The plan they come up with isn't foolproof, but Bella thinks it is pretty close.

If Edward just follows the outline they made and if he applies a liberal amount of charm, he should be fine.

He insists he needs Bella there, though, so she finds herself in the library after work, wandering through the stacks in search of her advisee.

She's not sure if she's supposed to be Edward's moral support or emergency rescue or icebreaker, but whatever. She kind of wants to see the whole plan in action, anyway, because she has a feeling Edward might go off-script without warning, and that could cause trouble.

He may need Bella to do those air traffic control signals in the background to avoid completely embarrassing himself.

That possibility only looks more likely when Bella finds Edward, at a circular table near the front desk, and sees what he's doing.

Edward looks up from his book with a smile when Bella sits down across from him. "Hey."

"Hi," she says. "What're you reading?"

Edward glances down like he's surprised to find out there's a magazine in front of him. "Oh, I don't really know. It was on the table when I got here. I was just pretending to be reading while I was watching for Angela."

"Good plan," Bella says, taking the magazine quickly. "Except you should probably read the cover first." She shows Edward where it says 'Blow His Mind and More!: Fifty Ways to Wow Your Man in Bed' in big bold hot pink letters.

"Oh," Edward says, blushing.

"Yeah," she laughs. "Probably not the best signal to be sending when you're asking a girl for a date."

Monday morning 8:05... Nothing... 8:10 no sign of him... 8:20 comes and goes... And I finally feel like I can breathe again. Next thing I know... I see what I think is his truck pull into the parking lot. Sure enough, it's him getting out walking toward the door. I flew out of my chair, turned around to Syd (only the two of us that work up front) tell her she's got to check him in. Meanwhile i'm standing off to her left hiding in the patient chart racks... Bright red, trying not to laugh. She finishes up and sends him on his way to wait in the lobby and turns to me. "What the hell was that?"... I'm like "OMG, Syd...It's Mr. Freaking Balloon Animal"... So that's how my best friend laughed so hard at work that she almost fell out of her chair. She ducked into our office managers office and told her what was going on... The. Entire. Freakin. Story. At that point... Doc had walked in to Tiffany's office as well and Syd goes... "Hey Doc, make sure you blow in your glove before you put it on." Ladies and gentlemen, my best friend. By the end of the day all my co-workers knew that I don't in fact, get turned on by blowing up balloons. I pretty much hate them. I'm scarred for life.

Anyway... We have a super close work environment... And that was hands down the most embarrassing date ever. PS once he came up front for treatment consultation he saw me and tried to say Hi and talk to me. I just quickly Hi and went back to work. He then left us a nasty online review. Jerk.

So that's my story... Hopefully you got a little more romance/humor than you bargained for.

Jess