Bella took a deep breath as she walked towards his office. She was going to do it. No matter what, everything would turn out fine. Even if he found her weird she would survive. She would never have to see him again after the six-month internship was up. She would either leave the company entirely, or if she got lucky, she would get a job with the firm, but she would be transferred to an entirely different division. She was just raising her hand to knock on the door, when she heard talking coming from inside. Bella didn't want to interrupt Edward if he was having an important conversation. She glanced through the large window beside the door.

"So relationships within the company aren't allowed between interns and their bosses? Then maybe we could… you know just keep us a secret Eddie-baby…" a cheesy voice sounded from within the office. Through the blinds, Bella could see Edward's back facing her as he sat in his chair. Lauren was standing next to him and running her hand up and down his arm. "Eddie, are you cheating on me behind my back? Is that why you don't want me anymore?"

"Lauren! We're not actually a coup-" Lauren shushed him, and put a finger across his mouth. She looked through the window and caught Bella's eye. Bella saw an evil glint there that made a shiver run down her spine.

"It's Isabella, isn't it honey?" Lauren's sickly-sweat voice laced with venom when she said "Bella" and made the hairs on the back of Bella's neck stand on end. Didn't Lauren know that Edward didn't like her? What was she trying to accomplish? Or did the two really have a secret relationship?

"…No Lauren, I'm not with Bella. She and I are just… friends. There's too big an age difference between us. We would never make a good couple. But that doesn't change-"

Bella had heard enough, and most definitely also seen enough as she saw Lauren plop down in Edwards lap after his admission. She turned and ran, but soon of course, found herself crashing into a woman walking in the other direction. She quickly helped her pick up the items that had fallen in the collision before making a hasty departure. Hopefully, Edward had not heard the crash. He couldn't know that she had seen him with Lauren.

I'm not with Bella. She and I are just friends. There's too big an age difference between us. We would never make a good couple.

The words continued to echo in her mind as she flipped through the television channels. Seriously? How were there over a 1000 channels just filled with junk? Bella heard her phone ring, but she ignored it. She wasn't in the mood to talk to anybody right now.

I'm not with Bella. She and I are just friends. There's too big an age difference between us. We would never make a good couple.

Eventually she settled on the movie "Music and Lyrics". She only caught the tail end of it, but she loved the story nonetheless.

Bella heard a knocking sound from the door. It was… the mailman? She opened the door to find a tall man in a hat in front of the door. He awkwardly handed her a letter, all the while hiding his face in the shadow of the baseball cap.

Bella placed the letter on her table and thanked the mail man, closing the door. She quickly opened the envelope, curious about what piece of mail could possibly have been so urgent that it needed to be delivered right to her door, at night.

Dear Isabella Marie Swan,

We have recently become low on employees working in the translation departments. We have had to promote some workers, which has left some spots open for new employees to enter our family. On the suggestion of Mr. Edward Cullen, I am offering you a job as junior translator five months before the position was supposed to open up.

Jasper Whitlock

The bottom of the letter had a little sticky note attached to it. Beautiful handwriting was stretched across it.

Hi Bella,

I know you saw Lauren in my office today. But you have to believe me; nothing is going on between us. I know that you might not actually have any feelings for me, but I need to be sure. I need to know what you came to tell me today. If you are completely opposed to any relationship beyond what we have now, just ignore my note. Otherwise, step outside. I'll be waiting for you, and we can talk.

Edward

P.S. Lauren is no longer with Whitlock Translation. She was dismissed for inappropriate behaviour towards her superiors.

Bella was baffled. And here she thought that he had some relationship with Lauren. She needed to find out what was really going on, because his cryptic note left much information to be desired.

Stepping outside, the only person Bella could see was the mail man, who was for some reason still hanging around… of course! That was why she was getting mail delivered to her door in the middle of the night; because the "mail man" was Edward. She walked over to him and pulled of his hat. "What's with the elaborate costume?"

"I needed a way to give you the choice to either talk to me or not, without you feeling pressured. And I guess I could also have just left a note for you without the costume… but I wanted to make a point. I have missed talking to you in the last week and I would do anything to get what we had on that first day back." Edward sheepishly smiled, "I want to understand. Did you run off that night because you thought that our age difference is too big? Or because we can't have a relationship so long as I'm your superior? I'm just so confused!"

Bella smiled at him in recognition. She as now suddenly much less confused. Edward though, on the other hand still looked completely baffled. "So we basically both made assumptions about one another's feelings. ...God, are we stupid. You thought that i believed our age difference was too big, and I was under the impression that you were going out with Lauren and that you would think i was crazy if you found out about-" Bella quickly caught herself before taking a deep breath and continuing, "...do you want to come inside? I have a ... story to tell you."

Hm, not sure how much I liked that... But thats pretty much the end, besides the epilogue which will be up as soon as I have an internet connection again! That will definitely be within a week. :)

I basically wrote the majority of this on my iPod on my plane ride to Europe... So please excuse any typos. Let me know if you find any though, so I can fix them when I get back.

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