Stitches

A/N: So...not to much love the last chapter. Which is why I made you all wait for this new chapter. The more love the faster Ill get the chapter done. So READ AND REVIEW PEOPLE! Real Life is about to get real crazy everyone, my mom's gettin surgery and I'm a hair dresser so since the holidays are coming everyone wants their hair done. Be patient with me, you should have a new chapter every week if all goes well. And if you review alottttt maybe twice a week! Without further ado; I do not own Twilight Stephanie Meyer does. I wish I was married to Rob Pattinson, but alas that is not the case.

BPOV:

After that horrible night in the emergency room I was totally prepared to crawl in a corner and slowly fade away. As if it wasn't embarrassing enough to have Edward Cullen as my son's doctor, Jake decides to go and talk about Mike.

Jake hasn't seen his father in a little over a year, he was 3 when I left Mike so his memory cant be the greatest of his dad. It perplexed me that Jake was even bringing his dad up. Made me wonder where these thoughts were coming from.

I spent most of the night wide awake, thinking of everything. From Mike to Edward, from making my marriage work to my decision of leaving. Nights like this were the worst. I hated to play the "what if" game. Because there was no what if.

Inside I knew I made the right decision to take Jacob and leave Mike. But occasionally my brain decided it didn't agree. Sometimes I thought maybe I could have made our marriage work, with counseling and all of that stuff. But my heart won out on that decision, it forced my brain to believe I did the right thing.

My dad is still really pissed off about what transpired between Mike and I. He's grateful for his grandson, but I can see it hurts him to know that Mike hurt me in more ways than just one. Not only was I physically scarred, but emotionally as well. Charlie knew I would never be the same after what happened to me. I was a shell of my old self, and my dad had to look at that every single day.

A few days after Jake split his head open he begged me to take him back over to Adam's house. And of course his cute little face made me give in.

Rosalie had apologized profusely for the little accident the other day, warning both boys not to even think about climbing all the way to the top. And apparently put the wrath of god in both boys. But our happy solitude was quickly interrupted when I heard my cell phone ringing. The caller ID read Sarah Newton. Mike's mom.

"Hello?" I said quietly into the receiver. I know exactly what she wanted, and that this would turn into a fight.

"Isabella! So nice of you to finally pick up the phone. How are you?" she asked, fakeness dripping from her voice.

"I'm fine Mrs. Newton. What can I do for you?"

"Oh Bella, you know you can call me Sarah. I'm your mother-in-law for christ sakes."

"No technically not Mrs. Newton, I am no longer married to your son." I responded bitterly. This was where the conversation was going to go sour quick.

"Yes well, we all know that was a mistake on your part."

I felt my anger bubble up instantly. I wanted to ring her neck through the phone. "What can I do for you?"

"I was calling to ask when you would finally let me see my grandson. You've lived in the same town as me for almost a year and I still have yet to see Jacob."

"Well I'm afraid that isn't possible. Your 'darling' son decided to give up the rights to seeing the child he donated sperm too. So therefore so did you. Sucks to be you don't it Sarah? Your son's actions affected your own. Maybe he'll lend his sperm to another fucking girl and you can have another grandchild someday. But as of now you wont be seeing Jake. And you can thank Michael for that." I said angrily slamming my phone shut.

Rosalie's face made me crack up laughing, she was clearly shocked at my outburst. Generally I didn't get so upset about anything. But I'll be damned if Mike's mom was going to tell me I made the mistake. Maybe if she had seen my arm in a cast and an ugly black and blue around my eye she would know it wasn't my mistake. That I did nothing to deserve it.

"Wow Bella. I didn't know you had it in you to be a bitch." Rose snickered.

"Yeah well. I never did like his mom. Even when I was married to him. And she just pissed me off even more today."

"Here have a beer and calm down, obviously you need to relax a little."

I sipped from the beer Rose just dropped in my hand, I needed to let loose a little bit. "Emmett's brother was our doctor in the ER the other night." I blurted.

"Oh yeah? That's good. Edward will take care of him, he's quite the doctor."

"I thought he was living in Chicago and all that?"

"Yeah he was. He had some issues with his baby momma/now ex wife. And caused him to move back here with us. Not that we're complaining no one liked Tanya anyway. It just so happens that she birthed his child."

Color me shocked. Edward Cullen got a divorce too. That meant he was single. And I liked that idea. And that idea surprised the hell out of me.

"Oh wow. Atleast I'm not the only one in this town who has gotten a divorce anymore." I mumbled.

Rose laughed. "Yeah. Edward's been pretty upset about it all lately. From what Em tells me Tanya wants nothing to do with the baby. And Emmalie is just the cutest little girl in the world. I don't know why anyone wouldn't want to see her."

"Yeah well, why wouldn't Mike want to see his son? Kind of the same thing. Mike didn't want Jake, and when I said I was leaving he decided he didn't want his son anymore either. How he can sleep at night I don't know. Just like this Tanya lady."

"Agreed Bella..agreed." she replied sipping her own beer.

We both sat in silence for a little while. I was still mulling over the fact that Edward Cullen had the same issues I had. Although I'm sure this Tanya girl didn't beat the shit out of him. I was feeling awfully bold, maybe tonight at the soccer game I would have to talk to him a bit.

"Is Edward going to be at the soccer game?" I asked Rosalie.

She nodded her head. "You betcha. Emmett and Adam wouldn't have it any other way. Adam's uncle Edward is like his favorite thing in the entire world now that he's back home."

"Atleast Adam gets to have aunts and uncles. Jakes got a mom a grandfather and a grandmother. That's the extent of the poor kid's family. Jake was telling Edward about his dad when we were in the ER. It kind of bothers me. He shouldn't remember any of that, he was 3 the night I left. And besides, Mike barely spent any time with Jake when he was little." I blabbered, the beer was finally to sink in.

"You would be surprised what the 3 year old can see. Their more observant than you think Bella. Jake probably saw a whole lot more than you think he did. And don't ever count that out." she advised.

And with that, we wrangled up the kids and got them ready for the soccer game.

EPOV:

After spending some long nights in the ER I finally I had a day off. And I planned on spending every minute of it with Emmalie. I had felt like I was neglecting her, sending her off to her grandparents house while I was at work.

I had planned a quiet night at home, some pizza and a movie. Not that Emmalie would appreciate it. At 8 months old she was still to young to pay attention to the movie. It would just be nice holding her and spending some time with her.

That was until my brother called. "Oh Eddie boy! Did you happen to forget what today is?" he asked sweetly in the phone.

To be honest I did forget. "Uh yeah Em..I did forget. What am I supposed to be doing tonight?"

"You my dear little brother are supposed to be at your favorite nephews soccer game in a half an hour. I figured you would forget, so get your ass over to the field." he replied hanging up the phone.

Yeah, I forgot that I was supposed to be at the soccer game tonight. Did I really want to go? No. But it was for my family.

So I bundled Emmalie up, loaded her in the car and headed off to the soccer field. The last place I wanted to spend my evening.

Until I noticed Bella Swan was sitting with Rosalie and the rest of my family chatting very animatedly with my sisters. So maybe this night was about to be better that I thought it was going to be.

"Hey everyone." I replied sitting down, taking Emmalie out of her car seat.

"Oh Edward..I guess Em called you huh? I told him not to bother you. Mom said you had been working some rough shifts at the hospital." Rosalie apologized. Alice immediately grabbed Emmalie from my arms, fawning over her immediately. The poor kid was going to be spoiled beyond belief.

"Yeah he called, but its okay. Im glad he called, I wouldn't want to miss Adam's soccer game. He is my only nephew and all of that shit. Because Alice and Jasper certainly haven't gotten on the baby makin train." I teased.

Being with my family made the void easier. And the fact that Bella was sitting one person away from me made it even better.

"So Bella. Your son is quite the soccer player." I said, striking up a conversation at halftime. I really just wanted a chance to get to know her.

"Yeah he can be good when he put his mind to it Dr. Cullen. Thank you for stitching him up when he were in your office the other day. One thing he was unfortunately enough to inherit from be would be my clumsiness. He's pretty good at hiding it though." she replied.

"He seems like he's quite the good kid. Your obviously doing very well raising him. Where is Mike anyway? I havent seen him around?"

"Oh he still lives in Seattle.."

"So you commute here for every soccer game?"

"Oh no. We're divorced. We've been separated for about a year now. Jake hasn't seen his dad in a year."

"Wow. Jeez. I'm sorry I didn't know. I just moved back from Chicago myself."

"Yeah Rosalie mentioned that earlier today. Your daughter is absolutely beautiful. What brought you back to Forks and away from the big city?"

"Thank you. Emmalie is my pride and joy. And coincidentally divorce brought me back to Forks. My now ex wife didn't want a daughter and Emmalie came along. So just like you, I took the baby and left town. We just got divorced about 3 weeks ago."

"And I'm sorry to hear that. I know how hard it is to be doing it alone." She looked so sad when she talked about being alone. There was more to the story than Bella was obviously letting on. And I was prepared to get to the bottom of it. She was so beautiful and intriguing.

"I have the help of my family thank goodness. And I'm sure you do as well. I bet the Chief is glad your back in Forks. I havent seen him since Ive been back."

"Charlie is actually married to Sue Clearwater these days. So I don't see too much of him anymore. We're both busy doing our own thing. I teach at the high school and he's still keeping busy as the Chief of police."

"Teaching at the high school huh? What do you teach there? I bet that brings back a ton of memories." If only I had grown a set of balls and asked her out in high school neither of us might be in the situations we are. And maybe she wouldn't look so sad. It was quite evident to me she was sad, you could see it in her eyes clear as day.

"I teach English. It always was my favorite subject in school. I went to the University of Seattle. That's where Mike and I started dating and all that shit. I lived up there for about 6 or 7 years before everything went south. I like teaching at Forks though, the kids aren't as bad as we probably were way back when."

"I went to school in Chicago for pediatric medicine. That's where I grew up before moving to Forks in middle school. I met Tanya who I had known from when I lived there, and we did things the wrong way. Got pregnant had a baby got married got divorced. That's how I ended up back here."

"Sounds like we have quite a lot in common." she had replied quietly.

For some unknown reason it pained me to see the sad expression on her face. I hadn't seen her or spoke to her in almost 8 years now, and suddenly feelings from high school bubbled to the surface. Feelings I hadn't planned on having for anyone else ever. I guess I thought I would be alone for quite a long time. Who would want a guy with as much emotional baggage and a child like I do?

The game was winding down, I knew I wouldn't have too much time to talk to Bella alone before the kids started to come up and everyone would leave. So I was prepared to go out of a branch.

"Bella. I'd like to get to know you a little more if that's alright. So I was thinking maybe one night during the week we could go to dinner or something? Maybe after I take the stitches out of Jake's head?" I asked nervously playing with Emmalie's fingers.

The final buzzer had just rang, the game was over. I had about 30 seconds until Jake and Adam charged up here to get her answer. And the silence was killing me.

"I..uh…I don't…uh….I guess…oh hell." was all Bella had begun to say, her eyes seemed to match the nervousness I was feeling.

"What the hell. I guess dinner wont hurt. Sure. But I cant be out too late, I don't want to disrupt Jake's schedule and all." she replied.

I instantly felt better, until Adam charged my legs and almost knocked me off the bleachers.