Monday Late Afternoon

July 2nd

About a week had past since that faithful day when I realized that I was truly fucked when it came to Edward.

And during that week, we only seemed to get closer. We even went out for coffee one morning before work.

-Flashback-

"So, Bella." Edward smiled nicely at the lady at starbucks as she handed him his coffee. She blushed and move her eyes away. "Tell me more about yourself. I mean, we've been working together for about a month and all I know about you is that you're an amazing dancer." He winked.

Swoon.

"Oh well, I grew up in Forks, Washington and I'm an only child." I said as we sat down at one table away from everybody. I took a sip from my Caramel Frapachinno. Extra shot of coffee, of course. "But my roomate, Alice, is pretty much like my sister. We've been best friends since we were like..psh, 6? As soon as we could, we moved out from home, came to sunny Cali and moved in together. She owns her own boutique."

"What about your parents?"

"Me and my dad, Charlie are really close. My parents split when I was little. Renee left to go pursue being a cougar and I stayed at home with Charlie. He's a total guy though. Into fishing, sports, his huge flats screen is his baby. I'm not sure how I turned out as girly as I did." I smiled and looked into his electric green eyes. "What about you?"

"Well, I have a little sister, Libby, but she lives in our hometown, LA with our parents. She's 16. My parents, Carlisle and Esme have been together since they were 11-" He stopped when he saw my mouth drop. "Yeah, I know. And they're still sickly in love." He laughed again, a sound that made my stomach flip. "After highschool, I went on to study medicine but after half a year I knew it wasn't the thing for me. So I looked into medicine for animals. Eventualy I decided I wanted to be more "hands-on" with the animals and now, here I am."

"What made you choose the SD zoo?" I asked, curious.

Not at all complaining though.

Not at all.

"Since it was only a couple hours from home, we'd visit a lot. So I practicly grew up here. And I fell in love with it, so I thought, hey, why the hell not." He chuckled.

I hadn't even realized that I had slid down onto my hand, so that my head was rested in my palm as I listened almost dreamily until he glanced up at the clock behind me.

Way to be obvious, dumbass.

"Shit, it's getting late. But I'll meet you at work in like, 20." We both stood and he walked me out the door.

"See you in a while." I called to him as I started walking to my car, gripping my ice cold coffee in one hand.

Is it possible to fall even more in love than you already were?

Apparently you could.

-Flashback over-

"Okay okay!" I jumped as I heard Emmetts booming laugh echo through the nursery. I glanced at Edward who just rolled his eyes and put down Solanes bottle.

"What is it Em?" He asked, as the large man walked in with an even larger smile on his face.

"El said we can sign out a couple minutes early. We have something important to discuss!" Emmett left the room leaving us alone in quiet again.

That is, until Jessica Stanely ran in, smiling.

Heres the thing about Jessica. The girl can be as nice as possible. Sometimes to damn nice. She's all hugs and smiles and unicorns and rainbows and shit. But somtimes, you just wanna take that unicorns horn and stab yourself with it.

Like when it's only 9 in the morning and she's all bubbly and jumping up and down.

Or when she's hitting on my man.

Yeah. My man.

Mine.

I digress.

The point is, when Jess comes skipping into the nursery for no reason, I can't help but cringe.

"Ed-waarrddd." She sang, breezing past me. Looks like one of those days.

"Hey, Jess, what's up?" Edward asked, ever the gentlemen.

"I'm having a party this wednesday for the fourth of July. There will be fireworks and food and a swimming pool and beer," She winked on the last word, hoping that the beer would draw Edward in.

"Sure, Jess, count me in. Oh, actually. Make that two. Jasper will be there."

"Okay, AWESOME!" She bounced on her heels.

She quicly turned to me and looked at me pointedly as if I were to just give her an answer.

"Sure, Jess, but we're gunna have to work the next day..." I said, unsure. I put one bottle in the microwave and turned it on for 30 seconds.

"Oh my GOODness silly girl!" She laughed. "We get wednesday and the rest of the week off. Including the weekend! So will you be at my party? Right now we're estamating about 100 people, but not everyone has been invited yet. So I've gotta know now!"

"Okay, yeah. And is it okay if I bring my friend?"

Jess nodded quickly, her attention already on something else. "Yeah, sure. Okay y'all, bye!"

And like a bolt of lightening, she was there and then gone.

"Well..." I laughed akwardly.

Edward laughed too. "Alright, lets just go clock out and see what Em wants."

So the two of us put the bottles away and walked out of the nursery in comfortable silence.

Which of course was interuppted the second we walked into the staff room.

"Okay tell us-"

"Rose, look at that smile!"

"What's going on you guys?"

"OMG ARE YOU PREGNANT?!"

"Everyone shut up!" I shouted over the noise. They all stopped and Rose grinned at me.

Everyone, which included, Ben, Maggie, Irina, Carmen, El, Stephanie, Ian, Jessica and Nicole.

"Okay," Rose said, smiling widly. Emmett grabbed her around the waist, grinning just as big. Rose lifted her left hand.

"WE'RE GETTING MARRIED!"

All the girls in the room squealed and rushed over to hug Rose as all the guys went to pat Emmett on his back.

"Rose!" I said shaking her excitedly. "Oh my gosh, congrats!" I hugged her and knew she was still smiling.

"Bella, I know we haven't known each other for a long time but you're one of the closest friend I have. Would you PLEASE be my Maid of honor?" She smiled almost nervously and I couldn't help but smack at her arm.

"Of course Rosie!"

We hugged again and as I looked over her shoulder I saw Edward patting Emmett on the back. Our eyes met and I smiled a little.

He flashed me his infamous crooked grin and I couldn't help but picture Emmett patting Edward on his back as Rose hugged me, congratulating us.

I wanted to marry and live the rest of my life with Edward.

That much was very clear.

~SMTL~

A/N: Soooo...? I know it was a little short but you got to hear a little about Edward and Bella. And Zooward has a little sister! You will learn more about her in chapters to come but her name is Elizabeth Grace Cullen. Libby for short. Now personally I don't really love the name Elizabeth(I just feel like that name is used a lot but I do love the name Libby so I just thought I would throw her in there!) Libby becomes a pretty important person in this story so don't forget about her!

Well anyway. You know what to do.

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