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Chapter 1:

Bella's Point of View.

"Mom, can you buy me these earrings?" Daniella asked. I nodded. Alice and I had brought the girls to the mall, since it was the last day of school, we decided to reward them. They had done very well this year. My brother was on a business trip so Alice and Katie were staying with Daniella and me. Jasper and Alice had Katie when they were twenty; I also had Danni at 20, her dad Nate, left us four years ago, when she was 6. None of us were married. Ali and Jazz got married when they were 24. I was still single. Daniella only saw her dad two times in all four years since he left. She still loved him, and she felt like if she kept hoping, someday he might come back. I knew better, she didn't know that her dad left us for someone else. If she knew she would be broken. But she knows that her dad is 'busy' and can't come by to see her. He gives her expensive gifts and whatnot so that she won't hate him. But I know he doesn't love her, as much as it pains me that he doesn't love his daughter. He uses her because he wants me back, I took him back once but he cheated on me again. He wants to have a house full of wives, but I won't be cheated on. I knew I was probably going to stay single for the rest of my life. But my job isn't to go out and date men all the time, my job was to be a mother, and father, and put my daughter through college and life. I was just fine as a single parent. Jazz and Ali helped sometimes when my job didn't give me a couple Saturday's off and they would take Danni out to amusement parks along with Katie.

"Bella, look that guy looks kind of cute. I bet he's single." Alice whispered to me. I looked up; a man was coming out of the music store. He had reddish-brown hair, and green eyes. He looked to be about six-five.

"Oh Alice, he is way out of my league!" I exclaimed. Alice shook her head and kept shopping. But I couldn't take my mind of off the man. I had to at least know his name. No, stop, I couldn't, I have to be a mother and I can't be thinking about men when I have a ten year old at home. Plus the man is probably already taken.

"Okay girlies time to go." Alice called. I paid for Danni's stuff and we piled into the car.
"Oh, Bella, Jasper is coming home tonight so I am heading home, okay?" Alice said as we headed home. I nodded and took her home; Danni was going to spend the night.

"Bye mom," I waved to her as I pulled out of the driveway. Jasper and Alice were pretty well off but they chose to live in an apartment that had three rooms. I lived in a three room also, three blocks away. I went inside my apartment and took a shower. It was eight in the night and I was craving some coffee, so I put my jacket on, not bothering to change out of my pjs and threw on some uggs, and made my way outside. After I ordered I waited on the side while others ordered. Then they called my number and I went to pick up my coffee, as I turned around I bumped into someone.

"Oh! I am so, so, so, sorry!" I told the blonde. She groaned, and glared at me.

"You should be sorry! You know how much this coat cost me?!" She shrieked. And before I knew what was happening she slapped me. She slapped me! I only spilled coffee on her and it wasn't even on purpose.

"Excuse me Ms. but I won't allow you to treat this lady like that!" I was surprised at the man's voice. I turned around and saw the man from the mall.

"Whatever give me $100, for the dry cleaners and I will leave you alone." She glared at me. I shot her a glare back, it wasn't that I didn't have the money, because I did, we were pretty well off, but she didn't deserve it.

"Listen, I would have given you the damn money if you wouldn't have slapped me! Now get out of my face damn it!" I said. She glared again and left. I turned to face the man.

"Thank you for standing up for me, my name is Isabella." I stuck my hand out and he shook it.

"Edward." He smiled. "Can I offer you another coffee?" He asked.

"I couldn't ask of that, and it's getting late." I said. But inside I didn't really want to go, I wanted to spend the rest of the night just staring into his gorgeous eyes.

"Nonsense! My mother would be upset, knowing she raised a gentleman and he didn't offer a pretty lady a coffee." He insisted. I nodded shyly and followed him into a booth. He motioned for a waiter to come.

"Good evening, what would you like?" The waiter asked us. Edward looked at me.

"Um, I will have a coffee, 2 milks and 2 sugars." I said. The waiter turned to Edward.

"I will also have a coffee, 3 milks and 2 sugars." He said. The waiter nodded and left.

"You really didn't have to do this." I said. He shook his head and smiled.

"I know, but I wanted to." He responded. I couldn't believe how this God-like creature would want me, yet again he never said he wanted me, he said he wanted to do buy me coffee.

"You want to play 20 questions?" He asked. I smiled and nodded.

"You first." He said. I thought of a question to ask him. I wanted to ask him if he was single but I didn't want to seem too forward.

"Okay, what do you work as?" I asked. He waited until the waiter placed our drink in front of us.

"I work at the children's hospital." He responded, and I nodded.

"You?" he asked.

"I own a tiny book store." I told him proudly. He smiled.

"How many siblings do you have?" I asked.

"I have a sister, her name is Haley. She is one year younger than me. She is married and just had a baby boy six months ago, you?" He asked.

"I have a twin brother, but if you look at him you wouldn't think we are related. He is blonde and is taller than me. He is married and has a ten year old." I said.

"Parents?" I asked.

"My dad left us when we were ten, and he got married with a woman named Elizabeth, and my mom remarried a man named Carlisle, you?" he asked.

"My mom also left us, but I don't know where she is, and my dad remarried to a woman named Dawn." I told him. He nodded.

"Do you have a girlfriend?" I asked shyly. Way to be subtle, Bella.

"I am divorced, but I have a year-old son." He said. I was shocked how could anyone want to divorce him.

"How about you, any special men in your life?" He asked.

"Um, no. I do have a ten-year old daughter though." I said. He smiled and nodded.

"I don't mean to sound rude but, how old are you?" I asked, blushing.

"I am thirty, you?" He asked.

"I am thirty also. Where is your son?" I asked.

"My mom wanted to borrow him, your daughter?" He asked.

"She's at my brothers' house." I told him. He nodded. By now we were finished with our drinks and the café was closing. He looked around, also noticing the emptiness of the café.

"I guess we should leave." He said, I nodded and got up; he followed in suit and left a twenty on the table. He gives good tips too.

"Are you tired?" He asked. I shook my head but a yawn betrayed me. He chuckled.

"Can I ask a last question?" He asked. I nodded.

"Will you go out with me Friday?" He asked. I nodded calmly but inside I was bursting with happiness.

"Great I will see you on Friday at 6:15. Is that okay?" He asked. I nodded and gave him my address and phone number. He hugged me and left. I sighed and made my way home. I brushed my teeth and looked at the clock, it was eleven. I was super tired, and made my way into bed. I fell asleep almost immediately.

(Next morning)

"Hi mom, what did you do last night?" Danni asked as she walked in. Jasper waved to me and left.

"Nothing really but I have to talk to you." I had to tell her the truth about her father before I tell her about my date this Friday.

"Mkay." She said. She followed me into my room and we sat down on the small couch I had.

"Daniella, what are your real feelings about your father?" I asked seriously. Her face lit up.

"Are you getting back together?" She asked.

"Honey, I asked a question." I said. She nodded.

"Well, I barely see him, but I know he's working hard so that one day he can come back and you won't have to work. I know he loves us, and that he's lonely all the way in California. I also know that he wants to marry you—officially. And I know that very soon he is going to show up and move in with us. You will have another baby and I will have a younger brother—not a sister because I want to be the only girl and then we are going to live happily ever after." She said dreamily. I had a few tears running down my face.

"Oh honey, how I wish that I could say that you're right. But you have to understand, that your dad and I aren't together because we don't feel anything for each other. And because some stuff happened, nothing was planned like this; we thought that we were going to grow old together. We were in love with the idea of a perfect life but not in love with each other." I said. She was crying. I hugged her and carried her to my bed; I pulled up the cover and covered us with it.

"Mom, what really happened between you and dad? Can you tell me everything? From when you met to when he left?" She asked softly. I nodded and began.

"Nate and I met at high school. I was 17 and he was 18. We started dating and everything was perfect. We had the perfect grades, perfect relationship, and perfect friends. Girls followed him, boys asked me out. He came to New York, one year later I followed him. We studied at NYU. A week before my nineteenth birthday he proposed, he took me to a restaurant, we talked, laughed and everything was great. After we ordered food, he dropped to one knee and said, 'Isabella, I want to spend the rest of my life with you, I want you to be the mother of my children, the woman I come home to, the one who kisses me good morning and goodnight, and I want you to be the woman at the end of the aisle holding on to your fathers hand walking up to me. I guess what I am trying to say is 'Will you marry me?' And I of course said yes. We ate and went home; we made love for the first time. And three months later, I found out you were coming. When he came home I made a quick meal, he sat down and I told him, 'I am pregnant'. He was shocked. He got up, and went into the bedroom. I waited four hours for him to come out. When he did he smiled at me, told me he was happy and said he was tired. School was very stressful at the time so I figured he was acting like that because of school. Throughout the pregnancy he was always busy with school. Whenever I asked him about our wedding he would say, 'Bella, be reasonable, we can wait 'till after college.' And that was that, I couldn't make him marry me. When you were born I was ecstatic! But your dad he spent one week before he held you. And he only held you because you wouldn't stop crying. After that he was always busy with school work and when he wasn't , he went out to bars with his friends. Well I never thought anything about it. But then, I had to start asking him for permission to go places. And I always had to take you with me. Later I learned it was to keep men away from me. So when we graduated college, you were four, I started to plan my wedding, after Jazz and Ali's wedding, your dad used the excuse of wanting to get a good job before he got married, two years later he had a stable job as a business man. He started making money, and we had the wedding planed. You were six, and then two weeks before the wedding I came home to changed locks and everything. I called Alice and she came to pick me up. We stayed with them for a week, after a week I went to the bridal store and returned everything. On my way back home I was Nate with a blonde kissing. I walked up to him and threw the ring at him; he looked at me, shocked. I told him to stay away and that he couldn't ever see you again. But then three years later he showed up and said that if I didn't let him see you he would fight for custody, he had that kind of power, it turned out fine because he only came by twice. And after that he only sends expensive gifts, the only sign we have that he is still rich, and at least remembers he has a child." I told her, she was crying.

"But you took him back, didn't you?" she asked.

"Yea I took him back, not only a week after that he cheated on me again. I left and came here where we have been for about four years." I finished.

"Mom, why are you telling me this?" she asked. I sighed, well it's now or never.

"Sweetie, I am going to go on a date." I said nervously. She nodded.

"Will he be my dad?" she asked truly curious. I shook my head.

"No, at least not for a while, I just met him." I told her. She nodded her head.

"So I guess I am going to go to my uncle Jazz's house right?" I nodded. She got up and went to pack her bags.

"ok mom I am ready" She called. I got my car keys and drove her to Jasper's house. After that I left and went to look for something to wear for tomorrow.

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