Disclaimer: I DO NO OWN TWILIGHT
Bella's POV
The next time I saw him was a month later when Emmett, Rosalie's fiance was given tickets to the Seattle Seahawks game. Emmett had given some "free" legal advice to a client that had saved the client thousands of dollars. In return, the client had given Emmett tickets and use of his exclusive box for the game.
I wasn't even supposed to be there. Jake and his new girlfriend Julie were going to go with Emmett and Rose but at the last second Julie was called into work as they were short staffed. Jake and Julie had met at an auto accident on the freeway. Julie was a paramedic and Jake had followed in my dad's footstep and joined the academy right out of college. He had been on patrol that night and stopped by the hospital to check on the family from the accident after he had gotten off of work. Luck was on his side as Julie was still there filling out some paperwork. Jake asked her about the family and that led to coffee at a all night diner. They had been seeing each other for a few weeks now and I really liked Julie, you could tell she truly liked Jake and it was fun watching Jake make a dork of himself over her.
So with Julie unable to attend, I was Jake's date for the evening.
It happened during half time. Emmett was in the bathroom. So Rose, Jake and I were just sitting there giggling at the people on the Jumbo Tron. The camera would pan the crowd and then zoom in on someone. Whoever they zoomed in on would grab the person next to them and kiss them. One older man grabbed the older lady next to him and dipped her back kissing her hard on the mouth. The crowd cheered and clapped. When the gentleman stood the lady back up she was grinning from ear to ear. This went on a on for a few minutes with the crowd laughing and clapping as couple after couple would kiss and separate. Then it happened. The camera zoomed in on "HIM" My heart clenched. He was sitting with some blonde guy and when they realized they were on the screen. They started to laugh. He was even more beautiful than I remembered. I watched as he turned to his friend and shrugged his shoulders. His friend got a look of panic on his face and "HE" put his hand over the blonde guys mouth then dipped him and pretended to kiss him. The crowd went wild with stomping and cheering.
I finally found my voice, stood up, pointing and screaming "ITS HIM! ROSALIE!! ITS HIM!! MR. SEXY UNIBOMBER FROM THE TUBE STOP!!!! Rosalie screamed and jumped up and down with me. Jake's covered his ears with his hands, shaking his head at the spectacle I was making of myself.
Mr. Sexy looked into the camera and blew a kiss to the crowd, my knees gave out and my rear end hit the seat hard. The camera panned away and zoomed in on someone else. Jake looked at me and said "what the hell was that Swan" I suddenly realized that I had only told Rose and Alice what truly had happened between Mr. Sexy and myself. I didn't tell Jake because as a guy I didn't think he would understand. I knew Rose and Alice would understand the truth of it. How a woman could look into a man's eyes she had never met and just know that he was her future.
I looked at Jake and said "I don't know Jake, I just don't know" Rose had tears in her eys as she grabbed me up into a big hug. "I am so sorry Bella." My mouth was dry and I felt numb. Then a thought hit me. He was here. HERE!
"Rose, do you know what this means?" I cried. Rose pulled back and looked at me, searching my face to see if I was ok. "No, Bells what does it mean?" she asked.
"It means he is here in the United States, maybe even lives here in Seattle." I jumped up starting to get excited. "Who are we talking about" I heard Emmett say as he walked back in. Jake looked at me and Rosalie like we had lost our minds. "Some guy on the jumbo tron that Bella freaked out about, honestly I have no friggin idea, He was kissing another dude and she lost her mind" Jake said.
Emmett started laughing and said "Bella I didn't know you were into guys who bats for both teams" Rosalie just hit him in the back of the head hard enough that he yelped and gave her a dirty look. "Shut up Emmett, your sensitivity filter is broken"
"Come on Bella, lets go to the ladies room" Rosalie said as she sashayed out of the room. I followed her in a daze, my mind whirling around and around with one question: How would I find him?
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Edward's POV
The next time I saw her was a few weeks before Christmas. Jasper and I were meeting with some executives from a local radio station, trying to work out a charity deal for one of the bands we were representing.
We were sitting at a table by a big window. One of the executive was a crude pompous ass, telling dirty joke after dirty joke and flirting loudly with the waitress. I kept thinking that he would notice no one was laughing at his jokes and his co-workers were looking at him as if they were embarassed. No, he just kept on and on and on. I started to tune him out, and made it a point to look at my watch, hinting that I wanted to bring this meeting to an end. Suddenly the "Ass" said.."I could give her a package to stuff somewhere" I don't know why I looked but I did.
At first I just noticed the blonde woman handing a cab driver some bags that he put in his trunk. Suddenly the woman who had been haunting my dreams ran up laughing and threw her bags in the trunk too. The cab driver slammed the trunk and opened the rear car door.
I jumped up as fast as I could and almost knocked the waitress to the ground on my way to the get outside. All I could think was "BELLA" that name repeating over and over in my head as I bolted out the door just in time to see the cab pull off with Bella looking the wrong way. Her friend must of said something funny because she through her head back and laughed as the cab drove farther and farther away.
I looked back to see Jasper through the window with a look that said "WHAT THE HELL??" I wanted to sit down on the curb and put my head in my hands.
I slowly walked back into the pub and after apologizing to the waitress I had almost mowed down. I slipped into my seat ignoring the curious faces of my table mates. "Sorry, it was someone I knew" I said.
The "Ass" piped up and said "Well, Edward hook me up, I would love to break me off a piece of that" The look on my face must have been enough to get across how much I wanted to hit him. The other radio executives quickly jumped up and started to mumble about how late it was and how they were sure that the "Ass" needed to get home soon to his wife and kids. Jasper and I stood up and shook hands all around. I squeezed Mr. Ass's hand hard and took pleasure at the grimace on his face. I saw him shaking his hand through the window as he walked by on the side walk on the way to his car a few minutes later. I should have felt better but I didn't. Before I could even sit down I heard Jasper say "What the hell was that Edward?"
"It was her" I said looking down at my drink that I didn't even realize I had picked up. I didn't even need to tell him who "she" was.
"Bella? Listen Edward, do you realize what this means?" Jasper said grabbing my shoulder and giving it a little shake. "It means she is here in Seattle. Maybe she even lives here" I couldn't help it I felt my heart kick into overdrive and hope flame to life
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Edward's POV Spring 2008
It was a few months later and I was driving down the freeway on my way home from the office. Traffic was hell and I felt like it was taking forever to go a mile. Some idiot was behind me with their music loud and thumping and I could feel the beginning of a head ache start. I pinched the bridge of my nose and took a deep breath. I saw an opening to take the next exit and took it. I pulled out of my lane and slowly started inching up the exit. The car with the loud music pulled up to take my place. I looked over to see who the idiot with the annoying music was. It was a convertible red BMW with some girls who were obviously singing and pantomiming to the music. I shook my head. The car behind me honked to let me know that the cars in front of me were moving. I took one last look at the BMW and the girl in the front seat turned to look in the side mirror as she was singing and I realized it was Bella. My Bella. I tried to figure out how to get back over into that lane but the car behind me had pulled up so close and I was too close to the car in front of me so that I couldn't manuever at all. I watched as the red BMW started to pull away from me. Suddenly, as if she could feel my gaze, Bella looked up and around. She looked right at me and her mouth dropped open. She started making hand gestures for her friend to pull off or over but the woman with the spikey black hair was shaking her head. There was no shoulder to pull onto and the cars behind her were starting to honk for her to move. I saw Bella's face drop and look defeated. She looked up and I thought I saw her mouth say I'm Sorry.
All I could do was mouth back "I. Will. Find. You." She shook her head as if she understood as the car she was in started forward pulling further and further away. I had to move forward too and as soon as I could I pulled over, first running my fingers through my hair, then hitting my steering wheel in frustration.
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