Authors Note: hey everyone hope you all enjoyed the last chapter. I want to thank you all for sticking with me and my random updates but I am trying to make them a little more regular for you guys. This chapter is dedicated to Annaissocoollike whose reviews keep me writing;). And no I am not dead but it is nice to know that my death would be noticed and people would care so thanks for the concern. Anyway on with the chapter:

Edward POV

Alice had called earlier asking me to join her and Jasper for dinner as she had a 'surprise' for me. So I am currently sitting in my office waiting for them to turn up. I am honestly intrigued as to what Alice is bringing. Suddenly there is a knock on my door disturbing my wondering; thinking it is Alice I invite her in. Except when I look up I realise that it is not Alice or anyone that I want to see standing at my door. In fact it is the one person in the whole world that I do not want to see standing at my door. Tanya. The girl doesn't take no for an answer. I reason with myself that she is probably having trouble with a patient and needs some help; or at least that is what I hope it is.

However, I have no such luck. "Eddie..." she says dragging out the word, "I was wondering whether you were busy tonight," she says whilst twiddling her finger in her hair. I think that she thinks that this will make her more attractive to me. In all honesty it just makes her look stupid.

"Look Tanya I have to go I am having dinner with my sister and brother-in-law." I say getting up from behind my desk and start to walk towards the door. She takes this as an invitation to move closer to me when in actual fact I am trying to get her out of here.

Then in her high pitched nasally voice she replies "But Eddie I thought that we could get dinner together tonight, you know because of how quiet it is tonight."

"Two things Tanya. One – how many times do I have to tell you not to call me Eddie. Two – as I told you earlier I have a girlfriend whom I love very much and do not want to risk my relationship with so could you please leave." I move over to the door and turn the handle to open it. Once the door is open I notice that standing right outside my door is Bella. I gape I was totally not expecting to see her here. "Bella?" I ask completely confused.

"Hi, Alice invited me to dinner tonight," she replies as Alice waves her hand "and I didn't know that you didn't know until we were here and I knocked but you didn't answer, I am sooo sooo sorry and I can go." she turns around and goes to walk away.

I am still in shock but I can't let Bella walk away "Bella, hey come back, I am happy you are here just a little shocked. When Alice said she had a surprise for me I had absolutely no idea that that surprise was you. I am sorry you had to hear that, Tanya just doesn't know how to take no for an answer." I look at her and give her a half smirk that I know she loves. "How about we go get that dinner?"

She laughs "Sure that sounds lovely." I bend my head down to kiss her. The kisses start out innocent and soon escalate into more passionate kisses. It is not until one of the other doctors walks past a wolf whistles at us that we pull away. I decide that seeing as I have Bella here I might as well show her off to the rest of the doctors and nurses. It might stop some of their advances. I wrap my arm around Bella's shoulders and take the long way to the canteen; not that she knows that. It involves walking through my ward and past the nurses' station. That way everyone can get a good look at me and my girl.

As we walk through the ward all the doctors and nurses stop what they are doing and stare at us. It shouldn't be a big deal but it is because I have not had one single girlfriend the entire time I have been here. I can feel Bella getting uncomfortable with all the stares as she curls into my chest. I can tell she is blushing as I can feel the heat radiating off her cheeks through my scrubs. I shout to my boss as I pass that I am heading down to dinner and so is Jaz. Once we get down to the canteen I seat Isabella with Alice and Jasper and head off to get us some food. I grab our dinner and head back towards the table. I freeze. There are more people at the table then when I left. I groan. This is not the way I wanted Bella to meet my family. There sitting at the table next to Bella with his arm slung over her shoulders is my ever annoying big brother Emmett and his wife Rosalie. I am frozen in place until Isabella looks up at me with her big brown eyes with a look of terror in them. I can see tears forming on her long lashes that frame her eyes and I spring into action. Me and her hadn't been together that long and now she is sitting eating dinner with the family. When we were together before we had been together for almost 6 weeks when I introduced her to the family. As I start walking towards the table I notice my parents approaching the table. Bella looks as though she is about to have a panic attack. When I reach the table I grab Bella's hand assisting her to stand. "Me and Bella are going to eat at another table, see you guys later." I turn to lead her away to another table.

We almost escape but not quite soon enough as I hear my mum say "where are you going Edward I thought we were having a family dinner? Oh sorry I didn't realise we had company, who is this Edward?"

"Umm... mum, dad this is Bella, Bella you remember my mum and dad, we were going to go and eat over there, I didn't realise it was family night." I turn again and pull my bright red Bella with me. I find us a table I sit down and pull her to sit down on my lap. I wrap my arms tightly round her and cradle her to me. I can gradually feel her colour turning back to normal. She stays sitting on my lap whilst we eat our dinner.

When we are finished, she leans her mouth to my ear, "do you remember the first time I met your family?" she asks.

I laugh of course I do how could I forget, I have never met someone so nervous before anyone would think that she was going to a house full of vampires. I giggle as we both reminisce the day:

Me and Bella had been together for around 6 weeks and I had done nothing but talk about her at home. By this point in time I was sure that Bella was 'the one' and that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her. Anyway they were all sick to death of hearing about a girl that they had never met and if she was this great why I hadn't brought her home. In all honesty I know Bella was petrified about meeting my family because she knew how important they were to me. It took a while but I managed to convince Bella to come round to my house.

I went to pick her up that day and her dad let me in saying she was just getting ready. I sat around for nearly an hour before I gave up and went upstairs to see what was going on. Bella never took this long to get ready. I knocked on her bedroom door but she didn't answer but I heard tears on the other side. Cautiously I opened the door to see her curled up in her bed, in sweats crying her eyes out surrounded by clothes and makeup. I went over to her and wrapped her in my arms as she cried into my chest. "What is the matter princess?" I pull her chin up to look at me.

"I...Can't...Find...Anything...To...Wear..." she manages to get out between sobs and then breaks down again. I gently rock her in my arms. "I just want to be...Someone you could be proud of...Not some kid..."

She goes to continue but I stop her at that thought, "I am proud of you Bella, you don't need to wear clothes to prove that. And you are not a kid you are an adult. You never worry about what you wear why this time?"

She looks up at me still sobbing, "I just want to make a good impression."

"And you will. Now let's get you dressed and us on our way." I help her to pick out a skirt and top and then leave her to get changed. When I come back in I gently brush her hair before putting it in a bun. Then we head out to my house. The day was a complete success and the whole family loved her. Her nerves were uncalled for. I don't blame her at all though because meeting both her mother and her father were both extremely nerve-wracking experiences for me but that is a story for another time.

Soon my dinner break is over and I walk Bella back to the lobby where Alice is waiting for her. I hug her close and give her a long kiss goodbye. "I love you" I shout to her as she walks out the front door. She stops, turns, smiles and shouts back "I love you too!" As I turn to head back up to my war I notice my brother, brother-in-law and parents standing behind me. I can tell they want an explanation for my behaviour at dinner. I don't regret what I did. I did it for Bella she wasn't ready to meet my family and there was no way Alice was pushing her into it. Now I just had to explain that to them...

Authors Note: so sorry for the delay I have been really ill. I hope you really enjoyed this chapter and let me know who you want in the story next and I will try to incorporate them. So far I have been asked to bring in Emmett and I promise I will try to either next chapter or the one after. Feel free to check out my other story that is going at the moment 'They Never Said Life Was Easy'. Until next time... xxx