My older sister's best friend hasn't been around for nine years. But she's coming home for my high school graduation. I remember her…I remember her well…

"You keep giving me excuses and lashing out at me, but you know what? Not once have you said, 'Edward, this could never work because I don't even like you.' Which means," he leans in conspiratorially, "that you do. Like me."

Sometimes you find the thing you need most in the place you'd least expect. For Bella Swan that thing came wrapped in the packaging of a 23-year-old bartender named Edward—a man she can't ever say no to.

A meet-cute. A little bit of talking. He's older. She's just right. Something for the May-December contest.

Life is a series of sketches that create a picture. Could a young life-drawing model be the final piece that creates her masterpiece?

What do you do when your life has stalled out? When you feel stuck, stagnant? Bella decides going abroad alone is the answer. But a bathroom door with no lock and a hankering for coffee where there's only tea, just might make her solo trip turn into an adventure for two.

Damned if I do. Damned if I don't. One way or another, I knew Edward Cullen would turn my world upside down.

Contest entry for the May to December Romance Contest

Everything told me she wasn't a victim. No, this swan was fierce. She knew what she wanted and she wasn't afraid to get it.

A stifling, sheltered existence. A decision. A daunting risk. A new life. An unspoken longing in the shy distance between a young woman and the exotic allure of a cultured older man. Testing the direction of the wind as she spreads her wings for the first time, she's eager to fly towards the sunlight. Isabella Swan is ready to bloom.

Bella is a savvy lawyer and Edward is in need of a good right hand man or woman. Will she be able to withstand working for Mr. Cullen. His tough exterior may melt and she may... I have no clue SO this is Two Weeks Notice meets Twilight.

AH-Edward, current recovering alcoholic, former bully of Bella Swan, must make amends to the one person who refuses to give them. Written for FGB Auction/WA Rehab. Adult Situations. Updated Wed/Sun.