Um… It's tight?"

She giggled, "That's the whole point bells, Sarah's going as a lady bug and Gina as a butterfly." She stopped giggling and stared at my face. "You don't like it do you?"

"Ness, dad would—"

"I don't live with dad or mom, I live with you."

"Yeah but—" I sighed and put my hand on my hip, "Wouldn't the costume you wore last year be better? I mean, that was adorable…"

"Hence the word adorable," she groaned and went and sat on the edge of her bed, "I don't want to be adorable anymore Bells, I want to look sexy."

"And you can look sexy when you are 18 and I don't hear shit from dad about it."

Nessie shook her head, "What dad doesn't know won't hurt him."

"I'm not dealing with this right now. Dinner's ready so change into normal clothes and meet me downstairs."

"Can I keep the costume?"

I groaned, "you're going to keep it no matter what I say or not…"

I turned on my heel then stopped when I noticed a shirt on the floor. I bent down and picked it up, noticing that it still had a security sensor on it, "Ness…"

"Yeah I got it a few weeks ago and they forgot to take it off, I tried everything to get it off without ripping it but nothing works," she sighed.

I tossed her the shirt, "Go by the store, I've done that and they've taken it off for me."

"Good idea, I'll remember to bring it next time I go to the mall." She smiled at me and stood up, going to her dresser and pulling out some pajamas. "I'll be downstairs in a few minutes."

I nodded and headed back downstairs, set up the table for us before I started mixing some ice tea while I waited for her to come down. The rest of the night went on nicely; of course I didn't dare bring up the subject on this boy my sister was possibly crushing on. I knew it was hard for her living under my roof, having to deal with my rules like I was her parent instead of her sister. But thankfully we got along quite well and didn't seem to have too many problems with one another. And even if I never said it out loud, I was glad to have her here with me. It definitely made things a bit easier for me after the year I had.

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A/N: Okay so this isn't the Halloween chapter and only like a select few knows exactly what goes down in the Halloween chapter and why it needs to be posted soon lol. But I wanted you guys to see Bella's thoughts on her little encounter with Nessie's music teacher.

Now the last few days I have gone crazy and started to pick outfits that go with chapters and such. And seriously I would love to pick everyone's outfits for every chapter but I think they may take too much room up on my profile. Unless you guys think I should? Well anyway there are outfits in the profile now that are 'typical work clothes' for Bella and Edward. Just to give you an idea how they usually dress when they go to work and stuff. So please check them out and let me know what you will think.

At this time this story is just flowing from me, I will probably jinx myself when I say I already have up to Chapter 8 written. I don't know what but this story is just comes out of me a lot better than anything else I've written lately. So hopefully I will have chapter 5 aka the Halloween chapter out soon. All I'm going to tell you is that Emma and Jane run into each other while trick or treating.

So please review! All the reviews have been so great! And love you all! Lol